My issues hasn’t really been coverage with my Google wifi setup, it’s more that they can’t handle many wifi clients talking at the same time. That and I can’t set settings I would like, example being which channel they’re on so they don’t conflict with things like my zigbee network.
So I think ubiquiti might just be the way to go. I think I might just get a cloud key and a couple AP’s and call it a day.
Ah I was hoping to stay away from ubiquiti but it seems more and more that I should go with them for long term support. I’m hoping to purchase things that will be decent for the next 5-10 years, so things like wifi 6e and 4x4 mu-memo is what steered me away from them in the first place because the cost of entry is really high.
My ISP provides gigabit fiber, so I’ll look into maybe getting an SFP network card.
I googled open source router, and open sense was the first thing that came up, but I probably be going with pfsense anyways.
Thanks for all the info!
Perfect! Thankfully for $40 I can add a second gigabit connection to one of those dells, so I shall give that a go as well. Thank you!
Good to know! I’m trying to stay away from Ubiquiti only because of their entry cost would set me back a little over $1000, but I’ll look into Mikrotik and Grandstream as well! Thank you
Would turning one of my optiplexs into a openwrt box and buying some WAP’s be the way to go then? I will need a couple of access points to reach all devices
So to start off, I have an active home lab already going with a bunch of services running. I’m looking to strictly de-google my network. Their WAP’s have issues with connectivity and reliability and they are a pain to try and configure, google really locks down what you can do on them.
Unfortunately that software won’t work on my version of google wifi, it’s just a little to new for that.
I am actively looking to replace things and not just make what I have work anymore, wether that’s one peace at a time (just the Google stuff) or the whole networking setup.
Network setup help
Hey folks, I have a couple things I would like some advice on. Currently for my home network setup I have my ISP’s modem/router combo set to bridge port 1, and then some google wifi and points connected to that.
My goal is to get rid of the google home wifi and if possible my ISP’s modem/router combo (I don’t really need to replace my ISP if it makes it way more complicated) with something more open and flexible.
I have a couple dell optiplex micros I can use as a pihole/dns/whatever is needed, and I was thinking of picking up a couple of these for my WAP’s and then running the omada docker container to control them.
Would this be enough or would I also need something like openwrt running on another machine as well? If that’s the case I could also pick up this and install it into one of my dell machines so I can run some kind of router software.
TLDR- what would you buy in my situation given you only want to spend about $500 cad max on all the hardware to setup a network in your home lab?
Yeah that’s what I’m thinking of doing now, backup everything important just in case and continue to work on it.
Thankfully I can identify any disk rather easily with the command you mentioned (used it before to grab a drives serial number which is printed on the drive its self).
Is it possible to replace a disk with the same disk? Like effectively wiping a disk and replacing it with its self so I don’t have to use up my spare drives as rotation drives and add needless wear to them?
I made sure to replace the dead drive with the exact same drive as the rest. All of them are Seagate 7200rpm 3tb SAS drives.
The number you’re talking about is in reference to the old disk. I had swapped out the old drive and when I tried to run the command
Pool replace pool device [new_device]
It yelled at me that I needed to reference the old drive as well? So I’m not sure why it didn’t work the way you said it should
I use to have it on a LSI raid card a long time ago before switching to a hba card. I had each drive passed through the lsi card as a single disk raid and then I used zfs to create a pool. I’m guessing this is what caused this now that I think about it.
I have like 9tb on this pool so moving everything off of it and then redoing the pool would be currently impossible so I wonder how I would fix this? Replace one drive at a time with some of my spares and swap them around?
