So happy that everything’s up and running. Also have a G3 Instant from UniFi which is monitoring the front of the house (Ill have to get a one for the other side too at some point) but the UDM Pro is in and working, 10gig is super duper, and I couldn’t be happier.

I havent speed checked the 10gig properly, because macOS seems to be very hesitant to show you transfer speeds. I can probably iperf to the server but I’m not really bothered. It’s all connected via Fiber on the server, Cat6 to the Mac and everything is noticeably much much faster in normal usage. I could do with an SFP+ card for my gaming PC (not currently being used though so not bothered) and another G3 instant, however given that it was sent from the Czech Republic I’m guessing they’re still really hard to get over here. I wish I’d just stuck two in the basket on UniFi’s website but I just didn’t think at the time.

I admittedly havent got a great deal in the rack at the minute, and that 24 port switch is looking super redundant so Ill consider parting with it and getting something PoE (that’s all Im really missing tbh) but its going to take time to rebuild the finances after splashing it all on a whim! Also the old USP 3G that I was using has now been replaced by the UDM.

Chuffed 🙂

Well I managed it a couple of times, but there’s something off in the config somewhere. I’m only topping out at the max of 1gig and cant get much higher. I’ve NVMEs at both ends, but I’ve just thrown more money at the issue and bought a UDM Pro and some fiber cabling to hopefully start the entire rack again and go from there. If nothing ends up working I’ll keep the UDM and send back the 10gig switch – I dont want to, I really dont want to, it would be really sad to do so but will see how tomorrow goes because 7 straight ours of tinkering yesterday really didnt make much of a difference other than making me hella angry and tired!

I was hosting the controller and Pi-hole and other items on Docker on the unraid, and I had to take docker down every time I wanted to make a network change and didnt want to risk damaging anything software wise as unraid has really been running like a dream just doing it’s own thing in the background.

Pi-hole I’ve got running now on a Raspberry Pi Zero W, and the Unifi controller on a Raspberry Pi 4. Means at least I can keep docker down so long as I’m not too bothered about Plex which I can live without for now.

Fingers crossed tomorrow bears some positive networky fruit.

So purrrttyyyy…. Dead easy to get up and running, I’m still waiting for some SFP+ cables, and an SFP+ PCI card for my server. After that, we should…. should…. be off to the races!

More speed is more better, it’s a proven fact. Ask anyone if they would rather have more or less of something and they’re going to tell you: MORE.

At the minute my rack is as below:

I have a self-built Ryzen 3600 Unraid build, a patch panel, a brush panel (which I’ve really never used), a US-24-G1 gigabit switch, another brush panel, and the USG-3P router. Also is a Phillips Hue that I bought on a whim and used for about 5 minutes. All of this sits in the Startech 25U rack, with a lovely covering of dust and other paraphernalia that gets junked ontop of it when I need to make space in the spare room (please forgive the carpet).

The rack has been like this for over a year now, it’s all working great. However, today is the day!

Just a random Sunday morning post, Ive been using my Windows machine for a bit and thought Id switch back to my Mac Mini (stats above, it also has 10gig built in, take that M1!) and I’ve been using Safari really for everything web based. I installed Firefox, which wasnt too bad, but has never really matched the snappyness of Safari and I thought ‘Okay, well its third party so maybe it’s not as optimised’, but just installed Google Chrome this morning and man, it runs like a total dog.

It’s so heavy! The lag while resizing browser windows is HORRIBLE. I know Chrome is a giant beast of a browser, but it makes me wonder how much of the lag is macOS doing it on purpose to promote Apple’s own brower. Yes, Im a cynical sod, but it’s night and day difference even between Firefox and Safari, but Chrome is a terrible experience IMO.

Again, this isnt anything new, it’s just a real surprise that we’ve come so far and the differences between first party and everything else is so skewed it makes me wonder whether its Google’s fault, or Apple’s.