We would like to weigh in on this conversation about Dogs and Hugs and if they are angst by a person hugging them...
This is not a new study, it's just been regenerationalized because like most new generations they aren't taught of the old ways, or most likely they just don't listen...
Just like people, not everyone likes a hug, so why would dogs or any other animal be different than humans...
The study was done on the German Shepherd many years ago and was the dominant K9 species some 71 thousand years ago, and was found to be disturbed by this physical emotion...
sidenote: We too have noticed this higher anxiety in German Shepherds...
Studies have been done on many breeds thereafter, but the tests are not conclusive that all dogs fear the hug, and we can attest to this study, because we have tested many dogs ourselves...
To test on just any dog you come up to is just one type of test, because if the dog doesn't know you the results could be skewed, but is a test just the same to challenge all different scenarios...
However, with all the dogs we have tested and if you knew us, you would know why we have had this privilege of testing many dogs, we have found that dogs that are most familiar with you appreciate hugs more than those that are not...
sidenote: A better "Generalization" of this study would be to compare pure breeds to mixed breeds...
Example: One of our personal Dogs not only loves hugs, but will also close their eyes, shift their head to the right and walk into the hug everytime and won't let go until the hug is done...
So right there your theory just got trumped that all dogs don't like hugs, mind blown we're sure...
To say that if everyone smoked Marijuana they'd be happier is an asinine comment, and is more of a generalization done by someone that smokes marijuana...
With all due respect, the person that re-announced this dogs and hugs study probably didn't like hugs themselves and was more than likeley an introvert...
Animals have a keener instinct than humans and can sense you in an instant and will skew your results if you're just some scientist going up to a dog to test hugging without sensible emotion ...
All dogs know how to do is love, so to say that they don't like being loved back is someone that doesn't like to be loved themselves...
Not everyone loves dogs and not all dogs love you, so if this is the case, get a cat...and that's a fact!
Saturday, April 30, 2016
Webroot Update...
YEAH! A customer has provided us a version of their Webroot software to test YEAH!
So we removed MSE and loaded Webroot and right away we had a problem, and that was the Spybot Anti-Beacon software that we had loaded on our system...
We are testing with a very modest Windows 7 32 bit machine, 4gb or ram, NVIDIA GT 740, ASUS P5QL VM-DO board (when they were good) and an Intel E8400 3.0 6mb cache dual Core CPU, if you didn't know, and because of the high CPU issue caused by Spybot Anti-Beacon we uninstalled it...
When testing you have to remove items in order to make sure that they are truly the problem or if it's a conflict with another program causing that program to fail...
The High CPU usage did go down, but it hasn't been as smooth of an experience as we've had with MSE and DW together...
We have loved the Marriage between DW and MSE and other than the now past problem with DW and dllhost error, we have always maintained low CPU and Memory functions...
Spybot Anti-Beacon is more effective for Windows 10 in our opinion due to the incredible amount of tracking that Microsoft has incorporated into that Operating System, so Windows 7 won't miss it as much as 10 would...
Currently we're running a little higher than we've been before on the CPU around 20-30% while watching videos opposed to the 10% that we had with MSE and DW...
Memory is also a bit higher running around 1.36gb opposed to 1.2gb, but has spiked a few times to 2.5gb and caused explorer to stop responding, was recoverable without IE closure, but there was an interruption and a refresh was all that was needed to recover the video...
The system has become more stable after what we would think was an updating process that programs go through, so more than likely it was just the initial install, but again, MSE and DW never experienced that problem at all...
We're keeping an eye on it and will update if we have any failures or we decide to bring back Spybot to start disabling telemetry services to see if that was the issue with the incredible 100% spike we experienced...
Chrome still insists on being problematic for us regardless of Webroot being installed or not, and doesn't play well with others, IE and Chrome opened together caused lag in the tabbed browsing...
sidenote: Chrome doesn't have to be open in order to experience lag in Tabbed Browsing...
