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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • I had a Netgear nighthawk r7800 with ddwrt, which finally crapped out. I went with the TP-link Deco Mesh router as a replacement, and so far it’s working better than the ddwrt router. There are versions with Wi-Fi 6, but i went with the “3 stations for ~$120” and haven’t had any problems with speed, since tht bottlenecks are usually external/cable modem related anyway.

    My biggest selling point for the tp-link, it’s much easier to set a local dns, with a fallback to 1.1.1.1, something i could never get to work on ddwrt. So whenever my Jellyfin transcodes bring the Pihole to a screeching halt, it will at least fallback to external dns and not take the whole network with it.

    I can also have a base module Ethernet connected to my pc in the office, another hooked up to the cable modem and zimaboard in the livingroom, and eventually, a raspi with a couple of low resource containers (pihole, home assistant, nginx). My goal is to hardwire as many things as i can for speed/signal noise purposes.


  • Glad i could help! My autism is finally helping someone at least.

    I’m using a Netgear r7800 with ddwrt, with hopes to eventually move dhcp handling over to the Zima Board.

    You’ve got me thinking about media streaming though, Zima uses the Intel quick sync for transcoding, so that might also have something to do with it. I eventually want to move to dedicated hardware for streaming, with some stronger hardware/software like an NVIDIA based solution. I do have an old graphics card kicking around, but i haven’t played with the pcie slot yet, so I’m not sure if that even a non starter?

    I’m going to look into it more, since i don’t need 4k, but would be nice to have.


  • I’ve been using a Zima Board for my home network. I have the mid-range, 4Gb memory, 32GB onboard. It’s got two SATA ports, dual gigabit Ethernet, an Intel processor and PCI express port that I’m eventually going to use to run an old wifi card so i can isolate my IOT devices on a dedicated wifi network.

    The only problem i have with it is RAM and transcoding. I have 22 containers running things from the “arr” suite (Prowlarr, Radarr, Readarr, ect), pihole, Jellyfin, Home Assistant, etc. I stay around 80% memory usage, so i should have gotten the 8GB. And forget about trying to transcode Blu-ray rips, which most of my devices can’t stream natively, so transcode is the only option. The audio stutters and playback pauses every ten seconds or so. I don’t have a problem streaming the file through samba, it just doesn’t have the “omph” that it needs for hardware transcoding of Blu-ray.

    All that being said, i would get another one over the Raspi. Case/heatsink built in, SATA, PCI-E, dual gigabit, everything i need for a basic server.