Off Topic Chit Chat

[Tony]

Did you ship it to your Korea address from a few years ago? Because if it is in Korea, that is the only way you are getting it lmao.

 

[murankar]

According to the ship to nope. Even if I did by accident it would have gone through LAX before going to Korea. The FPO Box for Korea is in California.

 

[Tony]

I do hope you get them.

 

[murankar]

Since its UPS they probably flew it from Korea to the US. Which means it could likely be here Tuesday. If this shows up as scheduled then it will be here before my 3s batteries that I ordered last Tuesday from California.

 

[Tony]

Maybe when the plane lands in LAX, it should pick up your battery lmao.

 

[murankar]

As if this morning at 0500 they had removed the delivery date. They replaced it with delivery date being scheduled. I knew I had to emphisize the "if". Hey it was while it lasted. Hopefully its here before I leave for home.

 

[murankar]

Oh and I almost for got,no made silver status with Amain. So now I get some perks.

I really wish heli direct had better inventory. There inventory when to crap as selection goes. Who the heck is flying the Velos. Dunking is no longer flying for them.

 

[Tony]

Today, I get Fiber Gigabit Internet!!! Here are some speed tests of the before....

With my VPN Running


Without My VPN


Today was actually a good day. I should have tested it last night, but I may have a chance to test it tonight when people are actually on the network. Right now, not many people are on and this is when I usually try to do all of my internet 'stuff'.

Oh and to make things better, I did this test with the host server being OEC Fiber, my future ISP lmao.

Just for S&G's I pulled one from the "suggested" server. Latency is a bit lower an speeds are faster on this one, but it is showing me in Shawnee which I am not lol. That is just where my tower goes to... Look at the distance. Both of them without my VPN running are showing ~50mi. I'm way closer to Norman than that which is where OEC Fiber is located. Interesting that Norman doesn't have internet yet though except for way out east. But, because of the towers I'm on, the distances are weird.



So yea, I can't wait for the new internet. Not because I can saturate the network at gigabit speeds (I can, and I will, but that is not why I'm getting it), but because I will no longer have to worry about others getting on the network and doing their thing (youtube, netflix, whatever) as well. No more throttling everyone just to keep the network up and running.... I will post a speed test after we are hooked up with some fiber.

And in case anyone is wondering, OEC fiber uses one strand for both send and receive with dual wavelengths. That is just cool lol.

 

[Tony]

Speed test is showing that it still has weird packets lol. But here is the first test with the new internet. Now, I'm thinking my Cat5e that I have in the house and going through 3 switches to get to this computer is contributing to this, but all in all, compared to what is above, this is MUCH BETTER!!!!!!! LOVING IT!!!!!

I'm definitely liking the "Faster than 99% of US" !!!!

 

[Tony]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, I just did a test upload of the 10GB T-Mass Shock Rebuild video and I'm hitting youtube's upload speed limit which is 300mbps. I never knew that was a thing hahahahahaha.

 

[Tony]

So, my VPN is not that fast.... I'm on a DHCP lease with this service anyway, no way I'm paying $20/mo for a static IP, not yet anyway. So my IP will change from time to time. But here are my VPN speeds through the Dallas Tx server.

 

[Geena]

Well, I screwed up and deleted the old thread (log in post here 2). That was my bad. Working on the site, in a hurry and crap happens. That'll teach me lmao.

Here is the new Off Topic thread. The other title was out dated anyway.

I'll start.

So I'm just sitting here in Minooka Il waiting to be unloaded. I'm 40 minutes late and they are now making me wait. Go figure.... I'm seriously looking at going back to my old company. Hourly pay so I make a minimum every single day and it's pretty much what I'm making here on average. We will find out though.

Did see a horrible crash today though, right after it happened. A friggin rock hauler (pond scum of the trucking world. Most, not all) pulled out right in front of another driver and that driver had NO WHERE TO GO other than into the trailer of that rock hauler. The windshield was against the trailer, it was that bad. He survived, just barely.

I can`t stand rock haulers. Especially the younger drivers. They think they own the road. I`m glad the guy survived that crash.

 

[Tony]

Wow, I think you just won the award for quoting the oldest thread lmao. Eh, only 2016, so I guess you may come in second hahaha. But yea, Usually most rock haulers haul rock because they have so many felonies they can't be hired anywhere else. Of course there are those that do it by choice to stay home and keep their trucks clean and drive respectably.

 

[Geena]

At least I won! hahahahahaha. I think the orange truck drivers around here, might be in the same boat. They drive like they`re in their own little solar system.

 

[D.O.G.]

Hey Geena. It's more like they only have two brain cells. One is lost and the other one is out looking for it .

 

[Tony]

Started writing a MASSIVE post here in the lounge on my surveillance system setup and what got me to where I am now. It is already over 10,000 characters and I'm only about half done with it. Don't think I'm going to finish this one. No one in their right mind would read a post that long about my setup. That was a bit of time wasted...

 

[Admiral]

Started writing a MASSIVE post here in the lounge on my surveillance system setup and what got me to where I am now. It is already over 10,000 characters and I'm only about half done with it. Don't think I'm going to finish this one. No one in their right mind would read a post that long about my setup. That was a bit of time wasted...

I think I'm in my right mind, and I doubt that I would read a post that long, I can't speak for the others.

 

[Tony]

Yea, it's a snooze fest to say the least. It is in a thread though, I just tucked it behind a Spoiler tag so those that don't want to read it don't have to, and those that do, well their computer is going to feel it when they hit that button lol.

 

[RandyDSok]

I guess I'm too much of a nerd to "snooze" after/while reading it ...

There is a ton of cool things you can do using POE... besides the security cams, control and power the lighting in your house is just one more of them.

 

[Tony]

You actually read it? lmao