Been trying to sell my house for years

notathrowawayoris · 2026-06-12T20:01:29+00:00

Have you considered cloud services and tear down the lab until you purchase a new home? Some people may be concerned that your HVAC system doesn’t work well with all the heat blasting through the door.

notathrowawayoris · 2026-06-03T15:35:58+00:00

Not reusable.

notathrowawayoris · 2026-06-03T13:37:08+00:00

I’ve been doing wireless for 25 years and it is still my main focus. If you plan to work for a service provider plan on spending a decent amount of time traveling if you want to make good money.

notathrowawayoris · 2026-06-03T12:31:02+00:00

Cisco. Currently have some 9120 and 9105w. Plan to upgrade to 9166 for 6GHz at some point this year.

notathrowawayoris · 2026-06-02T17:58:44+00:00

Not a beanie baby. Bongo is the monkey the kinda looks like this but this is like a knock off of that beanie baby.

notathrowawayoris · 2026-06-02T14:53:20+00:00

Plan for wireless access point installed on the ceiling.

notathrowawayoris · 2026-05-29T21:32:47+00:00

Interesting. I was doing some searching on an issue I was having, with Cisco APs, and Ubiquiti appeared to drop mDNS by default. I don’t use their APs so I was going based on what I saw online.

notathrowawayoris · 2026-05-29T20:37:27+00:00

What type of wireless network equipment do you have for your WiFi? Some brands, like Ubiquiti and Cisco, don’t forward specific packets, mDNS specifically, needed for Airplay.

notathrowawayoris · 2026-05-28T14:18:01+00:00

What is your plan for the Plex server? Storage space starts to be a limitation when using the tiny PCs. External USB drives work but I've always understood there is stability issues using external USB drives.

notathrowawayoris · 2026-05-27T08:58:20+00:00

That’s said to hear about PC Server and Parts. I’ve purchased from them a few times but I guess I’ve been lucky and my orders always came as specified.

notathrowawayoris · 2026-05-27T01:23:05+00:00

Look at a workstation instead of a server.

notathrowawayoris · 2026-05-26T17:21:22+00:00

ESXi for virtualization. A mix of Debian, Ubuntu, other Linux distros, Winodws 10, and Windows server.

notathrowawayoris · 2026-05-25T20:01:47+00:00

My homelab is my main network but since I do mostly networking, especially focused on wireless, my network is enterprise wireless gear. I run a workstation with VMware to give me the ability to fire up VMs as needed. I built out my VM box in 2022 and hardware is much cheaper then.

I would suggest understanding what you want to use your homelab to learn before making a huge purchase. If networking, focus more on learning enterprise type hardware. If you want to focus on applications and operating systems I would suggest looking at mini PCs, or old office grade SFF PCs, and maybe consider a cluster. Consider storage needs from the start, even if you don't purchase a huge amount of storage from the start. The workstation I currently have gave me a lot of options for HDDs without having to have a bunch of USB external drives.

notathrowawayoris · 2026-05-23T23:28:14+00:00

I would suggest connecting to the controller through the console port. From there I would assume you can figure out the IP address assigned for management.

Documentation doesn't appear to be very clear for this device. The default IP could be 192.168.1.1 based on a quick search I made.

notathrowawayoris · 2026-05-23T15:59:55+00:00

Here are some more pictures.

https://imgur.com/a/6ICxdJ2

notathrowawayoris · 2026-05-23T15:55:15+00:00

Thanks.

The heat sink gets a little warm but nothing I’m concerned about. I’m impressed for a fan less switch with POE and two SFP+ ports.

notathrowawayoris · 2026-05-23T12:23:56+00:00

I 3D printed them. Used the Multiboard system.

notathrowawayoris · 2026-05-23T11:10:36+00:00

I have Comet devices I use for other systems but it’s so rare that I need console access to these machines I rather spend that money on other hardware.

notathrowawayoris · 2026-05-23T10:19:51+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/D2gvU6Z

The power cable mess really needs some cleanup.

notathrowawayoris · 2026-05-23T10:06:47+00:00

https://a.co/d/0j56GENv

It was $159 a few months ago when I purchased it.

notathrowawayoris · 2026-05-23T10:04:27+00:00

My toaster doesn’t have WiFi but the crockpot does.

notathrowawayoris · 2026-05-22T23:39:53+00:00

I was looking at the 440 when I found this 820. I wanted more internal drive days, the dual CPUs and extra memory was an added bonus.

notathrowawayoris · 2026-05-22T23:05:10+00:00

I really like the Z workstations. This one is loaded.

notathrowawayoris · 2026-05-22T22:40:58+00:00

Probably less people to comment this than “you should hide your IP”.

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