cathalferris

The Ireland ISP is HEANet who had the interesting note of being the only Irish ISP that was not forced to filter the Piratebay when that court order came through, as it's an academic supplier and not a home supplier. One SSH port forward later from a machine I had access to on an academic network and I once again had unfettered net access via a proxy. That was very useful when I was abroad and using Irish websites that were geo-locked.

Agreed re: DNS as one of the easy ways to block/lose portions of the net. The other interesting way is BGP poisoning - and that's really interesting to see who trusts who!

You would be better off keeping IP addresses of alternate DNS servers than keeping a local offline copy of DNS. The likelihood of global DNS failing will be more remote than large swathes of IP inaccessibility.

Ones I have memorised:

217.159.0.17 - Satlynx german satellite ISP DNS server, I used type this in so often it's in muscle memory at this point.

8.8.4.4 - Google's alternate DNS

8.8.8.8 - Google's main DNS

193.1.193.194 - Ireland's university ISP dns server

208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 - the OpenDNS servers.

I had an MLA-30.

Dump the 5-12V step up, and get a real bias-t injector from somewhere else and run it from 9-12V. The amount of RFI that the step-up converter caused was crazy.

Don't forget to play with the gain control in the "antenna box", should be the only visible screw adjustment.

Also it would help a lot to swap out the terrible coax it comes with for a real coax with lots less loss.

I have stopped using mine since upgrading to this (https://active-antenna.eu/). The MLA is moderately reasonable, but pales in comparison to the decent quality output from the Active-Antennas product.

#!/bin/bash
if ! `ifconfig | awk -F: '/^wlan0:/ && $0 != "" { getline; print $0}' | awk {'print $1'} | grep inet > /dev/null` then `connmanctl connect _managed_psk`
fi