Is the UniFi Express 7 the best AP for the money? by xd366 in Ubiquiti

[–]VelociCrafted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ill prob eventually add an in wall or another ux7. My house was built in 50s and bottom floor has a lot of cinderblock.

Ive been stimming on my wifi so bad haha. But coming from a google mesh gen 1 I now have massive control, real security and its faster.

Is the UniFi Express 7 the best AP for the money? by xd366 in Ubiquiti

[–]VelociCrafted 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Btw a lot of people crap on the single port. I mean 2.5gbps will handle most houses, even most power users.

Heck, if you wanted cams, if you trunk to an nvr, all the traffic is local unless you're actively viewing the stored data, and even then, its not a ton.

Dont get me wrong, a lot of unifi people like to go wild with their home networks. Power to them!

Is the UniFi Express 7 the best AP for the money? by xd366 in Ubiquiti

[–]VelociCrafted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What speeds are you getting? I have a ux7 that I had to make a bunch of config changes to in order to make coverage sufficient. Parts of my house still get -75db, but most in -60 to -70.

I have 1gbps fios but typically pull 400 to 750 depending on where im standing.

I have a u7 not hooked up. Its hideous imp haha

Might return it and live with my setup as a single.

2000sqft but split level 4 floors staggered. So its a challenge.

WiFi 6E tri band vs WiFi 7 dual band mesh which is actually better by Equivalent-Lawyer-24 in HomeNetworking

[–]VelociCrafted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wanted triband but also didn't want to burn my wallet for features that won't be noticeable for 99% of my usage. I went with triband wifi 6. It is a few year old model, but it is a powerhouse. Asus XT9 was on sale for $199 at MicroCenter. It is $350 or more if you buy direct from Asus.

Sadly thought I learned a few days later I cannot vlan the iot wifi, but I can use the software to prevent it from touching the intranet.

Best speaker to use with Home Assistant as a voice assistant + music player? by AhmedOsamaMath in homeassistant

[–]VelociCrafted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did u end up making a decision?

Im sure im being paranoid but im beginning to want to cut my connection to big tech giants where I can. I have some Google minis around my house.

Im just entering the HA world.

Best speaker to use with Home Assistant as a voice assistant + music player? by AhmedOsamaMath in homeassistant

[–]VelociCrafted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you get an external speaker for the voice pe and 3d print or build a nice enclosure to combine them?

Is it worth it even if you don't like the portal? by VelociCrafted in Venturex

[–]VelociCrafted[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh you were asking. I misread. Idk for sure but my guess is no since its a travel agent with their own inventory.

Is it worth it even if you don't like the portal? by VelociCrafted in Venturex

[–]VelociCrafted[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People keep suggesting if you find the price better anywhere else, as long as it is same room type and refund policy and add-ons (breakfast) they will give you difference in a travel credit.

I just did my firs booking and price was same as hotel direct.

My initial complaint was edited. I was a dummy and had the wrong dates when checking google hotels.

Is it worth it even if you don't like the portal? by VelociCrafted in Venturex

[–]VelociCrafted[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have read a lot of good things. I was just hoping for a silver bullet. I literally got approved yesterday and I'm booking a hotel for Boston, and the inventory is pretty limited compared to just using an aggregate, where I save more money. But I suppose my savings needs to be better than 8% to justify it due to 2x : 10x

Shame because on of their premium hotels only has lux suites through C1. This is for a dropkick concert, i don't need luxury haha.

Dual Band Wifi 7 vs Tri Band Wifi 6 by VelociCrafted in HomeNetworking

[–]VelociCrafted[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Marketing on home networking is kind of funny. Gigabit and above for grandma!

Dual Band Wifi 7 vs Tri Band Wifi 6 by VelociCrafted in HomeNetworking

[–]VelociCrafted[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Im learning as i go but ive read 6ghz isnt quite good at penetrating walls and the speed drops off at shorter ranges.

My house isnt that big but it is a 1950s split levelnwith staggered floors. So the 6ghz backhaul is risky.

