The little advice that I have seen is “brick walls -> get a bunch of access points” but that doesn’t sit right with me.
Currently we are using a Proximus (our ISP) modem/router in the northwest most far corner or the house and still get weak signal (enough for lower quality videos like Instagram reels) all the way in the southeast corner on the 2nd floor. It goes through 2 brick walls, a concrete floor, and a door and we can still use WiFi 6. Intuitively I would then set up something like an Asus rt-ax58u or a zenwifi XT8 mounted to the staircase wall or in the hallway in the center of the house. I don’t know if that would be strong enough to reach everything we need, but it seems better to me than a router in each corner and blasting channel noise at our neighbors’ houses since in belgium there isn’t much side-garden if any.
4 access points would be chaos of overlapping channels, noise, devices never knowing which access point to connect to and choosing the worse one or WiFi on the phone/laptop completely freezing service until a reconnect, and blasting RF noise all over our neighbors’ houses.
My mother already has thowe problems bad enough with one wireless router + 1 access point. That’s also why she sees 15 networks on a street of 20 houses far apart from each other.
I think that 1 wireless router in the middle of the house would reach every corner, but I wanted to be somewhat sure before I drop 150-200€
is there a reason you would want the modem on the switch?
The reason was to only have to run a single Ethernet cable to the hall instead of a pair, but I realized that wouldn’t work anyway because there is port separation on routers for external and internal to the LAN.
Are you going to do a ‘mesh’ to the satellite APs or are they going to be on the LAN (you mentioned re-wiring).
There would be no mesh. I think the house is too small for it. My mother’s house is 50% bigger and 3 floors instead of 2 with the router in the basement, but in a wood house. With no mesh only 1 room had no WiFi until she put an AP in the opposite corner. Now there is trouble with stability in 50% of the house as the power wasn’t reduced and they overlap by probably 40% or so. Frequent service freezes until it can resolve the correct point to switch to.
For a while now I’ve wondered how to build the most stable gaming/workstation possible. I’m sick of crashes, stutters, and general un-reliability. However, it’s a balancing act between price, performance, and reliability. (for example ECC memory is stable, but more expensive and slower)...
Hardware raid is always a significant failure point unless you have enough drives to do higher raids and good striping and redundancy, which you can’t do with 2 drives.
Software raid-like solutions like the ZFS filesystem gives you similar benefits with less downsides and instability.
A simple software drive mirror with a seperate periodic backup drives gives more stability than raid 0 or 1 ever would.
This chase for hardware “stability” in a non-server setting is mostly futile though. Probably >99% of crashes and system instability is due to software. Drivers, Windows updates, games, quality of life software, discord, Windows file system explorer bugs, upgrading to windows 11, any and all shitty RGB software, etc… will all crash themselves or your system 100 times before a hardware failure will ever crash your system or cause you to lose data.
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Mine is a 2700X on a B450I with 2 HDDs and 1 NVMe drive at 40W idle. Add an Arc A380 and it idles at 60W. We pay 0.30€ per kWh, so that means to run my server it is 158€ per year without any video transcoding.
Hardware was pretty cheap and it is over-powered, but I pay for it… hopefully getting solar soon!
The Lancool 216 has some of the best CPU cooling. You can’t go wrong with it.
Fractal Torrent is pretty much the gold standard for airflow. The lancool 216 beats it in CPU cooling but not in GPU cooling. If you want something smaller, torrent compact. However, it is more expensive.
Fractal North is less expensive, still had good airflow, and looks great. Much better than most modern cases in my opinion. If I was getting an ATX case, I would choose this one just for aesthetics.
In the end, a case is 50% cooling and 50% aesthetics. It is up to you to decide what looks good. With a 5700XT and a 2700X, 90% of cases will be good enough to cool it. You don’t have to go for the “best of the best.” You can look at what you like to look at and then compare thermal reviews after you found what you like. Good reviewers like gamers nexus will also give you a feel for how easy it is to build in the case.
If you have already done that, then I would go with the Lian Li for my preferences. I only think glass side panels are nice for fully themed builds. Otherwise they are worse for thermals, break easier, and can show bad cable management.
Sure, I’m wrong about something that wasn’t even the argument and I already clarified is possible, technically, but completely impractical for the application and does not exist.
By all means, send me the part number of a read-only connector. That would probably be very useful ti my work.
Innefficient, can be catastophic to local environments, not feasible in like 70% of places, but that kind of energy storage is in une in a few places in China amd the US where it is a good option in the local geography.
“Please tell me a time when.this country did terrible things b-b-but only in this certain half of the country’s existence!! Otherwise it’s cheating!!1!”
Conveniently chose a time right where you can ignore the Slavery and the Trail of Tears (% population wise that was just as bad). Not to mention the mass Native American “reeducation” and ripping them away from their families to get a “proper white education”
Every government has done terrible things. The US, China, and Russia are among the worst. We can argue about what is “worse.” But that is completely subjective. China literally just did much of what the US did, but on a larger scale 150 years later and with different technology.
Arguably Russia was the worst of them all, but literally all 3 are bad. America pulled itself out of that era and into corporate indetured servitude era of corporations committing genocides and coups in other countries. Personally I think that China is worse than the US and Russia dwarfs both of them, but just because one is maybe marginally worse doesn’t mean the other wasn’t/isn’t bad.
Is that using magnet wire to run the matrix? That small of guage seems like it will potentially break with some shock force (dropping a keyboard from a few centimeters on a wooden desk or something). Or is there a backplate supporting it?
I grew up within easy walking distance from Minnesota
Lol how to spot someone who doesn’t know what they are talking about. Minnesota has hundreds of farmers markets in different areas, that open at different times, and come from different places.
Most open in very very early may (that is the month after April) like the huge Minneapolis market, and many have less frequent markets during other parts of the year.
Please tell me what minnesota farm has pineapples, oranges, bananas, and late season produce already grown and ready for harvest in May?
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I torrent with a VPN and without port forwarding and can saturate my 20Mbps up and 100Mbps of my 300Mbps down. I don’t think port forwarding is the issue.
It would more likely be that the battery lasts 10-20% longer than ARM. You won’t triple or quadruple efficiency with just an architecture change unless it is world-changing new tech
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