We would also like to note that we are leaning toward DW on the lagged Tabbed Browsing for two reasons:
1. We have never experienced lag in Tab Browsing with Webroot, regardless of our limited experience with it...
2. We have experienced lag in Tab Browsing with DW before, but was an earlier problem with DW, but with the two together seems to bring this to the forefront again...
**UPDATE**
Tab Browsing is back to normal after continued use w/or w/out Chrome open, CPU has decreased to 10% while watching video, but memory is still a bit higher and now running at 1.5gb-1.79gb, but IE is stable...
CPU can fluctuate from 10% and will return to 20-30% and sometimes 40%, but IE is still stable and video performance is unaffected, but memory still at 1.79gb regardless of CPU drop/raise...
**UPDATE**
Second Reboot and 4 hours later watching Video, memory has stabilized at 1.14gb; CPU fluctuates from 0 - 30 % in video mode and 24% - 60% during advertisements, but stabilizes when video returns to 0 - 30%, but average CPU frequency stays primarily 14% and under and Tab Problem is gone...
We'd say that DW and Webroot are compatible...Next Test is to bring back Spybot Anti-Beacon...
**UPDATE**
Browsing web pages has gotten extremely difficult with the two programs loaded, not that it's easy to browse webpages anymore with the amount of ads they put in their webpages, but it's definitely painfully slower................like that :-D...
The slowness is most notable in tabbed browsing...
We need time to troubleshoot, but in the meantime for 32 bit, you'll need to make a choice, either stay with the cheaper faster solution of MSE and DW and stay reactive, or go Webroot and be proactive...
**UPDATE**
Well we have found the problem between DW and Webroot and the crashing of Google Chrome. Chrome is still a pig of a Browser with Resources, but it no longer crashes and tabbed browsing is fixed...
Jason Mraz - It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vApON59CgaM
**UPDATE**
We found a response from Webroot regarding DefenseWall...
Answer from support: "WSA and DefenseWall are both doing what they're designed to be doing. DefenseWall blocks communication with Webroots DLL's, so there is not much that Webroot can do. There is also no way to stop this in DW's options, so if you want to use DW and WSA together, you can't use the Web Shield."
What is Webshield for Webroot: "Blocks known threats encountered on the Internet and displays a warning. The Web shield maintains information on more than 200 million URLs and IP addresses to comprise the most accurate and comprehensive data available for classifying content and detecting malicious sites."
So we removed MSE and loaded Webroot and right away we had a problem, and that was the Spybot Anti-Beacon software that we had loaded on our system...
We are testing with a very modest Windows 7 32 bit machine, 4gb or ram, NVIDIA GT 740, ASUS P5QL VM-DO board (when they were good) and an Intel E8400 3.0 6mb cache dual Core CPU, if you didn't know, and because of the high CPU issue caused by Spybot Anti-Beacon we uninstalled it...
When testing you have to remove items in order to make sure that they are truly the problem or if it's a conflict with another program causing that program to fail...
The High CPU usage did go down, but it hasn't been as smooth of an experience as we've had with MSE and DW together...
We have loved the Marriage between DW and MSE and other than the now past problem with DW and dllhost error, we have always maintained low CPU and Memory functions...
Spybot Anti-Beacon is more effective for Windows 10 in our opinion due to the incredible amount of tracking that Microsoft has incorporated into that Operating System, so Windows 7 won't miss it as much as 10 would...
Currently we're running a little higher than we've been before on the CPU around 20-30% while watching videos opposed to the 10% that we had with MSE and DW...
Memory is also a bit higher running around 1.36gb opposed to 1.2gb, but has spiked a few times to 2.5gb and caused explorer to stop responding, was recoverable without IE closure, but there was an interruption and a refresh was all that was needed to recover the video...
The system has become more stable after what we would think was an updating process that programs go through, so more than likely it was just the initial install, but again, MSE and DW never experienced that problem at all...
