Just wanted to pass along a recent experience, not music related per say, but of interest to a tech savvy group like this.

I recently made the jump from a "regular" TV to one of those "smart" TV's. Mostly because I use Youtube and Pandora to find new music.

After getting it all set up up, I connected to the internet via wireless. Works great...just no Youtube, no Pandora. Yet I can load vids from CNN, CNBC, MSN, NBC...well you get it....any other site except Youtube and Pandora.

So to Samsung tech support for 3 days and over 6 hours...resets, more resets...the TV, my router, my modem...still nothing. Samsung tells me its a Google problem. So call the Youtube folks...more resets. They finally tell me its a Samsung problem.

So I'm on my own. Figured what the heck, I'll dump the wireless route and go hard-wired. Run Cat 6 wire from the modem to the router to the TV. No change.

So, I start running speedtests. TestMy. DSL Reports, Speedtest.net all show I have 45+Mbps coming in! More resets...nothing!

Finally, in desperation, I bypassed my router and went directly from my cable modem to the TV...success! So the problem seemed to be the router. I then hooked up a non-wireless router between the cable modem, the TV and my other 2 hard-wired computers...success. So now I know that my wires are good and there's something going on in my wireless router.


In the wireless router, I played with QoS, MMW, assigned static IP addresses, changed MAC addresses, DHCP addresses etc....nothing helped with the Youtube vids nor Pandora.


Finally, decided to try a new router from BestB (mine was only 4 years old!). Got a hot Netgear Nighthawk. And its like night and day. Youtube, Pandora and everything else loads super fast with no drop outs, 4K looks amazing, wired speeds are some 20% faster! Wireless almost doubled. 5G now fully operational with much more bandwidth.


Moral of the story....new toys are power hungry. Even if your "old" toys are only 4-5 years old, they may not play nice with new toys.

So what was the other thread about Win 10 saying......

Win11, Intel i7 7700K 4.2Ghz, 32Gb RAM, 2x1Tb HD, 500Gb NVMe, BIAB/RB 2025, MOTU 828MK3 audio, MOTU Midi Express, Yamaha Montage 7, DX7II, TX802, Motif XS Rack, Roland Fantom XR Rack, Oberheim Matrix 1000, VoiceLive3 Extreme, Kontakt 6, SampleTank 4.3