Recent content by locutor

Thanks, bill001g. I know the TV doesn’t do Wifi 6. The router client list shows the TV is using a 5G interface with a Tx/Rx rate of 390-585 / 117-195 Mbps. Point taken about the data rate ceiling for TVs -- as I mentioned, I’ve never noticed a problem. Per your advice, I’ll probably just...

BFG-9000, thanks much for your informative reply. My router is a TP-Link Archer AX21 (equivalent to TP-Link AX1800, I gather). I hate that TP-Link no longer provides user manuals. I see no option in the interface to adjust the 5GHz channel width (whose setting is not reported). I could...

I’ve been experimenting with the network connections to my Samsung QN90A TV and am finding Wifi 6 to be faster (43-75 Mbps) than direct-connected Ethernet (15-62 Mbps). Doesn’t make sense to me. Both are served by the same Internet feed. What might be going on here?

Just updating my post. I tried the Wyze Cam V3. RTSP is no longer supported. Livestreaming to a web browser requires a separate paid subscription to Cam Plus, which I bought. Except that Web View doesn’t work, which their customer support knows. “Our engineers are working on it”…for over...

Thanks much for the suggestions, guys. The only Reolink model I could put on a window sill has a viewing angle of 98 degrees, only about half of that of a video doorbell. The Wyze is 130 degrees, a little better. And it’s cheap enough that I could always find another use for it if it didn’t...

I want to put a live camera on my windowsill pointed outside that I can monitor from my PC. Can anyone recommend one that would be good for this? Most are designed to work with smartphone apps, but I need to be able to see the output on my PC, either through a browser or some other Windows...

I need a storage solution. I currently have about 40 TB of storage spread across six internal and external HDDs, which I’d like to consolidate, but I’m not sure how. I’ve heard of NAS storage but don’t if it’s applicable here – it doesn’t need to be accessed by a network; just a single PC...

Overnight my system crashed and rebooted, apparently triggered by this entry in the Event Viewer: The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block. I assumed it was referring to my SSD boot drive. But a full S.M.A.R.T. test with the drive’s proprietary software returned no problems. I...

POSTSCRIPT The next time I booted up from my new SSD, I got a long pause on the screen "Checking Media Presence… Media Present… Start PXE over IPv4." I went into BIOS and under Boot Options, I disabled the options for Onboard NIC (IPV4) and Onboard NIC (IPV6), leaving only Windows Boot Manager...

Not a question, but thought I’d post a success story upgrading the M.2 NVMe SSD in my desktop PC. I wanted to replace the original 256GB Toshiba SSD in my 3-yr.-old Dell XPS 8920 with a new WD Black 1TB. I approached this with some trepidation. Since it only has one such slot, I used Macrium...

I’m cloning a failing system drive to a new HD. The cloning has run a day already, and the estimated remaining time keeps increasing (currently 48 hrs.) instead of decreasing. I know that errors on the source drive could be slowing the process and affecting the estimate. I’m inclined to let...

Thanks very much for the useful replies, folks! I do plan to have a good GPU, which is probably a bigger factor in gaming performance, and probably update it every couple of years or so.

I saw a deal for a Dell XPS Tower with a Core i7-6700 and 16GB of memory for around $700. That's a good price, but I'm wondering if this 6th gen. CPU will serve me for the next four years or so. Gaming is probably my most processing-intensive activity, although I do like to be able to run a...

Just what I was thinking! Thanks; I'll probably do that.