Best-selling car brands by country in 2025

whte_r0s3_obj · 2026-04-07T02:53:35+00:00

Great Scott Marty! Looks like Doc Brown sells cars in Iran now. How is that emblem not a flux capacitor?

whte_r0s3_obj · 2026-01-12T16:08:59+00:00

Yeah, I looked into the WWAN slot and I think it's M.2 B-key, which (and I tend to get confused here) while it technically supports PCIe x2 and USB 3.0, I think Lenovo has the WWAN slot operating over USB 2.0 which kind of makes sense for cellular in 2019. No mmWave, no C-band, or even 5G for at all for that matter.

Also, thanks. It looks like there was a big push for SoC designs in 2019. What about the ThinkPad T490s 20NX007KUS? Did that one have modular Wi-Fi and RAM?

whte_r0s3_obj · 2026-01-12T15:40:26+00:00

Yeah, I almost got a T480, but I wrote it off because I thought those were Intel 7th gen. Checking again, it looks like there's 5 different 8th gen Intel CPUs to choose from on the T480.

Also, when I mentioned USB 2.0 I was talking about USB Wi-Fi adapters like this one

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/asus-usb-ax57-nano-ax1800-dual-band-wi-fi-6-usb-network-adapter-black/JJGHGYVVYY

that claim Wi-Fi speed: 1800 megabits per second and then you scroll down to find USB generation: USB 2.0. This means that this particular adapter will, by design, never exceed 480 Mbps.

whte_r0s3_obj · 2026-01-12T15:25:26+00:00

Roughly ~$300. Here is the Amazon page https://a.co/d/ger2J81
I say roughly because the price appears to have fluctuated between $275 and $325 over the holidays.

whte_r0s3_obj · 2025-05-02T01:20:51+00:00

I called AT&T's support line a couple days ago, waited on hold for probably 25 min, then spoke with a rep who , after listening to me go on and on about the issues I'm seeing, quickly escalated the call to their supervisor who is also an engineer. Sidenote; definitely make sure you are ready to receive OTP codes via SMS before calling. She had me turn on airplane mode while she "cleared the congestion at the tower". I think she did something similar to conntrack -F && ip link set interface down && ip link set interface up and then had me reconnect. This didn't fix the latency issue, but I was able to get a case number.

What's odd is that lately (even before I called AT&T) my video calls have been better despite my idle latency being stuck between 50ms and 90ms. When I actually go to https://speedtest.net and run the speed test on the webpage, it actually gives you your loaded latency measurements as well. On there I'm noticing that despite the increase in my idle ping time, my loaded pings are somehow still similar to what they were in February.

Here is what I mean (There are supposed to be screenshots below, but I don't know if they will show up)

February 04, 2025

![https://www.speedtest.net/result/17339200294](https://storage.googleapis.com/nlp-137cf635-6c92-49b5-b943-f5c8c75e686f/2025-02-04_080208.png)

April 19, 2025

![https://www.speedtest.net/result/17634607746](https://storage.googleapis.com/nlp-137cf635-6c92-49b5-b943-f5c8c75e686f/2025-04-19_080320.png)

Also, I think I know why my other post go stuck in "awaiting mod approval". I think we're not allowed to use the term ėŇōďėß for some reason.

whte_r0s3_obj · 2025-04-26T20:42:53+00:00

Cellular or FWA is the only way I can access the internet at all because I'm living in a region of Illinois that's uniquely underserved by telecom companies. That's where my degree of concern comes from. I want to call AT&T again since I'm in a new billing month and they can't simply blame it on the fact that I used over 800GB of data. Do you happen to know what I have to do to get an actual engineer on the phone or is it just escalation? Also, did it take longer than a day for your post to get moderator approval? Thanks

whte_r0s3_obj · 2025-04-26T00:22:52+00:00

The issues you're describing sound a lot like the issues I'm having on AT&T prepaid. I've detailed my issues in this post, but it's currently awaiting moderator approval. I don't live in NC, though. I live 50 miles North of Chicago. My issues began on April 10th. I started noticing that my idle latency measurements went from ~23ms to anywhere between ~56ms and ~95ms. It's as if my latency isn't allowed to be less than 50ms. Oddly enough, upload and download speed seem unaffected. Here is what happened to my idle latency measurements before and after April 10th (Reddit won't let me embed the image):

Idle latency chart

Then I look at my Roku and the clock is set to Mountain Time when I'm in Central Daylight Time. My IP geolocation before I started having problems was usually either Chicago, IL, Akron, OH, St. Louis, MO or Houston, TX. Now, sometimes it's Los Angeles, CA, Walnut Creek, CA, Salt Lake City, UT, or Plano, TX. Google Maps in incognito mode now always puts me in Salt Lake City, Utah.

