 And I am live and I'm gonna say if you're on the West Coast, it's really early for you We but that's about time I get up. It's 5 a.m But I think it's 5 a.m. on the West Coast right now because I am in Eastern Standard Time where it is 803 a.m. According to the clock if I assume assume time is still right It sinks automatically as well those things I remember as the kid is always having to set the clock for things It's a kind of a something you don't do anymore You just everything just is set all the time. Thanks NTP service. Oh, who else do we have in here? Gareth making a live stream early in the morning here. We got Cody from MacTelcom Networks. It's the afternoon in the UK morning From Michael. Good day. Of course. Like I said West Coast. That's when you know it's early is all the way in the West Coast there so the Thanksgiving holiday for those of you that aren't in the United States or you're probably aware of it, I imagine but it's where we celebrate in Tradition is eating turkey and things like that which it's like the stuffing That's actually the only thing I really care about on one of cups of Thanksgiving is the stuffing and but I like not being in the morning when everything's chaotic before Things are going depending on the weather. You'd even as a kid. I've always just did something else in the morning I was like cool. It's a day off to just do something is raining out. So it's a day off to play on a live stream Well, let's see Who else we have here? Christopher awesome. Happy Thanksgiving. Thank you very much there Muhammad See you have a happy gene was ah You're working on a holiday. I don't consider this. I don't know what I consider work anymore That's probably a whole discussion into Itself is what do what does Tom consider work? My hobby is playing with technology So I'm getting to do my hobby. Um, I don't know Ooh Germany 2 p.m. And morning from Arizona Arizona is confusing because they don't participate in the time things The time zone changes the Eastern to daylight savings time. So sorry about that the I know that's like a confusing person I don't know. He's know what time zone Arizona's in and it's just one of those the clock figures it out So starting my business the days never feel like work Dead that wears out a little bit. I mean I've been in business for 18 years So there's still times like there's paperwork right here And like how many know what this one is it says there's postages inside. There's that this says I owe money $3,000 okay, that sounds like something work related then this is the city we're in so this is so these are the things I hate about work. That's why they're not been dealt with yet. This says City of you can read that is it focus City of Southgate Finance Department. They want money too That's the part that really feels like work and it's I certainly I'm not dealing with any of this right now It is going to go in this little Pile that says I will just have enough of it in a pile and once a month I go all right. Who do I got to write checks to and pay money to and things like that? Yes, just use UTC yes all right, oh in Australia and Switzerland here. I see so All the way from Switzerland. That's cool Yeah, 70 degrees and beautiful in Florida. It is not that way here. It's a very different here The bills feel like work. Yes. I don't like dealing with the bill bills. I automate them absolutely as much as possible It just makes my life better. So that's just the thing Hey, thank you very much for the donation much appreciated there What I think you last month that finished myself a analogy backing up to true nas Scale over a peer-to-peer VPN using PF sense. Awesome. That is great awesome to hear Hi from our nation's capital I guess what don't know what nation you're in. So are you in my nation's capital? Yeah, get more specific because I have people from all over the place like you back or Chile in England and then we have Christoph from Austria. What did I see that made me laugh a lot? It said Austria Beethoven or is it I wouldn't say like Bach not kangaroos Something like that. I was a musing meme I seen on there. What else? Washington DC, ah, okay And Johannesburg So yes, Johannesburg. There's a Farter away place for me. That's a different part of the planet And a howdy from the land of bourbon I will be in the land of Whiskey later on that's that's where I usually end up sometime later in Thanksgiving in the afternoon I'll eat some food have a sip of whiskey and I'll fall asleep on a couch and snore like anybody in their 40s does And then the kids will be like dad dad I am that person now That's true. No kangaroos in Australia Austria and someone else from Sweden um Things I was playing with today that might be kind of interesting to talk about I didn't even so this is a review coming I'm at the very like I unboxed it this morning I came in the other day and I unboxed it is I will be talking about Let me find the stupid did I close the page? Now there it is Go to the home page I pull it up tricky cuz I got a Format it so it fits when things get stretched too wide. They don't look good when I share them So let's share this here Sash shash or tort very very sweet and the Australians have kangaroos Australians have a lot of kangaroos What I can't remember this that one kangaroo that's really muscular and I was gonna kick out of it when I see it It's just like yeah crazy Hello from Texas. There's a there's a place where everything's bigger. I heard really says the slogan I've never been to Texas. So I have no idea if things are bigger there or not No idea at all but I do know I'm gonna be doing some UPS videos and One of the things I want to point out This is a really small UPS and this one's going in my house So I wanted to do some videos on based on Different smaller UPS devices like this right here. It's a small rack mount one now this is where things get a little bit annoying on it and You see the cool network cable and you're like, oh great Tom It's got a network interface and you're gonna do cool videos on on affordable UPS with a network interface hold up Hold up. It's not that cool. Let's add back to the stream here. The only thing it does is this The Problem is it only tells you things like online healthy Diagnostic I can make it beep I Can Show the battery status the battery temperature But this is all done via their web interface. Matter of fact something kind of annoying about that is Where'd it go? I go over the Share this screen. There's no way to access this locally it automatically connects to the cloud and that's it It has no webinar web interface on it. So it just connects to the cloud and that's it It's there's no way for you to control anything about it It still has a USB so you can use the functions like tell it to shut down and script things like that But the annoying part is going to be the fact that there's no local interface now They not this model I have actually and I bought a couple of them because we want to upgrade some UPS is here the other one has a Option for a web interface that costs like $300 so while I think the web interface is cool I think the $300 is a lot for it So let me pull up the model on there if you can make it beep and control the CCTV for the same customer You can have some real fun. Yes, you could definitely be annoying with this thing Yeah, that you can still control this with nut plugged into a USB So, yeah, I Don't know to see how hackable it is I haven't dug into that yet to see if there's someone who's got a replaceable firmware on it That would be cool, but it's not something I really dug into yet Let me pull up the model on this. This is Get the There we go. I'll share the screen So it is this model here Like I said, I'll do a review of how it works I Did follow taking a Tim a couple other pages. He seems it's easy working. Well, yeah Techno Tim did a whole video and I haven't watched it, but I seen he published it Which I thought was awesome. I people asked me about doing one. I'm like techno Tim seems to be popular I know he's a smart guy. I've talked to him. So he Undoubtedly knows what he's doing when it comes to that but This is the model right here. It's an APC smart UPS 500 VA 120 volt lithium ion That's one of the things I want to talk about and one of the cool things about it is I wanted a lithium ion one And if you notice in the other screen One of the things it said was replace the battery by July 25th of 2031 Yes, having the lithium ion battery pack in these one it's lightweight So it doesn't weigh as much as you UPS usually does it's a lot of power density in a small area and also The lithium ions last longer. So you're talking about a battery life of About 10 years That's not bad. I think a 10-year life is way better than a you know, the five roughly years You'll get a lot of acids. So I mean I wanted to try a couple of these APC The new lithium ion ones the other one I bought is a lithium ion as well Let me find the model number the other one I bought Because someone's gonna ask I haven't set it up at all yet. It's the Let's use yep. There it is me fine. I just got to search the model and pull it up. Where did it go? It's this one. So I'll be reviewing both of these This is the other one. I got it's kind of the same thing. It's got just a smart connect on it I didn't get it with if you look at the back of it. It's got the option To put in the network. I believe it does. Yeah, pull it in a network interface But I did not get the network interface with it. So Yeah, and it's your right It's gonna be a little bit more expensive at a 380. I bought it for even less. You can get it on an Amazon per Not the big ones like 1200 the smaller one was I Think including shipping like three hundred and sixty bucks It's not Incredibly expensive, but the 10-year life of not having to service it that matters Goes the