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Brian Blankenship

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  1. Agree
    Brian Blankenship got a reaction from Falcon1986 in Help with CAT6 and connecters   
    Mind the Wire gauge. CAT6 23 AWG might not fit in a CAT5/5e terminator.
  2. Agree
    Brian Blankenship got a reaction from Lurick in How can this site fake the location of its IP?   
    There is nothing that says you have to have an accurate listing for your IPs location. There are still wide swaths of the net registered as a small farm in Nebraska (its the dead center of the United States).
  3. Agree
    Brian Blankenship got a reaction from Lurick in Help with CAT6 and connecters   
    Mind the Wire gauge. CAT6 23 AWG might not fit in a CAT5/5e terminator.
  4. Agree
    Brian Blankenship reacted to lexidobe in How many volts can a modem handle?   
    Thank you. Like I said the modem's power supply is rated at 12 volts, but it actually produces around 12.4 volts. I was messing with a battery charger in a dark room and I accidentally gave it nearly 15 volts and it still works fine, so I feel a bit better about running it in the low 13 volt range now. Currently the system is running at 13.7 volts, but I am going to make adjustments to my charging system to get the voltage down to somewhere around 13.2 volts to keep my backup battery alive for as long as possible.
  5. Informative
    Brian Blankenship got a reaction from lexidobe in How many volts can a modem handle?   
    On the back of the modem or on the power supply, it will have a DC Volts call out. That's what you'll want to aim for and exceeding it too much will let the magic smoke out. Sometimes that call out will have a variance such as "+-5%", but if it's intended to be wall powered then I doubt that will be noted. Without knowing the variance though, you are going to need to experiment. You could, if you had another modem of the same type pump up the voltage and let it blow. Then back your voltage down to a safer level for production.
  6. Like
    Brian Blankenship got a reaction from JacobBathead in Mesh vs APs (UniFi vs. Orbi) in a home setup   
    Unifi. The APs are affordable enough to have one in every room if you wanted to.
  7. Informative
    Brian Blankenship got a reaction from MrBillieBob in Need Wifi Advice   
    Welcome!
    So getting a new (better) router won't help if you just have too many devices in your area trying to talk.
    One other thing is how does the extender do it's back haul communication? Is it on Ethernet? Another WiFi Channel? Is it 2GHz or 5GHz?
    If you get wifi analyzer for your phone or tablet (there are some in the windows store to.), are there a lot of other routers trying to talk? Are they overlapping? I'm a UniFi guy my self like @seanondemand so I to have something of a skewed view of wifi, since I just have an AP on Ethernet where ever I need one.


  8. Agree
    Brian Blankenship got a reaction from scottyseng in What is the Best Router I Can Get   
    One of these: https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-routing-switching/products/udm-pro
    With a sprinkling of these: https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-access-points
    You asked for the best, I opted to not go as far as Cisco for price though.
  9. Agree
    Brian Blankenship got a reaction from Ginger_ in Best Router for Dorm?   
    Most IT groups in Schools will hunt down rouge routers with extreme prejudice. They can't afford to have them getting infected or something or allowing unauthorized machines accessing their network.
  10. Agree
    Brian Blankenship reacted to NelizMastr in Hosting from behind NAT   
    Yep, it's impossible to do from behind a NAT router and without access to port forwarding. Host it from a VPS.
  11. Agree
    Brian Blankenship reacted to Electronics Wizardy in Hosting from behind NAT   
    Run everything though a vpn to a vps and host form that.
  12. Like
    Brian Blankenship reacted to Daftlander in Welp. Nearly blinded my self with a tantalum capacitor.   
    I've learned an important lesson. Always check your polarity kids! 
     
    Or don't use cheap capacitors. Maybe even both. 
  13. Like
    Brian Blankenship reacted to spwath in This LAN is your LAN, this LAN is my LAN   
    Hey, Rochester NY, that's where I am from.
    Not there now though, college in CT.
  14. Funny
    Brian Blankenship got a reaction from Phantonex in This LAN is your LAN, this LAN is my LAN   
    This LAN is your LAN, this LAN is my LAN
    From Cupertino to e-Trade in New York City
    From the Redmond Washington to the Silicon Valley
    This LAN was made for you and me.
     
