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Yup, bought a bunch of TP-Link mesh towers. Turns out that they take down the whole WiFi when the main node looses internet connection. That’s just not acceptable, I might have an unstable internet connection but still want access to my local devices, such as my streaming server or router.

On that node, does anyone know of a brand of mesh towers that can survive unstable/no internet connections and don’t use custom firmware? DD-WRT works just fine, but I’m not gonna flash custom firmware onto friends’ devices.

And so it was confirmed. @wewbull@feddit.uk was no real person, and neither was I. Trapped eternally as fragments of @glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz’ imagination.

Imma use this as world map for my next Pen&Paper campaign.

Plastic gotta be this age’s lead/quicksilver.

Go tell 'em! Why have alternatives if we can just put all our eggs in one, holey, basket?

Found the answer in the parent thread, thank you @Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club:

That’s a mention, not a tag. A tag is a private description you save about a user. Only apps have this fearure.

It’s a little weird that they took a well established term (in social media context: tag, id by which to mention a user, also known as ‘tagging’) and gave it a wholly different meaning (tag: label).

This is what we are talking about, right? Tagging others?

But the other comments seem to be talking about some kind of labelling. Did Lemmy add a new feature that I’m unaware of?

I returned them. And I did indeed get the name wrong as they are a series of WiFi mesh towers named ‘Deco X20’ and not ‘Deca’.

I do already use DD-WRT in my home network, but these were meant to provide a network-on-a-budget out in the field, aka. a stand-in for professional solutions which other people should be able to set up too, so I wanted to modify them as little as possible.

WiFi extenders do technically fit my requirements (and I’ve got them working mostly successful), but, as far as I’m aware, mesh is specifically made for the purpose of having a seamless WiFi device transfer from one tower to another, and where one can form a circle or “spiderweb” pattern with the signal taking the best (distance/speed/reliability) route back to the router - which is what I need.

Ubiquity seems to have gained traction lately, so I’ll throw them an E-Mail whether their devices are too smart to be usable too.

Yeah, I even wrote TP-Link an E-mail about this, but they wrote back that that was just how the device worked, that they could not recommend any of their mesh solutions which could provide a stable WiFi connection even without internet, and that they obviously couldn’t recommend any devices from competitors.

My image of TP-Link might have taken a hit as result as I believed this to be a fundamental and implied feature.

I’m also looking for a good WiFi mesh, preferably one that can be used with IoT devices (aka. Even without an internet connection).

I tried TP-Link Deca, but the mesh refuses LAN communication if the router doesn’t have a constant and stable connection to the internet - A feature I previously believed to be given - making it unusable for IoT and for providing WiFi at remote locations.

As a scandi Iv’e been leaning more into ‘enginks’ - close to ‘engangs’ and french kinks.

Is that in relation to DHT? Never got quite into it, but if you’re using a tracker then I’d imagine the tracker would handle the peer2peer reverse NAT problem.

Or slightly different:

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Thank you for the correction.

I think genAI would be pretty neat for bit banging tests fuzzing, aka. Throwing semi-random requests and/or signals at some device in the hopes of finding obscure edge-cases or security holes.

I somehow remember that it didn’t fit last I tried it, but playing around with the demo, it feels like it’s fills all the holes.

Thank you, I’ll try setting it up and see how it goes.

Hmmm, seems much the same as catbox, except that you need a click more to get the image link but gives you more options in return.

What I’m really interested in would be a (preferably) self hosted solution which allows one to share either single images or albums with visible (but non-obscuring) labels, and where one can easily flip through images in an album. Also needs batch upload (can be by FTP, the method doesn’t matter much). I’ve tried Pixelfed half a year ago, and while I really wanted to like it, it didn’t really have proper albums and labels at the time.

Hosts like Postimages and Catbox are fine, I guess, much like Discord is “fine, I guess”, but I don’t want to spam the host by uploading an image 50 times for 50 different posts, and no way that I’m gonna check all previously uploaded images whether I’ve already uploaded the one I need.

Thank you, and it absolutely is, but I’m lazy and haven’t yet found a proper solution for hosting images.

I sometimes host smaller images like the above on Catbox, but Imgur, Catbox, and other similar sites feel just as clunky and unfit as Discord. At least to me.