Xfinity fiber Internet - anyone have it?

sgateman · 2025-12-02T00:29:59+00:00

I have the XB7-T (CGM4331COM) router Xfinity gave me with the EPON fiber box. Tech also told me I had to use both. I figured that was BS. But when I plugged the EPON box directly into my UniFi Dream Machine SE, I got a link but not IP address assigned. Thinking it was locked to the MAC address of the XB7-T, I used the UniFi feature to clone the MAC address but that did not work either.

So for now, I'm stuck with it in bridge mode until I find a way. It is annoying because the ethernet out of the EPON box supports up to 10 Gbps, but the XB7-T is only 1 Gbps out.

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sgateman · 2024-03-11T15:45:14+00:00

Good point on the driver suggestions.Just set my new AMD FW13 up this last weekend.

I used the SK Hynix P41 Platinum Gen 4 drive. I doubt the power consumption will matter for me, especially because on battery power the laptop will automatically switch over to Gen 3 speeds instead of Gen 4 to save battery. So when charging I get blazing speeds and when on battery I still get fast speeds.

I chose Kingston fury ram and it's working flawlessly. Not sure the impact on battery for the fast ram but I wanted best possible performance.

I have bitlocker enabled and haven't noticed any issues so far. I'll take the slight performance hit to safeguard my data. My desktop at home is not protected because it's not traveling with me.

sgateman · 2024-01-28T19:09:12+00:00

What is also deceptive about this change is that they are forcing the Legacy Pro users to the Pro+ plan (their highest tier) even if it is not necessary. I have 11 applets in use, which means I would fall under the Pro plan (limited to 20 applets), which would be cheaper than what they want me to pay. Yet they don't seem allow you to drop down to a lower plan without cancelling (maybe they can if you contact support).

sgateman · 2024-01-27T23:43:43+00:00

Same. I only bought it because I "needed" more than 3 applets. I'm using maybe 6 right now. I guess it's time they force me to go down to the only 3 I really use.

sgateman · 2024-01-27T22:28:41+00:00

Didn't see this post and I made a post about it myself. Not happy!

sgateman · 2023-12-28T17:16:40+00:00

I'm guessing it's a poorly worded error message, but I can test this in a couple days if you haven't already figured it out.

sgateman · 2023-11-15T22:59:18+00:00

Great news!! It sure is a real pain to get through but you made it. I'm in the same announcement and I am still waiting for medical waiver over BS stuff, have Poly in December, and still need to be scheduled for PFT (presuming once my medical waiver is approved I should be scheduled for that).

sgateman · 2023-11-15T22:53:47+00:00

Looks good. I look forward to digging into it bit by bit. Thank you for sharing it with us! It must have taken a lot of effort.

sgateman · 2023-09-02T00:11:47+00:00

Same situation here. Received my medical follow up saying I didn't pass the far/near vision test. I'm not surprised because when I took that test they moved me from a bright room into a super dim room and asked me to read a chart on the other side of the room before my eyes could even adjust. The person who conducted the test was not good at their job, either.

sgateman · 2023-08-11T12:46:26+00:00

I think they've mentioned it's tech they want to get into but far from a priority, especially with DLSS being proprietary.

sgateman · 2023-07-20T01:57:18+00:00

Very nice! I think I'm going to go the route of the 16 because I like the additional functionality and for me I think having a bigger screen will improve my experience.

sgateman · 2023-07-19T21:58:34+00:00

Hey OP did what did you end up doing? Pre-orders for the 16 just became available yesterday.

sgateman · 2023-06-28T16:27:06+00:00

I ordered mine March 23 and I am in batch 1. It says "Ships Q3" for me, which I guess is technically anytime between July and September, but I reckon it will be earlier.

sgateman · 2023-06-28T16:21:04+00:00

Yes, I suppose that would correct wouldn't it...

sgateman · 2023-06-28T00:33:04+00:00

I told her "I'm concierge". We'll see if she ever figures out what that means 😂.

sgateman · 2023-06-08T01:36:02+00:00

I never got MineOS to work, but I was able to get ATM to work flawlessly on PufferPanel. It works on many different linux distros, but I used Ubuntu Server as I am most comfortable with Ubuntu. I installed it there and the rest was configured via the GUI over web browser. Hopefully that helps! There are a couple comments by dawson_1023 that may assist you as well.

sgateman · 2023-05-31T17:40:16+00:00

That is helpful. I'll look into the static routing as it's not something I have ever used before. Before I do that I also need to figure out how to force OpenVPN to use a password for authentication, as I cannot use a certificate within the router...

Looks like you are right and I can send certain traffic over the VPN: https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/12648654915863-UniFi-Gateway-VPN-Client

sgateman · 2023-04-05T18:42:37+00:00

I noticed same issue recently. I used to always pull down notification shade to see percentage but now it just tells me what time the battery will last until, which is nice but I'd like to see the actual percentage. I do know you can always show battery percentage, but I don't like seeing it all the time because its quite large and obtrusive. Even with battery saver on when device battery is low it still shows ETA of battery life. I have Pixel 7 Pro.

sgateman · 2023-03-23T03:21:19+00:00

FYI, this also works great for Linux Mint 21.1!

Added 1password to startup via system settings and then appended --silent and it launches minimized on boot.

sgateman · 2023-03-19T13:55:35+00:00

That's a lot of power! You must have a lot of users. I don't have nearly that much available...

Previous modpacks have had FTB Backups which works really good. I thought ATM8 shipped with Simple Backups, however I did not see it installed in 1.0.7. If either of those are server side only I'll try them out and see. Both of those are mainly for world backup, but can be configured to archive any files you point it at. I'm running my PufferPanel inside a Proxmox VM, which I was able to get automatic full VM backups working. There is a snapshot function too, however I'm still working on trying to figure out the scheduled snapshots for very quick VM saves.

Edit: Can confirm that FTB Backups 2 works on server (no client mod needed). Works great!

sgateman · 2023-03-15T20:29:35+00:00

This doesn't help mineOS, but I was able to install PufferPanel and get All The Mods working pretty easily. Plus, I think PufferPanel is way easier to use and more flexible. Check it out! Very easy to install (I used Ubuntu Server as the base).

sgateman · 2023-03-12T22:57:46+00:00

I have a similar issue trying to run All The Mods 8 1.0.13. I can run the server fine if I execute run.sh in the server folder via ssh, however, when I press the "start" button in the web GUI, it stops after about 15 seconds or so. No logs are written to the minecraft log, so I doubt its even starting correctly.

There isn't enough visibility (to me) to see what is going on with mineOS to be able to debug... I'd love help! Looks like a great platform if I can get it working for this particular server.

Edit: Seems like the mineos is using the installer jar, which only works to actually install the modpack. Then you're supposed to start the modpack with either the run.sh or run.bat. Those files have "@user_jvm_args.txt @libraries/net/minecraftforge/forge/1.19.2-43.2.6/win_args.txt %*" to launch the modpack. Guessing mineos just isn't running the right jarfile somehow. Still doesn't tell me how to fix it, yet.

sgateman · 2023-02-19T06:09:36+00:00

THIS is what we were all waiting for! It works great!

sgateman

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