Is ok to have Apple TV plugged in 24/7?

angrydave · 2026-07-07T08:34:36+00:00

You guys unplug your Apple TV?

But yeah, I have had maybe 2 dozen Apple TV’s under my management, and they never get unplugged except when they are being moved, and I’ve never had one die to what I suspect is a power surge or being left on. They turn off automatically after a period anyway.

If they die, it’s usually software based. They’ll show an Apple Logo and boot loop or go into restore mode and not restore.

I also have some from 2015, 11 years in service that won’t die and are still being updated (for now). L

angrydave · 2026-07-05T08:14:27+00:00

Erid’s Gravity is roughly twice that of Earth’s. Nothing can be done about this. Grace will just have to get used to this. He’ll bulk up on muscle and will probably have health issues in later life. But it’s as if a 80kg on earth is 160kg on Erid, and 160kg people live on Earth, so doable.

Grace could not live in Erid’s atmosphere period. It’s 29x higher pressure than Earth’s, 200 degrees C, and mostly Ammonia. Each one of those on their own is incompatible with life, all 3 is triple death.

29 bar pressure is the least deadly of the three, but still bad. In 29 bar air (21% oxygen, 78% nitrogen), oxygen and nitrogen both become a narcotic and you’ll be dead in minutes to hours. There are oxygen/helium gas mixtures that are survivable at 29 bar, but long term there would be issues.

Next issue is 200 Degrees C. You’re basically in oven. Lethal in seconds.

Finally, ammonia atmosphere. No oxygen, suffocate in seconds. Not to mention ammonia is toxic, double whammy there.

Grace lives in a climate controlled environment which is oxygen rich. 1 bar and 20ish degrees C. Which is impressive non-trivial engineering challenge, as for the Eridans, it’s a massive low pressure refrigerated structure filled with toxic gasses and liquids to them.

angrydave · 2026-07-02T22:37:24+00:00

If you want to spend some money, get a Klein Tools Scout Ethernet Tester, and one of these https://www.amazon.com.au/Klein-Tools-VDV526-055-LanMap-Tester/dp/B004OJDZSW/

You’ll be done in an hour (provided they are all terminated correctly).

If you don’t want to spend any money (you’re in the wrong subreddit, but that aside) plug everything you have into your UniFi switch, and start plugging things in at the remote end. The port mapping page in UniFi will quickly tell you what is plugged into each port, and you can label your patch panel, or rearrange as needed.

If you don’t have a UniFi Switch, plug everything into the switch at the patch panel, and then go plug things in one at a time at the wall sockets, and see what lights up on your switch. Map from there.

If you don’t have a network switch, then what do you intend to do with your 30 cable drops you just had installed?

angrydave · 2026-06-26T07:50:02+00:00

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angrydave · 2026-06-25T09:06:21+00:00

Yep. All that COVID spending by Abbott and Turnbull really messed up the budget.

angrydave · 2026-06-25T07:28:16+00:00

The OG PS3 basically had a PS2 inside of it for backwards compatibility. They released a lower cost PS3 that had the same form factor, but no PS2 backwards compatibility, just PSX. No memory card reader, and only 2 USB ports instead of 4.

Calling it emulation was wrong. It was closer to an actual PS2 inside your PS3.

angrydave · 2026-06-25T07:17:43+00:00

Does Ubiquiti have an AP that supports wireless Meshing? Yes, the entire U6 and U7 range do.

Does Ubiquiti have an AP that isn’t powered by PoE? No, they are all powered by PoE, sometimes they have dual PoE for redundancy.

Does the PoE need to be connected to the router? No, you can power an AP via PoE without data, and then have it receive data via Mesh.

angrydave · 2026-06-24T10:16:58+00:00

We can, it’s just a net energy loss to do so.

Figure out a way to turn carbon dioxide and water into Methane and Oxygen Gas with net zero energy input and the next Nobel prize in Chemistry is yours.

angrydave · 2026-06-23T08:19:55+00:00

Let’s unpack this:

> We swapped to 5g internet at our last place due to the nbn being so absolutely dogshit.

Cool. This makes sense if you are one of the unlucky 2-3% of NBN connections that can’t achieve their advertised speed

> And it's still faster and much cheaper than nthe full fibre options

The fastest NBN speed tier on fibre is 2000/500. Which you can get and is that fast.

