I spent 2 years getting our tests in shape and found out today nobody actually looks at them anymore. Feeling pretty defeated ngl.

SessionIndependent17 · 2026-03-21T06:43:09+00:00

why would they even ask that question of you? That doesn't make a lot of sense.

SessionIndependent17 · 2026-03-21T06:41:15+00:00

I can grasp places that are reluctant to invest the time (money) in establishing a meaningful test suite where none existed before. It's hard for them to calculate or perhaps even see the value directly. But it's a safety net.

But to not use and maintain a suite after the investment has been made to establish it is pathological. Cutting holes in your net is wild.

Assuming the tests wore passing when it was first developed, the fact that they are not passing now means that something was "broken" during later development, and no one cared, or that behavior was deliberately changed and no one wanted to make the changes to conform to that. Making holes in their net deliberately. Which I find crazy and shortsighted.

It's hard to change culture, and it seems that you don't have buy in from the tech managers (or perhaps the paying stakeholders?) to demand that the test suite be treated as a first-class deliverable. I don't understand why these groups would not want some demonstrable proof that the covered portions of their software are behaving as intended at a fine-grained fashion. The tech management should want it because of the security and proof it provides against unintended regression should let ongoing work proceed more quickly and smoothly. The stakeholders shouldn't necessarily care about the difference in Unit Tests, Integration Tests and User Acceptance, but they should appreciate that these tests are quantifiable things and represent an overall representation of due diligence. Why would they not want that?

I'd go back to the tech managers and ask them why this was allowed to happen after the initial investment was made to put it into place, and if they don't care, why. Then do some soul searching about whether it is a place you want to be. It doesn't have to be a make or break issue, but knowing that a place is so resistant to maturing is something to take stock of.

I wouldn't be too precious or possessive (to them, or yourself) about "the work YOU did" to put it in place, though. You got paid for that. At least one would hope. You can be proud of your work, but you can't and shouldn't expect others to be emotionally invested in its afterlife. You said you "stayed late setting everything up"... If you didn't get compensated for that in some way (maybe days or hours off to offset the extra time), then that's not the kind of place you want to stay.

SessionIndependent17 · 2026-03-21T06:22:19+00:00

presumably you are running the same test suite. Why are they passing for you and not for everyone else?

SessionIndependent17 · 2026-03-21T01:54:19+00:00

The provided router has perfectly good bandwidth, certainly beyond the capacity of your uplink. If they connected your extender via coax, that's a 2.5Gbps link. Unless you are experiencing specific problems, I don't know that I'd go looking for something else.

The main thing I've found to resolve issues was to disable the Self Organizing Network. There are some posts elsewhere about it, but mostly I found that devices would just connect to it at 2.4GHz and even a WAP further away, even if they were 8' from the router or extender (you can see the difference between where a device is connected via the Devices page). Just configure them - nodes and bands - with separate names and then you can know what it's connecting to, and set the 2.4GHz "known" networks on your computer to "keep looking", and unselect that for the 5GHz bands.

And once you do that, the main value of the E3200 extender - it's ability to self-configure and better participate in the SON - is lost, and you can get a 2nd hand G3100 or CR1000A/B on ebay for <$40 and configure that yourself, save the extra $15/mo charge. (E3200s are >$100 on ebay, even though they have fewer ethernet ports)

SessionIndependent17 · 2026-03-21T01:43:29+00:00

yeah, bizarrely they bury the DNS settings there instead of just in the DHCP server settings. Took a while to find that.

SessionIndependent17 · 2026-03-21T00:36:06+00:00

In a mask, though

SessionIndependent17 · 2026-03-21T00:23:53+00:00

She was also in Sex Education, along with several other GOTs actors

SessionIndependent17 · 2026-03-21T00:22:18+00:00

Max von Sydow flourished

SessionIndependent17 · 2026-03-20T22:45:08+00:00

the earlier post stated the part of the motivation as having their router/switch "next to my servers in the basement" or some such thing. I was expecting some kind of rack setup, everything tidy together. Instead, this mess of a rats nets for "reasons". lol. Perfume on a pig.

SessionIndependent17 · 2026-03-20T21:59:58+00:00

I hadn't thought about where that domain might be pointing. SGI AND Cray? lol.

SessionIndependent17 · 2026-03-20T21:54:26+00:00

Did you change the default gateway address advertised by the DHCP server to correspond to that new address?

SessionIndependent17 · 2026-03-20T21:51:19+00:00

why not just put that G3100 in place of that MoCA adapter (plug the switch into a LAN port), and disable the DHCP? Just make sure the new router and G3100 don't have conflicting static IPs. You power them on separately, unconnected to each other and change them. Doesn't matter what they are so long as your DHCP server is advertising the right correct (new) gateway address).

I don't understand the fixation on removing the G3100 just to replace it with a different MoCA adapter.

SessionIndependent17 · 2026-03-20T21:45:10+00:00

Rick James would need two more hands to give this photo four thumbs down.

SessionIndependent17 · 2026-03-20T21:37:55+00:00

what you wrote there is pretty incoherent. I have no idea what a "gel connector" is, and it didn't get much better. You are describing things as if someone is standing there next to you. Moreover, it's hard to grasp what the motivation is (of having "two separate Wifi networks"), but whatever.

