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Very high ping when playing games on WiFi with CachyOS 7.1.8

I installed battle.net / World of Warcraft today and have been playing for a few hours. At first it was fine, with the in-game latency showing ~20-30ms when on WiFI.

However, about a hour in I noticed it had jumped up to 1-2 seconds.

I restarted the game, but same problem. Doing a full laptop restart seemed to fix it, but only for a hour or so ago - the problem came back.

I did a ping test from shell:

ping 8.8.8.8

PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=112 time=95.1 ms

64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=112 time=186 ms

64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=112 time=53.6 ms

64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=112 time=54.4 ms

64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=5 ttl=112 time=134 ms

I tried this same ping test on my Debain 13 desktop PC and got ~9-10ms. I also tested my ping on my cellphone connected to wifi, ~20ms there.

I've had CachyOS for a few days now. Prior I had Windows 11, and never had any WiFi issues with Windows. So I don't think it's a problem with the laptop either; it seems specific to CachyOS or at least this latest kernel release.

I did go in and disable the power saving for the wifi.

wifi.powersave = 2

in /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/default-wifi-powersave-on.conf

but this doesn't seem to help.

After having WoW off for about 20 minutes now, the ping test on the laptop seems to return to normal.. getting ~10m now. So it does recover eventually, but this has been frustrating. I've been debating switching back to Windows and/or another distro entirely, but I'd rather not since I've been enjoying CachyOS otherwise.. but not sure what else to do at this point.

Hardware:

ASUS ROG Zephyrus G15

AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS

04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak] (rev 10)

Router:

ASUS RT-BE88U

EDIT: I'm looking at dmesg and see some interesting data

I'm seeing what appears to be some kind of PCI bus error/

[17753.866326] pcieport 0000:00:01.1: AER: Correctable error message received from 0000:01:00.0

[17753.866341] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Correctable, type=Data Link Layer, (Receiver ID)

[17753.866346] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: device [10de:2520] error status/mask=00000040/0000a000

[17753.866350] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: [ 6] BadTLP

as well as constant "UFW BLOCK" spam, what appears to be some kind of UFW multicast/mDNS flooding.

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u/jorjbrinaj — 4 days ago
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Recovering data from 5TB external HDD

I have a 5TB Elements external HDD that I was using with my Windows PC. I recently switched over to Linux and wanted to store my Linux Timeshift backups on the HDD, but Timeshift said it required ext4 partition (I had ntfs originally).

I used the Disk Management utility in Linux to create a 2nd ext4 partition with 300GB. That seemed to work. However, after writing my first Timeshift log, I noticed there was nothing there after it said it finished. After that I then noticed my mount to the original ntfs partition was gone as well.

I still see both partitions in lsblk, but they cannot be mounted. I tried plugging into my Windows PC, but all that does it cause Explorer to permanently hang until I unplug it.

I tried a few things on Linux side:

I installed testdisk and gave that a run. I had it scan just the original ntfs partition. When I entered the LIST command, it appeared to hang. If I unplug the drive after that, the list command finishes and it then displays the files it found.

I then tried running ddrescue: sudo ddrescue -d -r0 -n -b 4096 -c 256 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/nfs_backup_share/elements_rescue.img /mnt/nfs_backup_share/elements_rescue.map

I don't have a drive big enough to store a backup locally, so I'm trying to write it out over to my NAS.

However, it's going at ~109 kB/s, so at the current rate it's going to take about 250 days.

ddrescue output shows a single bad sector.

Do I have any hope here or do I just need to try a professional service like Ontrack?

