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  • OP’s example use case in the post was with the internet still being up. Building off of that yes, I’d log into the power switch remotely via the internet where I can then power cycle anything plugged into it - for me it was just to restart unresponsive desktops or whatever was plugged into it.

    But you wouldn’t need internet to power cycle the internet router itself by using scheduled tasks. e.g. the power switch can check that the internet router is responding to pings every x seconds/minutes and power cycle it if stops responding. (it has other checks/conditions it can use besides simple pings)

    That said my own equipment rarely/never needs a reboot so in the case my network loses internet access it usually means the internet is actually down, nothing I can do about that aside from maintaining backup internet if I needed.


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    if the primary internet router goes offline but the internet isn’t out (ie a router reboot would fix the problem)

    Maybe you just need to give it a simple power cycle remotely? There are devices that do that sort of thing, I have a Digital Loggers Web Power Switch Pro that I’ve used on-and-off over the years for this purpose.

    https://www.digital-loggers.com/

    At one point I had to relocate for half a year while needing to remote access a slightly unstable desktop that wouldn’t always reboot cleanly and get stuck at the BIOS, it sometimes needed a couple of power cycles to come back online. The Power Switch was perfect for that, I’d log into it remotely and power cycle anything that was plugged into it.

    It should work for routers too e.g. it can automatically power cycle something plugged into it based on different conditions like maybe it stops responding to pings or whatever. Or I guess if you had multiple IPs / multiple internet connections the switch itself can stay online and accessed remotely without needing to schedule anything automatic.

    Pretty sure there are more pro-level (and more expensive) types of devices to do this sort of thing if you look around



  • I have a bit of a dilemma with my DIY NAS rig.

    Does your setup have any way to do noise insulation? I suspect the answer is no but figured I’d throw it out there, surprisingly noise insulation helps more than you’d think. I have a bunch of drives inside a desktop case with insulation panels built in and the drives themselves are in there with rubber anti vibration screws/mounts. Barely ever hear anything from the drives (granted my WD Reds are probably quieter than your current Seagates).

    Just something to think on whether it’s an option for your current NAS rig or a future configuration.





  • Yes that would work fine, you can pretty much run anything inside a VM. So yeah a properly set up VM with internet access + VPN client + anything else you want to install will work.

    Not too sure what the issue is that you are encountering, you’d need to update your post with a lot more info. My suggestion is to start over and make sure the VM is set up correctly e.g. install the OS in the VM, verify it has normal internet access. Then install the VPN client in the VM, verify VPN is working properly. After that qBittorrent or anything else can be installed inside the VM. (probably best to save snapshots of your VM after each step in case you screw up and need to roll back)




  • 4 seeders

    4 seeds means it’s not actually a dead torrent. Slow uploading sure, but not dead. I’d suggest just leaving it alone, if it’s going at 8% per week it should finish on its own in roughly 13 weeks assuming the speeds don’t change much. That’s going to be a while but once you’ve got it you’ll be seed number 5 as long as you keep seeding it on your end.

    If I can find find the exact releases of as many roms as possible in the collection from other singular sources, can I resurrect this torrent by just copy+overwrite into the unfinished folder?

    Sure that may work in theory. Just keep in mind you’d need to find tons of ROM files that are exact bit-by-bit matches of the files in the torrent - otherwise overwriting mismatched data into your currently downloading torrent would make things slower for you since you’d now have to re-download that data to get back to 8% or whatever.

    EDIT: Looks like you lucked out, congrats seed #5 :)



  • The WD sales are decent if you’re buying new so if you’re feeling like it’s time for a purchase this might be worth it for you.

    I did the same earlier this year though in my case I tend to buy the current gen large capacity WD Reds & stick with them for a few years at least. When their 24 TB / 26 TB drives went on sale they actually were cheaper than what Newegg / Amazon had done with their own sales up to then so for me it was worth it.

    The other thing to keep in mind, if you’re in the U.S., the whole tariff situation isn’t going to make this stuff any cheaper in the future.





  • All the loaded torrents in a torrent client already get stored somewhere in the torrent client’s own settings folders. e.g. if you look in qBittorrent’s settings folders you’ll find a folder full of .torrent files representing every single torrent currently in the torrent client.

    So if it’s a torrent I’m going to leave loaded in the torrent client then no, there’s no reason to save a second copy of the .torrent file. But I guess if it’s a torrent I’m not going to load in the torrent client, or will remove it from there, then maybe it’s worth saving depending how you do things.

    I’m undecided. I figure if I save them and back them up to an offline/offsite device, then I can (mostly/hopefully) recover from hardware failure by simply re-adding all the torrent files to my favorite client.

    It would be better just to back up your entire torrent client settings folders, you’ll save all the .torrent files along with the save folders and other information you have in the torrent client.


  • Nope, I prefer being able to run my own network router, open/close my own ports, block ads on the network, hopefully get as much bandwidth as I can, etc. so it’s usually better for me to subscribe to my own internet.

    … But since you bring it up, coincidentally I currently live on a street with shops/restaurants on the main floor under me. And all their wifi networks are visible from my apartment… so technically yeah, if I go through the trouble of collecting all their wifi passwords I could just hang out on their networks for free internet. Internet probably wouldn’t be great and not very private without a VPN but for free web browsing it should work.