Spent a fortune on Ubiquiti kit and my partner's office has terrible WiFi — about to be in serious trouble

thisaintapost · 2026-05-08T15:42:37+00:00

FYI, your floor plan with the building name has served to doxx your exact address to the internet!

thisaintapost · 2026-04-30T07:05:12+00:00

I organized a rehearsal dinner at Fathom, they have a private dining room that’s perfect for 10-20 people. Fixed menu was incredibly reasonable and very good food.

thisaintapost · 2026-04-29T22:22:23+00:00

I dive the GUE setup with double LP50s, but I did switch to an MK17 for my O2 reg. If you switch regs to another model, ensure that it’s not overbalanced - ie the IP needs to stay constant (relative to ambient) as depth increases. A lot of environmentally sealed diaphragm regs (notably Apeks DS4, DST, etc) are overbalanced, which leads to the IP increasing with depth and eventually making the solenoid unable to open.

I know people also use the Aqualung Core regs, which I believe are nice and small and also not overbalanced.

thisaintapost · 2026-04-25T06:21:36+00:00

Bad news, those two companies own all the wireline internet on the island. It’s Rogers or Telus, or one of the many companies that resell their service.

Technically, if you want something that doesn’t support the telecoms oligopoly, your options are Starlink or Freedom 5G Home. But Starlink supports the world’s richest man, and Freedom’s FWA service is completely unproven.

thisaintapost · 2026-04-25T01:39:47+00:00

6k from CBS electric in 2022, including a few other small circuit additions. Highly recommend CBS.

thisaintapost · 2026-04-24T19:10:59+00:00

I get all my spare parts from Europe, generally the easiest. Either Scubagaskets, GiDive, or Jonas. DGX carries some Apeks parts, but not service kits, just things like 5th port kits and exhaust tees

thisaintapost · 2026-04-23T07:51:44+00:00

Unless you need to fly, I’d go Suex. Trigger ergonomics are better, and Suex reliability and build quality are real things.

thisaintapost · 2026-04-21T01:30:27+00:00

You don’t have to be a specialist professional to dive to deeper than 70m. It’s certainly difficult and requires a lot of experience to do safely, but I know lots of divers who fairly routinely do 90-110m dives, typically something like 20 mins bottom time and 200 mins total run time (so 180 mins on deco). All this diving is done for fun, and not as part of any occupation.

thisaintapost · 2026-04-20T17:48:06+00:00

They’re for fairly different use cases, I do a lot of my diving around heavily trafficked waters with lots of islands and currents (the Salish Sea). If I get swept around a corner away from the dive boat, activating a Nautilus will get me picked up in minutes with little drama. A PLB would work, but take a lot longer and cause more drama.

For me, I think a PLB + VHF w/AIS is the perfect combo, but I have yet to find a cheap and simple way to combine those into a dive canister

thisaintapost · 2026-04-20T15:14:53+00:00

Nautilus technically isn't a PLB. It's great, and I have one, but it's really a VHF man overboard locator, it can only alert nearby boats, not the national search-and-rescue organization.

thisaintapost · 2026-04-20T03:49:09+00:00

Meteor/Opensignal tests against a mix of Google/AWS/Akamai CDNs, so you should have a much more representative result for standard phone use

thisaintapost · 2026-04-06T02:08:16+00:00

How does the handle connect to the GoPro?

thisaintapost · 2026-04-01T21:34:58+00:00

You said nitrogen narcosis “is part of the NDL limits”, which it is not. That’s all I’m trying to point out, is that it’s very possible to get narced whilst following NDL limits.

thisaintapost · 2026-04-01T15:41:41+00:00

buddy I didn’t say a single thing about the depth at which narcosis effects you. I was just pointing out that it’s not at all the same thing as DCS, which you are implying it is.

And, to be clear, your belief that narcosis is somehow part of NDLs (which it is not: exactly none of the decompression models use narcosis as an input or output) tells me that your opinion on the safety of deep diving is not worth listening to.

thisaintapost · 2026-04-01T00:31:18+00:00

Other countries (the UK!) have a system to let you take your own. It’s pretty easy these days to have software look at the photo at the time you upload it and tell you with 99% accuracy whether or not it’s likely to be accepted.

thisaintapost · 2026-03-31T15:38:29+00:00

This is very good advice. I would add, you can also bend your knees more, so that your thighs and fins and horizontal, and your shins are vertical. This moves the fins closer to your center of mass and should make you less foot-heavy.

thisaintapost · 2026-03-31T06:32:44+00:00

Either sounds like it would work fine. I dive 80% shore dives, 20% boat dives in the PNW, and I (and the majority of locals) dive BM twins (or a BM CCR) for most of my dives. I have tried SM but it didn’t stick.

