Recent content by Left Coast Geek

My 45 years in the computer industry as a software and hardware engineer plus doing IT stuff too says 'never say never'. Murphy is our god.

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mine just came up in eval mode, and yeah, I found the bi site down. says I'm running 5.7.7.8 and my license expired 4/22/2022 ?!?

note thats just for the data side, both switches will need power still, eg, you can't daisy chain the PoE off the first switch, as one port on it won't have nearly enough power to run N ports on the 2nd switch.

My UB 24 port POE full managed switch is under300 mm front to rear... Its a USW-Pro-24-PoE

i did just fine for years cascading 4 and 8 port dumb POE switches on existing ethernet lines. many PoE cameras are only 100baseT anyways.

but you can't assume the person you're replying to has the same setup.

well, if the wireguard server isn't running ON the firewall router, you need to setup a port forward for wireguard (unless you are running uPnP, which allows any software on any system on your network to punch its own firewall holes without bothering to tell you).

hmmm, RF modulator/demodulators like a pair of these should give you 1Gbps over a run of RG8... this particular one is 75 ohm, I believe RG8 is 50 ohm and usually used with PL259 connectors. https://www.amazon.com/Actiontec-MoCA-Network-Adapter-Ethernet/dp/B088KVYZGK you MIGHT get away with...

one good solution is to get an AP that has external antenna connectors, and get a 'sector' panel antenna with compatible pigtail. don't even think about 5Ghz, stick with 2.4Ghz. mount this sector anntenna facing the wood shed on a window, or run it outside and mount it on an outside wall...

My general experiences are that outside walls in your house can greatly attenuate the wifi signal. Get the Android app "Wifi Analyzer", from VREM Software in the Android Play store, its a pretty handy thing that shows all the channels and what APs are using them at what strength. I have one...

Well, I already have Ubiquiti wifi, so it integrates nicely... It was $600 which is half or less than that Cisco new...

SO I dunno if anyone has mentione dthis switch here, and I'm not about to read this whole 18 page thread to find out, but I just got a Ubiquiti USW-Pro-24-POE, 24 port switch, 12 ports are POE+, and 12 more are POE++, and its all fully managable by the Ubiquiti 'network controller' software...

only difference between a 568a and b cable is the colors of the pairs, as long as both ends of a given cable are the same a or b, then its all good. 8+2 switches that I've seen have 8 POE ports and 2 more non-POE ports which can be used as a passthrough (one for uplink, and one for downlink to...

found same cam on alibaba, got more specs, but nothing about focus distances, https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2255799830343168.html I can't find a manufacturer website anywhere.