The tracking status finally changed to “Held, cleared regulatory agency(s) after aircraft/ truck departed.” and then “In transit” a few hours later.
Looks like it’s moving again 
Yep, same thing for me! It’s finally moving again!! But if anyone’s wondering, there’s no scheduled delivery date for the moment, which is not a pressing problem.
Thanks a lot @lessthanjoey @cfcurtis @ngxson . I am very interested in those kind of edge cases. Glade to read that the biggest FW bugs are corrected in this V2.
Don t hesitate to update us on those. I am waiting for my delivery of batch 2 this month 
- Wifi even at 20MB is good enough for videoconferencing. For me troubles really arrive when you are in a spot away from the router with low wifi signal. That s where a good laptop shines and keep up the connexion better than others.
After 16 days, it was delivered today.
It seem to have moved very quickly over night… Last update before I went to bed yesterday was that it had cleared customs a 2nd time,but after aircraft/ truck departed. So I wasn’t expecting it today.
Thanks all
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I understand custom delays but after my package left AK, it’s going in a big circle (AK => IN => TX) around me (WA) in these three days…
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Try contacting support! My fan is a bit loud as well and while I didn’t see any obvious damage, I took a video of it and sent it in and they confirmed that it shouldn’t sound like that. They’re sending a new fan/heatsink unit. I’m so glad I don’t have to send the whole thing back to get that part replaced.
I’d highly suggest improving your wifi coverage in general if you have to do videoconferencing at the limits of 2.4GHz range.
Mine was delivered earlier today! I’m so happy!
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A great way to do this is getting a better router than the stock one from your Internet Service Provider. Although, it can depend on your line-in. I had a lot of trouble finding something good for a DSL connection (Thanks, BT).
I also went down a rabbit hole trying ‘converters’ ('Twas a load of bollocks). Luckily a smaller, but way better & more affordable ISP moved into the area before I genuinely contemplated swapping out my relic of a Master Socket that came with the property!
But if you are lucky to be able to have an ethernet port to access your WAN, you have quality options to choose from.
If you want something future-proofed and with some good benefits (Like OFDMA - Helps with battery life of AX-Compatible devices, like the Framework), then go for something 802.11ax, a personal one that’s not too crazy and offers a brilliant feature set (& range) I recommend to friends and family is the Asus AX68U. CustomPC magazine from the Pi Foundation have also covered routers in some of their past issues if you can dig them up!
Best Regards,
Varg
My DIY 1280p was delivered two hours ago!
I love this laptop! It took me all of 10 minutes to remove the back cover, insert the NVMe disk and RAM modules, and then another 5 minutes to get Pop_OS! installed.
The keyboard feels very nice to type on, the speakers are pretty good for a laptop, and compiling one of my large Rust projects takes only 1 minute and 33 seconds (compared to my desktop that has a Ryzen 5950X, which takes 50 seconds). I’m very impressed.
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huawei hg612, then you can use an ethernet WAN router 
Dlink also do standalone modems.
I’m lucky enough to be blessed to not have to use the DSL line now, had FTTP put in a few months ago and never looked back
Thank you, however, for your suggestions!
Best Regards,
Varg
You are indeed lucky, it’s never going to be available to me. The ridiculous thing where I live is that 1-2 miles in one direction there’s a village with full gigabit fibre, the same distance away in a different direction are houses that barely get 2mbit, and ADSL is actually faster than FTTC.
Might I direct you to the tale of this MadLad? I wonder if the same thing is replicatable over this side of the pond?
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Varg
it’s B4RN down the road, I’ve already been onto them, they aren’t interested. They’ve apparently gone from a community enterprise powered by volunteers to a full commercial operation that want money up front and dont accept volunteer labour anymore. They also told me point blank they have zero interest in supplying the village 800m from where I live.
I did find one local operation that would have provided me with wireless backed gigabit for the right price, which was >£50k, and with only 5 houses populated by mainly older people, that’s not happening.
Starlink looks interesting, but at £600+ up front and £90 a month, plus CGNAT, its not a cheap option.
Same Gotta wait till I get get home later To install the SSD and RAM.
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The laptop has arrived!
I tried installing OpenBSD on it after seeing positive reports from the 11th gen laptop. Unfortunately I ran into many issues:
- Couldn’t change screen brightness
- Wireless card didn’t work even after a firmware update
- I hit the trackpad crash once
- Couldn’t sleep
After that experience, I upgraded to Linux (F36) and things went much smoother. One issue I ran into is I can’t use the function keys to change the screen brightness, the other function keys work however.
Can any of the other Linux users report back if the screen brightness function keys do or don’t work for them?
That did the trick! Thanks.
