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Also use a non-admin account, have an adblocker, leave UAC on, etc. etc. But yes, Kaspersky is garbage and should go in the garbage with Symante and McAfee.
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Thanks Ants posted:It shouldn't really have anything to scan unless it's slipped a root cert onto your machine and is MITM all SSL stuff. Which is bad and should be removed. I'm not sure how to check for this. Ok I managed to turn Kaspersky completely off. Restarted the computer and retested everything: Speedtest.net: 203/199 CPU 36% Chrome is most of it Speakeasy.net: 922/941 CPU 40-63% Chrome is all of it Fast.com: 450 CPU 40% Chrome Speakeasy can get the high speeds. Not sure what's up with Speedtest and Fast.com. Thanks for the help. I had no idea Kaspersky could cause problems like that.
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Sep 4, 2017 00:55
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Speedtest.net uses Flash and has trouble at higher speeds. Try the beta - http://beta.speedtest.net/
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Internet Explorer posted:Also use a non-admin account, have an adblocker, leave UAC on, etc. etc. But yes, Kaspersky is garbage and should go in the garbage with Symante and McAfee. I remember using Kaspersky once, then I realized it actually fucks up the NTFS filesystem of the drives it scans. Only way to fix the corrupted NTFS was to format the affected drives. What were they thinking?!
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Ihmemies posted:What were they thinking?! They will never remove our software if doing so caused all their drives to become unusable!
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Ihmemies posted:I remember using Kaspersky once, then I realized it actually fucks up the NTFS filesystem of the drives it scans. Only way to fix the corrupted NTFS was to format the affected drives. What were they thinking?! I don't know, but ask my predecessor who decided to buy 10 licenses and then install precisely 1 license. On our main file server. And then rebooted it. In the middle of the day.
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Thermopyle posted:You should just use Defender which is built in to windows. This. Third-party antivirus has been a crock of extortionist poo poo for ages and was only really useful in the days of shock the monkey banner ads and pop-unders covering 70% of your screen. Windows Defender and uBlock Origin on your browser. Congratulations, you now have a fast, safe computer that even meemaw's share and like for more prayers addiction can't gently caress up.
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Travic posted:I'm not sure how to check for this. There are so many reasons a path between you and a speedtest server won't give you a full gig. Honestly there's no reason to be going too crazy with these tests you're doing because it's fruitless. You will never get gig up down on all speed tests at the same time on a residential fibre connection.
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Sep 4, 2017 06:36
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fast.com is awesome and doesn't use Flash, even though it obviously exists to pressure ISPs to not throttle Netflix to affect the results.
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A lot of the servers those speedtest sites use are really intended for things like 100 megabit connections and down, as they're often run off of spare bandwidth/servers. Not getting ~900 megabit speeds to them on a gigabit connection can be as simple as the server not actually being able to provide ~900 megabit uplink and downlink. I only have a 220/12 service but I still run into problems like that, there's a few of the local servers on speedtest.net that never break 75 or 100 megabit, while others consistently go to 230-240.
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Ok good. Things have been going better since disabling Kaspersky. I may have to head over to the Anti-virus thread and pick their brains as well. Thanks for all the help.
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Sep 5, 2017 03:13
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Thermopyle posted:You should just use Defender which is built in to windows. Not an empty quote.
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Btw, is Optimum any good as a provider in New York? My flatmate signed us up on Verizon (non-FiOS) and the service is expensive and shockingly bad.
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Munin posted:Btw, is Optimum any good as a provider in New York? My flatmate signed us up on Verizon (non-FiOS) and the service is expensive and shockingly bad. You were signed onto DSL, and that's awful. Optimum ranges from "could be worse" to "excellent" depending on exactly which location you're in, but it's always better than DSL.
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I have 200 down in Brooklyn and I pretty much am getting the proper speeds. Downtime isn't too terrible either. They are pretty consistent at my dads place in NJ as well. I'd say if you can't get FIOS or something equally fast cheaper then go for it.
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Parents have had Optimum for practically forever and it's been pretty good. The Optimum WiFi is actually a seriously useful benefit if you're not an unlimited data cell plan, those networks are everywhere in NY. Unlike a lot of other free wifi networks you don't have to sign in each time either, your phone can sign in automatically if you login to your account and add the phone's mac address. If FIOS is available though I'd probably go with that, they have some cheap prices for new customers. https://slickdeals.net/f/10083332-fios-gigabit-connection-79-99-month-more-select-areas
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THF13 posted:Parents have had Optimum for practically forever and it's been pretty good. Thanks. No FiOs where I am.
