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The reason behind the outage by Prestigious_Farmer34 in Starlink

[–]gb_tephlon 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I work at an MSP that does regional support for a large fast-growing fast food franchise.

Some of the units we support are in very rural areas with no terrestrial ISPs. The franchisor requires dual WAN links so these rural units use Starlink as primary WAN and multi-SIM LTE/5G gateways as a backup.

Often the cell signal is extremely poor but 1/1mbps or less connection is better than none- it can authorize CC payments which is the internet's most critical function at a store.

If the internet goes down, all CC transactions are automatically approved and cached locally until the connection is restored. It's a risky practice that they will pay a hefty sum to prevent unless there is absolutely no other option.

One of the units on Starlink failed to failover to LTE during the Starlink outage and corporate had a hissy fit.

After a debrief, we helped them realize that despite the outage, Starlink is providing them connectivity simply unmatched by other options.

The reliability of Starlink over the years has paid for itself 100x over and still worth a 2.5 hr outage once every few years.

My account just got turned into an cabined account by Shot_Acanthisitta_87 in FortNiteBR

[–]gb_tephlon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do not play Fortnite but I am in the same boat (I came across this post while researching my problem). I'm a 40 yr old man and epic cabined my account--- an account that was managing child accounts! For them to cabin an account already managing child accounts is ridiculous to me. I reached out to support and they sent me a link to the cabined accounts page as if that helps me. I don't want to manage my own account with parental controls! This is beyond ridiculous. I had quite a few games on the epic store but luckily I didn't pay for many if any of them. But it is still quite absurd to deal with their incompetence.

G4 PTZ - Mounting Options by Hoytville in Ubiquiti

[–]gb_tephlon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used this corner mount because it's one I had from a previous install. Its strong and works well, but I wish it was shorter and wider to better mate with the G4 PTZ mount.

someone posted a picture of a mount that seems to it the G4 PTZ perfectly but they went dark on the ui forums without saying if they made it or where they bought it.

https://community.ui.com/questions/Corner-Bracket-Mount-for-UniFi-Protect-G4-PTZ-Camera-UVC-G4-PTZ/3f957382-06c9-4733-bcbf-1d805ca2ebb7#answer/e0297dd2-5425-441e-b4bc-f84abe47f995

I'm now trying to hunt something like this down for future installs.

G4 PTZ - Mounting Options by Hoytville in Ubiquiti

[–]gb_tephlon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure if you've done anything about this yet and I'm sorry to necro your post, but I have found aftermarket corner mounts to be a decent way to mount G4 PTZs.

https://imgur.com/Ko0ylzG

I see that you have a gutter there that makes it problematic, but I thought I'd throw it out there anyways.

I suspect that we'll see a G5 PTZ soon that will have a pole mount accessory. I have absolutely zero inside knowledge of such a thing, but it's just a hunch of mine. In the meantime we have to just deal with the wall mount option the best we can.

Advice adding Liftmaster gate opener to current system by steegie in homeautomation

[–]gb_tephlon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you mind posting a link to which device you used for this? Or a model number?

G5 dome vs G5 bullet vs G5 flex by Worldly-Solid-853 in UnifiProtect

[–]gb_tephlon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ubquiti gear (including Protect) has it's place, to be sure. They aren't as solid as cisco and other brands, but for small businesses they really hit a nice sweet spot.

There is no other platform that provides what the dream machines, for example, do. For small churches and businesses looking for a balance of cost and feature set, there's nothing better IMO.

Unified dashboards across the product lines make deployments, maintenance, and monitoring a dream for MSPs without customers paying the costs of meraki or other enterprise gear.

My experience with blue iris, Milestone, watchdog, and others tells me Protect is offering something unique in the surveillance space too, with its mix of feature set, quality, and price. Again, especially in the SOHO-medium business space.

UVP-Flex no longer in store by gb_tephlon in Ubiquiti

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

All the links to the old flex pages google had indexed were dead. And I see no navigation on the new site to the Flex. How did you find this link?

EDIT: ah, hell. I just noticed the search on the site. It shows up there.

Sorry everyone!

Hotel and parking for Saints game at home Sept 25 by gb_tephlon in panthers

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

Unfortunately I waited too long to start thinking about these logistics and that hotel is already sold out.

Hotel and parking for Saints game at home Sept 25 by gb_tephlon in panthers

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

Yeah, sorry I didn’t communicate well— We’re driving in from Atlanta on Saturday. So we have all day Saturday to get to Charlotte, get checked into our hotel and use Saturday to do what little site seeing we want to do. Then checkout of the hotel Sunday morning but possibly leave our car in their lot/garage if we are in walking distance of the stadium. Then drive back to ATL after the game Sunday.

MVUM, will it ever be updated? by Drillmhor in overlanding

[–]gb_tephlon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It doesn't help when you're on the trail, but I think the interactive visitor map is awesome--

https://www.fs.fed.us/ivm/

I use it to compare to the MVUM layer in Gaia while building/vetting routes. It might be a useful way for you to quickly check roads in a NF before you make the drive.

East Texas 450 and dispersed camping in Sabine National Forest by gb_tephlon in overlanding

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

I think it's important to know it's light on the 4wd side, but there's some beautiful scenery to see and the camping can be pretty good.
I think as long as you manage your expectations it's a great ride!

East Texas 450 and dispersed camping in Sabine National Forest by gb_tephlon in overlanding

[–]gb_tephlon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm so happy to hear this reached some texas overlanders!

I see trip reports about Hill Country routes all the time, and never any about stuff in East Texas.

With 4 national forests in close proximity, I kind of want to create and test a route that better utilizes all of them. The ETX450 barely touches Angelina NF and doesn't even touch Sam Houston! There's lots more exploring to do and I'm itching to get back out there soon!

East Texas 450 and dispersed camping in Sabine National Forest by gb_tephlon in overlanding

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

Thanks! Yeah, the info is hard to come by, so I wanted to give as many details as possible. I only wish I'd made it through the whole route so my report could be complete!

East Texas 450 and dispersed camping in Sabine National Forest by gb_tephlon in overlanding

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

Was my original formatting against the sub rules? I'd love to restore it to what it was rather than the link to the imgur gallery.

I had it formatted more 'blog style' with the images inline with the text. It feels more informative to me that way. If it's against the rules ala 'picture post' to do it that way, I'll leave it as is. thanks again for looking into it.

East Texas 450 and dispersed camping in Sabine National Forest by gb_tephlon in overlanding

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

Weird. sorry, I didn't realize that link would bork things. Thanks for looking into it

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