johnnixon
@johnnixon@lemmy.world
- Comment on What are your Homelab goals for 2025? 3 days ago:
Get VLANs working, proper IOT network isolation, and Nextcloud as my primary document storage. If that first one didn’t bring down my homelab entry time I try I’d be more inclined.
- Comment on New apartment Internet has no port forwarding, admin login 5 months ago:
Smartaira fiber. Best I can gather they’re using a a big switch and segmenting each port. Probably per floor. They socialize in large scale wifi deployment and that’s what they’re doing. It’s a genius way to provide basic web access with a minimal hardware footprint for the provider and no hardware but a POE AP for the users. It just sucks for those of us who know better.
- Comment on New apartment Internet has no port forwarding, admin login 5 months ago:
That’s an interesting concept. I bought two weeks ago when they still had cable modems and a setup I know I could have worked with. I’m politically active so getting on the board should be an option. However, what’s in the best interest of the vast, vast majority of the owners? Your standard service that requires complex gateways and running coax all over your apartment with hardware rental fees and TV number and location limits, or a system where your smart TV can connect anywhere and your iPhone can always get onto Facebook and there’s a 24/7 tech support line to change your WiFi password for you? If it costs each owner $1 more per month (500 units) for my preferred network architecture so three residents can save $70 per month ($210) I would be failing in my fiduciary duty by charging the masses more so a select few can self host. We are the minority and the rest don’t care.
- Comment on New apartment Internet has no port forwarding, admin login 5 months ago:
I actually gave it 44000-65535 and it’s connecting well. That’s another reason why I wanted a more robust network: IOT VLAN to segregate that risk.
- Comment on New apartment Internet has no port forwarding, admin login 5 months ago:
The setup is very strange. They don’t provide a router. They took the old phone lines going to each unit (which appears to have been done in Cat5 decades ago) and put an RJ-45 end on it. That plugs into a POE powered wireless access point with two more ports on it. Plugging my laptop in, the gateway does not respond to HTTP requests. The tech who installed it said I have to call the home office to change my wireless password. I got them to disable the wireless so I could put my router on the other end but I’m either running on a network that my shady small time ISP has full control over or I’m behind a double NAT. Speeds were 900+ up and down though.
I might see if I can get the AP re-enabled and let the switch connect to it directly if that even fixes the Switch’s NAT issues.
- Comment on New apartment Internet has no port forwarding, admin login 5 months ago:
I just got a Ubiquti Dream Machine that can do fail over so the other connection won’t be completely wasted but $70 per month could be saved by finding another way.
- Comment on New apartment Internet has no port forwarding, admin login 5 months ago:
It depends on the app. Yes, I could run my password manager on the VPS since that takes up virtually no space or bandwidth. The odd IP camera needs to be local, the Minecraft server with mods needs local CPU power and RAM (presumably).
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- Comment on What is your preferred fitness tracker/smartwatch? 1 year ago:
Upvote for Pebble. It was the best of all time. I could operate the buttons without even looking.
- Comment on What is your preferred fitness tracker/smartwatch? 1 year ago:
Pebble Time. It was the best ever until the battery swelled. My Fitbit Versa 2 was good until the battery gave out. My latest Fitbit has worse software with less features than the last and I hate it. There are no apps available anymore.