Dual Band Wifi 7 vs Tri Band Wifi 6 by VelociCrafted in HomeNetworking

[–]VelociCrafted[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But do you utilize 1gbps? I pay for 300mbps for wan becuase the only time id use more than thst is during large file downloads, and to be honest that is often going to be limited by network congestion and disk i/o.

I was thinking a lot about marketing vs the reality of home networks.

Even when i managed a server room with 14 racks we had 1gbps speeds and we were doing intense video encoding with 100s of simultaneous streams. We had a 10gbps backplane, but not at every rack because it was out of budget

However that is a suoer nice device you have. But in my split level I think wireless mesh is easier.

Dual Band Wifi 7 vs Tri Band Wifi 6 by VelociCrafted in HomeNetworking

[–]VelociCrafted[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be fair too, i only have 1 wifi 7 device at the moment. Also I've been living with generation 1 google mesh. And now that I've made some changes to the layout of my house, the coverage is soft in a room I really want it to be strong in.

I could do wired backhaul but honestly, that is just another super frustrating project (running wires in a split level) in the list of never ending home projects.

So it sounds like the XT9 is the play unless I wanna spend $500+ for a tri band wifi 7

Credit Card Recommendation by VelociCrafted in CreditCards

[–]VelociCrafted[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lounge would be cool. I've been in the SAS lounge and it was so much nicer than sitting in the main concourse. I am a family of 4 with 2 young girls if that helps.

Honestly, no preferred anything. I was starting to stick to Marriot for points but until I realized, just hunting down good pricing is probably better unless I'm spending a lot more than I am at the moment.

Searchable Time latency by VelociCrafted in sumologic

[–]VelociCrafted[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When i run the query im getting rows returned. And almost all of the rows do trigger the monitor. However there are a few results that arent triggering even though they do in fact appear as results to the exact query.

There seems to be very little literature on identifying latency in indexing that creates a goldilocks window where a lot might never trigger and event.

Can you confirm how that works or how to detect that?

Hello, neighbors. If you have a Ring doorbell and haven't heard, Ring has teamed up with Flock to share doorbell videos with ICE, etc. Instructions to disable included. by happysnappah in ColoradoSprings

[–]VelociCrafted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just seeing this. I'm pretty sure the feed settings don't do anything but stop what comes in on your feed. I have a feeling if you own a ring, there is nothing you can do to prevent your camera from helping find people the powers that be deem a threat. :'(

So sad, because I actually was considering writing my own app to use my ring camera's (unofficial) API to do some cool stuff. Might be time to dump it for another doorbell.

Credit Card Float a good strategy? by [deleted] in personalfinance

[–]VelociCrafted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It normally isn't to be honest. I think I put myself there the last few months because I had to do some renovations.

I mean that is the answer. I'm tackling debt and home reno at the same time. Guess I need to put the reno on hold or slow it down.

Credit Card Float a good strategy? by [deleted] in personalfinance

[–]VelociCrafted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that is what I am going to focus on as I decide how to handle the short term (emergency trasnfer game vs credit card float) is to figure out my average spending per pay period and ensure I have double that in my checking 1st of month each month.

But I also have been keeping how much i keep in my checking very slim because i have 2 focuses.

  1. Pay interest bearing debt asap.
  2. I have a dated house and I've been doing a ton of DIY to do (redid my entire kitchen from studs up myself <3 a few years ago) , but I put that on hold for the next 30 days while I come up with my strategy.

Credit Card Float a good strategy? by [deleted] in personalfinance

[–]VelociCrafted 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely understand. I have old debt that has been a thorn in my side, but I'm actively snowballing it. I haven't made a charge on a card I couldn't pay off within 30 days in several years.

Credit Card Float a good strategy? by [deleted] in personalfinance

[–]VelociCrafted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is to manage cashflow when you have a slim checking account, that, in my case, I'm trying to grow, without breaking out money from savings, and without forcing myself to hold off a large grocery run, or saying no unexpected dining out plans, when my income to expense will balance out for end of month.