networking

[pseudo blade]

Framerate stutter?

[high sparrow]

the problem I am having is with Red Dead Online, it ran smoothly on the same hardware before. the crazy stutter started recently all of a sudden. It happens only when other online players near me. so i think its related to network

[pseudo blade]

But by stutter you mean the game suddenly loses frames?

[high sparrow]

it doesnt looks like frame drop

[pseudo blade]

Not anything indicating packet loss like rubberbanding

[high sparrow]

it looks like freezing

[pseudo blade]

Is this a VM by any chance?

[high sparrow]

no

[pseudo blade]

Weird

The RTL8139's not very common anymore because it's absolutely ancient

10/100, PCI...

[high sparrow]

yeah

but it ran the game without any issue

[pseudo blade]

I'm wondering what kind of system you're using that has PCI, seemingly no other onboard networking and is also worth gaming on

Is this the onboard NIC?

[high sparrow]

also I am not sure yet if this is creating the problem, did u see the diagnostic tool report?

[pseudo blade]

Or something you've added on a card

The diagnostic report's tbh not what I'd look at first

If the NIC otherwise seems to work it's trivia at best and the issue as you've described it isn't properly isolated

What motherboard are you using?

[high sparrow]

I need to know the two test fails are a major issue or not

[pseudo blade]

No, probably not

You should answer the questions

[high sparrow]

im not concerned about my other hardware or game, only need explanation on my network card diagnostic report. Why are they not important? can u explain? Im concerned about FIFO

[pseudo blade]

You're not giving me any information I can use to help you, sorry

[high sparrow]

I think you dont have the knowledge either

[pseudo blade]

That's nice

[high sparrow]

a real professional will always go for diagnostic report

[pseudo blade]

When asked to troubleshoot, a real professional will find the root cause of an issue, and resolve it.

Anyways, I think your question may be better suited to #1027757333117415424

[high sparrow]

if you are genuinely expert on network hardware then please answer the question, i need the brief explanation about it. forget about my pc or gaming. I just need to know about my network card. why these two fails occurred and why isn't a big deal. is it common for any other card?

[pseudo blade]

In isolation, they are trivia

Not generally useful information

[high sparrow]

explain FIFO fail, why isolation matter there?

[pseudo blade]

FIFO is First-In-First-Out, describing a queue.

What does that mean for you? Who knows?

Who cares?

You were experiencing issues in a specific game, which may or (most likely) may not be related to this relatively arcane trivia from your driver test utility, and you have refused to elaborate on anything I asked and have in fact been needlessly rude instead.

[high sparrow]

stop please, you don't have it in you.
I need some real professionals here please. really need to know on my Network card issue here

[clear igloo]

FIFO fail would likely mean the buffer cache on the card is screwed up and can't cache any info so if it's receiving too much data then it will start to drop packets in all likelihood but OP needs "professional" so I guess my smooth brain no good either

[pseudo blade]

So sad

[high sparrow]

its not a crime to ask for professionals is it? anyways, appreciate your answer and it has explained what I needed to know. The server should help people with right knowledge like you did. not wasting peoples time. Thanks anyway

[waxen scroll]

I charge a big fee if you want pro advice from me tho

@hollow marlin status of test, pls

[high sparrow]

if you seek money in discord then you aren't a pro, also I wouldn't pay a real Professional without knowing his work and academic background. anyways, this was just a provoking comment from you. completely unnecessary and childish

[hollow marlin]

39 days remaining until test

[hollow marlin]

A real professional would first gather all the symptoms and use their experience and knowledge to determine where the issue may lie. Only then is it beneficial to look a debug/logs

[pseudo blade]

Otherwise you get lost in the weeds and apply fixes that don't help fix your problem.

[magic berry]

Hello, this is more networking related than just tech support so I'm posting this here, but if that's wrong then I'll post it there. Is there anything a consumer can do about very high latency between 2 locations (different ISPs) that are only about 60km away from one another other than just hopping between ISPs to find one that doesn't route the traffic through a different country? One location is my parents' house with a 2 year contract that was renewed recently and that specific ISP charges stupid rates for service in the other location so I can't just choose the same ISP.

[pseudo blade]

How high's the latency?

