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Re: Cat6 building to building? - 7 years ago

Quotespace-time Folks, if he has power lines going from the main building to his shed, the simplest solution is power line adapter, you can buy a 500 Mbps rated pair and should achieve 100 or more Mbps. There is no need to run additional cables. I have power gong to shed but it is a large service feed that feeds a 100 amp panel in the shed. When I built the building I buried 2 empty 1-1/2&qu

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Re: Cat6 building to building? - 7 years ago

QuoteN-OS X-tasy! You can't terminate a fiber for "a Cat 6 connection" - Cat 6 is copper cable, not fiber. I realize that but there must me some box to terminate the fiber in and then change to cat 6? gg

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Re: Cat6 building to building? - 7 years ago

QuoteFilliam H. Muffman If you are willing to spend the money, run fiber optic and you won't have the problems with grounding and lightning. How much are we talking here to pull a fiber run of 125' through installed conduit and terminated on both ends for cat6 connection? gg

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Cat6 building to building? - 7 years ago

Moving forward with extending my network to my extra garage that is less than 200' from my cat6 patch panel in my house. I have 1-1/2" electrical conduit buried connecting the buildings. What cat6 cable do I need underground? outdoor, regular? Do I need lightning suppression with cable in conduit? Both ends? Gigabit available? gg

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Re: Recommendations for IP cameras for monitoring home perimeter - 7 years ago

QuoteRobert M Goose, A surveillance system seems pointless if it won't be running 24/7. This leads to the key question... If you're going to go with a Mac based configuration, do you have a machine with lots of storage you can leave running 24/7 as the "home" of your surveillance system? Robert I have a Macbook that I could use an external drive, not sure if that would be good e

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Re: Recommendations for IP cameras for monitoring home perimeter - 7 years ago

Ok this is going to take a lot more research. Distance between my buildings is 110' so any vehicle parked in front of my attached garage would be maybe 90' to from the camera to the vehicle. Patio doors could be covered from inside and would probably be easier install. gg

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Re: Recommendations for IP cameras for monitoring home perimeter - 7 years ago

I will check security spy. I live in a rural area and do have a security system but it would be nice to have a camera on my out building pointed towards my house. It would cover the driveway and anyone that pulls in. POE not need here, I can power it easily. It would also be nice to have a outdoor camera covering my two patio doors. Indoor camera would be nice in my boiler room to keep an e

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Recommendations for IP cameras for monitoring home perimeter - 7 years ago

I am looking for some good IP cameras that are easy to set up and can be monitored from iPhones and macs. I would like them to be able to record to a drive on the network. I can use hardwired, and think I might prefer that. Need a few outdoor to put in the gables and a few indoor. Would like to get email or text alerts if motion is detected on some of the cameras. Any suggestions?

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Re: No video on MBA after stepping on screen - repair covered by Applecare? - 7 years ago

It really depends on who helps you. A few years ago my daughter cracked her screen on her macbook pro. It was out of warranty by two weeks and she did not have applecare. The tech checked it over and said it is normally a $475 dollar repair but you have never had it in for anything. We will fix it for free. Thanks Apple! gg

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Re: Great BBall Game! (No spoilers) - 7 years ago

QuoteKraniac Badgers got taken out by smart fouls at the beginning of the skinny minute..pretty much shut em down and gottem behind the eight ball, mentally...Looked to me like Winslow touched that basketball..if you're gonna review it you have to go the distance..clearly his finger hit it. There is no way Winslow wasn't the last touch. Tv replay clearly showed it, I am sure the ref's have the

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Re: Lucas Oil Stadium fills with tears... - 7 years ago

Go Badgers!!!!!! gg

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Re: Ultra-thin Macbook 2015 as fast as 2011 Macbook Air? - 7 years ago

Quotesilvarios Oh, you bought the MBA, not the new MacBook. Totally misread your post. No, great deal. Sorry. Stupid me. Hey no problem, I was hoping you had a line on some cheaper and faster Macbook airs than my $500. I was hoping the $500 ones would reappear in the refurb store but no such luck. gg

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Re: Ultra-thin Macbook 2015 as fast as 2011 Macbook Air? - 7 years ago

Yeah, I looked at those and they had a few open box 13" for $750 to $810. But I wanted something a little cheaper for my daughter to use for about a year. Its funny how easy it is to keep getting tempted into moving up a little. I started out looking for $300-$400 macbook pro. gg

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Re: Ultra-thin Macbook 2015 as fast as 2011 Macbook Air? - 7 years ago

Quotesilvarios Quotegoosegunner Quotejdc Id say they are better than OK? Im sure that if we asked an owner of a 2011 MBA with an i7 how it runs -- I bet they say great? Just bought one today for my daughter to do some school work on light use. Seems pretty nice so far. gg Why not a faster and cheaper MacBook Air? Fast and cheaper than a 2011 Macbook Air? Which one is that? I pai

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Re: Ultra-thin Macbook 2015 as fast as 2011 Macbook Air? - 7 years ago