    As I went surfing the tubes of info-highway
    I saw above me that endless cloud storage
    I saw below me those patch cables
    This LAN was made for you and me.
     
    I clicked and I stumbled upon and I followed my likes
    To the flowing electrons of her bountiful webpages
    While all around me the stream of Pandora was sounding
    This LAN was made for you and me.
     
    The VPN came warning, while I was cruising
    The Ebay auctions and the craigslist ads
    An ad was popping, As the page was loading,
    This LAN was made for you and me.
     
    This LAN is your LAN, this LAN is my LAN
    From Cupertino to e-Trade in New York City
    From the Redmond Washington to the Silicon Valley
    This LAN was made for you and me.
  15. Informative
    Brian Blankenship got a reaction from Lurick in This LAN is your LAN, this LAN is my LAN   
    This LAN is your LAN, this LAN is my LAN
    From Cupertino to e-Trade in New York City
    From the Redmond Washington to the Silicon Valley
    This LAN was made for you and me.
     
    As I went surfing the tubes of info-highway
    I saw above me that endless cloud storage
    I saw below me those patch cables
    This LAN was made for you and me.
     
    I clicked and I stumbled upon and I followed my likes
    To the flowing electrons of her bountiful webpages
    While all around me the stream of Pandora was sounding
    This LAN was made for you and me.
     
    The VPN came warning, while I was cruising
    The Ebay auctions and the craigslist ads
    An ad was popping, As the page was loading,
    This LAN was made for you and me.
     
    This LAN is your LAN, this LAN is my LAN
    From Cupertino to e-Trade in New York City
    From the Redmond Washington to the Silicon Valley
    This LAN was made for you and me.
  16. Like
    Brian Blankenship got a reaction from Jtalk4456 in This LAN is your LAN, this LAN is my LAN   
    This LAN is your LAN, this LAN is my LAN
    From Cupertino to e-Trade in New York City
    From the Redmond Washington to the Silicon Valley
    This LAN was made for you and me.
     
    As I went surfing the tubes of info-highway
    I saw above me that endless cloud storage
    I saw below me those patch cables
    This LAN was made for you and me.
     
    I clicked and I stumbled upon and I followed my likes
    To the flowing electrons of her bountiful webpages
    While all around me the stream of Pandora was sounding
    This LAN was made for you and me.
     
    The VPN came warning, while I was cruising
    The Ebay auctions and the craigslist ads
    An ad was popping, As the page was loading,
    This LAN was made for you and me.
     
    This LAN is your LAN, this LAN is my LAN
    From Cupertino to e-Trade in New York City
    From the Redmond Washington to the Silicon Valley
    This LAN was made for you and me.
  17. Like
    Brian Blankenship got a reaction from kennethnakasone in This LAN is your LAN, this LAN is my LAN   
    This LAN is your LAN, this LAN is my LAN
    From Cupertino to e-Trade in New York City
    From the Redmond Washington to the Silicon Valley
    This LAN was made for you and me.
     
    As I went surfing the tubes of info-highway
    I saw above me that endless cloud storage
    I saw below me those patch cables
    This LAN was made for you and me.
     
    I clicked and I stumbled upon and I followed my likes
    To the flowing electrons of her bountiful webpages
    While all around me the stream of Pandora was sounding
    This LAN was made for you and me.
     
    The VPN came warning, while I was cruising
    The Ebay auctions and the craigslist ads
    An ad was popping, As the page was loading,
    This LAN was made for you and me.
     
    This LAN is your LAN, this LAN is my LAN
    From Cupertino to e-Trade in New York City
    From the Redmond Washington to the Silicon Valley
    This LAN was made for you and me.
  18. Like
    Brian Blankenship got a reaction from Silentprototipe in This LAN is your LAN, this LAN is my LAN   
    This LAN is your LAN, this LAN is my LAN
    From Cupertino to e-Trade in New York City
    From the Redmond Washington to the Silicon Valley
    This LAN was made for you and me.
     
