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An experienced thief will just shut the house power from the power cabinet - that would disable most people's security camera systems, or…

I regretted sitting through it.... it's pretty bad

$66 for 90days is far from a deal.

Fibre coverage looks pretty good on population centres https://www.chorus.co.nz/tools-support/broadband-tools/broadband-map

Can you provide a ref link to $59 for 300/100? I attempted some quick googling but didn't find it

Agree. How do yoú propose to fix NBN?

Most users don't monitor their bandwidth usage patterns so they don't know the lower tier is sufficient For example I know for a fact I can…

Yeah I remember a long time ago their services (think it was for mobile, but I am not sure) will charge a $20 prepaid amount to cover extra…

Thanks for clarifying. I didn't know Claude

Ads makes up a substantial volume of a website. Blocking ads will make everyday browsing a lot smoother

The cheaper broadband is Asia is often associated with high density housing and comes with quality of life setbacks such as air pollution…

The key to get good user experience on low-bandwidth is to enable SQM. Latency-sensitive applications such as gaming and video conferencing…

TPG's billing practices have been dodgy since the beginning of time - steer clear.

did you ask ChatGPT or did you actually compile this? it seems very confident - remember you cannot trust what the Chatbots say

"Anyone signing up for either should ensure they connect before the end of the promotion to avoid any of this out of promotion rubbish."…

I don't believe this is intentionally dodgy but rather incompetent business process engineering - in corporate Australia everyone ensures…

Corporates are dumb like that. Yes I work in corporate Australia too; a different industry though. Corporates are happy to allocate…

Thank you. Getting onto it

Optus is filled with morons. I used to think Optus is pretty average but this time around I've completely changed my mind. I placed the…

Got your point about Wifi 7 is being constrained by the 2.5G port. What's the alternative? 2.5G with PoE is the most accessible PoE at the…

RB5009 PoE has one 2.5G, will suffice for home setting

My workplace switched from Lenovo to HP - sucks big time. But someone in procurement said they save the company lots of $$. So don't worry…

ESXi support used to be important but since the free edition has been deprecated, it's no longer as important. On some firewall software…

The pcie expansion and the NIC being Intel. Intel NIC is a must for ESXi - some people will need this. It also enjoys better reputation in…

Glad you've found one that suit your needs better. The Lenovo has two features that are special and are attractive for some specialised use…

I personally pass on N100 for it's 16GB RAM limit. These machines have so much spare CPU headroom for running homelab apps. Many homelab…

When I say overkill i mean it in a good way. This machine is a good choice. Alternatively consider https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/851751…

Yes the performance of these boxes are very much overkill for the stated use cases. You can expect idle power consumption of around…

Agree, while interesting most simple use cases can be catered for with a simple GbE switch.

This deal would be slightly more expensive than other similarly specced machine because of the presence of pcie expansion options. If you…