We're keeping an eye on it and will update if we have any failures or we decide to bring back Spybot to start disabling telemetry services to see if that was the issue with the incredible 100% spike we experienced...
Chrome still insists on being problematic for us regardless of Webroot being installed or not, and doesn't play well with others, IE and Chrome opened together caused lag in the tabbed browsing...
sidenote: Chrome doesn't have to be open in order to experience lag in Tabbed Browsing...
We would also like to note that we are leaning toward DW on the lagged Tabbed Browsing for two reasons:
1. We have never experienced lag in Tab Browsing with Webroot, regardless of our limited experience with it...
2. We have experienced lag in Tab Browsing with DW before, but was an earlier problem with DW, but with the two together seems to bring this to the forefront again...
**UPDATE**
Tab Browsing is back to normal after continued use w/or w/out Chrome open, CPU has decreased to 10% while watching video, but memory is still a bit higher and now running at 1.5gb-1.79gb, but IE is stable...
CPU can fluctuate from 10% and will return to 20-30% and sometimes 40%, but IE is still stable and video performance is unaffected, but memory still at 1.79gb regardless of CPU drop/raise...
**UPDATE**
Second Reboot and 4 hours later watching Video, memory has stabilized at 1.14gb; CPU fluctuates from 0 - 30 % in video mode and 24% - 60% during advertisements, but stabilizes when video returns to 0 - 30%, but average CPU frequency stays primarily 14% and under and Tab Problem is gone...
We'd say that DW and Webroot are compatible...Next Test is to bring back Spybot Anti-Beacon...
**UPDATE**
Browsing web pages has gotten extremely difficult with the two programs loaded, not that it's easy to browse webpages anymore with the amount of ads they put in their webpages, but it's definitely painfully slower................like that :-D...
The slowness is most notable in tabbed browsing...
We need time to troubleshoot, but in the meantime for 32 bit, you'll need to make a choice, either stay with the cheaper faster solution of MSE and DW and stay reactive, or go Webroot and be proactive...
**UPDATE**
Well we have found the problem between DW and Webroot and the crashing of Google Chrome. Chrome is still a pig of a Browser with Resources, but it no longer crashes and tabbed browsing is fixed...
Jason Mraz - It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vApON59CgaM
**UPDATE**
We found a response from Webroot regarding DefenseWall...
Answer from support: "WSA and DefenseWall are both doing what they're designed to be doing. DefenseWall blocks communication with Webroots DLL's, so there is not much that Webroot can do. There is also no way to stop this in DW's options, so if you want to use DW and WSA together, you can't use the Web Shield."
What is Webshield for Webroot: "Blocks known threats encountered on the Internet and displays a warning. The Web shield maintains information on more than 200 million URLs and IP addresses to comprise the most accurate and comprehensive data available for classifying content and detecting malicious sites."
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Kaspersky Safe Money Update...
In January we had a problem with Kaspersky's Safe Money program not fully protecting you while you were in your banking site online...
What we were told to do then was to add some servers to hosts.hst file and that fixed the problem...
Now advance to today...and we have installed Kaspersky on two systems that both had a problem...
Oh, we loaded Kaspersky on an aggressive users machine and we loaded their second license on our Windows 10 test machine FYI...
...yes we are still going with Webroot, but some users need Kaspersky...
The support ticket second tier support gave us the run around again try this, try that, okay try this again and try that again arrgghhh...
We came to find out they have a fix online that we found by accident...
You need to enable virtualization in your Bios in order to get your bank browser protected for screen shot vulnerabilities...
Look up your unit and type how to enter bios in XYZ machine, once there look for Virtualization Technology and choose "enable" reboot...
You may still have to load the alternate servers they supplied us with, if this doesn't fix the issue ...