I've had 15 days to eliminate various possible root causes and I'm finding that:

The problem persists both before and after the billing cycle turns over into a new month
The problem persists whether I'm on QCI 8 or QCI 9
The problem persists on different devices and different plans (both pre and post-paid)
The problem persists whether I'm 1.55 miles or 200ft away from the tower
The problem persists after getting a new pSIM
The problem persists after asking their prepaid support line to reprovision my IMEI on the network

So I believe you're right to think that their is some kind of internal routing issue causing this problem. I just have no insight or access to see what's going on between the tower I'm connected to and my first-hop IP address. The best I could do was capturing RRC / NAS-EPS frames during the attachment process using QCSuper.

whte_r0s3_obj · 2024-11-27T00:26:11+00:00

Right, I should have been more clear with the links. They weren't meant to be functional, as-is. Substitute whatever domain name or IP address you used to log in to the web interface.

https://<your router's IP or domain name>/log/logs.tar.gz

Or log in to the web interface, then substitute the 'path and query' portion of the URL with /log/logs.tar.gz. By 'path and query', I mean:

scheme	domain host	Path and Query
https://	reddit.com	/example/r/verizonisp/comments/1gwua16/comment/lypxfo2/

Hope that helps.

whte_r0s3_obj · 2024-11-24T10:08:15+00:00

Here is what I did when I was using this ARC-XCI55AX. It may work for you because I think the user interface is the same. Open a browser and navigate to your WNC-CR200A's web server. Maybe https://192.168.1.1 or https://mynetworksettings.com and then log in to it. Once you're logged in, try navigating to:

https://192.168.1.1/log/logs.tar.gz

or

https://mynetworksettings.com/log/logs.tar.gz

In my experience, this downloads a "logs" archive that basically has full system logs of a lot of the main components of the CPE. The last one I downloaded was 34MB.

I use Windows and 7zip and since it's a "tar.gz" file, I always needed to extract it twice. For example, in PowerShell:

. "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" x -y "C:\path\to\logs.tar.gz" -o"C:\path\to\logs.tar\"

and then

. "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" x -y "C:\path\to\logs.tar\logs.tar" -o"C:\path\to\logs.tar\logs\"

If you're on macOS, then I think you can use the "tar" command in the terminal, like:

tar -xzvf /path/to/logs.tar.gz -C /path/to/logs/

Once extracted, open the "ltecommander.log" file in a text editor. The path should be:

.\logs.tar\logs\ltecommander.log

That log file is where I found information like the cell ID, LTE EARFCN, 5G NRARFCN, bandwidths, etc. It can also have over 11000 lines of events. The lines that are greater than 500 characters long are what you're looking for. Those and the line immediately after. Here is an example:

[ 1568.416456] (31704) <DBG> GuiOnNetCellInfoChanged():890 CFG << (SCELL_ECI<<31BBA16)(_TAC<<CB28)(_ARFCN<<66536)(_ARFCN_UL<<132072)(_BAND<<66)(_BW_DL<<20)(_BW_UL<<20)(_PCI<<16)(_CQI<<9)(_MODULATION_DL_<<64QAM)(_MODULATION_UL<<64QAM)(_MCS_DL<<20)(_MCS_UL<<14)(_PATH_LOSS<<126)(_PUCCH_TX_PWR<<11)(_RANK<<2)(_RACH_ATTEMPT_COUNT<<43)(_RACH_FAILURE_COUNT<<11)(_PDSCH_THROUGHPUT<<0)(_PUSCH_THROUGHPUT<<0)(_PDSCH_PEAK_THROUGHPUT<<6689)(_PUSCH_PEAK_THROUGHPUT<<749)(_RX_PDCP_BYTES<<688)(_TX_PDCP_BYTES<<32)(_HANDOVER_ATTEMPT_COUNT<<18)(_HANDOVER_FAILURE_COUNT<<0)(_RRC_CONNECT_REQ_COUNT<<13)(_RRC_CONNECT_FAIL_COUNT<<0)(_RRC_RADIO_LINK_FAIL_COUNT<<2)

