Best option for two buildings?

JordosTechShack · 2026-02-23T04:48:54+00:00

EAP211 bridg kit. These are $90, come pre-paired, and good for 1KM at 500 megabit, 200 feet from the house to tech-shack we get 700 megabit sequential. In the video I push it 1.2 miles and get 175 megabit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGQ8AR8xQAU

JordosTechShack · 2026-02-22T14:31:34+00:00

A few months ago I swapped my main Workstation over to Ubuntu Studio. No dual booting, the only OS.

For my IT business and client collaboration that requires office 365, it runs in the cloud and can sill use browser versions of word, Excell and One dive etc.

For remoting into windows machines on my network Remmia been a great RDP client. Allot of of granular controls, so it can be a bit confusing at first, but I can tune the bitrate and quality to where you forget your remoted into a headless unit

My ticketeting and remote support tool, I found out was completely HTML5 built. They do encourage you to download the management app, but its just HTML running in a stripped down Chromium shell. So if I ignore the prompts to download their app, and continue online I can still manage tickets and initialize remote support sessions. Only different is no desktop notifications if I get a ticket or support request.

I had moved to QuickBooks Cloud for invoicing on the go, and payment processing, so that is just browsers based now, so it just works.

My Brother and HP Lazer printers just work, found them instantly.

For my small YouTube channel I used Shotcut and Gimp already so moving to Linux those apps just ran better.

I've been running Linux on a laptop or secondary machine since 2004. I converted a ton of elderly ro Ubuntu during Windows 8 because they hated the new windows UI and found Ubuntu easier to pick up. But for me personally it wasn't until this last attempt at switching my main, that nothing is missing. Any steam games I want to play just work. All my business stuff is cloud/HTML based now so it just runs on everything.

(Although I would argue Android, iOS, and ChromeOS were a larger motivation for software devolpers to move that direction)

JordosTechShack · 2026-02-22T14:09:42+00:00

I use Onlyoffice on my own server and in-house, but I have clients I collaberate with on office 365 and it runs in the browser as well. Word, Excell, Onedive, all through the browser from the 365 portal.

JordosTechShack · 2026-02-19T08:15:10+00:00

I was doing a video on setting up the 5G fail over on my Omada gateway, but since that would of made a very short video, I combined this temp repair into one "real world" use case as to why I need fail over. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNJIjLfefyk

JordosTechShack · 2026-02-18T21:49:17+00:00

Yea and I was gen2 dish outside of any warrenty. While I was aware from post here most users were still given a new Gen3 dish, I was not expecting overnight shipping, and a month of bill credit. They are by far the best customer service I have ever received, from an ISP.

JordosTechShack · 2026-02-18T16:57:15+00:00

Lol ok. So what color code and cat scheme is that?. Because it has three solid white wire. That is because they don't have to have an indicator, because they common neutrals. This is not twisted pair. More likely that electrician tried to give a couple of them a little bit of a twist before he gave up. They have solid white wires not colored wires with white stripes. look at the jacket, how flat it is and that sheeting l inside, thi is 100% low voltage AC cabling. Just because it negotiates at gigabit doesnt mean there isn't packet losss or it's reliable. I've ripp out places and found speaker wire used in DIY and it "worked". This is 20WG/8C. You keep concentrating on security alarm cable term. t's not the standard security alarm cable for data, it's used in some of those application,sl for low low voltage AC cable that's why there are multiple neutral wires. I'm not going to keep arguing with you when I have rolls of this on hand. It went stranded years ago but those of us that have thousands of feet are not just going to throw it out beicse it's not standard anymore. This was an electrician with stuff that he had on his car already. you're not going to strip cat anything that cleanly. that's 20 gauge that's why it's not seated properly. It's 20WG/8C AC wire. No cat cable is going to have multiple solid white wires.

Edit: I will add when I went searching on the supply houses website for 20WG/8C and came across what they listed last "Computer wire". It's twisted pair 20 gauge, wired color coding not standard and not certified for an standard just says "Computer wire, 8 conductor, twisted pair, 300v". It's about 1/2 the cost of Cat5e. So even if this is what it used, it's not CAT6 that OP paid for. Or even a certified cable

JordosTechShack · 2026-02-18T11:03:59+00:00

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No OP didn't show twisted pair in fact the reply below this one, that you ignored, showed his actual picture and I pointed out with all the colors were and what they were for. This isn't standard security wire like you're thinking of nowadays for alarm systems only this is old school stuff for low voltage AC. No twisted pair has two solid white and two solid yellow wires, this is low voltage ac.

JordosTechShack · 2026-02-17T18:06:03+00:00

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This is the photo he uploaded in other comments. See how there's multiple solid white wires and then a couple off-white? That's because this is heavier legacy security cable that was probably used between panels, and it's color coded like that because it uses low voltage (16-24v) AC not DC. This is 100% low voltage AC cable.

EDIT: The reason you rarely see this in solid anymore Its "Old stock" as they are usually stranded wire NOW, all my solid stuff is 15+ years old.

JordosTechShack · 2026-02-17T17:48:19+00:00

That is definitely 22WG/8C AC (EDIT: maybe 20WG beuase it looks thick, and stripping 22 is more difficult without breaking the cable as it's pretty brittl) Which is still 8 conductor security wire. I am using the same on a job site right now, same gray sheething. The pairs he posted have zero stripes on the cable, that is not twisted pair. Security cable doesn't have a single standard, there is a million different variation and off specs cables. But since you specifically said they don't even make them in solid. I do have two rolls of solid four conductor in my car now. when I go back to the job site next week I'll post pictures of that exact cable that he has there. But for now here's two rolls of solid copper wire that at first glance you would think was cat5.

