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[DonH56]

If you have Cable (Coax) have you considered MoCA? It works GREAT if you install a line filter. I used it in my previous house for Gbit across the house and setup a second access point downstairs.

No, I had not, did not know about that. I may look into it, looks interesting, but we need wireless for some things/rooms so have to be hybrid. I have a couple of powerline adapters, but they do not work everywhere, and most importantly not in the media room in the basement that has the worst WiFi coverage due to large ducts blocking the signal. The mesh system has been working well until whatever happened last night and speeds are fast. After several hours piddling, I think one node jumped places, and that glitched my weather station's link which is what I noticed. Then I saw the SONOS system was all offline, but that turned out to be a bad power (extension) cord, so at this point unsure if I had a router issue or not. The weather station reconnected but it took a bit.

I suspect this is a common issue, home networking in general, so need to get out of this thread and find or start another.

Thanks for the help! This is very definitely not my area of expertise. - Don

 

[Timcognito]

Ouch! That sucks...

I hate computers, spent a few hours tonight trying to figure out why half my network devices went "poof" and getting them back. Installed a new mesh system, which I have been loving, but apparently one of the nodes jumped to a different one to connect and a bunch of stuff glitched, then an extension cord decided to unexpectedly quit working on one of the outlets and killed other stuff (modem was on one side, which stayed working, but the SONOS bridge was on the other side and for some reason became unpowered). The bad cord was fun; it would randomly reconnect as I moved things around, and I could not see the power lights above the desk whilst I was underneath. New Anker 12-plug extension ordered to replace the current 6-plug strip and cheap ext cord so a solution is in the works, but I'll have to take down the network to swap and can't do that easily (or at all tomorrow as wife is working from home due to some medical issues). I am not a network guy, barely a computer guy, just use the things.

If you have coax everywhere here is a simple low cost solution to distribution. $13/room

Coaxifi | Extend Wi-Fi over your home's cabling

Coaxifi can increase your Wi-Fi throughput and range, at 1/10th the cost of meshed range extenders

www.coaxifi.com

 

[DonH56]

If you have coax everywhere here is a simple low cost solution to distribution. $13/room

Coaxifi | Extend Wi-Fi over your home's cabling

Coaxifi can increase your Wi-Fi throughput and range, at 1/10th the cost of meshed range extenders

www.coaxifi.com

Thanks, I need to digest that. My router does not have an external antenna port, and we have cable TV (do not stream), so making it all play happily together may be tricky. We do not have coax everywhere but most places, though you lose signal through all the splitters/power dividers at the cable inlet, natch. It looks possible, need to research more. Thanks very much for the link!

(Of course I learn about this a couple of weeks after investing in a mesh router setup.)

 

[Old_School_Brad]

Thanks, I need to digest that. My router does not have an external antenna port, and we have cable TV (do not stream), so making it all play happily together may be tricky. We do not have coax everywhere but most places, though you lose signal through all the splitters/power dividers at the cable inlet, natch. It looks possible, need to research more. Thanks very much for the link!

(Of course I learn about this a couple of weeks after investing in a mesh router setup.)

I've had success with TP-Link powerline adapters.

The speed at the outlet drops to just 5% of our 1000 Mbit fiber connection, but it's rock solid. We use it for a gaming console that refuses to connect to 2.4 GHz and only attempts to use 5 GHz, which is terrible in that part of the house. Fortunately, the ping remains mostly unaffected.

TP Link powerline

 

[Timcognito]

Thanks, I need to digest that. My router does not have an external antenna port, and we have cable TV (do not stream), so making it all play happily together may be tricky. We do not have coax everywhere but most places, though you lose signal through all the splitters/power dividers at the cable inlet, natch. It looks possible, need to research more. Thanks very much for the link!

(Of course I learn about this a couple of weeks after investing in a mesh router setup.)

The tech guy there was very helpful and knew his stuff. My goal was to get a 5G antenna over a existing coax line and replace external FM antenna but frequencies were incompatible with Coaxifi System so I never used it. I have Cat5e everywhere except my roof. Good Luck

 

[D2013]

Thanks but no. We need to free up gigabytes of storage. I already freed up space last time which got it working. So this time was much harder to find waste. Still, per above I found a few gigabytes but it is still not enough for it to restart.

