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    I'm too afraid of failure

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    Just now, BuckGup said:

    Accept it. Failure can be whatever you want it to be. But the smart use it as a learning lesson and motivation. The weak use it as an excuse for their problems or a gateway. One semester of bad grades isn't going to tank you.

     

    Thanks, man. I appreciate your advice :)

    I'm too afraid of failure

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    Long story short, I went to a school far away from home and the people were terrible. Bullies everywhere, no one took school seriously, etc. I ended up going back to my former school where my classmates were always competitive and disciplined. However, I've already missed about two weeks of their schoolwork (they started earlier) and I, being a consistent honor student in my previous years, will have to catch up and it's almost a guarantee that I will get low grades this semester. How do I cope up with failure as I am not used to doing so?

    20 MHz vs 40 MHz

    in Networking

    Posted

    3 hours ago, skywake said:

    If there's more than one access point in range you should go with 20Mhz. If there isn't go with 40Mhz. Though bare in mind that for some reason some devices don't like to connect to a 40Mhz AP for whatever reason. That shouldn't be a problem but I have had issues with that in the past with some devices. Most of the time there's enough overlap of radios on 2.4Ghz that you have no choice but to go with 20Mhz.

     

    But really, it's not so much about your network performance. It's just a good neighbour thing to set your network so it doesn't overlap with their's if possible. 

     

    What if the other AP is a WiFi repeater?

    Is converting an inkjet printer to CISS a good idea?

    in Peripherals

    Posted

    Hi there. I'm gonna buy a printer for college, and I found a very cheap Canon Pixma iP2870s for P1500 ($30, brand new). I was thinking of buying it and paying someone to convert it to become an ink tank-based printer and just use cheap third party liquid ink to save some costs. However, someone on Reddit told me that conversion is not a good idea and reduces the lifespan of the printer. Instead, he recommended me an ink tank printer (Epson L210, extremely common here in the Philippines and I think the cheapest ink tank printer) for $100. What do you guys think?

    Frequency Bandwidth: 20MHz vs 40 MHz vs Auto

    in Networking

    Posted

    30 minutes ago, CyberneticTitan said:

    In general,

     

    If 2.4Ghz -> 20Mhz

    If 5Ghz -> 40Mhz

     

    If you're fairly wirelessly isolated and you have modern devices, go for 40Mhz.

     

    My WiFi modem doesn't support 5GHz, however we are wirelessly isolated (at the moment, the three SSID's that are showing are all from our house) and our devices are modern.

    Frequency Bandwidth: 20MHz vs 40 MHz vs Auto

    in Networking

    Posted

    We have two wireless AP's in the house, one is from the ISP provided router and one is a WiFi repeater. Our area isn't congested, though there are times when two of my neighbors' AP's pop up randomly. Should I set my router's frequency bandwidth to 20MHz, 40MHz, or just leave it at auto?

    OnePlus 3T vs Moto Z Play

    in Phones and Tablets

    Posted

    I am torn between these two phones.

     

    Reasons why I like the 3T

    - better specs

    - looks better

    - better supported by OnePlus in terms of software updates (?)

    - better 3rd party support (custom ROMs)

     

    Reasons why I like the Z Play

    - dat battery (this alone puts it head-to-head against the 3T for me, battery is lyf)

     

    Things I like on both phones

    - (nearly) stock Android

     

    For you guys, which is the better buy? I'm ope to other suggestions as well :)

    Minimum bandwidth to watch smooth 1080p Youtube videos

    in Networking

    Posted

    8 hours ago, Remix said:

    Sorry for the major delay, I finally found time to test this without disturbing too many people. Please note that my results aren't entirely scientific, and will likely vary especially in your usage. I'll explain why.

     

    My findings were that 1080p 30fps video would play on a 3 Mbps connection in my scenario, though it barely hung on. I loaded a ~16 minute 1080p video over wireless, throttled to 3 Mbps at the router (not AP). The buffer-health stayed between 1 second and 2 seconds, so not much buffer room. Any small blip would likely cause buffering. Furthermore, the video took a few seconds to actually play. It's not quick, but when started it'll play. I'd allow it a bit of time by itself to buffer-ahead and compensate for any anomalies with the Internet connection itself. That being said, the two main factors it does come down to are:

    • Dedicated Internet: You have to be the only device actively using the Internet, I'm sure if another device was doing even Web-Browsing it wouldn't work very well.
    • Buffer: Give it time to load and compensate for any anomalies, otherwise do expect it to randomly buffer.

    Now, the part that gets confusing. My guess is that it'd not work given your circumstances. If you're throttled to 3 Mbps, you'll have blufferbloat. Blufferboat is essentially your router sending too much data, and it getting "backed up". In my scenario, I couldn't mimic that because I was on a 250 Mbps connection, and throttling the router manually still left overhead. Speedtests peaked on the router at 2.96. If your ISP does any oversubscription, you do have a shot of video playing. For example, Comcast gives subscribers a 20% oversubscription to compensate for buffer and anomalies. That being said, when I throttled my connection to 3.6 Mbps 1080p video played much more fluent giving me an extra 3-5 seconds of buffer. This may work...

     

    I'm lost of words. Thank you so much, man! This means a lot :)

    CS:GO stutter from undervolting

    in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory

    Posted

    So my laptop has been running undervolted for about 10 months now. It is stable, as I recall some time ago when I ran AIDA64 overnight without it crashing. The weird thing is over the past week, I noticed that CS:GO was having micro-stutters everywhere. Whenever there were firefights and grenade explosions and lots of players on the screen, the fps would tank so hard. I tried everything. I reinstalled graphics drivers, reseated the RAM, ran MemTest with no errors, and ran AIDA64 again overnight and no crashes.

     

    Strange, I thought.

     

    I removed my undervolt on the core and cache so that my laptop was now back at stock voltage and magically, my gameplay is fluid again. Can someone explain why this happened?

    CS:GO stuttering and BSOD

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    So I was playing CS:GO, and the instant this guy headshotted me, my laptop froze and BSOD'ed.

     

    I suspect it could be caused by these things:

     

    1. Undervolted CPU - My core has been undervolted for almost a year now with no problems. However I recently undervolted my cache to the same voltage as the core, as I saw a post stating that the tolerances between the two are the same.

     

    2. Upgraded RAM - I upgraded my laptop's RAM to 8 GB last week through a used 4 GB DDR3L stick. However, after getting the DIMM, I tested it overnight using MemTest (8 passes) with no errors.

     

    3. I overclocked my laptop's display to 75 Hz just a few days ago. Now this is just a guess, but I actually don't think this is caused by this.

     

    Also, for the past few days, I noticed that CS:GO would stutter in a way that I haven't experienced before. I already tried reinstalling the NVIDIA drivers, but the problem still remains.

     

    Thanks to those who will help me out :)

     

     

    Here are the files:

     

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzIiD6kgiqeNbWtoY0F2VTE4TFU/view?usp=sharing

     

     

    Specs:

     

    Intel Core i5-4210H

    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

    8 GB DDR3L RAM

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