[magic berry]

80-90ms, and my use case is remote gaming through parsec so not ideal

[pseudo blade]

Does sound a tad rough

It may be that those two ISP's don't peer well and/or as said route through another country to do so

[magic berry]

I get 30ms to my university's homepage which is hosted right next to where I live from my parents' house and tracert from here goes through frankfurt when i'm in eastern Poland

[pseudo blade]

You could try passing the traffic to an AWS(or Google)-hosted VPN from one side or the other

They might peer to AWS better than to each other - I have seen that happen

Warsaw's in preview for AWS, not GA but it could be a fun experiment to try

[magic berry]

I think the closest AWS location to me is Frankfurt, my friend has a server (not AWS) there and for some reason my ISP decides to route the traffic to there through San Jose (i wanted to scream when I saw that in tracert)

[pseudo blade]

Google Cloud is GA in Warsaw

[peak cloak]

what ISP is your friend on

[magic berry]

i'm on UPC and my parents are on Orange

[magic berry]

I get 16ms and 28ms to my Google Cloud instance, thank you for the suggestion! 40-50ms should be acceptable for most games

[pseudo blade]

No problem.

[flint drift]

can some1 help me out? im having trouble with my ethernet

[unborn sluice]

no

[waxen scroll]

You can't ask for money in discord. It's not professional

[unborn sluice]

https://tenor.com/view/fail-mission-failed-call-of-duty-ghost-gif-13071756

[thick minnow]

Hi am trying to figure out why my wifi is faster then connecting it to the modem with a cat cable

Dose anyone know what could be wrong?

[unborn sluice]

Why is a radio faster than a human connecting wires

[thick minnow]

Nvm it found out what the problem was my cat 5 cable is crap

[thick minnow]

Nvm it’s still crap I just went and bought another cable and it’s still crap

[unborn sluice]

define crap

[clear igloo]

What model router are you using?
What motherboard model or device model do you have?

[thick minnow]

nvm sorry for late reply i fixed it by plugging the powerline into a different power switch but thats all

[clear igloo]

Ah powerline is the issue, yah that makes sense

[neon fiber]

i got 2 items on my network i dont know what it is 😛 anyone know if any devices uses these chips?

[gleaming granite]

samotech does a lot of security/alarm/home automation; could be anything from lights to alarm to cameras to thermostats.

[silk spire]

hey so my friend has a house on a lake, and wants to get wifi to his dock thats ~200ft away from the house

what's the best way to do this?

wireless would be preferred due to the logistics of running a wire being complicated

[peak cloak]

best as in what?

best for speed would be to run fiber / shielded ethernet

or you can do wireless p2p

[silk spire]

more like easy/cost effective

[peak cloak]

yeah then p2p wireless

[silk spire]

yeah thats what i was looking at

https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-CPE210-300Mbps-dual-polarized-directional/dp/B00P4JKQGK/ref=sr_1_4?crid=19FPWY2E2WY7S&keywords=wifi%2Bantenna%2Boutdoor&qid=1665444250&qu=eyJxc2MiOiI1LjUyIiwicXNhIjoiNS4wNCIsInFzcCI6IjQuMzkifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=wifi%2Bantenna%2Caps%2C110&sr=8-4&th=1 i was looking at this specifically but the range seems really overkill

[peak cloak]

idk much about p2p products and how good they are

I would say don't go for tplink unless it's omada

[silk spire]

alright

[granite rover]

i saw some mesh wifi setups at target yesterday im intersted to know on what i need to get one running and how hard it is to install

also what are good options

[pseudo blade]

What kind of speeds/use cases are expected at the dock? Do you have power there?

I'm not fond of cheaper tp-link stuff and the device you've found is as cheap as it gets

[silk spire]

just like general use, they just want wifi at the dock, and yes there's power

[pseudo blade]

What kind of speeds are necessary?

[silk spire]

no clue really, just needs to be good enough to stream and browse etc

[pseudo blade]

Whatever.
Outdoor-rated AP: https://mikrotik.com/product/RBwAP2nD
Point-to-point(*2): https://mikrotik.com/product/sxtsq_lite2
J-pole for mounting PtP off the house, outdoor-rated cabling for house to PtP off roof assuming that's valid for your scenario + PtP to outdoor AP, power cabling and weather resistant power, optimal radio positioning and other installation and planning work: Left to your imagination.

[silk spire]

ok thanks that looks like it'll work

[rocky badge]

@peak cloak @waxen scroll ~125Mbps of audio over the network at 2ms or less latency

👀

[swift creek]

hey any recommended non wifi routers?

[thick minnow]

Non wifi routers?

