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I guess it depends on how much you're planning to stress the system. If you're going to be doing IDS and all that on *sense and have a fast internet connection then you're not going to regret the extra performance of the N305. The only thing that puts me off these tiny cases and the N305 is the...

It is. One of the many clones and I forget what it was branded as. Running a Celeron 3865U and getting on a bit now. Was the cheapest I could get with AES-NI support at the time to offload the OpenVPN work to. However times have moved on and I am eyeing up an N100 based replacement. It can just...

Not really my lab as such, but was under orders to find some way to hide the mess of wires/boxes in the sitting room where all the entry points are for the internet feeds. Cue a quick trip to Ikea and a ghetto install shoving the kit in a blanket box that could have the lid put on it and keep...

I think you need to get in the headspace of rolling your own appliance as a disposable thing. Without support or warranty, as @Avalon says, you've no idea how long it'll last. And I'd cut my budget accordingly to that mindset. Do you need SFP 10G now? So why future proof. By the time you do need...

I can give you a recent example on my purchase. A recommended local firm (who did a good job) were £1,500 + VAT for their fees for the purchase. Then on top of that there's the disbursements (land registry fee, registration, searches etc.) which put another grand on top of that.

You can get a quad NIC N100 based mini PC for less than £200 and the OS is free. Will sip power and route at Gbps no problem. Separating your WiFi from your router I always think is a good idea if you’re vaguely tech minded. Let’s you upgrade/migrate kit over time only where required and means...

Definitely a router with automatic failover is the way to go. As well as the few off-the-shelf options mentioned you can make your own appliance with 2.5G ports and *sense. I've had this working for years firstly between VDSL and LTE and these days between VM and VDSL. You can set how quickly it...

UniFi products support meshing and can have multiple guest networks (via up to four SSIDs) with each tagged to a different VLAN ID.

Electrical wire connectors. A much easier and quicker system to use than the old terminal strips and available in formats to join any combination of wires easily enough. Push/snap the wire in and the metal bar at the back provides a conductor across all terminals. If it's the original type then...

I'll have to be subjective in the term "best" and pick the car that holds the fondest memories for me and that was my BMW Z4M. I'd just had to give up my Porsche as part of a divorce and while the Z4M is not objectively a better car, it symbolised some new found freedom for me and I used it...

Sadly gifts with reservation can’t have the seven year rule applied. And if you’re not paying rent to live in the house after you give it away then it’s a gift with reservation unless you’ve used some sort of trust.

Is your or your brother’s worldly assets plus half the value of the house more than £325K ? If so then as the law stands now the estate will pay 40% tax on the difference between that amount and £325K

£250 per person each year for lots of people (provided its not part of the £3K you can also give away) + £5K/£2.5K/£1K towards wedding costs per year for kids/grandkids/randoms + another £3K a year in total to one person or split between more + Unlimited regular payments to another person after...

That's not going to work. See the section on regular payments here: https://www.gov.uk/inheritance-tax/gifts It's exempt from IHT and won't count as part of the inherited estate either for you to claim as some sort of portion as inheritance. Also there is no income tax on cash gifts for your SIL...

I believe standard IHT rules will apply since neither of you are leaving it to a child (your mother leaving it to you both would have benefited from this rule). Half the property'd value at the time of one of you passing will be liable to be added to the estate for valuation purposes to...

I would advocate starting the conversation like a counsellor would advise. The only indisputable facts here are how you feel. Anything else is assumptions on your part and she could counter (either truthfully or lying). You don't know she gave it away. You don't know if she's sold it cheap as...

Work out the route between the two points data is moving from and to and it'll go at the speed of the weakest link. Remember that could also be your disk speed as the limiting factor if one of the end points is spinning rust on a local computer and you have 2.5Gbps and up network bandwidth. If...

Couldn't agree with @Caged more. Even the cheapest access point that can act as a wireless bridge is going to be using ancient technology like wireless N and only save half the price on a Fire Stick with its better user experience and better WiFi. The built-in catchup apps may not even work any...

Not that I have personal experience fo doing this in UnRaid but I don't think this statement needs to be true. You can host a Windows VM on UnRaid and pass through a GFX card etc. And you can attach a blueray drive and use one of the docker containers built for ripping e.g...

I'm sure I'll regret writing a good news story about Virgin as a new customer but I was really impressed with my start with them. I have no option if I want a fast connection so before moving here I placed an order for 1G internet. No problem they said in the automated ordering process, we're...