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Had to solve this problem at two separate places and boy was it a journey. The pigeons ignored everything, even the spikes; we later found one sitting in nest built directly atop o…

From my experience about 8-10 years ago when the shaping hardware was not that flexible a lot of ISPs analysed the traffic and changed shaping routes dynamically which usually rese…

Yes, that is common. Back when I used to work for an ISP, all of our main competitors have whitelisted speedtest servers to sidestep their shaping and sometimes even ran their own,…

Same experience, recently got my first AMD CPU (5700G) and found the fan pretty bad noise-wise. Replacing it with fairly cheap retail made it completely silent, to the point I actu…

Steam has offline mode which does not require internet connection. You still may not be able to play the game if the game itself requires an internet connection, but that has nothi…