Improvements in and around my home
The pair of Actiontec ECB6200 MoCA 2.0 network adapters actually arrived whilst I was writing the previous article, but as that one was becoming pretty lengthy, I decided to start a new one to cover off this topic. Now MoCA 2.0 does not play well with satellite signals, since it operates in the 1125-1675MHz frequency range that sits slap bang…
This post will show how i wired up my house for Satellite multi-room, but first some history. I have a number of satellite dishes on the side of my house, the first was installed around 1996 which was a 60cm dish for the Sky analog service on the Astra satellites at 19.2° East. I then…
Over the years I have had a number of network solutions in my house, most of which revolved around what equipment I had in my office space, especially in the pre wi-fi days. My internet has moved from a standard telephone line with a modem at 1440bps (or slower), through ISDN, ADSL and currently a…
Having installed all of my hard drives and upgraded CPU in the HP Microserver, I needed to install an OS. I initially installed Debian Jessie, but after noting that this was not supported by Docker as a base build, I re-installed with Ubuntu Server 16.04.02 LTS. Whilst I currently have a screen and keyboard attached to the server, which were useful…
Having decided I wanted to build a new media server, the first decision was what hardware to use. A few years back I had been intending to build one using a 9 bay tower case with multiple 4 sata disk enclosures, running Solaris x86 and ZFS. I even bought a couple of 8 port sas/sata…
These posts concerning my media server build do not really fit in any of my other blogs, and since it is something now used by everyone in the house, I thought this blog would be the best place for it. A number of years ago I set up a dedicated NAS unit using a QNAP…