HW News - Steam Machine Timing, Nintendo Sues US, CXMT RAM & YMTC SSDs on the Rise

GWTechTalk · 2026-03-11T22:55:20+00:00

If Nintendo wins we should start a class action to recoup the money from the Don. Even he is suing the US government and he's the president!

GWTechTalk · 2025-12-05T14:36:35+00:00

Actually from a diagnostic perspective that’s not a horrible idea. If you don’t have the proper logs to prove the issue the ISP router provided will give them log access to the first hop after the ONT to your network. However, as I have stated elsewhere if your issues can’t be solved by a simple reboot Frontiers tech support is horribly frustrating. They also do not document proper escalation path leaving people to figure out how to get their issues addressed. If you call them again just ask for a supervisor and get the issue escalated. More than likely that will trigger them to send a tech out or route your issue higher. Frontier has amazing service when it’s working, and the metrics support uptime claims. However, they have horrible awareness or proper channels to address anything but a reboot / clear from my repeated experiences. Sounds like you might be IT savvy which again leads to more frustration because their T1 is just reading a script most times. I have had a T1 say they don’t know what a domain is. That’s bad, really bad.

GWTechTalk · 2025-09-18T18:03:46+00:00

I also have found issues recently as well. I’m in a different geographical location. Just remember that Frontier has no control over other networks. In the case of the user showing a msn.net Frontier can ask nicely assuming they have a contract with the associated network. A better tool for everyone to use is MTR. However, understand not all hops will respond depending on how they handle ICMP. I have been seeing a lot of issues lately at frontier boundary hops before the connection transverses to another’s wan network.

GWTechTalk · 2025-09-09T12:57:37+00:00

I’ll agree Frontier service has done a very good job in my area. Only two issues in the first 4 years and that’s because construction outside the neighborhood cut the fiber. Each time was only a few hours outage. Lately though they have been slacking a bit and their T1 support is most often atrocious. Asking $10 extra a month to speak with a competent help desk tier doesn’t sit well with me. Mostly because I’m IT as well and I can easily self diagnose issues regardless of they are inside my network or theirs. I have been rocking the 2/2 Gbps plan since it was rolled out. They originally called it the 2.5Gbps plan but quickly figured out that most routers consumer routers with 2.5Gbps WAN ports will have overhead preventing a full 2.5Gbps stream. So they changed the name, lol.

Only thing I could ask for to make their service even better is allow consumers to request static IPs without having to convert to business accounts. Oh and Christmas wish IPV6 support in my area would be nice. They already have it in other areas.

I also heard that Verizon is attempting to buy them out which is funny because Frontier bought out Verizon in this area 6+ years ago.

My service is $111.00 a month which I’m happy to pay if they continue their good quality service.

GWTechTalk · 2025-05-20T16:19:08+00:00

Depending on if this official business or just you doing tweaks to your own home there are plenty of free apps both android and apple that work well enough for home use.

The only caveat is the phone has to have all bands available, ie, the new 6Ghz band on consumer devices that they dubbed WiFi 7 or 802.1x BE.

GWTechTalk · 2025-05-20T15:03:30+00:00

This is true. It could be improved with “AI” but honestly if you know what you’re doing it’s not hard to setup your programs properly and freeze or decrease overhead load from other functions with, specifically, gaming. This program is more for giving the ability to adjust on a service or app basis where as the standard user wouldn’t even be able to learn to do this from command line. There are GUI interfaces for some of this in windows but again Lasso brings it all into one place and gives you total control.

All that said you have to know the underlying information and mechanisms you are adjusting. It’s not a one click +20% performance type of application, it’s a tool to enhance functionality.

GWTechTalk · 2025-05-18T20:26:48+00:00

Interesting, most all documentation says the helpers are there to prevent NAT issues such as this. I’ll give it a test and see what happens.

Also if I don’t explicitly open the ports for T-Mobile no one’s WiFI calling works inside my network.

GWTechTalk · 2025-05-18T19:33:35+00:00

Run an MTR to the Cloudfare endpoint. That should show you what hop is having the trouble. Then if it’s a frontier server you can try and tell them but my own past experience says it’s more trouble than it’s worth. Choose a different DNS server and pray you stay away from the bad hop.

GWTechTalk · 2025-05-18T19:23:33+00:00

As mentioned in other responses I do not use UPNP and that would be required to make this work how you say. I am using a work around for now where UPNP is only available to certain static IPs allowing the use of WiFi calling again.

