XPost: sci.electronics.repair, alt.home.repair
From: _arlen.george@halder.edu
On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 15:41:08 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
>>Decided to send this before PG&E shuts off the power, which is scheduled to
>>go off for a few days in an hour or so (as far as PG&E has explained it).
>>(California has 3rd-world power reliability at the top of 1st-world costs!)
>
> I just spend the morning charging every rechargeable battery that I
> could find in my house and car. I had no idea I had that many
> batteries and chargers. Where did they call come from?
Hi Jeff,
I know what you mean about getting ready for the PG&E outage today!
Up here, we all have generators, because our power goes off on average once
a month for a day or two each time (I could email you the PG&E-supplied
accurate spreadsheet of just the last 30 sustained power outages, for
example, which I provided to the CPUC to show how PG&E provides unreliable
power at top-tier prices).
Unfortunately, the Santa Cruz Costco is out of those great gas cans!
Luckily, at Costco in Santa Cruz by 17 & 1, the batteries are currently on
sale as are the flashlights (and BR30 LED bulbs for a dollar a bulb:
Where I always have to get the 2,700 degrees for the wife, and the 5,000
degree BR30 bulbs for me.
But where I then can't mix & match in the house, since they're different:
Cost of LED Bulbs = $11.94 (plus CA sales tax of $8.32)
which, of course, is imputed on the original price, but which accounts for
a whoppingly huge 70% of the actual sales price at the register)
BTW, I measured the $6 3-pound cooked chicken since I was stocking up
where I separated the hot gristle and weighted it separately:
From the hot meat with no bones and none of the sugar/salt solution:
Where the gristle was about 1-3/4 pounds of the advertised 3 pounds
And the meat turned out to be just under 3 pounds of the 3 pound weight
>>Given this thread is a public potluck of useful sharing, what I would love
>>is if Jeff and/or Johann could help shed a summary of light on the various
>>"options" that are available to mere homeowners, who have Ubiquiti radios.
>
> Pass. I'm not a salesman and really don't care what users do with
> their computers and equipment. I'm just the guy that makes them work,
> or explains to them how they work so they can make them work without
> my involvement.
Fair enough.
I like to explain things, to people who care to learn, and I love even more
being able to do stuff that people don't normally do (such as what these
radios allow for).
I admit I'm terrible at dealing with the trolls though, as it's
inconceivable to me that these people have zero purposefully helpful intent
in everything they do.
> I also avoid recommending anything that I haven't
> personally broken, errr... tested, because of the large number of
> surprises I find, and lies in the data sheets.
Yup. I understand. I still remember you wrote the best description on all
of Usenet for the lies that router sales pitches spew, particularly about
the "power" figures, where that's where I learned only the FCC knows for
sure. :)
> That means I don't
> know anything about the various "options" available to those who don't
> know what they want. See a salesman or system integrator for details
> on those.
>
> Unfortunately, I've played with everything you've mentioned, so you'll
> get the benefits of my wisdom and sarcasm.
Understood. And accepted.
There are so many options to these radios that I don't even know all the
things they can do for us, where I mostly use them for three things:
1. Point to multipoint (instantly adding an access point to "an RJ45")
2. Point to multipoint (instantly bridging Ethernet to WiFi networks)
3. Point to point (for longer LOS hauls, where mine is 6 miles only)
But there's a LOT more we can do with these radios (e.g., they're routers
too, and they are repeaters also, etc.).
>>For example, we haven't covered the free mobile device available debuggers:
>>
>
> Kinda looks like a variation on the original (and still best) Wi-Fi
> Analyzer Android app:
>
Yup. You and I went over these apps in gory detail a few years ago.
Where I'm glad you care about your credibility, as I do, and where you
listed the unique name for the WiFi Analyzer app you like, as I have, oh,
let me check, give me a second ... ok... I have 6 apps alone named exactly
that (i.e., "WiFi Analyzer") on my Android phone at this very minute:
o Wifi Analyser
o Wifi Analyzer
o Wifi Analyzer
o WiFi Analyzer
o WiFi Analyzer
o WiFi Analyzer
And yet, on iOS, there are zero. Sigh. The iPhone users don't even realize
how utterly primitive the app choices are on their beloved platform.
I test software like you test hardware, so I know them all.
I just wish my iOS iPads could have this kind of modern functionality.
Sigh.
(What's odd is that the Apple Apologists incessantly claim the
functionality exists, and they even did a Youtube video condemning me
because I proved they simply fabricated imaginary iOS functionality, as
they always seem to do - which is really odd for adults to try to pull).
o It's a fact iOS devices can't even graph Wi-Fi signal strength over time
Here's the video Snit did about me, where it's hilarious that none of the
Apple Apologists ever even _once_ looked at the Y axis!
>>Where, as far as I know, there's nothing like these tools on iOS (sadly):
>>
>>(I wish such modern app functionality existed on iOS, so if anyone out
>>there knows iOS better than I do, please let me know where to get it).
>
> In the words of the late great Steve Jobs, "You don't need to know".
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