[peak cloak]

What features are you looking for

Mikrotik has a whole lineup of routers

[thick minnow]

th is a non wifi router

[peak cloak]

A router just routes

Router does not mean wifi

That is a router

But yeah, I heard descent things about the TP-Link omada VPN router

[thick minnow]

Somehow have never heard of this

[peak cloak]

I personally use the ubiquiti er-x at home, but wouldn't recommend it anymore

As it's basically eol and doesn't get updates anymore

[swift creek]

just needs like 4-5 ports

1gb

[peak cloak]

https://mikrotik.com/products#!

[peak cloak]

Well that you can achieve with a switch for getting access ports

But the hex has 5 ports

What do you need it for

[swift creek]

dont modems only dish out a small handful of IPs? I just need to feed 2 firewalls and plug in to control now and again

[peak cloak]

ISPs and big companies have hundreds of routers that your connections go through

[peak cloak]

Depends on the config, normally your ISP will only give you one public IP address

[thick minnow]

I was wondering what those were lol

[swift creek]

my potential modem only has 1 outbound ethernet jack id imagine I cant just plug in a dumb switch there and sent to my firewalls lol

cause thatd be easy lmao

[peak cloak]

I mean that's basically what @rocky badge did since his ISP gave him many public IPs

[peak cloak]

What's the point of multiple firewalls

[swift creek]

different networks

something my work wants

[peak cloak]

This sounds like XY problem

Just segment your network

[pseudo blade]

You can have one firewall with differring rules for given internal networks - which is how you normally do this kind of thing.

You can of course have multiple firewalls behind one router if you really wanted to but unless you - say - had multiple businesses behind one router and wished to provide each their own box to mess with, it's generally needless duplication.

[swift creek]

Thats pretty much it. We have a trusted network and an untrusted network for one firewall then the other is entirely for an internal team to toy with.

[pseudo blade]

So yeah needless duplication

Just add NAT for the new subnet, add rules to prevent accessing the prod subnet

Disable management from the untrusted network

[tidal frost]

So if my pc and server both support gbit, but im only writing to my array at 50mbs, that means its my comcast box causing the bottleneck right? All over ethernet lan. Whats my cheapest solution to fix it? Was thinking a new dual nic for each that way they can keep their existing connection, and then have the 2nd one to direct link to eachother?

Tried using an unmanaged gbit switch, but something doesnt quite work with an unmanaged switch and up to 3 different connections trying to do stuff off the one port. (Lan, wireguard, mullvad)

[pseudo blade]

It doesn't mean that

Could be the types of file copies you're doing to the array - small files

Could be >1 stream to an array of mechanical disks

Could be a software limitation

Could be some sort of terrible misconfiguration with your VPN

[tidal frost]

Thats why i posted before buying anything. Files are each around 1G. It is all mechanical disks yes. The system wasnt really heavy enough for me to worry about connection speed till i had to move a TB between systems

[pseudo blade]

Oh yeah could be antivirus on either side

Check array IO usage during a copy.

Avoid concurrent copies [on mechanical disks], prefer serial

Ensure the array has caching

[tidal frost]

Array write is showing the same as windows. I do need a cache, but havent had the money. Interface on Unraid is showing 500mb, which is more then i thought. Still feels like i should be getting more then 50mbs writes but maybe thats to be expected for my setup then

[pseudo blade]

50MB/sec, by any chance?

[tidal frost]

Yes, and unraid showing 500 Mbps/sec on the interface. Sorry, should properly format that

[pseudo blade]

The 500 would be mbps, megabits/second

Not megabytes

But the file transfer likely shows megabytes a second, hence the lower number.

Tell me more about your array, server

You said unraid

[pseudo blade]

Are you using SMB for network sharing?

What's the 50MB/s coming to/from?

[tidal frost]

I think so. Mapped as a network drive

Windows to unraid

[pseudo blade]

And via - probably SMB

[tidal frost]

Reading the same on both sides

[pseudo blade]

6 disk RAID 5

[tidal frost]

Its not raid 5 is it? I thought the point of unraid was that its not raid

Or is it considered some kind of proprietary raid 5 thats only not raid in name

[tidal frost]

My biggest takeaway from my first server...take notes while i set stuff up so a year later when its having issues i know whats in my own system lol

[pseudo blade]

From what I'm reading here their parity implementation's much the same as a RAID 5, if anything it's inferior for write-heavy workloads

A few idiosyncrasies like putting all parity on one disk

But it might not be an array perf issue, check to see if the disks are maxing out in Unraid, not the network interface

[tidal frost]

Writing to Parity drive+Disk 1 at the same speeds windows shows.

