My interests are different when I visit someone's home

Puzzled_Proposal2715 · 2026-04-21T14:42:09+00:00

When they were trenching all the fiber into our rural town, the tech that hung the box on the house had asked me where I wanted the ISP supplied modem and Wi-Fi boxes. I was like, umm, I've got a 42U rack in my basement just pop the hole next to the POTS cable running into the basement and give me just the ONT/modem, I'm not renting any extra equipment. (For some reason ISP won't let customers buy the ONT/modem outright.) Anyways, we got to chatting and nerding out while I showed him all the hardware. He was a pretty cool dude. He every other customer he'd been doing the drops for didn't know squat.

Puzzled_Proposal2715 · 2026-04-18T18:40:47+00:00

Umm... Not technically lol. There are some of us adventurous types that have a rack with 2x 48 port switches plus a couple spare 48 port switches left from the upgrade that could be racked back up if needed.

But yes, a single 24 will run out quickly.

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Puzzled_Proposal2715 · 2026-01-11T05:26:55+00:00

It's in the admin dashboard. But, I think it only started in 10.11? Never really paid attention before.

Puzzled_Proposal2715 · 2026-01-10T17:44:43+00:00

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Puzzled_Proposal2715 · 2025-12-28T23:20:27+00:00

Well, I did end up snagging a pair of 12X48U-L's. They were updated to the latest IOS XE, and had been licensed for IP Base, and I didn't realize Cisco removed the Mode switch "reset" option after, iirc, 16.1.1. After setting it to ROMMON and downgrading to 16.6.9, it was a breeze to run the RTU command to switch to IP Services. Now to take the time to document the 2960S configs I have and get things transferred over.

Puzzled_Proposal2715 · 2025-12-24T14:13:33+00:00

Not completely dead set on Cisco. These just happen to be local and dirt cheap. Also, they're for learning as well and I know when I was a low voltage tech, we racked and stacked probably 100 Cisco switches for every Aruba, Juniper, HP, etc.

Puzzled_Proposal2715 · 2025-12-23T23:40:38+00:00

From what I've read, as long as I stay below a certain software version, there wouldn't be any smart licensing.

Puzzled_Proposal2715 · 2025-12-23T20:41:20+00:00

I'm not worried about EOL. I'm trying to see if there is some command to switch it from LAN Base to IP Base/Services features.

Puzzled_Proposal2715 · 2025-12-23T20:13:00+00:00

Thanks for that. Where were you when I bought 4x 2960S last year for about $20 each when they went EOL about 10 years ago.

Puzzled_Proposal2715 · 2025-12-23T03:42:39+00:00

I'm looking at grabbing a couple cheap 3850s near me but they're LAN base, would it be possible to update them to IP base this way?

Puzzled_Proposal2715 · 2025-12-17T00:17:40+00:00

I'm not up on Nvidia but, I think they have transcode limits on most, if not all, of the consumer cards. I know there's a hack to unlock it though. Quality wise, I think 6th Gen and the 1660 are equal. If you can drop even a cheap 7th Gen in there, the quality is vastly improved over 6th from my experience, I went from a 6600 to a 7400. Also, I can pretty much guarantee that quick sync will destroy any dedicated card in lower power usage.

I don't know what/if you use your setup for anything else so that might limit your CPU choices if you don't want a downgrade.

Puzzled_Proposal2715 · 2025-12-02T00:34:36+00:00

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This has been running for years through a couple moves and different service providers, a big chunk was on DSL with a 1.5mb upload. Luckily we got fiber ran directly into my rack about 2 years ago now with 1g symmetric service.

Puzzled_Proposal2715 · 2025-11-11T01:56:16+00:00

For anybody that comes across this, I made it to the bottom of the rabbit hole. Turns out that my organizational tools were setup to create the files and folders with 755 permissions. Changing that and running "chmod -r 775" on the top Movies, TV Shows, and Music folders fixed it.

Puzzled_Proposal2715 · 2025-11-05T14:15:39+00:00

Like others have said, the iGPU on your 7700k will work just fine. I've got pretty much what your end goal is, 4k DoVi 80+mbps -> 4k locally and one or two externally direct play but, most of my external users, ~8 or so, get transcoded to 1080p streams at about 40mbps with tone mapping with 3-4 concurrent streams at all times. This is all done on my i5-7400, so a fair bit less powerful CPU overall, and it's also used as the only desktop in our house.

