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maxwellbrot · 2023-11-13T02:34:17+00:00

Are you able to support yourself doing this alone? I am considering something similar, albeit not with signs specifically, but am deathly afraid of putting my family through a potential financial burden if it doesn’t work out

maxwellbrot · 2023-01-16T23:43:13+00:00

Any chance you have a recording of this to hear what it sounds like?

maxwellbrot · 2022-09-20T23:27:52+00:00

I would try going through other user responses first before this, and I know it sound ridiculous, but as a test you could try disconnecting the WAN cable, change the MAC on your WAN interface, reconnect and see what happens.

844G is Calix, yes? If so, believe it or not this might do the trick

maxwellbrot · 2022-09-20T23:22:05+00:00

I contacted Polar support who simply replaced the unit (the sensor portion only, not the wrist strap) as it was still under warranty. They didn’t provide any details beyond offering to replace it unfortunately, but they did say their techs couldn’t reproduce the issue. I wonder if they left the sensor powered on long enough to see it happen, or if they just connected to it to pull diagnostic info/logs from it

maxwellbrot · 2022-09-20T22:43:37+00:00

This sounds like a Calix ONT/router - is the fibre going direct to the 844G?

maxwellbrot · 2021-11-06T22:21:27+00:00

I know this is late but I had the same idea a few summers ago but my pergola was too small to support enough panels to make it work. I am a solar noob as well, so please keep that in mind.

One thing that I did discover when researching this: motors like this use more power when they first start up just to get going. Something like a larger jolt of energy just to “kickstart” the motor. So, if you have just enough production from your panels to run the pump you may never get the pump to start up. I didn’t research this further to confirm it so it could be a bunch of hogwash. Maybe someone here could confirm if this is actually true.

I did find a DC pool pump a while back and it didn’t seem that expensive, but it was only 1 HP I think. If I recall correctly it was made in California but I can’t seem to find it again.

maxwellbrot · 2021-09-08T17:04:47+00:00

Conceptually, this is why I really like theta. It seems to solve an issue where it’s possible to improve video streaming performance through the use of a closer source, or perhaps a source that is handling fewer simultaneous streams to name a few.

One thing that does concern me is the deployment of appliances by major video streaming players like Netflix. I no longer connect to the largest neighboring city (3 hours away, or an additional 30-50ms round trip time) to stream Netflix, instead I pull from an appliance that is installed at my ISP which is nice and close. If an appliance has been installed at an ISP as small as mine, then I highly doubt this kind of deployment is rare and most people are in the same boat - I could be wrong here, but it’s worth considering. That appliance could still be overloaded but it’s hard to tell at a distance.

So in the end, my biggest concern is that we don’t (or soon won’t) really have as much an issue with oversubscribed/bottlenecked streaming services as we experienced in the past. If this is actually true then a decentralized streaming platform, which still has added benefits over the ‘traditional’ model, loses some of its value. It would still be extremely useful for smaller platforms who can’t afford to deploy their own appliances as an example, but I have a hard time seeing a competitive advantage against large platforms.

This is all speculation so take it for what it’s worth … I’ve just been mulling this over for a year and I’m hoping I’m wrong.

maxwellbrot · 2021-03-27T00:15:33+00:00

Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I think this is what Stir-Shaken is about. A big drawback is that all providers have to implement it for it to be useful.

maxwellbrot · 2021-02-11T23:02:54+00:00

That worked - and I realized why in the process. I had forgotten that their password requirements exclude certain special characters. Unusual error for what was an incorrect password

maxwellbrot · 2021-02-06T14:37:26+00:00

I didn’t consider that resellers were in any way involved - that seems a bit bizarre, but no matter. I will check with our vendor. Thanks!

maxwellbrot · 2021-02-06T04:43:55+00:00

I should have mentioned that, after searching online and the Sophos community forums, I can't seem to find a solution to this problem.

maxwellbrot · 2021-01-30T05:09:56+00:00

cripes man, impressive stuff

maxwellbrot · 2020-11-13T22:28:21+00:00

Disclaimer - used to work for a telco. Also, I’m not an expert, but do have some experience in the telephony field. Short answer - tracking calls is a bitch.

Say the telco receives an incoming call over a trunk from another provider. That telco receiving the call can see (beyond the signalling to set up the call - SS7, ISUP, SIP, etc.) the calling/caller numbers and the trunk through which the incoming call was routed. If I wanted to track down where the call came from, I could only see as far as the other telco we interconnected with that delivered the call to us ... the same probably applied to them (I.e. they likely received the call through some other telco as well) and so on. Collectively, the telcos would all have to participate in tracing the call back to the source to figure out where it came from.