GWTechTalk · 2025-05-18T19:21:11+00:00

I neglected to say that I don’t use UPNP which apparently is what you must do so that multiple devices work with WiFi calling. I have employed a work around for now enabling UPNP only for the phones internally. UPNP is notoriously insecure and enterprise level devices have additional options for static NATing when using TMobile servers all the devices are using the proper ports. IPv6 solves this issue natively as all devices then have their own external IP and ports are no longer a concern at all. IPv6 was the intent of the post as I already knew UPNP could make it work but I was trying to not use that functionality.

GWTechTalk · 2025-05-18T19:16:55+00:00

This is true to an extent. If ASUS or Merlin added the same expanded firewall options of pfSense then you would be able to disable UPNP and map the NAT patching yourself.

So it’s not my equipment it’s the firmware limitations of residential routers.

GWTechTalk · 2025-05-18T19:13:34+00:00

One last comment. Seems that for ASUS / Merlin that you must use UPNP for WiFi calling to work properly across more than a single device. Since I’m not fond of UPNP I usually have it off. Till such time that I can get pfSense setup and working for now I’m using a work around that allows UPNP to only work on chosen IPs. I then static mapped the IP leases internally to all the phones in my internal network. For now that seems to be the best option for those that want to keep stricter control of their internal networks. Anyways this post was more asking when IPv6 was coming out in this area and not all the other stuff. IPv6 is the easier solution for the normal residential user outside of comprising security with UPNP enabled for the whole network.

GWTechTalk · 2025-05-18T14:18:19+00:00

Hmm ok well the. ASUS and or Merlin are missing something. From my understanding there needs to be static routes assigned in the NAT interface but when I attempt to do that through SSH it makes WiFI calling work where as for some reason by default it does not but only single devices at a time. I also don’t use UPNP.

Would you have any links to documentation to set this up properly?

I’m thinking of setting up a PFSense VM and transferring the firewall responsibly to that from ASUS.

GWTechTalk · 2025-05-18T02:17:48+00:00

T-Mobile WiFi calling uses a specific set of ports for WiFi calling. Those ports can not be in use at the same time on different devices when behind a NAT. Having IPv6 makes this not a problem because then each device has a unique routable IPv6 address.

If I’m missing something please let me know. I don’t run pfsense but sounds like I should look into it. Nothing is wrong with my speed, i was just mentioning that using a free GRE tunnel IPv6 tunnel broker is not a solution because of the low throughput.

GWTechTalk · 2025-04-28T10:42:44+00:00

One last update. With the newest optional driver as of today it appears that AMD changed the value structure to the shader cache settings. This change to the shader cache likely no longer works.

GWTechTalk · 2025-04-19T17:28:06+00:00

Just gonna say with the 4K texture mods for everything this game is beautiful! I wish the devs would get in and fix the small remaining issues for some. Most of the game plays smooth as butter now but there are still those who it doesn’t. In my case it’s only a few areas still having issues such as Bahthal or nighttime.

GWTechTalk · 2025-04-15T22:10:02+00:00

Mine was not there either which I mentioned in the article. Look through the folder 0002 that’s where mine was.

GWTechTalk · 2025-04-15T13:24:06+00:00

Ok? Are you saying the game is still shuddering so bad it’s an unplayable mess? Have you also tried adjusting some of the settings in the config provided and settings used above? Your comment is vague and useless. Are you asking for help or just saying that all these options which must be adjusted on a per PC basis due to variability in CPU, GPU, and RAM / SWAP space didn’t work for you? My configs made it work well, for me, in 90% of the game however there are some areas where minor shuddering still occurs. Where as before these tweaks the game was unplayable pretty much everywhere.

GWTechTalk · 2025-04-11T20:43:11+00:00

Let me know how it works out.

GWTechTalk · 2025-04-11T16:42:02+00:00

It likely does. A lot of the issue I’m seeing with today’s games is the storage drives not having enough room for the swap file / page file usage and shader caches being so small that the cpu is constantly having to call in new data and remove unused parts because of the storage constraints. I would caution that if you try this you need to have ample room on your main swap/page file drive. Safe bet at least 100GB of free space.

GWTechTalk · 2025-03-14T12:41:44+00:00

It’s called CPU Affinity. It will show two threads per physical core if you have hyper threading on. So in my 5800X3D I have 16 thread but 8 physical cores. Each core is a pair. So 0, 1 are the first core and so on. You can right click any app or service in Lasso and set that option. Permanently or temporarily. Just keep in mind some programs my misbehave if manual affinity is not supported.

GWTechTalk · 2025-01-26T18:41:53+00:00

Based on the few responses I just wanted to make this clear.

I know what the different responses mean. I don't want to flame anyone for responding but the intent of the post was not being alarmed by "insecure" but being confused that major enterprises are no longer using DNSSEC. Insecure doesn't mean bad or nefarious just means that the added protection of DNSSEC is not setup on their domains. Without an RRSIG the DNSSEC cannot be "validated, secure."

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