1st Gen. Lunch Table - General Discussion

You can't listen to music on all four tires at once.

 

So were these Rabbit trucks actual production models or just chop shop specials?

 

You never been on the highway with mud terrains I take it. Tires hummmmm

 

Production.. 79 to 82

 

Oh shit, ok yeah I've seen those turned into bagged minitrucks before. I guess I didn't know they were Rabbits. I always thought Rabbit and Golf were the same thing.

 

My dad had an 82 rabbit dies truck. Really slow. Rabbits in Europe were badged Golfs. VW was into the wind names back then

 

This is the one that was at our produce pickup way back when. Still cached on Google Street View. It was a complete truck IIRC. Then got its top chopped. Then got half-doored. I'm sure it's all rusted to hell at this point. EDIT: Yes, I know, it's a Hilux. My bad.

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Wabbit season

 

Side shot:

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Actually wait, that's actually a Hilux. No way. I swore it had a VW tailgate.

Now it's far worse of a travesty they did this.

 

I have had gasoline and diesel trucks. The diesel was a 1AAZ turbo diesel swapped. Sweet until it spit a rod out. Gas burners were 1.8L until I swapped in a 2.0L.. Gots plans..

 

LOL the VW truck is a unibody... cut the roof and bend the "frame"

 

Damn that a vr6?

 

This is very interesting to me. Keep us posted.

 

Yep.. VR6 swapped. The corners, tail lights and tail gates are scarce... roger that 455h...

 

Are the automatic trans 5vz Tundras and 1gr Tundras column shift?

 

Yes

 

I believe all non-manual FGTs are column shift automatics. Console shift came with the 2G. They had console with buckets and column with bench options.

 

I used to hate the 1GR with a passion back when I was a hardcore 5VZ fan boy. I still am a fanboy of the engine of the gods. But after driving my dad's 1GR Taco, I can say I don't hate it anymore. I'd love a supercharged 4.0L with a 6 spd. I'd love a supercharged 3.4L with a 5 spd, too.

 

If I had cash in hand I would:

 

And a 2wd DC that looks clean.

 

Alright tech nerds. I ended up buying that Netgear router that @Jack McCarthy found on sale. Installed it yesterday along with fiber Internet from a new provider. The Internet works great but I no longer have the range for our outside cameras.

I'm not seeing that this router is mesh compatible. Should I try an extender or do I need to take this router back and switch to a mesh network? Our house is 2,500 SQ ft. We got by without a mesh system before when using AT&T's router.


https://www.netgear.com/home/wifi/routers/rax29/

 

Ubiquiti.

I really wish you lived closer, I'd give you a primer on LV cabling, cat cable termination, and we'd get you setup rock solid. But yeah, mesh sucks. Most of the consumer mesh setups I've touched tend to disconnect frequently, have handoff issues and other negotiation problems.

I'm 3 story, partially subterranean, and the truth is a single Unifi 6 Lite wifi6 access point mounted to our top floor ceiling in the middle of the house would probably cover everything down to the basement (if not, one of the Pro APs is hotter and probably would), but I dropped another down in the basement to service the rear wireless security stuff. I've done similar setups in friend's multistory houses and similar results. Downside is, you need hard cable in place to link the access points back to the network.

 

Damn. I haven’t even taken mine out of the box yet. What was the model of your AT&T router?

 

Explain please.

One of these extenders? I don't want to run new cable.

https://store.ui.com/us/en/pro/category/all-wifi/products/u6-extender

 

It says BGW320-505. It was one of those modem/router combos they provide. It has no external antenna so I'm surprised it had more range than Netgear.

On a smaller house the Netgear would likely be great.

Also, our new fiber is fast.

 

Not an extender. I'm talking about returning everything you have and replacing with one of these, generally speaking, top-floor ceiling mounted.

But you'd need a hardwire between your AT&T modem and it.

 

You may want to do a wireless scan with a laptop to see if maybe you're channel-stomping with a neighbor or something. Or try changing your 2.4GHz/5.0GHz channels to a different one, higher or lower.

Also, consider moving the farther-away devices to 2.4GHz, you may find better ability to reach.