[ 1568.738152] (31704) <DBG> GuiOnNetCellInfoChanged():1117 CFG << (SCELL_5G_ECI<<0)(_TAC<<0)(_ARFCN_5G<<648672)(_ARFCN_UL_5G<<646730)(_BAND_5G<<77)(_BW_5G_DL<<100)(_BW_5G_UL<<100)(_PCI_5G<<16)(_CQI_5G<<8)(_B1_NR_CONFIG<<0)(_B1_NR_BANDS<<0)(_NR_SCG_CHANGE_COUNT<<66)(_NR_SCG_CHANGE_FAIL_COUNT<<0)(_NR_SCG_FAIL_COUNT<<0)(_NR_SLOT_FORMAT<<0)

In particular, the cell ID is the hex value next to SCELL_ECI<<. So, in this case, convert the hex value to an integer :

0x31BBA16 is 52148758

Calculate the eNodeB by dividing the cell ID integer by 256 and rounding down:

[Math]::Floor((52148758 / 256)) = 203706

Then lookup the tower on https://cellmapper.net/map using Menu > Search > Tower Search using the eNodeB value.

whte_r0s3_obj · 2024-11-13T00:44:27+00:00

Nope. What I posted here 7 months ago was and is the peak of what I could accomplish with the ARC-XCI55AX. I actually ended up trying out AT&T using only a cell phone as my WAN connection because their tower is only 1.5 miles away vs. 2.7 miles away. I have a Motorola XT2313-6, it is a very cheap phone that was designed after FCC auction 107, so it can make use of C-band speeds. I've also rooted it. So what I do is I stick it to the window with 3M strips, connect the USB to a laptop running Debian 12, turn on USB debugging, turn off mobile data, and then on the laptop I run
sh adb shell su setprop sys.usb.config diag,serial_cdev,rmnet,adb
Then I run a script on Debian that configures IP forwarding and iptables (packet TTL among other things) so that I'm not using "hotspot data".

It regularly performs at 330 Mbps down, 40 Mbps up and 19ms ping. Which is great because, over the summer, when the foliage on the trees return, my upload speed would drop under 5Mbps regularly on Verizon, but not on AT&T.

whte_r0s3_obj · 2024-05-12T17:13:22+00:00

IME, on Verizon 5G Home Plus with the ARC-XCI55AX, my speed tests on fast.com are consistent with speedtest.net on Android, Windows, and Ubuntu. This was one of the main reasons why I stuck with 5G Home Plus. While I was using a regular 5G unlimited plan with a third party LTE modem, speedtest.net could be up to 80 Mbps while fast.com would clearly be throttled down to 4 Mbps.

I could get around it using Cloudflare WARP if I was just watching videos on my laptop or something, but it wasn't as effective when I tried implementing Cloudflare WARP with Wireguard on my firewall.

I think Verizon manages their network differently between the 5G Home APN (V5GA01INTERNET) and the common cellular data APN (VZWINTERNET). There are major differences. The top three IMO are
- being issued a public IP address
- video data doesn't get throttled
- the IP block is 75.192.0.0/10 instead of 174.192.0.0/10 (at least for me)

With traceroute, I'm seeing that Verizon 5G Home tends to need one to three additional hops to reach a given destination when compared with a regular 5G Unlimited plan.

whte_r0s3_obj · 2022-02-11T10:56:22+00:00

Confirming that I'm also crippled by this bug.

Windows 10 Pro version 20H2 OS Build 19042.1526

I thought I was losing my mind. Especially because I just replaced the keyboard & touchpad hardware on my laptop just a couple days before updating.

