Lies!
I see wi-fi antennae. What gamer settles for that?
I want to go to an estate agent and say “I want a house so wired that if I down 82 redbulls and punch through the drywall after losing a round of Call of Skyrim, anywhere in the house, I should be able to reach in the hole and pull out a bale of Cat 6.”
Wifi 6 is pretty amazing. I play on it since my apartment has a weird layout and I will not drag a cable from one side of the apartment (where the router is) to the other (where the office is located).
Network latency averages somewhere around 5ms which is totally fine.
Looks like a router to me, in which case it’s probably for his phone and tv.
The pc is close enough to it to be hardwired
I have a similar setup. Three monitors with the tower behind and a router on top. All hard-lined. Wifi is only for dumb shit like phones and handhelds.
We’re living with my grandmother temporarily, and we don’t want the risk of trip hazard so had to get a good WiFi router.
It goes down whenever she uses the microwave - awesome for me, as I work from home.
Also we’re tied to using her ISPs router because we didn’t want to risk losing her phone number and other dramas moving to ours, so the modem router we use is theirs, and it sucks and the first two have blown up in the space of a year - we’re on our third.
Meanwhile our great equipment is sitting in plastic crates in the garage.
Oh well. Do it for her!
But why would you lose her phone number using another router? I use the cable company’s shitty modem but I have a super nice router, no issues. If her landline phone is actually VoIP then it seems like it should still function with another router? Maybe I’m wrong on that. If it’s a true landline then one should have nothing to do with the other though. Oh and one more point if the car comp6just nukes her phone number and hands it to someone else because you hooked up a 3rd party router then seriously eff them.
In Australia, the phone number is tied to the ISP, and she’s with the biggest, worst one. We considered porting but the risk would be too great and she was too anxious about it.
Dude that’s ridiculous!
We’re living here rent free, just paying our share of utilities and saving money while giving her company - I can’t complain too much about the small things!
Yikes, if it’s going down when the microwave is being used it sounds like it only supports the 2 GHz channels.
It’s on some dual band thing which can be split - I think we forgot to set it up on the last two, only bothered on the first. I can’t remember if the first went down when the microwave was used.
Personally I prefer to keep both bands on the same SSID/encryption scheme so devices automagically choose the best band depending on coverage. But it’s just my random opinion, lol.
You have described my house.
The walls are made of patches after the nightmare install.
Same, but CAT8 🙃
I invested in Cat6 for future proofing, only for it to turn out that there’s nothing Cat6 can do that Cat5e can’t. 🤦♂️
I wouldn’t feel too bad. I consider 5e trash because it’s really easy for it to downgrade to slower speeds if it happens to bend too far.
WiFi 5 pings are just 2x larger than a direct patch cord to the router. This is just a few microseconds difference. WiFi 6 is basically on par with cable. WiFi 7 is better than cable.
Gamers who don’t use WiFi are stuck in the stone age.
I’ll take a solid guaranteed gbps wire over sensitive “won’t pass through 2cm of concrete” wireless nonsense any day.
That’s not how it works.
It kind of is. I have an 802.11ax router but about 20 ft away in another room it drops from 1,300 Mbps to about 400 Mbps. Kind of matters when you’re streaming uncompressed Blu-ray from the NAS.
I don’t know what 20 ft means, but my PC is 2 walls away and there’s literally no drop in performance. Either your walls are bad or your WiFi is bad.
Well unfortunately I’m not blessed to have control over the quality of my walls. I’m positive my Ubiquiti U6 Professional is not the problem.
Even with the latest and greatest WiFi I prefer still to opt for Ethernet/cabling wherever possible. I like to keep the WiFi workload light — I say this even though I’ve got business-class WiFi everywhere. It’s the principle of the thing; keep 4K streaming and other workload-heavy tasks off the air whenever possible.
It’s just silly.
What’s bad about this?
Take 2 days to lay a carpet and paint the place and it’ll be completely fine. Easy and simple.
Sure it’s easy. That’s why the seller should have done it. If you sell a house you should stage it properly so you get the most money out of it. Many people have zero imagination and can’t see past the current interior design. The seller is an idiot for putting it on sale like this. They don’t even have to place carpet just coat the floor with white paint and it suddenly looks modern.
💯 Pictures like this turn potential buyers away.
Especially on a home that’s listing above half a million. That’s right, all this can be yours for over 500k.
I could install that carpet for you in a short afternoon but I do it professionally.
I can smell the black mold
Still more in it than some programmer ‘homes’ I’ve seen, where it’s matress on the floor, boxes as tables, but a desk and a computer.
Reminds me of drug dens. I think this kind of thing happens when too much of your life is consumed by a single thing…
I had to quickly move to a short-term rental and I did this. I had a three-inch pad on the floor to sleep on, a folding chair, and a desk with my laptop on it.
I’m a programmer, and as such, knew lots of other programmers. It was alarmingly common. I always tried to make a bit more of a home, and do other things outside of programming outside of work, but most didn’t. It was office or pub. But maybe it’s a 20s thing.
I was reviewing sensor data for ADVs while I was doing this.
When I moved out for the very first time I was using banana boxes and a piece of plywood as a computer desk. It honestly worked pretty dang good until my relocation check cleared and I was able to buy real furniture.
Some of the ones I’m thinking of had stayed like that for over a year, but been on decent money. They just didn’t care.
They’ve been spending most their lives living in the gamers paradise~
A dream come true. Whoever lives there must be a fundamentally happy person.
These are the type of people that feed in my league of legends games
Is that paint overspray on the couch?
Couch??
Paint?
Just not seeing a couch. Looks like a really long mattress — not that it looks like any standardized size mattress.
Between the TV and the bed there’s a black thing. The side profile seems to indicate it’s a couch.
Definitely a futon.
It’s a sofa bed
Oh yeah, okay, I see it now. Wow
The black thing at the foot of the bed is not a continuation of the mattress. You can debate if a futon counts as a couch though.
Pretty sure that’s sunlight coming through the window
To me, a gamers paradise is a clean desk with a high end PC connected to a removedin sweet ultra wide monitor. This pic just makes me itch all over.
There’s no scattered empty soda, and chip bags. Also, there’s definitely be a layer of cheatoh and Doritos dust over everything giving a sort of neon orange tinge. Clearly this is staged.
Rage-quitting must be extra satisfying, throwing your controller down onto bare concrete.
Do you think they started painting the walls and gave up, or did they get the room with the walls halfway painted and just decide it wasn’t worth finishing?
Anyway I spend like 90% of my time these days in a garage with all my shit on a table next to me so i can’t really judge.
The carpet Jesus Christ
That’s concrete. You can see tyre marks - it appears to have been a garage in a former life.
*In a current life too.
In my younger days, I rented a bedroom that was a converted dining room next to the kitchen but even that was miles better than this.
I can smell it from here…
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