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One thing to add about channels is that some channels are not available in some countries. For example channels 1 to 11 are the only ones legally allowed to be used in the US. Next with 5 Ghz some of the band is shared with radar. So you have DFS channels, not all routers will support DFS channels. Im not sure what the router will do if it detects radar Im assuming it would make the DFS channels unavailable for use but that's something you would have to research in to. But some routers dont have DFS channel support because it requires a special certification from the government, at least in the US.

There won't be a big WAN Show segment about this or anything. Most of what I have to say, I've already said, and I've done so privately.

To Steve, I expressed my disappointment that he didn't go through proper journalistic practices in creating this piece. He has my email and number (along with numerous other members of our team) and could have asked me for context that may have proven to be valuable (like the fact that we didn't 'sell' the monoblock, but rather auctioned it for charity due to a miscommunication... AND the fact that while we haven't sent payment yet, we have already agreed to compensate Billet Labs for the cost of their prototype). There are other issues, but I've told him that I won't be drawn into a public sniping match over this and that I'll be continuing to move forward in good faith as part of 'Team Media'. When/if he's ready to do so again I'll be ready.

To my team (and my CEO's team, but realistically I was at the helm for all of these errors, so I need to own it), I stressed the importance of diligence in our work because there are so many eyes on us. We are going through some growing pains - we've been very public about them in the interest of transparency - and it's clear we have some work to do on internal processes and communication. We have already been doing a lot of work internally to clean up our processes, but these things take time. Rome wasn't built in a day, but that's no excuse for sloppiness.

Now, for my community, all I can say is the same things I always say. We know that we're not perfect. We wear our imperfection on our sleeves in the interest of ensuring that we stay accountable to you. But it's sad and unfortunate when this transparency gets warped into a bad thing. The Labs team is hard at work hard creating processes and tools to generate data that will benefit all consumers - a work in progress that is very much not done and that we've communicated needs to be treated as such. Do we have notes under some videos? Yes. Is it because we are striving for transparency/improvement? Yeah... What we're doing hasn't been in many years, if ever.. and we would make a much larger correction if the circumstances merited it. Listing the wrong amount of cache on a table for a CPU review is sloppy, but given that our conclusions are drawn based on our testing, not the spec sheet, it doesn't materially change the recommendation. That doesn't mean these things don't matter. We've set KPIs for our writing/labs team around accuracy, and we are continually installing new checks and balances to ensure that things continue to get better. If you haven't seen the improvement, frankly I wonder if you're really looking for it... The thoroughness that we managed on our last handful of GPU videos is getting really incredible given the limited time we have for these embargoes. I'm REALLY excited about what the future will hold.
 
With all of that said, I still disagree that the Billet Labs video (not the situation with the return, which I've already addressed above) is an 'accuracy' issue. It's more like I just read the room wrong. We COULD have re-tested it with perfect accuracy, but to do so PROPERLY - accounting for which cases it could be installed in (none) and which radiators it would be plumbed with (again... mystery) would have been impossible... and also didn't affect the conclusion of the video... OR SO I THOUGHT...
 
I wanted to evaluate it as a product, and as a product, IF it could manage to compete with the temperatures of the highest end blocks on the planet, it still wouldn't make sense to buy... so from my point of view, re-testing it and finding out that yes, it did in fact run cooler made no difference to the conclusion, so it didn't really make a difference.
 
Adam and I were talking about this today. He advocated for re-testing it regardless of how non-viable it was as a product at the time and I think he expressed really well today why it mattered. It was like making a video about a supercar. It doesn't mater if no one watching will buy it. They just wanna see it rip.  I missed that, but it wasn't because I didn't care about the consumer.. it was because I was so focused on how this product impacted a potential buyer. Either way, clearly my bad, but my intention was never to harm Billet Labs. I specifically called out their incredible machining skills because I wanted to see them create something with a viable market for it and was hoping others would appreciate the fineness of the craftsmanship even if the product was impractical. I still hope they move forward building something else because they obviously have talent and I've watched countless niche water cooling vendors come and go. It's an astonishingly unforgiving market.
 