On the test machine Virtualization was disabled, as for the other machine we used alternative servers in the hosts.hst file to make it work...
http://5hvnzon.blogspot.com/2016/01/kaspersky-safe-money-update.html
This should fix the issue, but if not you've always got Kaspersky to help you...
Good Luck and happy computing :-)
What we were told to do then was to add some servers to hosts.hst file and that fixed the problem...
Now advance to today...and we have installed Kaspersky on two systems that both had a problem...
Oh, we loaded Kaspersky on an aggressive users machine and we loaded their second license on our Windows 10 test machine FYI...
...yes we are still going with Webroot, but some users need Kaspersky...
The support ticket second tier support gave us the run around again try this, try that, okay try this again and try that again arrgghhh...
We came to find out they have a fix online that we found by accident...
You need to enable virtualization in your Bios in order to get your bank browser protected for screen shot vulnerabilities...
Look up your unit and type how to enter bios in XYZ machine, once there look for Virtualization Technology and choose "enable" reboot...
You may still have to load the alternate servers they supplied us with, if this doesn't fix the issue ...
On the test machine Virtualization was disabled, as for the other machine we used alternative servers in the hosts.hst file to make it work...
http://5hvnzon.blogspot.com/2016/01/kaspersky-safe-money-update.html
This should fix the issue, but if not you've always got Kaspersky to help you...
Good Luck and happy computing :-)
Monday, April 25, 2016
Micrsosoft Failures Continue...
Windows 10 had two updates that are/may be blue screening computers right now and causing connection problems to the Microsoft store and several programs are not working...
The problems "MANDATORY" updates are KB3147461 and KB3147458...
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3147461
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3147458
...we say mandatory, because you don't have a choice of what updates you can install, drivers, critical and optional all lumped together in one download session...
By default you don't update windows this way, you always do critical first then optional and never the drivers...
However, we have a system that we are setting dormant until each month is over to wait to hear if windows rolled out a bad egg because we know windows rolls out bad eggs...
This way we can test the updates on a system that isn't in production first before we roll them out onto the Production systems...
As for our production Windows 10 systems we have Windows Updates turned off, like we have done for years because we don't want our users struggling...
Windows 10 is not like other windows operating systems due to them forcing ALL updates onto your computer so why they are hard pressed to continue with the Patch Tuesday detail seems a little aggressive in our opinion...
Apple and Linux don't have updates that come out like that, so why are you doing it Microsoft...
Microsoft it's Vista 64 bit all over again, you need to stop listening to the voices of users and test your product before you send out your updates...
There is no reason for you to be pushing out updates like you're doing, none whatsoever, relax MS, and test your software updates first...
On our test machine the only update we didn't see was KB3147461, so we're going to assume that this was the update that waxed peoples system...
We loaded KB3147458 and we didn't have a problem, test system is running smooth...
We'll be upgrading our production systems one at a time or grouped based upon the system similarities until all are done so as not to have an Armageddon on our hands, you should think about doing the same thing...
Satya, if you were a cook and put out that many raw chickens to patrons, not only would you lose your job, but your business would be closed down either by the Health Department or Word of mouth, either way, you'd be screwed blued and tattooed kid...and that's a fact!
The problems "MANDATORY" updates are KB3147461 and KB3147458...
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3147461
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3147458
...we say mandatory, because you don't have a choice of what updates you can install, drivers, critical and optional all lumped together in one download session...
By default you don't update windows this way, you always do critical first then optional and never the drivers...
However, we have a system that we are setting dormant until each month is over to wait to hear if windows rolled out a bad egg because we know windows rolls out bad eggs...
This way we can test the updates on a system that isn't in production first before we roll them out onto the Production systems...
As for our production Windows 10 systems we have Windows Updates turned off, like we have done for years because we don't want our users struggling...
Windows 10 is not like other windows operating systems due to them forcing ALL updates onto your computer so why they are hard pressed to continue with the Patch Tuesday detail seems a little aggressive in our opinion...
