Networking and Networking Administrator

@Tweety Bird asked me to send some documents to her computer workstation. I'm getting a message of "No Route". I check the network switch for her PC to be present. Nope is not even registered in the network. I've been working with damaged scraps of cable, trying to get by. Nope! I'm done. I jumped out on Amazon and found a 10 GBit CAT6 cable rated for 10 GBit. I'm going to upgrade the 2 lines between the workstations so that large data moves can happen quickly. I just remember I need to order one more short cable about 6 feet tonight, so the server and the two stations will all have 10 GBit bandwidth, and I could move data like I have the internet backbone. https://www.a…

I'm no longer going to support anything Microsoft. Tidbit, so I had a used Xbox One console I bought back in 2020. Then, after getting married, I found out she had her own Xbox from a previous marriage. I started working on getting these two older Xbox One consoles to play together. I've been trying for over 4 months with these two older units, and one of them has a bad hard drive and tends to lose information, forcing me to rebuild the console several times. Finally, the suggestion was to just replace the two older Xbox consoles with 2 new Xbox Series S units. The first setup was beautiful, no issues. The second unit required me to rebuild the operating system, which I…

OMG! I love the new Omada Controller software—way more information about your entire network and the usage. The Current version I'm running is. Omada_Controller_v6.1.0.19_linux_x64.deb The new version of the software now lists things like interference of signal. There is much more diagnostic information brought back from the Gateway (firewall), Controller, and even the WiFi heads. WiFi stability is way better now than even 2 years ago since I built the dedicated server for all the network stuff to run on. Comunications here are nearly flawless. The family here enjoy the high speed WiFi (6 GHz) with connection speeds as high as 2 GBits per second. The two workstation P…

Yeah my desk is a mess but I've hooked up our two XBox to the HDMI ports on the monitors of the Linux PCs they share the monitor great. I was stoked to see both XBoxes just pull over 100 Mbits worth of speed. Starlink reports 250 to 300 Mbit speeds while downloading, TV playing Pandora, TV downstairs Mark is watching TV and surfing his phone. While I post this message on the website with all this happening. Never mind the timer in the screenshot im making bread today.

I've got an older-generation Starlink, and I had to buy the extra adapter to break out a single port for an RJ45 CAT5 cable. That single connection supplies my TP-Link Gateway with internet. Be aware that if you decide to hide your WiFi radios since they are outside the realm of control, you need WiFi to access the Starlink. I opted to hide only the radio names. There is a greater security risk in doing this, but I really doubt a hacker is going to sit in my yard banging on the Starlink WiFi. The setup of my Acurite weather tower required the Starlink WiFi to be split between the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands. Acurite only needs the single 2.4 GHz band of WiFi, since it can us…