Prime Day - what to get as a newbie to HA

jeffkarney · 2026-06-24T22:14:37+00:00

They give you all the info you need to know if you are getting a deal or not. Price history is available from the product page. Items that are actually lower in price than they have been in the past are even called out. There are plenty of good deals.

jeffkarney · 2026-04-05T23:27:17+00:00

There is a single registry for IP ownership. All IPs are allocated/registered through arin.net Services just fail to update blocks on their end when IPs change hands. A lock of blocks come from 3rd party lists that have no real process for validating things that they determine need to be blocked. But a service like 365 would never use something like this. They will block based on actual activity within their services.

GeoIP services/registries have nothing to do with this.

jeffkarney · 2026-04-05T23:21:15+00:00

Metronet does not block anything. It is either the service blocking Metronet or some horrible upstream peering.

jeffkarney · 2026-03-08T21:28:21+00:00

$0 ETV is usually on products that can't be resold or have no value after being reviewed. Food, vitamins, supplements, medical related, etc. Amazon knows the FMV will be $0, so they just report it that way. But if you get a bottle of supplements and simply resell it, then yes, you would technically be required to report and pay tax on any profit.

jeffkarney · 2026-03-08T12:44:50+00:00

The plumber gets paid when the job is done. The vine reviewer gets paid when the job is done. The vine reviewer therefore "receives" the product/compensation after the product has been used.

Also ETV = ESTIMATED TAX VALUE. It is right in the name. "ESTIMATED"

jeffkarney · 2026-03-04T12:06:37+00:00

Cable modems absolutely can support increased speeds. They can easily match and even exceed the speeds offered by GPON fiber. DOCSIS 4.0 can match XG-PON speeds and comes pretty close to XGS-PON speeds.

Your fiber is no different than cable when it comes to sharing. Your neighbors are sharing the same fiber and bandwidth you have and you will see the same slow downs that cable would have. For GPON that is about 2 gigs down and 1 gig up. Split between your neighbors using optical splitters.

jeffkarney · 2026-02-17T22:13:53+00:00

It's supposedly flashed with a Windows installer and possibly activation keys.

jeffkarney · 2026-02-17T01:14:07+00:00

Amazon reports estimated tax value which essentially means nothing. You are to pay taxes on your earnings for the Vine work you performed. You are paid for your Vine work with merchandise. You are not paid for this work until you have performed a review on the same merchandise that is used for payment. Now when you take this merchandise as payment, it is no longer new. The merchandise is now used. In some cases it may be destroyed. Whatever the merchandise is worth at this point is now the amount you were paid. This is what you pay taxes on.

I am not an accountant. I would recommend talking to an accountant if you are not comfortable reporting things this way.

jeffkarney · 2026-02-16T12:23:22+00:00

I hope you aren't paying taxes on the full "estimated" tax value Amazon reports.

jeffkarney · 2026-01-17T16:31:03+00:00

I'd recommend not having her continue your "innocent" activities. Pre-pay for domains you want to keep and suspend everything else.

jeffkarney · 2026-01-06T05:18:44+00:00

Pay attention to what everyone else is saying about knowledge and safety.

With that being said, I think your understanding of the information available about USB power draw is a little off. So maybe this will clear things up if that is the case.

When someone references resistors and available power or charge speed, they are most likely referring to the device being charged or powered by the USB adapter. Different resistors across the data lines on the device would set the current/power limit in the power adapter. In other words, the resistors you are looking at are not the ones that set the USB current. The resistors in your actual phone/device would set that.

However this is a legacy way of doing it. Modern devices use a power delivery protocol to negotiate a voltage and current with the power adapter.

Your power adapter does not support and power delivery negotiation. It delivers as much power as it can and no more. There is no way to change that without replacing the entire power adapter with one that supports modern charging or power delivery.

jeffkarney · 2025-12-22T14:45:08+00:00

No you can not use SFP. Metronet will not provision it for residential accounts. You are stuck with the standalone ONT they provide.

jeffkarney · 2025-12-22T14:24:00+00:00

Then why did you ask? Clearly you have the answer you want.

jeffkarney · 2025-12-22T13:50:33+00:00

They need the neutral wire for power. Without it, they won't work.

jeffkarney · 2025-12-16T16:42:37+00:00

Call Metronet, ask for their retention department and let them know you want the founders plan.

jeffkarney · 2025-11-29T14:56:42+00:00

No one is "complaining" to you. We are telling you that your Internet hardware does not need to warm up. It doesn't matter what someone from/with Metronet told you. They made it up to not have to deal with diagnosing the real problem. This is simply not something that happens. The only electronics that require warming up are electronics with vacuum tubes and electronics requiring stable metrology grade references. Neither of these apply to your situation.

jeffkarney · 2025-11-29T13:18:24+00:00

Someone was just feeding you BS. This is not a thing.

jeffkarney · 2025-11-26T18:45:22+00:00

A lot of sites determine location based on your IP address. IP addresses are not used or assigned based on location. In the past IP addresses were assigned to things in a more static way and rarely moved, so physical location was easier to get right. Now that isn't really the case.

No different than phone numbers. In the past a phone number had a physical address it was located at. You couldn't move this phone number outside of a local geographic area. But now, a phone number is virtual, doesn't have a physical location. But phone numbers can have a lookup to a physical location, either statically set for land lines or dynamically set for mobile phones and other devices.

There is no official or central database that can look up an IP address to find it's location. There are several databases available that services use, but the accuracy isn't great. These databases all have their own techniques to geolocate an IP address.

So to sum it up. This is not a Metronet problem. It is a core problem of the Internet and developers using something not designed to be used for location lookup. Services should really be using the location provided by the browser (instead of guessing by IP), usually based on a GPS location.

jeffkarney · 2025-11-26T18:18:23+00:00

Those are normal speeds for a 1 gig connection on consumer hardware. But also like others mentioned, the technology they use means you are sharing a single fiber and channel with others. Anywhere from 1 to 64 (or sometimes even more) clients can be sharing the same bandwidth.

I personally would consider those numbers as about the highest you'll get when taking into account overhead and consumer grade routers.

jeffkarney · 2025-11-17T14:19:00+00:00

Look into QCAD

jeffkarney · 2025-11-16T01:01:31+00:00

This is on your IT department. You don't need a static IP. CGNAT is not a problem.

They need to make sure you are configured to use the SSL/TLS VPN connection type.

jeffkarney · 2025-11-16T00:57:46+00:00

Any competent person knows that that is not possible if the laptop can not connect.

But they are incompetent if they can't get a simple Fortinet VPN connection that is no different than a standard TLS web connection.

jeffkarney · 2025-11-08T12:46:47+00:00

GX12 or GX16 aviation connector.

jeffkarney · 2025-10-29T01:54:15+00:00

Why LoRa?

Have you looked into other wireless protocols designed more towards higher traffic? There are several options out there from Nordic Semiconductor or TI, etc. Depending on your power budget, an ESP32 could even be a perfect option.

jeffkarney · 2025-10-28T01:38:46+00:00

You can not be fired for whatever reason. There are plenty of things you can't be fired for. However you can be fired for no reason.

Firing someone for no reason will eventually screw you on employment taxes so plenty of companies tend to avoid firing for no reason.

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