    As I went surfing the tubes of info-highway
    I saw above me that endless cloud storage
    I saw below me those patch cables
    This LAN was made for you and me.
     
    I clicked and I stumbled upon and I followed my likes
    To the flowing electrons of her bountiful webpages
    While all around me the stream of Pandora was sounding
    This LAN was made for you and me.
     
    The VPN came warning, while I was cruising
    The Ebay auctions and the craigslist ads
    An ad was popping, As the page was loading,
    This LAN was made for you and me.
     
    This LAN is your LAN, this LAN is my LAN
    From Cupertino to e-Trade in New York City
    From the Redmond Washington to the Silicon Valley
    This LAN was made for you and me.
  19. Funny
    Brian Blankenship got a reaction from gamerking in This LAN is your LAN, this LAN is my LAN   
    This LAN is your LAN, this LAN is my LAN
    From Cupertino to e-Trade in New York City
    From the Redmond Washington to the Silicon Valley
    This LAN was made for you and me.
     
    As I went surfing the tubes of info-highway
    I saw above me that endless cloud storage
    I saw below me those patch cables
    This LAN was made for you and me.
     
    I clicked and I stumbled upon and I followed my likes
    To the flowing electrons of her bountiful webpages
    While all around me the stream of Pandora was sounding
    This LAN was made for you and me.
     
    The VPN came warning, while I was cruising
    The Ebay auctions and the craigslist ads
    An ad was popping, As the page was loading,
    This LAN was made for you and me.
     
    This LAN is your LAN, this LAN is my LAN
    From Cupertino to e-Trade in New York City
    From the Redmond Washington to the Silicon Valley
    This LAN was made for you and me.
  20. Funny
    Brian Blankenship reacted to AshleyAshes in Why are ethernet cable connectors so large?   
    Ahem, Never OBSOLETE.


  21. Like
    Brian Blankenship reacted to 6ftdan in Too much computer for just NAS. What OS do I choose?   
    Proxmox was a great call!  I have many virtual machines and OSes running well on there.  It allows me to add in hard drives to extend the VM storage so many drives act as one without using any kind of RAID.  I put off getting a RAID card for now and tried a mSata to 4 SATA device: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072BD8Z3Y/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_u-YxAb2TB31M9 but the Linux kernel currently doesn't support it without extra work to install the drivers in the kernel.  So that experiment is on hold now.  It came with drivers but I'll need to set aside a day or two to do the work for that.  For now though the combined drive space works really well for my VMs.  I'm quite happy with it.
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    Brian Blankenship reacted to tt2468 in Too much computer for just NAS. What OS do I choose?   
    ZFS and MDADM both are effected by non-ECC memory, so Using FreeNAS and Proxmox might not be the best idea for software raid. You could always get an internal RAID card off of ebay and do the raid on it, then proxmox would be the best solution.
  23. Agree
    Brian Blankenship reacted to samcool55 in Monitor Internet downtime?   
    Can you maybe get something like pfsense working on a dedicated system?
    At least that way you can monitor basically everything network related.
  24. Like
    Brian Blankenship got a reaction from WMGroomAK in Any experience with Quad9?   
    Any abilities OpenDNS has in security will be dwarfed by IBM. I just wish that more security organizations were doing something like this. Proofpoint, Symantec, and others (heck even the ClamAV guys) see more from a security point of view. If an IP is a bad actor then that knowledge needs to be freely available, so yeah I agree totally that its great that another organization is doing this. More power to'em.
  25. Agree
    Brian Blankenship reacted to marten.aap2.0 in Ethernet cable broken   
    as long as none of the eight internal wires are damaged, you should be able to use it.
    you said it is still working so I guess they aren't damaged, check it to be sure and then wrap it in tape
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