batteries are sometimes not always difficult But can be challenging to find the exactly to write battery if you buy them directly from the company like you buy from APC sometimes They're they cost close to the price of the UPS and I was like man And then of course let acid batteries have a high shipping cost the modules that are in here She'll take it out you got to just hold the button in there we go now it's off I'll go ahead and pull this out unplug it the battery just kind of slides out. It's cool It actually looks a lot like my drone battery When I had I don't I sold my drone. I don't have it, but this is it. This is the whole battery for that UPS so kind of neat just a little Focus maybe maybe There we go Just a little edge connector on it pretty simple Not very big battery and it just It's slides right in like this. Like I said, I'll do a full review of it slides right in click click All right, I got a battery installed that was easy Have you seen the PSS 2.6 update the What's his name Christian McDonald did some talk about I mean you can download it you can go to the and it's in beta It's not released and there's a bunch of little things that are on there So you feel free to check it out. I haven't gotten around to it I'm waiting till I finish my studio because I need somewhere where it's less distraction So I can focus and do something and I've been really busy Building the new studio matter of fact, let's go ahead someone wants to see it So let's go ahead and pull up the studio Thank you rid of that Just I'll make sure what I can or can't share Yeah, I can share all of this all these pictures are fine Couple family photos will pop up, but I don't care about that anyways Share screen chrome tab for those wondering what the studio layout looks like looks like this and This is the layout for how everything is done. This is this is actually my basement Right here. This is where the staircase comes out. This is the studio part down here So this like I said, it's one of those I decided to go ahead and remodel the basement is much so You have production systems are offering 2.6 That doesn't sound right We look because I'm curious that it just get released Not seeing my systems offering it. Let's log in another system So far nothing I've logged into says it's time for that says 252 You know pull up the neck keep blog Well, I can just go there Twitter they would tweet if they had 2.6 out. Yep, I don't see it So you think I noticed if 2.6 was out You know, there's a Chart I should pull up It is one of those things where the amount of effort it takes to refute BS people say is a Magnitude greater than just then creating creating. It's easy You have a bunch of people arguing almost immediately because you say something's out It's all those refuting it is so much harder. It's a asymmetrical warfare here Yeah, I don't see it anywhere on their site I mean, that's it's like on a roadmap for a long time. I Don't see anything about it. I mean my guess is you switch to the beta channel That's my guess though nonetheless Back to the studio we're talking about but this is kind of the layout for the studio for those you wondering like the dimensions or whatever So I think can I zoom in? I want to let me zoom in. I thought I could zoom on this. Hmm Yeah, oh, well, you can see the feet. It's my student I knew she was 22 by 22 feet by 16 feet Then this part of the house when we're finished is going to be 33 feet by 22 feet as well So the It's that's the layout that we're working with here and This is what it looks like right now. I just finished. This is 200 pounds of loaded vinyl That's all of that there it's just it's a lot to load this on it This is the sound deadening that's got to go on there this is one of those Twist lock plugs that the UPS will actually be I have an adapter So I'll have this locked in along with a line conditioner. I have that's actually made for this For the ports on the back. This is where the servers will go everything goes on this side of the wall even my computer So there's not really any wiring going in here Everything's going to be my desk is going to be right here and everything's gonna go through the wall. So there's no App there's no What no computer gonna be in this room at all my computer and everything's gonna be on the other side of that wall That's why someone asked what drops you're putting on like none no drops There's no network drops in my up my studio because they're just not needed if I ever need them I'll put them in but I don't know what I'd use them for so I'm not gonna pre wire it Yes, this is where the Pittsburgh toilet goes over here. So yes, I did put someone in there drawing. Oh Yeah, I definitely use cat 5 because it'll matter of fact I do have cat 5 in my house because why not I had some I had a couple short runs I ran it with cat 5 because I don't care. I knew I know it's gonna make someone mad Is there a person using a toilet the wrong way, I think they're using it the right way they're standing in front of it, so Where is the minibar the mini bar actually goes up here, so this little spot here is where that will go right at the top So that's the that's where the mini bar will end up and see what else is there? Yeah, there's not my also show this is the profile picture I usually close to look at all the vinyl and everything we put up on there when we're nailing it up I'm also the reason the other reason for all the sound editing is that's where my furnace is So the furnace is gonna make a little bit of noise coming through there And well, it won't because it's sound deadened. I filled the whole walls here. Yep, you can get 10 gig over that It's if you're using short runs, you can get a lot Oh For those wanting that's my dad's dog. I was up north and my father was far northern Michigan So I sit in by the fireplace watching a dog. That's a lake and that's a moon northern Michigan's pretty cool place So I go for that. Oh, and I didn't quite understand the sign I'm driving up north and me and the kids got a kick out of it. It's not cannibalism of its deep fry And I'm like what I I don't know, but they did have hot wings and I like hot food I didn't feel like stopping there cuz I was going up to visit family, but I was like, huh, so the Let's see what do we got here. Oh some of the other construction pictures for the studio It's coming along though. Matter of fact, I think somewhere look at these giant service loops on here That's because I'm gonna relocate it. So we wrapped up all the extra service loops there. That's what that's not gonna get done until That's finished. I Think I posted last week talking about this. I got all the wiring and everything else in here Happy things here all the way from Hillsdale. Nice not not too far from here. Happy Thanksgiving Nick So plenty of people in here. Um, and it's all I really got for the studio pictures. Nothing else new Brett this because this way so much we brought it down on a dolly Brett's just looking at it and He's like that thing's heavy, that's all he said he's like that is really heavy Oh, it does look cool with the lights. I got some lights in there I'll do a whole parts list when I get this finished and built Because why not? Oh, let's see What else did I want to talk about Probably the new Unify update. I'm gonna do a video on this I do testing and I push it out. We have I don't know 50 sites in our controller 50 or 60 I have to look the anyways, I'll be doing a video on some of the updates On the new unified stuff. Oh, those are strange circuit breakers you have in the States. Yes Tech technology connections did a good video on the differences in power grids and he dove into How the US works and the fact that we have a 240 volt system that everyone calls the 120 volt system because 240 comes in and then we split it So there's that so it's yeah, our system is different here in the United States Quite a bit different then especially our plugs our plugs are with the name of plugs that we use are Substantially different than the ones they use over in Europe and things like that. It's kind of an interesting Stuff you don't think about a lot, but yes, they're definitely a big difference there. Oh, let's see Builder wouldn't do it down same to my new house. So got our two five Yeah, X Riverview residents lions or bears. I don't know. I don't watch sport ball You as plugs have no fuses. Yeah, that's true, too We do not have fuses in our plugs generally speaking Client incident response we hand that off. We are not an incident response company a matter of fact It's not something we always get to choose and a lot of times your insurer Your insurer your insurance policy will specify who's gonna get used so It's not like the the incident response stuff is not It's not where we focus right now. Maybe in the future, but right now. It's not our focus But we do talk a lot about unify and this is the new version of the controller and it's not bad I Kind of like it The new UI because of the way they do the display options now. Let me widen that out a little bit This is something I guess I don't like is the fact that you have the What do you call that the bars going across here and it kind of I don't know it doesn't it Doesn't really look as good. So maybe I need the Firmware status network status we can just change the columns here This is one of the cool nice things they have though is you can pretty easily update this So do I hear about the status not really because it grays it out. So we'll go ahead and take that one out Do I care about the 24 hours of usage not really? So let's take that out. Hey, look now we have a little bit better Look on this now What I like is that I like the fact that I can do these switches. I like the consistency they have of it in the new version here, but The downside is the only way does it restart something