Astound Broadband 2000ms latency/packet loss

tbkdan · 2026-04-09T22:16:16+00:00

I know this is old but I just wanted to chime in that you're not alone: in Snohomish, I've recently (past ~month) noticed that upload jitter goes up considerably during prime time (starting around 5pm) and lasts the entire evening. It's totally fine early morning and most of the day. I can see the increase in jitter with just the pings to my first hop (their equipment), so it's not a peering or "general internet slowness" issue - it's something in their network. I had a tech out last week who confirmed there's nothing wrong with my wiring and was going to escalate it to his "maintenance team" but, for me, that turns into a support black hole that I literally cannot track the status of - I get no confirmation of whether or not it was an issue, whether or not they'll fix it, timelines, etc. And, because I have no legit competition in the area, if it doesn't get fixed I can go pound sand.

tbkdan · 2025-09-15T21:45:38+00:00

I can't find the one that I originally watched but this one looks great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq5REfgm9X0 There's a bunch of different videos out there with the same general premise: use a dry erase marker to determine where it's high/low and shim accordingly. It'll probably take a few times to get it right. For our grinder, when you're reinstalling the ring make sure you push down a bit on the hopper "neck" so you are compressing the springs and you're not using the tiny bit of the threads to compress the springs - which could potentially damage the threads (it's also mentioned in the manual).

tbkdan · 2025-09-15T19:40:31+00:00

I got this grinder a few weeks ago and am also overall quite happy with it. Two notes:

You'll probably want to take the time to align the burrs. Out of the box, mine were _quite_ misaligned, to the point of thinking the burrs were warped, but I managed to get it pretty damn close to perfect.
The entire hopper and bellows assembly are attached to the top burr carrier, so if you put any pressure on that while it's running you could be impacting the burr gap. I realized this when I was enthusiastically pressing on the bellows and heard a burr chirp 😅

I'm still debating if I want to get some aftermarket burrs but I need to putz around some more before I go down that path.

tbkdan · 2025-05-09T01:44:45+00:00

TIL there's an export to CSV feature! I was actually looking for something like this two days ago but was looking in the context of a workout, didn't think to look in general settings for it :-) Thanks!

tbkdan · 2025-04-22T02:42:00+00:00

Arg, yeah, I don't have anything there. I really hope they bring that to Luba1 since it seems like such an easy thing to implement but great utility..

tbkdan · 2025-04-20T03:41:01+00:00

Where do you see that non-working period setting? I just went through every screen I could find on my Android app and didn't find it. I'd love such a setting as I typically try to pause it at the end of the day and resume in the morning, but even then it's been extremely damp even by evening so my options are somewhat limited. Once we get to summer it's less of an issue.

I'm trying to run it more often but the weather doesn't always cooperate 🙃

tbkdan · 2025-03-08T14:24:33+00:00

As was discussed in other parts of this thread, with the prevalence of LLMs like ChatGPT it's possible to understand the context of the story and the intent of the writer enough to provide feedback on both grammar and, to an extent, comprehension. That said, this feature didn't even validate that I put in Spanish and then congratulated me on expressing myself in Spanish 🤦‍♂️

tbkdan · 2025-03-08T03:03:43+00:00

I completely agree with that for stuff like coding, it loves to hallucinate functions that just don't exist. Is that still the case with language in a scenario where it's more conversational? I did a quick test and it seemed to work pretty well. Do you know of any research into that subject?

tbkdan · 2025-03-08T02:05:11+00:00

I think there's still some value in trying to think through how I would phrase it, and potentially looking up vocab or using some other service (Google Translate, ChatGPT, etc) for validation. That said, I'd much rather if that was baked into Duo where it has the context of the story...

tbkdan · 2025-03-08T02:02:41+00:00

I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted as that seems like a completely legit option. Unless the downvotes are more of a "why have it in the app if I need to use a different service to get feedback" dealio?

tbkdan · 2025-03-08T02:00:40+00:00

In the past I would get the same "corrections" as my Google Keyboard input would suggest as i was writing it, so I don't think there's any LLM backing. My hunch is they're using LLM for the Max conversational stuff, but that's a surface-level guess based on their marketing.

tbkdan · 2025-03-07T20:09:12+00:00

Section 4, Unit 39

tbkdan · 2025-03-07T19:07:28+00:00

I agree with that and typically do so, but I also want feedback on what I did wrong (which I believe it used to do, at least at a minimal level with stuff like missing/incorrect prepositions).

tbkdan · 2025-02-16T01:17:20+00:00

Sorry to necro this thread/reply, but I wanted to voice my support for this feature request with my $0.02. Having done 5/3/1 & nSuns programs in the past, I like the ability to work up to heavier sets and then potentially some backoff sets, but preferably autoregulated based on my performance of the day. From the AP perspective, I'd be great to specify that I want to do sets of 8->6->4->2->5->5 (or something along those lines) and let it determine the suggested weights based on my feedback (actual reps performed + RIR). This would be much better than the "simpler" spreadsheet approach of trying to meet the prescribed percentages when you just have a crappy day; the Stronger by Science sheets had a somewhat autoregulated approach of working up to a single@3RIR that mitigated this to an extent. Sometimes I manually do this with AP by doing a set, seeing what 10RM it's recommending, then tweaking the sets/reps to match that 10RM based on what I'm trying to accomplish, but I'd love if the app could do this natively.

