If streaming in 256kbit/s only required 256kbit/s actual connection, your math is correct…in reality it will need higher bandwidth to stream seamlessly at that bitrate.

It would be horridly slow for all those things (well maybe not text-only chats)

400kbit/s excruciatingly slow for even basic things besides web browsingon bloated sites.

IDK, 400kbit/s is pretty close to unusable these days…

Ok so we just have starkly dissimilar experiences, unfortunately for me it has been way more hassle than what you have experienced.

Curious, how do you plan to download from your newsgroups if you are not exposed to the internet? This is no different than the internet access e.g. qbit needs.

I’ve been using freetube for a little over a year, and I have to change something all the time (like every third time i open the app or something) otherwise videos just throw an error and won’t load. Same goes for my laptop (also freetube). Newpipe and revanced are even worse for me and some I never got working.

No, like fiddling with proxies to find a working one…if only it was just updating then I wouldn’t mind.

You have to frequently do some shenanigans to get things working because shit keeps breaking. I still do it, but it’s honestly annoying AF that i need to tinker with my apps like that all the time.

Not really, most SFF PCs top out below 70W at absolute maximum, 100W-400W at idle is improbable.

For reference, mine uses 7W on average running my home automation and some other things, when it’s actually idling it’s well below that.

That would make it way too high at anywhere from 100W to 400W depending on where in the world they are.

Meh, it really just feels more like were at the center of idiocracy

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That’s a very US-centric view of car industry

Have you tried doing a DNS lookup from the router (pinging a host by name, say) when you were having the problems?

Yes this works when I’m having issues. I guess I’ll try looking in to my routers DNS next time i have issues. For now it’s working again (I still haven’t changed anything)

Just default for my gl.inet, haven’t changed anythingon that part.

I mean, i have narrowed it down to some kind of DNS issue, I just don’t know what. Right now everything is working again (I haven’t changed anything), so I’ll have to keep looking next time it stops working. It’s just weird it works for days/weeks at a time, and then suddenly breaks for a few hours until it “magically” fixes it self again without me doing anything.

Is the laptop Linux?

It is yes, Mint

Restart doesn’t fix it unfortunately.

I am using my routers DNS, and it’s reachable from my laptop.

Yes I use the same destination fro testing on my laptop and the router.

I think I’ve narrowed it down to a DNS issue, I just don’t know exactly what. I can ping outwards from my laptop when using IPs but not names. But my laptop can reach my DNS.