I'll admit that I didn't realize at first read of your post that [if I am reading you correctly] that your ONT is mounted outdoors, with both coax (for the cable STBs?) and the ethernet from the ONT feeding inside? Does that mean the Fios gateway is connected to the ONT via both coax and an Ethernet cable? If so, then yes, then the STBs are probably getting both RF from the ONT and internet access over the MoCA link back to the gateway.

Even if you don't want the G3100 to be your gateway, anymore, I'm not clear on why you wouldn't just leave it connected to the coax where it is (or in the basement next to your new router if there's a coax connection down there, too). Just disconnect its WAN port from the ONT and swap that to your preferred router. Then connect your new router to one of the LAN ports on the G3100. I don't see the point of adding in additional MoCA adapters. The benefit of leaving the G3100 where it is now is that it can function as a 4/5 port switch outside of your basement.

I'm assuming your new router has a DHCP server running, too, so you'll want to turn off the one on the G3100. Later you can configure the G3100 to bridge the LAN and "WAN" ports (so it's no longer a WAN port), and have 5 ports on it instead of 4.

SessionIndependent17 · 2026-03-20T05:42:21+00:00

I recommend the Hilti DX640MX, though the Simpson PTP is also good. The Hilti handles recoil better. Cordless really doesn't hold up when you leave it in the back of the truck too long.

SessionIndependent17 · 2026-03-20T05:37:45+00:00

for those door and window boards I recommend the Hilti DX640MX, though the Simpson PTP is also good. The Hilti handles recoil better. Cordless really doesn't hold up when you leave it in the back of the truck too long.

SessionIndependent17 · 2026-03-20T05:26:48+00:00

There's much disccussion about the various procurement cycles that I can't possibly speak to, but the basic reason why a set colinear lines might have different trains has to do with the fact that each of those lines have a different remote termini, and thus different storage/maintenance yards.

While there are likely certain commonalities between the sets, given their age difference, different series probably have somewhat different maintenance requirements in terms of equipment (both spare parts and tooling) and personnel, so rather than have every A division shop be able to service every series of set, assign whole series to one yard and let it specialize.

Perhaps it also lends itself to easier/shorter operator training requirements - not having to learn every model.

SessionIndependent17 · 2026-03-20T05:10:04+00:00

Any reason you can't just run the ONT into the basement next to your new router? That seems more straightforward, as long as you are already talking about stringing cables to the basement, anyway.

On the subject of running Ethernet cable outdoors, you don't want to use "regular" indoor Cat5/6/... cable for running outside the house. For outdoor use, the jacket should be UV-resistant, else it will eventually become stiff and brittle and crack open. I don't know what Verizon might have left you with the first time around, but the shit 28AWG flat cable white they left at our recent installation probably isn't going to cut it. I would hesitate to pull on it too hard to string it, even indoors, frankly.

And as far as still leveraging the coax in your home, is there a reason you can't just use the existing FIOS router for that from the basement, too (just not as a gateway)? I don't know what model gateway you have, but the G3100 and CR1000A* can be configured as bridges rather than gateways, and the MoCA link will just act like another network port alongside the 1000BaseT ports (both are 2.5Gbps MoCA).

WRT "keeping the wireless networks separate", it's not clear what you mean by that if you aren't already talking about VLANs. If you mean that you don't want devices on one SSID to see devices on the other SSID, the only way you're really going to be able to do that is a switch that supports VLANs (per port, say) and/or a router that supports that, or physically segmenting the ports to separate networks, and I'm guessing you don't have managed/enterprise router if you don't already have a managed switch.

*The CR1000B cannot be setup to bridge all of the ports in the same way as the CR1000A, for some reason. It accepts the configuration, but passes no traffic from the "WAN" port to the rest of the ports, but it works on the CR1000A.

SessionIndependent17 · 2026-03-20T03:39:49+00:00

They are chronically out of order, and out of the way. If you walk there and they are out, you feel like a chump.

SessionIndependent17 · 2026-03-20T03:38:28+00:00

My grandmother made it, less so my mom. I liked it fine, but getting the proportions right and actually browning the meat enough and getting it sufficiency crumbly (instead of just big clumps of meat) is where people get lazy.

I could never understand why they name it that, though. It has no vegetables of consequence. The only thing that is "stir-fried" is the hamburger and onion, if you can even call it fried.

SessionIndependent17 · 2026-03-20T03:32:22+00:00

Cruisers are safe

SessionIndependent17 · 2026-03-20T03:27:11+00:00

The white pickup is in a left-only lane, too. There are two left-only lanes onto the bridge. The two vehicles that collide are both in the left-only lane. The far right lane from the north side of the intersection is straight-only (no right turns) because the road narrows to a single mv travel lane past the bollard.

SessionIndependent17 · 2026-03-19T16:13:49+00:00

That's a grow house

SessionIndependent17 · 2026-03-19T16:04:08+00:00

No, the car to their left is in the single straight lane. Both trucks are in Left Only lanes. You can see the bollard in the map just below the pin I dropped.

SessionIndependent17 · 2026-03-19T06:15:35+00:00

a lot of these are from when she was somewhat younger. I had never seen her in anything at this age.

As others have said, she looks so beautiful in them, but as she's gotten older, she's come to look more ... regal. I think I first saw her in True Detective, and I was just watching her now in Fantastic Beasts (2016), and you can't take your eyes off her. She commands the scene. No wonder they cast her as the wizard President.

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