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On 06/11/2021 00:19, Dale wrote: |
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> Howdy all, |
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> They think we should be connected in a few months. Cables comes first |
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> then they set up the control boxes etc etc. I'm going with a package |
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> that will be about 300 times faster and only cost about $10 a month more |
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> than my wimpy DSL. Oh crap. I need to expand my hard drive space |
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> again. Glad I use LVM. LOL I thought I had another year to deal with |
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> that too. |
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Sounds a bit like me :-) A couple of months back my existing broadband |
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deal expired, and they offered me a new deal - FTTP no less - for less |
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than I was then paying! (Admittedly ADSL was giving me 17Mb realised ...) |
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Only problem was a screw-up over the router - the fibre was terminated |
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at an RJ45 in my house, but apparently needed a dedicated wan port on |
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the router - you can't plug it into a standard port - so I was without |
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internet until they sorted out a new router for me. |
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> Thoughts on that card? Work fine? |
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Do you really need 1Gbit? I know you've ordered a new card, but I would |
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have stuck with the onboard 1Gb, or the old 100Mb card. Or do you just |
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want the latest and greatest go-faster kit :-) |
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Likewise your disk drive. What have you ordered? CMR? If you've got an |
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SMR drive be VERY careful moving stuff across, it's quite likely to barf |
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under the load. Dunno how easy it is to do, but your best bet is to |
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heavily throttle the throughput to give the drive the chance to do its |
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housekeeping. Or google for what sort of kernel timeouts you need to |
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keep the system from thinking that the drive has failed. |
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I'd probably boot a rescue disk and just dd the partitions across. At |
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least then if it barfs, you haven't lost your original. |
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Cheers, |
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