Quotejdc Id say they are better than OK? Im sure that if we asked an owner of a 2011 MBA with an i7 how it runs -- I bet they say great? Just bought one today for my daughter to do some school work on light use. Seems pretty nice so far. gg

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Re: Macbook Air deals? - 7 years ago

So how do the older macbook pro 13" like 2009 or 2010 compare to a newer Macbook air 2011 or 2012 speed wise? Yesterday at the apple store I tried the new air vs a new 13" macbook pro and there was a noticeable difference in just loading the same web page. gg

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Re: What to do with a 2008 Macbook 2.1 use for internet or no? - 7 years ago

I was mistaken it is a 120 gig drive, It is the early 2008 macbook. So yes it is stuck with Lion for the highest OS. gg

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What to do with a 2008 Macbook 2.1 use for internet or no? - 7 years ago

I have a nice condition 2008 macbook 2.1 ghz. 2 gig, 160 gig. The max OS is 10.7.5. I read somewhere on the board that being 10.7.5 is no longer being supported you should be careful about using on the internet. Is there truth to that? Trying to decide if I should add any ram or swap drive to use as a basic internet appliance. gg

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Macbook Air deals? - 7 years ago

I found a 13" 2011 macbook air with 4gig 128 gig for $525. Are they sufficient to run Yosemite with Just basic use? Any deals out there for newer better? What are the cheapest refurbs popping up at now? gg

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Re: Used macbook or macbook air for daughter - 7 years ago

QuoteBill in NC "They use some sort of Google documents to do and store work. " Then why bother with a Macbook? At our high school they're issuing Chromebooks in the fall since everything is to be done online via Google. Not really sure other than we have had really good luck with Macbook pros that we have had. Plus the whole apple ecosystem with iCloud and iPhones. I can loo

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Used macbook or macbook air for daughter - 7 years ago

I am looking for a used macbook or macbook air for my daughter to use at her high school. She has a few online classes and it would be helpful to have a computer at school. I would like it to at least run Mavericks, preferably Yosemite. They use some sort of Google documents to do and store work. I have found a few mid 2009 MacBooks for around $300. One is $375 with 8 gig ram and 500. It se

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Re: Smart Phones and Plans--Words of Wisdom From the Forum - 8 years ago

QuoteBlack Quotejh Questioned my wife on the 500 gigs when I first heard her say that. Probably 500 megs. If that the case then not a good deal in my opinion. Misses says we pay $80 a month. We have had the plan for a long time. Coverage in my city and area of the city is good for all of the major carriers. When my school district had Sprint the coverage was not very good on my work

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Apple ebay site? - 8 years ago

What is the name or link to the Apple ebay site that has been posted in the past? gg

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Re: Extend my wifi, another WRT54G or newer? - 8 years ago

Thanks for the info. Not sure what I should do, found a 2009 airport extreme with 2 airport express on craigslist. Would be a lot easier to set up. Not sure about reliability though. gg

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Extend my wifi, another WRT54G or newer? - 8 years ago

I live in a rural area with DSL of 6meg down. I would like to extend my wifi network. I currently have a Wrt54g that is running dd-wrt. It has been stable with virtually no problems. I think I may have had to power it off and back on maybe once or twice in 5 years. I am thinking about just grabbing another one, a version 2 for $10 and putting it on our main level to cover that and also hit t

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Re: Home improvement: Any situations where it makes sense to rip out drywall and re-insulate/seal? - 8 years ago

We were very involved with building our house in 1997. Finished square feet of 2850. The drywall job alone on new construction was $10,000. I would guess you would never get your money back. gg

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Re: iPhoto how to manage multiple years on different drives - 8 years ago

Thanks for the input so far! My problem is old photos on drives that are external and different versions of iPhoto. I did update one today and started going through some of the pictures. I want to get to the point where I have a slimmed down version on our Macbook pro so it doesn't run iPhoto slowly when we do want to use it. gg

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iPhoto how to manage multiple years on different drives - 8 years ago

I really need to do something different with our digital photos. I have multiple years going back to 2002 on a couple of different hard drives. I would like to archive them some how yet have them available in the future. I am thinking I should really go through them and eliminate all but the best and then put them on disks or drive or something. I would also like to have access to them on

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Re: 2009 Macbook pro 2.26? Best OS? - 8 years ago

Quotejdc Quotegoosegunner It actually has a 250gig drive and I have only 80gig free. gg Like Robert mentioned, its different for everyone. I don't keep my iPhoto (100+ GB) or my iTunes (120+ GB) on my SSD. I have the luxury of a second 1 TB HDD in my machine. Selfies aren't eating up as much space as you might think? Front camera photos are only about 300K, so even a thousand of selfies is

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Re: 2009 Macbook pro 2.26? Best OS? - 8 years ago

QuoteRobert M Goose, Minimum size for the OS and minimum size for what you need on your system are the same. I've found a 32 gigs is adequate for the OS, a few apps and a bunch of installers. I know people have posted saying they've made barebones boot disks with less storage but, in my experience, less than 32 gigs doesn't cut it. See my posts about turning flash drives into emergency boot dr

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