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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Y'all inspired me to go on an adventure, and my excuse was preparing for the new house, and we can re-use everything.
My main goal was to get off AT&T's BGW router and go directly into a UDM Pro Max. Got that worked out, ordered an XGS-PON off Amazon, ordered the UDM Pro Max. I checked our house and we qualify for 5 gig service, which meant we were on XG-PON so it should work. Also checked our new house and it shows that is capable. So, again, everything should move.
ChatGPT helped me provision the SFP and spoof the BGW and AT&T came up immediately, no issue at all. The only yellow flag was the SFP was running extremely hot. Picked up a Noctua NF-A4x10 PWM fan off Amazon, it came with a 4-pin to USB cable. Knocked the SFP temp down like 12-15 degrees.
Unfortunately, the BGW won't (wouldn't) act in wireless bridge mode, removing it killed our WiFi completely. Ordered a U7 Mesh and it was 'okay' for a day, decided to go ahead and get a U7 XG Pro and use the U7 as an actual mesh extender downstairs. Now everyone is comfortably at -60 or better signal throughout the house. Also, went ahead and ordered a U5G backup (on T-mobile) with the 60 gig a year data plan. Tested it out and failover is automatic. Not seamless but pretty quick.
Ordered two keystone panels and a bunch of CAT6, blanks, pass throughs. Re-did everything today to try and tidy it up. Need to order some more blanks to fill everything in and may order some couplers just to keep the jumpers consistent. The new PoE switch will use etherlighting.
I have a very small closet here, barely wide enough for the rack posts and only 14.5" deep.
I should have measured before buying the XG Pro 24 PoE... because now it is sitting here in a box until we move
My main goal was to get off AT&T's BGW router and go directly into a UDM Pro Max. Got that worked out, ordered an XGS-PON off Amazon, ordered the UDM Pro Max. I checked our house and we qualify for 5 gig service, which meant we were on XG-PON so it should work. Also checked our new house and it shows that is capable. So, again, everything should move.
ChatGPT helped me provision the SFP and spoof the BGW and AT&T came up immediately, no issue at all. The only yellow flag was the SFP was running extremely hot. Picked up a Noctua NF-A4x10 PWM fan off Amazon, it came with a 4-pin to USB cable. Knocked the SFP temp down like 12-15 degrees.
Unfortunately, the BGW won't (wouldn't) act in wireless bridge mode, removing it killed our WiFi completely. Ordered a U7 Mesh and it was 'okay' for a day, decided to go ahead and get a U7 XG Pro and use the U7 as an actual mesh extender downstairs. Now everyone is comfortably at -60 or better signal throughout the house. Also, went ahead and ordered a U5G backup (on T-mobile) with the 60 gig a year data plan. Tested it out and failover is automatic. Not seamless but pretty quick.
Ordered two keystone panels and a bunch of CAT6, blanks, pass throughs. Re-did everything today to try and tidy it up. Need to order some more blanks to fill everything in and may order some couplers just to keep the jumpers consistent. The new PoE switch will use etherlighting.
I have a very small closet here, barely wide enough for the rack posts and only 14.5" deep.
I should have measured before buying the XG Pro 24 PoE... because now it is sitting here in a box until we move
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Sheriff Cad
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How much benefit are you seeing from using a non-AT&T router? Is it more of a control and customization thing or is network performance noticeably better?Y'all inspired me to go on an adventure, and my excuse was preparing for the new house, and we can re-use everything.
My main goal was to get off AT&T's BGW router and go directly into a UDM Pro Max. Got that worked out, ordered an XGS-PON off Amazon, ordered the UDM Pro Max. I checked our house and we qualify for 5 gig service, which meant we were on XG-PON so it should work. Also checked our new house and it shows that is capable. So, again, everything should move.
ChatGPT helped me provision the SFP and spoof the BGW and AT&T came up immediately, no issue at all. The only yellow flag was the SFP was running extremely hot. Picked up a Noctua NF-A4x10 PWM fan off Amazon, it came with a 4-pin to USB cable. Knocked the SFP temp down like 12-15 degrees.
Unfortunately, the BGW won't (wouldn't) act in wireless bridge mode, removing it killed our WiFi completely. Ordered a U7 Mesh and it was 'okay' for a day, decided to go ahead and get a U7 XG Pro and use the U7 as an actual mesh extender downstairs. Now everyone is comfortably at -60 or better signal throughout the house. Also, went ahead and ordered a U5G backup (on T-mobile) with the 60 gig a year data plan. Tested it out and failover is automatic. Not seamless but pretty quick.
Ordered two keystone panels and a bunch of CAT6, blanks, pass throughs. Re-did everything today to try and tidy it up. Need to order some more blanks to fill everything in and may order some couplers just to keep the jumpers consistent. The new PoE switch will use etherlighting.
I have a very small closet here, barely wide enough for the rack posts and only 14.5" deep.
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I should have measured before buying the XG Pro 24 PoE... because now it is sitting here in a box until we move
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