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[844.44 --> 849.20] You know, CAT 6A versus CAT 6, pass-through Ethernet connectors.
[849.54 --> 851.12] What type of crimping thing do you need?
[851.80 --> 857.04] This was the first time I pre-ordered some pass-through Ethernet connectors.
[857.42 --> 859.00] Jack's RJ45 plugs.
[859.00 --> 864.46] And essentially, these things, I think, are going to change my Ethernet termination game.
[864.70 --> 866.54] They are the way to go.
[867.04 --> 867.52] Okay.
[868.14 --> 870.00] You line up all your cables in the right order.
[870.12 --> 874.82] So you've got your orange and then your blue and green, whatever the spec you've chosen is.
[875.78 --> 881.98] And then you line them all up and you shove them through the plug so that the strands actually poke out of the far side of the plug.
[882.66 --> 887.56] And then you use a crimping tool that actually snips off those cables at the perfect length.
[887.56 --> 906.42] Beforehand, what I've done is most Ethernet plugs I've used before, you'd have to look really closely and sort of hope and check that all of the cables had got into the terminals and hope that all eight of your connections were in the right order and hadn't jumped a slot when you were shoving it in...
[907.10 --> 914.86] But with the pass-through cables, you can actually look at the cables that have come out the other side and go, right, there's four solid colors there and there are four stripy colors there.
[914.86 --> 916.30] They look about in the right order.
[916.82 --> 918.18] Clip, done, test.
[919.16 --> 926.34] I only did four plugs yesterday, but I think that's the first time I've done four plugs and got four plugs working.
[926.50 --> 927.16] The whole world.
[927.16 --> 927.92] First time.
[928.70 --> 928.92] Right.
[929.28 --> 930.04] I know what you mean.
[930.04 --> 944.42] So if ever you're thinking about what cables to buy, what connectors to buy, spend a little bit extra if you're someone like me that does it once or twice every century and get the pass-through stuff.
[944.42 --> 947.52] It does make your life a lot, lot easier.
[947.88 --> 949.34] That is a great little tip right there.
[949.40 --> 951.22] I have seen those and totes agree.
[951.68 --> 952.36] They're nice.
[952.54 --> 955.28] It's such an easier way to do it because of the reason you said right there.
[955.28 --> 959.30] You can just check your colors, make sure you've got everything in the right order, and then you chop it.
[959.86 --> 963.08] Now, the next thing that was on my plate was trying to figure out the firewall situation.
[963.08 --> 968.66] So her fiber connection is a PPPOE fiber to the home connection.
[968.66 --> 971.32] So I built an OpenSense router.
[971.76 --> 973.96] I ordered some parts off eBay.
[974.32 --> 980.98] I brought an old CPU with me from the States, an i3-3200 or 3220, I think.
[981.26 --> 981.52] All right.
[981.64 --> 984.28] Eight gigs of DDR3L RAM.
[984.28 --> 987.48] I ordered a lot of the only thing I brought with me was the CPU.
[988.30 --> 995.48] Everything else I ordered from eBay, basically at the airport, whilst I was thinking about what I had to do whilst I was here.
[995.48 --> 996.72] Not last minute at all.
[996.96 --> 997.24] Okay.
[997.96 --> 1001.86] And so it was, you know, 10 days before I needed it.
[1001.98 --> 1003.52] And luckily, everything arrived.
[1003.60 --> 1005.54] I even remembered to order thermal paste.
[1005.92 --> 1009.36] Somehow my brain remembered that thermal paste was the thing I was going to need.
[1009.68 --> 1009.92] Wow.
[1009.96 --> 1012.26] You really channeled that PC build energy.
[1012.56 --> 1012.88] Nice.
[1013.00 --> 1013.22] Yeah.
[1013.22 --> 1021.02] And so I built this router, sat on my lap and assembled the Intel DQ77KB motherboard.
[1021.82 --> 1022.98] That rolls off the tongue.
[1023.52 --> 1025.84] This is a really nice mini ITX motherboard.
