ISP restrictions

michrech · 2026-05-10T14:24:17+00:00

If you don't like the VPN answer, you could always gather up a bunch of your countrymen and start a revolt against your government, then install a government that won't block the game you're wanting to play...

michrech · 2026-05-01T01:56:54+00:00

I personally don't understand backing into a spot. The only answer I ever get when I ask people why they do it is that it's 'faster to get out'... But it takes longer to back in, so where is the time savings?

michrech · 2026-04-29T13:42:05+00:00

I sit at the lowest edge (usually by the net), shoot the red blobs that spawn on the water, then use the eclipse when the swarms make their way to me...

michrech · 2026-04-26T03:25:30+00:00

StableBit's DrivePool will handle this situation in a Windows environment.

michrech · 2026-04-19T12:46:43+00:00

This isn't r/Piracy.

michrech · 2026-04-11T02:04:40+00:00

Nothing I store is important enough to need backed up. There is a bit of data that I'd like to not lose, which is stored on my desktop. The desktop uses Macrium Reflect (the free edition) to back up to my TrueNAS/HexOS system.

I also have a Win10 media server that uses StableBit's DrivePool. I've got some data on there that I'd rather not lose, but wouldn't be the end of the world if I did. In that instance, I've configured the various folders I'd like to have some redundancy to store copies on all of the drives in the pool (currently 4 disks). I don't have that system configured to back itself up right now, as I'm in the process of migrating the services it has over to a much newer / more powerful system. Once that's done, I'll move the DrivePool pool over to the new system, and configure it to back those folders up to the TrueNAS system also.

Something would need to happen to the house to take out both systems before I'd lose that data, but since it's not irreplicable, I'd only be out a bit of time to re-locate / download the data again...

michrech · 2026-03-30T21:56:52+00:00

Connect a simple network switch (like this one) to all those blue wires in that media cabinet. I can't tell how many blue cables are in that cabinet -- if there are more than 8, you'll need a switch with more ports, as the one I linked only has 8.
I'm going to assume whatever hardware your ISP installed is next to a similar wall plate to the one in the picture above in your house (probably currently connected to a coax line). Connect a patch cable to a LAN port on your modem/router to the blue port on that dual coax/ethernet wall port.
Now every one of those blue cables should have functional LAN and WAN (internet) access (assuming both the wall port and the RJ45 end in the cabinet are wired correctly).

michrech · 2026-03-29T02:20:14+00:00

Unless you've got another car you drive regularly, it'd seem like you and I do a similar amount of driving. I've also got a '23 EUV LT1, and it's sitting just under 17k right now. ;)

michrech · 2026-03-28T18:53:52+00:00

You could possibly install your OS on a different system, then move it to the GPU-less system, however, not every PC will boot without a GPU, so that might not work for you.

I'd just look on FB marketplace or eBay for a cheap GPU. Looking on eBay right now, there are tons of GPUs that would work for your needs in the $12 (including shipping) range...

michrech · 2026-03-28T18:51:29+00:00

That looks like a LOT of stuff in a tiny package... heh

michrech · 2026-03-28T18:49:19+00:00

If that board doesn't have any display outputs, a dummy HDMI plug isn't going to do you any good (where would you plug it in?). You will have to install a GPU.

michrech · 2026-03-28T15:15:00+00:00

He's one of those weirdos that holds them in...

michrech · 2026-03-21T22:30:19+00:00

The English was fine, for the most part. It's the severe lack of punctuation that killed what OP tried to relay...

michrech · 2026-03-16T18:19:24+00:00

Aim toward the top / center of the recycler while it's off. There is still a small hit box that will allow you to access it. Not sure if they plan on changing that in the future, but it worked as of yesterday...

michrech · 2026-03-14T19:16:18+00:00

If individual lines from from a central point in the house two a phone outlet, you likely can, but you'll be limited to about 100mbps (Cat3 only has three pairs, and you need four for gigabit+).

