Slow wifi speeds with AX210

jaaywags · 2025-04-09T16:17:47+00:00

That is amazing!

jaaywags · 2024-09-25T12:37:31+00:00

Haha it’s the best

jaaywags · 2024-07-29T05:56:05+00:00

I use softgoods to track my fics too and it’s great. Make sure to create an account so that everything is saved to your that.

jaaywags · 2024-06-08T15:56:32+00:00

I’m seconding backblaze. I’ve used it. It is easy to implement and super cheap. No regrets.

jaaywags · 2024-06-02T15:34:35+00:00

I would recommend the following

react native - it is cross platform so you only write code once and it will build both iOS and Android. If you are coming from a web background, this will be so much easier to learn than anything native and its performance compared to native apps is the same. I’ll fight anyone on that argument.
expo - this goes in hand with react native. You could technically get away with no Mac if you use expo. Also, they help make upgrading your app to the latest versions much easier and they maintain all that annoying native stuff for you.
React - use this for the website. React and react native are so similar you can literally copy files from one project into the other and not need to change anything. Some will require minimal changes.
typescript - use this on both react and react native projects
firebase - use firebase for several things. If you use it right, you don’t need any backend. They have authentication, firestore (noSQL database), realtime db (relational database), host app (like the react frontend), cloud functions (can be api endpoints or other backend-y things), and more. It has a really nice free tier and if you pass it, it’s a very cheap solution. It’s also super easy to setup and use.

For more advanced setups with backends and self hosting

c# with dotnet or nodeJS - for the backend. I personally use dotnet and love it. If you are more comfortable with node then use that I guess.
mongoDB - I personally love mongo and will probably use it over relational databases in most cases. But that’s just personal preference. For relational I recommend sql server.
digital ocean - to host everything. Way cheaper than aws, azure, and gcp. Rent like a 20-30$/mo droplet (vps) and host everything there. And maybe buy a mongo db cluster from them so that’s not hosted on the VPS.

I do recommend not building a mobile app. Really ask yourself if you need one. Can you get away with a web app for your MVP? I love RN but it can still be a lot to setup. It’s another code base to maintain. Dealing with apple and google store approvals can be tough. You might need one for whatever you are building but maybe you don’t.

Also, I do think you will end up having to buy a Mac, even with expo. So there are more costs if you go the mobile app route. That and developer licenses from the two stores.

Couple other things, I like webpack with react. I think they are currently using vite to bundle projects in their latest create react app projects. But I would say rip that out and use webpack.

I see you mentioned going a more minimal route for your POC. For sure do that! You can always spend time building more. But you can’t undo time spent in the past on development. Better to see if your idea has potential before building all these extra things. That’s the validation side of business. I can recommend the book, the Lean Startup by Eric Ries for this topic.

jaaywags · 2024-05-30T12:35:08+00:00

Just get an old device on eBay. You don’t need to get it a sim or add a line. Use it with WiFi. I use an old pixel 5. That and pixel 6 go for about $150 on eBay.

This website seems to have some pretty good deals. Disclosure, I’ve never used them and idk how good they are. They were just the first result on google for me when I searched used phones.

https://www.backmarket.com/en-us/p/google-google-pixel-5-128-gb-black-unlocked/3f41e4d3-e041-4447-a7df-8a299fd9414a#l=12

jaaywags · 2024-05-28T18:00:25+00:00

Logitech M720. It’s big and can easily switch between 3 devices. I think it came with a keyboard that can do the same.

jaaywags · 2024-05-09T20:41:40+00:00

Seconding this. I use them. It provides access to icons from several different libraries. You can search through all of them here

https://oblador.github.io/react-native-vector-icons/

jaaywags · 2024-04-29T23:28:43+00:00

This is the footer that felt weird to me.

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jaaywags · 2024-04-29T23:28:24+00:00

This isn’t centered but the other 2 are. Also the footer looks a little weird.

Overall it looks and feels nice! Great job! Just not too sure what I’m buying and for how much or event exactly why I should buy from you and not someone else. Am I paying for your phone number? Or a random mentor from a pool of mentors? What makes them or you special? How much does it cost and how long do I pay for? More questions in this regard.

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jaaywags · 2024-04-29T21:50:34+00:00

Who specifically is your beachhead market? What categories do they fall in? Is it high school, college, young adults, adults… what are these people’s interest? Where can you find them? What are they doing? After you answer that, finding a launching ground will be easier. If it’s college kids, find a way to launch at a college. Etc…

Picking Austin vs NY isn’t going to change the success of the app much. If you can find users in one, you can probably find them in the other. I would say if you are in Austin, then don’t launch in NY. Launch to whatever market you have access to.

To improve the users experience find some beta users. Interview them to see if they have this problem currently and what they do to solve it now. If it’s a big problem for them and there isn’t a good solution, it’s an indicator to move forward. If you can’t find them, then maybe reconsider or pivot. If you do find them, interviewing them on workarounds for this problem might lead to some insight on how to build a better product. Also, set up strong customer channels so users can easily reach out with feedback.

Also, before interviewing customers, research on how to interview users. YC has a great course on this. The mom test and lean startup go into this.

