Routers & Other Networking Stuff
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McQueen
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The storm was bad enough, and the strikes close enough, that my neighbor lady ran outside at 3:30 AM to make sure nothing caught fire or exploded. It vibrated the walls of my house to the point that it woke the girlfriend and I up.
It took out the Spectrum modem, router, a/v receiver, and Xbox. All in the same general area of my basement. No burning, melting, or scorching. Didn't even trip the breaker. My OLED and desktop survived unscathed, at least.
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Chanur
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Damn dude. It be shitting kittens if my gear got fucked up.
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Noodleface
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Ubiquiti stuff just works, and it works well. There really isn't much more to ask for.
And if you want to tinker, there are a lot of options. First company that I've dealt with that also has strong software to scale your network as needed.
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McQueen
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I'm still a little paranoid about it. Talked to an electrician bro, inspected and tested all the outlets, replaced everything down to cables, and I still wince every time I turn it all on. So far so good, though.
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Lived in a house that got struck. All kind of odd things. Welded a metal pan that was laying on the edge of the sink. Slab foundation and one of the copper plumbing grounded out and developed a small leak. It struck down trough the roof and onto the meter on an outside wall. It got numerous electronic things in the house. I had to get the electricins out twice to go through everhything. I had a treadmill and when the power came back on shortly later at 2am it was on 100% wide open so I had to unplug that, shorted out. Had to have the meter replaced, luckily the neighbor was ceo of the co op so that went quick, like before noon the next day.
I was still building my office, it jumped from the electrical sysme to the phones and I only had them insalled but not wired to the house, the wire ran down the wall to the bottom plate and I was going to connect it later. It shorted out and left a nasty scar which seemed odd considering how light phone wire is. In the shop I had a light switch near a metal door and it made a 6" scar where it tried to ground out on the door.
I was sitting right at the wall where the meter was on the other side when it struck. Very very loud. Did not kill a computer, did kill a TV, the cable box was gone, and some minor electrical appliances. Could have been much worse. As you would imagine it was very spotty.
I was still building my office, it jumped from the electrical sysme to the phones and I only had them insalled but not wired to the house, the wire ran down the wall to the bottom plate and I was going to connect it later. It shorted out and left a nasty scar which seemed odd considering how light phone wire is. In the shop I had a light switch near a metal door and it made a 6" scar where it tried to ground out on the door.
I was sitting right at the wall where the meter was on the other side when it struck. Very very loud. Did not kill a computer, did kill a TV, the cable box was gone, and some minor electrical appliances. Could have been much worse. As you would imagine it was very spotty.
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Had a direct strike on 7/5/02 remember the day because my back went out the worst it has ever been at noon that day , then the strike. Lightning went to ground trough the wood on my house and blew siding off. Fried all the smokies and a lot of electronics. I used to get near strikes that would take out my wifi, but this friend everything.
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tested the unify travel router a bit on vacay, did delta wifi, i told my wife to turn on wifi and shes like, whys the home network here? worked fine. went to hyatt in maui hotel wifi just on phone, did piracy for shows to watch while on treadmill, hyatt said nyet, i could just use 5g, no big deal but i said, travel router, haha. i liked i had easy access to my home network, really the saving grace is that it's small and creditcard size, if it were any bigger, i wouldn't care for it, but it's practically smaller than my wifes travel iphone/airpod dock.
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