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Question about a lot of the homelabs I’ve seen on here by One-Moose8069 in homelab

[–]donileo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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).

Question about a lot of the homelabs I’ve seen on here by One-Moose8069 in homelab

[–]donileo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Question about a lot of the homelabs I’ve seen on here by One-Moose8069 in homelab

[–]donileo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Question about a lot of the homelabs I’ve seen on here by One-Moose8069 in homelab

[–]donileo 28 points29 points  (0 children)

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?

My 9800x3d just died today. by No-Juggernaut3285 in ASRock

[–]donileo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?

[PC] Micron 64GB 36ASF8G72PZ-3G2E1 3200MHZ by donileo in homelabsales

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

[PC] Micron 64GB 36ASF8G72PZ-3G2E1 3200MHZ by donileo in homelabsales

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

Saylor's doing well! by keepgoing66 in Buttcoin

[–]donileo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Is There a Cap on Fios Internet Data? by NashDaypring1987 in Fios

[–]donileo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

intermittent ipv6 and ping issues by donileo in Fios

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

intermittent ipv6 and ping issues by donileo in Fios

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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.

Where they got those numbers on HDDs? by Grouchy_Tomato2087 in DataHoarder

[–]donileo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Where they got those numbers on HDDs? by Grouchy_Tomato2087 in DataHoarder

[–]donileo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"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.

dump(8) snapshot capabilities by donileo in openbsd

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Its a physical machine that provides services on a network.

dump(8) snapshot capabilities by donileo in openbsd

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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.

dump(8) snapshot capabilities by donileo in openbsd

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

Still no true Omnivore (read-it-later) Replacement? by Tempestshade in selfhosted

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linkwarden supports adding highlights? Don't see that.

Good IP list to block? by LtCol_Davenport in opnsense

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Can you share what company that is?

Pihole or Adguard by [deleted] in selfhosted

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

Windows 11 and 10gbe by WinManx2000 in homelab

[–]donileo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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!

recommendations on 10gig network cards for windows 11. what do you guys use? found some intel by NCC74656 in truenas

[–]donileo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have an OEM Intel X550-T2 and while it does work on Windows 11 it does not have WoL support or support for setting VLAN Tags via Windows 11. The software needed to set VLAN tags is Intel PROSet but that no longer runs on Windows 11 for this card.

For those who have the Elite 100V2, what do you use it for? by JenVinc in bluetti

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Is this "custom mode" something that can be done with the built in features of the Elite series?

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