DebianDog 0 Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 (edited) Just wanted to say hello. I wrote my first program on my VIC-20 when I was 12 and have been in IT since I was 25. My first real job loaded Debian on floppy(s) and named my dog Debian and it kind of stuck as my nickname when I put him down. Fast-forward to 2009 and my wife wanted to move out to the country. I said "well as long as they have internet. IDK". I called Comast, and they assured me they had interwebs at my new address. Close on the house. Called for service. Nope. Nothing. I could not even get DSL. So for 11 years I have been living with the grandfathered in "real" unlimited data plan from Verizon. I would have to root my phone to bypass the hotspot lockout but I would burn about 100 GB a month personally then another 20-30 on my works hotspot. OH THE SADNESS!!! So last month I was looking again at satellite or something as a solution but the same issues still exist. Lag is just terrible, you get inconsistent bandwidth and you have, silly small datacaps. Then I found some guy on YouTube was like you need Nomad internet and some external antennas. Mmm OK I am desperate. Bam 25-35 Mbps a day 1000 GB per month cap till you are degraded. I know to some of you this seems slow as F but if a good day was 1.5Mbps then you learn to appreciate things. I don't want to sound like a baby or anything but I almost wept with joy when I saw the results of my first speed test Now that I had "real" internet I got a mesh WiFi network and was just SO PLEASED! WiFi from the goat pen to the mailbox by the road. Now, since I had internet and WiFi time to set up a media server. The only one I had heard of before this is that "other" popular one. Ran it for a day or 2 It was just too busy and seemed to want to throw their content in front of my content. Started looking for other solutions. Saw Emby recommended on Reddit. I ran the other guy and Emby back to back a day at a time for a few days on my Windows box. Decided on Emby then thought, "you know what I can do? Get a NAS! So I don't have to tie up my gaming PC" So I just got the new Emby Beta running on my 32 TB Synology 420+. I see it does push the CPU at times but I have not played enough with it yet to know if I should have gone with more CPU. I am sure I will have some stupid questions later. So anyway. Hi -- Debian Dog My testing setup \/ Edited August 16, 2020 by DebianDog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36886 Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 Hi and welcome ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrbee99 1544 Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 Sorry, but I just have to say, true happiness is wifi to the goat pen... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14862 Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 Welcome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abobader 2934 Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 Welcome, btw nice post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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