Recent content by TWGF1572

I'm referring to Google Nest Wifi. Definitly not the Eero setup, but similar. I have a 2,400 square foot house with two stories so I have the pucks on each floor. I am not doing any sort of router based VPN for network protection. I am not that far along skill wise. Up to this point my...

Today is an exciting day - I got my fiber internet connected! I'm moving from 30mb on a good day (no joke) to 500mb. The fiber is coming into a different part of my house than my old internet, so some configuration changes are needed. I am not a networking guy - installing Merlin on my old...

Just a follow-up to my posting. The memory works, and the XMP 3000 setting was visible in the BIOS and seems to be working fine. Just got it put together yesterday. Now to start watching for some 3600 memory. What was NOT easy was updating the BIOS to accept the 5600. It's as painful as...

This is helpful. My key thing is that it just needs to be operational, since my kid also uses it for online school. I just don't want to put it together this weekend, and have to do a run to Best Buy to buy some overpriced memory just to get it running for school on Monday. Game on. I guess...

So I build a new computer about every 5-6 years, and it's getting about there. I know it's a crappy time to build, but I managed to snag a 5600x and 570 Tomahawk at MSRP so here we are. I don't follow computer hardware that closely when I'm not building a new one, so apologies in advance if...

I tried something similar with JBWeld. I tried to glue a metal tab on something that had broken off. It was a wire arm on an outdoor snowman, if that helps visualize things. The tab was on the end of the arm, and stuck into a hole on the body. That arm was maybe 5 pounds, but it had some...

Sorry, I was being a bit facetious and that doesn't come through well in text. They aren't worth that much on eBay, but they are worth a heck of a lot more than they were 6 months ago. Give this GPU situation a few more weeks, and who knows?

In for one to replace my R9 380. The market is crazy enough right now that I may be able to eBay my old card and get more for it than I paid for this.

So I think if I'm following everything correctly....in my use case load balancing would be fine. Where I start running into trouble is when my wife and I are having video conferences for work. Load balancing would most likely split those out over the two internet connections. Now when my kid...

My house was built from 2001-2003. Yup. Apparently the builder and owner were best friends when it started, and enemies when it finished. So it could be either type of cable. On the running cable part, I wasn't clear enough. I'm not going to pull cable. I have three floors, including the...

I've been kicking around the idea of hard wiring a couple network connections in my home. Primarily our streaming TV's, wife and I are both working from home now - so those computers, and our home PC. I've been toying with trying something for a while, but it's a slow time of year and I'm...

This is excellent! Thank you so much! I'm going to save this offline for reference because it's well written, very clear, and makes it simple. That was exactly what I needed to get me heading in the right direction. Its very easy to get lost in the forest for the trees, there are so many...

That enclosure may be just the ticket for what I need. Thanks for your help on this!

Doing that may be a bit out of my comfort zone. I do see where you can plug a NAS into the ethernet port of a computer, and with some provisioning of IP addresses you can get the two talking. That may be an option. At this point, I've decided to buy a new external drive. That will be...

So the best plan then is to probably shelve any thought of trying the NAS until/if I can get my house wiring setup properly.