Got around 340 Mbit at home, caused by quite old router (Netgear WNDR4300 @ OpenWRT), around 12$ if recalculate current exchange rates
. Up to 450 in theory .
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Got around 340 Mbit at home, caused by quite old router (Netgear WNDR4300 @ OpenWRT), around 12$ if recalculate current exchange rates
. Up to 450 in theory .
Nice, even at home, I only have 70Mbit!
Got around 340 Mbit at home, caused by quite old router (Netgear WNDR4300 @ OpenWRT), around 12$ if recalculate current exchange rates
Around £37 a month, but that includes unlimited landline telephone usage. Would be a fair bit cheaper without that.
For years, I endured a 4.8 Mb/s broadband set-up. My biggest regret is that I didn't jump ship much earlier. When I saw that my mobile phone's 4G data-plan provided a faster Internet connection than my home broadband, I knew it was time to call up and cancel the account. Tellingly, the call-centre employee at their customer services dept could only agree that there wasn't much incentive for me to stay.
I now have 920Mbps and for near enough the same dosh that I'd paid for 4.8.
As for what I've done today with an earlier Intel Mac, after running into constant power-management problems with Sonoma, I followed the suggestion of a forum member and downgraded to Ventura via OCLP:
I've been testing it all day by repeatedly triggering scenarios that under Sonoma caused the computer to lock up and require a cold boot and I'm delighted to confirm that they're absent from Ventura. It's a great relief to finally have a version of macOS running on this machine that suspends the session to disk when the battery is exhausted instead of kernel panicking and doesn't freeze upon resuming from sleep.
All I need to do now is restore my line-up of applications, wallpaper and my preferred account avatar.
Except that I never claimed it was an OCLP issue.
My post was a follow up to this one where I mentioned problems with Catalina - the last officially supported macOS version for my machine, producing kernel panics whenever the battery reached reserve stage instead of entering safe sleep mode and I'd expressed the hope that OCLP would give me access to a version that's no longer afflicted with this bug. Which lead to me installing Sonoma and then repeatedly experiencing the computer freezing upon resuming from sleep.
It's almost certainly an issue with Apple yet again fumbling the ball and failing to ensure that basic components of their software function properly (other examples include Disk Utility since High Sierra, the USB 3 PCIe bug in El Capitan and Yosemite). Which isn't helped by their policy of releasing a new version of macOS annually because just how attentive can you really be towards quality control under those circumstances?
Nonetheless Ventura is running like a champ and I'm eternally grateful to the OCLP team for making it available to me.
Not something urgent for me here
. (Current ISP provide mobile telephony, if someone interested.)To exclude off-topic - can someone direct me to threads about different ISPs, if such thing exists?
Not something urgent for me here
To exclude off-topic - can someone direct me to threads about different ISPs, if such thing exists?
In the Russian Federation? I found this list of Russian ISPs that's compiled according to speed.
Updates to Monterey, Ventura and Sonoma - and OCLP are out. Anybody dared to update their non supported early Intel yet?
I think I first update OCLP 1.1.0 (not only the program but the patching) and see how it works. Then after following youtube and forums for a few days consider updating Monterey. OCLP+Sonoma 14.1 -updates I can try on my other iMac as its just a test bed with nothing important in it.
I think I first update OCLP 1.1.0 (not only the program but the patching) and see how it works. Then after following youtube and forums for a few days consider updating Monterey. OCLP+Sonoma 14.1 -updates I can try on my other iMac as its just a test bed with nothing important in it.
No, more curious - where all you come from
Ah.
I'm from the UK and live in London. My ISP specialises in connecting neighbourhoods across London and provides me with 920Mbps for £25 GBP (2,834 RUB) per month.
Yes, Monterey on a MacBook Pro 2012 13' i7 intel non retina on a new ssd 1 OWC 3G TB drive.Updates to Monterey, Ventura and Sonoma - and OCLP are out. Anybody dared to update their non supported early Intel yet?
which ran good, then great then Tuesday the system froze,
then would not function after reboot, and froze after every time I finally used Monterey.
the OCPL somehow froze the drive via encryption which would not unlock no matter what I did.
so
yesterday I installed Catalina over that and then manually installed 800GB of movies and TV shows back to the MBP.
wasted day I could have done other things, but better in the long run
just be careful with this OCLP which sounds like a godsend, but has issues with small things.
