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Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001
Possibly a silly question, but once you get into gigabit speeds is it a bad idea to download things to your mechanical HDD instead of a temporary folder on an SSD?

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Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001
I've got 16GB so no issues there. What I'm worried about is the WD Green drive I use for main data. I've got a Red that's backup-only right now but I could stick my incoming downloads there and move them back if I needed to. The SSD is only 480GB with ~180GB free so that's not ideal.

Shumagorath fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Sep 1, 2015

Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001
Has anyone had issues with their Netgear R7000 maxing out at ~500Mbps when doing PPPoE? I know its WAN-to-LAN is rated in the high 900's but after many hours of swearing into my patch panel today I confirmed it's turning my 940/100 connection into 500/120.

I wouldn't have much of an issue turning it into a $300 wireless AP and letting the Bell Homehub do the routing, but all-in-one devices with remote management capabilities that can see my LAN freak me out. If a flaw was ever found it's one hop to all my 24/7 connected devices for someone who wants to go war dialing.

Does anything in the consumer space do gigabit PPPoE?

Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001
Thanks - that same router just got mentioned in the Canadian thread so it looks like my wiring closet is about to get even weirder.

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