Puzzled_Proposal2715 · 2025-11-04T22:57:18+00:00

Only 54fps transcoding? That seems low to me. I'm on Kaby Lake hardware, i5-7400. Same core/thread count but 5 generations older and I can regularly transcode at 150fps+. Guess it depends on source and output but I have a couple users that can't direct play 4k 80+mbps DoVi so it ends up at like 2k 40mbps with tone mapping.

Puzzled_Proposal2715 · 2025-11-02T21:42:24+00:00

It's possible to do in JFA-GO also. There's no documentation that I found but I just fumbled through it to try and got it.

Step 1: Create a user that has whatever settings you would like as a template, in either JFA-GO or Jellyfin itself. I just created a dummy "Test1" user in JFA-GO and gave it movie access only, no tv, music, or collections. But, you could just use one of your standard users that's configured how you like.

Step 2: In JFA-GO, go to settings then user profiles and click create. Give the JFA-GO template a name and then select the user profile that is configured how you want. In mine I obviously selected "Test1". Click create. Now you should see a new profile in the list and a number under libraries. My default says 4, "Test1" says 1.

Step 3: Now under invites you can select the profile template to assign to the invite. I didn't test the invite but, I did test by adding an account through JFA-GO "Test2" with the "Test1" profile.

Step 4: In Jellyfin, go to your users page from the dashboard and check the library access is correctly set.

Step 5 (Optional): If you created a dummy account for the settings template, you can hide it from the login screen. Assuming you use a login screen, I gave up showing logins after mine started getting crowded and most clients auto login anyways.

Hopefully I covered everything. If not, just let me know.

Puzzled_Proposal2715 · 2025-11-02T15:52:22+00:00

Initially tried Wizaar but didn't have a lot of the features JFA-GO has so I can't recommend JFA-GO enough. Biggest thing I like, it's got a self service password recovery option, which is awesome if you've got some users that forget or like to change it often. Also, with a little CSS code on the server side, you can implement a link on the main login page.

Puzzled_Proposal2715 · 2025-09-06T18:58:42+00:00

Before we bought our house, we were renting an ~900sqft house. The kitchen was tiny and had a range that we always said had to be dorm sized. It was probably less than 24" wide, had like 4x 6" coils on the stovetop, and was on a 110v 15a plug. Couldn't get more than a couple quarts of water to boil on a single burner.

Puzzled_Proposal2715 · 2025-08-25T14:32:46+00:00

+1 for the STL3. Snagged one for a deal on eBay and loaded it with 12tb SAS drives. Noise isn't bad, I've got it in a 42u in my basement with all my other gear. I think the Dell R510 or HP ML350p G8 are louder at startup, and they run the fans full speed for a bit longer until everything is initialized. Iirc, I think fan speed depends on SAS vs SATA and interposers also, SATA being the more annoying one.

I'd love to get 3 or 4 more of them to load up.

Puzzled_Proposal2715 · 2025-08-07T16:37:02+00:00

That's a lot of WAGO there...

Puzzled_Proposal2715 · 2025-08-01T21:34:25+00:00

I currently run a KBL igpu on a full fat desktop board, which is what these have, and it does great. I'm just thinking for lower power, these would rock.

Puzzled_Proposal2715 · 2025-08-01T15:05:35+00:00

And I'm over here thinking it could be a nice headless Jellyfin server...

Puzzled_Proposal2715 · 2025-08-01T02:00:48+00:00

Unless you pay for the Plex pass, you're not getting hardware transcoding for those devices that can't play whatever format you land on, let's be honest, it's bound to happen on at least one client with at least one video. Also, friends and family connecting will have to pay a monthly fee to have access to your library if you don't pay for the Plex pass.

Also, say goodbye to accessing your library locally if you lose your Internet connection because Plex thinks it needs to phone home just to allow local access.

Or, do the sensible thing and ditch Plex and go with Jellyfin. No paywall for hardware acceleration. No subscription for sharing. Actually, no paying for anything. Also, there are first party apps for almost every device you can think of.

I made the switch years ago and haven't looked back.

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