Either way, I'm sorry I got the community's priorities mixed-up on this one, and that we didn't show the Billet in the best light. Our intention wasn't to hurt anyone. We wanted no one to buy it (because it's an egregious waste of money no matter what temps it runs at) and we wanted Billet to make something marketable (so they can, y'know, eat).
 
With all of this in mind, it saddens me how quickly the pitchforks were raised over this. It also comes across a touch hypocritical when some basic due diligence could have helped clarify much of it. I have a LONG history of meeting issues head on and I've never been afraid to answer questions, which lands me in hot water regularly, but helps keep me in tune with my peers and with the community. The only reason I can think of not to ask me is because my honest response might be inconvenient. 
 
We can test that... with this post. Will the "It was a mistake (a bad one, but a mistake) and they're taking care of it" reality manage to have the same reach? Let's see if anyone actually wants to know what happened. I hope so, but it's been disheartening seeing how many people were willing to jump on us here. Believe it or not, I'm a real person and so is the rest of my team. We are trying our best, and if what we were doing was easy, everyone would do it. Today sucks.
 
Thanks for reading this.

First of all, the whole Billet Labs stuff is completely absurd if true. I don't think they would intentionally sell something they couldn't, probably some massive fuck up in communications happened between the team responsible for sending it back and the people choosing the items to be auctioned, but it's still a huge issue and 100% LTT's responsibility to fix it and make sure something like this never ever happens again. 
 
About the rushed content, it's something that a lot of times crosses the border of "fun jank" to being just frustrating. Every single project they do seems to be rushed, unfinished, untested and plagued with issues and oversights. And that could be their content "brand", seems like many people enjoy the jank. But if they now want to present themselves as serious testers, someone the community can look up for reliable data with Labs, that mindset needs to change, FAST. How the hell can I trust someone who has to correct themselves almost every video? And makes errors that a basic review of the content could catch? 
 
You need to pump out 7 videos a week? Sure buddy, but maybe allow more time sensitive projects to be properly planned, executed and reviewed and throw some "here's 10 fun crap we found on aliexpress" videos to make up for it.

2.4 Ghz is not only used in WiFi. That microwave you have, yeah the magnetron uses 2.4 Ghz to cook your food. Cordless phones, bluetooth, wireless keyboard and mouse. Ive heard water pipes in the wall can also cause issues. Ive seen weather cause issues, when storms would roll in my signal would drop a bit. Pretty much 2.4 and 5 Ghz from my understanding are a free for all as long as they follow the governments rules for use. 

There are apps to do that, but you should also be able to get a list from the command line with:
netsh wlan show all You may need to click the Wi-Fi icon in your task bar, let the list load there before you enter the command. Then you should get a list of neighboring networks and their channels. Alternatively your router might be able to do this. Mine has a view that shows how crowded each channel is, to make it easier to pick the least used one for yourself. It actually picks up a ton more than my laptop does.
 
You can also see your own channel and connection speed from Windows itself: https://www.makeuseof.com/windows-check-network-adapter-speed/
 
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The router supports Wi-Fi 1, 3, 4. The question is, which standards are supported by your card. It might be something like 1, 3, 6. In that case the fastest common mode supported by both would be Wi-Fi 3, which would limit you to 54 Mbps. Or it might support Wi-Fi 4, but only in the 5 GHz band rather than 2.4 GHz.
 
I think you should be able to see which mode is used as described in the link I posted above.

For future: My wording was off, the knowledge of how an AP works is something ive known, it was more about the signal. The Problem was that an AP would have send the same SSID as the 2,5ghz one from the Router. The Easier solution was to get a cheap router that sends a different SSID. In the new Router I set the gateway to be the old router and just routed everything to there. Works super easy without problems. 

As i said, i already tried that. I appreciate the effort tho, thank you.

But it appears i found a fix ! This seems to be on discord side, and dependant on the build you have installed on your PC. First i contacted discord, they told me to try the PTB version, which didn't help.

