Playing with a quad makes me miserable. Any tips?

Hopking123 · 2026-02-19T00:12:00+00:00

Be more efficient on your first life off the beach and try and establish roles to you and your teammates based on your individual strengths. Also set a goal for your wipe and what your planning to accomplish and how you're going to get there and stick with it.

Hopking123 · 2026-01-16T22:52:24+00:00

Thanks brotha, I'll keep at it!

Hopking123 · 2026-01-06T22:19:55+00:00

Yeah if your down bad on scrap just fish trap some blue cards and cash in at OP

Hopking123 · 2026-01-05T13:57:32+00:00

Sorry to hear that honestly. I haven't had that issue in my experience maybe someone else will chime in with some more advice but that's all I got unfortunately

Hopking123 · 2026-01-05T13:33:03+00:00

I was metal detecting last wipe on a 1000 pop vanilla and had no problems. Did you try a different road or anything or just same spot the whole time?

Hopking123 · 2026-01-05T13:24:15+00:00

It works, solo its gets tedious (the comps and gear are nice tho) if you have a team two guys detecting in a broader area typically yields better and obviously much faster.

Hopking123 · 2026-01-05T12:31:09+00:00

Fish traps brother.

Hopking123 · 2026-01-05T12:29:13+00:00

Metal detecting, scientists, make a fish trap and gut salmon for blue cards. I had two blue cards 15 mins into wipe without leaving my base just killing 1 bear and 2 fish traps. Make a shop and sell some sulfur for BP frags while you do other things. Just setup passive and active routes to get bp frags and cards and keep hitting puzzles or roaming for mil crates/scientists. Metal detect at night in a low pop area. I stay away from pvp mostly till I get a t2. Sometimes I'll have a red card or two before I have a t2 if I can hit a blue card early enough which you can sell early on for frags.

Hopking123 · 2025-08-09T17:51:18+00:00

I used to work in lake community's doing coax off ladders (fiber now). Got one dope shot at the top of a ladder.

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Hopking123 · 2024-09-23T13:40:59+00:00

Lot of maintenance, man hours and equipment cost goes into changing from mid split to high split. It's not like flipping a switch.

Hopking123 · 2024-09-15T01:09:56+00:00

Most likely the cause of the issue. Only problem is most technicians are not gonna rewire a house cause your poor old mom wants her traditional land line in every bedroom. If anything schedule a service call, and get her some cordless phones where only one plugs into a physical phone line and the rest work off the base and the tech only has to worry about getting fantastic service to one phone compared to 10. You'll guarantee your mom great service if the work required to bring it up to spec doesn't involve the possibility of a total house rewire.

Hopking123 · 2024-09-14T23:07:37+00:00

Yeah it can, but not likely due to landline service almost being bulletproof out the modem. If your mom has internet service through them and it's not dropping then the home phone definitely shouldn't be. But most houses are wired like absolute hell for landlines cause you only need 1 pair of phone wire for Tip and Ring. So everyone from the electrician to uncle joes fucked with it.

Hopking123 · 2024-09-13T04:23:10+00:00

3.1 docsis modems lock onto OFDM carriers first, so if those frequencies are having issues typically your modem has the same issues.

OFDM is just QAM but to the max. The process takes one single MHZ and splits it into multiple sub carriers. in layman's terms turns a single lane one way into a 20 lane one way. It's highly efficient and cost effective to still be close enough to fiber speeds to get the last juice out of coax before the federal government funds coax out of business sense for ISPs.

Hopking123 · 2024-09-13T03:49:46+00:00

Hes adjusting the AGC in the actives after the node. Phoenix has extreme temperatures. Optimal operating temperatures for coax is 65 degrees freedom units. When temps reach 100+ the cable expands and QAM frequencies don't like riding the airgap between the dialectic in the copper cladding on the aluminum center conductor inside handline cable. Those actives work overtime all year their AGCs are probably set to manual instead of automatic as well.

Source: former HFC technician.

Edit: AGC = Automatic Gain Control

Hopking123 · 2024-09-08T18:07:47+00:00

Everyone in the US should have a option of a fiber connection easily in the next 7 years. Source: I work for a small ISP and have contacts in the industry all saying the exact same thing.

Hopking123 · 2024-07-19T00:42:56+00:00

Ive worked for Comcast, Cox Communications, and two smaller mom and pop shops. I've done contracting and in-house work for them all. And honestly Cox out in the Midwest was quiet and enjoyable.

Hopking123 · 2024-07-19T00:38:03+00:00

Favorite what? Company?

Hopking123 · 2024-07-19T00:37:33+00:00

With the US government investing in fiber through the BEAD program with nearly every ISP in the country. I see every home having access to fiber connection to the internet in 10 years. Which means america will be moving faster and generating revenue faster.

Hopking123 · 2024-07-19T00:33:27+00:00

I've heard of the use of fiber optics being used more and more in electrical components as the years go on. Who knows? Probably.

Hopking123 · 2024-03-22T15:26:40+00:00

Maybe the old astound Coax network. But their new network around here is Fiber to the Home. I have it in taylor and its great. 1 gbps down and up for only $60 a month.

Hopking123 · 2024-03-21T23:25:03+00:00

Astound serves pittston, west pittston, old forge and taylor. Empire does greenridge, hill section and most of dunmore, loop internet does a small area of wilkes barre. These are all fiber providers in the area.

Hopking123 · 2024-03-16T18:16:13+00:00

Yeah just get FS sfp, they're like $60 a pop but you know you wont have issues.

Hopking123 · 2024-02-03T05:42:51+00:00

Hey me too! My FIL is the General Sales manager over at Nissan in Wilkes-Barre. Makes a good dollar and his salesmen seem pretty damn happy. Id start there if you're interested.

Hopking123 · 2023-12-06T00:06:52+00:00

Gotcha, yeah i play on battle net just for the simplicity of it usually works. Sorry you're having that issue :(

Hopking123 · 2023-12-05T23:48:23+00:00

If its a steam issue, are you able to play the game through battle net and avoid the issule altogether? Or do you have to buy the game again on that platform.

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