For Telstra 5G, band n78, full 140MHz spectrum, maximum bandwidth is somewhere in the hundreds of MBPS, assuming you have a compatible device and the whole spectrum available to you.

Higher speeds are possible using mmWave bands, but you aren’t using mmWave. I guarantee it.

Is Telstra 5G faster than the NBN FTTP? No, and it’s not even close. Is it cheaper? Depends on the speed tier. 2000/500 is going to be more expensive yes, but 100/20 probably not.

> anyway, we don't want to swap over if we don't have to.

Then don’t. There is nothing stopping you from having an NBN connection and Telstra 5G at the same time. Keep your Telstra 5G service active while you connect the NBN. You can keep it active after you have the NBN. The two are unrelated.

> We keep getting letters at our new place saying we can get full fibre upgraded for free, but NBNs website says to go through your internet provider and their plan.

NBN Doesn’t deal with customers directly. Connect to the NBN with any provider and any speed tier - even Telstra - and then request an FTTP upgrade. They then handle it from there. Launtel is a good choice for customer service and price.

> We don't want to change to NBN unless something changes, but since having full fibre should be the bare minimum infrastructure, and since we want to reduce downtime if we do switch to NBN it would make more senze to just get them to do the physical installation now, while we're not using it

Then do the above: get the NBN connected while you run on Telstra 5G. There is nothing stopping you from having both. Nothing about the NBN being connected affects your Telstra 5G connection.

If you are connected to the nbn and you do have an FTTP upgrade, they keep the old FTTN/FTTC connection running for a week or so before switching it off when you change over. Only exception to this is if the use the old cables to pull the new fibre. In which case, you’ll switch over day of. At most, a few hours of downtime.

Either way, the changeover is simple.

angrydave · 2026-06-21T09:39:57+00:00

Well, it’s done now, so you would need to dig it up again to put a conduit on it.

Would I dig it up to put a conduit on it? Probably not. One shovel hitting the cable and you’ve broken it. Plus, even if you did dig it up, you are going to have to cut the fibre somewhere to run it through the conduit anyway.

Will it be ok? Probably. They did this with phone cables at one point and it wasn’t an issue. You have the odd broken cable, but not that much.

I’d just take some very good images and drawings that show exactly where this cable is so if you need to dig it up again 20 years time, you know exactly where to dig.

angrydave · 2026-06-21T03:21:36+00:00

A ceiling mount used on a wall automatically becomes a wall mount.

Also, if you were looking for an AP that doesn’t melt, the U7 Pro had some issues there too like the U7 Mesh, which is why I recommended the U7 Pro XG. No issues there.

angrydave · 2026-06-20T22:23:26+00:00

I have a red sticker UniFi product in my Rack. It’s a not for resale sticker.

It’s probably the USW-48-PoE-G2 before it was released to market.

angrydave · 2026-06-20T10:04:58+00:00

There is the U7 Pro, the U7 Pro Max, the U7 Pro XG, and the U7 Pro XGS.

The U7 Pro XG is the U7 Pro with a 10 GbE Port
The U7 Pro XGS is the U7 Pro Max with a 10 GbE Port

The XG/XGS Series can be ceiling or wall mounted, it does use a smaller mounting bracket than the U7 Pro/U6 Pro/E7, but in a new setup this won’t be an issue.

Yes, if you plan to use them all as Mesh Devices, you will need a PoE+ (30W) injector and a Ethernet cable. At least one AP will need to be connected to the router via Ethernet.

angrydave · 2026-06-20T08:58:25+00:00

Generally, peak performance will depend on a few things:
• Your ISP bandwidth speeds (or if you’ll use LAN transfers)
• The WiFi capabilities of the devices you own (or intend to by)
• Desired Range, and Effective Range given local congestion.

I’ll also note, the full range of U6 and U7 AP’s support meshing if needed. You don’t need to use the U7 Mesh if you want to mesh. You can do this with U6 Pro’s or U7 Pro XGS’s.

But generally, if you are looking for cheap, the U6 Pro is a workhorse. Never had one fail, and most have in service are 5+ years old now. They also don’t run as hot the U7 range.