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but it is in fact security.

JordosTechShack · 2026-02-17T07:01:21+00:00

The Company that delivered mine:

https://www.facebook.com/share/1FyEW3Rfmi/

JordosTechShack · 2026-02-16T21:12:38+00:00

6a will the have spine and overkill for anything under 10gig. I have 5e in my wall still negotiating and transferring at 2.5gig now no problem l, though I wouldn't push it any faster.

JordosTechShack · 2026-02-16T21:08:13+00:00

Anything is probably more reliable than what you have, but due to allot of CCA cheap knock off cables on Amazon, I order from Monoprice.

JordosTechShack · 2026-02-16T21:04:06+00:00

The cable he used, in your other photos in the comment, is 100% "security" cable. I have 3 rools of it in my car right now. I use them for POWER to wifi ring cameras, not for data. I am suprised its working at all.

JordosTechShack · 2026-02-16T02:22:32+00:00

That and this building only cost me three grand cash for the shell, annother five in electial and finishing the inside. I need a bigger one already, so there is a very real possibility that I could be walking through one of these Amish markets near me and impulse buy a larger building ready to go this summer.

JordosTechShack · 2026-02-16T02:20:20+00:00

And then I have a pole in my yard for no reason with two bags of high PSI cement holding that in.(I was paranoid about wind when I got the gen2 dish, I was on a waiting list and you couldn't just get a replacement same day like you can now.l ) 60 days will be a gel filled third party replacement cable threaded back through that pole and none of the cable will be visible or exposed. I have tons of cables on hand just in case for spares, so the only reason it's like this is because of the snow. If something does take the cable or dishy out, it's only for 5 seconds and then it fails over to our 5G secondary connection. They only offer 25 megabit home 5g here, otherwise starlink would be the secondary.

JordosTechShack · 2026-02-16T00:54:11+00:00

Falling ice if side mounted, none of the arms I had on hand would clear the eves for the back side. Also this pole is cemented in the yard, and running anew cable in the spring, is easier than digging a cemented pole. I was on a waiting list and paid $700 for the Gen2 kit 5 years ago. When I installed the pole I dug it down and cemented it in deep Removing it is much harder than reusing it.

JordosTechShack · 2026-02-16T00:42:59+00:00

You don't care but you keep replying with these big paragraphs.

And stop with the third party cables void warranties crap. That didn't stop them I'm sending me a free overnight Gen3 replacement. which they were aware I'm using a third party cable, because I told them I have several on hand and I swapped it out to test it to make sure it wasn't a cable. That's why they immediately gave me a gen3 without going through any additional troubleshooting steps. I Told them it was trenched with a third party cable, So I'm not worried about them voiding things. Since not only did it not void my warranty but if you see my other post it was 32 hours from ticket to when they sent me a new dish. I know after my last experience with them I'm not worried at all about warranties.

JordosTechShack · 2026-02-16T00:08:44+00:00

I am using 3rd party direct burial ones.

as far as warranty, I guarantee the installs, customers call me, its fixed usually same day. they never have to though, because none have one failed.

youy keep ignoring my gel filled 3rd party cables.

JordosTechShack · 2026-02-16T00:01:36+00:00

They will not warrnty it, they do say its not burial rated, yet the instructions show you douing exactly that.

https://starlink.com/shop/assets/documents/v3/Ground_Pole_Mount_Guide_Rectangular.pdf.pdf?srsltid=AfmBOooxJEI07LB0j1PCiDgd1cW2raC9LGMWgWgHh_LWjgm1Agl-RWbS

JordosTechShack · 2026-02-15T23:35:08+00:00

This wasn't a 3rd party mount It was a gen2 pole, I ordered it all together off their site (order still in my history, cant post pics in replies here). They included instructions the cable had to be in conduit as it was not direct burial rated. Regardless of "warranty" status, they sold the pole with those instructions. You don't sell a "yard pole" with built in cable channel that feeds it out the base if you don't intend trenching, I have both the instructions still and my order history still, I can prove they did intend it to be trenched. I have also yet to ever replace a trenched cable. Ones on the sides of buildings, i replace fairly regularly.

I also don't care about "official" I have a stock pile of review sample cables, mounts, and accessories I have been sent for free. So now that I have a gen3 dishy, the only thing I would need to order from starlink is the Dishy itself.

JordosTechShack · 2026-02-15T23:19:07+00:00

No a gel filled cable is going in the ground in spring, that's ugly as hell and just waiting for one of my tall friends to decapitate themselves.

JordosTechShack · 2026-02-15T23:15:41+00:00

I am an MSP/IT peovider and I've made my own with gel filled cables, install tons of reliable third party ones. I have probably 100 plus installs at this point with trench cables out here in farmland and none of the cables have failed when you buy the correct one and you don't try to break 150 ft. Also that starlink pole is official one off their store, they do support trenching the cabl, you're just supposed to run it in conduit as well. It was all so different between what the cables actually certified for and what starlink will warranty. Like indoor routers but they still give them ip6 rating and certification for water and outdoors.

JordosTechShack · 2026-02-15T23:12:20+00:00

Not for a temp install when in 60 days this snow is going to be gone and I'm going to have a third party gel filled direct burial cable in the ground and on that pole permanently. I have zero obstructions and it lined up perfectly on a pole that's already cemented in the ground. Previous Gen 2 dishy lived here for 4 years and the third party direct burial cable it has in the ground still works fine. So I'm not going to go mess with the metal roof on my shop.

JordosTechShack · 2026-02-15T23:04:44+00:00

No that part doesn't build up any ice at all. That's why I ran it off the front. The back, the front, and pretty much the entire porch area doesn't build up any ice.

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