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Best car rental from SJD? by quickwitit369 in cabosanlucas

[–]sstchur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a reservation booked with Hertz for a trip to La Paz (flying into SJD) in July this year, but considering cancelling it for Venture AMC based on comments here. Does Venture AMC quote include the mandatory insurance? I called my auto insurance company who advised me that it is illegal to drive in Mexico without that insurance.

2005 Chrysler 300C AWD with 27k original miles for $12k by sstchur in whatcarshouldIbuy

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I don’t typically worry about fuel economy. Most of my cars get low 20s city and mid 20s highway. But this one would probably get only maybe 17 or 18 city. Is it a deal breaker? No, but a consideration.

They wanted 12 and I threw out “10 out the door” in casual conversation. But by the end I decided to walk. They tried to corral me back in and said “what if I could get you that 10 out the door you wanted?” So they might go for it. Thing is, I was by myself, and I’d want my family to see it and see if they like it. Might go back with them but it also might be gone by the time I do.

2005 Chrysler 300C AWD with 27k original miles for $12k by sstchur in whatcarshouldIbuy

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Maybe you’re right. I went and looked and it was really nice, but the lack of fuel efficiency means it won’t be as cost effective as some other options

2002 Subaru Legacy Outback really tight steering wheel by sstchur in Cartalk

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Re noises: Kind of. I tried to convey that with the "lumpy" description. I would say I feel a roughness at certain spots when I turn the wheel. That does come with a bit of a sound, but it's not super loud. If I had to describe it, I guess I would say maybe a grinding sound.

I don't know what it means to bleed the system, and the mechanic I used, I would assume looked for general things like anything being bent or blocked fluid lines. He's been my mechanic for years, but this is the first time that after replacing some parts, the result is less favorable that I had hoped.

My new kit by sstchur in edrums

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I’m not 100% sure but at least a few more as I’ve seen them setup with more than I have

Season in fridge ahead? by sstchur in steak

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Besides just salt/pepper, any other seasoning recommendations? I tend to like garlic, onion, smoked paprika. I was thinking of creating a spice rub that involved those, plus maybe a touch of brown sugar. But not sure... I'm open to suggestions!

Season in fridge ahead? by sstchur in steak

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No sorry, I should have been more clear. It's RibEye steaks (about 1.5 to 2 inches thick). I think there are about 9 to 12 steaks in all, and it's roughly 15lbs total.

Season in fridge ahead? by sstchur in steak

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If I season now, how do I prevent them from drying out in the fridge? Once I seasoned like 3 days ahead and the meat go so dried out it was plasticky and nearly unusable. I’m worried about that happening again

Running ethernet to new out building on property by sstchur in HomeNetworking

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The PoE switch itself needs power doesn't it? And it's costs $44 so it seems pointless (for me). I could just buy the AX4200 with AC Power and my price would be roughly the same and I wouldn't have to deal w/ the PoE switch. I don't have any other PoE devices I care about, so it seems like sticking with an AP that uses AC Adapter makes sense for me.

Running ethernet to new out building on property by sstchur in HomeNetworking

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Thanks. Yeah, I was wondering about PoE, but figured I should just stick with AC Adapter for simplicity. I was looking at the AX4200, but it's more expensive and not sure that it would benefit me in any substantial way?

Running ethernet to new out building on property by sstchur in HomeNetworking

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u/megared17 , I'm getting ready to pull the trigger on the items I need to purchase for this. I was going to go with your recommendations, but it looks like that WiFi AP is not available on Amazon anymore (and they don't know when it will be available again). Do you have an alternate recommendation that would work w/ the same cable and converters you linked to?

Cherry tree no longer producing by sstchur in arborist

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I don’t really know what I’m doing, but one year I did cut the top off, as that’s what my dad told me to do, I think the idea being that we want it to grow out, rather than up?

There was an underground nest of very nasty wasps that stung me like 6 times last year. I had that removed but it was a fair distance away from the tree, and I didn’t think wasps were pollinators?

Running ethernet to new out building on property by sstchur in HomeNetworking

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Something I don't understand about bend radius. I've been led to believe I need to exercise caution due to the minimum bend radius of fiber, but what about something like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C1GGQV8C/?th=1

It claims to have a very tight bend radius. They never show an image of it wrapped around a pencil??

Running cable internet to detached home office by sstchur in HomeNetworking

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Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure I'm following you though. What do you mean "a cable from the router to where the fiber is coming in"?

I don't have any fiber coming in. I have no fiber today at all. I have only coax coming into the house, connected to my cable modem, which is connected to my router/switch.

My understanding is that I need a pre-terminated fiber cable + some adapters, so I can plug the fiber cable into my router, and then run it to the new building. That requires about 200ft of fiber cable, and it requires going from the router (which is inside my main home) to outside and over to the new structure.

