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google needs a slap
on: August 28, 2024, 13:39:50 PM
I had an old pc in the office running 4x 32inch tvs and a widescreen monitor in portrait, tv's for cctv and the monitor shows gps tracking

it was struggling to keep up with the cctv, had to turn the quality right down

upgraded my pc at home, brought my old one in to swap for this one so I could turn the quality up a bit


got it up and running but internet seamed a bit slow... fired up a www.speedtest.net and speeds were crap

had to stand on a chair holding the keyboard and mouse to use the pc so trouble shooting was a pain in the arse, checked everything I could, couldn't see a reason why... I was getting 1Mbps while office pc plugged into the same hub was getting 60Mbps

maybe a crap network cable?  the switch is right in front of the that pc

swapped the cable to a spare one that came with a cctv camera, nice and short... speed results were even worse? maybe the camera is only 1000Mbps so they send crap cables?  all a bit weird

pulled the network cable out of the printer to try that, it's a decent quality cable... speeds up and down a bit

it's driving me crazy at this point, climbing on and off the chair to test sh*t


then it hits me....

fire up edge and run the speed tests.... all fast


it's basterd chrome


wtf happened to chrome, it was the best by miles for years

wasted at least an hour of my life, drove me totally crazy

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Re: google needs a slap
Reply #1 on: August 28, 2024, 14:22:20 PM
I run chromium (linux) without a problem ( 101,8 Mbps ). I read that chrome had problems and that one should upgrade to latest version.

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Re: google needs a slap
Reply #2 on: September 02, 2024, 03:11:43 AM
If you want a chromium based browser - Brave.
Otherwise go firefox.


What is happening with Chrome and google search and some other products is turning into a massive dog pile of disaster for google.

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Re: google needs a slap
Reply #3 on: September 26, 2024, 09:42:21 AM
Chrome has been awful for a long time, it's just only now people are realising it. Firefox is still my main browser but Brave, even Vivaldi are all pretty good

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