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I am looking into doing some major upgrades to my system this black firday, and was looking at mostly corsair products. I've used a couple keyboards and mice in the past and really, really liked them. What drove me away though was the iCUE software. Last I used of it, it had been majorly updated, and still sucked. Does anyone know if it has gotten ay better? because just about everything RGB and configurable will probably be Corsair. This will be a major let down if their software sucks. Thanks

yes, I will have to look around for something to hide the cables. I will have a hole in the desk, probably not very well placed, because of the outlets on the bottom side taking up a lot of room. I will be able to get them pretty tight up behind the monitors, but not perfect. I have a lot of really long cables, because I was going 10+ feet before with the L desk, now the way I've moved it around, for a third time, probably the way I'll keep it, I will need like 5 footers, so that will keep it pretty clean. I'll have to abandon the idea of the other monitor, and just use a KVM with one of the other monitors, which isn't a big deal, but I wanted to keep the two separated if possible.

The boots have to stay on the plastic mat, which ends about half way under the desk, but goes all the way to the wall, where they're at now. I should move them with the rest of the shoes at my house, but there isn't enough room for a boot dryer there.

I agree, like I said before, I didn't realize a straight desk would feel so much smaller. I moved the monitors over to the other side, just to see how it would be, and its not too bad. I can overhang on the right side significantly more than the left. I forgot to mention that I have another monitor that I want to put back eventually too, for that computer under the desk. As for that little screen you got a picture of, I hardwired a bunch of outlets under the desk, and that is linked to the top enclosure in that rack, and is what controls those outlets. I'm trying to figure out what I want to do for some sort of custom case for it, so its not just out and a loose eyesore like that. I might try with the monitors in the center next.

I am in the process of redoing my setup, and am looking for some input. For reference, my old desk was an L desk, in the corner of my room, and I had my computer tucked right into the corner. We did some renovations on my house, and I wanted to take that space back for my bed, really only leaving one other usable wall for my setup. I had an 8ft X 28in. deep desk made, and mounted it on the wall, not realizing how much extra space that L desk gave me. I temporarily hooked up my computer and monitors. This was starting way back in November, and I've been so busy with work, I finally have a couple days off, and want to get a solid plan in place for it. I have a link to some pictures of what I am working with, and would like some input on what I should to with my tower. The monitors can move to the other side, but I'm not too sure how I'd like that. I plan on building another mini rack, like the one all the way to the left, and putting it next to that one, for my network switch (not the mini one in the picture) and a couple UPS'. Don't mind the mess in the pictures, it is all just temporary. End to end on the monitors is 5'6", and hangs off the edge 8" . All input is accepted. Thanks in advance

The mobile banking app that I use for a new account that I have will not connect through pfsense. I can connect though the network on the WAN side of my pfsense box (pfsense is after a modem and other network for the rest of my house). Using the mobile app, I get a couildn't connect error before I can log in, and if I try to connect through the website after I log in, and before It shows me my account, I get the Connection This site can’t be reached error in chrome. I have a pretty basic configuration in pfsense, and don't get this issue on other networks, and don't really know how to go about fixing this. Thanks

When I was installing the hikvision cameras, they did seem to seal up good, the aluminum just seemed really cheap and soft on the bullet cameras where I had to do a lot of adjusting to get them right. That was one of my only complaints with them.

If they can't be powered by poe, I don't think I am going to use it. They are going outside, and I'm in new england, so leaving a usb cable outside is not an option with our harsh summers and winters, I wouldn't give it more than a few months before I started having issues with it, not to mention, that I'd have to put a plug out there, and they're going under an overhang, and the only way to get power out there is to cut into the sheetrock in my garage, which isn't and option. I can fish a cat 6 cable through a vent to the attic, but not power. Once I'm in my attic, I can get to anywhere on the top floor of my house, and have the poe injectors near my switch. I also looked into the wyze cameras, and they're not quite what I was looking for. These are getting mounted on the overhang, and a dome camera is what will work best under there. I appreciate the insight, but I wanted to stay away from consumer grade products. I don't have the time or patience to deal with them, especially if they fail in the middle of the winter. I like the ruggedness of the commercial grade products, I was in charge of the installation of a decent sized camera upgrade project, we were removing a an old analog bosch system, and putting up a mixture of hikvision and reolink cameras, and they just felt like kids toys compared to the bosch ones. Reolink had reliability issues, and the hikvision ones were made out of really cheap aluminum, compared to the aluminum and steel of the bosch cameras. If I was somewhere with a much more stable weather pattern, I might consider it, but I just can't based on my location.

