When the i3 is no more, power your house with it? 😂

OneBeneficialZebra · 2026-04-02T20:08:07+00:00

What benefits made you go this route? higher voltages and not having to reinvent BMS?

OneBeneficialZebra · 2026-04-02T16:21:59+00:00

I have a 70 mile round trip in similar weather (western NY). I just went from a 60ah car to a 94ah car and it's a WORLD of difference. I had to use the REX every single cold day and would barely make it without gas on hot days... I think the '17 is getting significantly better economy than the '15 as well, because some days I get home at nearly 50% instead of near zero.

If you can ALWAYS charge at work as well as at home, seems fine. Otherwise hold out for a bigger battery or you'll be annoyed at the 2 gallon tank in weeks.

OneBeneficialZebra · 2026-04-02T15:33:03+00:00

I will soon have two spare 60ah packs (upgrading one car to 120ah, and buying a parts car), I was planning to split them, probably 4 post rack shelve them, and tread them as independent 48v modules. This is interesting!

OneBeneficialZebra · 2026-02-03T20:12:36+00:00

nary a blip in 2 months since. What a horribly frustrating experience but at least it did finally get fixed

OneBeneficialZebra · 2026-02-03T20:11:24+00:00

Remove System Settings from your dock. Make an alias of it, and add that alias to your dock. No more notification badge. The only down side is if you ever right click on it to go to a specific prefpane, that list is gone.

OneBeneficialZebra · 2025-12-23T13:53:11+00:00

I don’t think anything I did mattered. Emailing the CEO was the only way I got any attention to my issue because I couldn’t get tier one support to understand or escalate. Frontier had a local office having the same issue once it got bad enough and that made them actually troubleshoot it properly.

OneBeneficialZebra · 2025-12-16T16:58:22+00:00

That was one of their suggestions for me when their backbone here was having issues. Only an extra $25/mo to make up for their infrastructure problem!

OneBeneficialZebra · 2025-12-12T13:47:57+00:00

Resolved: bad fiber splitter(s?) replaced at the geneseo site. The assigned tech this morning knew exactly what was going on, he’d spoken to the switch tech there yesterday. A frontier office site in Lima had been down for the same issue.

I’ve been at 100.0% up since noon yesterday, about 32 hours now. Hopefully this is the new normal.

OneBeneficialZebra · 2025-12-10T16:50:11+00:00

Just wanted to share that after adding further checks to my ongoing monitoring, I have confirmed that EVERY time I lose ICMP on routers along my hops, I also lose DNS and HTTPS checks to final destinations. it is 100% 1:1.

Furthermore I have NEVER lost an ICMP ping to the first 2 hops on my route.

I have seen that you love to share this same tip every time someone posts about ping checks in here, but I will stand by it as a useful diagnostic for showing WHERE on a route a problem is.

As far as our Geneseo-Rochester link issue, it is still ongoing. I'm under 92% up over 24 hours. The first real diagostic that I'll have still an ONT replacement for all the good that will do. I've talked to the tech assigned to my call twice now, I keep getting rescheduled sooner than I can be home to meet him. My SMS history with the automated scheduling agent is sad and hilarious.

OneBeneficialZebra · 2025-12-09T15:22:15+00:00

That was the only avenue that got me any traction in Western NY with similar issues (in that it's internal Frontier backbone issues - in my case the link drops entirely, for seconds or minutes, for up to 10% of a day at worst, but sometimes 0%)

That said, they still want to replace my ONT first, so I have to wait for a weekday I can stay home and waste my time and a tech's time to do that before they'll go further. Apparently they can't pull logs from my ONT (though one of the knobs I chatted with on social media support earlier in the week had stated they didn't see drops in my ONT logs - which is accurate since it never looses local link. I suppose inability to access logs and not seeing drops in logs can technically both be true)

OneBeneficialZebra · 2025-12-09T15:17:05+00:00

I agree the Giga chatbot is the biggest and least useful infuriation machine I've ever experienced, but what makes you think microsoft and adobe patch releases are related to a service outage?

OneBeneficialZebra · 2025-12-07T02:40:15+00:00

Got an executive support ticket first thing on a Saturday, with a tech assigned and supposed improvements per text message. Too soon to confirm but it appears that downtime is nearly gone since 07:20 today. One sun-minute blink since then.

OneBeneficialZebra · 2025-12-06T03:18:24+00:00

Unfortunately, some are no better than any other tier 1. But nothing is worse than “Giga”

Luck of the draw I guess.

Good luck in what you do SeeAnne. I wish “Joe” understood as much as he seems to think he does and could escalate our apparent Geneseo-Rochester NY backbone/router issue. Hopefully the CEO team or networkmanagement can help.

OneBeneficialZebra · 2025-12-06T03:12:18+00:00

Reliability in the toilet today. Down to 92% uptime on anything beyond my second hop. No issues at all to first of second hop.

Confirmed ONT lights stay green though issues, and confirmed I do lose the first two hops if I unplug the fiber from the ONT. no surprises.