now is to go in it and Do that if you're using a new interface You still got you switch the old interface you can restart device. Why does that matter? Well, when you start having a lot of devices at a client you want to restart sometimes a bunch of them all at once for right of a reason and Yeah, I wish it was a way to select group restart. I didn't see any options for that. So you can do Yeah, there's no way to select groups of them. If you go back to the old UI You can go in and just click restart all the way down. You can also click locate all the way down I don't know why that's missing from the new UI. That's kind of an annoyance on there. But yeah, that's It's just kind of strange The thing though that people are really gonna like is if we go to client devices and Same thing. Let's pop this open And we only want The 2.4 devices settings and this is the one thing a lot of people want is the Locked to certain AP. This is a feature that a lot of people are is A Lot of people are asking about is locked to this This is especially helpful not so much with phones and things like that but with cameras, maybe you have a camera that sits between two Wi-Fi and Sometimes it jumps to the wrong one. This is a feature you like because now you can force it to always go to a device And this has been asked for for a long time I'm really happy to see that unifies like hey, let's put that in there And that's gonna get a lot of people happy the other updates that they have on it Nothing was super exciting But the columns are nice this part I thought was actually really nice being able to easily manage the columns And add different things dynamically what interface what IP address Vendors if you want to put that in there and just reset it real quick to restore all the columns whatever the default is I Like that. I like the fact that I can filter between 2.4 and 5 is really quickly say all right Here's the filter and you know show me only these devices Or say only show me the wired devices The Wi-Fi experience part is kind of weird because 10 gig gig of it F e F e when it says a hundred. Why does it say F e? I Don't know. Maybe I'm missing something there. I didn't look into it. I'm sure it's a really obvious answer but why do they call a 100 meg connection an F e connection So, yeah, that's strange. Oh, you can't start by time anymore Mmm. Is there 24 hour usage IP address? I Don't see that here. I can sort these by uptime or you mean the clients Because these can be sorted by uptime Or bandwidth up down all these are sort of all ah Fast ethernet. I forgot it was called that Fast ethernet I see everyone said it all at once. That's great. I don't I knew it was obvious I know what fast ethernet is. It's just I don't see it often anymore So I forgot that's what we call 100 was fast ethernet because we thought that was fast when it came out I Get yeah, I get the gigabit ethernet. I got the GBE. I don't know why I forgot that 100 was called fast Did what does what is 10 called slow ethernet or just ethernet? Yeah Back back when it was 10 you got excited when it was 10 and by directional. That was uh, that was the exciting times then Fracking epic we'll go with that slug ethnic Ten was just ethernet. Yeah, but you always had to do You know, there was always the is it full duplex single duplex mult, you know, that was the thing back then So one of the things let me switch to like my house Put it back in. This is a couple of switches at my house and Matter of fact, let's go ahead and update this one. What's connected to this? Nothing let's update available Go ahead and push an update. I like the way the updates are right here. It's they made that kind of nice looking That's been a nice feature of it I've I've been pushing all the new firmwares because when I updated it a few things needed new firmware So I got hadn't updated those Tom's big wi-fi client devices These uh, all my cameras right here They're all FE fast ethernet, so Yeah, this a lot of them are and this is also one of those myths I want to dispel so to speak It's even um, there's a lot of people get this wrong. There's this constantly Assumption that if you're running 4k cameras, they have to be connected at like 10 gig I need a 10 gig connection. Why oh, I wanted to run a couple four gig cameras You wouldn't believe how many people contact us for consulting And that's like they're they start with I need to build out a whole 10 gig network. Why why I plan to get like four 4k cameras I think I need 10 gig for 4k cameras. I'm like no my 4k mcrest technologies camera if you can't read what this says it says amcrest technologies Is connected is a 4k camera connected? At 100 meg fast ethernet it does not take that type old Bandwidth to run 4k cameras matter of fact you may notice that these aren't even really Sending that much data each 4k camera depending on what it's picking up is sending about 17 megs of data That's it not even gig so Um Oh, I surf like michigan that was cool cold surfing day honey beach cool Ah, there were times coax. Yes the bnc coaxial cables. I used to set those up You just have to balance the networks with those the with the Resistance ends I think it was uh, yeah, I haven't touched that stuff in a long time. I was back in my days I I didn't really know it very well. I was just a person clicking things because someone told me to Um, but landtastic systems used to use that Yes, all the unify protect stuff we have is always kept up to date. So there was a security runner Oh, yes the token ring networks and landtastic Yep Yeah, the terminators I think I might have some of them. I have one of those in my drawer Hey, look I'm not a nostalgic person. So I don't usually keep stuff but uh I occasionally have some of those things floating around but there's very very limited amounts. I'm very very few of them out there. So That's a uh Yeah, I just don't keep old junk laying around Oh, yeah, b and c connectors, man. We twisted a lot of those on Yep, with the little 50 on terms, they had the different color codes on the caps to tell you how many ohms the termination was I um I'm the I'm extremely a minimalist. So I throw things out all the time I just don't if I'm not using it. I just don't keep it around plain and simple easy I um I'm always trying to minimize the amount of stuff. I have it's like a constant with me I don't like stuff or too much stuff even Even things like motorcycles and things when I don't use a motorcycle anymore is I've had numerous ones I say, you know what? I ain't rode that in a while for sell it. Just get it out of here. Sell it um I'm I'm weird like that. You know, I don't uh, I don't like stuff. I don't know Uh, open WRT worth the effort an old bunch of stuff honestly If you're absolutely broke and you have no way to purchase the newer Unify stuff, which is really inexpensive by the way, uh, but that's that's a relative term obviously I'm saying something's inexpensive. It may not be that case for you and I honestly don't ever bother Doing anything with old hardware once it comes out of warranty. It's usually so old and often slow It's not worth it to me and with new stuff being in the hundred dollar range It doesn't seem like something I would bother with but if you don't have Something if you don't have a hundred dollars, it's it's one of those things that yes Um, you can become more creative and use it. Do I think it's worth it when I grab them? No, not at all not me, um, but If you have no budget for new stuff The only budget you have is I have access to old things and I have no money to buy new things Then that's where you probably would do well with that. It's I've never tried it. I don't know if it's good or not. Um I haven't used open wrt in 10 plus years since I even looked at it. So I can't really say much for it Ah I think the same thing about the unify dream machine Uh pro as I do all the dream machines They're a lackluster product that people buy and put on ebay when they realize it's shortcomings. So the The problem isn't the hardware as much as it is the software They actually have enough horsepower in the hardware. They have the specs. They could do more They don't and I think it's funny that I don't know when I don't maybe that features out by now and I haven't looked One of the upcoming features they bragged about was they were going to stop forced registrations That's the dumbest thing ever like we're going to force you to register And then we're going to later on after you complain enough take that feature and stop forcing registration and telling you it's an upgrade It's an upgrade. No, you're giving me back what I had when I started. What do you mean? It's an upgrade You you're the one that did it Just don't do dumb things like that. You want to be the company that gives people control over their network? Well, then great do it. Don't make me register with your cloud system So, yeah Um Unify is expensive. No, that's that's a different problem where you are Unify might be expensive and that becomes, you know, look at what isn't expensive in the area and I know from talking to different people. I didn't even know how much of a difference until It's one of my canadian friends pointed out just how much more and kodi can probably speak to this Some things are a lot more expensive in canada and it's kind of been all those jokes that Yeah, I can literally just drive a few minutes across the border because you know, we're right on the Canada is I think four miles from where I'm at right now. So Um, it's not a far drive, but boy that four miles makes a big price difference Uh Let's see Using a dream machine pro as a ct tv and eventually access control is probably okay for wireless management. Don't use this router it works like I I've talked before I've got my daughter has Still has a the unified dream machine cylinder