My battery bank has several mm of metal for the casing.
I promise it makes a difference. I've dropped it several times and the things it was dropped onto took more damage than the power bank did.
Dunno what cheap ass shit other people are buying...... Clearly stuff that can be penetrated by a dog gnawing on it.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Who are they blaming? The cheap watch maker, that everyone knows makes cheap watches and shouldn't be surprised at all that the watches that they made are cheap?
Gasp what horrible company would try to sabotage the president like that?
(/s ... in case it wasn't obvious)
This is why I don't think the plastic portable power Bank things shouldn't exist.
Mine is made of metal. I also don't have a dog, and I don't leave my power Bank where a dog would find it. So I'm triple safe? I suppose.
Oh. I have no doubt that a lot of people are vulnerable to the exploit, but I'm entertained by the fact that you can stop the exploit by simply removing a chat app.
Lol. It relies on WhatsApp.
Depends on the type of fiber and all that. It can be insanely complex.
But this is possible, yes.
You are the subset of people who happen to be in a situation where they're working as they should. I'm going to guess that you're not in North America, and live somewhere with 240v power outlets.
In any country that uses 120v, usually it's split phase power, and if your powerline adapters are sharing a phase with something that's inductive or crossing the split in the phase, generally they're going to be rubbish. So you basically need a degree in electrical engineering to figure out what circuits are on what side of the split phase, and what is on each circuit that may be an inductive load, and could interfere, just for them to perform like they should.
There's a whole lot more to it, and I'm simplifying a lot here, but that's the overview of the problem.
With UK power circuits, there are fewer breakers and everything is fed from a single phase of 240v. That makes it much more likely that you'll have a good experience with powerline. Just have to avoid the circuit with stuff like your air conditioner (if you have one) and stuff like the fridge, and generally you do quite well with powerline.
Ethernet is still better tho. Heh.
This is the information I couldn't really squeeze in without side tracking my entire point.
There are "good" extenders, that use different channels/radios, but the cheap ones people buy are not those.
This is correct. You might want to look into a point of entry filter for MoCA, since you don't want to share your Internet with your neighbors.
Last time I looked, which was a while ago, I couldn't really find any, but hopefully that's been sorted out in your area.
Basically the point of entry filter stops the signals from the MoCA link from crossing, so you would want to put that between the outside box and the first splitter.
You'll get no argument from me.
When mine stops holding a charge, I plan on opening it up, finding new, equivalent cells, and building a new case for it around battery holders for the cells. I'm 98% certain I have cylindrical cells in mine.... So some 18650 or 21700 cell holders, cells, and just wire it in to the same controller board and slap everything in a case with some padding to keep it from moving around.
That way I can keep using it until the controller board dies, and even then, I can later replace the controller board....
It's my long-term plan to build and maintain my own power bank.
It will be encased in metal.