u/thebatfink — reddlx

Own router and static IP, won't assign over DCHP

This has been driving me crazy all afternoon. I have a static IP on my account. I assign my Asus to automatic IP and I've tried leaving it connected and powered on for an hour, powering everything off for an hour, powering off just the ont for an hour, just disconnecting the wan cable and leaving everything powered for an hour.. everything always leads to WAN being assigned a 100.x.x.x IP (my static IP is 154.x.x.x) with no internet access.

I've tried cloning my hub pro mac and doing the same dance above but in this scenario it never gets assigned an IP, it just constantly says ISP DCHP doesn't function correctly. I plug the hub pro back in after like 6 hours of messing around and that immediately connects up fine.

I tried contacting support via chat and asking to have the mac lease released or assign my routers mac to the static IP and in true youfibre fashion he just tells me 'I can't configure your router from our side' then proceeds to ignore me for the next 3 hours.

I'm about at my wits end, especially as the mac cloning is bizarrely not working for some reason. Any ideas?

Edit: I had another go just disconnecting the router and leaving the ont unconnected but powered, left it longer this time nearly 3 hours to be totally sure. Quickly power cycled it after the 3 hours then connected my router. Now it got assigned the IP correctly. Maybe had not left it long enough the previous times.

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u/thebatfink — 5 days ago

▲ 1 r/Ring

Solar charger issues (suddenly went really bad)

In February I brought Battery Video Doorbell Pro + Solar Charger (2nd Gen) to replace an aging Ring doorbell that was battery only and always needing charging, I guess the unit got old, the batteries worn etc. is was quite a few years old so I expected the degradation. I read lots of reviews which people, even like me in the UK had found that the solar charger was maintaining their battery even in the more challenging months of the UK climate.

Background. The unit was installed February and not physically touched since. Nothing outside has changed, nothing inside. Internet is the same, router is the same, it hasn't been moved or had any configuration changed in this time. The house is like 10 degrees off south facing. I do check to wipe it if it looks dirty but honestly I've only done this like once in all the time I've had it and right now it looks pristine. Right now I've even totally disabled motion detection to try reduce usage and everything is set at default frequencies, but it isn't appearing to help. I've also tried rebooting the camera.

I have Home Assistant so I am able to track this devices battery through the web api. I see from February through July 1st that the charger was keeping the battery at between 85% and 90% steady and routinely taking it back up to 100% on given days. I thought it was great. Here is the chart: [IMG-2273.jpg](https://postimg.cc/14tPH3Xn)

But now on July 2nd, it just goes to pot. Heres a second chart for this month: [IMG-2272.jpg](https://postimg.cc/XGqhwX8t)
You'll see that from this date to July 10/11, the battery level just steadily declined to 35%. For the next 7 days it seemed to slowly get itself up 15% to 50% but over the next 3 days it steadily drops again, this time to below 30%. Over the past 3 days its only been able to get back to 35%.

June and July have been like record days for weather here, as in many countries. I don't even remember the last time it rained. Its sunny and glorious so I would expect this to be the best time solar will ever have.. yet here I am. If it can maintain the battery in UK winter and Spring, as shown in the history images above), but in the best weather we've had in years, it's dying to the point I need to charge it in just 3 weeks, whats happening? Thoughts?

u/thebatfink — 29 days ago

▲ 3 r/Corsair

RMA'd some memory but got sent back and incorrectly labelled replacement. Anyone else?

I had a 64gb (2 x 32gb sticks) DDR4 SODIMMS die on me after a couple of years. I use them in a NUC. Hundreds of errors in memtest after just a few minutes. I was worried given the availability of and more importantly the cost of replacing it. But support pretty painlessly replaced it via RMA (2008978005) and 7 days after sending my failing RAM out I had a replacement kit sent from Taiwan.

It all looked fine, retail packaged looking like new, although I assume RMA replacements are mostly refurbished items like most places. But a new 2 x 32gb kit, box labelled up and the stickers on the ram like new..

But when I installed them I found that despite the stickers, these were actually 2 x 16gb sticks. Bios reports them as 16gb. I tried them in a second NUC (although I am not sure really why I was trying to validate it) but definitely 16gb sticks.

I replied to my RMA ticket to reopen it but it's been a couple days (I guess they don't work the weekend) so still waiting. Quite how such a thing happens I have no clue, seems bizarre. I guess I am curious if anyone has ever experienced anything like this and did they resolve it? Thanks.

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u/thebatfink — 3 months ago