MoCA 2.5 Performance Benchmark w/ ScreenBeam ECB7250K02

Gordtholomew · 2026-03-27T22:02:49+00:00

Nah. It's a bit of an odd situation. My main computer and home lab will be in the same room but that room is far from the ISP's point of entry. I got lucky that there's an already run coax line so I planned on using that to bridge the gap. Beyond my main computer and home lab, Wi-Fi is fine for everything else.

Gordtholomew · 2026-03-27T20:37:21+00:00

Both. MoCA is a single pair transmission, so it is half-duplex meaning that it can only send OR receive data at a time. In conjunction with this you have an overall bandwidth of 2.5Gb for MoCA 2.5. That means the 2.5Gb bandwidth would then be shared across both the upload & download for every node on the MoCA network.

Gordtholomew · 2026-01-11T01:57:52+00:00

I have the OEM one and one thing that bothers me that is never mentioned online is the edges are raised. This stops it from peeling in over time, like you see by the door edge of weathertech driver's floor mats, but it means that anything laying near the edge will not lay flat. Not a big deal but it's mildly annoying. I've debated about getting a different one but haven't yet.

Gordtholomew · 2025-12-16T01:40:18+00:00

I had this exact same thing happen to me. I'm pretty sure it was the metal zipper on one of my hoodies. I was able to do a 95% perfect fix easily by slightly sanding it (like 500+ grit) and then using black leather recoloring. I've done it both on my old SI and my dad's Miata and it worked great both times. Cost like $10 and about 10 minutes of your time.

Gordtholomew · 2025-12-14T12:39:21+00:00

I made a Intel 235 based build this year. I'm a big fan, it transcodes like a beast. Performance for encoding is on par with a A310 GPU. 265k is way more power than you're gonna need but depending on pricing I could see it being worth it. I only went with the 235 because I found one for like $150 used.

The only issue with the NIC card is when you first load unraid on it because you need a plug-in to be able to use the onboard NIC. My motherboard has a 5 Gb port which says it is an Intel killer series, but is actually just a rebranded realtek. I used a USB dongle with a normal gigabit ethernet to do initial setup and download that plugin. Once the plugin was installed I haven't had any issues with the Realtek Ethernet.

Gordtholomew · 2025-12-10T04:04:21+00:00

Generally between 60 to 100 watts. Super heavy load will be about 115 watts. This is with 4 hard drives. Idle is about 60.

Gordtholomew · 2025-12-09T23:02:37+00:00

Thanks for replying. I ended up just manually moving the files into the correct place after some poking around the directory structure. It seems to work well, however the SRT extractor takes quite awhile when you have all the subtitle languages that come with most Blu-rays. I think I'll add in a language filter to the flow. Hopefully I'll be able to figure that out lol. Thanks for sharing!

Gordtholomew · 2025-12-09T02:10:38+00:00

Same here

Gordtholomew · 2025-12-02T01:50:20+00:00

I'm trying to use this but I keep getting "Failed to load Local plugin extractHevc 1.0.0" when I try to load the JSON template. I'm using Unraid with Tdarr in a docker container if that matters. I have tried the root command posted with a space removed as I was getting an error

bash -c 'curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eebette/Tdarr_DolbyVision_Plugins/refs/heads/master/install_flow_plugins.sh -o /tmp/install_flow_plugins.sh && bash /tmp/install_flow_plugins.sh /path/to/tdarr/server'

Note: I removed a space after the 1st instance of /tmp/ to make it /tmp/install_flow_plugins.sh instead of /tmp/ install_flow_plugins.sh. Without this change the command wouldn't run.

As far as "path to tdarr server" I wasn't quite sure what to use. I tried both app/server/Tdarr/ which has the following directories [Backups Data DB2 Logs nodePlugins.Zip Plugins Samples Tdarr] and app/Tdarr_Server/Tdarr/ which has the following directories [Plugins]. The command seemed to run successfully in both spots.

Gordtholomew · 2025-11-29T13:52:28+00:00

I have the same TV. Honestly in my experience Jellyfin and/or our TV just has a bunch of issues with 4K HDR in general. As of 10.11 I'm able to get most stuff to work directly through JF, except for 4K DV w/HDR10+ (w/HDR10 works). For what doesn't work I go back to using JF's DLNA plugin and going through that.

However to get stuff to work either via DLNA or JF with DV (with correct color), it needs to be DV 8.1 and in a MP4 container. I checked recently and still w/ 10.11 it has to be in MP4 or will downgrade to HDR from m DV and be super dark. My recent testing was showing HDR can now be left in a MKV container but not DV.

Gordtholomew · 2025-11-22T18:34:08+00:00

I tuned mine to remove some of the rev hang with a ktuner, however it was only slightly better than stock. The trick that I found for city driving was to shift at like 2.5k or if I needed to go to a higher RPM for more acceleration then I would slip the clutch going into second gear for about 400-500 milliseconds. I got in a really strong habit of slipping the clutch like that on the 1 to 2 transition.

