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  1. Machupo

    Cat6 bulk for wiring a house

    I just bought a 1000ft spool of truecable Cat6a SSTP when the price dropped on amazon and did my entire house with that. Worked great and was pretty straightforward (other than the rando spacetime twist between the basement and the ground floor), especially if you have the tools and a fluke.
  2. Machupo

    10GbT Switch Recommendations

    I have loved my Netgear prosafe XS716T as my core switch. It is easy to manage and has been bulletproof with nearly perfect uptime.
  3. Machupo

    Are 17" Laptops Becoming Extinct?

    The box had an actual laptop (exactly as described) - had an at-the-install-screen copy of win11. Though once I got it up and running, some setting appeared to be controlled by an administrator/group policy. Maybe it.is my total lack of familiarity with windows 11. Either way, will probably...
  4. Machupo

    Are 17" Laptops Becoming Extinct?

    Pulled the trigger on a used (excellent condition) gram 17. 13th Gen i7, 32gb ram, 1tb SSD for less than 40% of retail. Seller had thousands of reviews and free shipping to APOs, so fingers crossed it's not a big box of dick-shaped glitter or hasn't been used as a cricket bat.
  5. Machupo

    Are 17" Laptops Becoming Extinct?

    I have a different use case than you, no need to game and mainly spreadsheet and coding, but I have been scoping out the LG gram 17. Looks like you can get 12th Gen versions very cheaply these days (not much of a bump in 13th Gen anyway).
  6. Machupo

    Are there Any Good Laptops These Days?

    Sorry for the necro, but did you ever get an XPS17? My XPS13 (7th gen) is getting really long in the tooth -- can't even take windows 11, apparently. The only reason I keep it around is to take proctored exams which can't run on linux, but good god, trying to take a 4hr exam on a 13" screen...
  7. Machupo

    Chat message

    According to my meter 95-100% is normal, so 88-90 sounds a bit low. Do you smoke or have you gone to high altitude recently?
  8. Machupo

    Chat message

    Hey, this thing works... cool
  9. Machupo

    Mesh Wifi with good parental controls: porn blacklisting

    TAK is the architecture, the network in your use case would be commercial of course ;). Setting up your own certificates to build your "team" is pretty straightforward, particularly if you have an accessible surface on your home stack, but I guess you could spin up an AWS instance as well for...
  10. Machupo

    Mesh Wifi with good parental controls: porn blacklisting

    And when your kids get phones, install ATAK and run your own instance on a home VM. 👍
  11. Machupo

    Sennheiser Ambeo?

    Starting to see these drop below 1k on the second hand market. Anyone with listening experience on them? Looking at the Ambeo Max.
  12. Machupo

    GHOST S1 - When both size & performance matters

    Just snagged up a S1 MkIII in ash for a bargain basement price; going to give it a shot with a 4070Ti and a 7950x3d :)
  13. Machupo

    1/4 mile wireless cheap?

    If you are trying to do it on the cheap and have LoS, you can always build a directional waveguide antenna out of spare parts / the appropriately sized metal food tin. Edit: saw this is for your fiancee's father. High street cred risk reward with a future family member. I would build one in...
  14. Machupo

    AMD Ryzen 7600,7700,7900 non-X benchmarks

    questioning the need to upgrade the barebones I currently have (5600G, mitx AM4 mobo, 32gb ddr4 --> 7900, mitx AM5 mobo, 64gb ddr5)... but you know how the upgrade bug goes, hah.
  15. Machupo

    Share your pfSense / OPNsense builds

    Supermicro X10SDV-6C+-TLN4F (Xeon D-1528 w/ dual 10GbE) w/ 32GB ECC, 256gb nvme ssd, and a titanium psu in a 1U rack. Bulletproof and way overkill for the packages / services I am running, but I got an absurd deal on the main board and had most of the rest laying around. Also fits nicely into...
  16. Machupo

    Best advantage of running IP Passthrough on main AT&T router/modem with Fiber and using your own router ?

    Not relying upon dated firmware for your network security, being able to select your own modem (if your isp let's you do this), etc. If you are doing more on your network than just blasting all traffic to your isp and their DNS, you likely already have hardware capable of doing the routing as well.
  17. Machupo

    Looking for new WAP suggestions

    There are occasionally good post-holiday sales on higher end equipment. I picked up a pair of Netgear WAX218's for $100 after Thanksgiving a couple years ago when I decided to shift away from ubiquiti.
  18. Machupo

    VPN that appears like a private home internet?

    TBH, if the reasons were truly nefarious, you don't rent a VPN, you just pivot through some poor schmuck's legacy provider router and unpatched windows box.
  19. Machupo

    Pfsense WAN load balancing CPU requirements

    pretty sure my mobo can stomp that ivy bridge xeon all day long, but appreciate the linkage. Other than "hook it up and see what happens", anyone got any real world experience with the cpu requirements for load-balancing... from what I've seen in the thread so far: not a very big impact on cpu...
  20. Machupo

    Pfsense WAN load balancing CPU requirements

    I don't have WAN right now, that's why I was asking the question -- looking at a 300mbit (allegedly) vdsl+LTE offering and whatever starlink can get to me (Ookla was seeing a 120mpbs average in Q1). Generally, I am pretty sure this can handle these speeds, but want it to be good enough to deal...
  21. Machupo

    Pfsense WAN load balancing CPU requirements

    Sorry about that, I should have included the current specs. I am rocking a Supermicro X10SDV-TLN4F (Xeon D-1541, Broadwell chip) in the edge device. As far as services, I run pfblockerNG with DPI/local cert and have been dabbling in suricata.
  22. Machupo

    Pfsense WAN load balancing CPU requirements

    Anyone doing dual-WAN on a pfsense box? I am wondering what kind of CPU power is required for load balancing two decently high speed connections (1gbps and 300mbps) and would love to hear your tales to know if I'm barking up the wrong tree with my current pfsense box. Thanks in advance!
  23. Machupo

    Close please

    SSD array is sold
  24. Machupo

    Close please

    One more week until everything gets boxed up for the move. Get it while you can!
  25. Machupo

    Close please

    4470GB written of 249TB lifespan according to smartctl and the Seagate datasheets, so over 98% of write life left.
  26. Machupo

    Close please

    Yep - will do that this weekend, am traveling in Europe right now (had to find a house before I move all my stuff, hah).
  27. Machupo

    Close please

    Basically all of its life is left. It was used for word/excel/powerpoint.
  28. Machupo

    Close please

    bump
  29. Machupo

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    ttt
  30. Machupo

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    bump for that peep-jousting time of year
  31. Machupo

    Close please

    every time I drink bourbon, I just want to keep this array... hahahaha
  32. Machupo

    Close please

    Bump -- open to part outs on the 2TB SSDs and the HBA; all prices OBO.
  33. Machupo

    Close please

    I am looking for 1x 14TB WD Easystore if anyone has one to trade :)
  34. Machupo

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    lowered the array and some of the boxes prices - bump!
  35. Machupo

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    bump! Someone out there definitely needs a completely overkill storage array :p
  36. Machupo

    Close please

    All of the ubiquiti equipment is now gone
  37. Machupo

    Close please

    Lowered some prices and reconfigured the wide array of random bits into "boxes" with greatly reduced prices to try and get them moving :)
  38. Machupo

    Close please

    Ok, ready to part out the array and the networking setup -- individual prices listed. Still prefer payment in BTC/ETH.
  39. Machupo

    Close please

    It's the Unifi switch 24 - 500W managed poe+ (model US-24-500W)
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