mrboof97

G'day all, have recently set up a Pi-Hole and Unifi Network server on my raspberry pi to control my two acces points, however one of my acces points is a AP AC v2 and is in ubuiquitys words has "reached its end of use" period and isnt supported by the current controler version. im not much of a coder and after spending a hour in the setting on the browser theres no way to roll back to a previos version, does anyone know of a way i can ssh into the pi and tell it to update to a older version and if not does anyone know of a way to make it install the older version oposed to the current version and ill just reset the hole pi again. cheers for your support.

so now i think i found my answer. its within the budget and im thinking of trying out just one to see how it fairs and see what the latancy is like. im hoeing with this i can connect several gpus to several rooms and use it so the seperate rooms have a physical display and keyboard and mouse. for programs that wont suffere from latency such as my family photo or video editing i think it should be ok however im not sure what it would be like for gaming. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/120M-HDMI-KVM-Extender-USB-IR-Over-IP-LAN-Network-Switch-Extends-HDMI-10-2Gbps/303086659702?hash=item46915f6876&_trkparms=ispr%3D1&enc=AQADAAADEFjVrDbVsZ8oH%2F8PNHtt9VX4%2Fw7FZcmMuqsX8uaFEduVgERUdvLwe%2FAwR7WTS%2BvKeyDcQb7uHpLrvJHt1QH2q7lvOG8gaFi8quH%2BbP70etJYm0SMvH9KfE6NQQ8aMNKBty%2FeSLAKUvPGVAs%2BR%2Bl5elJNi6xYKmSmPZnhRIxJGPAD0U73lqg9gwc1fEIM4U6OqSGZSkc1YWlbUihC6VlgYUKbDka0rUH35tKDMraoYWtYsvGSA0YyCikfdpxBzF5nBIz3v0gjaNrY%2Bcmczot72roEXaC6nHgcgAgs9gt%2Fo%2FjZcbVQNCg48EldvHI3vlSZAbMOROArhKYQbLGSk5aSgvg6Fkl6Pzgq8r%2B84Xct6WsCBcoAK8Yh%2BziS5rkjz9NBasQXHpHWb1SBrA5sVipaW%2FK7pTKaZ4odcRMKBDb3u26H7oRCmmJRlT%2BYWKL35Z8h%2B%2FkIGYvNtvruD%2BjgfXiYfXylg393K1PpSf%2B%2BdYRqOm33yzERx8OsMySMBQvXBUdSiGgoAFsgWp5YP6acK5eipzvtqoj%2B38SgVuHkld6dfzrSD4LwPKIO6COdILd8fACnjUY2bey4Cu%2FCbYwHXjxaXx7fQ7ppjT8LEkEyd8DjksC4DcwuKhulhom%2F2GW2wPBARyviCsIeoP8BtlQTML3TFeuW3YDgWnCR%2Fk0PKkrvbMbd4vr6ZFmSJzIOf9EC7PNRLv%2BMlXjYhmv6Si9c7EHgh87J3zXGPkSJUhKDmDM0hdIGj71xm0OJy5X2NciO8VkMmhKnPg2ZNGTc50AqTUekScM6dT7kZA8S7%2FpabsGQhXH0rhpXd2V4FYEBuLqvp3jVlgawS8%2B60VKd4V4YMAwOP0DPPRkUVPOeYil%2B%2Bh%2FEt49zs3orWlV%2FQy2V%2FOfeYJJvv59ah1ADAq4fN0mdBBSBVp7XTb61ARRXS0j2WLHpM5HkyWvCcft7gvZdPvoTtdEoLbBq%2B8UpcjBawn2IVWbhCu1xSU970p8ayw5pe625utPEDLiytC%2F6faAixxs7EalafKs6BcHJReVsU9%2BZU53WuAo%3D&checksum=3030866597021a38b8f1684c4fd4a1a6f12a3132ceaf&frcectupt=true

https://www.4cabling.com.au/hdmi-usb-extender-over-cat5e-cat6.html this is one of the only devices i have found that can do what i want to try to attempt however im not liking the price tag.

im wondering if i put a thunderbolt card in the server if i can somehow pass through the data to the cat 6 lines i have already run around the house. i have a minimum of 2 lines in all rooms, most rooms having 3 on average. im just trying to find out if i can go from thunderbolt to a dedicated cat6 line then go to the room and have a doc that comes from the cat6line that will have display out and usb to talk to the server. but doing all this i think ill be getting some decent delay time.

