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Hey everyone, I tried searching but couldn't find anything on this in the forum. I have a gigabit capable cable modem (Netgear CM1000) and 2 Asus routers (2xRT-AC68U) setup in AIMesh via Ethernet connection. My ISP provides me with 150mbps down and 10mbps up (I hate their upload offerings, but there's no other options beyond 35mbps up, but I digress). While playing games I normally have no issues with lag, but when both my school aged kids are in their zoom/teams meetings, then my game (rocket league) starts chugging hard. High ping, tons of rubberbanding. But when I watch the real-time bandwidth usage, there is never more than 3mbps upload and about 1-10mbps down usage. My rig is hardwired, but my kids are using laptops connected by wifi (wireless n 2.4ghz cards). My question is if there's so much room bandwidth wise in both directions... why am I lagging so hard? Is it that the laptops are using wireless N and not AC, or just that they are using wifi at all? Do their video conferences allocate more bandwidth than it actually uses and chokes my games connection? Or is it some networking overhead or some voodoo I just don't understand. I'm pretty tech savvy and have optimized my network connection with the ISP as good as it can get, but networking has always been my Achilles heel. TIA Cheers!

Hey everyone, So I’m an Database Admin and hardware enthusiast... so not a total noob, but networking is my weakness. After a bunch of testing I determined that my 2.4GHz channel was interfering with my Xbox 360 controllers connection to the pc usb wireless adapter... so I moved the wireless router and have had no issues... but now I’m building a new office and have to do some re-wiring of the network a bit because having the WiFi router in the attic gives us low points in my bedroom downstairs. I’ve got an asus wireless AC router that supports AI mesh, and a Netgear router that the 5ghz channel doesn’t work that’s just laying around. Here’s my question. Can I connect my modem to my Netgear router and set that up as an AP repeater and 2.4Ghz only, and then connect one of its Ethernet outputs to the ASUS router as the primary WiFi router? If that doesn’t work then I’ll probably break down and get another AImesh router and do that... and that makes me wonder how AI Mesh compares to an Ethernet connection to a second ASUS router as an AP repeater? Thank you in advance!

I have an hp desktop that will just barely fit a short 1060 6gb.... only if I can find the right adapter. The 24 pin connection on the motherboard is situated where the gpu shores just over laps. I know there are 90 degree connectors for 24pin, but looking at the pin layout they all seem to point in the wrong direction. I need it to face away from the board (90 degrees away from the latch) because otherwise it gets blocked by the usb 3.0 header cable and audio pin out. Or is there some 24 pin atx slim connector extension cable set that would work. Everything I’ve found is the standard depth which is essentially 3/4 ” tip to top of the wiring harness (sorry didn’t have a metric ruler). I need an extra 1/4”. Maybe a little less than that. TIA!!! BTW, I’m an advanced system builder with a lot of experience. I will be replacing the stock 130 watt psu with something that can handle it. This is not for me, I swapped out some parts and I’m wanting to sell it for a little profit. Just trying to make the most of my investment.