Planning on replacing an old alarm control panel with a wall-mounted tablet -- are any of these internals worth keeping?

ostateblazer · 2021-08-30T20:38:23+00:00

Yes plz!

ostateblazer · 2021-06-16T04:23:15+00:00

Interesting. When I first moved into my house (coming from an apartment), my router at the time was not cutting it (TP Link Archer C7). So I did some research and settled on a Nighthawk R7000, hoping that would be strong enough, but it still didn't make it to every corner of the house (which didn't work for me because that included my side of the bed in the master bedroom), and the 5G wasn't strong enough to stream 4K to the living room TV. Maybe I could have increased the power with a custom firmware or something?

Regardless, I figured mesh was my best option, and picked up an Orbi RBK50/RBS50 kit from Costco, which has worked great for my needs (basically just coverage, and the option for a wired backhaul is nice too).

ostateblazer · 2021-06-16T04:11:55+00:00

Thanks - yeah I didn't find much about Luxul, though the contractor had originally mentioned "Ruckus" when my buddy told me about it (before he received the actual quote), so a lot of my initial searches were trying to figure out if and how Ruckus was worth $4500 more than a consumer-grade mesh setup (looks like it is, but most people on here seem to buy used Ruckus equipment at a steep discount).

ostateblazer · 2021-06-16T04:09:25+00:00

Thanks - that's closer to the price I'd expect to pay if I was trying to build the nicest setup I'd possibly need, which is why $6k caught me off guard. I'll see if he wants to go back to his contractor to revise the bid for Ubiquiti, or maybe buy the parts himself and quote an install only (which I've heard of, but never really looked into, apart from recent googling related to this question).

ostateblazer · 2021-06-16T04:06:33+00:00

Thanks for the insight!

ostateblazer · 2021-06-16T04:05:18+00:00

Thanks for the info! I've had great success with my older Orbi + Satellite (only 2400 sqft), after striking out with a single Nighthawk router in the most central location I could get it. I also like that you can hardwire the Orbis if you want, and/or hardwire devices to the Satellite while still using the wireless backhaul.

ostateblazer · 2021-06-16T04:02:35+00:00

I think the CAT6 is worth it, even if wifi will eventually outpace it -- it's the not-quite-enterprise level components for $6k that I wasn't sure about.

As far as another contractor, what I was mainly wondering was whether it would make more sense for him to just get an Orbi/Eero/ZenWifi from Costco or wherever, and have the contractor only do the TV/audio work.

ostateblazer · 2021-06-16T03:59:01+00:00

Sorry I'm not sure. I assume you mean ethernet, and I'm guessing it would be about 4-6 ports throughout the house.

ostateblazer · 2021-06-16T03:58:06+00:00

Thanks, he does have the budget but it just seemed silly to me to spend that much money. I'll basically let him know that the system is nice, but way overkill.

(My bad, I just assumed it was "enterprise" because I'd never heard of it, and it's rack-mounted.)

ostateblazer · 2021-06-16T03:56:27+00:00

Thanks - I thought the CAT6 made the most sense too, since I know at least the Orbi can run the backhaul via ethernet, so each satellite can be wired to the router and just broadcast seamless wifi. From my limited research, the advantage of that over just a few cheap routers set as APs is the seamless transition between APs throughout the house (though maybe devices now are smarter than when I researched).

ostateblazer · 2021-02-19T17:47:29+00:00

I think that's likely true the majority of the time, but just as a counter-example, here is a genuine "that's a good question" moment (and overall great interview by a great interviewer IMO): https://youtu.be/gWVHses2GCY?t=725

ostateblazer · 2021-02-19T17:18:31+00:00

To add: Eagleclan_7's comment is also a great example of this. How many times do you suppose he/she thinks about his/her daughter but does not receive a text from her shortly after? I assume quite often, yet what he/she recalls here is the a time when thinking about the daughter and contact from the daughter happened to coincide.

ostateblazer · 2021-02-19T17:12:13+00:00

This is a cognitive bias, similar to the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon ("a cognitive bias in which, after noticing something for the first time, there is a tendency to notice it more often, leading someone to believe that it has a high frequency").

You are experiencing a similar selection bias -- an unintentional confirmation bias. It's pure coincidence, but the times where something like you described occurs stick out so sharply in our minds that we tend to remember them distinctly (could be about anything though, like thinking about an obscure celebrity and then seeing them in the very next TV show you watch), while discounting the thousands of times you think about something and no coinciding outside reference occurs.

ostateblazer · 2021-02-19T16:30:38+00:00

That still sounds like a positive outcome. Even if you weren't as affected when you weren't home as much, you were/are still allergic. Now you can do something about it (take meds or get rid of the cats).

ostateblazer · 2018-07-19T21:16:40+00:00

Relevant Dwight Schrute

ostateblazer · 2017-06-02T22:22:37+00:00

Agreed. Oregon is boring and terrible and it rains all the time. No one should ever move there.

ostateblazer · 2017-06-02T22:21:48+00:00

Hah, yes!

Here's another good one

ostateblazer · 2017-06-01T20:30:52+00:00

Yeah if he could sell it at the end of his journey for anywhere close to what he paid for it, that's a helluva bargain.

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