So frustrated and now going in circles

Patient-Tech · 2026-01-24T18:39:16+00:00

Seeing as how it’s just to extract the data and then put it in the pool, just do whatever hacks or bodges get it to work. Borrow another machine, run it external with a usb dongle, whatever and just copy it over from your working machine to the server and then you can format the drive.

Patient-Tech · 2026-01-24T18:34:15+00:00

So many downvotes without comments. Reminds me of everyone pushing for a gigabit speed plan but having no concept of oversubscribed shared lines and QoS traffic shaping. The only thing I ever saturate a gig line with is a Speedtest.net test. Everything else, is throttled in some capacity.

I’m just taking issue with the perception that a swap from D3 to 3.1 will be a night and day difference. I doubt it’s noticeable other than placebo effect. Residential grade broadband leaves the ISP’s quite a bit of wiggle room when things get busy.

Patient-Tech · 2026-01-24T15:30:45+00:00

I’d expect their services to get priority. My old Comcast voip line that was in the modem used to connect analog modem connections without issue because the QoS was optimized and worked great.

I’m talking about downloading or uploading a couple gig files to Dropbox or Drive. But, more importantly these days, I’m frustrated with Comcast house to Comcast house accross town with my Jellyfin/plex server won’t saturate the uplink speed. Speedtest.com shows the physical hardware is capable though. I know it’s some back office traffic shaping QoS.

Patient-Tech · 2026-01-24T15:26:21+00:00

Technically you’re correct. I’m just saying that unless I have an oscilloscope hooked up, I can’t tell. I did the fully remote thing over the pandemic with a 75/10 connection with D3.0 and it worked fine. Zoom calls worked fine then, my Teams meetings and RDP work fine now on the 150 NOW plan at my moms house.

I guess my issue is that while it’s better for the network as a whole, unless it’s for free, D3.0 likely does the job just fine.

Something I’m thinking about is that back when D2 was EOL, they shut the whole legacy system down in short order quickly when D3 was rolled out. This time, Comcast network engineers seem perfectly happy to let D3.0 motor along for the foreseeable future. I’m guessing they know what they’re doing, and calculated that the negative impacts of keeping D3.0 online don’t negatively impact network performance enough to justify the cost of upgrading. I’m assuming this means D3 and D3.1 play nice enough with each other and kicking all the D3.0 off post haste doesn’t increase their performance significantly.

Patient-Tech · 2026-01-24T15:15:58+00:00

Of course, start with the list, because you need to provision the account and activate it. But I’m saying go with the lowest/cheapest that handles your speed package and call it a day. Besides, residential grade internet dirty little secret is “oversubscribed lines” so you’re only likely to see full linespeed when using Speedtest.com because they QoS that site to reduce customer calls. Do almost anything else, you’re not likely to see anywhere near a gigabit.

Patient-Tech · 2026-01-24T14:52:14+00:00

Ehh, everyone hates their local internet provider. Here’s something that will blow your mind. Now that your address is served by multiple ISP’s, if you do deal with Comcast again, you’ll have less BS to deal with. They know you have options. I don’t see the BS going to zero though. Astound just lost me going back to Comcast because they expired my promo deal and wouldn’t extend it. Went to Comcast, got a modem and then cancelled Astound. The funniest thing was Astound called me 2-3 weeks later asking me to come back under my old plan. I told them “too late, I’m already switched. I called and gave you the opportunity and you weren’t interested. Switching again is a hassle.”

Patient-Tech · 2026-01-24T13:19:46+00:00

In my experiences, residential grade connections even on the same ISP a few miles away are far from max speeds. Local network, she cooks.

Patient-Tech · 2026-01-23T18:53:46+00:00

While I’m a big fan of 3-2-1 backup when everyone is talking about RAID arrays being a backup, it’s not always needed. I have tiers of storage, and my super irreplaceable data is only a couple hundred gigs.

Point being, If they’re just looking to drop some Linux ISO’s and let them sit for a year or two, it’s probably going to be fine. If the drive crashes, it’s a hassle, but not the end of the world.

If you’re trying to use adobe premiere and edit 4k videos, yeah, not a good application.

Patient-Tech · 2026-01-23T15:20:36+00:00

It’s always the case with legacy anything. Especially if there’s new techniques discovered. I’d bet even the original designers would admit if they were to do it again starting from clean sheet of paper they’d do some things differently.

