Stijn!!

[flipper35]

Enjoy it while you can!

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, Jim, you need to get out of there, and back into your garage working on the Datsun!

[RKDinOKC]

Guy at work went on a Carnival cruise this past week and the boat he was on hit another Carnival cruise ship today.
Think they were letting him drive?

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Yea, Jim, you need to get out of there, and back into your garage working on the Datsun!

Soon, although I’m not feeling like I should be in any hurry. Aloha.

[RKDinOKC]

Remember, you can get Spam at home too.

[Jim Richards]

Mmmmm, SPAM.

[GH85Carrera]

When we lived in Hawaii like all locals we knew the good less expensive restaurants and stayed away from the tourists traps unless we had out of town guests that wanted to see the famous landmarks.

We were told about a local Asian food place that was inexpensive. Mom and Dad liked that because filling up two active teenage boys is almost impossible. Our parents would just shake their heads at the pile of food we snarfed down, and we were both skinny guys. I was 6 foot tall and 140 pounds and could not gain weight. I did solve that issue eventually and I think all those calories were stored in the future, and now they show up. I wish I could will them to some starving kid somewhere cause I don't need them at all.

[GH85Carrera]

As I was setting up my new computer, I download the Airport Utility for my router so I would be able to change any settings in the future. Of course the old settings in the router are not read, it just wants to start over like a first time setup. Sigh.

So I figured it was a good time to change my Wifi name to my company's initials. And I set up a guest network with a easy password for the folks that visit.

One of the things that changed was my Ooma telephone system. It uses WiFi to connect, and it was lost. So I try to configure that. With the old computer handy, I plugged in the Cat6 cable right from the computer to the Ooma telco box, and it was still seeing the old network, and did not see any new networks. Just delete the old network, and scan for networks. Dang there are lots of wireless networks in my neighborhood now. Of course I just added a guest network, and while I was at it a 5GHz band network that maybe will be free of some of the potential interference of the other networks.

[RKDinOKC]

Have a wifi fence between my neighborhood and the one behind me. Something about power cables both on poles, and undergroud in my neighborhood and underground in the neighborhood behind me.

It's interesting.
Can walk around with iStumbler on my laptop and it finds all of my neighborhood wifi but none of the neighborhood behind. Walk thru the gate to the other neighborhood and all my wifi disappear and all the neighborhood wifi behind me appears.

Was trying to connect my wifi and my brother's wifi 2 houses away. The only way I could punch through that wifi fence was to get some 5 watt radios and yagi directional antenna. And then it still wasn't very dependable. I could go 6 houses in any direction except the direction across that wifi fence.

Now there is interference from so many home networks can only get good wifi inside my house.

At my brother's he had a specific place tp put his router and unfortuantly his TV is next to a fireplace on the opposite side as the router. Had to put a wifi bridge router that line of sight to the router, and the TV for the TV to see the network.

Put wifi in my nephews new big home. It was new construction with those metal studs instead of wood. Had to put in a base and 3 wired bridge routers to be able to get any speed more than two rooms from the hot spots.

[GH85Carrera]

My router is on top of the desk's back board and storage area. It is 7 feet in the air, and I can get weak but usable WiFi in the garage for the iPad I use to play Pandora.

My new monster size computer has WiFi built in. That was handy as I first set it up to not have to string a Cat6 cable over to it. Now I just plug it into the Cat6 cable. I need to explore if there is any benefit to bridge the WiFI a Cat6 into one network. I don't even know if that is possible.

[RKDinOKC]

Office 365 has this online mobile device management server called Intune. It has been updated so it can manage all devices, apps, and files like Active Directory. My boss told me this week that he wants me to take charge of Intune and put everything we have one it so we can get rid off all our local servers including Active Directory.

[RKDinOKC]

I've setup both wired and wireless bridges. Wired of course works best. Wireless made a better connection (signal strength) and was a little faster. The bridge router right next to the computer would talk to the main router faster than without. But not as fast as the wired bridge.

It is not hard to setup. Just tell the bridge router it is extending a network and put in the name and password of the network.

Used my old base routers when got a new main router.

My next new router will have an option for VPN to hide my wifi.

[RKDinOKC]

Got the old fridge to maintain 44° in the fridge and -10 in the freezer. Not very cold for the fridge, but cool enough to keep my insulin from going bad so I can find a new fridge at my leisure.

Thinking about going French...doors. And no outside water or ice despenser.

[Jim Richards]

That’s what my wife wanted. Now that she has it, she doesn’t like it.

[RKDinOKC]

What does she not like? The freezer on the bottom or the french doors?
They are a little cheaper with the freezer on the bottom and one door on top.

[Jim Richards]

The French doors.

[RKDinOKC]

Ah, easier to open just one door. Specially if opening, grabbing sumpthin, and closing as ya walk off wid it.

To not have the french doors, you lose the bottom freezer to get a standard 36in width,

[GH85Carrera]

My parents had a fridge with the freezer on the bottom. I always thought it was a pain in the back to look in the freezer to get something out. Our fridge is the freezer on top. Just the veggies and stuff is in the bottom in the crisper drawers. I like that better.

We just got to load up the fridge after a trip to the grocery store. Golly what fun. At least now we will not starve to death anytime soon.

[RKDinOKC]

Interesting.

Single doors with freezer on top and on bottom are both 32-2/3 wide. The freezer on bottom is a little taller and has more capacity in both fridge and freezer.

French door model is 36 width, and taller than the bottom freezer single door. It has more freezer capacity but same fridge capacity as freezer on bottom single door. French door is counter depth.

The freezers on bottom have pull out shelves in the freezer area. Freezer on bottom are not big drawers that would hold the cold like they used to be.

The french door model is $500 more expensive. The other two are about the same price.

[Jim Richards]

Back on the mainland. It’s colder here. 🤔