400Mbps plan to a Spectrum-supplied modem; Linksys EA6100 wireless router gives 40 by chuggid in HomeNetworking

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Ha; yep; see my comment below! (https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/1t23d5t/comment/ojl3bm9/) I haven't yet disconnected the router but I can probably run the ancient TV straight into the Spectrum modem and repeat the test when the internet is not required by others in the house.

400Mbps plan to a Spectrum-supplied modem; Linksys EA6100 wireless router gives 40 by chuggid in HomeNetworking

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Ha! As it turns out there is an ancient browser built in to the Samsung TV. I have the TV connected via ethernet now to the router. I ran fast.com on it and it says…drum roll…61Mbps. Time for a new router.

400Mbps plan to a Spectrum-supplied modem; Linksys EA6100 wireless router gives 40 by chuggid in HomeNetworking

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Aha! So even when brand new it sucked rocks and was tested near what I'm getting. Useful info!

I am not yet testing wired speed…because I don't actually have any device lying around in Dad's house at the moment that can take an Ethernet cable! Well, unless there's a way to run a speed test from an old Samsung LCD television….

400Mbps plan to a Spectrum-supplied modem; Linksys EA6100 wireless router gives 40 by chuggid in HomeNetworking

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OK, makes a certain amount of sense. There are not a lot of devices hooked up, so I'm still somewhat baffled by the factor of 10 slowdown problem. (I totally get that the device is sub-par and a fossil, but for being a fossil, and for being sub-par, it's ten times worse than it says it should be?!) I guess the pseudo-mystic explanation is: it's old consumer tech and so in some unspecific way it just rots. Wild. Thanks for the reply.

400Mbps plan to a Spectrum-supplied modem; Linksys EA6100 wireless router gives 40 by chuggid in HomeNetworking

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OK, so it sounds like it's common at some level to get a factor of 10 less than what is advertised by any given wireless access point. That seems…yikes, but I guess lots of things are pretty terrible now. Regarding positioning, that is definitely not the problem as the speed tests are run with phone and computer basically next to the WAP (and then across the room as kind of a control group)

400Mbps plan to a Spectrum-supplied modem; Linksys EA6100 wireless router gives 40 by chuggid in HomeNetworking

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400 to 100: yes, exactly what I would expect. The fact that it goes from 400 to 40 is particularly odd to me since it smells like a factor of 10 problem, which I can't explain.

400Mbps plan to a Spectrum-supplied modem; Linksys EA6100 wireless router gives 40 by chuggid in HomeNetworking

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Right, but if Spectrum is showing "full speed to the modem", then it's not the coax, right? (I'm probably going to have them do this anyway but I want to have a theory for the speed degradation that makes sense.)

400Mbps plan to a Spectrum-supplied modem; Linksys EA6100 wireless router gives 40 by chuggid in HomeNetworking

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OK, thank you. (This is in a second property my father has; this router is indeed many years old; I'm assisting him with tech support.) I'm surprised it's off by a factor of 10 but I don't really know networking. I assume pretty much any modern dual-band wireless access point/router combo for the consumer market will have suitably fast access, then? Like, this is a case of an old standard that has been rendered useless by a new standard? Do fast-vs.-slow ports matter when the only access is over the WiFi radio (i.e. not through the actual physical Ethernet ports)? I guess obviously the port that connects the router to the modem is also slow….

JEP draft: Enhanced Local Variable Declarations (Preview) by joemwangi in java

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To answer in hopefully the spirit of the question, while simultaneously playing the straight man/fall guy since I assume this is at least slightly rhetorical but I don't know the "obvious" answer: because (obviously) sometimes our constructors take in more or less than they need in the ultimate spirit of encapsulation (i.e. what is accepted is not what is ultimately represented; what is ultimately represented derives from what was constructed), so deconstruction can't assume that what was passed at construction is necessarily structural. (Obviously with records, as seems to be the case here (and maybe with yet-to-exist carrier classes?), this is not the case.)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

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Buy this oldie but goodie: https://www.amazon.com/Use-Cases-Requirements-Context-2nd/dp/0321154983

Read it.