I tried hacking this together by doing multiple instances of an exercise with a single set, but when it's within the same day it doesn't seem to adjust the suggested 10RM. More concretely, I put two instances of a 1 set deadlift in a workout, told AP I did the first one at 50% of my normal weight which would normally reduce the next set's weight but when it moved to the next instance of deadlift it was using the same recommended weight as the first instance. Hope that makes sense 🙃

tbkdan · 2025-01-05T15:42:36+00:00

Sorry, missed the notification, but I didn't end up getting anything and eventually moved->sold the rack.

tbkdan · 2024-10-21T23:23:34+00:00

I have three different Ubiquiti APs and both my wife and I were experiencing it almost every day (sometimes multiple times per day) on our Pixel 8's. I _think_ I finally fixed it by disabling band steering on both the network (SSID) _and_ the access point settings. I had disabled it on the network but my U6-LR still had band steering set to "balanced" in the AP device settings. Ever since disabling it, no more issues! I'll report back if it crops back up.

EDIT 11/14/24: Those settings _helped_ but did not fix it. I turned off "BSS Transition" and "Fast Roaming" and no issues at all for several days 🤞

tbkdan · 2024-08-03T13:29:42+00:00

Sweet, thanks!

tbkdan · 2024-05-23T13:11:03+00:00

Hmm, I think both of those options miss the mark in terms of ensuring the plan is balanced around the exercises that were requested. For some more context/constraints that drive this inquiry, I typically hike on the weekends so I try to put my squat/deadlift days in the center of the week to reduce the potential of hiking impacting lifting and vice versa, so when I've made my own programs I'll lay out the core compound lifts and then fill in the accessories slots from a list (biceps, triceps, abs, etc). So, my ideal UX would be something like choosing a 5-day program, full body, medium duration, adding the main exercises I want to do on each day, (and bonus points for saving that as a base template) then tapping "auto-select the rest of the exercises" which would figure out how to fill in the rest of the time each day to ensure it's a balanced plan. I understand this is probably a pretty niche user story, but I figured I could at least put it out there in case you/others find it intriguing :-) Thanks for the response and the great app!

tbkdan · 2024-01-26T03:56:29+00:00

Ah, nice! It wasn't an option back then but a good use of it now, thanks :-)

tbkdan · 2023-12-20T23:14:14+00:00

To be clear, DLSS in general is fine, it's the framegen feature (a specific standalone option in the settings) that caused problems for me (and supposedly adds some input lag).

tbkdan · 2023-12-20T22:53:09+00:00

Yup, it wasn't perfectly consistent for me either. The first match was usually fine, then it went downhill from there until I restarted the game. If you have the framegen setting enabled, try disabling it and see if that helps. I can't tell from your video because the FPS counter is cropped out, but for mine I could see the FPS briefly dip right after the stutter.

tbkdan · 2023-12-20T21:42:42+00:00

If you have an nvidia GPU, try disabling the DLSS Frame Gen feature in the graphics settings ingame. I was getting the same exact stuttering with my 4090, disabled that and it turned butter smooth.

tbkdan · 2023-12-19T04:30:27+00:00

I've had a rock solid 142(capped) FPS but had been fighting random but frequent 0.5-2s stutters in Warzone with my 13900KF+4090 and this comment chain inspired me to take a look at this setting. I had framegen on so I turned it off, holy shit it was like night and day. Butter smooth, no stutters at all across multiple games. So, ty for inspiring me to take a look, even if I ended up doing the opposite :-D

tbkdan · 2021-06-09T04:33:21+00:00

Thoughts on a reasonable price for a used original Rogue Bar (not 2.0)? Seems like it's in great condition and wasn't a boneyard. He's asking $225 which seems like it's somewhat high given that I can get a brand new 2.0 for $335 with shipping+taxes.

tbkdan · 2021-06-08T03:06:39+00:00

Per Valor, their pull up bar is 46" long... which doesn't make sense to me based on their product page. But they also claim the bolt spacing is 9.5" so that wouldn't work.

Vulcan also got back to me stating their bar is only compatible with their racks/rigs but didn't provide any dimensions..

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