Zpool drive replacement help
Good day everyone, I need some help with my zpool I created a long time ago. I have 8 Drives in a Z1 raid, each are 3Tb Seagate 7200rpm SAS drives. A couple of weeks ago I had a drive start trowing some errors after going strong for almost 4 years so I quickly replaced it with a spare I had just ordered in. I wasn't totally sure what commands to run so I looked around on a few forums and on the zfs wiki as well and found it would be a simple few commands:
sudo zpool offline TheMass 9173635512214770897
sudo zpool labelclear /dev/sdc
sudo zpool replace TheMass 9173635512214770897 /dev/sdc
As Context here is my lsblk output:
sda 8:0 0 2.7T 0 disk └─md124 9:124 0 2.7T 0 raid0 ├─md124p1 259:11 0 2G 0 part └─md124p2 259:12 0 2.7T 0 part sdb 8:16 0 2.7T 0 disk └─md121 9:121 0 2.7T 0 raid0 ├─md121p1 259:17 0 2G 0 part │ └─md116 9:116 0 2G 0 raid1 └─md121p2 259:18 0 2.7T 0 part sdc 8:32 0 2.7T 0 disk ├─sdc1 8:33 0 2.7T 0 part └─sdc9 8:41 0 8M 0 part sdd 8:48 0 2.7T 0 disk └─md125 9:125 0 2.7T 0 raid0 ├─md125p1 259:9 0 2G 0 part └─md125p2 259:10 0 2.7T 0 part sde 8:64 0 2.7T 0 disk └─md120 9:120 0 2.7T 0 raid0 ├─md120p1 259:19 0 2G 0 part └─md120p2 259:20 0 2.7T 0 part sdf 8:80 0 2.7T 0 disk └─md123 9:123 0 2.7T 0 raid0 ├─md123p1 259:13 0 2G 0 part │ └─md117 9:117 0 2G 0 raid1 └─md123p2 259:14 0 2.7T 0 part sdg 8:96 0 2.7T 0 disk └─md122 9:122 0 2.7T 0 raid0 ├─md122p1 259:15 0 2G 0 part │ └─md116 9:116 0 2G 0 raid1 └─md122p2 259:16 0 2.7T 0 part sdh 8:112 0 2.7T 0 disk └─md119 9:119 0 2.7T 0 raid0 ├─md119p1 259:21 0 2G 0 part │ └─md117 9:117 0 2G 0 raid1 └─md119p2 259:22 0 2.7T 0 part
I removed the old sdc drive, and replaced it with a new one and then ran those commands, The pool began to re-silver and I thought everything was alright until I noticed the new sdc drive didn't have all the other formatting on it like the other drives, and my performance isn't what it use to be. My pool is up and running given zpool status:
`pool: TheMass state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0B in 03:47:04 with 0 errors on Fri Oct 6 20:24:26 2023 checkpoint: created Fri Oct 6 22:14:02 2023, consumes 1.41M config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM TheMass ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 md124p2 ONLINE 0 0 0 scsi-35000c500562bfc4b ONLINE 0 0 0 md119p2 ONLINE 0 0 0 md121p2 ONLINE 0 0 0 md122p2 ONLINE 0 0 0 md123p2 ONLINE 0 0 0 md125p2 ONLINE 0 0 0 md120p2 ONLINE 0 0 0`
So my question is, did I do this correctly? if not, what and where did I go wrong so I can fix this? Also, if you could give me the commands that I would need, that would be amazing!
If theres any other commands you need me to run for information just let me know!
I appreciate all of the comments everyone! Thank you all!
I’ll probably end up going with a EATON or APC, most likely refurbished to save some money.
If anyone has any websites they want to share of wholesalers that sell old office stuff within Canada, that would be amazing!
This is the kind of comment I was looking for!! Thank you good sir! I was hoping someone would have a link to a website that sells ups in Canada for a reasonable price!
Cheers!
Best bang for the buck battery backup
Like the title implies, I’m trying to figure out where to pickup cheap used or new battery backups (ups) in Canada.
I have a couple of small servers I run, so around 1000+ watts should be good.
If I have to replace the battery inside, that’s not a problem, there is a battery place inside my city that offered cheap replacements for around $30.
Any suggestions help!
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Of course I will, being called "Landed Gentry" from someone acting like a dictator is just laughable. I normally run all open source things personally anyways, I just barely used reddit in the past so I never looked for an alternative until now.