Brendan Parker
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- essex, england
I have a 4g dongle I will give that a try before. Wasn’t sure how 4g would work but if it works for you.
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Daddy Pig
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Randyberlin
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- Sitka, Alaska
Can you list a few of your other videos? Not having any luck in the sessions search.Yep, took 50 minutes of my previous time yesterday, and now only just over a minute and a half off the KOM time .... Now I know thats one ride I can't do that sort of performance IRL.
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Edit. Nevermind I found them. Thanks for doing them.
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- Powys, Wales
Think we'd better nail the accurate starting protocol before we try a team event. I remember only too vividly starting a few of these with one shoe on and just in my pants......
I few things I´ve noted about Zwift, Bkool and internet.
I use LAN and have never been affected by the kids gaming and using Netflix, even though my connection is nothing to brag about (15/1.6).
Just finished building a gamer pc for my son and the first thing he did was to install Steam and download a huge game. Now, this was really something that affected the whole network. I'm thinking that there may be some kind of priority attached to the connection of the various applications.
A funny thing that rather surprised me was when I created a wifi hotspot on my phone and connected the gamer pc while it was also connected via LAN. To my big surprise I saw the download speed being doubled, and of course my son forced me to use up my data quota so that he could game sooner
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I use LAN and have never been affected by the kids gaming and using Netflix, even though my connection is nothing to brag about (15/1.6).
Just finished building a gamer pc for my son and the first thing he did was to install Steam and download a huge game. Now, this was really something that affected the whole network. I'm thinking that there may be some kind of priority attached to the connection of the various applications.
A funny thing that rather surprised me was when I created a wifi hotspot on my phone and connected the gamer pc while it was also connected via LAN. To my big surprise I saw the download speed being doubled, and of course my son forced me to use up my data quota so that he could game sooner
.I've never experienced problems on BKool with speed or response, but I have with Zwift a few times, most notably early in a session and when there are lots of other riders about. Wife uses Netflix a lot and most times she'll be watching something while I ride and this doesn't really impact either way.I few things I´ve noted about Zwift, Bkool and internet.
I use LAN and have never been affected by the kids gaming and using Netflix, even though my connection is nothing to brag about (15/1.6).
Just finished building a gamer pc for my son and the first thing he did was to install Steam and download a huge game. Now, this was really something that affected the whole network. I'm thinking that there may be some kind of priority attached to the connection of the various applications.
A funny thing that rather surprised me was when I created a wifi hotspot on my phone and connected the gamer pc while it was also connected via LAN. To my big surprise I saw the download speed being doubled, and of course my son forced me to use up my data quota so that he could game sooner
We have good broadband here, and even when Zwift is playing up our broadband still has capacity so I think the lag is their end. As soon as I get to parts of the course with less riders close by (usually the hills) Zwift stops being jumpy and smooths out.
Funny thing, I use the build-in graphics of an rather old Core i3, and even a power efficient i3 model, and both Zwift and BSim runs relatively smooth, albeit not with the best graphic quality.
I tried BSim on the gamer pc and the graphics was nothing less than stunning, extreemly smoth and with lots of details I had never seen before. And then again, every 10 seconds or so there was a hickup. After a while that got really annoying, and got to conclusion that I prefered the old i3.
I tried BSim on the gamer pc and the graphics was nothing less than stunning, extreemly smoth and with lots of details I had never seen before. And then again, every 10 seconds or so there was a hickup. After a while that got really annoying, and got to conclusion that I prefered the old i3.
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One thing to note is that the speed of some wifi networks is determined by the lowest speed of connected devices. I haven't read up on the workings on newer wifi standards, but I think it is no longer an issue. But if it is, it's definitely worth going LAN.
keithaitch
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- barcelona
Looks like we need to save something for the last 2kms!
Aleman
Knees are FUBAR but I don't like to mention it
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- Blackpool UK
What's the matter you have a couple of 8% sections to recover after the 11% and 12% bits
... That last 6Km descent isn't plain sailing either, starting with a 8.4% Uphill, and the finish hits 6.5% in the last 100m 
. To be honest it does remind me of doing Great Dun Fell where you were using the 8% sections to recover after the relentless 18-20% bits, before the next steep rampWhen having 2 teenagers at home, and now currently just having the 20Year Old gaming son left, I repurposed an old pentium PC as a Smoothwall (a hardware firewall), this gives me 4 network segments Red - Direct access to the internet with no logging or protection, Green, Purple and Orange. Green is most open, in that you can allow pinholes through the firewall to devices on that segment. The other two can only be allowed to see devices on the other internal segments. The good thing I discovered is that I can also set Qos (Quality of Service) on different types of traffic (Gaming, Streaming etc) and differently on each segment. Now the Green segment, which is where most of the devices connect to has QoS set up with a restriction of 20% of the bandwidth available to gaming and streaming, the other segments have no restriction so my cycling devices can happily run at up to 100Mbps/6Mbps, or 80% of that.
Devious?? Moi?
I think we should keep it open until at least the end of the month.