Works for her and uh my daughter is buying a house and when she moves out of her apartment and moves into her house She will also have that same unified dream machine and maybe one more access point because it's there's a basement and Maybe they have a wife. They need wi-fi there. I don't know. We'll see if it works I think it's great because They do quite well Um with the one device because my daughter is not a tech person They don't need any of the advanced features. So it works great for her Um, simple as that Um, I prefer unifi, but if you like the aruba stuff, it's not bad I've you I've tested some of the aruba. I've got friends that installed it. Um They have the whole aruba cloud management thing that they don't charge licensing piece for that I Far as I know they're not going to plan on doing it. I don't know They don't have any type of well. I can't say they don't someone contacted me But boy, you can't find information easy on this Some of the aruba stuff has a hosted controller. You can control yourself Figuring out which model that is is not clear last time I looked at their websites Yeah Used to bootleg work hardware from Dearborn to Windsor in the 90s. Yep. That's probably a thing Yeah, I don't know 5 pack of uap ac pros Okay So how did you recommend for a home office small office a lot of network devices? Like a normal isp router would stop working due to too much devices. Uh, we push people to the Um all the time we push people to the pf sense plus unify it works We deploy a ton of it. We consult with a lot of it. It works. It's a predictable platform We're very familiar with it. It's very trouble-free. So that's what I might recommend all small businesses Hey, thank you for the super chat donation here omata for small business I'm not confident enough to put omata in a small business. I think the unify system is more polished I don't have the confidence in the omata that it's got they don't have as many offerings They don't have as many device offerings Um, and only thing they did was copy unify. They didn't really improve on it Therefore, they didn't give me a compelling reason to use it and because we host and manage our controller for clients I I like the ability to host and control it. I don't know where omata's long-term commitment is with it um They just went and copied unify to try and grab market share But if you're going to take the time to copy why not take the time to innovate or you're not innovative and you're always chasing unify So I don't find them to be the most compelling offering. They seem to work though Cody does the same thing pf sense and unify network easy to work together yeah, see The problem with other ones is the external controller this is Whenever I start seeing all these external controllers I'm like, okay. Who's going to turn them on and keep them running And this is what happened to open mesh open mesh was a unify competitor Open mesh fell apart when they got bought because they guaranteeed a free cloud forever Then they had a fee that came with the company that bought them Datto Datto bought out open mesh and your free cloud went away and now what do you do all that? All those devices you promise to your customer wouldn't have to have recurring fees Now have a recurring free or turn into a pumpkin at midnight. They disable themselves. What are you going to do? I don't like companies that offer free cloud forever that I can't control or host If they're at least if they're paying up front, I understand the business model when they're offering it for free I don't trust the business model so What is unify connect? I don't know what that is oops there we go Temporarily stopped for a second. I clicked the wrong button. I clicked back Anyways, um Protect telly harbour untangle and unify just set up for office locations that convention. Yeah Uh untangle works good too. I anyone who wants any of the filtering features. We just like get an untangle PF sense. Sorry. They don't do a great job on that Good harbour to run PF sense on Um, you can do the protectellies if you want. I prefer the net gate devices That's my preference. But if they are outside of your budget There's a lot of like the uh Protect telly. I don't know. I have a really hard time saying that so Those are uh decent the they work well, um with a lot of the PF sense stuff What else do we have? What was I going to look up? Is it the you said unify connect? What is unify connect? Yeah, I just I don't I'm not even google didn't find it. So I don't know what it is Oh, I see a video I don't know. I never used it and now the ability to subscribe to outside libraries Right here subscribe users to the source including I don't know what that is. All right. I'm confused Oh, well, it's not only ea. There's a company called unify connect Um, completely separate from unify when you google it. They come up. So that's that's interesting Unify ap late dropping to 100 sounds like a cabling problem I know you said change cable didn't do it, but i'm just throwing it out there What's in my calendar and why is it popping up? Didn't have my phone off. That's all yeah I don't really know what's wrong with unify. It's usually almost, you know The troubleshooting I do ends up being like the same all the time Everyone tells me it's not the cable not the cable not the cable. I swear. It's not the cable I guess I'll have to pay to have you guys come out. We come out there. It's the cable It's the same thing. Yeah, I said I commented someone the other day about the um Permissions issues and Same thing back and forth They they didn't want to have to hire me because they want to know what I left out of my video nothing my video is that and I they said I've watched your video 10 times Tom your video is either wrong or I'm doing something wrong And I'm like you're doing something wrong and they hired us to set up the permissions on our tunas server I set it up. I was done in five minutes. They forgot to connect first I stripped acls But then they forgot to check the box at the bottom that you know Put all the permissions across all the different data sets at the bottom one check box And I say to check and I verified in my video I say to check it where you basically take the permissions and apply them to all the current Files that are in out there So many times I run into this with troubleshooting people ask you to troubleshooting videos and I'm like I have In my video. I I always mention if you're having problems hit strip acls and then reapply the permissions Every I mean I've done so many consulting jobs where I was done in 10 minutes because I checked the same box As I said the check in there same with like an open vpn stuff My open vpn doesn't work. You missed one of the boxes. Oh, no, I swear. I didn't miss a box go down the list Click the button The same thing with these it's always the cable. It's just It's not the cable. It's not the cable. It's not the cable. We go out there. We crimp and we we don't ask questions We'll look at it. I don't know. He's even put a cable tester on it We go out there. Snip the ends of the cable repunch it go to the patch panel repunch it I want someone else's punched it. I just repunch it. I'm not going to I'm not going to go in fiddle with it see that it's loose. Matter of fact one company hired us because Well, there's still an ongoing client Because they're wiring people were just bad We the wiring people didn't test anything after they installed it. They were very full themselves and our stuff works Turns out a lot of things didn't work So they were running around plugging things in and stuff wasn't lighting up they were we provided the switches because of an argument between the owners and Well, the owners one owner liked us one owner liked his friend who did the wiring So they split it where we got the it side and the switches the other company got the wiring Then we had to fix all the wiring It was just yeah Just takes a skip a step. Yep um Consonality track a person from one camera the next ring playback for a large retail environment looking for an access alternative Not really. I really wish they had now. They do have another nbr system I'm going to get as a demo unit to test from them that has better capabilities But that's something they're missing is um that really high-end feature that you get with some of the other ones So it's the same thing with like where's that object? Just um, there's a couple different high-end inter expensive nbr companies But they have an option where you can find an object and you can say Find this object and it can find all the cameras that object appeared in that way if someone grabs an object You can go ahead and figure out where that object is. That's something that I don't think you know, they I've seen it all with the um Synology, I'm not sure how good their new systems that are dedicated for Better analytics are I don't know. I don't know where they're at with them They're neat that they're coming out with them. But I uh, yeah, so thank you for the super chat Hopefully um, Synology catches up on that technology Oh, let's see Yeah, the dva. I want to test one because what's missing What might be missing in the dva literature is something I want to find out because one of the problems I have with Synology right now is When you do the cameras The cameras themselves have tracking options And you can trigger on the tracking options in the cameras if they have advanced options for things But that information doesn't seem to flow into the Synology So the camera can say all right. I seen a face Synology goes motion event then a camera can go I seen a car and Synology goes motion event It doesn't distinguish between them. It just records based on the trigger that came from the camera. So obviously When you set it to only trigger on faces You only get motion event on