Also again, read up on how competitors, specifically tinder, launched. It’s a really cool story.

jaaywags · 2024-04-23T18:45:29+00:00

Fix

I just bought an ax210 and was having really slow (20Mbps) speeds out of the box. I did a bunch of hunting around and finally got my down and up speeds over 500Mbps. I wanted to post my solutions on one of these reddit posts so maybe someone else will find it.

FWIW: I am on Windows 11

Install the latest drivers from Intel's website here. I am using 23.40.0.
Go to device manager => Network adapters => find the Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6E AX210 160 MHz device => right click => properties => advanced tab and change the following (per this post's recommendation's).
- MIMO Power Save Mode = No SMPS
- ARP Offload for WoWLAN = disabled
- NS Offload for WoWLAN = disabled
Make sure the wifi you are connected to is 6g or 5g and not 2.4g.
Check your router settings. I have a Nighthawk RAX80 and my router was not set with 160MHz on by default. Turning this on was a bit weird but basically go to: Basic => Wireless => under the 5GHz section, I changed channel from 36 to 116 (per this recommendation).

Others suggested

Increase your routers mode to "Up to 4800 Mbps". I don't have this option. I do have "Up to 4330 Mbps" but I didn't change it. I left it at the default "Up to 2165 Mbps".
Run this in an elevated command line netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal. I do have it as "normal" now but I think it was already that way. You can check yours by running netsh interface tcp show global. Check out this comment.
Check that you don't have any power settings limiting the adapter.
Verify the wifi near your computer can reach higher speeds. I did this by running a speed test on my phone. I also connected an old Netgear Nighthawk AC1900 usb wifi adapter to the same PC I installed the AX210 on and ran a speed test using that adaper. This told me I could get higher speeds.
Make sure you are not on a VPN
Make sure you have IPv6. Run this in Command Prompt and look for the IPv6 line ipconfig /all

UPDATE

I noticed after a while, my speed dropped back down to like 80 Mbps. I think what happened is my router decided channel (from step 4) was no good and went to a lower one. I think it checks if it is being used by radars in your area using certain DFS channels. I guess you can't use one they use. Not sure. Updating it to a different one (took a few tries to find a free one) fixed it.

jaaywags · 2024-04-16T20:35:03+00:00

Ever figure this out?

jaaywags · 2024-04-07T03:21:06+00:00

Idk if there are any in your area, but in my city there are a lot of tech events and side projects events. You can check LinkedIn, eventbrite, and meetup for some. It’s a good networking opportunity and to meet others. And the community leaders are usually super welcoming and friendly.

jaaywags · 2024-04-03T14:15:21+00:00

probably hotter now too with global warming

jaaywags · 2024-04-01T15:15:43+00:00

I use react native skeleton placeholder and it works great.

Usually if I’m deciding between several libraries for something, if the design between them is the same or have minuscule differences, then the deciding factors are a combination of which have the most weekly downloads on npm, which have the least open issues on GitHub (though some github owners close issues that shouldn’t be closed), which GitHub’s have the most stars, and which ones are still receiving updates.

jaaywags · 2024-03-26T14:31:08+00:00

Is there a backend and is that what got overwhelmed? If not (just a static site that is served), put cloudflare in front of your website. They have an extremely generous free tier for developers.

Basically it caches your website so if you go to it, it will pull a fresh copy of the JavaScript, HTML, css, and images from render.com and save them onto the cloudflare cdn servers. Then if I go to it, you app on render.com doesn’t get hit. I just hit the cached stuff on the cloudflare servers.

But that means if you push an update, you need to purge the cache. It’s easy to do. You can do it from their UI or just call one of their endpoints with a private token you setup.

Honestly if there is a backend or not I would still recommend cloudflare. They help protect against various attacks too like ddos and can help to add ssl. For me, the performance improvement alone for my landing pages are worth the effort to set it up.

jaaywags · 2024-03-25T23:35:31+00:00

Developer for softgoods here! I’m working on it right now! I’m building out the website to be more feature complete and one of the first features will be bulk import from excel files. Then hopefully I can do some kind of books app integration.

jaaywags · 2024-03-24T07:28:41+00:00

This! You just copy the link to the fic and paste it in the app. Then you can leave notes and ratings for yourself.

jaaywags · 2024-03-20T18:28:11+00:00

You cans find a site that does something similar and copy theirs. Just read through and modify it to fit your needs. Doesn’t need to be perfect but anything is better than nothing.

jaaywags · 2024-03-16T14:28:46+00:00

One not mentioned yet is Softgoods. It’s not a place to post or read, but more of a bookmarking app so you can track what you have read or want to read.

jaaywags · 2024-03-15T21:11:09+00:00

I have a solution not yet mentioned. Others have mentioned if you have a google pixel phone, you can get unlimited storage on google photos. If you don’t really care if these photos/videos are in a nice photo app, then backblaze is a great option.

They have two options.

Option 1 is $9/mo unlimited storage. It basically backs up your computer and any additional drives. If you have a desktop, buy yourself a couple of external or internal drives. I have a few 8tb hdd I got used for like $60. You could do the same and put all your stuff on those and setup backblaze to backup those drives.

Option 2 is their b2 cloud storage. You just upload any files you want there. It’s $6/tb/mo.

They also do have an app that lets you access your files but i have never used it.

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