I dare say this has already been asked on the forum and I do apologize for re asking it if it already has. But in the off chance it hasn't how's this for a overly complex and most likely not financially viable idea. 1 server that does all your PC's in your house. And I'm not talking in the same room or remoting into the machine. I'm talking is there a way to pass optical and say 2 USB data transmions through a dedicated lam cable to another room where it would have a hub that reverts it back to HDMI and USB? I'm assuming you would saturate cat6 trying to do so wouldn't you and wouldn't that latency make it ungamable . For certain things such as photo and video editing remoting into a machine would be ok but for gaming thays just not quite going to cut it. As my house sits at the moment I live with my parents and my sister and my girlfriend. I have my central server running unraid for Plex, run my Nas, security backup, and have my virtual machines set up. My girlfriend likes to do lots of photo editing on her tablet on the sofa but it only has a celeron CPU so she just remotes into her machine to edit. My father likes to do drone video editing and he just has a i3 laptop so he just remotes into his seperate machine to edit . My sister attends high school so she remotes in to her machine to go around the schools security. And for me and my sister boyfriend we have a machine we just use for steam to stream our games so we can play AAA titles on out laptops. Just wondering if there is a way to do away with my gaming desktop and just move to one environment. Sincerely your residential Australian Jordan.

Now that would be interesting to see if PLEX media server could max out all those cores. My main reason for doing this was because my media server keeps bogging down because of users. If you don't mind me asking, did you run any cinabench scores on the rig. Interested to see how they fair up to today's market. Also you have to send a pic of a rig like that.

I would love to get my hands on some of the newer AMD stuff, but as you said the price of ram is really what's putting me off. I used to think my old AM3+ 8 core core was good.

CPU's with more than 4 cores is becoming more readily available to the main stream user, and allowing for some interesting prospects. however at the moment the price of a i9 Intel CPU is still in the regions only allowing for enthusiasts. however it isn't an old idea of having a CPU packing more than 4 cores, server grade hardware has been doing this almost from day one. The real question is, how does old server tech hold up to today's (2018) standards. for this little budget experiment i have decided to test 5 aspects of the build 1) The performance difference between old and new hardware for gaming applications 2) The performance difference between old and new hardware for server applications 3) The cost difference between old and new hardware 4) The power consumption difference between old and new hardware 5) Is it worth the head ache and lack of warranty to practically use this So this projects actually started back October of 2016 where i purchased a ZT Systems Server SS-AMZ1FA09 (foxconn 02010he00-600-g Motherboard) server from Ebay for $80. this little puppy came with 8gb of ram and dual xeon E5506 CPU's By pure luck from the seller when i went to pick up the server from the seller it turned out the guy was a warehouse stockist of IT equipment and just wanted the servers gone so gave me 2 for the price of one, i had originally intended to use it for my home PLEX media server and for my owncloud media storage but i faced a few issues that resulted in me packing the servers under my bed and ignoring them for 2 years, one issue was being that the servers were in 1U racks and were so bloody noisy it put me off using the buggers. time skip to December 2018 (2 days ago) I was sitting on my lounge watching Linus tech tips petabyte project when what should show up but a video titled Under $150 Budget Gaming 8 Core CPU, Motherboard & 16GB RAM After watching the video I thought, wait i have 2 identical servers laying around i could just play with it and see how it goes, like what could go wrong... long story short, make sure you unplug a power supply before removing from a case. so after a few singed hairs and a tingly feeling running up my arm I removed the motherboard and PSU from the 1U case and put it on a 500mm x 500mm peice of ply wood with plastic self adhesive PCB snadoffs. and ran the server, SUCCESS... until my CPU's began to cook, ok so back to the drawing board. So in try Australian spirit... cable-ties to the rescue, so i slapped some 80mm Ebay special fans ($10 for 4 fans) and cable- tied them to the top of the passive coolers for the CPU's After doing this i fired up the server once again and was able to fully install windows 7 without the board shutting off from over heating, my next issue was either the north or south bridge began to cook itself so once again cableties... but this time i used a old fan i had laying around... a really BIG! fan. and this fixed my issue. after doing this i installed a GTX1050ti low profile GPU i had laying around for testing. So finally, everything works and i could run some tests. so my for my tests i decided on cinebench r15 for two reasons, i can test gaming performance as well as Server performance on the one platform. (im Australian, were lazy) so what did this little puppy muster up... Drum role please.............. awesome... until i compared it to some other devices. in comparison my ASUS vivobook pro N580V with its i7-7700HQ and GTX1050 Ti graphics card. this server is crap! so this is where we give up... until 4 beers into my gut and some late night Ebay scolling and wala. turns out the Xeon E5506 is one of their lower tier CPU's . so lets crank this puppy up shall we. so in honesty this idea came from a reddit user called "seanmac2" So i basically did exactly as seanmac2 did, i even purchased 2 Xeon E5620 CPU's for $12.50... then i had a few more beers and purchased 2 Xeon X5650 CPU's for $47.08 five minuets later. now why did i do this, well i got excited... over 6 cores, these little puppies were housing. 6 cores and 12 threads. now times that by 2. 12 cores and 24 threads... thats got to at least get me somewhere on the scoreboards. now i have not got either sets of CPU's yet and i dont know if the X series CPU is compatable with the motherboard. so until the CPU's arrive this is the end of this segment, and will pick back up when the hardware arrived. so i will be doing some more testing after the new CPU's arrive and test it and compare it to some modern hardware, but if anyone else has done something similar im want to hear your story.