Catalina is still safe, has 2023 features and fast enough for my needs.
Ah.
I'm from the UK and live in London. My ISP specialises in connecting neighbourhoods across London and provides me with 920Mbps for £25 GBP (2,834 RUB) per month.
Nearly 2 times faster, nearly 3 times more expenses
I can beat that. 1 Gbit/s for 72 SEK per month, about €6, in Sweden.
We get this price because we have a shared agreement for all of the tenants in my apartment building. Each gets separate 1 Gbit lines of course, but at a reduced price. I tried updating my 2013 Retina MacBook Pro from 14.0 to 14.1 using Software Update (running OCLP 1.1.0). Now it won't boot.Updates to Monterey, Ventura and Sonoma - and OCLP are out. Anybody dared to update their non supported early Intel yet?
I think I first update OCLP 1.1.0 (not only the program but the patching) and see how it works. Then after following youtube and forums for a few days consider updating Monterey. OCLP+Sonoma 14.1 -updates I can try on my other iMac as its just a test bed with nothing important in it.
I'll have to make a USB installer with 14.1 and try reinstalling the system. That's solved these kinds of issues in the past.
Booting in safe mode (holding the shift key while booting) solved the problem without having the make a new installer.I tried updating my 2013 Retina MacBook Pro from 14.0 to 14.1 using Software Update (running OCLP 1.1.0). Now it won't boot.
I only updated the OCLP and applied patches to root and EFI. All seems to work fine. There has been some problems for Surfshark to connect to servers couple of times today but that can be unrelated.
Somebody noticed that the installer can get stuck and cause problems and solution was to boot in safe mode like Mike said above. There is already a video about it.
Somebody noticed that the installer can get stuck and cause problems and solution was to boot in safe mode like Mike said above. There is already a video about it.
I've left my iMac on Ventura, will update that once I'm back home. The MBP? Back on High Sierra where it's happy. Installed Thunderbird and Waterfox, and that's all I need for the moment. Keyboard backlight working again, something I did in settings, I think. Still no working webcam. Not too fussed about that, but it irritates me that it doesn't work...
Have you checked in System Report and then Hardware>Camera to check if the FaceTime Camera is even present? It migt be faulty. I couldn't get the one on my 2010 MBA to work and on a hunch, I did exactly this and discovered that it was missing - in all three versions of macOS that are installed.
Got HaikuOS working on an old MacBook. Everything works except for wifi. Already ordered a known working usb dongle. The trick to installing it, at least for me, was to install it on a non Mac machine. Then swap the drive back in to the Mac.
Using that b-b-base A1224 iMac I mentioned in another recent thread, I set up a needlessly complicated sound studio, in which two computers — the A1224 and my A1278, both running Snow Leopard — a lot of audio cables, Audio Hijack, LineIn and Noisy were all wrangled into the creation of replicating an FM analogue broadcast, broadcast compression included, for a test DJing set (using my old, cheap, but extremely reliable USB DJing console made by Behringer).
Setting it up as I’d envisioned ended up being more of a technical challenge than I thought it would be, but I just managed to churn out hopefully the first for a series of period-precise, FM radio broadcast-mimicking music sets, accurate to the specific month chosen for the set‘s theme (and not confined to any geographic region of that moment). Why? Because I’m weird.
Setting it up as I’d envisioned ended up being more of a technical challenge than I thought it would be, but I just managed to churn out hopefully the first for a series of period-precise, FM radio broadcast-mimicking music sets, accurate to the specific month chosen for the set‘s theme (and not confined to any geographic region of that moment). Why? Because I’m weird.
I think the port on the logicboard is iffy. Sometimes it shows up and works. Other times, it shows up, but doesn't, while still showing a green LED. Mostly, it is completely absent. I might see if I can pick up a camera-and-cable assembly and try and fault-find it further.
Really minor Early Intel Event: ordered new rubber feet for the Macbook Pro.