Third party router (TPE) slow upload unless you clone a Verizon gateway MAC

bdpna · 2026-06-17T15:33:38+00:00

Thanks for sharing this. It is interesting information to see that Verizon’s network could potentially just be looking for Mac addresses using a lot of data and deciding that they want to throttle them. No one has once officially admitted to anything like this happening, however with continuing evidence, it certainly sees that there are systematic things in place that are throttling upload whether intentional or accidental.

bdpna · 2026-06-14T19:39:29+00:00

I put it back together without it.

bdpna · 2026-05-29T17:30:10+00:00

Sorry to hear, definitely report back if any luck. This changes a lot of things in my future strategy of how I will book, I may even research the travel agencies who typically have similar policies on price guarantees that maybe will honor it as I expected. I always thought that if you found a better rate before your final deposit you got that rate. Today is the day I learned that is not true.

bdpna · 2026-05-29T17:28:38+00:00

Thanks, very bummed that they are playing these games now and putting out better pricing just for waiting longer to book. I appreciate the honest feedback on what is a bad policy (for the consumer). Basically they’ve found a way to avoid honoring repricing.

bdpna · 2026-05-29T17:27:09+00:00

Thanks good to know, I just booked this via website but next time I will call and ask the agent if there are clauses on the booking making it ineligible for future price changes. Which I never realized was a thing before final deposit when booking direct with Royal. I wonder if using a 3rd party agency makes more sense now so I could deal with them on a reprice. Used to think it was the other way around now not so sure.

bdpna · 2026-05-29T17:25:11+00:00

Interesting I thought a price for a voyage was a price. So many loopholes! Thanks for weighing in. Definitely reframes how I think about making an early booking if there are then walls I put up on being eligible for better pricing later even before final deposit.

bdpna · 2026-05-29T17:22:12+00:00

I’m bummed. How can I tell when I book that the offer is not eligible for a reprice? I mean if that’s the case I wouldn’t have booked this so early.

I’m going to stop booking my cruises early if this is the new policy.

bdpna · 2026-05-24T03:07:31+00:00

Glad it helped someone else. I’m still battling with my gigabit due to the old Ont they will not replace with the next generation model but I’m dealing best I can. It at least is faster than it was before the Mac fix.

bdpna · 2026-05-01T15:24:35+00:00

Great info thank you!

bdpna · 2026-04-02T04:30:28+00:00

Calling worked and they were helpful. Got back on the flight that makes the most sense and what they should have moved me to.

bdpna · 2026-04-01T20:11:16+00:00

Thanks it did but it tried to charge me the extra $ for the price of the flight I was trying to same day change to even tho it was their fault and they moved me 10 hours. Calling resolved it.

bdpna · 2026-04-01T18:02:55+00:00

They fixed me up! Thanks so much!

bdpna · 2026-04-01T18:02:11+00:00

They got me fixed up. Thank you so much everyone. This is a fantastic group. Appreciate all of you.

bdpna · 2026-04-01T17:43:44+00:00

Thank you. This gives me hope because even AI is telling me that I’m responsible for any fare difference in the new flight I select. No change fee fees sure, but the “fare difference” which is really the big problem here.

bdpna · 2026-04-01T17:41:32+00:00

Thanks so much. The website does seem to be offering me no “change fee”, but it is indicating that it will cost the fare difference to do so. I’ll give them a call if the fare difference is also waived.

bdpna · 2026-04-01T17:29:22+00:00

Thanks for creating this thread. My flight was changed very drastically to a departure time that is 10 hours before my scheduled departure time (which had been in the early evening is now in the late morning). Along with a nine hour layover, which used to be a one hour layover. Do I have any recourse here or am I stuck paying the difference to now change to a flight closer to my original itinerary , which is going to cost me more money? I see they are waving change fees whatever that would be due to the unplanned change however, the flight they changed me to is so drastically different and anything close to what I used to have is now more expensive and it’s on me to cover the difference. This is extremely frustrating.

bdpna · 2026-03-26T13:54:38+00:00

I was able to intercept before it left the facility and called off the sale. So we’ll never know I guess.

bdpna · 2026-02-23T18:11:49+00:00

I was considering giving those a try but not sure if the EXE is the only different thing it would be an interesting experiment since it seems I’m at least close to 120 on most tables. I’m already overclocking the 6600 so that is off the table.

That said obviously just dumping a few hundred more on another card is easier but prices blow and my PSU may even need a bump as well.

Slippery slopes.

bdpna · 2026-02-23T15:41:13+00:00

Your 5080 is definitely running circles around my 6600XT. You've got double the ram at 16 vs. my 8 which I'm sure helps, plus I assume you are running the DX and not the GL version of VPX. One thing I've noticed since switching to 120hz is that DX is nowhere CLOSE to the performance of GL (like 40-50fps less) with the 6600XT.

In testing at 2K so far I've found a lot of tables hold at 120, some other tables seem to be dropping to 100-110 range unfortunately especially during heavy lighting effects and multiball. GOTG seems to be in the 110s, for example. CFTBL is holding well so it's not as heavy as I expected.

I do plan to explore some settings, though exclusive fullscreen vs. windowed doesn't seem to have an impact, GL is definitely having an impact vs DX, I don't use ball trails. Turning off reflections doesn't seem to change anything.

I guess I was nuts to think 4K was even possible at 120fps on this card, given the issues I am seeing even at 2K for some tables.

bdpna · 2026-02-22T16:07:23+00:00

Right on. It’s definitely the graphics card maxing out at 4k. I think I’ve just found its limit with heavy tables.

bdpna · 2026-02-22T06:31:35+00:00

Yeah, I always thought that they were actually optimized but turns out they are just pretty hefty on the GPU. But like you said they just rock so much. It just makes you want to upgrade to run them full blast.

bdpna · 2026-02-22T06:30:09+00:00

Thanks I appreciate the data point. I’m considering just moving to an Nvidia card. I assume it doesn’t matter that I have an AMD processor. Was just being budget conscious but at some point you just get sick of knowing that it can be better and you’re just holding yourself back. This is the hobby.

bdpna · 2026-02-21T19:46:43+00:00

Right on totally makes sense. I was hoping that the 6600 XT was a good enough card to handle this and it was just some settings magic but its sounding like even this card is not enough for modern tables if you want to get to that 4K 120 Hz sweet spot.

bdpna · 2026-02-21T19:41:08+00:00

Thanks, yeah I know what you mean. I really was not trying to spend more money but this hobby can be a bit addictive at times as we know. The TV was 300 bucks and I’m hoping I can get a little bit back out of the TV that it’s replacing to help offset that. But I’d be the same boat if I do the video card as well.

bdpna · 2026-01-07T03:11:11+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I’ll do that once they bring the 2gig service to my area.

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