Bladehawk

I'll be running two graphics cards as well. Will the godlike have the same issue?

It looks like the original spec I found for Godlike was off. it only has 6 SATA rather than 10) so that doesn't change. I'm 99% sure that the NVMe cards are all x4. I was worried about the dual video cards being 8x rather than 16x (godlike doesn't really qualify if they go to 8x with dual cards like ROG does). Thankfully Linus has a video and it's within margins of error so not worth worrying about. I've gotten conflicting info from people at my PC builder and I even talked to ASUS. They started talking about sharing bandwidth with other PCIe devices. I think they were referring to the PCIe slot at the bottom, which will be empty for me so it won't use bandwidth. The chips are supposed to be configured as PCIe rather than SATA, but I'm not really sure if that means in terms of channels, multipliers and the like, Since one of the M.2 slots can be either one it's fairly confusing.

So I'm planning to get a ROG hero XI Wifi board and wanted to make sure of how many SATA channels I'd have open. I'll have 2 M.2 PCIe NVMe drives in a raid 0 and 1 mechanical HDD. The machine will also have a 5 bay cage (with one slot taken by aforementioned HDD). With this load out and 2 video cards will I have 5 SATA channels open for drives (the MB has 6)? Will the 2 M.2 drives run at full speed? I was told the bottom slot would share bandwidth and slow down my m.2 drives if I install anything there. I can still upgrade to the MSI MEG Godlike, but it seems like overkill, is expensive and has and too few USB ports (I've also never heard of the audio company making the chips). I'm good with networking, but I know very little about motherboards.

Can you access resources inside your network (router admin page or internal server) when you disconnect? All game systems use a ton of resources unless powered off. Most of my networks usage is from my son's PS4 and I am online a LOT (videos, etc). Check your settings under neworks and sharing during your disconnect. That will also help see if you are disconnected from the network vs the internet. I'd also try a new cable if you're wired the cable could have a loose connection. Hope this helps.

My GF has Comcast and they are terrible. She has a coax cable running through the middle of he living room (seriously) and they refuse to fix it. Her 80 year old mom tripped over it last time she visited. She was only getting 1/2 the speed she was paying for, I finally had them come out when I was there and they miraculously found the problem (after I proved to them it was their fault). My GF pays more than I do and gets less speed and garbage service. I'm very lucky, my ISP has 1GB service and their customer service is great but they're not widespread.

Agreed, the devices would need to support ax as well.

I went for cat 6a, but I received the wrong length, so after tearing my network apart, I had to put it back together and now I'm waiting on the new cables since amazon couldn't expedite the shipping.. At least because of their issues on this order they ended up giving me $35 after multiple calls trying to get the bloody things. .

I finally found the information 22-26 Gauge qualifies as cat-7 which means most of the "Cat -7" on Amazon isn't. I'm not saying it's not shielded properly, but many flat cables use AWG30 and claim to be compliant, by definition, they aren't. I'm upgrading some things in my house and I'd rather use Cat-7 than cat 6 to ensure I don't have to do this again as my house came with Cat 5 and it's currently limiting my speed to both my NAS and my ISP (I get 900 MBS at the modem/router). I want to be sure I'm getting what I pay for and if the vendor is lying about complying to the standard as far as gauge, then it may not meet the other spec standards. I don't want to buy something that claims to be cat 7 but isn't, how do I know it's not re-branded cat 6 at a higher margin? Gauge is really one of the few things you can find on Amazon that would tell you if it really meets standards. Not a lot of people with gigabit connections are posting that the wire is meeting the speed requirements.

Cat 6 requires 22-24 gauge wire, but I can't find the standard for cat 7 and I see a lot of cables using 30AWG which sounds suspicious. is there no gauge requirement on cat 7? I see a lot of cheap cat 7 cables and most of them are flat. How do I know I'm getting the real thing before i buy it?

You may want to look into 802.11ax as well as the advice above.

Do they know what port it's coming from/to? they may be calling the VPN a "virus" if you're tormenting from it or the like to get you to stop and cut down on your usage. I'd call the ISP and ask what information they're collecting and how you can opt out as well. If you have port forwarding turned on (and a pc listening on that port they may see that as "virus -like behavior. Thank God my ISP sent us a net neutrality pledge after the repeal, will not share even aggragate data about me, doesn't have data caps and bent over backwards when I found bugs in their routers new firmware that caused real issues for me (nobody else had the issue because they don't have a lot of power users). I love Wave Broadband (no, I don't work for or represent them).

Hate to say it, but to you have any other ISP in the area? The issue is probably your wifi, but xfinity is terrible too. Id plug into the modem and test the speed and compare that to your wifi and see where the issue is. My GF has Xfinity and it took me arguing with the tech (and proving that Xfinity was the issue) before he discovered they had a bad connector outside he place and that's why she was getting about 1/3 of the speed she paid for.

My phone plan is unlimited but speed is throttled at 10 GB per month . My ISP on the other hand offers a gigabit plan that has unlimited data. Priot\r to that they had 100 GB plan plus 5$ per each 5 GB over the last you used. (so at 107 GB you pay the base +$10)

The more I thought about it the more concerned I was. I forgot the wire would be going from my router to my patch panel straight to the network port (no signals repeated) and the slim wires are 30 gauge in lieu of 24 gauge (they violate the standards for cat 6 wire gauge technically). The higher resistance would add to attenuation. I misspoke before, these would be added on to some already long runs where signal loss could be an issue. The same thinking about the wire gauge has convinced me flat cables probably aren't optimal either, but they are going through cat 5 in the walls in the end anyway.

I'm trying to neaten up my wiring and I was looking at some 3 ft network cables and I was wondering if slim cables were worse than normal or flat cables. I know they tend to be a higher gauge and suspect that they wouldn't be acceptable for a long run but for 3 feet between a punch panel and a switch should I expect degradation in performance if I use slim cables?