Apple and Linux don't have updates that come out like that, so why are you doing it Microsoft...
Microsoft it's Vista 64 bit all over again, you need to stop listening to the voices of users and test your product before you send out your updates...
There is no reason for you to be pushing out updates like you're doing, none whatsoever, relax MS, and test your software updates first...
On our test machine the only update we didn't see was KB3147461, so we're going to assume that this was the update that waxed peoples system...
We loaded KB3147458 and we didn't have a problem, test system is running smooth...
We'll be upgrading our production systems one at a time or grouped based upon the system similarities until all are done so as not to have an Armageddon on our hands, you should think about doing the same thing...
Satya, if you were a cook and put out that many raw chickens to patrons, not only would you lose your job, but your business would be closed down either by the Health Department or Word of mouth, either way, you'd be screwed blued and tattooed kid...and that's a fact!
Saturday, April 23, 2016
It's funny you mention Routers...
There is a new toy for your toy box if you travel and want added security when you connect to public Wi-Fi networks...
Anonabox is an innovative hardware company focused on providing internet security, privacy and freedom for all users. Utilizing the Tor Network and additional VPN services, our affordable devices help to conceal web browsing, emails, file sharing, and other digital entrails that typically follow web activity...
https://www.anonabox.com/
I’m not the sort of person who needs anonymity most of the time, but there are occasions, especially when traveling, when I wish for a bit more privacy, and Anonabox Pro makes this easy, at a moment’s notice... Roger A. Grimes — Columnist
http://www.infoworld.com/article/3058038/security/hands-on-go-almost-anonymous-on-the-internet-with-anonabox.html
What does Tor mean: We're not sure and it's not clearly stated, but if you go biblical with it Tor means the Third Order Regular; Catholicism ideals, but more of a monastic or monk style of living...
What does Tor do:
Tor directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer network consisting of more than seven thousand relays to conceal a user's location and usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis...Wiki
Anonabox is an innovative hardware company focused on providing internet security, privacy and freedom for all users. Utilizing the Tor Network and additional VPN services, our affordable devices help to conceal web browsing, emails, file sharing, and other digital entrails that typically follow web activity...
https://www.anonabox.com/
I’m not the sort of person who needs anonymity most of the time, but there are occasions, especially when traveling, when I wish for a bit more privacy, and Anonabox Pro makes this easy, at a moment’s notice... Roger A. Grimes — Columnist
http://www.infoworld.com/article/3058038/security/hands-on-go-almost-anonymous-on-the-internet-with-anonabox.html
What does Tor mean: We're not sure and it's not clearly stated, but if you go biblical with it Tor means the Third Order Regular; Catholicism ideals, but more of a monastic or monk style of living...
What does Tor do:
Tor directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer network consisting of more than seven thousand relays to conceal a user's location and usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis...Wiki
Adding a Router to your home/work modem...
As you know we hate the Comcast modems and have had to add a router to our modem to get better performance out of it and better connections...
We eventually went with the D-Link DCM-301 to compliment our 4500 and improved the performance and reliability from the Comcast Arris modem...
Some friends of ours were experiencing the same issue with their Comcast modem, but couldn't afford an Expensive Router or the Surfboard modem to replace the crappy Comcast Modem, so we had to make what they had work the best it could with the resources that were available to us...
There is not just one way set it up and done scenario here and after investigating this for a few months we found a few different ways to make your browsing experience better and more secure...
Okay, so there are a few ways that you should/could setup your modem/routers...
Bridging the Home or Work modem is the preferred method, the only difference is which will serve as the DHCP server...
Our DLINK has great security in it and is much better than the Cable Home/Work modem so using the DLINK as the DHCP/Firewall is preferred, but you still bridge at the Cable Modem...
If you use DHCP on your Router, you'll need to turn off DHCP on your Modem because you CANNOT have two DHCP servers running on the same network regardless if you have different subnets or not...
