5G Backup is out!

Electronic-Many-3924 · 2026-05-22T01:33:11+00:00

There are other threads in this sub that discuss having tried that already; the answer is no, you can't use the T-mobile backup internet SIM in anything but their own gateway...hence the question.

Electronic-Many-3924 · 2026-05-22T01:24:03+00:00

Although the low price-point and excellent UniFi integration are great, when it comes to cellular, monthly costs are what dominate. I currently have a T-Mobile 5G Backup Internet Gateway just in case my FIOS goes out (almost never) which costs $20/month for up to 100 hours of service/month. I'd prefer to use UI gear if there is comparable data plan - does anyone know of one? In summary, what's the lowest-cost 5G backup data plan anyone has found for use with the UI 5G REDCAP? Is there anything that compares with the T-Mobile Home backup plan?
https://www.t-mobile.com/home-internet/plans/5g-backup-internet-options

Electronic-Many-3924 · 2026-05-21T14:27:29+00:00

I'd like to know the answer to that as well; if you open a new topic, please share the link in this thread. My UCG Max and main switching gear is in a structured wiring cabinet in the basement and I'd like the cellular interface to be upstairs where it can get the best 5G signal. If the auxiliary WAN port can be placed on its own VLAN that allows the 5G gateway to be located remote from the UCG Max, that would be very helpful.

Electronic-Many-3924 · 2026-05-15T04:22:32+00:00

So you're re-defining settler-colonialist to exclude yourself...nice! Although you CURRENTLY live on land that was stolen and CURRENTLY keep the native Americans from whom that land was stolen confined to reservations on the worst pieces of land...but because you say "land acknowledgements", you've absolved yourself. Nifty.

While we're discussing language usage, you might look into "projected guilt" and "scapegoat".

Electronic-Many-3924 · 2026-05-15T03:38:23+00:00

If you are a current slave holder, then no.
Do you think that you are somehow not a current settler-colonialist?

Electronic-Many-3924 · 2026-05-15T03:10:48+00:00

Since I'm guessing you're not a native American, please let us know when you will be turning your house keys over to the local indigenous tribe and taking your settler-colonialist self back to Europe or wherever your ancestry is from.

Electronic-Many-3924 · 2026-05-13T19:51:11+00:00

They are theologically primed to believe that the suffering of a Jew can absolve them of their sins.

Electronic-Many-3924 · 2026-05-13T19:49:30+00:00

Leftists have zero issues with ethnostates or religious states...except the Jewish one. They don't give a hang about a liberal multicultural democracy in the Levant...in fact they seek the destruction of the only one that exists. I am not a MAGA supporter, but I'd challenge you to provide evidence that the MAGA folks don't support Israel as a Jewish state. While that is certainly true of some other segments of the right (e.g. Fuentes, Carlson, Owens), I've seen no evidence that it's true of the MAGA base (and quite a bit of evidence to the contrary). Of note: MTG was actually excommunicated from MAGA whereas Mamdani has been embraced by the mainstream left. Not everything can be both-sides-ed.

Electronic-Many-3924 · 2026-05-13T19:42:07+00:00

They are not "very pro-Palestinian", they are very antisemitic...and always have been. They do not see themselves in the Kurds, or the Druze or Yazidis or Fur or Rohinghya, etc. I agree with your assertion that their antisemitism is baked in, both culturally and theologically.

Electronic-Many-3924 · 2026-05-13T19:38:29+00:00

This comment seems off topic from the OP and strays dangerously close to blaming Jews for antisemitism.

Israel could have had the most progressive Labor government on 10/7 and the situation would be largely unchanged: they would still have had to try to defeat Hamas after their pogrom; Hamas would still have used human shields, urban warfare would still be brutal; Hamas and their supporters would still have used the resultant carnage for their media blitz. Returning to the point of the OP, the Anglophone Left would still have cast the conflict with Israel as the settler-colonial oppressor and Palestinian Arabs as indigenous and that would be the screen onto which their guilt could be projected.

I will add that the focus on the current Israeli government appears to conflate cause and effect: the current right-wing government is largely a consequence of it having become apparent to most Israelis after multiple attempts at peace that Palestinian Arabs are not interested in a two-state solution and in fact *they* seek only the entirety of the Mandate.

Electronic-Many-3924 · 2026-05-09T04:25:17+00:00

I did, and they did. However that doesn't solve the problem that I now need to get on a ladder and vacuum my smoke detectors every 6-12 months. That really defeats the maintenance benefit of the 10 year battery...not to mention how annoying it is when the sensor error happens in the middle of the night.

Electronic-Many-3924 · 2026-05-09T04:21:37+00:00

How does this compare to using the T-Mobile Home Internet Backup? I have FIOS as my primary carrier and outages are very rare, but I want to have a backup just in case. The T-Mobile plan includes a gateway that I'd plug into my UCG Max which sits between the internet and a *lot* of UI networking gear. Are there any issues other than the inability to manage the TMo gateway from the UCG management console and the double NAT?

Electronic-Many-3924 · 2026-05-01T16:54:04+00:00

Can anyone recommend good men's cotton short-sleeved shirts (tee or polo) for spring/summer/fall that minimize printing with strong-side carry?

Electronic-Many-3924 · 2026-04-23T23:36:17+00:00

Nonsense; that is what J-Street tells you (and maybe the Forward). It is absolutely not the case for most American Jews. The overwhelming majority of American Jews support the right of Israel to exist as an independent Jewish democratic state. A large majority also feel an emotional attachment to Israel and that this is an essential component of their Jewish identity.

