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OK, I'm scratching my head here and looking to see if anyone has had a similar issue. Since this virus started it seems like everyone and their dog wants to use Zoom meetings. Our kids teachers are still using it for meetings.. so it has to be installed on all the systems int he house it...

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Argggg.. I hate AT&T so much. They have fiber one street over.. which actually intersects our street and have been offering gig speeds for over a year. I can actually follow their cable along the street to our corner and see it branch off and go down our street with a service loop at the pole...

Anyone using something like the TP-Link KP200 in an outdoor setting? We have a covered deck area that I would like to put some smart outlets in, but everything "outdoor" rated looks like cow dung. No, I don't want some dongle hanging off my outlets. My concern is with the operating...

Same here, but honestly I'm thinking the problem lies with my Yahmaha ATS-1070 soundbar. I've tracked down the issue to powering everything off at night. If I manually turn off the TV and leave the Caavo and soundbar on.. no HDCP errors. If power everything down at night I can be 100% sure...

I have not :( I have about $40 worth of HDMI cables sitting in my Amazon cart but I haven't pulled the trigger yet. For now the family knows just to flip the power strip off and on and wait for everything to start back up. I've been meaning to hook the old Roku 3 back up and see if it still...

Dang.. I thought our usage was pretty high, but nothing compared to some of you guys. We "cut the cord" (god I hate that term since almost everyone still has a cable of some sort coming info internet) several years ago. Keep local channels via Xfinity only because it's like $2 more than just...

Yeah, it has left/right audio outputs I guess I could try. I'm not sure the Samsung UN65FH6001F model of TV will output the audio from a HDMI source through the analog outputs. I think I remember trying with an XBOX for some late night gaming on headphones and could never get any sound.

Unfortunately, no HDMI ARC as the TV is about the most basic 65" Samsung ever made. It also doesn't have an optical out to feed the soundbar (Yamaha ATS-1070).

Ugg.. our TV setup is quickly driving me nuts (specifically having to listen to family members bitch about it). We don't have a difficult media setup. Basically, before Christmas we just used a Roku connected to a Yamaha soundbar and then the TV, with a Wii U on the second TV input. Of...

If you didn't have quite so many devices I would say the Caavo Control Center.. but it only has 4 HDMI inputs. I picked one up during Black Friday but I only have a Roku, Wii, and XBox connected (thinking about adding a standalone BluRay player for those one-off Redbox nights). For the most...

The problem is that the charts aren't accurate IMO. I know of several locations around my area alone that are listed as LTE covered but when you try to actually use data on your device the towers are so over-subscribed (have no idea if that is the right term) that you can't even load the [H]...

I'll take self-checkout any chance I get just to avoid wasting time with the mouth breathers at the registers, unless I have a large number of items or things that are difficult to scan. For example, I had to stop at Home Depot yesterday and pickup about $150 of vinyl gutter stuff (clips...

We've tried to watch Luke Cage 3 times now and can't get more than 2-3 episodes in before we abandon ship to another show. Circle back around 6-9 months later and can't remember a damn thing from the first 2 episodes and have to start over.. and lose interest again. I really don't know what it...

As usual.. the "native" american idea is thrown out. Those native americans would be just as much of illegal immigrants using this ideology since the land was uninhabited before they crossed the land bridge. The key word is "illegal" and requires a legal system (laws) to be broken. Since the...

The key word is "properly". So far the government hasn't proved to be able to do things properly on a reliable basis when it comes to welfare and homeless, IMO. Things like mandatory drug tests, parole-like check-ins with councilors and officers, weekly application/education quotas, etc...

You know.. I'd be okay with something like this given a few conditions... 1) It applies to all businesses - Why doesn't the tie-dye shop owner put their money where their mouth is. Make it a flat tax against all company earnings.. not just the the biggest 400. If they aren't willing to put up...

Bump for looking. Really thinking about this as a dedicated surveillance system box. If it’s still available this weekend I’ll PM you. Off to see if I can find any good deals on the camera licenses...

for price I'll happily pay to have the cloud recordings. $30/year is what.. 1 coffee a month? I bet a lot of people spend a ton more on alcohol or cigarettes, and that way I don't have to worry about maintaining storage for it. I ended up with this model about 3 months ago and the only...

Yeah, I've done that for the last 4 years or so since I was a server admin. Since taking more of a project management role and moving, I've decided to scale things way back and I just want something simple at this point. That's not to say I won't go back to it.. but trying to make due with...

As part of our move last December I had to minimize my computer gear from an entire home lab down to a single desktop with an 8TB hard drive and 8TB external to back up to. Fast forward 7 months and I’m needing more storage space but I don’t have room or even want my old lab set back up (Dell...