faces based on the camera triggering But I don't see anywhere that data flows to tell you that it was a face event or a car event or whatever the object was That the camera can recognize. So that's where that's where it gets a little tricky I mean, don't get me wrong. Those systems are really cool The downside is and like in the reason obviously why you want to uh, move away or looking at alternatives to access is companies that can do that are substantially more money than buying a A Synology system. It's all about budgets. I mean everyone starts out with I want all these things And then they go, oh wait those things cost how much? Oh, what do you have in between? I mean, if your budget says I want full object tracking I want all this stuff and it makes sense to do it, you know, you're you're a retail business And if you're not familiar with the retail business market, they refer to it as shrinkage shrinkage is all the stuff that leaves the place that wasn't paid for And if you can say hey, this camera system will help you track down shrinkage and it will reduce it by x I mean, I remember talking to some of these retail people. They're like, yeah, we lose about 30 or 40 thousand dollars a month in shrinkage at a very large retail establishment And I'm like, wow, that's a lot was of course across a couple of their stores But either way justifying a 30 thousand dollar camera install Um as a one-time cost to help reduce the shrinkage makes economic sense This is how any of these deals are always sold the same way if you aren't familiar with how you sell it You pitch, you know, what is the problem you're solving? How does it benefit the business in a way that will save them money? And an equal proportion or better than of course is the real goal than what it costs them So if you have a retail store that's losing 30 thousand dollars a month through shrinkage And you can propose a hundred thousand dollar camera system that's going to last over a five-year lifetime They're like, okay 30,000 goes into a hundred thousand. All right. Here's our ROI on this after that We start making money if we can reduce it by a hundred percent. It's just It's just how that whole process works for any business I will buy a tool that saves me money because labor is expensive So if I can get something done faster with that particular tool And I'll have to pay the same wavery that tool suddenly became more valuable based on that piece of information to me huh, let's see And happy Thanksgiving, Brett Let's see. What else do we have in here? Let's see. What else we have? uh, usually don't fiber and Contract it up. Can you make a guide at some point to how to splice all the cool stuff? Um I don't splice it so not likely that that'll happen anytime soon I'm I don't splice fiber So and I'm not going to go spend two grand on a fibers placing kit for a video It wouldn't be something that economically makes sense As a matter of fact, what we've been just even when we get the fiber We just get prefab fiber measure it out get some prefab life is good. It's been pretty easy Well, let's see What else do we have in here? A verkada really nice for this stuff Yeah, there's um There's a couple of them. I'm trying to remember the other one out there. Um There's a couple of cloud enabled ones. They're They charge everything as a subscription fee. I can't remember their name. We demoed their products We're looking at it. It's pretty pricey, but It's targeted at that retail market because it has facial recognition where you can track a person By face see how many times they've shown up and because all the processing they have local storage But then they grab all kinds of data and send it to the cloud for processing You they even had the ability for you to see like in one of the examples I think because if you owned a bunch of um chain stores, you could see if a common person had gone between all those stores It was it was some cool fancy stuff that was obviously very pricey So those things we like, okay. Well, it's a pretty neat system But it's got a Specific target audience of someone who can really benefit from that It's just comes down to budget when you start talking about they they had like a fee structure of like Uh 40 dollars per camera per month. So a 10 camera system was 400 dollars per month Plus your initial cost of hardware and installation or something around those lines 40 or 50 Per month per camera. I mean some companies go that's not bad other companies go No, that's a lot more than I want to spend because it's forever. You're always spending that and of course The cloud only gets more expensive all these online services once you're signed up and you have it all installed If they decide to just oh, I don't know do a 20 price hike. What are you gonna do? So it's another brand you've used this for a while. It's installed You've already got it and it's working. You're used to it. It's part of your workflow And uh, those are some of the challenges you come up with with those It's a happy balance and trying to find that happy balance, which isn't always easy by the way There we go Oh, this is um I'll actually comment on this because this is stupid But i'm using to me I don't understand why they're doing this it says Linux 96 9604464 That's the um That's chrome That's the chrome version. Why does it put that in there? Why did they pull that in from why do I care? What browser I guess maybe they want to know what browser i'm using and that i'm running linux on my computer I don't know. I thought that was funny I don't really get it Well, it's a little unified things Well, let's see If you search my channel, I have plenty of videos on managing backups. So yes Um, you know, that's something I maybe it needs its own video. So I could replying with the same comment all the time Um, people always ask but tom, how do you stop ransomware from destroying your backups? I'm like, what do you mean? How do you stop it? You put it on a separate backup server with different credentials, but tom that won't stop the ransomware people Why not if they get the credentials to your backup, they get the credentials to your backup There's nothing you can do if you separate your credentials for your backup Now there's something you can do because that they usually pop the creds for your active directory controller Then from there they pivot to whatever the backup service is running and people think there's some magical way So you can't delete it. I'm like, no if you have a system That they have access to that contains data and that data can be deleted. They will delete it It's just that you can well file versioning is part of it too. You keep many versions of it That's you your off-site backup should have x amount of days now You know that people like well, there should be a way to trigger your backups to lock down when there's ransomware I'm like, cool. If you knew there was going to be ransomware, though You would stop the ransomware from even getting there in the first place it's like If you're using like true nas and you're doing off-site replication easy solution keep 30 days off site with a separate password and a Completely, you know locked down to a different IP address. So if someone attacks that network, they can't pivot over there that's that's kind of how that should work, but you know you say immutable and that's not it's Immutable is fine unless they have access to the machine that is allegedly immutable. They'll destroy that machine Almost always though, they don't have access to that machine unless it happens to use the same password If you go through all the forensic reports and the differ reports and you'll go Oh, look, they just connected it to Active Directory and use the same password And they got in and destroyed all the backups because why wouldn't they and people go? Well, I don't want to have to maintain a separate password I'll just use the same one all over the place because that's convenient and Convenience is the enemy of security. Sorry. That's just how it works. So uh, yes You don't have to have read only backups You just have to have the backups have enough revisions and you have to have whatever is storing those a synology a true nas Backblaze s3 Whatever that is if they get access to your backblaze account They will purge your data out of it Don't use the same credentials for your backblaze account if you're backing up to backblaze If you're backing up to astrology c2, don't use the same credentials as you use everywhere else because well They're going to go in and destroy those. It's like Um, I it's not difficult so to speak But every time there's an incident that we've looked at where the backups are destroyed It's always the same one. What happened to backups Well, we use the same credentials and they got the credentials and they went and logged in and destroyed all the backups Or we kept the credentials in a spreadsheet. So once they got access to our domain They logged into the spreadsheet that said all of our passwords and they looked at all the passwords They go, uh, hey backblaze. I bet they've stored all their data in there log in destroy some buckets um That's just a common thing they do so it's Yeah, that's uh, what else can I say? Use different passwords and everything. It's really that simple. It's not It's not as complicated as people want to make it. They think it is That's where the problem really comes in It's so much on there Do you have any preferred battery backup products recommended setups? I'm gonna do a video soon I bought some uh, if you go scroll earlier in a stream I talk about these uh apc. I have a few apc with the lithium ion. I'm gonna review them soon. Um They seem to be fine. So, uh, they work. I'll be doing like a set of video on them So buy an apc. They're great Is there a vulnerability with passphrase in bit