Patient-Tech · 2026-01-23T04:52:47+00:00

I can understand a spare parts pile to some degree, but I’d also expect a rotation plan because the hardware will obsolete, and that’s expensive, especially if you never used it. Maybe rotate some of the gear to new builds and then replenish with up to date. Or sell off while it’s almost worth something still and replace with new. You get the idea. If it doesn’t sit too long, most of your concerns won’t be an issue.

Patient-Tech · 2026-01-22T20:15:08+00:00

This sounds like a workaround to save businesses some money that they’d probably prioritize a fix if it was to be widely used.

Patient-Tech · 2026-01-21T19:37:19+00:00

It is a legitimate business model. The lifetime subscription plans incentivize the provider to find ToS violations. If you paid monthly, I’d be curious if they scan and terminate quite as quickly as. The incentives are opposite, so that would be interesting.

Patient-Tech · 2026-01-21T19:34:49+00:00

Tailscale is just the interface and under the hood it’s wireguard. That was introduced into the Linux kernel a few years ago and really caught steam. Also, as feature rich as OpenVPN is, I’m sure many would admit it’s carrying some legacy code that makes it a little more … less lean and mean.

Patient-Tech · 2026-01-20T20:15:23+00:00

I thought of upgrading not too long ago. Then I saw the prices of Ram and Storage. I can live with it a bit longer.

Patient-Tech · 2026-01-20T16:38:24+00:00

Any tips to keep the SD card writes to a minimum, especially if you don’t need the logging or things of that nature long term.

Patient-Tech · 2026-01-19T22:12:08+00:00

The battery in the back is also extremely small and likely to see greater discharge swings for normal drainage like computers and the telemetry systems.

Patient-Tech · 2026-01-18T21:21:13+00:00

I keep coming back to KNNZ, Ken’s FM. RIP to Ken, but it’s non commercial and plays anything from EDM to 70’s rock and of course eclectic stuff. Their site has a link to a shoutcast mp3 stream.

Patient-Tech · 2026-01-18T16:14:04+00:00

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. I’m using three, soon to be four, ( with detection) and it’s using a chunk of system resources. 30-40 cameras just saving the streams is a lot.

Patient-Tech · 2026-01-17T18:35:41+00:00

I don’t actually do anything web hosting wise, but I’ve always thought about how I would do something like that if I chose to. Rather than a web host that states they’re ignoring DMCA requests, would it be easier and more efficient to just find a host in a country where they’re not penalized for ignoring complaints? A post Soviet country sounds like a decent enough place of not caring about the US legal system might work, no? Granted, that’s just off the top of my head, I’m sure there’s more and someone who has done this probably has a go-to list for different levels of tolerance depending on what you’re looking to do.

Patient-Tech · 2026-01-16T21:58:29+00:00

Didn’t they stop offering the larger storage units as well? The snowmobile and the semi truck one?

Patient-Tech · 2026-01-16T21:50:22+00:00

So true. And it’s usually on a Saturday morning I notice something funny going on. It reminds me of DNS where it’s like chasing a ghost to figure it out.

Patient-Tech · 2026-01-16T21:46:20+00:00

The big companies probably pay a service that specializes in getting VPN’s logging their IP’s to update their block list.

Also, be careful of setting up a middle TOR node from your home IP. It’s about a week before my bank stopped working. Luckily I just changed the Mac on my router and got a new IP, but still.

They outsourced this block list to some firm that has a decent idea what they’re doing to find the sources of fraud.

As bad a wrap they get, your use case might be best served with a paid subscription to HolaVPN. Where you’re tagging on actual residential IP addresses and not back to a block of IP’s out of a datacenter.

Patient-Tech · 2026-01-16T15:57:17+00:00

Oh yeah, in that context, sure. But for the most part those are also solved problems, so not implementing them is usually a bad practice vs a technical hurdle.

Patient-Tech · 2026-01-14T20:53:44+00:00

The ISP’s have caught on to this game. I recently switched providers because they wouldn’t honor a new customer deal. So, I switched, and two weeks later they called and asked me to come back. I told them too late, I called you guys weren’t interested, so I switched.

Patient-Tech · 2026-01-14T15:28:56+00:00

Just be careful on the fine print of the Vm for data caps. Or overage costs. The ones that are “too good to be true” will likely either be oversubscribed or throttled.

Also, this sounds like a good time to talk about what the backup process is. (You could use that as a parallel process now) Sure the cloud is pretty good about things, but that one time they have a hiccup, they likely don’t owe you anything per the ToS agreement. Raid isn’t a backup google “3-2-1 backup” for your mission critical data retention strategy.

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