I’m same boat and just want to say please come back. Dont leave your kids to the mercy of Microsoft Apple Google. Their learnings from your trials will help them grow. Be a dad, be a dad that helps your kids push past corporate ownership.

We are in talks to build one for a local power utility. These are cheaper for nice-to-have sensors that aren’t critical. Most electricity meters in Victoria use a mesh network provided through silverspring devices to collect usage readings.

I’ve also heard about a rural water utility using a mesh network to connect water meters together to reduce the number of times an onsite reading is required.

Telcos are already trying to compete with mesh networks by providing low bandwidth LTE-M services that are lower cost for utilities. Nokia are pushing 450connect, 450 alliance, etc as more competitors also.

There are plenty of use cases for low bandwidth systems and services. Isolated network is great when the telcos have pages too.

Build a proxmox cluster and teach yourself about high availability services. Tear it down and do it again with xcp-ng. Repeat using more and more complex architectures

First non negative integer so easy for computer to display.

I only really use zero in networking names to correspond with an IPv4 address that ends with dot zero.

I think it’s just what you’re used to. Like counting bottom to top in teleco versus counting top to bottom in IT.

Derek, thanks for giving a great answer. Your answer was an actual answer rather than just saying don’t.

Build your own just for fun. That’s homelab style

You can use emulation to practise. Gns3 or packet tracer are example of visualising networking hardware to play out different ideas. Jeremy’s it lab has plenty of cisco related videos to teach you.

This way you can fuck around without the wife getting angry she lost instagram access again and again and again.

Don’t know of this working this way. The incoming connection needs to connect to a device to find out what the domain was resolved. I think it’s easier to forward different ports to different machines.

Example: domain.com resolves to your IP. Port 80 forwards to web/80 on server 0. Port 180 forwards to web/80 on server 1. Port 280 forwards to web/80 on server 2.

Almost all commodity hardware will support this set up.

all buzz :P

I tore that bandwidth off a while ago. Same thing with trust issues and google.

Since then I set up a family account and use a regular Gmail account for app store purchases so I can change provider at any time. Can share most of my app purchases with family. I don’t actually check the gmail email. Just use it for Android services.