So technically writing closer to 100MB/s since 2 drives being written, even tho 1 is parity

[pseudo blade]

But is it the bottleneck?

[tidal frost]

Thats....thats why im here....bc i dont know the bottleneck and would like to know so i can fix it

[pseudo blade]

Unraid will tell you, go look at disk iops and utilization % during a transfer

[tidal frost]

Is that extra addons? Im not seeing all that

[tidal frost]

Ohhh that. The disk currently being written to is 83% full

[pseudo blade]

Oh is that just storage used

I don't use unraid, guessed

You might want #1027757333117415424 if you want your hand held

[tidal frost]

From what im finding on Reddit, all that info is extra stuff. Lemme do some looking and ill see if i can get it

Dont necessarily need my hand held, you just asked for it as if you knew where to find it already

[pseudo blade]

It's usually pretty easy to get

[tidal frost]

Netdata installing now

[tidal frost]

Its showing me what i already told you. Closer to 100 writes split in half between the parity and disk 1

Netmap seems cool either way, probably add my main machine to it as well.

Iowait is only like 12-15 which doesnt seem super high but what do i know

Softrq sub 1%

[pseudo blade]

Those are CPU metrics and are only indirectly relevant.

[tidal frost]

Only disk specific info it gives is what unraid already gave me without it

[glacial linden]

If I set forward zone in Unbound, will it forward everything or just forward once and reply from cache without forwarding like it's supposed to?

[swift creek]

do netgear nighthawks need routers? The port says LAN on the back making me think I can just plug a switch and go

why does any mention of routing return wifi results. grumble grumble

[pseudo blade]

Which Nighthawk? Tons of models now

If it's one of these the short answer is no. https://www.netgear.com/home/wifi/modems/cm2050v/

It is intended to be used with an ethernet router.

Can you connect it to a computer? Sure, routers are computers after all. But said computer would probably have a public IP.

[echo iris]

doesnt have wifi lol

[peak cloak]

yeah? it's a modem, not a router/ Access point

[waxen relic]

What’s the best prosumer 4G modem?

[sudden kayak]

modem just modulates/demodulates the docsis signal

if you want NAT and a local network (and if you have to ask this question, you do) then you need a router

[waxen relic]

I need something to use a SIM card to get my wired network I have routers if needed

I was looking at some model hotspots but I don’t need WiFi, Nat would be nice

@sudden kayak

[peak cloak]

Cradle point?

But that's $$

although you can find some used

but IP passthough needs to be configured

[swift creek]

It would be the CM1000 or 2000

[sudden kayak]

i was responding to the other person who was confused about modem vs router, I'm sorry but i don't know anything 4G

[sudden kayak]

but yeah that's just a modem it's in the name

CM (cable modem)

[pseudo blade]

How's local coverage - does your use case warrant external directional antennas? Will this be your primary or fallback connection? Sounds like the modem will be in a fixed position, no battery needed? What region are you in?

And all the other fun questions :)

Heck, I'll even ask what your budget is just in case you baulk at paying a grand or more for one

No point paying for cat20 when you only need cat4/6 lte

[pseudo blade]

No difference, buy a router

[waxen relic]

If they make a router with a cellular modem that’s fit for small servers that’s what I need ideally under 500

[peak cloak]

What's wrong with FiOS

[waxen relic]

Don’t like sharing with someone

[clear igloo]

On what planet will you be using a 16Gbps 4G LTE connection? Because it's not Earth that's for sure.

[waxen relic]

I do that some times in a week @clear igloo I work with custom software

That’s in volume not speed

[unborn sluice]

"not my job"

[clear igloo]

"not my hula-hoop"

[modest cedar]

I mean they also just drilled a hole in the wall and jammed a cable in there. Seems like a bargain basement job

[waxen scroll]

That's common with a building that has walls up and no previously existing coax. They also do this hack if you have coax inside but want a new jack elsewhere. They love putting a hole in closet ceilings and running the cable exposed through the closet

[gleaming granite]

ive done shit like this... on my own home improvements - need cable to go here... completely oblivious to whats around.

[sullen bloom]

how do i fix: ethernet is missing vaild ip configurtion

[unborn sluice]

fix: add a valid ip configurtion

[novel vault]

Anyone have anything to say about the TP-Link TL-SG3428XMP? I'm looking for a PoE switch with SPF+ uplinks and came across this one
My other pick would be the Mikrotik CRS328-24P-4S+RM, but those are kind of hard to find around here

[neat whale]

Is it normal for my 5Ghz connection to be slower after setting the pre-amble to Short?