If image files are consuming a lot of disk space you could try one of the many compression/conversion apis that are available, if you aren't already using one or a local equivalent. I've seen people cut storage requirements by 5-40%, depending on how optimized the images were when uploaded.

for example: https://tinypng.com/developers

 

[DonH56]

I've had success with TP-Link powerline adapters.

The speed at the outlet drops to just 5% of our 1000 Mbit fiber connection, but it's rock solid. We use it for a gaming console that refuses to connect to 2.4 GHz and only attempts to use 5 GHz, which is terrible in that part of the house. Fortunately, the ping remains mostly unaffected.

TP Link powerline

I have a couple of those, but we have a separate panel for the basement and I did not buy the capacitor jumper to bridge the service panels, so no signal in the media room (the start of all my problems). They work well in a couple of other rooms. The mesh system is doing well so far, bar last night's glitch, and the previous system with an extender was usually OK but a pain to get working again when it went down.

 

[testp]

im not worried.. as long as the 'like' system works.

 

[amirm]

Ironically, the table for all the likes has grown massively as well! It is in the top 10 larges files! But I happily accept that.

 

[Jimster480]

No, I had not, did not know about that. I may look into it, looks interesting, but we need wireless for some things/rooms so have to be hybrid. I have a couple of powerline adapters, but they do not work everywhere, and most importantly not in the media room in the basement that has the worst WiFi coverage due to large ducts blocking the signal. The mesh system has been working well until whatever happened last night and speeds are fast. After several hours piddling, I think one node jumped places, and that glitched my weather station's link which is what I noticed. Then I saw the SONOS system was all offline, but that turned out to be a bad power (extension) cord, so at this point unsure if I had a router issue or not. The weather station reconnected but it took a bit.

I suspect this is a common issue, home networking in general, so need to get out of this thread and find or start another.

Thanks for the help! This is very definitely not my area of expertise. - Don

The MoCA system doesn't interrupt your TV or other Coax provided services. It uses other frequencies. ActionTek makes the best MoCA adapters. Really works well!

 

[Jimster480]

If image files are consuming a lot of disk space you could try one of the many compression/conversion apis that are available, if you aren't already using one or a local equivalent. I've seen people cut storage requirements by 5-40%, depending on how optimized the images were when uploaded.

for example: https://tinypng.com/developers

I did bulk image processing years ago on my forum and saved 32% space on average. If Amirm has a large computer he can also compress all the images locally using something like Mass Image Compressor and then re-upload them to the folder. The plugins work well for compression as well, but some of them are not as good as the desktop solutions that require much more processing power. Atleast when it comes to Xenforo plugins.
Then the plugins will take care of things here on out on compression. There are options for nearly lossless compression while saving large amounts of space.

 

[Salt]

Posting on this thread does not relieve server load

 

[Beershaun]

Were gonna need a bigger boat.

 

[Newman]

Ironically, the table for all the likes has grown massively as well! It is in the top 10 larges files! But I happily accept that.

Gave that a like. Just wanted to make that table a bit bigger.

 

[DonH56]

The MoCA system doesn't interrupt your TV or other Coax provided services. It uses other frequencies. ActionTek makes the best MoCA adapters. Really works well!

Understand that, but extra hardware is needed to split the signal for cable boxes at each outlet, and I know there were problems in the past with Comcast and MoCA (based on a quick search today). I'll look at ActionTek.

 

[Blumlein 88]

Understand that, but extra hardware is needed to split the signal for cable boxes at each outlet, and I know there were problems in the past with Comcast and MoCA (based on a quick search today). I'll look at ActionTek.

I use some of the ActionTek devices. Not had problems, but that doesn't mean no one does. It is a neat solution to houses with coax. I've used them where someone had cable and is now streaming, but you have the coax going everywhere already so good solution for a 1 gpbs or 2.5 gbps connection. I've generally gotten at least 80% of the claimed speeds.

 

[RayDunzl]

How much storage is not enough anymore?

 

[ObjectiveSubjectivist]

How much storage is not enough anymore?

Good question. Im also curious

 

[amirm]

How much storage is not enough anymore?

160 Gigabytes.

 

[Blumlein 88]

160 Gigabytes.

Gigabytes or terabytes?