[1026.00 --> 1028.68] It's got two gigabit NICs in it.
[1028.80 --> 1030.12] One of them is colored red.
[1030.12 --> 1032.02] So I use that one as my WAN port.
[1032.38 --> 1033.56] And the other one is just black.
[1033.66 --> 1034.70] They're both Intel NICs.
[1035.08 --> 1036.78] So OpenSense picks them up right away.
[1037.98 --> 1040.56] Install of OpenSense took about four minutes.
[1041.38 --> 1042.74] Really super simple.
[1042.88 --> 1045.02] You burn the image onto a USB stick.
[1045.02 --> 1049.94] I think I used Rufus on my mother-in-law's desktop running Windows.
[1049.94 --> 1054.06] Four minutes to install the OpenSense operating system.
[1054.06 --> 1062.54] Then it automatically detects the WAN and LAN links based on the IP addresses it's getting or not getting in some cases.
[1062.54 --> 1064.64] And that's it.
[1064.76 --> 1068.20] It could not be simpler to install an OpenSense system.
[1068.20 --> 1077.40] But I've got to say that moment when you post a system that you've built from assembled parts of random eBay sellers for the first time.
[1077.88 --> 1078.00] Yeah.
[1078.50 --> 1083.02] When you know you've only got two or three days so you don't have time to wait for more parts to come in.
[1083.38 --> 1085.62] It's a squeaky bum moment.
[1085.86 --> 1086.74] I'm going to tell you that.
[1087.16 --> 1089.76] Those eBay purchases are a roll of the dice a little bit.
[1089.86 --> 1092.74] Although honestly, so is buying stuff new.
[1092.74 --> 1098.38] I have probably more often than not received things brand new that haven't been functional than I have from eBay.
[1098.94 --> 1102.98] I'm impressed, A, that you had the forethought to get the thermal paste.
[1103.12 --> 1107.46] And B, that you're doing all of this ordering in the chaos of an airport.
[1107.54 --> 1109.66] Which means you're like looking at the eBay listings.
[1109.94 --> 1111.86] You're like reviewing the eBay listing.
[1112.30 --> 1114.46] Maybe you're checking the reviews of the seller too.
[1114.52 --> 1118.50] You're making all these decisions while wife and kid are with you in an airport.
[1118.72 --> 1119.92] And it all managed to work out.
[1120.76 --> 1122.42] I'm going to say that's a little bit of luck.
[1122.74 --> 1124.84] And a little bit of Ninja.
[1125.14 --> 1125.54] Both.
[1126.34 --> 1128.68] I'm going with 95% luck on that one.
[1128.88 --> 1130.16] That it all just worked.
[1130.40 --> 1130.52] Yeah.
[1130.76 --> 1131.10] Right.
[1131.78 --> 1134.98] I put a 60 gig mSATA SSD in there.
[1135.10 --> 1136.38] 8 gigs of RAM as I said.
[1136.74 --> 1141.16] And the reason I put so much RAM in this system is because I wanted to run a couple of services on this box.
[1141.84 --> 1143.02] Now I've mentioned this before.
[1143.02 --> 1150.46] But you can install packages on OpenSense from a guy's repo called, I think it's MeMugMail.
[1150.46 --> 1152.38] I really don't know if I'm saying that right.
[1152.44 --> 1153.56] But there'll be a link in the show notes.
[1154.16 --> 1158.92] I'm able to run two critical packages directly on the firewall.
[1159.06 --> 1161.28] The first of those is Tailscale.
[1161.52 --> 1164.94] I can run Tailscale on the router.
[1164.94 --> 1166.52] That's great.
[1166.78 --> 1167.80] That's worth it right there.
[1168.38 --> 1168.78] Absolutely.
[1169.10 --> 1174.80] I mean, obviously, I'm going to be setting up a direct wire guard endpoint on the firewall as well, just as a backup.
[1175.16 --> 1183.62] But running Tailscale on the router itself is so nice because it gives me access to the entire subnet without worrying about if a particular machine is turned on.