Current status
ipos:  498073 kB, non-trimmed:    1048 kB,   current rate:    419 kB/s
opos:  498073 kB, non-scraped:        0 B,   average rate:    225 kB/s
non-tried:    4678 GB,  bad-sector:        0 B,     error rate:       0 B/s
 rescued:  450232 kB,   bad areas:          0,       run time:     30m  5s
pct rescued:    0.00%, read errors:          1, remaining time:    192d  1h
time since last successful read:          0s

dmesg shows the following:

Mon Aug 10 22:50:58 2026] usb 1-10: USB disconnect, device number 5
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:03 2026] usb 2-7: new SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:03 2026] usb 2-7: New USB device found, idVendor=1058, idProduct=2620, bcdDevice=10.20
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:03 2026] usb 2-7: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:03 2026] usb 2-7: Product: Elements 2620
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:03 2026] usb 2-7: Manufacturer: Western Digital
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:03 2026] usb 2-7: SerialNumber: 575858324541304541504143
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:03 2026] usb-storage 2-7:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:03 2026] scsi host6: usb-storage 2-7:1.0
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:04 2026] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     WD       Elements 2620    1020 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:04 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:04 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Spinning up disk...
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:05 2026] .........ready
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:19 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:31 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 9767475200 512-byte logical blocks: (5.00 TB/4.55 TiB)
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:31 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 4096-byte physical blocks
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:31 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:31 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 47 00 10 08
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:31 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:31 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[Mon Aug 10 22:52:01 2026]  sdb: sdb1 sdb2
[Mon Aug 10 22:52:01 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
^[[A[Mon Aug 10 23:00:03 2026] usb 2-7: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 23:00:33 2026] usb 2-7: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 23:01:10 2026] usb 2-7: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 23:01:47 2026] usb 2-7: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd

[Mon Aug 10 23:00:33 2026] usb 2-7: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 23:01:10 2026] usb 2-7: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 23:01:47 2026] usb 2-7: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 23:02:24 2026] usb 2-7: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 23:03:01 2026] usb 2-7: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 23:03:07 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_ABORT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK cmd_age=216s
[Mon Aug 10 23:03:07 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 CDB: Read(16) 88 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 90 00 00 00 08 00 00 00
[Mon Aug 10 23:03:07 2026] I/O error, dev sdb, sector 167936 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x800 phys_seg 207 prio class 2
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u/jorjbrinaj — 10 days ago
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Recovering data from WD 5TB Elements external HDD with ddrescue or testdisk

I have a 5TB Elements external HDD that I was using with my Windows PC. I recently switched over to Linux and wanted to store my Linux Timeshift backups on the HDD, but Timeshift said it required ext4 partition (I had ntfs originally).

I used the Disk Management utility in Linux to create a 2nd ext4 partition with 300GB. That seemed to work. However, after writing my first Timeshift log, I noticed there was nothing there after it said it finished. After that I then noticed my mount to the original ntfs partition was gone as well.

I still see both partitions in lsblk, but they cannot be mounted. I tried plugging into my Windows PC, but all that does it cause Explorer to permanently hang until I unplug it.

I tried a few things on Linux side:

I installed testdisk and gave that a run. I had it scan just the original ntfs partition. When I entered the LIST command, it appeared to hang. If I unplug the drive after that, the list command finishes and it then displays the files it found.

I then tried running ddrescue: sudo ddrescue -d -r0 -n -b 4096 -c 256 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/nfs_backup_share/elements_rescue.img /mnt/nfs_backup_share/elements_rescue.map

I don't have a drive big enough to store a backup locally, so I'm trying to write it out over to my NAS.

However, it's going at ~109 kB/s, so at the current rate it's going to take about 250 days.

ddrescue output shows no bad sectors or reads:

current status
    ipos:   84934 kB, non-trimmed:        0 B,   current rate:    116 kB/s
    opos:   84934 kB, non-scraped:        0 B,   average rate:    109 kB/s
    non-tried:    4678 GB,  bad-sector:        0 B,     error rate:       0 B/s
    rescued:   84934 kB,   bad areas:          0,       run time:      6m 27s
    pct rescued:    0.00%, read errors:          0, remaining time:    255d 12h
    time since last successful read:          0s