We saw it Tuesday night and the theater was packed (discount movie night). The entire family enjoyed it, probably more than Rogue One because there was the option of getting attached to characters that weren't all slaughtered at the end. Don't get me wrong, I liked Rogue One also, but I go to...

After changing jobs and moving all this crap from Houston to Nashville, I've decided to cut out a lot of extraneous gear which includes my home VMWare setup. I've been running everything off of a single desktop now for 6 months between temporarily living in an apartment and the new digs and now...

Thanks.. it's the latter. They configure it, ship it out, connect to home internet and wait for it to "phone home" and configure itself. Darn... I guess it gets to sit in the office window (west facing, so full sun during the upcoming Tennessee summer :p ). That's the only way I can get a...

Looking for options to extend the coverage of my remote access point for work http://www.arubanetworks.com/products/networking/access-points/205h/ The unit is horrible about penetrating walls, let alone exterior walls. I would like to extend the coverage to my covered deck (if/when we get it...

I said I'd post an internal pic.. not the prettiest since I still need to do some cable management. I went with a Leviton 28" metal SMC because i was afraid I would have to mount it externally on the drywall from the dimensions I kept seeing listed. However, once I got it I found that it fit...

Ended up not using conduit :(. There just wasn’t room between the studs with two electrical boxes and a 4 gang light switch. I looked at flex conduit but the pricing I could find was more than I wanted to spend and I really didn’t need 50+ feet. I did by some 1-3/4 inch PVC and cut about 1...

Got the downstairs cabled and and the panel installed. Still have to figure out how to run the cables from the bonus room upstairs over the garage down... there's really not a good path to follow without a lot of sheetrock removal and repair. Ended up cutting out out the sheetrock on the left...

I know I've run one in a Win7 64bit box before. Hell, I have 6-8 of them in a drawer that were server pulls at work just in case I needed a dual nic at some point. Couldn't even get rid of them at $10 shipped in the past and I'm about to toss them in the trash. We never had any issues with...

Yep, 6a cable is more expensive also. Good thing is I already have a box of CAT6 connectors and a handful of snap on ports from some time back. Picked up a 6 port wallplate for the office and I’m just planning on putting connectors on the ends of the AP runs, no point in putting a plate up...

Additional question.. what's a good recommendation for conduit within drywall? Hard PVC type? Flex conduit (ENT)? Thinking about picking up a couple 10' 2" conduit pipes from Home Depot/Lowes and cut them to fit. In my past "field IT" life, cabling contractors always used the orange flex...

Well, that made the decision easier... had time to pull the old security box off the wall and the wall studs are not 16” apart. Not enough clearance to recess a panel, so a metal surface mounted one it is. Will make powering it with a UPS easier. Offered to save a few bucks using a CAT6 24 port...

Yeah.. unfortunately my wife is starting to fall into that camp "why can't we just use wireless everywhere?" :( Getting a list of things I need to order to start this project that I don't already have and I see her frowning at the $$$ but if I'm doing this I'm not listening to "it looks like...

Yeah, I think I've settled on CAT6 for now, just got to work out the communication enclosure aspect. Whatever I do, it has to look good, so the plywood/pegboard setup won't pass family requirements. There's only so much room in the closet, anything deeper than 12" won't work, so that rules out...

I agree with this and it doesn't even have to be something bad. There needs to be some additional confirmation ("Computer, initiate self destruct", "Confirmation code?") for a lot of things. Heck, even for simple things it gets annoying. For example, we got a couple Echos for Christmas and I...

Cat6 spec says 33-55 meters. I have to actually measure to be sure but I’m 99% positive all my downstairs drops will be 30 meters or less even with going up/down walls from he crawl space. Upstairs runs (if I can do them myself) should fall in the 30 meters range if I take the cable straight...

While generally I agree... the house we just sold was pre-wired and while I thought that would be a selling point our realtor said that the feedback he received was "who cares we use wifi" from the buyer's agents. So any "long term" benefits would be for myself only. There isn't any ease...

Now that we are settling into our new home one of my first projects is to get some networking run and move a couple coax lines. I'm planning on putting a communications box or short-depth rack in the closet under the stairs (if anyone has a good recommendation for something no deeper than 12"...

I had looked at Kodi, Plex and Emby (Media Browser) when SageTV got bought out. I didn't like the Media Browser interface and the idea of maintaining HTPCs for Kodi at the time since I was used to the SageTV extenders (set and forget). We really wanted a similar experience and Roku with Plex...

Meh.. as long as it is supported with future IOS updates I'm fine. My 6+ was having battery issues and the charging connection was wearing out (wouldn't charge half the time without fiddling with the cable for several minutes), plus it was the old 16GB model. I was well past the 2 year mark...