Music challenge: ionnalee; REMEMBER THE FUTURE

This is, as usual from this great multi talented Swedish artist, pleasing for both the ears and the eyes.

Background
I was asked while ago by a friend to give some music tips. Problem was that I was not allowed to use Spotify or any other paid streaming service. So I picked some videos from YouTube and decided to post them here one video a day in no special order and without any written motivation (sometimes there is some short notes though). Enjoy if you want.

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Music challenge: Pet Shop Boys – It’s A Sin (Official Video) [HD REMASTERED]

Best pop song to come out in 1987? Probably. When PSB hits the right note they do make the best pop music ever. And have been doing so for almost 40 years now.

Background
I was asked while ago by a friend to give some music tips. Problem was that I was not allowed to use Spotify or any other paid streaming service. So I picked some videos from YouTube and decided to post them here one video a day in no special order and without any written motivation (sometimes there is some short notes though). Enjoy if you want.

Find them all here: 100videos

Music challenge: Train To Spain – Keep On Running (Official Video)

More electronic pop from Sweden with a running man video 🙂

Background
I was asked while ago by a friend to give some music tips. Problem was that I was not allowed to use Spotify or any other paid streaming service. So I picked some videos from YouTube and decided to post them here one video a day in no special order and without any written motivation (sometimes there is some short notes though). Enjoy if you want.

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Music challenge: Rammstein – Haifisch (Official Video)

They guys in Rammstein must have so much fun making videos like this. Till is dead and they are trying to pick his replacement at the funeral. So much entertainment.

Background
I was asked while ago by a friend to give some music tips. Problem was that I was not allowed to use Spotify or any other paid streaming service. So I picked some videos from YouTube and decided to post them here one video a day in no special order and without any written motivation (sometimes there is some short notes though). Enjoy if you want.

Find them all here: 100videos

Music challenge: Electric Six – Danger! High Voltage

This is party music! Electric Six seems to be just so fun and I hope I’ll see them live sometime.

Background
I was asked while ago by a friend to give some music tips. Problem was that I was not allowed to use Spotify or any other paid streaming service. So I picked some videos from YouTube and decided to post them here one video a day in no special order and without any written motivation (sometimes there is some short notes though). Enjoy if you want.

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Music challenge: Röyksopp – What Else Is There ?

There is a a lot of great music coming from Noway and Röyksopp has released some pearls in their “early” days like this one where they teamed up with Karin from The Knife. Dreamy and weird! As it should be.

Background
I was asked while ago by a friend to give some music tips. Problem was that I was not allowed to use Spotify or any other paid streaming service. So I picked some videos from YouTube and decided to post them here one video a day in no special order and without any written motivation (sometimes there is some short notes though). Enjoy if you want.

Find them all here: 100videos

Music challenge: CHROM – Loneliness

Some nice future pop from Germany. Great an easy listening and often a part of my dj-sets at the local pub and in my headphones while on public transport.

Background
I was asked while ago by a friend to give some music tips. Problem was that I was not allowed to use Spotify or any other paid streaming service. So I picked some videos from YouTube and decided to post them here one video a day in no special order and without any written motivation (sometimes there is some short notes though). Enjoy if you want.

Find them all here: 100videos

Music challenge: NOT MY GOD – “FICTION” (Official Music Video)

Great music from Tim Skold’s project Not My God found casually browsing Facebook or something.

Background
I was asked while ago by a friend to give some music tips. Problem was that I was not allowed to use Spotify or any other paid streaming service. So I picked some videos from YouTube and decided to post them here one video a day in no special order and without any written motivation (sometimes there is some short notes though). Enjoy if you want.

Find them all here: 100videos

Music challenge: Front 242 – Quite Unusual (Live) Gothenburg 1987 [11/14]

Around this time I discovered what is called electronic body music but was too young to attend this live performance. Front 242 has ever since been favourites of mine and they have made some of the best songs ever. Like this one.

Background
I was asked while ago by a friend to give some music tips. Problem was that I was not allowed to use Spotify or any other paid streaming service. So I picked some videos from YouTube and decided to post them here one video a day in no special order and without any written motivation (sometimes there is some short notes though). Enjoy if you want.

Find them all here: 100videos

Don’t use your Ubiquiti USG for speed tests

No, you can not trust the built-in speed test in the Ubiquiti Unifi Security Gateway or the controller. Here are some rather simple test that I made.

First of all, my internet connectivity is probably above average. I have two ISPs where the primary is a 1000/1000 connection (WAN1 on the USG) and the secondary is a 250/50 connection (WAN2 on the USG).

Everything in my network is connected by cable. Incoming internet is delivered to me with either standard gigabit ethernet cable (cat-6) or via a coax connected cable modem. All computers and devices at home are connected by cable too except mobile phones and tablets. These tests except the controller test is made using my iMac connected like:

iMac -> Unifi Flex Mini -> Unifi US-8 -> Unifi Security Gateway -> Internet

This is the built in speed test in my Unifi Controller (version 6.0.45.0) running on a Raspberry Pi 3B:

So yes, just under 200/200 isn’t that impressive on a supposed 1000/1000 connection. But I know I have downloaded files much, much faster than that. Something is not quite right here. Let try a test from my computer. As I’m Swedish there is a local initiative called Bredbandskollen (http://www.bredbandskollen.se/) which is the go-to test that most ISPs recommend here. Lets see what I get there:

Wow, 900Mbps and less than a millisecond in latency! That’s more like it. And this also proves that the USG very well can handle speeds up to gigabit without much problems (provided the correct settings, I have “Protection Mode” set to “Disabled” as afaik it doesn’t do much anyway other than provide a false sense of security).

But one test is no test (well, now we have two tests that shows different results) so I did a few more. Note that these tests were done while my home network was resonable un-quiet with many browser tabs open, Spotify playing music etc.

FAST (http://fast.com) is the one that is recommended by Netflix I think. Gives very similar results to Bredbandskollen.

And this is SpeedTest by Ookla (http://speedtest.net) which gives even slightly higher speeds.

Conclusion: Don’t ever trust the built-in speed test that the USG and/or controller provides (unless you have a sub-100 Mbps connection I guess). Always (and I can not stress this enough) do the tests with a wired connection. Going wireless introduces so many variables that is hard to control. Always do at least two (three) tests using different services. These tests are of course only showing the speed I get at one point in time and if I suspected variance I would have to do more tests of a longer time period.

Bonus information for me: I really get the promised 1000/1000 speeds that my primary ISP is selling me.