Technology spring cleaning (Patreon)

Seeing as backups are important I needed to make backups of my backups... and, well, terabytes of art data dating back to the 1990s takes a while to transfer. My old USB hub simply was not up to the task unless I wanted to wait forever. So I got a new actually fast actual USB3 hub for USB3 stuff, which can actually handle fast USB3 speeds. What a concept! And the scales fell from my eyes as file transfers that would take 24 hours now took a matter of minutes. Why had I not figured this out sooner???

Next was the wifi. The crappy wifi built into my ISP's modem can't handle file transfers either, and broadcasting a stream through it while streaming my music from my laptop to my art machine is more than it can handle. So I upgraded my wifi as well to a new gigabit router. The funny thing is that I have 29mb service and I was only getting 18 through the ISP's wifi, and now with the new router I get the full 29. Why would you even issue equipment that cannot handle the service you are selling??? Anyways, the scales fell from my eyes as file transfers that took too long to even calculate now took a matter of minutes. Why had I not figured this out sooner too???

Oh, and then the gaming keypad that I had been using before which I shelved because it was suffering from stuck keys? That all went away with the new USB hub, seems the old one couldn't send and receive its signals fast enough. So I can use it again much to the relief of my screaming left-hand carpal tunnel problem.

So the art streams should be much more stable from here on in, I hope. And the backups are done. And all is good and happy in my office. Only now I have run out of files to push through the fast goodies :) Must make more art...