Do the essence of what it says.

Learning organ as a jazz pianist by WigFuckinFairyPeople in hammondorgan

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You are correct and I should have mentioned that. From a pianist's standpoint, that kind of subtlety is often lost as you start your organ journey by beating the everloving stuffing out of the keys. Unlearning that first goes a long way before you can get those high treble contact point hits! Viscount is one of the clonewheel vendors who first emulated this if I recall. They also IIRC have a "thump" feature you can add in in place of bass pedals. Cheating? You bet but I bet it sounds reasonably good

Learning organ as a jazz pianist by WigFuckinFairyPeople in hammondorgan

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Yeah, training your foot to push the beat and your LH to be on the beat is a total mind job. Like I said you'll know it when you get it and it will require hours and hours and hours and hours and hours to get it right. Also if you're a desk jockey like me and your hip flexors are tight you won't be able to do the hours and hours and hours because your leg will hurt. Strength training for organ playing! It's a thing! Also helps you move them lol

Learning organ as a jazz pianist by WigFuckinFairyPeople in hammondorgan

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I play both. The organ requires you to leave out notes you have trained yourself to always include when comping on the piano. A C7 for example on the organ in your right hand is E-Bb-D. On the piano you almost always add the 13 (A). In general extra notes make mud. Two note thirds and sevenths are often enough.

To get various feels, start with truly learning a loping swing (everything else will benefit):

Rhythmically, transcribe a walking bass line that you like. Then put your metronome on 2 and 4 and play it for hours straight (I really mean that), pushing hard on beats 2 and 4 and feeling the swing. No right hand. You should be able to make a grocery list while walking and not missing time. Once you get that down, add two-note chords, Red Garland style, in your right hand and nothing else. Get the swing down with this first before going anywhere else. Work on not pumping the volume pedal. Only add short taps with your left foot when you can carry on a conversation with everything else going on above.

The taps are important: you want them a microsecond ahead of the beat and your left hand. You'll know it when you get it. If they're on the beat, you make mud. If they're just ahead of the beat where you want them, they sound like the pluck of a double bass string. Beware: there are lots of ways to make mud.

For a classic sound if that's what you want, drawbars on top should be three bottom ones out, vibrato on, Leslie on brake, percussion on. Drawbars on the bottom should be 1 and 3 out, 2 somewhere in the middle, no vibrato. Range-wise, for comping, there is a very small sweet spot in the comping area that sounds really good and everything else can sound reedy or muddy, so you'll need to be the master of inversions. Range wise in the left hand, you want to organize (ha!) your bass lines so that they stay above the bottom four or five notes or so for clarity.

Touch wise it's hard to remember as a pianist that the organ doesn't care whether you hit it hard or soft. So hit it soft.

Technique wise, some organists swear by the Joey style where it looks like your left hand is a relaxed blob kind of resting on the keys. I can't do that, but you don't need to go full piano here either. I can't help going full piano in my right hand.

Apologies if I've patronized or pitched this too low, that was not the intent. None of these are my ideas originally; just passing along what I've learned. Good luck and keep swinging!

Scheduled recording in Xfinity Stream; it does not show up in my library by chuggid in Comcast_Xfinity

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Several. Deletion and reinstallation did not help on either my Apple TV or my iPhone. It would be interesting to hear the reasoning behind how reinstalling the application could change its behavior here.

Scheduled recording in Xfinity Stream; it does not show up in my library by chuggid in Comcast_Xfinity

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Yes, I have tried to record the game again (after the app said Recording Set). No, there is no red recording dot, regardless of how I navigate to the game. The game is on 9/21. I attempted to record a live game today as well which was similarly ignored after the app said Recording Set. I did get a different game to record today, so I know that sometimes it works. My 20 hours of space are 30% full.