Mastodawn

augh the wifi died, rebooted the AP, but then my opnsense box also exploded so i had to reboot that too

can anything networking work for more then 15 seconds oh my god

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Emelia/Emi 2d ago

@ezio Meanwhile my parents' router: up 303 days, 15:50. Stuff that I set up seems to either be absolutely bombproof, or it randomly fall over whenever the full moon lands on a Tuesday. (One of the APs does reboot occasionally, since it's not on a UPS)

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Witch Aly

2d ago

@becomethewaifu i think the last time i had a AP not give me issues was when we had the linksys e3000 from the early 2000s. everything since has required reboots because the wifi would quit broadcasting or internet would drop like like OH MY GOD YOU HAVE ONE JOB

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Witch Aly

2d ago

@becomethewaifu its even worse now cuz i have a DIY mesh, so if the ea8300 dies the rest have no internet. and the ea8300 likes to quit working

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Emelia/Emi 2d ago

@ezio We had to replace the old linksys because the radio stopped working, so I replaced it with a mini-PC running linux and a random unifi AP (that's since been replaced with a newer model, plus a random Ruckus thing I bought off ebay). All the APs are hardwired, which was a PITA (but very worth it) so the core network can be on a UPS (All ethernet and one of the APs; the other one's on a PoE-powered switch that can't do passthrough, so that needed a local injector)

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Emelia/Emi

@ezio Hell, even the garage AP (that I had completely forgotten about until a minute ago) is hardwired through the cat3 that someone dropped into the trench when they ran power out to it. Originally intended for phone, but it carries 10/100 ethernet just fine. Really should have run fiber, but it was still back in the pre-cable-internet era, so nobody had the foresight. Might get to upgrade the power drop for a car charger at some point though, so I can drop some fiber then.

EDIT: a tip for trenching cables: Cable is cheap. Trench is not. If you can't just lay a pair of big pipes, lay as much shit into the trench as you can while you have it open, even if you're not going to use it right away. We have RG6 coax (TV cable) going out to the garage, because a roll of that was only $50 and we were already spending god knows how much on the trench, and we thought we might want to put a TV out there.