Recent content by exej

It's been a few weeks now. After I got that text message saying the issue has been fixed, I never had any more problems. So it was definitely on their end. Thread can be closed. I appreciate all the replies with people trying to help, thank you!

I called a tech to come out and have it scheduled for later this week. Late last night I was streaming some shows and had a full outage that lasted about 20 minutes, and then I got a text from Comcast saying "A problem in your area has been found and fixed by our technicians" or something like...

I tried running a ping and it's 100% packet loss every time, even when the connection seems fine. I'm pretty sure they disabled pings to the node. I apologize, I should have been more clear. There is no router, it's plugged directly into their "gateway" which is the all-in-one modem/router...

Well it's just a phone and an ipad. I don't game on them, but streaming works fine.

For the past couple of weeks have been having issues with lag spikes in games. I ran a WinMTR to the game server which is showing packet loss starting at the 2nd hop (ISP's first node): |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | WinMTR...

I‘m not sure but I looked into it a bit and I read that it can be deleted with no issue, so I deleted it to free up some space.

Thanks, it worked perfectly! Reinstalled windows from a usb flash drive and then updated all my hardware drivers. Works like new and it’s very fast! Rebooted it a few times to make sure. It was definitely corrupted win 10 install. Is it safe to delete the windows.old folder?

Thanks. I am going to try the USB repair tonight. Will update with how it goes. Also, thanks for the notepad trick! I had no idea about that. Was able to get all my personal files backed up to my external HD.

My PC (4 year old, custom gaming PC bought on ibuypower) has been working perfectly. Today I was using it just fine and went to restart it. Suddenly it won’t boot. It gave me the message “Repairing disk errors. This might take over an hour to complete.” I let it run and it went for about 3...