Work Modems are typically better than Home modems so if you have a cheap Linksys router it's best to use the DHCP on the Cable Modem...
You can use the Linksys as the DHCP server if you want on your home network, but it's better to use the Work modem as the DHCP modem because it's better than the home modem...
Using the Cheap Linksys router is best to set it up as an Access point only, but you have to use the same subnet as the Cable Modem. You also have to either reserve or remove the Static IP that is given to the Linksys from the Cable Modem DHCP...
The Linksys access point SSID should be named differently than the Cable modem. This way you can have your underlings use this router while your preferred users use the Cable Modem SSID...
You can also use a different password than the Cable modem to keep them off of the Cable modem, plus it shares the load for Wireless connections so you can host more users...
DO NOT give any information to the Guest users because your still on the main subnet and can see whatever is shared, so a security issue...
With the DLINK we had to change the subnet and use a 192.168.xx.xx and 10.0.xx.xx on the Cable Modem, which is standard...
We had mass errors using the Same Subnet as the Cable modem and it would also disconnect very often, but once we changed to 192.168.xx.xx it ran much better....
Our DLINK is preferred to use an alternate Subnet and is setup that way with DLINK as well like that...
If your router has Wireless and is used as the DHCP you will have to disable the Wireless on the Cable Modem...
This was a fun exercise and we hope that you get some use out of it...
**UPDATE**
Well four days ago the DLINK freaked out :-D, not sure why, so we are trying something else...
When we bridged the Modem with the Router and used the Same IP, we found ourselves having to reconnect quite frequently and was why we switched the IP to 192.xx on the DLINK...
So we know that we can't go back to this configuration, so we are trying something a bit different, but kind of the same as one of the other solutions in this study...
What we did now is disable the bridge on the Cable Modem, we used the same IP as the Cable modem, we enabled the WiFi connections on both the cable modem and the router to create a load balancing...
When enabling two Wireless devices in the same environment it's best to have them on different channels, so we made DLINK channel 1 and Cable Modem Channel 6...
We also needed to keep the same IP on the DLINK as the cable modem because we couldn't get it to stay stable with alternate IP's nor would it go above 1Mbps, probably because we removed bridging...
We have split the Wireless users to 5 on the DLINK and 5 on the Cable Modem, but there is no doubt that the DLINK is the faster connection and most stable compared to the POS Cable Modem...
The Cable modem has frozen a few users while on SKYPE, but the DLINK has not interrupted once and has stayed connected at 48Mbps now for the last two days...
Still testing...
We eventually went with the D-Link DCM-301 to compliment our 4500 and improved the performance and reliability from the Comcast Arris modem...
Some friends of ours were experiencing the same issue with their Comcast modem, but couldn't afford an Expensive Router or the Surfboard modem to replace the crappy Comcast Modem, so we had to make what they had work the best it could with the resources that were available to us...
There is not just one way set it up and done scenario here and after investigating this for a few months we found a few different ways to make your browsing experience better and more secure...
Okay, so there are a few ways that you should/could setup your modem/routers...
Bridging the Home or Work modem is the preferred method, the only difference is which will serve as the DHCP server...
Our DLINK has great security in it and is much better than the Cable Home/Work modem so using the DLINK as the DHCP/Firewall is preferred, but you still bridge at the Cable Modem...
If you use DHCP on your Router, you'll need to turn off DHCP on your Modem because you CANNOT have two DHCP servers running on the same network regardless if you have different subnets or not...
Work Modems are typically better than Home modems so if you have a cheap Linksys router it's best to use the DHCP on the Cable Modem...
You can use the Linksys as the DHCP server if you want on your home network, but it's better to use the Work modem as the DHCP modem because it's better than the home modem...
Using the Cheap Linksys router is best to set it up as an Access point only, but you have to use the same subnet as the Cable Modem. You also have to either reserve or remove the Static IP that is given to the Linksys from the Cable Modem DHCP...
