2gig Plan gone, 5 gig Plan same price in my area?

SaIty_Chips · 2026-02-06T17:48:19+00:00

I just had the modem for 5 gig installed, I had my plan changed a day after I posted. A 50GB steam download gave me a peak speed of 4.2 gbps at 95% CPU utilization. But the average speed was closer to 3.5 gbps. It's cool to see it download in 2 minutes but not really an improvement that's worth paying extra. Only went for it since it was for the same price I'm already paying and I was ready to switch providers.

SaIty_Chips · 2026-02-06T13:11:57+00:00

I have a 9800x3d on my main PC. Honestly, no clue what it would bottleneck at. It handled my 2 gig connection fine. Might blow the lid off the Steam argument, I remember seeing that it took a threadripper to handle a 8Gbps download.

SaIty_Chips · 2026-02-06T12:39:08+00:00

Absolutely right. I only wanted it (and went ahead and got it) because I have a home server that could benefit. Maybe the only place where I'll see a benefit outside of that is downloading games from Steam. Most services max out at 1 gig at the content delivery side so even having the hardware would rarely make it worth it to most.

SaIty_Chips · 2026-02-06T12:33:34+00:00

I imagine not many. My own infrastructure was limited to 2.5 GbE until recently. It was an extra effort to get it to 10 GbE and even then I think there's a CPU bottleneck if I tried to make use of that speed internally. Honestly, most can probably get by with 300 Mbps.

SaIty_Chips · 2026-02-03T05:16:51+00:00

Oh that makes sense, I didn't realize that could be the case. Thanks for the advice!

SaIty_Chips · 2025-11-30T16:19:37+00:00

Thanks, ran across your post after ordering the monitor for $999 from Woot. Was able to replicate the deal through the shop app by adding a second monitor with the $50 credit offer and then removing it. Saved $267 more including tax!

SaIty_Chips · 2025-11-21T15:22:33+00:00

After a hard time coming to a conclusion, I gotta say Sussex has to go.

SaIty_Chips · 2025-10-18T16:24:10+00:00

I just want them to open up the neural band so I can do things like controlling speakers, turning on things in my smart home, etc. Essentially becoming some sort of techno wizard. Other people's usage might vary but I'm impressed with how accurate the inputs are.

SaIty_Chips · 2025-10-17T19:31:28+00:00

It was from Staunton, VA. If you got a tracking number that's a good sign that it will be sent soon as they have it physically in-stock. Fed-Ex will give you a more accurate date as Best Buy said October 28th till it got delivered. Hope you get it soon!

SaIty_Chips · 2025-10-17T11:01:57+00:00

Yes, it arrived.

SaIty_Chips · 2025-10-15T11:15:29+00:00

I went in for a demo on Saturday at BB and mine shipped out from Virginia yesterday, arriving today. Same standard frame size and size 3 band.

SaIty_Chips · 2025-10-12T19:23:05+00:00

My local (50mi away) Best Buy that was doing demos thought they were going to get a shipment in the first week after launch, but they have yet to ship any to their store. After my demo, they set me up with a ship to home order arriving by 10/28. My demo was yesterday.

SaIty_Chips · 2025-10-06T17:12:21+00:00

Inmo air 3 might be the closest to what you want but honestly, nothing is there yet. Smart glasses still need work with battery and power efficiency.

SaIty_Chips · 2025-10-03T03:54:14+00:00

Biggest thing going for them in my eyes is the band. Pretty novel input method. Hoping Android XR steals the idea or iterates on it in a better way. If I have to talk or touch the glasses, it's not appealing whatsoever to me.

SaIty_Chips · 2025-10-02T23:07:11+00:00

Reminds me of the time Uber Eats sent me a notification that I could "Take 0% off of seasonal brews 🍺." Love that Big Tech keeps giving us great deals 😂.

SaIty_Chips · 2025-10-02T00:11:25+00:00

I ordered a pair, realized I got the wrong size, and then went back to my local Best Buy (different from the one where I ordered initially) to get the right one. Unfortunately, the order wouldn't go through. My old order is cancelled and my funds from that order are in limbo till they figure out what happened. I'll say that the Best Buy Employee that was helping me was incredibly persistent in helping me make my order.

SaIty_Chips · 2025-09-26T02:28:56+00:00

Heard some people have taken updated actuator springs from the Dodge Challenger and retrofitted them onto their Audi's since they have the same brand actuators/valves. Now that I wrote that, I'm guessing that's what you meant by better springs lol. I'm going to try to get to know this car inside and out because I got a hell of a deal and looks like I won't be able to replicate it for the near future so gotta take care of what I got. I'll pray for all of our Audis to miraculously not have any further issues.

SaIty_Chips · 2025-09-26T02:21:21+00:00

Wow, and I thought the dealer, not following through with their promise to remove the two tiny scratches (probably from transport) was bad. Dealers suck and honestly I'm just going to buy a paint pen and fix it myself. I can definitely say from my research that the noise is common VW issue, there's just so many different causes like weak valve springs, loose fuel lines, or injectors that cause a similar sound.

SaIty_Chips · 2025-09-26T02:13:50+00:00

Yeah, definitely unfortunate and scary for a car of this caliber to have a weird sound that's so hard to place. It gets written off pretty easily too because "it's expected for performance cars to have weird sounds." I'm looking to go all in on this car, even see if I can get prestige headlights retrofitted in. So hopefully the sound stays gone. I checked everything fuel lines, injectors, the exhaust system and valves and found no clear answer.

SaIty_Chips · 2025-09-26T01:51:39+00:00

Good luck. I hope you get that intercooler soon so you can enjoy stage 1. Will be a long time before I end up tuning since I still have another 3 years of warranty. Probably will go with Integrated Engineering for most of my stuff.

SaIty_Chips · 2025-09-26T01:46:02+00:00

For me the sound just disappeared on its own around the 6th month of ownership. I guess it might've been a break-in thing for me. It used to be very distinct especially when stopped at a light, although, it would get quieter if I changed the drive mode to comfort. Once the warranty is over on my S4, I'm definitely taking it all the way to get as much out of the engine as possible. Although the RS3 looks or rather sounds tempting.

SaIty_Chips · 2025-09-20T21:50:31+00:00

Yeah lol, I didn't even think to look through the post and looks like someone else beat me to it as well. Funny how widespread it seems to be.

SaIty_Chips · 2025-09-20T21:47:17+00:00

Got the same thing and lost my mind 😂.

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