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GuruOfNothing

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    GuruOfNothing got a reaction from alpha754293 in Home Sever   
    The question I would ask... and do of all the posts I get involved with when people sound like they have zero network management training and skills... is what skills do you have that will make running a server farm a good idea? Its far from just dropping some boxes online and letting them rip. I HIGHLY suggest not doing any such thing if you don't have the training. Why? All you are doing is creating bot boxes for people to do creepy shit with because you don't know how to keep them out of your systems. And like @Donut417 said.... your ISP is gonna LOVE you! Right up until the cancel your service.
     
    If I got that all wrong, and you do have those abilities and training, my apologies. But people asking about a good server to host lots of shit for 100's of people does not say, "I have a degree in IT and I know what the hell I am doing." It says, I have no clue what I am doing.
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    GuruOfNothing got a reaction from iKingRPG in Split bandwidth between 2 routers?   
    Well... but here's the uglier side to that coin... and I KNOW you can find lots of cases of it online... is that the account that bandwidth is coming from is you. Whomever you are sharing it with (even though think they are top shelf and all that) decides to be searching for kiddy porn. Maybe not even getting, but searching. Your IP is tagged and the Feds come in and raid your house. "They won't find proof of anything, so what?" So your house gets tossed and damaged. Your name gets smeared all over the federal lists as a "potential" child molester and you spend a few weeks in jail while they forensically dig through your computer gear. You lost your job and even though you weren't guilty, a flag comes up on your record that you can't escape. Your skeevy neighbor/friend/customer gets off scott free. Happens man. Just sayin... You really don't want that kind of liability. People do weird shit for strange reasons even when they seem to be perfectly decent human beings. Smart people do dumb shit. Don't involve yourself. That's a tag you can't ever shake...even if you did nothing wrong.
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    GuruOfNothing got a reaction from iKingRPG in Split bandwidth between 2 routers?   
    Proof? We ALL KNOW they do. It's everywhere! Hence the reason why VPN's are a thing. So you have proof... but you also have no internet then too. Just don't do it.
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    GuruOfNothing got a reaction from iKingRPG in Split bandwidth between 2 routers?   
    I would be way more concerned with having to be the tech support for this nightmare waiting to happen. 10 residences? If for a second you think it's gonna be smooth and never hiccup causing someone to call you at 3am, think again. And they will eventually find out because someone you are reselling service to will dime you out when they don't get what they think they should be. Seen it happen many times with people that have tried it. I get the "entrepreneurial" nature of it and why not make some money but it's only fun until it's not and then what? You just cancel everyone's service? Not a great idea. And good luck getting paid consistently by everyone. They say no and you have no recourse but to shut off their service and then they dime you out. Exactly how it happens. And you are out the cost of infrastructure.
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    GuruOfNothing got a reaction from dalekphalm in what is this thing called please answer   
    By looking at it, I am pretty sure that it is an outdoor weather enclosure. The guts of it are unknown as you said you didn't know how to get into it. Being as it looks like it mounts on a wall, grab onto both of the wings (with the screw holes in them) and pull the opposite way of the case. It looks to be mounted with the wings down, with the opening down as well. The case would be lifted upward and off to expose whatever is inside. Half guessing it is empty but won't know until it is pulled apart. Might be a good friction fit.
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    GuruOfNothing got a reaction from kirashi in Prepaid 4G Hotspots?   
    There is no such thing as "cheap" hotspot service. Especially prepaid and ESPECIALLY unlimited. Hotspot means "I will be tethering my computer to your service and probably doing RPG gaming and movie streaming on big screens at high resolution and while I am at it, I will be doing some Torrent sharing" and they say... Uh... that's a lot of cellular bandwidth we don't want to give you. You are better off to limit your data usage and see the sights and disconnect from the tech umbilical cord. It's cheaper that way.
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    GuruOfNothing got a reaction from KarathKasun in Want to make a server to host games, could you guys help me make sure the parts are compatible   
    I know this thread is starting to age but I gotta chip in my 2 cents...
     
    It sounds like the OP has little to no experience managing a piece of hardware that is going to connect a bunch of people together in a manageable, stable and protected way. Sticking some crap parts in a box and connecting it to the internet with a wing and a prayer is really kind of a dumb idea. If you are building it to serve for a pile of people that come to your house to game until they stink of Funyuns and flop sweat, well then get after it! But if you are thinking you are going to be the cool kid with a kick ass server that everyone in your friends list on Facebook will revere... you are WAAAY in over your head. Building the box is barely the least of your worries. Especially if you are planning on storing some "personal files" on it. Best intentions don't stop hackers, angry dickheads with more time than common sense and the generally nefarious intended that are going to be accessing your gear. There is a serious reason why the ones that host big game servers do so on remote hardware, usually hosted in an AWS facility or the likes, and they have far more than the average MAC users knowledge of networking, internet security, hosting and server management. Just because it can be done piss poorly doesn't mean it should be done.
     
