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  1. weird_dave

    WiFi Mains Socket....

    I think I'm getting somewhere, it looks like the sonoff 26 sockets can be programmed with trasmota. I have also found a video which looks most useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX2qElPmqYw No need for home-assistant.io, just autoit some http requests :) Those ready flashed devices look...
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    WiFi Mains Socket....

    I don't care which protocol, either will do as long as I can control it myself :cry: Given the cost of these things, it would be potentially be cheaper to buy an esp8266, a relay and a tiny psu :p After a fair bit of googling, I think home-assistant.io will allow me to achieve what I want...
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    WiFi Mains Socket....

    I can't seem to find any documentation on how you control it, this is generally the problem I'm having with any devices I look at, sure, you can use apps and stuff but I want to control it directly with my own UDP/TCP, that info seems to be hard to come by :(
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    WiFi Mains Socket....

    I'm looking for a WiFi controllable mains socket that I can control directly via TCP/UDP, I'm not particularly interested in app/google/amazon/apple control of it as I want to simply control it myself. Anyone have any familiarity with any?
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    Switches for QOS (beginner/ help!)

    I'd probably just limit the bandwidth on the office switch port that connects to the lounge switch to start with, to about half my connection speed :) Then tweak from there. If that doesn't work then something is probably snaffling data via the attic wifi, which would be the next thing I would...
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    New router options....

    Thought I'd update with the current solution in case it helps anyone out.... During my playing around I needed a break and found I suddenly needed wifi, but still no wireless access point sorted. So what I did is put the virgin media box back into router mode and simply enabled DMZ to point to...
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    New router options....

    Dual nic turned up earlier, trying out openwrt in a VM with the dual nic dedicated to it. It's already had over 1500 simultaneous connections without any issues. I may try untangle tomorrow :)
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    New router options....

    OK, to cut a long story short, I've ordered a dual NIC so I can try out some of the x86 solutions :D
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    New router options....

    If I had a box with 2 Nics I'd take it for a test proper drive.
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    New router options....

    I signed up with Tangle, the only iso I can see is the firewall one. I wouldn't mind some extra expense if there are features that are useful to me, I'm no longer entirely convinced there are over getting an off the shelf router, especially if it's openwrt compatible, not that I have any...
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    New router options....

    The only pricing I can see is $50 a year for untangle. Their site sucks. My biggest stumbling blocks with going the DIY route are 1) finding something sub £100 (that I can actually buy new) 2) working out if the hardware is actually supported by untangle or any of the others.
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    New router options....

    I'm not keen on the subscription ever year, could buy a new router for that cost :) I stumbled upon this while a reading review of the honor: https://www.mi.com/global/mi-aiot-router-ac2350/specs/ can be had for £56 inc vat, looks like a contender in the ready to rock category :)
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    New router options....

    I have added that to a list, I spotted it in one of your posts in another thread :D So far, I have the following 'ready to rock' routers shortlisted: (from £££ to £) £££ Google Nest Wifi Router, £117, probably won't make the cut ££ TP-Link Archer A7 (or C7), £72 £ Honor Router 3, £50 I don't...
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    New router options....

    First some background.... My Virgin Media cable modem/router loses the port forwarding rules when it's unplugged, which is a pain for the services I use that don't use UPnP. I'm fed up with it happening (it's not often, but it is painful), it wouldn't be so bad if there was a way to upload the...
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    Robocopy /IPG faster than expected....

    I wanted to transfer a few files over a vpn which is shared, so I figured I'd use robocopy to limit the bandwidth used, I figured an IPG of 10,000 would at best allow 1 packet of 64KBytes every 10 seconds: E:\I>robocopy e:\I n:\Library /IPG:10000...
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    VPN for multiple mobile PCs (for actual vpn, not websurfing)

    Fortunately, my boss is quite aware of this, I did say we should ask IT if they can help but we both know that's a joke :) The data doesn't really contain anything that's useful to outside parties, things like engine hours and fuel levels would be of use to the train operator and we may end up...
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    VPN for multiple mobile PCs (for actual vpn, not websurfing)

    Thanks for the responses :) OK, some more background information... I have installed dataloggers (a PC recording data) on a bunch of trains. I'm trying to come up with a solution for looking at things remotely but without using the company network, too much red tape, so I'm going it alone, which...
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    VPN for multiple mobile PCs (for actual vpn, not websurfing)

    I don't plan on hosting this myself, so I'm looking at something like: https://www.ovh.co.uk/order/vps/#/vps/build?selection=~(build~(family~'ssd~quantity~1~datacenter~'uk1~offer~'vps_ssd_model1_2018v1~osType~'linux~osCategory~'app_and_os~os~'openvpn__debian8-openvpn~osLanguage~'en)) The data...
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    VPN for multiple mobile PCs (for actual vpn, not websurfing)

    I'm looking at options for connecting multiple remote mobile PCs to a vpn so that I can treat them like I would any other PC on my network (obviously assuming I also connect to the vpn!). Is OpenVPN on a hosted server the way to go?
  20. weird_dave

    GPU block "You can use any opening as an inlet/outlet port."

    While you can use any opening as in/out, this doesn't mean all combinations of pairs/quads will work as intended. You haven't missed anything, use one left and one right.
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