The Linksys access point SSID should be named differently than the Cable modem. This way you can have your underlings use this router while your preferred users use the Cable Modem SSID...
You can also use a different password than the Cable modem to keep them off of the Cable modem, plus it shares the load for Wireless connections so you can host more users...
DO NOT give any information to the Guest users because your still on the main subnet and can see whatever is shared, so a security issue...
With the DLINK we had to change the subnet and use a 192.168.xx.xx and 10.0.xx.xx on the Cable Modem, which is standard...
We had mass errors using the Same Subnet as the Cable modem and it would also disconnect very often, but once we changed to 192.168.xx.xx it ran much better....
Our DLINK is preferred to use an alternate Subnet and is setup that way with DLINK as well like that...
If your router has Wireless and is used as the DHCP you will have to disable the Wireless on the Cable Modem...
This was a fun exercise and we hope that you get some use out of it...
**UPDATE**
Well four days ago the DLINK freaked out :-D, not sure why, so we are trying something else...
When we bridged the Modem with the Router and used the Same IP, we found ourselves having to reconnect quite frequently and was why we switched the IP to 192.xx on the DLINK...
So we know that we can't go back to this configuration, so we are trying something a bit different, but kind of the same as one of the other solutions in this study...
What we did now is disable the bridge on the Cable Modem, we used the same IP as the Cable modem, we enabled the WiFi connections on both the cable modem and the router to create a load balancing...
When enabling two Wireless devices in the same environment it's best to have them on different channels, so we made DLINK channel 1 and Cable Modem Channel 6...
We also needed to keep the same IP on the DLINK as the cable modem because we couldn't get it to stay stable with alternate IP's nor would it go above 1Mbps, probably because we removed bridging...
We have split the Wireless users to 5 on the DLINK and 5 on the Cable Modem, but there is no doubt that the DLINK is the faster connection and most stable compared to the POS Cable Modem...
The Cable modem has frozen a few users while on SKYPE, but the DLINK has not interrupted once and has stayed connected at 48Mbps now for the last two days...
Still testing...
Chrome's High CPU Usage while Watching Videos...
This has been a problem since we had to install Chrome to watch our Colbert and have noticed a High CPU usage happening that kept crashing chrome...
The CPU would constantly be at 100% which is not good for your CPU, but we didn't care, because we needed our Colbert :-D...
sidenote: The reason we loaded chrome was to remove Adobe Flash due to all the zero day exploits they were experiencing lately...
Well we got motivated and did some research on the issue and found some good links that didn't solve the Problem...
The first one we found was for YouTube videos that we found that referenced vp8/9, no this is not a Vape pen :-D...
The vp stands for Video Compression and is used to compress videos to prevent long buffer times and less data used to provide a higher quality for your video...
Chromium, Chrome, Firefox and Opera are the only browsers that support vp9 and soon to be released will be vp10...
From what we read people are having issues with 4k and not so much 1080p, but where it gets interesting is that Video Cards don't yet support vp9...
Ironically enough, Internet Explorer is much better at decoding videos than chrome and is much smoother and w/out a High CPU usage...
There is a workaround in Chrome if you add h264/5 plugin to your Chrome browser by opening extensions under more tools or just typing chrome://extensions/ in your URL, then type h264/5 in your search field and choose add to chrome, that's it...
However, this didn't fix our issue, we just thought you might so we added it just for S/G's...
The problem we had was a Flash issue that is built into Chrome by default called pepflashplayer.dll and is found under plugins, just type chrome://plugins in your URL...
Once there click on the + sign in the top right corner to expand the details view and scroll down to Shockwave Flash and choose disable...
Now we don't have video and Chrome wants to install Adobe Flash in order to run, so we loaded Adobe Flash which we uninstalled because of the vulnerabilities and found out that it didn't run any better...
So then we Disabled DirectWrite, Disabled accelerated 2D canvas, Disabled hardware-accelerated video decode under chrome://flags and it didn't run any better...
