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RedGifs Not Loading with PLDT Philippines

June 20, 2025 · by Chewie · General · Leave a comment

So, one lonely night I noticed that when using the Narwhal Reddit App with PLDT that any Redgifs content takes an incredibly long time to load. We’re talking 2-3 min minutes to load like a 10mb gif. I did a bunch of testing by routing my iPhone traffic through my Macbook and checking the requests […]

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Do your downloads Pause or Stop/Start?

August 16, 2023 · by Chewie · General · Leave a comment

Are you finding that your downloads behave strange from certain websites? Like, the download is still active but it seems to pause over and over again? Or has a Stop/Start pattern? Try disabling UDP Flood Defence on your routers Firewall! On a Draytek Vigor, this is under Firewall > Defence Setup. You can also just […]

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Apple iMessage “An unknown error has occurred” cannot sign in on MacOS – Solved!

October 27, 2022 · by Chewie · General · Leave a comment

The Problem: For a number of months I have had an issue with being able to sign into the Messages (iMessage) app on MacOS on my Macbook Pro. What happens is that I try and login, but the loading circle will rotate for 2-3 minutes and then “An unknown error has occurred” will be displayed. […]

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TP-Link TL-R480T+ Policy Routing Not Working? Disable Fail over!

September 2, 2017 · by Chewie · General · Leave a comment

If you are using a TP-Link TL-R480T+ load balancing router and have been adding in Policy Routing rules only to find out that they don’t work, then you need to go into the Link Backup page and disable any fail over settings you have. A bit of a weird one, but it is the case […]

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Sky Cable Philippines’ broken internet connection to Hong Kong and Singapore

August 19, 2017 · by Chewie · General · 8 comments

I’ll open with this; chances are if you are reading this from a Sky Cable Philippines Broadband connection then it probably took well over a minute to load the page, that’s if the page even opened at all! The reason for this is that this website is hosted in the UK and to connect from […]

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