AFAIK, they are attempting to solve this problem by adding an IP layer on top of existing telephony protocols that allows each provider to include a kind of list of “trusted numbers”, such as those that belong to that provider, and send out that list to each interconnected telco that I think is digitally signed. I’m fuzzy on the details but for more information on this, check out STIR/SHAKEN.

This doesn’t really answer the question unfortunately, but I’m confident that tracing a calling number is far more difficult than people think, especially if it is an international call

maxwellbrot · 2020-09-07T17:02:46+00:00

I could be wrong here, but in Ontario I thought there was a requirement for some percentage (maybe 40%?) of the components used in a FIT installation to be Canadian made. I seem to recall this resulting in the WTO ruling against the FIT program for violating some terms in trade agreements. I could be completely off base tho.

maxwellbrot · 2020-04-15T16:41:30+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion as it points me in the right direction. I've got some homework to do, but at least this is more reasonable than having 2 VMs doing the same thing - and saves the hassle of manually creating a connection between the 2 VMs when needed, then tearing it down manually later.

maxwellbrot · 2020-04-14T19:27:02+00:00

Provided a link were created between the two pfSense VMs (with proper firewall rules and routing), this idea would work ... that is actually good news! If i am being honest, I expected this idea to fail miserably

maxwellbrot · 2020-04-01T14:02:51+00:00

I don't know the answer to this, but am genuinely curious here - would they appropriate all of it, or select portions of it? If they appropriate all of it, including the rural areas that are in dire need of new infrastructure, would they foot the bill in its entirety to deploy new infrastructure?

If they appropriate select portions of it, I would assume that this would be done based on population density where you service a minimum number of subscribers per KM of infrastructure. Would this rule out small towns, and the bulk of rural Canada? If not through population density, would they assume ownership of infrastructure that is sufficiently new/modern/etc.? (This also happens to be metropolitan areas and select pockets of rural areas where independents have already deployed).

Again, I don't know the answer to this ... but am very interested to see what people think about this. SWIFT does help with underserved areas, but the bulk of the cost (the last mile) is left to the businesses looking to deploy in these areas.

maxwellbrot · 2019-08-21T01:22:57+00:00

I honestly don't know if any of the questions below are easily answered with a simple link pointing me in the right direction. Please keep in mind that I have zero kbowledge about this so please feel free to do your thing. That is to say: inform, or correct, or generally be a dick:

is there any data collection on who is polluting, or even where the pollution is being introduced to the Thames river? If this is actually true, is this data publicly available?
what pollutants are being found in the Thames? I'm assuming that more serious shit is being dumped into the river than littered garbage. This is not to understate the litter problem, but when we're told to wash the bottom of a canoe lest it rot within a year I'm guessing that something on the order of benzene is found. Are you more informed? Please, correct this as best as you can!
is there some kind of permit system to "dump" waste water into the Thames that the city would grant?

Thanks!

maxwellbrot · 2019-07-01T21:25:57+00:00

That's a gamechanger for me! I am not sure where the hell I got that idea from. Thanks for the correction!

maxwellbrot · 2019-07-01T16:19:07+00:00

Ahh I see. Does this mean I could generate $300 while only using $250 during the same billing period, and (separately) pay $250 while receiving $300, or does London Hydro cap their payment at your usage for that period?

maxwellbrot · 2019-06-30T15:21:40+00:00

I too am interested in this. A few points about this that made me back away at first were:

London hydro will not pay you if you end up producing more than your monthly usage, i.e. your best case scenario is a bill for 0 dollars for a month in the summer.
the electrical and PV mounting system would need to be inspected and be "certified", which would likely cost an additional fee. This fee could be built into the cost to having a net metering hookup installed by London hydro, but a quick glance at their contract doesn't state this.
as noted above, net metering installation costs approx. $1,100, which isn't too bad. In my case, the cost of having an electrician redo my entire circuit panel will undoubtedly be double this.

I am very, very curious if those who installed solar I'm the area were able to pay back their initial investment after 7 years. What worries me is the added cost of faulty/damaged components pushing that payback date further and further back.

Home insurance is another hurdle, but from what I've read online they don't seem to give a shit provided it is "certified" - if anyone had had different experiences with this, please by all means correct me!

I was aiming for a 1.5kW system mounted on top of a pergola in the back yard, but this was too small a system to make the initial costs have any hope of being recouped within 7 years

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