A while back it (finally!) became possible to upgrade my Internet uplink to a FttH connection. 100 years or so ago I angrily promised Ziggo (back then Casema) I would never, ever again become a customer of theirs and I held word..but until the arrival of fiber I was stuck on using a ~115Mbps Internet VDSL+ connection of XS4All/KPN, which actually is not bad at all. Open Dutch Fiber (T-Mobile/Odido) passed my home first but I waited for KPN who were also planning a fiber network. XS4all merged into KPN and because of several reasons I did not want to switch to a different provider. The network stuff used here…
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Replacing a Reolink PoE IP cam cable, pinout
I’m switching from Eufy to Reolink IP/security camera’s. Mainly because of their more than excellent integration in HomeAssistant, my home automation platform of choice. Since I recently also upgraded my home network to Ubiquiti and with that the ability to use PoE I bought my first PoE camera since the idea of running just one, single cable for both network connectivity and power seemed nice. Two other camera’s here at home are WiFi based. Now when I received the camera (a RLC-81MA 4K/8MP dual lens model) I was a bit disappointed when I saw the ugly, bulky and short splitter cable Reolink included and worse: it was not detachable! These…
