[Dave Rice]

You know my views on repeaters by now ? but for what it is that’s cheap.

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BT WiFi is linked to the account and the hub plays no part How do I connect to a BT Wi-fi hotspot with my laptop?

I don’t think you can use Fon for guests as it looks like you have to buy a Fon pass Buy an Access Pass

I would think your Synology is adequately locked down already. I can’t imagine you would have any open shares.

BL – looks like Sky have made it even easier now. How-To: Replace the Sky default router SR102 with a TP-Link Archer VR900 Comments section

1. Buy Archer VR900 router
2. Plug router in
3. Pick “Sky(MER)_VDSL” from the ISP list
4. Put in “moo@skydsl” and “foobar” in as the username and password

Thats it. It all just works – I even got my static IP address assigned without setting the MAC address (but I have now done that just incase I get any grief from Sky).

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I have pointed customers towards the N600’s and they’ve been very pleased.

I was with Sky until recently so couldn’t change, now I’m on TalkTalk their router does all I want which is very little. The backbone of my network is a Gigabit switch and a Ubiquiti WAP, the router only gets used as a modem and DHCP / DNS server.

Note to Bob, you have to use Sky’s router as they use an obscure authentication method and hide your credentials. (this has now changed as discussed below).

It’s one reason why I went down the independent wireless route. My network will always serve my needs no matter who my ISP is or what kit they provide.

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That’s what I use but it’s usually cheaper on Amazon.

The best advise is don’t use public WiFi.

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Isn’t that a quote from Slaven Bilic?

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Stranger on the Shore was an instrumental, so it could.

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If you mean the Righteous Brothers for Unchained Melody (there are lots of versions, including Jimmy Young) then I don’t believe any of them were #1 in the USA.

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Definitely still in the mines bigger than yours category, this is where I was today. There was a Ferrari in the garage but the contents of the fish pond are actually worth a lot more. These are show quality Koi and they ain’t small and this is just a few of them!

This is a quarter of the “fish pond” I’m standing on the island in the middle.

Behind you can see an AstroTurf 5 a side football pitch because his (grown up) sons play in the local team. The building behind is his equivalent of your garden shed workshop (it’s 15m x 3m). The 20m x 20m pond is in the centre of the 80m x 100m plot and when finished will be fully enclosed with bifold type doors and the island will be fully kitted out with a 4K TV and Sky Q for some (semi) outdoor living. We’ve got to work out how to do it from the Sky dish on another building 30m away. Luckily there’s underground trunking everywhere as he hates wires showing, so it’ll be a looooong cable.

We were there to do a camera survey to protect the front perimeter (the other directions are protected by natural features) that faces the road. We have the job already as this is the owner of the care home job we recently won and he knows we can do wireless, which is what will be needed on this site (Edit – but the cameras won’t be wireless, that wouldn’t help anyway). Ask ADT to do that…

We have to factor in that the existing house will be flattened in a years time so can’t be used as a central point and that the perimeter will still need protecting. When the house is rebuilt we have to fully network it up wired and wireless and make the NVR accessible (and interactable) on the lounge TV from an armchair for a technophobe (who hates wires). Luckily we’ve already tested Cat 5 HDMI extenders that support the IR “magic eye” and they work a treat.

To be fair to the bloke he and his sons do all the building work themselves and he is managing / building the care home extension at the same time. Most Project Managers I know wouldn’t take both on never mind being the brickie too. But it shows how much money you can make in property development and most especially owning a very upmarket care home.

But try the “big house mark up” on the quotes at your peril  :negative:

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Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to ‘ave to get up out of shoebox in the middle of the night and lick the road clean with our tongues. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit’ bread knife.

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Ubiquiti kit is one of those “other” PoE devices. Mostly they need their own PoE injectors (supplied) or switches (for large business installations) as they use a different voltage (24v), but the 8 port+ switches can power 802.3af 48v kit as well.

Another piece of PoE WiFi kit I use (two of in fact) is the £26 TP-LINK TL-WA801ND 300 Mbps N WAP. I use them as client devices to link the office LAN and Sky box to the main Ubiquiti WiFi network. They can also be used as a WAP or Repeater. The (non 802.3af) injector is supplied and has allowed me to mount them in a more appropriate location than the wall wart would allow. They also do the TL-WA901ND 450 Mbps N version with PoE (same link) but unfortunately the AC1200 version is Gigabit and isn’t.

