Good Morning Thread - Come say good morning, tell us what you've got on today. :)

We have this thread on TilersForums.com and it's just been restarted because the old thread had 20,000 replies and 500,000 views. And there were 700 pages. Started to lag a bit on slow connections.

I think we had a bash of this before, but I can't find the thread, so thought I'd start another one off.

If you have time in the mornings, come post in the thread before you head off to work, let us know what you've got on and what the weather is like in your area etc. Anything at all is fine.

Posts and likes get counted towards your total stats in this thread.

So GOOOD MORNING PEOPLE - WEATHER IS NICE TODAY IN STOKE. I'M THANKFUL IT'S FRIDAY, HAD A RUBBISH WEEK. THANK GOD IT'S OVER.

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[James]

Ha! I was looking at exactly that same Ubiquity combination earlier and emailed a local distributor for further advice. However, does the Sky box still not want to act as DHCP server and be a bottleneck?

No, it will issue a single ip address to the dream machine.
Say 192.168.1.2

The dream machine will handle dhcp requests and for instance hand out the whole range from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.255

 

[Moley]

The sun is out, the sky is mainly blue and hopefully it'll be a good day. Yesterday was a pain but today looks promising. 3 x 400kV bushing oil samples, run diagnostics on a DGA analyser and prepare things for tomorrows transformer testing.

 

[Dan]

Morning @pirate @Moley @James

Might try that router thing for sky I could get rid of the virginmedia if the house didn't thrash the sky.

But the bushing oil thing goes over this layman's head

But that's fine ha

I've got clouds from north to south above me now. Mind it's 3 hours after you'd said. @Lou said we are having a 16hr storm Sunday night Monday morning but we had a teaspoon of rain. So has this storm gone somewhere else then or what.

Gas boilers must be being turned on as plumbers has started it's surge in 'my boiler won't turn on' type people we get around this time of year. That's the official end of summer for me.

 

[Rockingit]

No, it will issue a single ip address to the dream machine.
Say 192.168.1.2

The dream machine will handle dhcp requests and for instance hand out the whole range from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.255

Presumably though you have to turn off DHCP server within the sky box? And thus assign a static IP to the dream machine first?
How many simultaneous ranges can the DM provide under the same subnet? Using a class A I'd been looking for all three of 192.168, 10.x and 2.x's

ps - it won't ever issue a x.x.x.255 address as that's reserved, same as x.x.x.0

 

[James]

You can setup multiple network blocks, V lans, separate wifi networks running on the same access points. (If using there own access points)

DHCP can remain on for the sky router as it will give an address to the DM.
All network stuff is handled by the DM and only internet traffic is forwarded to the sky router, DHCP requests will not be forwarded through to the sky router.

 

[Rockingit]

You can setup multiple network blocks, V lans, separate wifi networks running on the same access points. (If using there own access points)

DHCP can remain on for the sky router as it will give an address to the DM.
All network stuff is handled by the DM and only internet traffic is forwarded to the sky router, DHCP requests will not be forwarded through to the sky router.

Thanks for this. All the AP's on POE or are there 'mains and mesh' options?

 

[James]

they are all POE however, if you cant get a network cable to a location, a poe injector will suffice and the AP will work in mesh mode. infact, if you have a pc near to it, then you can use the uplink port on the poe injector as a network port for the pc.

below, you can see that i have 2 wifi ssid. one a 5Ghz (fast) for most devices and a slower 2.4Ghz one as not all my smart home devices support 5Ghz

I have a single flat network but you can set up multiple networks and V lans if required

 

[timhoward]

Just a quick comment to confirm that Ubiquity is excellent gear, I've used their network switches, AP points, point-to-point line of sight links and cctv cameras on a few jobs. As above, injectors are available and mesh mode works well.

 

[James]

Just a quick comment to confirm that Ubiquity is excellent gear, I've used their network switches, AP points, point-to-point line of sight links and cctv cameras on a few jobs. As above, injectors are available and mesh mode works well.

the only thing i would say is that their cctv cameras are expensive compared to others and their recorders will not accept feeds from other cameras.

other than that, they are my go to supplier for networking equipment now.

 

[Dan]

Gooooooooooood moooooorning viet-foruuuummmm.

 

[littlespark]

Gooooooooooood moooooorning viet-foruuuummmm.

Someone’s up, all bright eyed and bushy tailed.

 

[Dan]

Someone’s up, all bright eyed and bushy tailed.

School run again mate. Ha

See how long this term lasts eh. School photos today so she's already peed off.

 

[Moley]

Well, 24 hours late but this is what we did yesterday morning

Plus 3 sets of these

Just managed to finish before the rain. Back home today. Got to pick the mother in law up from hospital this morning so my back up pension plan isn't working

 

[Dan]

That's mint @Moley !

Proper stuff! What 'qty' of power would run through that then. Like should it carry and how long do they last?

 

[Mike Johnson]

I think that's over the top to supply a workshop and where is the earth spike.