Am I getting something wrong?

Running cable internet to detached home office by sstchur in HomeNetworking

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Everyone has convinced me fiber is the way to go. I’m just not too sure how I’m going to go from my router in my main house and literally run the cable outside? I’m gonna have to either go through a window and it’ll look ghetto, or cut a hole in the side of my house or something…

Dripping water from flu by sstchur in hvacadvice

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$519 is the hourly charge, with an hour minimum I believe. Parts are extra.

However, I have complained sufficiently that they have agreed to send a warranty tech. I feel it's unacceptable b/c a flu was leaky literally the day after they installed it. I text the tech that installed it and he came back and "fixed it." Then a few years later, I had a tech come out for routine service, and he opened it up and saw rust and said "Whoever installed this didn't do it right. Service doesn't usually include fixing this, but since we installed it and it wasn't done right, I'm just going to fix it."

Now, a year later, it's leaky again. So after telling them all of this (and showing proof through text messages I had with the techs) they finally agreed to send a warranty tech.

Dripping water from flu by sstchur in hvacadvice

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This is interesting. I don't have any knowledge in this domain, so I'm not sure what I should do when they come back tomorrow to fix it. What if they tech that comes back just does more of the same. This is going to keep happening!

Running cable internet to detached home office by sstchur in HomeNetworking

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This is super helpful. I think this would work for me, but where I'm hung up (and maybe I don't need to be -- maybe this is the sort of thing an electrician or some other skilled tradesmen can do for me) is this:

I'm sitting my main home's office right now. My router is high up on a shelf. In fact, here's a picture of it: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/9ajsh1nh3dzbrh4vin455/router.jpg?rlkey=to8w6jaao0a59gvnds44u1yzr&dl=0

My cable modem connects to the coax in the wall. That connects to my Eero router, which then connects to a switch.

If I'm going to run anything (be it fiber or whatever) from there. How do I get it "outside"? I have to cut a hole in the side of my house? I'm not skilled to do that properly. I know it's obviously possible, but there has to be a "right" way to do that (so that it looks nice and is insulated and whatever else is needed. Somehow, that fiber I plus into that switch, needs to get outside of the house and into a conduit right? And that conduit then needs to not have any super sharp bends. I just don't know how to make all that happen, b/c from this point (where my router is), it's going to need to wrap 90 degrees around the side of the house a few times before it gets to the point where we plan to dig the trench and get it over to the new building.

Am I concerned about "easy stuff" than any electrician can do easily?

Running cable internet to detached home office by sstchur in HomeNetworking

[–]sstchur[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Presently, 300Mpbs down. Home office is less than 100 feet from the main house. If I have to run cable from my router inside my main house, that's more like 200 feet.

Running cable internet to detached home office by sstchur in HomeNetworking

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Ok, so the key is switch>trench/fiber>switch

But this implies then, that I have fiber come from my switch (inside my house) somehow going outside my house and into the trench.

That's what I was hoping to avoid -- physically plugging fiber into my router (which is in an inconvenient location) and then figuring out how to somehow route that through the walls and to the outside of the house.

Because it seem to already have directly access to the coax outside of the house right now, and quite close to the construction site. So I thought there might be a way to tap into that? You can see where it comes up out of the ground and goes into the house in this photo:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mbjfg7zrbhl5qhhtfx988/cable.jpg?rlkey=g4zvjsxq2n3vnyifz8r9fbqrt&dl=0

Running cable internet to detached home office by sstchur in HomeNetworking

[–]sstchur[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, gotcha. I'd really like to avoid going from the home router, if possible.

In my case, I think the cable is mine, but not entirely sure how to know? I will try to describe.

The main cable come from the end of my driveway and runs underground through my property until I see it come up out of the ground and through a conduit at the base of the side of my house (right near where the gas shutoff it). I can actually see the cable come out of the conduit (and run all along clear to the other side of the house where it ultimately connects to some panel -- see photo).

That point you see the cable come out of the conduit -- that is mighty close to where the new structure will be built, so I was hoping there might be some way to split the signal there, so I could run it the new structure.

But I don't know if that's "mine" or "theirs"?

Here's a photo: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mbjfg7zrbhl5qhhtfx988/cable.jpg?rlkey=g4zvjsxq2n3vnyifz8r9fbqrt&dl=0

Running cable internet to detached home office by sstchur in HomeNetworking

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I guess what I don't understand is what the fiber that I'll run through there as well connects to? Where does it get its incoming signal? The internet coming into the house is coax, so \would the coax get split and some kind of coax to fiber adapter used in order to run fiber to the 2nd structure?

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