warden? Not that I'm aware of Uh, if there was a vulnerability and you know of one you should report it to bit warden But I'm not aware of any uh vulnerabilities in bit warden Never use the same pass twice use bit warden. Yes that That is so much, you know, even We had a client, you know went through some exercises in security And first thing they got busted on was they used the same password or anything. So they properly did and followed um best practice by going through and Uh, creating different users. So people weren't all logging as an admin They had admin user that we get work done They, you know, when they had to do admin level things that they would take and log in as a normal user and it people are Notoriously bad. They want to log in as admin all the time. Um, but they did some of those proper things But then they just used the same password all over the place and broke and once they were able to get their password Off their normal user, they were able to escalate to the admin user. It was just like yep, that's um Yeah So, yeah, it's just a It's a problem. Uh What type of ups you recommend for a network using and following devices same answer you buy an apc there we go Buy an apc one Uh, is the net gate? Uh, good enough for there. I would say the um The net gate 1100 Is fine. I've used one for a while Uh, it's as long as you don't need more than like 700 meg per second Like there's a there's some limitations. If you have gig internet, it's not it's not going to be quite fast enough Same with the 2100 is on the edge of being fast enough for a gig internet So if you have gig internet, you might want to go faster If you have less than gig like I do at home, uh, a 2100 is fine. I like the 2100. It's specifically I have a 2100 at home Uh, yes, whenever you're buying a ups, please do the math and uh, the math is really simple You need to figure out how many watts you're using. So once you um Are once you figure out all the wattage buy a ups that has at least that many watts Probably more would be better than the more you buy the longer the runtime will be So that's in you know, I'm going to bring it up in the video like, you know Calculate your wattage. These are things you kind of have to do if you want your ups them to uh work. It's not Uh, it's not rocket appliance says we jokeringly say at the office all the time. It's not rocket appliance guys. It's just math It's just math so much of this stuff is really simple Just like the backups use separate passwords I could just say that all day because well people won't do it and it's where the problems constantly come in with the Backups, I mean if you want offline backups Manually done you can do that you can copy them to some Device occasionally, but that's manual and manual intervention is a real problem because people don't do it um, we got a call And we can't help the people we told them their best bet is to pay the ransom They had 70 machines ransomware their backups because they were manually doing it No one did it for two weeks and uh, because they were busy So two week old backups that was the best backup they had of all their critical data They backed it up. I guess to some manual process And uh, someone wasn't doing it for like two weeks. Apparently the person was only doing it every few weeks So the backups weren't consistent Those are always bad A lot of ups is here don't list that uh, you can figure it out if you go look at the apcs They do list the wattage on them even when you're buying them off amazon. That's listed in there So it's just a matter of finding the one that's specced for you If you if you go to the website apc does list the wattages on there They'll tell you they'll tell you all the details on there. I think um Let's look at this apc So if we went and did this this there's even a ups selector punch in the number of watts you're using and uh A way you go. So, you know, is it for a server room a network of cloud configured by load? What is the operating voltage? What is the watts? Or va or kilovet? Which everyone works for you. Do you have 800 watts you need? And they'll find the ups of your dreams Do you need power expandability? Do you need like another wreck? What's the amount of runtime you need? I want to run for two hours at 160,000 watts You know you've got to kind of figure it out. So if you have like let's just say a 400 watts that you're pulling or let's go all the way to 800 800 watts And we only need Well, let's give it 15 minutes of runtime 15 minutes of runtime and you're only pulling 120 hit continue Hey, look, it's gonna find me all the models So there you go Pretty simple to find one not it's not rocket appliance. It's just math Nothing in uh back plays is nice. You can you know back plays I'm synology all depends on what you're sending Um and what you're connecting it to I've done a video on back plays with sure dance I've done a video with synology in their c2 service. So yeah They're all good What do you recommend as a rack when building in the home office space? Uh I've got rack build videos. I have links to them the star tech ones are fine If you look at any of my rack build videos, I have the links to the models in it There is no good log aggregation for windows. I'm a big fan of gray log gray log is great If you're doing that, it's not a full sim tool for that you're You're gonna have to look at either their alien vaults or q radar or a lot of the other ones out there They're all expensive But gray log at least is an affordable one for small business Yeah, apc's been solid. Uh, so is eaten anything that's by eaten has always been really nice Yep, I've got a whole video on gray log. So gray log is definitely a great place to start uh the s SG 3100 is going into life. Um go with the 6100 as its replacement It's a big step up. I kind of hope they feel the gap in the middle. Um, but the 61 the 5100 I think is probably going to go into life and the 6100 is going to be replaced with 6100 is awesome We really like it. We've been deploying them. They're great Yep. Eaton makes some solid stuff. Uh, we've got some companies with eaton systems there They work They work quite well No complaints on eaton We have some companies with some large commercial eaton systems and Works fine What else was I gonna do? Um Eaton is expensive. Yeah, you get what you pay for on that. That's a different thing. So I Some things cost a lot of money. I You know, sometimes you got to spend a little money For some quality stuff. If your budget allows it, maybe it's better to do it that way. But yeah, that's um Is what it is. I don't really know I don't know what else I can say about that. So Well, let's see. Oh, that's right. Uh Uh Snare you'd mentioned I haven't tried it but snare is a sim and log aggregator tool. There's a few of them out there All of them are expensive. So once you get any of the sim sock stuff, it's it the price jumps up a lot Hey, Mitch awesome, um Glad you can make it I've identified dream machine not pro need to add another ap upstairs. What would you use to add an ap myself? I I would definitely run a wire always do hard wire. I hate Doing mesh Mesh is never as good Ah, yes, just build your own ups. You could there's some there's stuff out there um Matter of fact, there's that one guy. He's got some really good Videos, uh, he does all the lithium ion battery videos. He's got some car builds. He's done. He's done He's built his own if you I think we became popular for his VW bus build and his tesla homemade tesla power wall. I think brings them up I forgot the uh, his name. He's got a great youtube channel though where he talks about it You can build matter of fact instead of a ups build a power wall for your whole house That's actually on my to-do list Well, let's see Hey, thank you The digital life All the way from I believe you're from germany if I'm if I'm uh, correct I think it would be the afternoon in germany, right? Uh, does pf sense have a unified like dashboard for mode updates? Nope, unify does not currently have a dashboard for updates. You have to manually update all of them Is what it is I got it, right germany. I germany seems really cool Uh, I that's one of the places I do want to go. I've had friends who've um, been there and met people who spent a lot of time there Um, everything is yes, that says, uh Uh, j e h u g a r c i a Garcia that's he's the youtube channel. That's great for how to build all your own power wall and everything else Greetings custom and chance Uh, yeah, I don't If you have three phase power, I don't really know Nope, I don't use starlink, but I know, uh, chris from crosstalk solutions has done a bunch of starlink videos Recently rebuilt the network in a home running cat 6 everywhere. Hardline is the way to go make your life easier Oh, great scott's just got some great videos on electronics. So that's definitely a good channel to watch too Yeah, the guy with the batteries. Yep Looking for a virtualized nas solution on esx. I uh, I don't No, I don't recommend ever virtualizing a nas if there's something I would be on the stuff tom doesn't recommend It's running a nas virtually Oh, I didn't know jeff had some starlink videos. Uh either I never I I have multiple internet providers I have two different fiber options on my building I have one wisp option and two different cable options and one dsl option that I can all get right here in my area Don't have a need for starlink starlink is slow with higher latency than any of the options I mentioned. So Yeah, I got nothing There's not really like a need I have for starlink. So I don't know it's cool I mean, I I get the whole premise. I think it's great for people in the areas where you don't have multiple access I I like the idea about it But I just don't have a use case for it I if we want those, you know What am I gonna do with this? Uh type