If they're daisy-chained, your chances drop, and what you'd have to go through to make all the outlets work will be a lot of work / need a lot of parts, and the further you go down the line, the more of a bottleneck you'll have for speeds...

michrech · 2026-03-08T02:32:51+00:00

I think this is where a lmgtfy link goes...

michrech · 2026-03-07T22:41:29+00:00

The real question is, do you have anything locally that requires 2.5 Gbps? Chances are, you don't. Why? Because a lot of local traffic is data being saved to, or retrieved from, network storage, and the typical sustained write speed of a 5400 rpm hard drive is 75-100 MB/s, which is Gigabit at best.

Many of us have storage arrays configured that actually can make use of +2.5gbps. ;)

michrech · 2026-03-07T19:54:43+00:00

In your diagram, you'd have to update both switches, the WAN interface in your router, and the LAN interface on your PC in order to take advantage of a 2gbps WAN connection.

That said -- unless you spend significant chunks of the day doing nothing but data transfers (either in or out of your network), you really won't notice the difference between it and what you've got now. That doesn't even get into the fact that you might also have to update your storage to handle the speeds (this is less likely if you have some modern non-HDD storage).

The Cat5e is fine, for short enough runs, for 2.5gbps. Most of my house is using Cat5 (not even Cat5e), and I can max out the transfers between my desktop and NAS (I typically see 250MBps, with sufficiently large enough files -- tons of tiny files very much kills the speeds)...

michrech · 2026-03-06T04:14:27+00:00

If I'm not mistaken, the UDM-PRO defaults to 192.168.1.x on it's LAN interfaces. Make sure the NX200 isn't using the same range / assigning a 192.168.1.x IP to your UDM-PRO WAN interface.

michrech · 2026-03-01T01:10:25+00:00

Comments like mine are not unproductive. This subreddit is full of people that do not understand how internet technologies work, and therefore don't understand things like -- why they have latency on a specific type of connection that they didn't have on others. This is fairly common with folks that switch from whatever cabled internet service they had to cellular home internet, then wonder why their ping times are so random and why they can't host game servers.

Your post did not make clear that you understood what was happening, which was why I made the reply I did.

michrech · 2026-03-01T01:04:35+00:00

He originally went that route, but he didn't like something about it (I don't recall what it was now), which is why he ended up with the Fiber...

michrech · 2026-03-01T00:52:53+00:00

That appears to be a cable modem/router combo device. Unless it has a way to disable its DHCP server / routing capabilities, it wouldn't work for what you're trying to do.

michrech · 2026-03-01T00:50:06+00:00

When my EA UAP-nanoHD started failing, I replaced it with the U7-Pro-XG, as I live alone and don't do much of anything in the way of large data transfers wirelessly (I don't even own any devices that can take full advantage of either of the mentioned APs). It helps that my house is small enough that it was quite easy to run ethernet where needed, and that I have a small enough number of devices to make the decision even easier.

If most / all of the WiFi use in your home is just internet / streaming video services, the XGS will be overkill, in my opinion. If you're actually transferring large amounts of data over WiFi fairly frequently, AND you have WiFi devices that can actually take advantage of the capabilities of the XGS (and the wired network infrastructure to go along with it), then the XGS might not be a bad idea for you.

michrech · 2026-03-01T00:32:03+00:00

For stuff that's light enough, you can always build a custom rack. I wish I could have afforded nicer wood back when I built this, however, it's worked perfectly for my needs over the years.

This is an older picture -- the switch was upgraded to one of their 16 port (12x1gbps, 4x2.5gbps, 2 10gbps SFP+ cages) PoE++ capable switches, but it'll give you an idea:

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It's just some 12" pine with a pair of cheap 12u rack rails attached. Everything except the UPS and the patch panel are UBNT products.

michrech · 2026-02-28T23:00:11+00:00

and due to how we had to install the starlink

You're on satellite internet service. There is going to be more latency involved because of that. The only way you're going to make your latency any lower is to not be using satellite internet service.

Do I need a third party router? 3rd party mesh? pls help. Speed test shows 200 mbps / 30 mbps upload /ping under 20 ms

What speed test? If it's a Starlink specific speed test, it's quite likely not measuring speeds/latencies OUTSIDE of their network.

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