    I would like to say I am not trying to disuade the OP from creating his/her own server because it sounds like a great idea at this moment... but that is not the case. You don't put a Koi pond in a homeless encampment and expect the residents to not eat the fish and shit in it when you are not looking. Just because you can learn anything on YouTube doesn't mean it isn't going to end badly. Just sayin'
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    GuruOfNothing got a reaction from kirashi in 5Ghz wifi two routers   
    You are suffering from double routing issues sounds like to me. Its not the best way to deal with it but if you take the cable from the comcast modem and plug it into a LAN port on your new router instead of going to the WAN port, you basically are just adding a switch instead of a router. It doesn't chew up the overhead and add additional protocols. What works better is to get a dedicated 5G AP as opposed to a full blown router but at this point, that point is moot. DHCP will be done by the router in the Comcast modem and you shouldn't lose much if any speed in that layout.
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    GuruOfNothing got a reaction from AbydosOne in Onboard IDE or seperate RAID card?   
    Thank you for the detailed response. I did confirm that the system meets MINIMUM requirements but that is about it. I have been screwing around with it now for a couple hours and understand why reliability and stability is a thing. The manual on the MOBO says that 16 will work but in reality, 16 makes the system only see 4 and is only somewhat stable with 8. There is also something going on with the MOBO that makes it so it will freak out with more than one of the big drives connected. But by this point, it will work fine in the trash. I have finally convinced myself it is time to just pony up the cash and get a Synology or something like that and stop wasting time on hardware that is going to cause me grief. I have enough unstable lab boxes already to contend with? The drives will go towards a real NAS.
     
    And yes, the drives do have the PWDis issue. Easily resolved.
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    GuruOfNothing got a reaction from mtz_federico in Blocking internet access for just one device.   
    I am pretty sure the answer is in the question. And the question used the word Google in it. So, probably no. The bridge and the fixture connect together internally but for the Home to work, it wants mother Google to instruct it... hence the ability to access it from a mobile device... anywhere. And if mother Google doesn't have the right to reach it's unit, you are not going to be able to control anything using it. Very little these days will work without being able to connect to a server somewhere.
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    GuruOfNothing got a reaction from Yellow_ in Storage for movies and TV shows?   
    Go buy a 10TB WD Easystore drive from Best Buy (which is a WD Red drive, probably white labelled) and either use that as an external media storage drive or shuck it and install it in your box. Plex Media Server is a great way to go for streaming to anything in your house. I have an old Dell Inspiron 570 with a 500G drive for the OS and a 10TB drive to store the some 600 discs worth of media I own, mounted in the box. I bought a second matching 10TB drive that has a current backup of the media drive and it is unplugged and stored away for safe keeping.
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    GuruOfNothing got a reaction from dalekphalm in Truck stop movie theater setup   
    I realize this is not a hardware suggestion response post here but I gotta chime in and give you a word of warning. The MPAA LOVES these kinds of situations. LOVES! You are in a commercial environment and by all the laws that these putz's have gotten into place, you are in direct violation of their rebroadcast laws. Technically, you are not allowed to play any movie in a public forum in any commercial establishment without first paying the MPAA a nice little fee and getting a permit to do so. I fell afoul of this and let me tell you, it' gets ugly in a hurry. Playing a DVD from a player in a remote space to a TV in a common area is a violation but a minor one and they will leave you alone but if you build a system of any kind that has multiple movies stored in which they can select them and watch in a public forum, you COULD be handed a multi-thousand dollar bill for broadcasting movies without paying them for the "per view" fees. This includes streaming movies from an account like Netflix or Amazon Prime to the same space. Commercial versus residential viewing is a totally different world. All about the money.
     
    The other side to the issue I see (I am a realist, not a pessimist) is that people are tweekers and they won't leave crap alone. Especially truck drivers. If you put a computer in their hands that allows them to have any level of control over a master TV screen, you will have them closing out the PLEX screen and pulling up YouTube and possibly worse just because they want to watch something else. This is not my area of expertise so take this with a grain of salt but I don't know of any way short of creating a web script that will allow selective playback and disallow any other stuff to be accessed. Plex requires internet access even if it isn't streaming from online sources. There may be ways to block ALL other internet traffic via a router and uninstall ALL other programs like internet browsers and CTRL+ALT+DELETE functions so they can't strong arm their way into the computer functions. I just would highly suggest that you make it impossible for them to screw with ANY of the setting on the computer... because they will. Seen it. I worked at a Flying J in maintenance. Give them a tool and they will jack it up just because it exists.
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