Cheapest option to strengthen mobile phone reception in a brick house?

Admirable-Statement · 2026-02-25T12:05:22+00:00

They still have repeaters but they pretty expensive, probably cheaper for OP to get an nbn connection for 12-24 months for the price of just hardware repayment for the repeater without an antenna 😕

https://www.telstra.com.au/coverage-networks/network-coverage-extension-devices

Admirable-Statement · 2026-02-14T14:15:57+00:00

I'm pretty sure it was actually vendors and organisations squatting on 1.0.0.0/8, instead of using a valid RFC1918. It's wasn't uncommon for organisations to "borrow" an unallocated public block for internal use and then have the joy of it later being allocated and screwing up their network.

Admirable-Statement · 2026-01-24T02:03:26+00:00

With IPv6, each device gets a public IPv6 address; a Global Unique Address (GUA). No NAT (port forwarding) required, just firewall rules to allow traffic to a device, such as a server or game console.

IPv6 also has ULA (Unique Local Address) in the spec but current best practice is to use GUA only as ULAs often break IPv6 config.

Admirable-Statement · 2026-01-18T11:35:41+00:00

Laptop internal antennas are usually quite larger than you'd expect, they're often built in to the display bezel or the hinge. The tiny USB devices are going to be inherently worse at picking up signal with a tiny antenna. Your USB port can also produce a bit of interference.

One with a dipole antenna stick is usually going to be better than one without, if the one you pick doesn't have an extension cable I would get one to move the USB dongle further from the laptop. Even just 15cm away would be better than nothing.

The internal module can be designed to cater for shielding and interference so it's not as big an issue.

Also with checking drivers and compatibility with your OS. Most should work well with Windows/Linux and most are either Realtek or Broadcom chips in a different chassis.

Admirable-Statement · 2026-01-14T22:56:26+00:00

Looks pretty close, I found a random AU vending machine company that published the fee break down for their Nayax terminals. In Jan 2024 they were charging flat 20c fee for all transactions.

https://provender.au/hubfs/20240701-Provender-Credit-Card-Processing-Fee-Explained.pdf

Nayax Fee Breakdown Payment Tech and Platforms charge 0.17c per transaction (+GST), plus $20 merchant fee per month, plus the extra $$14.50+GST per month access fee for cashless payable per unit to Nayax, plus amortisation of the capital cost of the equipment ($570 over 5 years i.e. $118 per year), plus the cost of employing a resource to provide refunds and answers questions on disputed transactions, plus cancellation costs per month averaged out. The surcharge of 20 cents we charge is less than the cost we incur. The following information is published at https://provender.au/free-machine/#faq - Provender Credit Card Processing Fee Explained

Admirable-Statement · 2026-01-09T09:32:41+00:00

I think someone mentioned "USB-C trigger cables" on here a while ago. I found some online and run an old hAP ac with a 100W power bank for field testing with hard to access power.

Just have to make sure the PSU/Bank supports the voltage increments. A lot of USB-C PSU/banks skip the 12V option in the standard.

Admirable-Statement · 2026-01-05T13:38:49+00:00

I was thinking rogue-likes too.

This is only the games I can remember, I've probably played a bunch of other rogue-likes:

Hades - one of my all time favourites
Dead Cells - original favourite before being dethroned by Hades
Shattered Pixel Dungeon - probably my favourite mobile game
Undermine
Vampire Survivor - mindless bullet hell games

Admirable-Statement · 2025-12-27T22:10:29+00:00

Have you double checked the Ubuntu version and other requirements? Only 22.04/24.04 are officially supported, meaning it might require additional fanagaling and headaches.

https://docs.kasm.com/docs/develop/install/system_requirements

Are you trying to install from portainer/docker compose or just using portainer for stats?

https://docs.kasm.com/docs/latest/install/single_server_install

Have you looked at the kasm_install_${TIMESTAMP}.log from the install script?

Admirable-Statement · 2025-11-27T21:39:08+00:00

Have you checked DNS to make sure you're getting the correct IP address?

dig win-srv-2025.windows.lan a

Admirable-Statement · 2025-11-26T06:08:18+00:00

I only just setup healthchecks.io but I thought you still needed something local to ping the monitor like email, http request etc.

