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My Overkill Home Network

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Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by ErneX »

jolux wrote: post #3

I just bought a Ubiquiti Dream Machine SE along with a U6 Enterprise a few weeks ago and so far it’s my favorite tech purchase ever. The management interface is years if not decades ahead of everything else I’ve used before. My only complaint is that there’s no public API and thus no official Terraform providers.

I wanted to replace my EdgeRouter Lite with one of these but sadly Unifi hasn’t reached feature parity with their Edge line. The Dream Machines for example do not support multiple VLANs on the WAN port, when many ISPs use that configuration to deliver internet, VoIP and TV.

I also read some bad stories of the Dream Machines unable to restart after a power loss.

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Post by Qwertious »

doublerabbit wrote: post #349
NKosmatos wrote: post #293

Come on, let's admit it fellow HNers... Most of us are jealous/envious of this network setup and would love to have the money and time needed in order to own something similar. Extra points for powering all these from solar panels and also for all the "little" gizmos (ADB, NTP, LoRa, TinyPilot, MQTT and temp/humidity/power monitoring). @monstermunch You're living the dream :-)

I'm more interested in my colocation setup than my home setup. I have 2x1u in two different data centres. Just built one of my new servers (Cisco UCS 220 M5) with 2x 4TB Enterprise NVMe drives, 4x 2TB enterprise SAS SSD drives and 4x 2TB SSD drives, 256GB of ram and 2x Intel Gold 6230 (20cores). I don't even need this, I just want it. Just deciding on if to keep with FreeBSD and bHyve which I love, or go with VMware.…

Owning an IP block is baaically free, with IPv6. Pity that network effects (pun not intended) make that impractical right now.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by quantumfissure »

midasuni wrote: post #330
ryan-c wrote: post #324

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's definitely not all of the difference, but it's gotta be some.

Presumably those areas don’t need heating

Please don't make assumptions on something you don't know anything about.

Even many northern US states (around the same Latitude as Madrid, north), on average, are 30-35+ every day during the summer and 0C to -10C in the winter. Many Canadians have air con.

So yes, heating and air con is a requirement in many areas. I live in a northern state, and we regularly have full weeks that are 38-40C.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by monstermunch »

cyounkins wrote: post #183

Anyone else have experiences with Ruckus APs? I have Unifi right now. edit: RUCKUS R760 - $1800 - Wi-Fi 6E 4x4:4 RUCKUS R560 - $950 - Wi-Fi 6E 2x2:2 RUCKUS R750 - $820 - Wi-Fi 6 4x4:4 RUCKUS R650 - $520 - Wi-Fi 6 4x4:4

Buy used off eBay 100%! Don't pay those prices

Even a few year old AP will work great. My R510 is pretty old, but works flawlessly

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by Qwertious »

maleldil wrote: post #258
drexlspivey wrote: post #256

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "using electricity is bad" meme must be one of the stupidest ones in the last few years

Why? IMO we should all avoid waste, whether that's plastic or energy.

>Why? IMO we should all avoid waste, whether that's plastic or energy.

Allow me to respond with a slight tangent:

Suppose you care about reducing plastic in the ocean. So you try to reduce your usage of plastic straws. You spend a whole lot of time convincing everyone you know to buy bamboo straws or such.

Plastic straws make up less than 0.1% of the plastic in the ocean. Meanwhile, fishing nets make up ~40%. Plastic straws are a hard problem to solve, and solving them accomplishes less than 1/400th of the fishing net problem.

And yet, we hear a lot about plastic straws but nothing about fishing nets. Why?

Because it's the more consumer-facing solution. It's vital that people focus on the solution that solves the problem, rather than wthe one that is most easily pointed to.

Should we do both? In theory, sure. But in practice people have finite time, and you have 30 seconds max before they start tuning you out, so you're better off giving your elevator pitch on fishing nets.

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Post by snoman »

saberience wrote: post #343
NKosmatos wrote: post #293

Come on, let's admit it fellow HNers... Most of us are jealous/envious of this network setup and would love to have the money and time needed in order to own something similar. Extra points for powering all these from solar panels and also for all the "little" gizmos (ADB, NTP, LoRa, TinyPilot, MQTT and temp/humidity/power monitoring). @monstermunch You're living the dream :-)

I'm definitely not jealous, it just looks like an annoying pain in the ass. I have a faster network than the OP and it's cheaper and wireless and I don't have any servers or cable everywhere nor maintenance to do...

You’re running faster than 10Gbps on wireless? How’s that?

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by monstermunch »

bombcar wrote: post #225
monstermunch wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you really need ECC? Most people don't

Many people got scared by the ZFS/ECC howling years ago, and didn't really think it through (because they're running without unverified backups). https://www.klennet.com/notes/2022-11-25-zfs-and-ecc-rant.as... IF you can get ECC cheap, get it, otherwise, meh.

Yeah, I think you and me are on the same page there. It has ECC? Great! It doesn't oh well

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by RulerOf »

femto wrote: post #162

I used to have a home network, until lightning hit nearby. It came up the power connection and the copper phone connection. The modem/router/switch fried, then it spread out though the twisted pair Ethernet and fried every interface connected to the network. These days I use WiFi unless I really need low latency / high reliability in a particular location. Optical would be nice, but WiFi is the poor man's lightning s…

I had an ISA dialup modem that got hit by lightning. Loud boom then my DUN connection hung up.

When it came back, that modem still worked, but it was stuff "off the hook" forever. I had to unplug/replug it every time I wanted to dial out, and the phone line was permanently busy.

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