things is cool. I got a slow backup internet That costs as much as my fast options. So It would we actually have not reasonable um, okay pricing on internet because we have some competition here in michigan, so Yeah, don't if you're asking about a general purpose nas don't virtualize it that was one of the things I did I would not I mean I've seen so many people Xavier's including that virtualize this true nas have a ton of problems And eventually end up corrupting all the data on it because it just weird problems kept cropping up I don't think it's I've only virtualized it when I'm running it for a Non-production environment, but once it's for production. No, I'd be I'll virtualize it for testing reasons But not for production reasons Once you got a for production. It's just not there's always Weird bugs when you start virtualizing true nas on there So pf sense you could virtualize. Um I I avoid it most of the time because The problem of virtualized pf senses if you're doing troubleshooting with your virtual stack You now took out your internet which then limits your ability to google the problem you're having with your virtual stack So I rarely other than for demo reasons or one-off reasons. I don't virtualize pf sense I do for my demos because it's greatly convenient to spin it up virtually and do all the demos that I do but um outside of demos I kind of lose the reason to do it Like when I spin up it's convenient. I'll probably spin up a virtual pf sense when I want to run the beta um 2.6 that we talked about earlier. I'll probably spin up a virtual instance for it But you know, it's it's just so convenient to have it virtual because I don't have to deal with any reloading I can just snapshot it do videos revert right back to that snapshot before I mess with everything or broke something and Away we go matter of fact. That's actually part of my lab of how I do a video I actually take and go through the process several times that way when I actually stop and hit record I can record it in one take without having to because I've already went through the whole process again Many times any of this is still even for me Um, I mentioned this a few times in this live stream and things like that never assume Because I make it look easy in a video that it's easy I've done this a bunch of times before I did the video and even when I do the video I edit out if I made a mistake because why leave the mistakes in the goal is to teach you something not Teach you that tom messes up. I want to be honest and that you can walk through and Go say all right. I'm gonna follow this step by step and get the same outcome. That's how I want my tutorials to go Yeah, we still use connect wise. Um, it's everyone complains about the price. I do too, uh, but it works So we keep using it. So yeah, I connect wise is very You know, we kind of joke because some of the other tools we've tried out there are just Not good And they're kind of like the a lot of the other ones that we compared to being the internet explorer What do you do with this? Well, I use it till I can get connected because it's already installed Whatever is installed in it by default so I can get connect wise on it Connect wise is the premium one out there of what we've tested and I because I have licenses for it I don't really plan on testing everything else. So I've talked to other people Um, they've always gone back and said the same thing I have. So I don't have a reason to test other ones Uh, and by the way, some of the other ones that people have told me are as good as connect wise have about the same price So if they're not doing anything better than connect wise and it's a lateral movement to the same price Why disrupt my life? Um, we especially because we know the connect wise platform You're gonna be upgrading to a dream machine pro but not a ubiquity switch. Um If I do that, can I still use a wireless router? Uh, yeah, you can it's just different if you have vlands any switch you're using has to be vlan aware Um In order for it to pass those vlands or you may have to configure it So if you have non vlan aware switches and you want to use vlands, then you'll have a problem Yeah, connect wise they've been around forever. We've been using them before they were connect wise We we started using the way we're just called screen connect in like 2013 maybe 2014. So we've been using them for like eight years It's um Yeah, it's for remote access. It's hard to beat Thanks for your advice. It's only my homelab stuff and lots of family photos automated backup on on raid Hey, as long as you get the backups automated, that's what's important The udm pro has limited amounts of storage on there. So Why use connect wise over the built-in take control with enable rmm because connect wise controls better It works better the dual monitor like so many majority It's getting to the point where of all the machines we manage. Um, there's so many of them with dual monitors The take control can do it Connect wise does it better So the way connect wise works for handling dual monitors and things like that. It's just easier the It's just a simpler system to use. That's one of the reasons we like that I covered the studio earlier in the video. So go ahead and hit the rewind on here and watch I covered all the studio updates earlier But it's going well, so it's just not done. I can't be done fast enough There's no way for me to make it done fast enough. I'm trying I'm we've got drywall up We've got sound ending up. Um, I wanted all we're probably gonna work on it some more tomorrow So it just can't get it done fast enough Um, let's see Yep, Brett's Brett's coming over and we're doing some drywall tomorrow Well, we'll have it done and then I have people coming out for the muddy and taping on Tuesday. So Yeah That's uh, it's it's all coming along Brett knows how impatient I am with it I want Brett's always like what's your timeline? I'm like yesterday. Like what do you mean? What's my timeline? Ha ha ha Yesterday, that's my timeline. It should be done already when I when I commit to doing a project I want it done immediately now not like, you know, I mean, I'm I'm as rational. Um Is I can be but What is the um What is that dillbert con there's a dillbert one that said it said dealing how to deal with uh, Unreasonable project managers and it says, um, that project that was due in two weeks Can you have it delivered by tomorrow and a person says I can absolutely have it not done by any day you'd like When a kid's done that too They Time they just want me out of the office. So I don't drive everybody crazy So I have somewhere to be when I'm being my obsessive self I'll be in my basement being obsessive and doing stuff, which I mean some creating videos. So yeah, well It's one of those perspectives when working in small business lots of tools out there get expensive for a pricing standpoint until You have to do payroll. It's when you're an msp and I've talked about this a couple times um The tooling has an expense and obviously you know, you spend thousands and thousands of dollars a month and tooling it adds up And uh, but then you look up to payroll is and the payroll for a week is always more than a tooling is for a month And it's just the way things are You're always trying to find tools to keep your labor rates Down so you can minimize the amount of people you have to hire to manage things at scale That's always the balance you're trying to keep on there because turns out, you know employees are expensive Healthcare benefits of here in the u.s. They're expensive and this is all stuff we got going So that that's a almost bigger cost than well, it is a bigger cost than the tooling Um So it's kind of comes back down the perspective But that's why you're always conscious of tools and how they scale because will this tool allow me to scale better Will it allow me to have less Read less people time and more getting things done time. So happy turkey day Any tips for pf sense ubiquity running controller in a docker or unraid? um If you want to run it in docker or unraid go ahead. I run it as a virtual machine. I don't run it in docker So I don't I don't really have any tips you can I know a lot of people that do and they seem happy um, so The problem I have with running it in docker. Who's producing the docker image. Do you trust them? I hope so that's um supply chain attacks are a real problem and docker images that are Poisoned are a real problem So if you trust the person making the docker image go for it if you're building the docker image great If you don't trust them Well, think about that if if that person decided to back door that docker image, would you know It's one of those things you're relying on some person who creates a docker image for unify And you're hoping that they don't have any bad intentions. So That's my that's my advice whenever people ask me about running things in docker Where's that docker image coming from? There's a lot of official docker images from people But there are lots of unofficial ones that someone's project is just to keep it up to date or Is it to build a user base and then load a bunch of crypto miners because They want to make some crypto money and your machine seems like a great machine to do that on Stick with your own vm, you know, if you run your own vm, you're minimizing the whole supply chain attack It really comes down to who runs it. I know that there's like a couple Um, I spent a while since I looked when I looked for the unify docker images before there's like a There was like a popular one that was run by one person that you didn't have a lot of information like it's not like For example, if jay from learn linux tv decided to be the maintainer of a package you go I trust that jay from learn linux tv guy. He does videos. He's probably not doing anything bad