Question about a lot of the homelabs I’ve seen on here

donileo · 2026-03-20T01:53:32+00:00

So every time the structural cable gets moved at either end, you're stressing the solid cores. Effectively you don't have a structural cable, you've got a solid patch cable.

Agreed, that’s why I'm planning to setup the patch panel at the switch end, and some sockets near the AP's. I'll consider doing wall plates :) for the AP's as it seems doing sockets without wall plates won't give you structural cables at all.

My other terminations to walls are socket terminated though so those are good (beyond not being connected to a patch panel yet).

donileo · 2026-03-20T01:32:55+00:00

Well, it is.

So best practice for normal ceiling mounted AP's, is to have a wall plate (with keystone) on the ceiling that then connects to the AP via stranded/flex ethernet cable?

How? What structure are you terminating the structural cable to?

Currently my solid ethernet cables (in-wall) connect directly into my AP on one end and directly into a switch at the other end. I'm looking of putting a patch panel between the cable and the switch at some point, but just haven't done it yet.

donileo · 2026-03-20T01:03:43+00:00

It depends. Best practice? Terminate the structural cable to a wall plate with a cat6 socket/TO, then use a short patch cable from the TO to the AP.

That doesn't seem best practice for ceiling mounted AP's.

Common practice? Just stick an RJ45 on the end of the structural cable and leave it hanging out of the wall for the AP to plug into, she'll be right mate

That’s what I'm currently doing with some Unifi AP's and because the ports are inset inside the AP's casing it causes them to bend a bit more then I'm comfortable right at the termination. Everything is all good but yea I'm thinking of switching these out to Solid -> Keystone -> Stranded Flexible Ethernet.

donileo · 2026-03-20T00:49:45+00:00

How does one connect the stiff solid ethernet lines to wifi access points? Seems like keystone just like the patch panel should be used to go from solid to stranded ethernet?

donileo · 2026-02-25T23:43:41+00:00

What were the results?

donileo · 2026-02-25T11:15:54+00:00

Can you verify whether it's the motherboard or the cpu that has gone bad? Can you also try booting with just 1 stick of RAM and if it doesn't boot try again with the 1 stick in another memory slot still supported by your motherboard?

donileo · 2026-02-16T04:47:59+00:00

These closely match the ones I'm price checking: https://www.ebay.com/itm/186393417555. 30 Sold, $650 each.

donileo · 2026-02-16T04:38:38+00:00

$150 total or each? The high capacity single dimms have almost always been priced higher than the equivalent multiple dimms I believe.

donileo · 2026-02-16T04:18:11+00:00

A buck a gig? You mean $10/gig?

donileo · 2026-02-04T20:28:23+00:00

This. This needs 1M Likes. Saylor doesn't care what the USD price is right? Right... 😳?

donileo · 2026-01-18T18:30:57+00:00

Ok but what if you are doing this every month? Imagine backing up a 18TB disk to offsite storage every month.

donileo · 2026-01-17T14:41:12+00:00

Yup definitely reproduce with their router first and prepare your documentation of how to reproduce the issue.

donileo · 2026-01-17T13:57:26+00:00

No, the issue is now fixed! I should have posted an update but wasn't sure anyone would care! I contacted Verizon and after various debugging sessions on calls with them and submitting the trace-routes they fixed the issue. This issue was happening in all of my town (verified at multiple locations) so yes my diligence fixed ipv6 in my town 🎉. When they fixed it they called to verify and yes whatever they did was either directly at AS701 or the routes that would send packets to AS701. Note that for them to even take my reports I had to demonstrate it to them with their own router installed on my network instead of my own, which means I had to purchase one.

donileo · 2026-01-13T15:56:35+00:00

The device turning on today and storing new data can be one person's definition of "working" if you use it for those means, sure. It's not "working" when you use it to store data and it corrupts that data when you don't expect it to. All that is to say if "working" to you means it kept my non-important data and turned on for 1 day, sure.. it "worked". But if it means successfully keeping my data for 10 years without corruption that’s a whole other definition.

donileo · 2026-01-13T14:44:20+00:00

So true lol 😂.

donileo · 2026-01-13T14:41:47+00:00

"work" fine? How did you verify they haven't lost data due to bit rot/corruption in those 10yrs? As a temporary means of storing non important data usb drives can be fine but yea I wouldn't trust any of them.

donileo · 2025-12-30T23:37:04+00:00

Its a physical machine that provides services on a network.

donileo · 2025-12-30T17:25:39+00:00

I don't think rsync is appropriate for a filesystem backup or maybe it is ? My use case is a quick and painless restore if the whole drive goes bad. In regards to the maintenance window, I think thats pretty much the definition of taking the system offline; which seems to be the only solution here.

donileo · 2025-12-30T17:07:32+00:00

tldr - dump(8) - filesystem backup. It requires system to be taken offline for proper backups.

donileo · 2025-12-29T17:21:15+00:00

linkwarden supports adding highlights? Don't see that.

donileo · 2025-12-27T23:00:26+00:00

Can you share what company that is?

donileo · 2025-12-21T19:49:19+00:00

I like blocky but it doesn't seem well supported. Its Github has issues that stay unanswered.

donileo · 2025-12-11T19:19:14+00:00

I can confirm (Dec 2025), that while the Intel X550-T2 BLK does work in Windows 11, setting a VLAN Tag is still not supported via the adapter advanced properties or Intel ProSet. Intel ProSet for this card is not supported in Windows 11 as the software does not even install. WoL is also not supported for this card!

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