So, following some instructions a person posted on discord, i managed to fix it ! Here's how :
 
You need to download nvidiaprofileinspector on github. In there, type "discord" in the search bar so you have access to the the app's drivers settings. There, you need to find the line CUDA - Force P2 State and set it to Off. Click on Apply changes on the top-right corner, close nvidia profile inspector, restart Discord and you should be good to go !!

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Unfortunately there's no way to fix it. It's a spinning drive with precise components. Usually when a HDD is defect, there is pretty much no use for it anymore.
Good thing that you took your important files. Just keep using it as long as it still works, you just don't need to be surprised anymore that it will be dead one day sooner or later.

No, you don't repair a hard drive, and certainly not without specialized tools.

Correct

You should try CrystalDiskInfo and see the results. It might be that it got bad sectors or waiting sectors.
If I were you I would backup your important files soon, before it actually dies. It seems like you have to replace it.

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Even if it was at the port in China, you're still looking at 3+ months. If it's not made yet, I'd say 4 to 5 is a reasonable estimate; so a Christmas launch.

Oh cool. More fossil fuel power plants being powered back on just for the sake of mining virtual currency that people decided to attribute value to. Just what the world needed.

AFAIK most devices will usually get the time directly from a time server rather than the router.  Having the correct time on the router is usually more about it being useful during troubleshooting to have the time in the logs.
 
So unless your router acts as an NTP server itself, it should have zero impact on other devices being able to set their time, unless the firewall is somehow blocking NTP traffic from the LAN.

Of course if your router connects to a VPN or other enhanced functionality that involves encryption directly from the router to an online service, THEN it would need the correct time/date also.

FAR less than what I expected for recommended

This to me is a case of trial and error. Try out your opinions, take some tests, and be mindful that sometimes less latency is better than higher speeds. 

Hey, 
 
Well, there is definitely a difference. Especially when it comes to WiFi, there are many variables that make up that difference. Signal strength, 2.4/5/6, Electrical Interferences, Other APs running on the same channel etc. 
 
It all depends. Keep in mind a repeater does help extend the signal but it also adds another hop. And moreover, the signal between the repeater and the main AP is also another thing to watch out for.
 
To best utilize the repeater setup, it’s best to use the below setups
 
1. Main AP ——5Ghz(Good/Excellent signal)—— Repeater——5Ghz—— Devices
2. Main AP ——Wired——Repeater——5Ghz——Devices
 
5Ghz is really sensitive to signal strength and the speed decreases drastically as you add more walls or thickness. 

i tend to just use wifi if it's stable enough
the only reason people dont like wifi is mostly due to the instability of it
but i've been using it for years and never had any issues with it, mainly because my wifi hub is only one wall away

I'd suggest avoiding previously owned SSD's, NVme or SATA.
 
The problem is you don't know how much actual power-on-time and wear remaining are on that SSD until you buy it. I was pulling SATA SSD's from laptops today that I didn't expect to find SSD's in and noted that these might be TLC NAND, but I need to get the exact model number to verify it. However the drives in question apparently come in TLC and MLC variety. Since they're from 4 year old machines, the wear is likely fairly high.
 
The only pre-owned SSD's I'd suggest getting are those you get for free or salvage from broken machines so you can test them. 
 
SSD's that have been running on a TRIM-enabled OS, no data is recoverable. Triggering a secure erase on these will invoke an entire erase cycle. So the chances of getting someones data from a SSD is pretty low unless the drive was given to you without any attempt to erase it.

so essentially end of story just buy a new storage device ?

I don't fully know this but I heard from other people that there is still some stuff left on a ssd or any storage device even after wiping it. Not fully sure haven't read into it 

SSDs are generally safer than HDDs when buying used. But given how cheap a 250GB SSD can be had new, why bother? Maybe 20-30 bucks more and you get a new unit with a warranty. 

Personally, with how SSD prices have dropped over the years (you can buy a 1TB NVMe M.2 for ~$100 new) I'd buy new. If it works, great. If it doesn't, you can get it replaced or your money back.
 
If you buy used, it may perform poorly (the reason someone's selling it), it likely won't get replaced, you might not get your money back.
 
That's just my opinion. I don't think you'll be saving a whole heck of a lot buying used here.