For my test kit I’ve used a 16v PoE power bank in the field for years, but you can now easily get 24v and 48v versions but they’re not cheap. Ubiquiti have now brought out an injector for installers that can be powered by a standard 5v micro USB port (so I use a 26,000mAh 2A power bank). It’s also a small wireless router in it’s own right so you can provision the kit on the end of it via a wireless laptop or even phone / tablet.

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Didn’t get a chance on Friday.

Back on site Wednesday to fit a camera to the gate and may be replace the pet cam in the stable with something a bit better. They keep a couple of donkeys and sheep, have had goats and all sorts of things. The kids like to keep an eye on them.

I’ll take a little video of the zooming in to the centre of Bristol if I can. On Google Earth the co-ordinates are longitude -2.34939608888798 latitude 51.52872574148584 to longitude-2.599643157968293 latitude 51.45800850751039

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Time, Dark Side of the Moon.

EDIT not quick enough. No idea of JayCeeDee’s so will keep mine ready for later.

EDIT 2 – he answered mine anyway! The mans’s a walking jukebox  :good:

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Like all aspects of IT it can be a minefield when you go into all the options, but most have no place here.

Simple rules in my book for the CCTV cameras anyone here is likely to buy, and that includes me.

1. If the CCTV camera can be powered via PoE that is the preferred method. If you have more than two cameras then a PoE switch will be more cost effective (an 8-Port 10/100 Desktop Switch w/ 4x PoE Ports is £46 vs an 802.3af power injector is £15+). 10/100 is fine, but if it’s the only switch on your network then an extra tenner gets you an 8-Port Desktop Gigabit Switch w/ 4x PoE Ports.
2. If you can only directly power a camera and it’s too far from the mains then use a Power Over Ethernet PoE Injector & Splitter Kit and the wall wart supplied with the camera (£5).
3. If it’s any other PoE device RTFM.

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Yes it is compatible. it uses the concept known as “phantom power” in the world of microphones. Electricity and data operate at opposite ends of the frequency spectrum so don’t get in each others way.

The video explains PoE better than I can https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31ml_ngJZs4

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5v, that’s what I meant by “non standard”. Cameras of  that grade are normally 12v.

Yes your understanding of PoE is quite correct. Which is why 5v is odd and normally only seen on consumer cameras. I think it’s something to do with 48 being a multiple of 12 that makes it easier.

For 10/100 PoE uses Pins 7,8+ and 4,5- (Mode B). There is a Mode A, which is like the phantom power used in microphones, and uses the data pairs. Gigabit is different again, but 10/100 Mode B is all really we need to think about.

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I think I know what Jason means and it’s not negative. It’s more like a members free draw.

I would tell you the one about the empty barn, but there’s nothing in it.

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Those Axis cameras use non standard power packs for powering them directly. However I’ve never had any issues with them over PoE.

Don’t forget that the splitters I linked to do not provide PoE to the camera, just PoE over the Ethernet cable between them.

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Out council, South Glos, will take small electrical items no larger than the recycling box and you could easily get a microwave in there. You can put them next to the box in a bag. They will also take batteries, even car ones, and small metal items (but not pots and pans size). So our tip trips very few.

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I think the LD did go into coalition with the best of intentions, we really did need some stability at the time. However they were very naive. the fees U-turn and the proportional representation referendum were the biggest. That’s why I’m pretty sure there will be no coalitions this time, the junior partner always comes off worse. But that hasn’t stopped the Tories raising the SNP Labour bogeyman as it worked so well last time. This time though it seems to be falling on deaf ears.

And no Labour didn’t cause the crash and IIRC the Tories were calling for even less regulation on the Finance world before it all went pear shaped.

Been watching Labour spouting the same old crap all day and TM squirming and not answering the “will you raise taxes” question. Boris has been very quiet, I wonder why? If I hear another UKipper mention feet and fire in the same sentence I’ll scream  :wacko:

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Looks like you got to my proposed solution for your other thread before I did ?

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