187
What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread (slrpnk.net)
submitted 1 week ago by tofuwabohu@slrpnk.net to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
197 comments fedilink hide all child comments

It's Sunday somewhere already so why wait?

Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.

I'll post my ongoing things later/tomorrow but I didn't want to forget the post again.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

My NAS and our desktops are all on WiFi, so I'm planning to run some cable or install moca or something. Our uplink is currently only 100mbit (max for this ISP, I refuse to switch) but our city plans to roll out gigabit everywhere in the next couple years, so I want something forward compatible (powerline will probably be too limiting). SO has been complaining about latency, and I think the WiFi card is to blame, so I'm trying this before upgrading the WiFi card.

Our house has the following:

  • phone lines everywhere (could maybe use the existing cables to fish through cat6?)
  • cable jacks e everywhere (have an unused satellite dish)
  • lots of power plugs
  • two floors (rambler + basemen) with pretty much no shared walls (everything will need to jog a bit)

I'm going to try running some cable tomorrow (holiday in the US, just want a test run from bedroom internet source -> basement water heater room), but if that doesn't work, I'll need a backup plan.

Anyone have experience with any of the above? Tips?

[-] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 6 days ago

Go slow. measure 4 times. most rooms don't need a jack so put APs where it is easy to ge wires and that will feed the other rooms.

[-] tofuwabohu@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

No experience with most of that stuff, but I would also try to avoid powerline. Tried it and had pretty bad performance.

this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
187 points (100.0% liked)

Selfhosted

42767 readers
1302 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

  1. Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.

  2. No spam posting.

  3. Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.

  4. Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).

  6. No trolling.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
ruud@lemmy.world
Loki@lemmy.world
CannaVet@lemmy.world
devve@lemmy.world
HybridSarcasm@lemmy.world
HybridSarcasm@lemmy.hybridsarcasm.xyz