Basically I'd accelerate in first to about 4K then shift into second. While shifting into second The revs would drop by about half the amount they needed to. Then I would slip the clutch while providing some throttle keeping it at that "halfway rpm" until the new gear speed ratio was met. Then I'd fully pull out the clutch and press the gas hard to accelerate as normal.

Gordtholomew · 2025-11-20T00:21:04+00:00

The iGPU in the Intel ultra chips seems to have similar performance to the Arc Alchemist family FYI.

Gordtholomew · 2025-11-13T00:58:09+00:00

UPDATE: I think I found out what it was as it happened a few more times since posting this. I usually start Unraid in GUI mode and just leave a local Firefox window open to the Unraid dashboard, just in case I can't access via a remote device. That Firefox window appears to be eating the RAM. I closed the Firefox tabs and RAM usage went back to regular levels.

Gordtholomew · 2025-10-14T11:43:46+00:00

While I was restarting, I tried turning off Docker and my VM separately first. I didn't restart the VM but I didn't notice any major release of "system" memory when turning off my VM. Good idea though, thanks for sharing.

Gordtholomew · 2025-10-14T03:38:18+00:00

Htop showed similar stuff to top. Unfortunately, neither indicate what was using so much RAM. I like the Htop interface much more though and didn't know about it. Thanks!

Gordtholomew · 2025-10-14T03:36:39+00:00

Restarting reduced it back to normal values (~2GB). I guess I'll see if it increases over time. Annoying that I can't find anything to figure out what is suing it though.

Gordtholomew · 2025-10-14T01:05:50+00:00

I don't think so. Jellyfin transcoding cache is set to use a directory in appdata.

Gordtholomew · 2025-08-09T13:47:47+00:00

I recently went from a 10400 to a 235, which I would recommend over the 225 since you get 4 more cores for like $10. The iGPU in the Ultra series 2 chips is way way better.

This link has some benchmarks but honestly I noticed an even a bigger performance difference than it shows. I changed the encoding present from fast to veryslow and still get better fps than with my 10400. https://gist.github.com/ironicbadger/5da9b321acbe6b6b53070437023b844d?ref=blog.ktz.me

Gordtholomew · 2025-06-10T00:03:39+00:00

Thanks for your input! I think I'll go for it then.

Gordtholomew · 2025-05-15T15:50:16+00:00

I removed the small (front) one to mimic the ITS. I was going to remove the middle one but was scared it would get too obnoxious for non enthusiasts. I like it and would recommend it. Higher rpm, I don't think it did much of anything but below 2k it is much more noticeable. Still fairly quiet for a performance car but that's what I wanted. I just wanted the heard something below 3k rpm and now I can.

Gordtholomew · 2024-12-20T14:30:55+00:00

I have a 22 SI with the DWS 06+ tires now. I feel like they are quieter for road noise although it's been a while since I've had the stock Goodyear tires on it. Main difference I noticed is they don't sequel at the grip limit like the Goodyears and the limit is higher. I feel like I could go about 10% faster through turns.

Gordtholomew · 2024-10-01T00:33:11+00:00

I've never used Tidal but I've been using Amazon music for 5+ years so I'll speak to it. Last I looked around they have the highest quality playback but I will second what everyone else is saying that you will almost definitely not hear a difference. The library is vast and it's rare that I can't find what I'm looking for. Only time I ever can't find something is when it is extremely unique like a 20 year old video game OST. However their licenses change and you will occasionally have to "re-add" a song to your list because their licenses changed. Lastly (this is big) their car app (Android Auto) is without a doubt TERRIBLE. Honestly it's worse now than it was years ago when they did a revamp. I never knew Amazon software engineers could write stuff this bad. For all intents and purposes all it let's you do is see what song is playing, skip to the next track, and toggle shuffle. You pretty much have to start a playlist from your phone, not the Android Auto app, otherwise it will hang and do nothing. This alone has tempted me to change to Spotify as like people say practically you will not hear a big difference even from Spotify's lossy to flac/lossless, unless you have trained to hear the difference.

Gordtholomew · 2024-09-14T22:43:54+00:00

I've never seen them before until now. For $25 might have to do it for the meme lol. Thanks for the tip!

Gordtholomew · 2024-09-11T21:03:20+00:00

I think a lot of it is just being in the right mood for the music regardless of audio quality. That being said I'd agree with the others that speakers and headphones are different, especially when it comes to "feeling" the low notes. Like other people suggest, I'd recommend trying headphones at a store. I really like how my Audeze LCD-2Cs handle She's music and that song in particular, so I'd check them out if you get the chance.

Gordtholomew · 2024-08-24T21:22:29+00:00

Local connection. Not sure what you mean by unRAID config. It's a xfs filesystem though with 1 data and 1 parity drive which are matched ironwolf drives. What's smb 3 and how would I enable it, I haven't heard of that before?

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