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Oh boy i am so envious of you guys Gigabit internet. Here it's an extortionate monopoly where you pay the equivalent of five hundos (plus twenty) a month. just for the internet. The slowest FiOS speed here is 10 and that costs 68 dollarydoos. Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 09:13 on Nov 16, 2017 |
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Are your giggabits 1000/100 or 1000/1000? I can get a gigabit for 50€/mo but it's only 1000/100 
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Nov 16, 2017 09:31
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imagine only getting 950/950 on a gigabit connection  
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So about server network adapters vs this old bigfoot killer network card I have sitting in a drawer. Does it offload processes from the CPU as well or is it poo poo that should stay in the drawer?
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Have you seen my apex seals? I seem to have lost them.
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Aeka 2.0 posted:So about server network adapters vs this old bigfoot killer network card I have sitting in a drawer. Does it offload processes from the CPU as well or is it poo poo that should stay in the drawer? My understanding is that the things the KillerNIC really used to be able to speed up mostly relied on doing better prioritizing of traffic over old slow broadband connections - specifically it would throttle other network activity to try to provide optimum service for what it thought was traffic from an online game. The actual network stack processing offloads are effectively meaningless in any sort of modern multi-core system though could have some noticeable improvements when used as an upgrade in like Pentium 4 systems or older. Otherwise, if you use it in a modern system it will perform basically exactly as well as any other Gigabit Ethernet card. So if you have one around, might as well use it.
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Is there a way to get an ipv4 address? A few weeks ago my home internet (charter) started giving ipv6 and since then I've been having all kinds of stupid performance issues, so that's what I'm going to blame. edit: I disabled ipv6 on my router - who knows if that will fix anything, the problem would have had to be with the 6/4 gateway or whatever the hell my ISP has I'd guess Bob Morales fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Nov 27, 2017 |
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Bob Morales posted:Is there a way to get an ipv4 address? A few weeks ago my home internet (charter) started giving ipv6 and since then I've been having all kinds of stupid performance issues, so that's what I'm going to blame. ISPs don't 6to4 gateways yet, your ISP should have been issuing both v4 and v6 addresses to you. If you turn v6 back on and you stop getting a v4 address, you'll need to call tech support to get something hosed up in their systems fixed.
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Charter/Spectrum's been pretty good to us but it's almost time to say goodbye. We're moving to NJ and we signed up for Optimum (formerly Cablevision). We're pretty stoked; we grew up on Cablevision. We're expecting faster speeds and at least $20 less per month compared to what we're paying now. News 12 New Jersey 
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I posted about this in the usenet thread, but seeing a new post in this thread made me think to post it here... If you have Charter they might be offering faster speeds in your area without advertising it. Thermopyle posted:Yes, I feel the same as you about Charter.
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Charter upgraded me to 100mb and never said anything
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Bob Morales posted:Charter upgraded me to 100mb and never said anything Yes, they did that to me like years ago.
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Comcast just gave us a popup about how our modem isn't fast enough to handle the speeds we get (probably also because it's fallen off their supported equipment list). Seriously, now our ISPs give us pop-ups that go past adblocker? (I knew we weren't getting the full speed, there was a promo that made it faster than our 75 for 12 months).
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Are you using their DNS servers?
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Good question. Probably, since it’s a fresh install on my wife’s machine. Should figure out what the good DNS servers are now.
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I have visions of ISP DNS servers being some dusty old Sun boxes that haven't been touched in years.
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Considering all the add injection Comcast does when you use their DNS servers, I really doubt that.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Good question. Probably, since it’s a fresh install on my wife’s machine. Should figure out what the good DNS servers are now. Can't go wrong with 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 (Google's public DNS servers)
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stevewm posted:Can't go wrong with 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 (Google's public DNS servers) Probably can. Can't imagine that traffic across those isn't cross-referenced and added to your ever growing dossier at Alphabet central.
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Wicaeed posted:Considering all the add injection Comcast does when you use their DNS servers, I really doubt that. They do that? Huh.
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redeyes posted:They do that? Huh. It's exceptionally evil: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/66c7sv/comcast_is_using_javascript_injection_to_popup/
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