We then went to settings and unchecked User Hardware acceleration when available under advanced settings and that didn't work...
So then we reset all settings restored factory settings and that didn't improve the CPU usage and didn't fix our problem with High CPU usage in Chrome...
sidenote: Yes we disabled our Malware Programs as well...
So we thought...and had an ah-haa moment and found the solution to the High CPU problem in Chrome while watching videos...
What we did was reinstalled flash from Adobe opened up Internet Explorer 11 and watched our video and discovered that the problem was Chrome :-D CPU Usage in IE...10%, CPU Usage in Chrome 75-100%...
We discovered that Chrome Sucks while watching Videos from any source while IE was smooth and never crashed...
We still have Chrome loaded on our system for faster browsing on websites because Chrome does browse faster than IE on certain websites...
It's also nice to have two browsers when you use multiple screens for researching so at least Chrome has some use for us...
Remember, all players have to play nowadays regardless if they suck, because it's not whether you win or lose anymore, it's about participation and participation awards, so Google here is your participation award :-D
THANKS MOM :-P
The CPU would constantly be at 100% which is not good for your CPU, but we didn't care, because we needed our Colbert :-D...
sidenote: The reason we loaded chrome was to remove Adobe Flash due to all the zero day exploits they were experiencing lately...
Well we got motivated and did some research on the issue and found some good links that didn't solve the Problem...
The first one we found was for YouTube videos that we found that referenced vp8/9, no this is not a Vape pen :-D...
The vp stands for Video Compression and is used to compress videos to prevent long buffer times and less data used to provide a higher quality for your video...
Chromium, Chrome, Firefox and Opera are the only browsers that support vp9 and soon to be released will be vp10...
From what we read people are having issues with 4k and not so much 1080p, but where it gets interesting is that Video Cards don't yet support vp9...
Ironically enough, Internet Explorer is much better at decoding videos than chrome and is much smoother and w/out a High CPU usage...
There is a workaround in Chrome if you add h264/5 plugin to your Chrome browser by opening extensions under more tools or just typing chrome://extensions/ in your URL, then type h264/5 in your search field and choose add to chrome, that's it...
However, this didn't fix our issue, we just thought you might so we added it just for S/G's...
The problem we had was a Flash issue that is built into Chrome by default called pepflashplayer.dll and is found under plugins, just type chrome://plugins in your URL...
Once there click on the + sign in the top right corner to expand the details view and scroll down to Shockwave Flash and choose disable...
Now we don't have video and Chrome wants to install Adobe Flash in order to run, so we loaded Adobe Flash which we uninstalled because of the vulnerabilities and found out that it didn't run any better...
So then we Disabled DirectWrite, Disabled accelerated 2D canvas, Disabled hardware-accelerated video decode under chrome://flags and it didn't run any better...
We then went to settings and unchecked User Hardware acceleration when available under advanced settings and that didn't work...
So then we reset all settings restored factory settings and that didn't improve the CPU usage and didn't fix our problem with High CPU usage in Chrome...
sidenote: Yes we disabled our Malware Programs as well...
So we thought...and had an ah-haa moment and found the solution to the High CPU problem in Chrome while watching videos...
What we did was reinstalled flash from Adobe opened up Internet Explorer 11 and watched our video and discovered that the problem was Chrome :-D CPU Usage in IE...10%, CPU Usage in Chrome 75-100%...
We discovered that Chrome Sucks while watching Videos from any source while IE was smooth and never crashed...
We still have Chrome loaded on our system for faster browsing on websites because Chrome does browse faster than IE on certain websites...
It's also nice to have two browsers when you use multiple screens for researching so at least Chrome has some use for us...
Remember, all players have to play nowadays regardless if they suck, because it's not whether you win or lose anymore, it's about participation and participation awards, so Google here is your participation award :-D
THANKS MOM :-P
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