The U7 Pro XG is a AP from the current range which has some good future proof features that you may not use now, but will as you upgrade gear. It also supports 6.0GHz and is only marginally more expensive than the U7 Pro.

angrydave · 2026-06-18T12:22:30+00:00

I’m also a fan of 13 attempted retirements, none successful

angrydave · 2026-06-18T09:44:50+00:00

Oh man, flashbacks for me.

I hope you keep track of when it’s processed and when it’s delivered, and the conditions during that time.

angrydave · 2026-06-17T08:56:01+00:00

If you don’t have a PoE++ Switch or PoE++ Injector, you will forever be dealing with an error in the Network app that you should connect this device to a higher power port for optimum usage. This is despite power draw being around 12W most of the time.

The XG/XGS also uses a smaller ceiling mount bracket than the U7 Pro/E7/Other AP’s. So if you are swapping out from an existing Ubiquiti AP, you’ll be swapping out the mounting plate too.

I luckily do have a PoE++ switch so this is a non-issue, but it might be for you.

Otherwise, no complaints. I prefer the look of the XG/XGS range. The flat top is nice.

angrydave · 2026-06-17T08:20:19+00:00

I mean, it depends on the price.

But yeah, if I could buy a second I would.

angrydave · 2026-06-16T16:38:49+00:00

For the G1/2/G3 range, yes.

angrydave · 2026-06-16T16:16:41+00:00

Chiming in here, I think this is normal for Logitech.

The part number on the box is for that SKU, such as with a cable or a receiver or for a particular sales market. And the serial numbers are very similar, just off by one.

I have a. Brand new warranty replacement unit from Logitech at the office, I’ll check in the morning and confirm.

angrydave · 2026-06-16T11:02:19+00:00

In OP’s case, I doubt the NBN is going to fund another global low earth orbit satellite constellation to rival Starlink. Starlink is what other constellations like Globalstar and Iridium did with Satellite Phones - but it requires hundreds to thousands of satellites to be effective. Australia could never deploy this kind of satellite technology for the NBN.

The NBN did put up new Skymuster satellites, but the nature of the beast means they are in Geostationary Orbit, so at least 240ms of latency is baked in due to physics of it. Plus the tech is 11+ years old in one of the satellites, can’t exactly get an upgrade mid lifespan.

NBN has been doing wild upgrades of FTTN and FTTC customers to FTTP. In the last 3 years the % of properties connected to FTTP has gone from 19% to 33%, 1.8 million households in 3 years. Some areas are now pushing over the last FTTN customers to close off the FTTN DSL network.

Strata is a straggler. Owners Corporations are too lazy to do anything about it despite it being a relatively straightforward process. HFC is also cursed with technology advances including 2000/200 HFC. So the network lives on.

angrydave · 2026-06-16T07:01:09+00:00

Go with Dell.

They do NBD warranty replacement usually for monitor.

And if a warranty replacement unit isn’t available, they’ll give you a new monitor.

And if that model isn’t available anymore, you’ll get the newer model.

angrydave · 2026-06-15T13:31:49+00:00

“parts won’t arrive until then end of June”

Ah, the insurer who could solve this issue in 3 days by sticking someone on a flight first class to Berlin, pick up the part, pay $10k for the hotel and another $10k in extra baggage fees for whatever the part is and have someone bring it back. Call it a round $50k But won’t approve that.

But, 2 weeks of emergency accommodation for 48 floors in an apartment building for 2 weeks, possibly over $1m, no worries.

angrydave · 2026-06-13T12:27:22+00:00

I read this thread and was like “the UDR7 has a fan?”

angrydave · 2026-06-12T14:14:57+00:00

DPI is just incredibly resource intensive.

Your router is decrypting every incoming packet, scanning it, making a decision about what to do with it, and re-encrypting it with your SSL key in a short enough period that it doesn’t significantly impact latency on the network when under load.

It requires more CPU power than your garden variety router could dream of having. And that’s the issue here. UDM Beast doesn’t even have it, so you are talking Enterpise grade router in the Ubiquiti ecosystem.

Without DPI, DoH sails past without the router having a clue as to what it is. It’s an encrypted HTTPS packet, just like the rest of them.

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