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That is likely because many people felt the $150 difference in price between the base clock models and the over clocked models was not worth the extra money.

I have not seen a article on these particular cards but this topic in general has been discussed. The main problem is are you sitting all day long running benchmark software. The general consensus is there is definitely a difference between cards that run at different clock rates. You can...

Try something even more basic. Reset the router to factory. Now plug the wan port into the wall jack. Although not the optimum long term configuration it should allow you to test that everything works. You are in effect pretending you are buying ISP services from someone else in your...

First before you chase numbers on a report does the latency actually affect you. The main complain people have about lag spikes is it causes issue in a game. The best test to see if it is the router is to plug directly into the ISP modem. If the ISP device is also a router you likely...

Do not think a couple degrees different in temperature directly relates to a performance increase. Does you cpu ever hit the thermal limit and drop the clock rates. hwinfo64 actually has a line that tells you if it is throttling. It really doesn't matter if you are 10 degrees below the thermal...

That is strange all the ones I have had in say the last 15 years all could put in 1 second. Not that it really works seem the microwave takes a bit of time to actually come to full power so 3 or 4 seconds seems to be the minimum that actually does something. If you are going to buy a new...

You are going to have to be a bit more clear of how you were testing. First wifi7 does not actually have more coverage that older versions of wifi. This distance the signal goes is regulated by the transmit power which has not changed....technically the more advanced types of wifi encoding...

I did not bother to search for a release date on that router. There were a number of features like the silly bonding of 2.4,5,6 radios into a single session that took a long time to get functional. Some end devices still have issues with this feature. Could be there are other less known...

Internal wifi pcie based cards tend to work much better. You can get some quality USB wifi dongle devices but you must be very careful. Most the USB based wifi are designed for usage cases where physical small size and battery life are more important than performance. You can get...

Windows can be to "helpful?" at times. It might be connecting to the router using different setting or maybe the other radio band. Hard to say you can replace a networks card with exactly the same part number and it will create a new network interface. If it is not a simple setting it...

So a rather uncommon solution to this problem. What you might want to do is leave the main ethernet on the default setting using DHCP. This would then work on most normal networks. What you now do is click the advanced option and put in what are called secondary IP addresses. Click add and...

I suspect it was the driver and me forgetting to tell you to set the DNS confused things. I neglected to mention it because I was more concerned that port itself did not work at all. I tend to recommend the configuration you now have even though you could change the DNS back to automatic...

So I agree with Ralston18 you really should not have both the ethernet and wifi activated at the same time. Normally windows is smart enough to figure this all out. It seems to know that most ethernet is faster than wifi......but it is still a stupid program and sometimes picks wrong...

So what exact location are you only getting 100kbps. How are you determining that it is only 100kbps. Both your speedtest results and steam show that you are getting just under 90mbps. You have 2 completely different applications that show you are getting proper download rates. Steam runs...

Other than something very strange like the sun heats up a room/cable at that time I can't see how time of day issue would be hardware. The switch is very stupid It has a extremely simple table of what mac addresses are on what ports. When is sees a data packet it simply looks at the...