[neat whale]

Also, I'm seeing 2 5Ghz signals coming from our router, as well as the standard 2.4 ghz. But I don't see an option to change the settings on the second 5Ghz band.

Can't even change the name.

Using netgear nighthawk RAX43

[mystic gazelle]

hey guys, not too sure on the PoE but most good routers switch based on what's needed at the time and then they dish out whats needed

i have a tplink ax74 nothing special but amazing route, aswell as a pfsense box sitting behind it, as sort of a hardware firewall

A73* sorry, really good value for money

[main tartan]

Hi there, does anyone have a good suggestion on a €100 router that has a sim card slot?

We’re moving next week, and the ISP has removed the copper internet connection and is busy installing fibre optic at the new house. But they said it could take another two months.

[pseudo blade]

Alas, 100 EUR isn't what it used to be

For two months, what will you put up with? Want a proper fixed setup with ethernet? Should the modem be portable for future travel use? Is a USB modem plugged into your existing router a possible solution?

[tidal frost]

Comcast did this when i got service at my last place. We wanted the box upstairs anyway, so they pretty much just ran a line from the pole to the house, did whatever they had to do just outside of it to make it secure and work or whatever, then drilled in right in the corner of the room

[tidal frost]

Depending on how many devices you need connected and what speed you expect, an android device would do the trick temporarily

[soft kraken]

can anyone suggest good router
preferably with wifi 6E

should i wait for wifi 7 router to release so that wifi 6E routers will be cheaper

[mystic gazelle]

TP Link Archer AX73 imo best bang for your buck i got it for £150 but i see its risen a bit

https://www.tp-link.com/uk/home-networking/wifi-router/archer-ax73/

[mystic gazelle]

Also do you reckon that you could use your mobile phone as a hotspots for your internet whilst it is getting installed? or is that not a option

[soft kraken]

its wifi 6 not 6E

[mystic gazelle]

ahh i see, yeah 6e has been a thing for nearly a year now i think and a lot of modern devices (clients like mobile phones etc) can use it

i think if you can get a good deal on one then youre okay

[soft kraken]

can u suggest some?

[mystic gazelle]

6e will future proof shit but i think you just gotta wait for the right deal

hmm lm check your u 2 min 🙂

[soft kraken]

Thanks

[mystic gazelle]

whats your budget?

like reasonable right

[soft kraken]

182 USD

[mystic gazelle]

thats cool id stick with tplink but they are all good its a hard one, i just found out they have a 6e model of it https://www.tp-link.com/us/home-networking/wifi-router/archer-ax75/

damn im thinking to return this and buy that lool

idk im biased tplink are solid and never had issues even tho my setup is custom, asus make good ones

[soft kraken]

that is not there in India

[mystic gazelle]

and synogoloy

oh are you trying to buy from india?

[soft kraken]

any Asus ones?

[soft kraken]

yes im from India

[mystic gazelle]

hmm

let me see

[soft kraken]

Asus routers are fancy and their UI looks cool

[mystic gazelle]

lol they are around $400-500

[soft kraken]

shit

[mystic gazelle]

im actually considering buying this tplink one myself ArcherEX75

do you have a lot of devices connected to your networok, thatll utilise on 6e

[soft kraken]

no just for future proof

actually when im tormenting linux iso normal routers stops working after few hours

[mystic gazelle]

what do you have atm

also it might be worth waiting for like the 'special deals and offers', prime day and shiz like that. you might be able to get a bargain but rn they are over 200

i wonder what difference my device on a 6e band will actually make

id always stick with tplink tho

asus r expensive imo, and synology are over priced

says this while hes got two fucking 980ti's asus strix in sli and a asus rampage v extreme mobo 😆 🤣

[soft kraken]

can u say the models

so that i can buy those those routers @ right time

[mystic gazelle]

if i was you i'd go with the TP-Link Archer AXE75

i might have to return my AX73 and get a 75 if the price difference is not that bad

man some of these are 500

i feel like not a lot of people have cared for 6E and the benefits

[soft kraken]

how to decide the range of a router any specs to look out for?

