This is a blog mostly about techie things, what I am doing to my apartment network on the cheap, IOT, 3D Printing, Raspberry Pis, Arduinos, ESP32, ESP8266, Home Automation, Personal Weather Stations, Things That Go Bump in the Night, and some side issues that need discussing. Remember, sometimes the journey to an end is as much fun as the goal achieved!
Monday, December 21, 2015
Learning BGP - Thinking of adding a number of RPi BGP routers to the network
I have been toying with a way of cross-pollinating the packets on my home network. Right now I am at a quandary on how to allow computers on my Media VLAN to talk to the printer on the Pers VLAN. It is an interesting problem and one that strangely enough has something to do with two projects that I am working on at work. I want to explore how to route information from one network to another given that the subnet on each end of the gateway have the same ip addresses, but yet must remain different. I think the key to this something approaching the BGP protocol perhaps with some gateway translation in the middle. More later.
Thursday, December 10, 2015
CC #7 - Finally settled on a partial solution
I modified the FIOS TV setup - I now have reduced the Extreme package down to the Custom TV package. In addition, I have dumped the FIOS DVR and STB rental for a TiVo Bolt and 2 TiVo Minis. The Bolt serves as the DVR in my setup and the two Minis are able to stream the shows and set the tuners (4 on the Bolt vs. 2 on the FIOS DVR) to stream TV. The entire setup is running on Ethernet (the Media VLAN) through my house. This is actually predicted to run about $70 per month less than my current Verizon bill. I also went from 25/25 to 50/50 on the internet.
Update: I have had a chance to get a couple of bills since I posted this. The difference between what I was paying and what I am paying now amounts to about $80 since my bill was over $200 per month. So I am reasonably happy now with the new setup - and the wife seems to be happy as well. I'm not missing paying the Sports Fee every month.
Update: I have had a chance to get a couple of bills since I posted this. The difference between what I was paying and what I am paying now amounts to about $80 since my bill was over $200 per month. So I am reasonably happy now with the new setup - and the wife seems to be happy as well. I'm not missing paying the Sports Fee every month.
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