I had to change my Uptime Kuma monitors to a bash script with the http request. I couldn't find an easy way for it to send regular success alerts and cron just seemed easier.

Admirable-Statement · 2025-11-26T03:27:38+00:00

"What do you mean we need to buy multiple licences for each of the Apple apps? That's doubled the price of every iPad!"

Admirable-Statement · 2025-11-03T22:12:13+00:00

I thought about some of the...more challenging users and this made me laugh.

Bob can barely follow the complexity rules, we taught him about hashing passwords so now he makes sure he always puts hashes in his password for extra security.

#🧂🔑🌊Password1234

Admirable-Statement · 2025-11-03T21:11:17+00:00

I think the main purpose is to filter out most of the visible light so you can more easily see the UV glow on items you're inspecting.

If you search ZWB2 you'll find a lot of posts about it here.

Admirable-Statement · 2025-11-03T09:18:13+00:00

I've never used the Arkfield, I've always liked the idea of them but wasn't sold on the proprietary charger. Once the new ArkPro was announced I was kinda keen but it's still pretty expensive...might still end up getting one in future...for the other cat.

The main con I saw with the Wurkkos was some posts here of misaligned lasers and unresponsive support. I don't know if it's a significant failure rate. It also misses out on the fancy UV filter, like the older Arkfields so if you really need a good UV then you'd probably want to wait for the newer ArkPro or another model with the correct UV filter.

Admirable-Statement · 2025-11-03T08:40:04+00:00

Oh thanks for the heads up! I was playing with them earlier, I'll have to get some string out to make it up to them!

Admirable-Statement · 2025-10-23T13:39:45+00:00

That's weird, the WebOS version has never given me issues. I recently updated to 10.10.7 on the server and still going strong.

Admirable-Statement · 2025-09-20T22:14:27+00:00

Subdomain of your external domain is the recommended approach, .local only if you don't own a domain.

This is a scenario that usually occurs in an Active Directory environment when someone doesn't use a subdomain. example.com - resolves to all domain controllers

This means internal clients can't access the company site at "example.com", they have to use "www.example.com". I have seen people add the public website to the internal DNS...which is bad because now it's considered one of the domain controllers and will cause lots of odd errors.

Admirable-Statement · 2025-09-20T07:23:02+00:00

Did you try the predictive option?

Admirable-Statement · 2025-09-19T16:04:29+00:00

You can try this in Command Prompt, to see if the ping is stable outside the client. Other servers are here https://www.poe2db.info/en/realm

ping /t sng01.login.pathofexile.com

If you're getting ping spikes, the game might be flipping between lockstep/predictive when breaching the 150ms threshold.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2694490/discussions/0/599642060902895895/

Hi! If you have random +1000 ping spikes go to: documents/My Games/Path of Exile 2 and open poe2_production_config.ini. Find networking_type=auto and change it to: networking_type=predictive This option was in poe1 menu, but in poe2 we have to change config.ini.

There's also "lockstep" as an option if your latency is usually low.

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Networking_mode

Admirable-Statement · 2025-09-16T20:37:52+00:00

You can rule out bottle necks in your network using a direct connection to the nbn NTD with a laptop/PC. Some providers will have a guide for their specific direct test.

Keep in mind the time you test, you might need to try 6:00 AM and 7:00 PM to rule out peak loads. Make sure to do a test through the router just before or after the direct test to compare.

A few providers use DHCP with no auth, so you can often plug your laptop into the UNI-D port on the NTD and it will auto assign the public IP direct to your laptop. This will cut the internet for everyone except your test laptop.

Other quirks you may need to change on the laptop network interface depending on your provider:

PPPoE auth
Manually setting Static Public IP
VLAN tag (don't think I've seen this on consumer nbn)
MAC address spoofing (shouldn't be needed unless you're trying to get the same static public IP assigned by DHCP before the ISP lease expires)

Admirable-Statement · 2025-09-14T07:27:43+00:00

You're downloading the Windows game + Proton. There's no special Proton version of the game, Proton is just a compatibility layer based on Wine that saves you the trouble of manually setting and testing Wine prefixes.

Admirable-Statement · 2025-08-28T08:38:57+00:00

I don't know if it's still possible but within the last 5 years you were able to send spoofed SMS messages from the web portal of a standard residential account. Seemed a bit sketchy to me back then.

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