Lets just put it this way… the toaster oven… needed to go… it was getting in the way off a 15A circuit to be re-purposed for Autonomi / Home Lab stability…
Going to miss that toaster oven for a while… temporary sacrifices… will circle back to figuring out as and when it can get back online, depending on when an electrician can figure out a power solution at home that not only is allowed, but also keeps me fed and healthy (same for the computer equipment) 
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Solar panels and a powerwall for your toaster oven. Maybe get a few KWH battery and run your fridge, and microwave oven off it.
That’s assuming I have that even as an option to consider, which I don’t, so it is what it is for now (no more crispy toast in the mornings… in the mean time… hahah).
When Autonomi goes live, the next decision will be resuming the toaster oven by turning off nodes or finding a crazy alternative solution… decisions… decisions… 
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Get a smaller “powerwall” and charge it slowly using say 60 watts giving about 2 hours toaster use per day. 
Get a smaller “powerwall” and charge it slowly using say 60 watts giving about 2 hours toaster use per day. OR a gas (propane) powered one
Has anyone tried the netgear orbi mesh network routers for running home nodes?
They seem like very decent options with high performance quad core cpu and ranging from 1 to 4 GB RAM. They’re much more expensive than the microtik routers I’ve seen mentioned here, but it would probably fix the wifi throughout the house. Keeping the wife from complaining 
christmas is up and odido has cheap unlimited 5g plans
thats two problems solved 
I’ve not tried them. I ended up with a Mikrotik. Once you dive into RouterOS which is deep, all aspects of network traffic can be adjusted.
I was overwhelming to see the layout of RouterOS but once I got familiar with it, all issues with bandwidth have been resolved. The wife does not complain. Nodes get maximum bandwidth.
I’m really happy with it.
The rigging is complete! haha. All 13 physical safenode hosts are operational now.
I haven’t been able to push the state table size off the router above 1.5M+, then again in steady state its doing about 1.5Gbps in and 500Mbps out (plenty of buffer room left (as I am still able to run speed tests that push it beyond the steady network traffic state easily)).
Current stats with about 520 nodes running from home:
1.7M NAT state table size (new record).
Pushing about 1500 Mbps in and 1000 Mbps out.
915GB of RAM Used.
Technically, consuming 1070 watts off power for running 520 nodes above, eeek.
Looking forward to the latest hotfix… and then see where these numbers land & 
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Edit: moving outside this thread. Assuming it is not necessarily router setup related (could be though).
eeek indeed! I realise you have protected disk and automated failover etc but 20W per node isn’t a great look for power efficiency. Most people in home setups will be a lot less than 10W per node and I think 1 or 2W per node is achievable.
1070 / 520 = 2.05 Watts a Node
I’ve not been reading this thread. I was wondering if there are any recommendations for reasonably priced routers which are good for ant nodes and has good wifi too?
My fritzboz 7530 is proving a bit flaky.
$99, should be good for at least 200/200 Mbit of node traffic
$139, should be good for at least 500/500 Mbit of node traffic
What is your definition of “good wifi”? Both have OK wifi and very fast, but if you need long range, have lot of barriers or are in noisy environment, you would be better with dedicated high quality AP.
oh jeez! You are right. My head’s clearly not right today!
Even with the excessive CPU usage of the release of the 18th, I could run 10 nodes on the SBC using less than 10 watts. So less than 1 watt per node.
Assuming the CPU usage settles down with the hotfix which I still need to install, then I should be able to get back to at least 20 nodes for less than 10 watts
At 680 watts for 800 nodes now = .85 Watts, better than 2 watts per node a few hours ago.
Made more tweaks to the OS than just antnode binary hotfix update.
I suppose not bad for few years old CPUs based off 14nm lithography.
It will be what it will be, .
Slight off topic, but for 800 nodes, I am only seeing an aggregated < 1MB of write activity, and < 3MB of read activity against the entire backend file system at home at the moment. Hmmm, 
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I mean… I will take the less disk i/o any day as long as my nodes aren’t shunned haha.
Or its just a bit too quiet… before the storm… 
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Yes Hmmmm, I am wondering why there so much idle traffic. My 100 nodes (hotfix applied) is using less than before but still doing like 22Mbps up and 23 Mbps down. Varies a bit but that is the sort of figures it likes to sit around.