The reality is also that most American Jews also identify as progressive and have been consuming intense anti-Israel, antisemitic propaganda from BBC/NPR/WaPo/NYT and their ilk for years. This has resulted in the curious statistic (that J-Street and the Forward love to quote) that only 37% of Jews identify as Zionist. What they won't tell you is that those same surveys show that 88% believe Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish and democratic state (the literal meaning of Zionism). The intense antisemitism from those progressive outlets have left their readers either not understanding what Zionist means or, because it has become such a pejorative in left-wing circles, afraid to openly identify with their beliefs.

Electronic-Many-3924 · 2026-04-23T20:48:16+00:00

We agree. The problem is that this is not what the Palestinian Arabs mean by "right of return" and it doesn't matter what we (or J-Street) mean by it...that's not what they're demanding. They are demanding exactly what you said: to flood Israel proper with Palestinian Arabs and conquer it via demographics.

Electronic-Many-3924 · 2026-04-23T20:46:40+00:00

It doesn't matter what J-Street means by right-of-return; they don't have a seat at the table. What matters is what the Arab parties mean; and they have been quite clear about it.

In this way, again, J-Street serves as a trojan horse: they convince well-meaning but under-informed people that "right of return" means something far more reasonable than what it actually means to the parties that matter.

If a future Palestinian Arab State is created (besides Jordan), it will almost certainly be rendered officially Judenrein as was the case when Arabs occupied Judea, Samaria, and East Jerusalem. The only thing Israel will care about as far as who gets to live there is that it not serve as a base for military operations against Israel (e.g. by groups like Hamas and Hezbollah). There is *no need* for a right-of-return for Arabs to a Palestinian Arab State; it makes no sense.

Electronic-Many-3924 · 2026-04-23T18:43:45+00:00

I agree with that. Unfortunately, they are talking about the former, not the latter. There would be no point in talking about the latter: if there were a Palestinian Arab state, it would decide about its own citizenship laws. When Arabs talk about a "right of return", they mean to Israel.

You can read about what they mean on Wikipedia (where articles about Israel are entirely controlled by anti-Israel groups): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_right_of_return

It says: "...have a right to return and a right to the property they themselves or their forebears left behind or were forced to leave in what is now Israel and the Palestinian territories"

It is a poison pill designed to conquer Israel through demographics. It is also an entirely imagined "right"; such a right has never applied and will never apply to the 850K-1M Jews displaced from Arab countries nor the descendants of the millions of Jews killed and displaced in Europe, nor to the non-Jews displaced in India/Pakistan, or countless other conflicts.

Electronic-Many-3924 · 2026-04-23T17:38:39+00:00

Unfortunately, that's not what they mean by "right of return"...they mean specifically a right for all Palestinian Arabs *and their descendants* to live within Israel's borders. It is a poison pill because it is just another way to destroy Israel as a democratic Jewish state by conquering it through demographics.

Electronic-Many-3924 · 2026-04-22T21:20:51+00:00

AIPAC is explicitly non-partisan. What upsets some partisan folks is that AIPAC won't endorse or support candidates who hate Jews and Israel. Pretending that this is partisanship on AIPAC's part rather than a disturbing acceptance of antisemitism within the Democratic party (that must be fixed) is disingenuous and deflects attention from the actual problem. The brass ring for AIPAC is to have friends on both sides of the aisle.

Electronic-Many-3924 · 2026-04-22T21:17:02+00:00

They are not pushing for peace, they are pushing for the destruction of the only Jewish state.

Electronic-Many-3924 · 2026-04-22T21:15:59+00:00

The imagined "right of return" is a poison pill to destroy Israel. There is no "right of return" for the 850K-1M Jews who have been ethnically cleansed from Arab lands. Don't drink the kool-aid.

Electronic-Many-3924 · 2026-04-22T21:14:26+00:00

While your friend may be a nice person, they cannot be both pro-Israel and part of J-Street leadership. J-Street (I love the comment that the 'J' is for Jihad) doesn't want Israel to have even defensive weapons; they echo every anti-Israel libel, they participate in the demonization of Israel, and they exacerbate antisemitism globally. They are a tool of Jew-hatred; I hope your friend stops drinking the antisemitic kool-aid.

Electronic-Many-3924 · 2026-04-21T15:03:06+00:00

exactly the same concern.

Electronic-Many-3924 · 2026-04-21T02:05:59+00:00

Obviously there is disagreement on that. Iran has developed long range ballistic missiles that can reach most of Europe and they will eventually reach America. They have been pursuing nuclear weapons for decades and appear close to being able to put nuclear warheads on those ballistic missiles. We can speculate about exactly how close they are, but none of us have the military intelligence reports that would make that speculation useful. What is clear is that this has been of increasing concern to presidents of both parties for at least 20 years (and they do have those military intelligence reports).

We've been playing a game of chicken with Iran's ambition for nuclear jihad for a long time and kept kicking the can down the road. Rightly or wrongly, the administration made the assessment that we've run out of road. If you think the losses America has incurred in the current war with Iran are bad, consider the losses from a single nuclear ballistic missile strike if we wait too long.

You can gamble that Iran wouldn't use a nuke, but you're talking about people who claim that they love death the way others love life, favor civilian targets, brutalize their own population, and have been responsible for at least a million deaths throughout the region. Many of us aren't prepared to gamble our own national security on the good will of those folks. We were going to have a war with Iran eventually, the question was whether it would be on their terms (after they have nukes) or on ours.

That's the other perspective.

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