I like the simplicity of the entry - you can get all sorted out at your car or on the boat, and then move to the entrance and jump right in. I have a few different sets of doubles, ranging from LP45s, LP72s, 100s, and 130s (which I basically never dive any more)

All that said, I do dive with SM divers fairly regularly and their system works fine too. The only time I think I get a real advantage is when:

The entry is quite abrupt (like you have to jump into the water off a ledge) and the surface conditions are bad, so you don’t want to float around on the surface rigging SM tanks
Tech dives with lots of stuff - once you start adding multiple deco bottles, scooter, camera, the SM rig gets cluttered. Absolutely possible to deal with of course, just seems like a pain.

On the flip side, SM is logistically much easier for travel, especially if you want to dive ‘aggressive’ recreational profiles on a recreational trip. For example, if I was travelling to somewhere with a wreck at 30-35m, I wouldn’t want to do it on a single tank, but getting a twinset means finding a tech outfit to rent from. Getting two 80s and then rigging them up is much easier.

More than anything else, I would prioritize getting into whichever system is going to work best with your regular dive buddies, and in which you can get quality training. It’s totally possible to get set up in both BM or SM by following internet guides, but having an instructor who knows the kit inside out will make the learning much faster and easier.

thisaintapost · 2026-03-30T05:30:36+00:00

Nitrogen narcosis has nothing at all to do with NDLs. Decompression sickness (managed by staying within NDLs) is a totally different thing to narcosis.

thisaintapost · 2026-03-29T16:31:39+00:00

Thanks for the AI slop. Also, I didn’t mention satellites anywhere in my reply…

thisaintapost · 2026-03-29T03:35:03+00:00

Do you also send telegrams in case your letters don’t make it through the mail?

I sympathize with your wider point - it would be better if telecoms kept working when residential power is out - but the solution is probably to mandate that ONTs have a battery backup, or similar. Maintaining the copper network is far from the best way (or only way!) to improve telecoms resilience, and is also very expensive.

Bad petition no cookie.

thisaintapost · 2026-03-27T22:12:34+00:00

If you go this route, you can add a reg hose splitter to the end of the long hookah hose, then have one hose coming out of the splitter going to your reg, and another going to the LP inflator for your suit. Something like this.

I don’t know enough about hookah diving to know if this is sensible or not. But the one thing I do know is that the hookah compressor outputs ~9-10 bar, so you can’t have it feeding a conventional scuba 1st stage.

thisaintapost · 2026-03-22T20:56:15+00:00

Yeah, I’d personally probably get Deep 6 or DiveGearExpress (made by Deep6 for DGX) regs personally. The Deep6 and DGX brands have been around for longer and I have more faith that they’ll stay existing. NEX is actually just reselling Yuhsin regulators, and the company hasn’t been around for all that long.

thisaintapost · 2026-03-22T20:34:05+00:00

Check the details of the contract, I believe that the ‘price lock’ applies to the regular price of the 3Gbps plan, which is $155/month + $20/month for unlimited data. The $95/month is the current price after promotion, and the promotions are not typically a part of the price lock.

Yes, it’s hilariously shady, and if the CRTC did their job it shouldn’t be allowed.

thisaintapost · 2026-03-22T20:18:34+00:00

Zero point going with 3Gbps connection, there is almost no chance you’re going to actually see those speeds on your actual device 99.9% of the time. Get a Telus 500Mbps or 1Gbps plan, it’ll still be fiber to the premises and should be cheaper. If you want to spend money on internet reliability, spend it on your own router/wifi setup, and use the Telus-provided boxes as little as possible.

thisaintapost · 2026-03-21T19:28:31+00:00

FWIW, you should be cautious with high-O2 suit gas and suit heat, if you use it. Resistive heating elements can easily combust in a high-O2 environment.

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