Recent content by Argus97

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    Question SMART has triggered, "Read only"ing my drive because Available Spare is 0%? But only EFI needs repair

    Sorry, I don't really understand how this works. Why would it run out of spare blocks if it's got 96% life expected left? Does that just mean it's faulty, or that the EFI blocks got corrupted? Is there any way to free up blocks? And how can I prevent my new drive from running out of spare blocks?
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    Question SMART has triggered, "Read only"ing my drive because Available Spare is 0%? But only EFI needs repair

    So, this has been a nightmare for about two weeks now. Computer just crashed randomly, couldn't even boot. Was told "WARNING: Please back-up your data and replace your hard drive. A failure may be imminent and cause unpredictable fail." It set my SSD to read only through SMART and I couldn't do...
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    Question Slowest-opening Windows Apps for Benchmarking ?

    Modded Minecraft for SURE! It takes like 5 minutes to load
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    [SOLVED] Can I increase speed by connecting Wifi and Ethernet when my internet CAN go faster?

    I assume it would scale to 10 devices, though I don't have that many I can use to saturate their speed. In the picture I included in the last reply, I can't even access my router directly, I have to access it through the ISP's website, and then they send the changes to the router. The most...
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    [SOLVED] Can I increase speed by connecting Wifi and Ethernet when my internet CAN go faster?

    My router from my ISP can't even be directly accessed by the normal 192.168.1.1 typing that in takes you to the website of my ISP and into a webpage where you configure router settings. The webpage sees every device connected to the router and I don't even need to be on the network to make...
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    [SOLVED] Can I increase speed by connecting Wifi and Ethernet when my internet CAN go faster?

    It's applied by the ISP and I have no control over it. So while I have a gigabit entering the house, the ISP throttles the connection per device depending on the tier you purchase, with you only able to get the highest speed by either buying the "bundle" of TV and phone, which is just, no. Or...
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    [SOLVED] Can I increase speed by connecting Wifi and Ethernet when my internet CAN go faster?

    I've got more than enough headroom, as the max speed offered is 1 gigabit, and I'm using at most 10 megabytes, so roughly 100megabit. But each device is getting that 100megabit speed while other devices are being used. I maxed out the speed on 4 devices at the same time without any of them...
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    [SOLVED] Can I increase speed by connecting Wifi and Ethernet when my internet CAN go faster?

    So I have seen some posts about how "no, it's a limited amount of data coming into your house" such and such, but this is a little different of a situation. My ISP offers much higher tiers of speed, just practically tripling in price though. But, the speed I currently have is device centered...