[soft kraken]

why didnt they mention Memory and RAM

[mystic gazelle]

lol

well on routers its usually the bands and how good its wireless is

rather then pushing for the cpus and chips that are inside them

i think anyway

just look for a 6E compatiable router

the rest will be fine 🙂

[peak cloak]

internals still matter

[mystic gazelle]

yeah but any tplink router wifi 6e or no wifi6 will have a solid cpu in there

its never let me know works amazingly

[vast parrot]

hi guys pls help

my wifi has been acting up recently

even if i use ethernet it still is very bag and gives me high ping

When I try to run fps games like valorant or cs:go val gives me error code 5

cs:go just straight up dequeues from matchmaking

im just shy of resetting this whole computer so anything would help

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo @waxen scroll ndi go brrr

[waxen scroll]

[amber vector]

Any recommendations on Wifi routers with 8 ports which are not split across two controllers? My RT-AC88U has a habit of just dropping ports 5-8 until it's power drained.

[peak cloak]

Get a switch if you need more ports

[waxen scroll]

my experience with asus routers isn't great either

[pseudo blade]

https://mikrotik.com/product/CRS125-24G-1S-2HnD-IN

But not really, it sucks

Just buy a switch.

[carmine moss]

a switch is a better option and asus and other brands are just bad

most stuff in a store are meh some stuff is fine

[pseudo blade]

We had one of these in our TAFE lab - it does everything... badly

It routes, but the CPU's 600mhz so it doesn't route much.

WiFi, but it's 802.11n and the bridging taxes the shit CPU even more

USB for a modem, USB HDD... but it's microUSB and services need CPU.

[peak cloak]

It's a switch, wouldn't expect it to route well

Mtik makes some weird products

Like the pcie router

Was it like a request by another company?

[pseudo blade]

...And the switch ASIC isn't so good either

[pseudo blade]

I'm highlighting it because Mikrotik describes it as a jack of all trades kind of device

They put all that in there

If you read the description, they mention running a VPN on the thing and describe it as a SOHO gateway router

[pseudo blade]

As far as networking goes the main limit on Mikrotiks is the depth of your own depravity lol

[carmine moss]

mikrotik makes weird products yeah. their pci-e router is usefull in specific usecases. the rb3011 has space for an internal psu and there is a cutout for the cable connector

[pseudo blade]

Enjoy my single-L2 router on a stick using my ISP router to provide WiFi and upstream networking while a hEX does the routing, DHCP and firewalling

I will buy a WiFi capable router eventually

[carmine moss]

just get an ap it's a better option

[pseudo blade]

Nah, that costs money

[carmine moss]

a router with wifi isn't much different in price tho for good wifi

[peak cloak]

True

[pseudo blade]

Oh yeah and it's doing routing and NAT from 192.168.0.0/24 to 192.168.0.0/24

For fun

I could make the hEX have a second subnet but didn't

[peak cloak]

How does that work

Or are you just double nating

[pseudo blade]

It's a double NAT

[peak cloak]

🤮

[pseudo blade]

I don't do anything that makes it a problem lol

Technically when the ISP router kicks into LTE backup it becomes a triple NAT

[alpine robin]

I have a question not sure if this is the best channel for it! I am hosting a postgresql database on a hetzner server. I need to add SSL to database connection but I can't get it to work ... I have a website running on the same server that has SSL working (used HestiaCP and the inbuilt SSL function) can I reuse the same certificates from the website for my Postgres Database?

^ as you can probably tell very very new to all this, so any noob friendly tips will be appreciated!

[glacial linden]

Somewhat there with my personal 16TB at-home storage server...

[pseudo blade]

You can from anywhere the certs are valid. I certainly hope you're not just exposing your Postgres server to the internet?

Postgres clients should check if the cert is valid against their trusted root certificates.

[alpine robin]

Currently it is exposed I guess but no one will have access unless they know the sever ip, username and password?

[pseudo blade]

The IP will be on shodan.io within the week

[alpine robin]

I am trying to use it with power bi and that's what's causing the issues for me hence why I even went down this road of using ssl lol

[alpine robin]

Right I see

[pseudo blade]

The server's security is only as good as your config and patching, minus any zero days that might be found at some point.

[alpine robin]

Makes sense, totally new to all this so very steep learning curve atm

So I found the certificates folder for my website and it has a crt file, ca file and pem file

But postgres need a crl file?

Any ideas if the crl can be generated from the other files?

[pseudo blade]

You can't.