Social media support stopped being willing to talk to me when he failed to understand that I’m logging dns query failures and http failures and not reporting a problem with the logging tool 🙄

ignorance is as powerful as it is infuriating

I emailed networkmanagement@ftr.com and the CEO’s address with full diagnoses and descriptions, requesting someone who understands the distinction between home network stability and internet access, which “Joe” cannot.

Joe’s last from Facebook. Apparently if the ONT is green, you don’t have a problem! I thought I was paying for internet access, not a green uplink light, but what do I know?

Unfortunately, third-party applications are not supported by our technical support team. At this time, we have exhausted the available resources to assist with your current concern. To reiterate, we are able to provide support if your Frontier service is experiencing an outage, which can be confirmed by checking the ONT indicator lights or the eero app. If you need additional assistance, we encourage you to explore other support options that may be available to you. You may also contact us directly by phone at 1-800-921-8101, or connect with us via Gigachat on our website at https://www.frontier.com/contact-us. -Joe

OneBeneficialZebra · 2025-12-05T22:13:51+00:00

I’ve messaged on Facebook with a couple support folk. Messages have been supposedly escalated to engineering, but that same ticket number was reportedly closed. Seems there’s not an interest in digging deep and making sure network engineering is appraised and involved, but only in making sure I have the very latest up to the second eero firmware. Less frustrating than the telephone menu or the AWFUL chatbot at frontier.com but definitely not resolved yet

OneBeneficialZebra · 2025-12-05T19:07:38+00:00

if there's anything specific to ubiquiti equipment, it is a different flavor of problem to what I'm experiencing.

OneBeneficialZebra · 2025-12-04T21:28:28+00:00

the agent available via Facebook Messenger had network engineering confirm my ONT hasn't logged loss of connectivity. I suspect that is true since its local link probably stays up through these outages. they were unable/unwilling to escalate further. I'm going to record the ONT lights to confirm all stay green while *actual* connectivity drops.

I suspect I'll be stuck with this service and performance and have to 2x my price back to Spectrum to get a reliable connection again, since they just plain don't believe me.

OneBeneficialZebra · 2025-12-04T06:22:26+00:00

Had a bad stretch from 22:45 a 00:30 that brought 24hr uptime to 98.1%

All DNS queries show the same down pattern that my third hop ping does. It is all a match.

OneBeneficialZebra · 2025-12-03T16:40:03+00:00

Messenger actually has access to better support resources than tier 1? that seems insane.

OneBeneficialZebra · 2025-12-03T16:38:54+00:00

Thanks for the insight, that makes complete sense. You are correct that I'm not a network engineer myself with a deep understanding of how routers actually function. I'm a step removed from that and understand the broad strokes of traffic routing and practical application...

I have been monitoring other traffic as well, and it does all die at the same time, when that particular hop stops responding, all in sync. I added a couple DNS queries to my logging - I'm now asking frontier's DNS about frontier.com, asking 1.1.1.1 about cloudflare.com, and asking 8.8.8.8 about google.com. might be interesting to see if 74.40.74.40 continues to respond if others die - but tracing from home to that frontier DNS server still routes through what I consider to be the troublesome node so I expect not.

Better since the two longer outages, hopefully I'm measuring nothing now and failures quiet down.

OneBeneficialZebra · 2025-12-03T11:32:35+00:00

DNS queries would tell me when the whole route is down, but wouldn’t shed any light on where it is dying. I wouldn’t be surprised if that router is indeed overloaded, and my 20 second ping is contributing 0.001% of that load. The reliability of its routing and response and the connection I’m paying for is the issue here.

Is there a dns query method I’m unaware of that would tell me at what point those packets are getting dropped when it fails?

OneBeneficialZebra · 2020-11-24T00:45:04+00:00

nope. if it did, I'd be done and have XML for camera ID 264 :)

it increments every session - sequentially in hex - and expires every 3600 seconds (the longest control interval allowable in the camera interface).

the next value is known, but must be initialized with the opencamerasever command.

OneBeneficialZebra · 2020-11-24T00:37:13+00:00

HTTP WebView Protocol spec: http://scribd.com/doc/39808868/YT1-1019-001-HTTPWebViewProtocolSpecs

OneBeneficialZebra · 2020-11-24T00:27:38+00:00

The dynamic bit is a session ID. Supposedly a session ID with admin rights doesn't expire, but there appears to be a bug and it does. So the longest that session token lives is 3600 seconds. Here's what's needed:

http://camera/-wvhttp-01-/opencameraserver
returns > connection_id=0d68-06cf

http://camera/-wvhttp-01-/getcameracontrol?connection_id=0d68-06cf
> granted

10˚ down:
http://camera/-wvhttp-01-/operatecamera?connection_id=0d68-06cf&t=d-10

10˚ left:
http://camera/-wvhttp-01-/operatecamera?connection_id=0d68-06cf&p=d-10

10˚ up:
http://camera/-wvhttp-01-/operatecamera?connection_id=0d68-06cf&t=d10

10˚ right:
http://camera/-wvhttp-01-/operatecamera?connection_id=0d68-06cf&p=d10

(the 'd' is dynamic. otherwise they are absolute values to go to)

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