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PB4/MBP 13"

Martyimac

Martyimac

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Installed PB4 last night on my 2015 rMBP. No issues so far, installed Office 2011 plus all the updates and works perfectly, well at least Word does, the others I don't care about. I then proceeded to print an envelope that Word 2016 can't properly print and it printed perfectly. Firefox and Thunderbird working as expected.
Maybe tonight I will check out other aspects but I am not a power user, just a retired guy with basic needs.
One glitch, the VPN PIA v80 does not work. Have submitted a bug report to . PIA wont care since Mojave is still beta.
 
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Martyimac said:
Installed PB5 last night on my 2015 rMBP. No issues so far, installed Office 2011 plus all the updates and works perfectly, well at least Word does, the others I don't care about. I then proceeded to print an envelope that Word 2016 can't properly print and it printed perfectly. Firefox and Thunderbird working as expected.
Maybe tonight I will check out other aspects but I am not a power user, just a retired guy with basic needs.
One glitch, the VPN PIA v80 does not work. Have submitted a bug report to . PIA wont care since Mojave is still beta.
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May want to check to see if Siri works as well. My VPN software (ProtonVPN) really jacked up Siri in the last two betas. Once I uninstalled it, removed all traces and entries, she could connect again and works now.
 
Martyimac

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fisherking said:
click on the gear icon at the top right of your first post, and you can edit the title (just making me look like a crazy person...!)
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THANKS! Didn't know we could do that. Over 10K posts in various forums and it's the first I have hear of this. Probably the program MR is using, not all of them allow it.
 
Martyimac

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fisherking said:
btw, PIA v81 is out there, and works fine here in PB4 (and previously)...
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Interestingly enough, PIA v81 works at about 1/3 speed here. Don't know why but there are a number of complaints about it. PIA says v82 will fix the issue. It's why I went back to v80. I'll try v81 on the Mojave puter and see what happens.
 
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Martyimac said:
Interestingly enough, PIA v81 works at about 1/3 speed here. Don't know why but there are a number of complaints about it. PIA says v82 will fix the issue. It's why I went back to v80. I'll try v81 on the Mojave puter and see what happens.
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v81 is working fine here (or it was last night....).
 
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fisherking said:
a download last night seemed fine; not sure what my internet speed has to do with PIA, but will try a file tomorrow, and see how that goes...
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All I can tell you is that when running v81, my download speeds went from a 100Mbps to 30, on two different puters. Shifting back to v80 restored my download speeds to normal.

Update: tested v80 on Mojave - 112.17 Mbps download speed, installed v81 - 32.24 Mbps download speed.
 
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Martyimac said:
All I can tell you is that when running v81, my download speeds went from a 100Mbps to 30, on two different puters. Shifting back to v80 restored my download speeds to normal.

Update: tested v80 on Mojave - 112.17 Mbps download speed, installed v81 - 32.24 Mbps download speed.
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will test that out; did not watch the previous DL (and it was not a large file)... will report back!

EDIT: unscientific, not extensive testing, but v80 seems to be running faster than v81. thanx for that info!

EDIT2: or not. a 20-minute estimated DL now shows 3 days. too many variables (file size, seeds, internet traffic) for me to make an absolute assessment (so i may just go back to v81, and wait for 82)....
 
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Martyimac

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On PB5 now, PIA v80 still not working. With v81 being so slow, not sure it's worth installing v81. Will just run without the VPN for now.

Update: PIA v82 Beta works in Mojave PB5
 
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