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Gareth Halfacree's Recent Activity

  1. Gareth Halfacree liked sandys's post in the thread Networks Blocking Wake up on LAN packets.

    WOL magic packets are coming from an Apple device in the house, that is doing a broadcast, I've been wanting an excuse to ban Apple...

    18 May 2025 at 19:21
  2. Gareth Halfacree replied to the thread Peripherals Mechanical Keyboards.

    I usually use MX Blues (or knockoffs), but I've a couple of boards with Kailh Box Whites - they're lovely, proper snappy.

    17 May 2025 at 09:44
  3. Gareth Halfacree replied to the thread Networks Blocking Wake up on LAN packets.

    Bet you that's the culprit.

    16 May 2025 at 16:38
  4. Gareth Halfacree replied to the thread Networks Blocking Wake up on LAN packets.

    It's hundo-per-cent not coming from the internet if it's really WOL. A WOL packet has to be sent to the broadcast address, so it won't...

    16 May 2025 at 16:14
  5. Gareth Halfacree replied to the thread Networks Blocking Wake up on LAN packets.

    Where's the firewall? As the name suggests, WOL is for LAN traffic - you can't send a WOL packet through a border router unless...

    16 May 2025 at 15:22
  6. Gareth Halfacree replied to the thread Photos Latest Purchases Thread: v2.0.

    This is pronounced "twenty-one thirty-tooths." I will not be taking questions at this time.

    15 May 2025 at 21:03
  7. Gareth Halfacree replied to the thread Cooling Cooling a Ryzen 5900X and Crappy Motherboard (Was: Cooling a Ryzen 9 9950X... on air?).

    Not much point messing with my GPU: it's an RTX 2080, from the era when flagship GPUs weren't monstrous things requiring a small nuclear...

    14 May 2025 at 10:33
  8. Gareth Halfacree replied to the thread Cooling Cooling a Ryzen 5900X and Crappy Motherboard (Was: Cooling a Ryzen 9 9950X... on air?).

    21:12:20 up 7 days, 7:29, 1 user, load average: 5.02, 1.76, 1.07 First solid week with the new CPU! I guess either the chip or the...

    13 May 2025 at 21:12