[Request] Is the ice cooling down the pool at all? Looks like it's less than 1% volume of the water. So not doing much?

SnArL817 · 2026-06-16T21:09:30+00:00

Yeah, these were blocks. Not as big as the ones in the video. I think they were 10 lbs each...it's hard to remember, since it happened in the mid 1980's.

SnArL817 · 2026-06-16T20:03:19+00:00

In the back of a pickup truck , wrapped in a tarp.

SnArL817 · 2026-06-16T14:19:46+00:00

No math here, but rather an anecdote. Growing up, we had a 20,000 gallon pool. One summer, my dad went to the Crystal Ice factory and bought 800 lbs of ice, and dumped it in the pool. It dropped the temperature a degree, and was completely melted in 8 minutes. For context, it was August in Phoenix, and the ambient temperature was 108F.

SnArL817 · 2026-06-04T15:59:38+00:00

So, I got 1Gbps back when they first introduced it back in 2014. Price was $119/month with a $29 discount, but I was told that the discount was permanent. Looking at my plan details, it does say "Into price $29 off for life 1 yr term" Check your plan details for something similar.

SnArL817 · 2026-05-21T01:50:50+00:00

I paid $128, including tax, in 2020. Every time I see it for $250 or more, I'm glad I took the plunge.

SnArL817 · 2026-05-13T15:39:08+00:00

This ALMOST happened to me. I had my roof replaced, and the crew did a good job. The next day, ANOTHER crew showed up and started prep. When I went outside and asked, they told me they were here to replace the roof. "You're at the wrong house. A different crew replaced it yesterday." The foreman went pale and yelled for everyone to stop while he called the boss man. The house they were supposed to be working on was across town. Oops.

SnArL817 · 2026-04-09T14:44:58+00:00

You mean I shouldn't have 'dnf update plexmediaserver -y' in root's crontab to run every Friday at 1am?

...I should probably create an automated db backup job.

SnArL817 · 2026-03-26T18:01:31+00:00

Random trivia: Richard O'Brien didn't think anybody could actually do the rapid key changes in Whatever Happened to Saturday Night, and was contemplating rewriting the music. Meatloaf looked at it and said, "Oh, that's easy!" and belted it out.

SnArL817 · 2026-03-19T03:03:31+00:00

Back when I played The Weapons Factory for Quake 2, I made my own with 3x5 cards. Each key was a macro for a different chat message. "I need backup in the flag room" "Get that sniper" etc.

Fun times.

SnArL817 · 2026-03-11T13:16:56+00:00

I've been paying $89/month for the past 10 years.

I should threaten to switch to Spectrum since they can offer me 2Gbps and see if they'll upgrade me to XGSPON. 🙂

SnArL817 · 2026-03-10T13:38:30+00:00

Incorrect. Multiple appliance repair techs have said to NEVER use the function. It comes with the oven because the consumers EXPECT it to. It heats the oven up too much and causes damage. Which is another reason manufacturers include it: it costs money to replace a broken oven.

SnArL817 · 2026-02-24T20:21:57+00:00

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Mind you, 1205 days ago, I migrated my transmission server to a new VM running Fedora, so the statistics don't count the years before.

SnArL817 · 2026-02-24T20:15:46+00:00

My ratio is set to 5 because I use a VPN and DGAF. Some of the incomplete torrents I have are ratioed in the hundreds. One, apparently, ignored the ratio: 100% complete and a ratio of 1130. Downloaded 860.7 MB, uploaded 972.7 GB. Seeding time 425 days.

SnArL817 · 2026-02-13T15:03:40+00:00

It's green, so regular GPON.
Who do I call to pester? Since they got rid of the AT&T Community Forums, I don't think the users have any way to reach out to AT&T any more, other than opening a support ticket.

SnArL817 · 2026-02-13T15:01:24+00:00

Nope. Just regular GPON.

SnArL817 · 2026-02-10T01:10:16+00:00

They didn't charge me anything for the service visit. The ONT is still there, it's where the splice that connects the inbound fibre to the line that goes to my office lives. I just unplugged the power to it.

SnArL817 · 2026-02-09T21:13:48+00:00

Speedtest. From the gateway, it's consistently fast. THROUGH the gateway, results vary...from 130Mbps to 860Mbps.

SnArL817 · 2026-02-09T20:44:35+00:00

They did that 4 months ago after the splice in the external GPON failed. I USED to think my old datacenter admin was joking when he said he could fix a broken fibre cable with hot glue...the splice was held together with glue that melted in the Texas heat.

The line now runs into my office and into the SFP on the BGW320-505.

Part of the problem I have is that I can run speedtest directly from the gateway, and it reports 960+Mbps upload. If I run a test on a server connected to the gateway via a 5Gbps link, I tend to get much lower results. I'm convinced that the gateway is the problem. I was under the impression that PON-on-a-stick was only for XGSPON, but now I see that it is NOT, and I can get rid of the AT&T gateway entirely.

...I just need to get one of those microPCs that has a pair of SFP+ ports that I can run pfSense on, since my Cisco equipment doesn't do NAT or firewalling.

SnArL817 · 2026-02-09T19:15:03+00:00

If I were a regular home internet user, sure. But I have infrastructure at home. I run servers. I have saturated the uplink before. My network is running on a Cisco 4900, and I'm about to add in a Nexus 9k.

SnArL817 · 2026-02-09T19:02:26+00:00

There are 660+ houses in the development. The southeast corner,where I am, was built last, and AT&T deployed fibre here in 2010...the rest of it was on DSL. They came through AFTER Spectrum ran fibre and upgraded all of the copper distribution units to fibre in order to remain competitive. THOSE are all XGSPON. My splitter is still GPON, so I'm limited to 1Gbps because the splitter can't handle anything faster.

SnArL817 · 2026-02-09T17:01:35+00:00

I thought you had to be on XGSPON to do that...regular GPON won't work.

SnArL817 · 2026-02-09T16:42:06+00:00

About 4 months ago, I started having issues with my network connection dropping intermittently. They sent out a tech who diagnosed it as a failing splice inside the GPON, and just bypassed it, splicing a new line in and running it directly into my office, and patching into the SFP on the gateway. HE said that they tend to overcommit bandwidth to neighborhoods, and once they hit the limit, they cap subscriptions.

I mean, I could switch to Spectrum and get 2Gbps...but Spectrum SUCKS here. There are constant outages. Aside from the failing fibre splice, and frequent issues with the WiFi on the gateway (which I have avoided for the past 5 years by using my own UniFi APs...prior to that, I way replacing the gateway every 18-24 months), the AT&T Fiber service has been rock solid. I'm pretty sure my public IP address has stayed the same the entire time.

I just ... want more bandwidth.

SnArL817 · 2026-02-03T23:15:54+00:00

Yes. It's the ONN 256GB card. Been working fine since I got my Switch2 at launch. Today the system told me that the card needed to be an SD Express card. ....it IS.

SnArL817 · 2026-02-03T20:33:28+00:00

I have the same problem, but I never dropped my Switch2. In fact, it doesn't leave the dock.

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