dmeg shows the following:
Mon Aug 10 22:50:58 2026] usb 1-10: USB disconnect, device number 5
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:03 2026] usb 2-7: new SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:03 2026] usb 2-7: New USB device found, idVendor=1058, idProduct=2620, bcdDevice=10.20
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:03 2026] usb 2-7: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:03 2026] usb 2-7: Product: Elements 2620
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:03 2026] usb 2-7: Manufacturer: Western Digital
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:03 2026] usb 2-7: SerialNumber: 575858324541304541504143
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:03 2026] usb-storage 2-7:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:03 2026] scsi host6: usb-storage 2-7:1.0
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:04 2026] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     WD       Elements 2620    1020 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:04 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:04 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Spinning up disk...
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:05 2026] .........ready
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:19 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:31 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 9767475200 512-byte logical blocks: (5.00 TB/4.55 TiB)
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:31 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 4096-byte physical blocks
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:31 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:31 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 47 00 10 08
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:31 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
[Mon Aug 10 22:51:31 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[Mon Aug 10 22:52:01 2026]  sdb: sdb1 sdb2
[Mon Aug 10 22:52:01 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
^[[A[Mon Aug 10 23:00:03 2026] usb 2-7: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 23:00:33 2026] usb 2-7: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 23:01:10 2026] usb 2-7: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 23:01:47 2026] usb 2-7: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd

So my questions:
Why the hell did creating this partition and running Timeshift cause this issue?

Do I have any way to actually recover this data? teskdisk can see the files, as evident by the list after unplugging it. ddrescue is trying but going very slow. I'm not seeing any other errors or bad sectors, so I don't even know why this is happening.

EDIT: After letting it run a while, it did detect an error..

[Mon Aug 10 23:00:33 2026] usb 2-7: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 23:01:10 2026] usb 2-7: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 23:01:47 2026] usb 2-7: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 23:02:24 2026] usb 2-7: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 23:03:01 2026] usb 2-7: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Aug 10 23:03:07 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_ABORT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK cmd_age=216s
[Mon Aug 10 23:03:07 2026] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 CDB: Read(16) 88 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 90 00 00 00 08 00 00 00
[Mon Aug 10 23:03:07 2026] I/O error, dev sdb, sector 167936 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x800 phys_seg 207 prio class 2
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u/jorjbrinaj — 10 days ago
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Keyboard/mouse work in live boot but not after install

I started switching my systems over to Linux. I went with Debian on my desktop, but I was curious to try CachyOS on my ASUS ROG Zephyrus G15.

Everything seemed to work great in the live boot environment, so I installed it, using Limine and Plasma options.

However, after booting into the login screen, neither keyboard, track pad or a USB mouse work.

It does detect CTRL+ALT+F3 so I can get to a terminal, but in the desktop environment it is completely unresponsive.

I've been trying various things from reading users with similar issues (eg modifying mkinitcpio) but nothings working.

The keyboard RGB is all lit up, it does respond to the TTY switch, but I cant figure out what's wrong with it on the desktop login.

Any suggestions before I give up and try another distro?

Edit: if i run dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland From inside the terminal session

It starts a desktop and keyboard and mouse work.

What's wrong with the initial login then?

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u/jorjbrinaj — 13 days ago
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New 2026 Toyota BZ XLE vs used 2023 Ioniq 5 Limited

Looking for help choosing between a new Toyota BZ XLE vs a used 2023 Ioniq 5 Limited trim. They're both AWD.

For the BZ, they're giving me $600 off, $4,500 New York State rebate, and they're giving me $2,800 for trade-in for my 2006 Honda Accord. With $2000 down, the total finance amount is $35,924 and special financing offer of 0% down for 72 months for a payment of $500 per month.

I could also lease for three years. They're giving me $600 off, a $7000 NY state rebate. With $2800 trade in and $2000 down, the total lease amount is $33,311. For $36 months, the payment is $404 per month.

Finally is a used 2023 Hyundai Ioniq 5 Limited trim with AWD. It is $32,999 with 15,000 miles. It is not certified. They're valuing my Accord trade in at $500. With $2000 down, they're offering me 4.99% financing for 60 months for a monthly payment of 632 per month. 

I live in upstate New York with long winters. I own the house, but don't have a garage. My work commute is 30 miles round trip, and my municipal electricity is very cheap (I don't think I'll need a level 2 charger with my commute).

I test drove the BZ but haven't had a chance to test drive the Ioniq, there's none near me - the used is a hour drive away.

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u/jorjbrinaj — 2 months ago