Recent content by Adcadet

Indeed, work makes my computer add^^^^hobby challenging at times. Network hacking is particularly challenging since I do a lot of call from home and need a reliable internet connection so I can VPN into work.

When the family is away I'll probably play with it. Appreciate the encouragement and reference.

I probably just screwed up the implementation or couldn't figure out what to whitelist.

At one point I used pfBlockerNG, but family approval factor was low and I liked the pretty graphics that PiHole offered instead. Maybe I'll look again at pfBlockerNG. So far nobody is complaining about the lack of add blocking. Do you guys run an add blocker?

I run pfSense on a Netgate SG5100. I have a Truenas Scale server running Pihole as an app. Before that, I did run a PiHole on an actual Raspberry Pi but got nervous running a critical piece of hardware on such consumer gear. I can't say I ever did much with the data from PiHole, and I'm not...

In the morning all systems were working. Perhaps they just needed time to renew their DHCP leases? Time drift could have been an issue. At one point my son's clock was clearly off, and I manually adjusted it.

Very frustrated. Hoping this old gem of the internet can save me. My two kids both have relatively new PCs, both runs Windows 11. My wife and I run Windows 11 as well. My kids would each, individually, occasionally not be able to connect with Discord, Steam, or other gaming servers. I would...

So....to provide reasonable protection, and power for a few network devices for a short period of time (perhaps even <1 hour) but not servers, using conventional home power input, what what you get? Tripp Lite SMART1500LCDXL? CyberPower OR500LCDRM1U? Eaton 5P? Something else?

Any double-conversion UPS that seem better (reasonable quality, reasonable cost) than the others? This one? https://www.apc.com/us/en/product/SRT1500RMXLA/apc-smartups-srt-1500va-120v-lcd-rackmount-2u-6x-nema-515r-outlets/?range=61918-smartups-online&selected-node-id=27162421315

What do people suggest for power protection/distribution for a home lab and home office? We are doing some basement renovation including a small server room. Unfortunately, when somebody was trying to figure out the circuit breakers they may have repeatedly turned power off/on, and it seems to...

What are people using or recommending for monitors in 2022? I mostly do office work, have enjoyed dual and quad 27" 2K display setups in the past, and do a little gaming. I'm redoing my office so now would seem like the time to jump into 27+" 4K monitors.

If I wanted to take a motherboard (ASRock Rack C236 WS) I'm using to run TrueNAS and turn it into a desktop PC for light use, would I see much benefit to putting an M.2 SSD into a PCIe (3.0) adapter versus just using SATA? Is there a preferred reliable M.2 to PCIe adapter or are they all about...

IIRC, CrashPlan had a nice data deduplication feature...that seemed remarkably similar to the ZFS feature. Do you know if they actually run on ZFS?

I loved Crashplan....didn't they pull out of the consumer market?

I use a variety of consumer wireless routers (4) as APs to cover my house/property, some of which I flashed to DDWRT, connected to a Netgate 3100 router. Any major advantage of moving away from consumer wifi routers in favor of dedicated APs?