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▲ 3 r/stihl

Super bummed out about poor build quality of Stihl blower (BR 350)

I'm a huge fan of Stihl products and I've owned 5 or 6 in my lifetime but I'm super bummed out about my most recent purchase of a Stihl leaf blower. The model is the BR350 and as the images show the engine pan simply snapped in half. To add to my misery when I removed the spark plug cable, the ignition coil wire also snapped in half. I've treated this machine with complete care and have never abused it. I'm a residential user who's always stored his machine inside. If I were to guess, it would have under 30 hours of use total.

Both parts are available but when I factor in the cost of the parts and the labor that would be required to repair it, the machine becomes disposable. Super frustrating because this is simply a manufacturing defect.

u/OutdoorRink — 3 days ago
▲ 0 r/RTINGS

New rule - no more requests for unlocked content.

Hi all!

As many of you know now, I try to be as hands-off with regards to the moderation as possible but recently there has been a huge uptick in requests for unlocked content and it's becoming overwhelming. Some of you are disappointed that rtings changed their monetization policy and that's fair but this community cannot become the place where you're looking for free handouts. They've been more than generous to unlock posts for us but from this point forward we will not be allowing custom requests.

This is a decision made by the moderation team and not by rtings so please do not be mad at them.

Huge thanks!

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u/OutdoorRink — 4 days ago
▲ 3 r/ModSupport

My subreddit (r/RTINGS) has brand affiliate written next to it. I'm not sure when this change happened but I am in no way affiliated with the company. I feel like this is misleading to the users. The description clearly states that we are not affiliated with the company directly, although we do have a good working relationship with some of their employees.

Is this a setting that I did by accident or is this something that was applied by Reddit.

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u/OutdoorRink — 22 days ago
▲ 442 r/ComputerHardware+5 crossposts

We've launched our new Wi-Fi Router Test Bench, focusing on "gaming" routers and measuring wireless latency.

Which router is best for gaming is a frequent question. And people are pretty quick to answer that there's no such thing as a gaming router, rightfully so.

But since the question is still frequently asked, we decided to add the measure of wireless ping and jitter to our router test bench so anyone can now see for themselves the added latency tax of gaming on Wi-Fi. We're hoping this data can help users shopping for a "gaming router" find better information.

While nothing can beat a wired connection in terms of latency, there's a few things you can consider if you are forced to game on Wi-Fi: 

\- Wi-Fi 7 does bring little improvements over older generations with improved OFDMA and MU-MIMO.

\- Mesh systems can add a lot of lag spikes to connections, mostly depending on how their backhaul is managed (the connection back to the node connected to the WAN). There are better products then other for gaming when it comes to mesh system.

\- Gaming features can have an impact, but there are other means to improve your gaming exprience than to rely on those features. Getting a low latency router off the bat is better than getting a router with "gaming features".

For more details on our test development, check this article: Wi-Fi Latency: Not All Routers Are Equal, And No, Gaming Routers Aren't Better - RTINGS.com

Feel free to share this post whenever a user asks for a gaming router!

u/OutdoorRink — 23 days ago