Already the first line shows an interesting symptom: System76 made an ARM Linux workstation and then a website makes an URL that goes straight to Windows on ARM. That website is paid from ads you can guess and you need a faster computer to show all that dynamic content, might include 100+ organizations bidding for getting displayed. And of course it links/refers to 1 of the biggest cloud providers (windows=microsoft) where we all store our personal contracts passports whatever, still with the plan to be able to be put on paper (on our own printer though).
So maybe do a test; throttle your internet speed down to 64kbps (downlink) and 64kbps (uplink) for a day or a week or a month or a year or forever. Or down to 0 on a planned daily schedule. I use my own router SW (VM on a RPi4) and there is a managed switch between fiber-to-ethernet box and router, so in its settings I can set/limit ingress and egress. I am in a quite rural area where the telephone cable got to 21kbps (downlink) stored in some database. The other wire pair got a bit higher, but the former state-owned telecom is smart enough to keep that hidden for competition. Anyway I went 'fixed' mobile (4G, 8Mbps on 6km distance line-of-sight and cheaper then voice modem speeds).
Normal mobile contracts have all sorts of throttling after initial data volume, 1 ISP offered 32kpbs free of charge then and I used that for an SBC solar powered in the field. So for testing if that would work longer term (with various caching etc), I set low speeds. That was still with 4G fixed-mobile as ISP, but whole router setup principle was already via my own managed switch.
So maybe do a test; throttle your internet speed down to 64kbps (downlink) and 64kbps (uplink) for a day or a week or a month or a year or forever. Or down to 0 on a planned daily schedule. I use my own router SW (VM on a RPi4) and there is a managed switch between fiber-to-ethernet box and router, so in its settings I can set/limit ingress and egress. I am in a quite rural area where the telephone cable got to 21kbps (downlink) stored in some database. The other wire pair got a bit higher, but the former state-owned telecom is smart enough to keep that hidden for competition. Anyway I went 'fixed' mobile (4G, 8Mbps on 6km distance line-of-sight and cheaper then voice modem speeds).
Normal mobile contracts have all sorts of throttling after initial data volume, 1 ISP offered 32kpbs free of charge then and I used that for an SBC solar powered in the field. So for testing if that would work longer term (with various caching etc), I set low speeds. That was still with 4G fixed-mobile as ISP, but whole router setup principle was already via my own managed switch.
Statistics: Posted by redvli — Sun Aug 03, 2025 8:10 am