I'll trust docker images. He supports When you know the people involved in the supply chain great when you don't it becomes a little sketchy You're like, I don't know. It's just the pop most popular one. So I pulled it from docker But who wrote it? I don't know some person that I don't know or have any background on so Hey, good to hear you got the network back up and running grace and that's awesome Uh, vm's are annoying to manage. I don't know. I don't have any problem managing vm's It's I guess it depends on what tool you're using to manage them Because as a matter of fact, one of the things I mentioned today I tweeted today. I should say Because speaking of managing vm's Let's pull this up There is a new feature There are more integration with ansible. So this was just released today It is ansible with zen orchestra. So this allows you they've already got terraform in there This is also a way to manage infrastructure as code and build out your virtual machines and manage them all with um Ansible, I don't know if I'm going to do a video on this. I'm really not an ansible person But hey, isn't this cool that you can do all this? This is a pretty neat feature in my opinion bought two unify wi-fi six um bought two unify wi-fi six lights the speeds are about 200 Yeah, welcome to wi-fi where it's just a headache. There's no doubt about that Getting speed out of wi-fi is just Good luck. It's we it's one reasons and wendell did this to uh from level one tax He has a video where he's talking about trying to do speed tests on wi-fi And he even gets aggravated at the inconsistencies It kind of says something along the lines if I need to build a faraday cage now I actually believe wendell will build a faraday cage at some point in time But that's a real problem wi-fi Is fickle when we did device testing with different phones We actually found different phones connecting to different models of different wi-fi units got different speeds And they weren't all consistent It wasn't like hey when we connect these three different phones to this ap6 device They all got the same speed some were faster some were slower and then that got flipped when we connected the phones to a different ap really comes on to what you're testing with um Don't ever expect just it's a my my rule of thumb is don't ever expect the best speed performance out of Whatever wi-fi device you're using. Good luck. It's the the combination is always going to be some little conflict True nascale. No true nascale will not be a replacement for esxi because true nascale Is not a full-blown virtual machine manager. True nascale is all about storage And running some containers inside of the system. It is not a replacement for virtualization xcp and g is today a replacement for uh esxi so It's not it's not a full-blown hypervisor right here So if you're looking for a replacement for esxi that's available today, that's xcp and g xcp and g can handle um All of that Right now like it's a pretty amazing system Ha ha yes Yes, you work for an isp and people complained. I can't get the right speed I had someone we we never really figured out why we just we had someone complaining one of our customers We needed a really big install for turns out they their phone. We don't know why Doesn't like unify and it was also out of date out of support iphone He had a really old iphone and I showed him like anywhere he would stand I could stand next to him with two different devices a laptop in my phone that would get really fast connections and his old iphone just It didn't want to connect very fast, but the customer's like why do you something that makes this work? I'm like come on man. Just buy a new phone. It's out of support You've got like a six-year-old iphone. You got one of the earliest ones or whatever that is still even available. So uh I don't I've not tried running vms on true nas scale. I don't know how good they are Um, I know in true nas core. They sucked. I'll just say it There's a reason I don't have a series of videos on true nas core and virtual machine management because it's bad Every time I tried it. I was like, this is bad Now true nas scale seems to be good for docker support. So that's great. I don't know where they're at I have not done any testing with. Um, how good they are for Vms, I'm not sure. Uh, I don't know how stable it is. It's still in beta. So it becomes kind of tricky at that point I have a whole video on st wan if you look at on my, um If you look at the Videos I have on st wan. I talk about it. I don't really give any specific recommendations. So I don't have any go-to company Most of the time people are oversold on st wan failover is fine Because st wan has a recurring cost with it that a lot of people don't want to pay because you have to pay your provider or providers Uh, is is a more better way to put this So you got to pay for internet for two providers And then you got to pay an st wan provider to glue those two devices together There's a few different companies out there I think I mentioned a couple of them, but I I see so many people oversold on it and it was one of those things once you tie your pricing to it Uh, I mean, do you need that absolute seamless failover or can you wait a few seconds for things to roll over to the other connection? So I don't have any direct recommendations, but I do have an explainer video on it I don't use proxmox. So I have no answer for that. That's a j at learning linux tv uh Jay has a video series on proxmox where he talks about using containers Yeah, that's a whole another problem the saturation of wi-fi. Yes Hey, no problem. Oh, yeah that bash the like button I am it's an hour and 35 minutes in I will be winding it down here shortly um Hold on. Let me see. All right. That's running. I got some stuff running in the background. I'm waiting for it to complete um As I do occasionally maybe I'll do a backup video as well. I do occasionally create some immutable backups from time to time. Um Let's see I think I've answered everyone's question. Oh, okay. This one right here Hey, a couple phones and laptops a minute gear gets better speeds, but does not get to the other in the house So I want so she unified for me and this is from what our customers always ask for for our business clients They ask for wi-fi to be reliable before they ask for it to be fast It's almost always like right now. We're doing a series another group We've been doing so many warehouses one after another and the warehouses they don't care about speed they care that the um Tablets that are attached to the high lows and all the scan guns that they have that scan all the boxes and things They're sending kilobits kilobits of data They only care that the data gets there that the data gets there reliably. They don't care about speed It's not even done. It's not even a question that comes up. It's like we need coverage Don't have any dead spots because you they have a bunch of employees running around moving boxes moving pallets And they need to be able to scan them and move them if they have to wait for connectivity They're not scanning and moving stuff. It's really a simple equation at that point Uh, this is why home users always go nuts. I'm trying to get the fastest connection But I already know if you're a gamer you don't want the fastest connection you want If you're playing games, you're gonna hardline it because that's how you solve all the latency and all the potential issues that will come from wi-fi Uh, nope. It's raining too much for bike riding Hey, look you new hardlined everything. So after two years of watching it, you've got all kinds of cath 6. That's awesome Take a look at tp link. Yeah the tp links. I did a video on them Uh for home users, I use them Uh, I don't know where tp link lands on the support or for how long they'll keep supporting the product But it seemed to work which is functional, so Hey, awesome. I'm really glad it was helpful It's kind of funny. Um, one of the people that followed my content from a few years ago is now one of my close friends Um, and works in cyber security. He started by watching a bunch of my content learned a bunch of networking dove into a bunch of topics And uh, now has a career a very good career in cyber security has become a friend of mine He lives really close. He lives in the same city. I live in south gate. So tp link support sucks. Well, so does unify That if there's something tp link was able to do it's copy unify in all the right ways and in all the wrong ways Toilet paper link sure we can go with that Uh, all right. Well, I'm gonna wind this down and do a few other things and maybe make another video today kind of depends on how I feel and uh Go from there Let me think what else I answer all the questions I don't see any more for other questions. So I'm gonna wind it down. I'm gonna go do some Thanksgiving stuff I'm gonna go finish a few things. Maybe I'll get started on these, uh, ups so I can talk about ups isn't reviewing them Get all that done 1500 page for the command line Unified uh, so who has a 1500 page tp link or unify? That's a lot of pages Oh, thank you very much jake. Um, have a good rest of your day 1 15 a.m. Here get some sleep. Yeah Happy Thanksgiving everyone Have a great turkey day. Awesome. Thank you very much. All right I'm gonna wind it down for it goes all the way two hours because you know I do that sometimes but when by the way when it's at my house I can go longer on the live stream So some of you may be excited about this getting done because then I can just do live streams at night I can do live streams during the day. I can do whatever I want and I can I don't have far to go I don't have to worry about oh, I got to get back home for something So that's that's another exciting thing about doing it. So all right. Thank you everyone and chat with you later