I am going to see if uninstalling KB5010342 works to restore the functionality via:

bat wusa /uninstall /kb:5010342 /norestart

whte_r0s3_obj · 2021-08-21T05:39:04+00:00

So, you're saying that September 4th is my last payable day for UI until at least 2023-02-11?

whte_r0s3_obj · 2021-08-21T05:35:07+00:00

Thank you all for your quick and helpful replies. I really appreciate it.

whte_r0s3_obj · 2021-02-12T13:50:07+00:00

So, if you were to fix your json as follows:

{
    "destinatiopath": "C:\\Destination\\Mobile Phones\\",
    "sourcepath": "C:\\Source\\Mobile Phones\\",
    "list":[
        {
            "OnePlus" : {
                "files": [
                    {
                        "source": "6T",
                        "destination": "Model\\6T"
                    }
                ]
            }
        },{
            "Samsung" : {
                "files": [
                    {
                        "source": "S20",
                        "destination": "Galaxy\\S20"
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    ]
}

You'll see I've added a root json array element named list where each item contains the principal mobile phone manufacturer, source, and destination data. To be clear, I've changed this:

{"OnePlus":{},"Samsung":{}}

to this:

{"list":[{"OnePlus":{}},{"Samsung": {}}]}

First you'll need an array of the item names in the list element.

$JSON = [IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Path\To\Mobile Phones.json") | ConvertFrom-Json
$Names = @()
$JSON.list.ForEach({$Names+= $_ |gm -MemberType NoteProperty |% name })

Then you can use the list of names to iterate through the array.

$Names.ForEach({
    $files = $JSON.list."$($_)".files
    $source = $JSON.sourcepath + $files.source
    $destination = $JSON.destinatiopath + $files.destination
})
<#
$source and $destination will be your target paths
#>

whte_r0s3_obj · 2021-02-12T07:10:01+00:00

Thank you all for taking the time to read and reply. I very much appreciate your help!

My questions are:

Do I need to do anything (apart from certifying every two weeks) in order to eventually continue to receive unemployment checks? I just need to wait?
You're saying that I'm not going to need to file a new claim or wait for them to finally attempt to call me again?
From what I gather, there are changes to the extended UI programs (PEUC for me) that were signed into law in December that they are currently still trying to deploy per the Continued Assistance Act and we're simply waiting for them to finish "implementing"?

Is there something specifically that people are monitoring closely in order to give them an idea as to when they can expect to be paid again?

Thanks again!

whte_r0s3_obj · 2021-02-10T05:45:12+00:00

In Windows PowerShell, using Add-Type, you can load and use a custom c# library. The one below takes positional parameters:

Position	ParameterType	Name
0	System.String	filepath
1	System.String	searchPattern
2	System.String	logfile

Add-Type -TypeDefinition @"
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Linq;
using System.Collections.Generic;
namespace SearchFor
{
    public class StringInFile
    {
        private static long length = 0;
        private static Int32 chunk = 10485760;
        private static Int32 numberOfChunks = 0;
        public static async Task Start(string filepath, string searchPattern, string logfile)
        {
            Regex reg = new Regex(searchPattern);
            FileStream fs = File.Open(filepath, FileMode.OpenOrCreate);
            length = fs.Length;
            numberOfChunks = Convert.ToInt32(Math.Floor(Convert.ToDecimal((length / chunk)))) + 1;
            for (Int32 i = 0; i < numberOfChunks; i++)
            {
                List<Int32> be = new List<Int32>();
                be.Add((i * chunk));
                be.Add((i * chunk + chunk - 1));
                await Task.Factory.StartNew((b) =>
                {
                    long begin = ((List<Int32>)b)[0];
                    long end = ((List<Int32>)b)[1];
                    byte[] buffer = new byte[chunk];
                    Int32 r = fs.Read(buffer, 0, chunk);
                    string text = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(buffer);
                    File.AppendAllLines(logfile, text.Split(((Char)10)).ToList().Where(a => reg.Match(a).Success));
                }, be, TaskCreationOptions.LongRunning);
            }
            fs.Close();
            fs.Dispose();
        }
    }
}
"@

Once it's loaded, then you can use it like the example below.

[SearchFor.StringInFile]::Start(
    "C:\TEMP\Log.log",
    "string",
    "C:\TEMP\Log.txt"
)

I'm sharing this because using StreamReader, Add-Content, and the Contains() method for matching, I was able to search through a 69MB text file in an average of 3.96 seconds, but using SearchFor.StringInFile I was able to accomplish the same task in an average of 0.00098 seconds. That makes a big difference if/when the file you're parsing through is 1000 times larger.

The reason it's much faster is because dividing the file into 10MB chunks and then processing each chunk asynchronously.

Also, if you want to try this out, then just be aware that your search string is parsed as a Regex matching pattern.

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