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All the same telemetry and other reporting in Win10/11 was backported into Win7/8 long ago. The only thing you've gained by continuing to run Win7 is an insecure system, as MS ended all support for the OS years ago. As for VPN providers, they...

It's actually the owner of the public IP that gets the notice and in turn notifies the user. The fact the IP owner is usually the ISP is just circumstance.

All I can say is fool and his money if you're trying to do something and don't even understand why you're doing it. To set up your vpn to a vpn service you will need a vpn client (which you have) and then follow the instructions of the provider...

Honestly, if you don't really know what it is, then you don't need it. This the best explanation and is why I personally think these consumer vpn providers are just a scam unless you have a use case where you need one:

It really doesn't. It's just Microsoft controlling what you can and can't do on an x86 machine with SB, since they do the key signing. Intel Management Engine and AMD's PSP have unrestricted bare metal access to every single piece of hardware in...

It most certainly does not belong in any network. A network is a network and all networks should be secure. This treatment of home vs business network is precisely the cause that has lead us to inferior networking protocols in home networking...

Any "firewall" that supports UPnP is not a firewall. Devices inside your network should NOT be able to open pinholes into your network. Disable that crap and use manual port forwarding.

Yes, that is the pass through mode and what you should be doing, per att, when using your own router. I would suggest instead you bypass the RG if you want use your own router. There are multiple ways of doing so and this is widely discussed over...

I'd keep the E3800 as it has 10Gbps ports. The other has SFP ports but not SFP+ so no 10Gbps at all..

1. Generally no. In my experience there is no such thing as optical auto-negotiation. Perhaps some modules support this. As a rule matching modules on each end. 2. Yes, the socket is backwards compatible. 3. Generally yes but the module itself...

Any chance you or the drivers you installed have enabled jumbo frames or changed the MTU? I ask this because you said the VPN worked and often VPN "adapters" have the MTU default set to <=1450 to offset headers.

Exactly as Samir says! Just because the cable has cat 5e printed on it doesn't mean the installation meets the spec. If you use good cable rated at 350 or 400Mhz and make good terminations with quality connectors you can test to higher specs...

More than likely, you'll run 2.5Gb just fine and maybe even 5 and 10Gb just fine depending on how good the termintions are. Back in 1995 before cat5 was even a standard we ran 400Mhz rated wire everywhere. Decades later, it runs 1gb no problem...

Assuming your cable installation actually meets or exceeds 5E standards end to end 2.5Gbps will work as per spec. Per spec 5Gbps will need cat 6 or better. Obviously, you will not exceed 1 Gbps if you continue using routers and switches with only...

^^^ Yes

STH? Serve the home? https://www.servethehome.com/

It is fairly common to flash rebranded cards with OEM firmware. The description of the ebay link plainly says that has been done. Of course it also says the card is new and a new card should not have been reflashed ... meh details lol. I would...

All in One System (ESXi incl. free version + virtualized OmniOS ZFS SAN appliance): autoboot of storage VM + other VMs on NFS When I brought up the AiO idea more than 10 years ago, autoboot of VMs on a delayed NFS storage was trouble free. Just...

First of all, kudos and hugs to you for doing something for your parents for them to still participate in life in their current health. I've lost both my parents and did a lot of the same and it's almost never an easy job. Second of all, a...

First, vlans are a layer 2 thing and have nothing to do with IPs, static or otherwise.Now, did they actually give you 5 /32 IPs or a subnet? I ask this as 5 IPs is an odd number that doesn't align with a subnet mask Generally the way this would...