[rocky badge]

💀 😬 db on the web

[alpine robin]

Got it, so I will need to generate new certs for the database then

[glacial linden]

Yup I've recently setup ssl and https on two subdomains, should be easy. I used LetsEncrypt with certbot on ubuntu linux

Make sure you keep http and https (80, 443) open to all in both linux firewall and cloud firewall

[glacial linden]

Already have nginx, pihole admin panel, etc working on the vps. Now I want to add nextcloud as a page in the same domain. Unzipped the latest file, added the /nextcloud entry in the example.website.com nginx conf file, but opening the page gives forbidden 403. Pihole admin panel is configured the same way and works perfectly fine. What am I missing here?

Error log simply says "/var/www/html/nextcloud/index.php" is forbidden (13: Permission denied),

[peak cloak]

permissions issue

ls -l /var/www/html/nextcloud/

@glacial linden

[glacial linden]

oh thanks, had to chown -R to change permissions of everything inside the dir as well.
Still didn't fix it though, nginx still says the same thing

[peak cloak]

did you setup nginx for php

[glacial linden]

Yes... finally got something more than 403 or 404
There were multiple problems (still are)
Owner inside nextcloud folder was still root - fixed with chown -R
Permissions for everything inside nextcloud were wrong, also fixed with chmod -R
Root path was wrong. Had to be /var/www/html but was set to /var/www/html/nextcloud

Installed some missing php modules, setup mysql DB, used nextcloud's docs to see how to add nextcloud as a path on existing nginx website and it's all working perfectly 😄

Thanks for the help ^^

[robust hamlet]

I am switching to a fiber optic internet provider. I currently use Moca adapters for my upstairs bedroom so that I can use ethernet up there. Will this still work?

[peak cloak]

depends how it's setup

[robust hamlet]

I currently am using spectrum which is setup as follows:

coax cable from spectrum enters house
moca adapter in between router and wall
moca splitter in the box
moca adapter upstairs in bedroom connected to PC

[peak cloak]

yeah it will be fine, just plug moca adapter into new router

as long as all the coax splitters stay the same

[robust hamlet]

Alright awesome thank you

[robust hamlet]

I currently have 400mbps down and 25 up internet using coax. But I am switching to fiber internet with 300mbps down and 300 up. Am I making a good choice.

[ocean pivot]

for gaming, fiber will most likely have a slightly lower ping. For downloading games you will have a little slower speeds

[pseudo blade]

25% slower download speeds for 1200% faster upload.

I know which one I'd pick, price being identical.

[soft kraken]

does the asus router router provide good range?

TP-Link Archer AXE95 AXE7800 Tri-Band WiFi Wireless Wi-Fi 6E Router |8K Streaming |6 GHz |1× 2.5 Gbps WAN/LAN Port,1× 1 Gbps WAN/LAN Port,3× Gigabit LAN Ports,1× USB 3.0 Port & 1× USB 2.0 Port https://amzn.eu/d/dIhyOes

[soft kraken]

Does this router provide good range?

[onyx hawk]

I have questions about 5G. its on my area, but speedtest seems dropping and jitter worse. when i took sim and put my mobile and drive at center of city and still good fast around 600Mbps . indoor router not worth?

[peak cloak]

Any type of cellular works best with direct LOS

So you want it near an exterior wall

Closest to the tower

Best solution is an outdoor antenna, but those are more expensive and requires more time and money to install

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo @peak cloak 👀

[clear igloo]

That's a lotta noise!

[onyx hawk]

Direct LOS? and i can install myself but not sure if it worth outdoor antenna xD

no need for service

you mean directional antenna?

[thick minnow]

Which is better 802.11 n or 802.11 BGN? recommand

[sudden kayak]

those are almost certainly the same and just a mistake/omission in the product description

N is wifi 4, it's essentially always backwards compatible so anything that supports N supports B (wifi "2" even though it was never called that) and G (wifi "3")

[peak cloak]

I would just find the cell tower and put it near the wall closest to it. If you still have issues and conventional wired internet is better, I would stick with wired

[thick minnow]

do u think 802.11 n is better ?

[neat whale]

Anyone know any LEGIT Cat 6A cables that are shielded? And fast shipping? So far only found 1 on Amazon but they want $18 for expedited shipping on a $70 item. And that'll only give me a window of October 18th-October 21st. Otherwise its the 24th-25th.

So far I keep finding scam Cat6A cables that are actually Cat5 or Cat5e

[neat whale]

From what I've found online apparently Cat 7 cables can give you slower speeds as it doesn't have a set standard yet. Like some guy got an amber light and slower link speeds on the cat 7 cable, whereas their cat 5e cable got a blue transfer light and faster speeds.

