Real_PhillBert

Dual SFP28 25gbps NIC for my NAS/Plex server. Absolutely no reason for this much speed but my switch has open SFP28 ports, so here we are.

Not directly, I'm an Engineer in the Ag world. There's a lot of crossover and car guys, but no direct connection. Ha! The house is right at 2000sqft (footprint), but my wife would have you believe that the garage is twice the size of the house. FWIW, this garage is almost exactly the square footage of my last house.

Probably wont be a dedicated lift in this garage, but in a few years my wife and I would like to build a ~35x50ish dedicated shop, where I'd like to put in a flush mount lift. All in time. If I really need one right away, I can swing over to my Dads place.

It's been a while since I've made a post here, I've been crazy busy with building a new house, selling my old house, moving to a temporary house, and now we're getting ready to close on and move into our new home. About two weeks ago I finally made it to the point where I could park my car in the new garage to get a feel for it. I spent a ton of time with the builder and the architect discussing and planning this garage. It's 1250sqft, 39ft wide with the shallow stalls being 28ft deep and the deep stall is 38ft deep with 12ft ceilings. Tons of outlets, wall mounted garage door openers, 2x 240V50A plugs, an 18x8 door, a 9x8 door and a 6x8 door out the back for lawn mowers. Plus it's heated with hydronic floor heat, so it should stay very comfortable all winter long. I'm more than a little excited for this new space.

As my new house is getting closer to completion, I picked up some networking hardware. 1x Unifi Switch Pro XG 48 PoE 3x Unifi U7 Pro XG access points

2000 ft of shielded Cat6A for my new house.

I saw that Unifi finally got the G4 Doorbell Pro's back in stock, so I picked one up, as well as the single gang mount for new construction.

FWIW, I wear size 32 pants and a 36 belt always seems to be the right fit. With that said, taking fashion or clothing advice from me is probably a bad call.

That bothered me to no end. I had a couple of professors who would require you to buy the textbook they published, then they'd change some insignificant detail every year and release a new version so the one you bought couldn't be sold to the next class. It was clearly just to line their own pockets. I've been out for 15 years and it still makes me mad thinking about it.

Assuming you have 100 well motivated men with some amount of planning and coordination, the men will win just by overwhelming the gorilla. The less motivated and coordinated the men are, the lower their chances of success. Even in the case of well motivated and coordinated, there will be casualties. Either way, you wont find me signing up to be the first to make contact; or the 20th for that matter.

Thanks for the confirmation. It's good to hear that my IT guy isnt leading me astray. Yeah I was for sure going to run a line for a camera in the garage since it's pretty much the exact path I would need for one of the exterior cameras. I may or may not put a camera in the garage but I'd rather do the work now when it's easy.

My wife and I just signed the contract to have a new house built over the next ~6 months or so. Because I'm picky I've negotiated with the builder to allow myself to do all of the low voltage wiring, so speaker wire and networking is my responsibility. I've been planning this for some time but as I'm not super fluent in networking I wouldn't mind a bit of feedback on my basic plan. The Plan: I'm going to put all the network equipment and servers in the utility room of in the basement where all the network runs will terminate. I already have a Unifi UDM SE that I plan to continue to use in the new house. However my current switch is a gen1 Unifi 24port PoE switch which will no longer have the ports or the POE capability that I want in the new house, so I'm planning to pick up a Unifi Switch Pro XG 48PoE to be my main switch. To be honest I really wanted the last generation Enterprise 48 that was 2.5G and quite a bit cheaper but now I see that one is discontinued. From the Switch I'll add an SFP28 NIC into my current media server (way overkill, I know), and an SFP+ to my Unifi NVR. Eventually the plan is to build a detached shop about 30ish yards from the house, and run another fiber line to that structure but that's for a later date. Inside the house I was planning on being simple and just running CAT6A to each keystone location in the house. The IT guy in my office suggested to make all wall terminations double since it doesnt take anymore work to run two cables at once, so in the plan you'll see a ton of X2s on walls, that's why. And any X4s are really two double keystones one low and one high mount for a TV. I currently have plans for 2 APs in the house, in the living area near the extra bedrooms and one in the master. Then one more in the garage and one more out on where the back deck will be. I still havent landed on exactly what APs to use, but I'm leaning towards the new Unifi AP XG in the house and garage then a U7 Outdoor on the deck. I know this is overkill for this size home but the house is just over what Unifi says a single AP can cover. I have planned drop for six cameras, plus the doorbell. I may add one more camera in the garage but I'm not sure how I feel about that just yet. Any feedback you might have is greatly appreciated. I'm no expert, so I googled and the triangle is the symbol I found for a network drop, and the triangle with a circle is a ceiling mounted network drop.

I've had a shark robot vacuum for about 5 years now and absolutely love it. We got it because I wanted a dog and my wife insisted that if we were going to get a dog we needed a roomba (we use roomba as a generic term for robot vacuum, right or wrong) first. I don't know what the model number is, and I'm sure it's been replaced since I bought it but its a shark with room mapping and has a dust bin on the dock. We have a 105lb German Shepherd and it does a very good job keeping up. I have mine set on a schedule to run every day, and it does just fine. I think some of the issues people have are really having too high of expectations, IMHO they are not a full replacement for an upright vacuum, however they do make it so that you don't have to use the upright vacuum nearly as often. I've never spent $800 on a vacuum before but if it died today, I'd buy another one before the day was over.

Lol, 324 power factor out of 240gr @ 1350fps, would absolutely get to major scoring.

Since USPSA opened up Limited Optics division about 18 months ago, I've been competing and therefor practicing almost exclusively with my Staccato P. I have been thinking about buying a Smith 929 to dip my toes into Revolver division after I make Master in Limited Optics.