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Like many of us, I've been working from home. Most of the time I use a VPN over my home broadband connection to Remote Desktop to my PC at work, and I just noticed something.
According to the icon in the notification area, my work PC thinks there's no Internet connection  .
No sign of a tall, gray long-hair in a robe with a staff shouting "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!"...
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You don't say what sort of VPN, but our hardware to hardware VPN has a setting to route all internet traffic through the VPN. I think this does the same thing that you see, but not sure. Been a while since I fought that as it severely limits Internet on remote end.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Windows checks Internet connection trying to send your personal information to pinging Microsoft servers. If the route is blocked either by firewall or VPN it registers no Internet connection.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote: Windows checks Internet connection pinging Microsoft servers.
That seems remarkably deceptive and short-sighted.
Oh wait. Never mind.
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Well, the most used ways to check for routing problems in the field is trying to ping either google or facebook, because they have so much redundancy that they are virtually always up. If DNS is the supposed culprit, it's easy to remember to ping 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 (Google DNS server).
Microsoft being Microsoft tries to ping its own servers, which are also used for authetnication, updates (which are becoming "mandatory" for them) and data collection.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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You drop it in water!
If it sinks: Girl ant!
If it floats: .... 
Ba-Tish!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Is that something one really needs to know?
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JaxCoder.com
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Of course - why do you think they call it importANT?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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I'm hiding from exercise...I'm in the fitness protection program.
JaxCoder.com
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Johnny J. wrote: why do you think they call it importANT?
Because they're foreign?
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That won't work in the US because of their Monty-Pythonesque pronunciation of "buoy" (which makes me chuckle every time I hear it -- especially when it issues forth from the mouths of uniformed-up, important-looking naval ship captains).
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Yes, we call them "boo-ees" but items that float are "boy-ant"
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MarkTJohnson wrote: Yes, we call them "boo-ees" but items that float are "boy-ant"
Really?
That's a shame,
"Boo-ee-ant" would amuse me no end.
Can't you talk to someone about it?
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I'll get right on that.
Hey, Murica, this guy wants us to say Boo-ee-ant!
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Cheers, Mate. I'll await the obvious outcome.
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Please wait in the "foy-er"!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Oh buoy, the puns are getting worse.
That one went down like a lead balloon.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: we call them "boo-ees"
Except for when we talk about "buoys and gulls".
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I use bit different technique:
I drop it in water!
If SHE sinks: Female ant
If HE sinks: Male Ant
Amit Joshi
Value of the value is valued only if its value is valued.
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Only the females... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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I'm printing in PETG now (ABS was a PITA) for a specific project: And printing in PETG[^] shows the piccy.
And I have an A2 sheet of clear PETG arriving today, Royal Mail permitting.
It's slow, but it's working, I think - I won't know until I get to try it properly as this is teh first "usable" print - bed adhesion problems mostly.
It's not my design, but it's open for non-commercial use: PrusaPrinters[^] - they will allow you to charge for materials if you do supply them, but no profit.
The setup I'm using is PETG "Translucence Blue" 1.75mm, 220C head, 60C bed, 80mm/s print speed, fan 25%, with a Brim, sliced and USB printed from Ultimaker Cura 4.4.1, using unmodified STL files - POETG is pretty finicky about fans, it might benefit from slightly less, and I'd like to reduce the stringing, but I can live with it if it saves a day of playing and gets prints out. I might reduce the head temperature 5C and see how it goes, but (assuming Anycubic are at all accurate) I'm at the bottom end of the filament manufacturers recommended print temperature as it is.
Takes about three hours per frame, and needs to be watched as the stringy bits can gather into a blob of snot and catch the head as it goes round. (Hence why it's unboxed, I need access to the print to clear blobs quickly.)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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PETG is a breeze to work with and it's a great filament, I use it now almost exclusively.
Only setting I change is z-offset about =.1mm to -.2mm and it sticks just fine.
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How is it on stringy-ness for you? Any suggestion to reduce (or preferably eliminate) it?
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No I've had no problems with stringiness. To me it's just as easy to work with as PLA.
Every machine is different!
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