meade916

Like is stated in the video, I have spent the last two years since we moved into this house with the worst internet options known to man. We live in a forest somewhere in the Sierra Nevada's between Sacramento and Reno. I never thought internet could be as bad as it was. I got by with the local provider who climbs up a tree and aims an antenna at the nearest tower and then charges you an arm and two legs for service. That was $100 a month for my plan and with overages they were trying to charge me upwards of $400 a month! For service that wasn't worth a damn at 15 down and about 3-5 up. HORRIBLE. Then I got a business hotspot plan from ATT. That cost me $200 a month and was doing about 30-45 down and about 8-10 up. I added a Waveform flat panel external antenna and was able to get about 100 down and 28-30 up. Not to bad. I can survive on that. I had the entire house running on it through a very expensive mesh network. It was really the only choice. I was able to game on it no problem and youtube video uploads weren't too painful. Then i tried Nomad internet, another 4g LTE based service that hit off the Verizon towers. It cost $150 a month. It did about 30-40 down and about 15-20 up on it's best day. It was spurratic at best. No way i could game on it and uploading videos to the internet was hit or miss. Terrible. I got rid of that after about 6 months and tried a T-Mobile 5g service with the thinking i would maybe hit a T-Mobile tower and it could be better. I saw 60-75 down and 15-20 up. But again, it was unreliable as i couldn't upload very well and gaming sucked on it. For just $50 bucks a month, i kept it acive for an emergency backup. A few months later my Starlink arrived after waiting for a year and a half (we ordered it summer 2021 and were on a waiting list). That costs $110 a month and just now going up to $120 a month. It did ok at 100-150 down and around 12-15 up. We mainly used it for the entire house (i put it on my mesh network) and kept the ATT Hotspot (a Nighthawk M5) dedicated to my office. That was how we did it for several more months and it worked pretty good. But I was still paying $120 for starlink, $200 for ATT (business hotspot), and $50 for T-mobile (as a backup). That is a wopping $370 a month for total crap! Then one day, the sky opened up and the gods handed down Frontier Fiber internet to my neighborhood in the woods. Of course, when i saw 5000 up and 5000 down for $154 a month (and several other amazing teirs for even cheaper), i pulled the trigger and said let's go!! I cancelled all the other stuff and i am saving a ton of money. Maybe i don't need 5000/5000 but dammit, I am so excited to finally have REAL internet at my house I don't care! Give me ALL the bits! As you can also see in the video, i had to make some changes to my PC in order to achieve these speeds. Most PC's aren't capable of doing more than 1000/1000 and that includes my beast gaming rig with an MSI Godlike board. So if you do the same as me, be warned, anyting over 1000/1000 might not be achievable until you make changes. Typically the 5000/5000 is shared in the entire house so my PC doesn't NEED to have those speed all to itself. But I am on a mission to see those numbers with my own eyes. So i build a new one with a 10g ethernet port. The results were pretty good i would say!

The whole entire reason I am upgrading my pc...for that 10g port!!

The previous PC i have been running for 3 years (see the build in this section) was still going strong. I ended up putting 2 3090 RTX in SLI (NV Link) in it last year and it is still smoking fast, with no problems at all. The only NEW problem I have is that at my new house (we moved 2 years ago) we just got fiber internet here. I ordered the 5gigabit service. It's supposed to be 5000 down and 5000 up. I know, major overkill. I could do with much less. But i wanted the best after 2 years of being on a HOTSPOT, several OTHER cellular based internet services and Starlink. They got me by but now the real internet is here I went all out. The problem is, my PC, even though it says "2.5 killer ethernet" on the back, they are only capable of 1000/1000. That is still very nice. But not enough. I bought a 10g PCIE NIC to try and get the bigger numbers, but it wouldn't fit. The video cards take 3 bays each and hog the entire board. I can't get to the last open PCIE. So the next logical step is to get a new mainboard that can. Scratch that. Might as well build a new PC if i am going to do all that. So here are the specs of the 2023 Godlike build. Corsair 7000D Airflow Full Tower MSI Meg Z590 Godlike Motherboard EVGA Supernova 1600w Platinum PS Intel Core i9 11900k Corsair H170i Elite Capellix Liquid Cpu cooler 128 G Skill Trident Z Neo 128g Ram Asus ROG Strix RTX 4090 OC Edition GPU Samsung 990 Pro m.2 2TB (main) Samsung 990 Pro m.2 2TB Samsung 990 Pro m.2 2TB Samsung 860 Evo m.2 2TB Samsung 850 Evo SSD 1TB Samsung 840 Evo SSD 1TB Seagate HDD 3TB Seagate HDD 2TB (3) Alienware 38" 3840x1600 @ 144hz 1ms (in Surround mode @ 11520x1600)

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as Brian just said.....some headunits do not distort at all which is a good thing. Set the amp up next with the headunit turned all the way up and report back.