Thank you, I don't plan on holding months of video data, just maybe a few days, or a week at most. I live in the middle of the country, and we aren't really too worried about security, as there isn't really any crime in my area, never mind break ins, they are just for some peace of mind, and so we can see who is pulling in and out of our driveway and walking around our house. Some of those sony and panasonic cameras are a little bit outside of my price range. I can get those honeywell cameras from jmac supply for about $140. I can also get a 1000 ft box of cat 6 cable for $135, also honeywell wire from jmac supply, I have used it before and like it a lot. I really didn't want to spend more than about $500 on the whole project. I'm an electrician, so I can run and terminate the cables by myself. The only other expense I was really planing on was $70 for blue iris software, and a couple poe injectors. I have a dell poweredge R710 with vmware ESXI, so I can just create a new windows vm and run blue iris on that, and save the footage to the server. I have a 1TB hard drive with practically nothing on it, I could partition half of it for footage from 2 cameras, and that should be plenty. If not, I still have the other half.

I'm looking to put up a couple IP cameras on my house. I was looking at the Honeywell H4W4PER3 or possibly something hikvision if I was going to do a mini dome PTZ, I'm not sure what I want yet. I was wondering if anyone knew if these cameras were any good. I would like to stay around $150-$200 per camera, if anyone has any other recommendations. I was looking at bosch, but they're just too expensive. I was looking at honeywell cameras because honeywell is a fairly well known brand, they're not too expensive, that one has IR, which I need, and know the brand isn't going to disappear next week, and I installed about 20 hikvision PTZ and bullet cameras about a year ago on my old school, and they are still running strong, so I wouldn't mind going with a couple of those, just in mini dome form. I also installed Reolink cameras inside, but those were junk, out of about 40, we had about 5 dead out of the box, and another 10 or so die within a couple days of use, so I'd like to stay away from them if I can, if I'm just going off of price alone, I'd like to stay away from cheap consumer grade cameras. I also wasn't going to go with a standalone NVR, I was going to run Blue Iris or some other software on a VM on my server, if that changes any opinions on the cameras, or if anyone knows of any better ip camera monitoring software with a web interface, feel free to let me know, I was looking at iSpy, but they don't really have a web interface, and what they do have isn't free, so I didn't really want that. Thanks

I was able to get bridged mode working on my linksys router. I will probably purchase some ubiquiti equipment in the future, but I just bought a $100 cisco switch, so I want to use that for a while before I think about getting rid of it, because if I get ubiquiti, I will also be getting a switch so that I can manage all of my devices in one place.

I found out how to do it. It is the EA7300. It runs Linksys Smart Wifi, so I had to go to Connectivity, Internet Settings, then edit the IPv4 connection, and rather than having DHCP, static, or any of the other options, I can select Bridged Mode.

Thanks, I was looking at that card earlier, but I didn't find that netgate article. As long as amazon has a good return policy, I will probably end up getting that card.

I tried that, but I don't think there is an option for just bridged mode. I've looked all over, and tried plugging my wan cable into one of the lan ports, with no luck, but I will look into that again. If I can't get that to work, I will probably just get the wireless card that the person above recommended, then just get some ubiquiti gear in the future

I was thinking about that, but I don't want to spend a ton of money on it, I just wanted a card that I could throw in it and call it a day. I can get a wireless card for $50 or so, but if I go ubiquiti I will be spending at least $100 to match the range of my linksys router. Not to mention that I want to manage everything all in one place.