[peak cloak]

Cat 7 is technically a standard, just none of the cables are up to it's spec

[neat whale]

I'm wanting to stick to cat 6a

[peak cloak]

yes

monoprice has good cables

[neat whale]

Is it fast shipping?

[peak cloak]

do you need terminated or a spool/box ?

[neat whale]

Pre built

[peak cloak]

what length?

[neat whale]

100ft, shielded.

[peak cloak]

that's pretty long

but here https://www.amazon.com/Monoprice-Cat6A-Ethernet-Patch-Cable/dp/B077H3VNZW

[neat whale]

It's coming from the router, across the floor, down a set of stairs, through the basement, and to my switch.

Just to be clear you have heard good things about monoprice?

[peak cloak]

yes

cable matters as well

[neat whale]

Thing that worries me is one guy is saying he only got 100 mbps in the reviews

[peak cloak]

it's amazon reviews, there's a lot of people who don't know what they are talking about. Their router could only support 100, or maybe NIC, who knows

[neat whale]

That and people are saying the cables are dropping packets.

Upon switching to another cable no issues

[peak cloak]

and if anything, you can always return it, it's amazon

[neat whale]

Well I'm worried if I set it up, and then it starts failing, I'd have to take everything down again. I use zipties to manage cables. And ziptying 100ft is a pain as is.

[peak cloak]

I find you can't read too much into the reviews

[peak cloak]

test it, then secure it

[neat whale]

Well I mean like if after 2 days it fails

[peak cloak]

I doubt that would happen, it's a cable...

[neat whale]

There's even people saying they got the wrong cable.

But they paid for Cat 6a

[peak cloak]

you can always return

and that's prob amazon messing up the order or something

[neat whale]

I bit the bullet. Hopefully it pays off

Should I run it alongside the existing cat 5e cable in case things go wrong?

Ignore that stupid question. Got another. Should I disable flow control?

[tidal spindle]

Dumb question:
I have a qnap machine with eight 16tb HDD's in Raid 5. I'm getting 2GB Fiber installed here in a few days. With a self-hosted cloud file sharing app, would downloading my media onto my other machines (with SSDs) be faster than smb/nfs shares because of read/write speed?

[peak cloak]

Depends

Is your local network over gig?

[tidal spindle]

Or actually, I'd only be able to download as fast as my server can read/write huh

[tidal spindle]

yeah

[peak cloak]

If you have like 2gb nics and network equipment theoretically yeah as long as the drives can keep up

[neat whale]

Lucky son of a gun. Highest we're offered on fiber here is 1 gig. Even then we're on 500/500.

[tidal spindle]

yeah my local networks all set. My bottleneck is still the read/write though

sigh

[tidal spindle]

1gb fiber is great. I could get 5GB but I don't wanna upgrade my network from 2.5 to 10

[neat whale]

I use Metronet. 2 gig is only available in the city. I'm in a suburb of that city.

[peak cloak]

I could get gig, but 300/300 is enough for me

[neat whale]

500/500 is where its at

Why is having flow control enabled helping my speeds? I thought it'd worsen it

Should I disable all the offload settings on my network card?

[peak cloak]

Why

[neat whale]

To try and up performance

[tidal spindle]

Are you on Windows?

[neat whale]

Yes, win dows 10

[tidal spindle]

Grab tcp speed optimizer, set it to 100mbps+ speed and optimal settings

[neat whale]

That in adapter settings?

[tidal spindle]

I only play with nic settings 1 by 1 in linux

[peak cloak]

If anything offload should help

[tidal spindle]

its an external program. google it.

[neat whale]

It doesn't wanna launch in admin mode

oop nvm

But it's not letting me do 100+ mbps

Any other application that's not stuck in the stone age?

Did me changing any settings hurt my download? Now i'm getting well below 200 mbps when I was previously getting 400+.

[tidal spindle]

its still pretty standard. wdym its not letting you

[neat whale]

It says 100mbps

[tidal spindle]

yeah 100mbs means 100mbps+

like anything over 100

@neat whale

[neat whale]

Ah

[neat whale]

Would avast cleanup fuck with the registry changes TCP optimizer made?

[pseudo blade]

Avast cleanup, tcp optimiser...

NGL I mentally put these in the same box as "fuel additives"

[sudden kayak]

no they're the same but they're both bad

[peak cloak]

BGN just means wifi B wifi G and wifi N, all pretty old standards

I would not get anything that's not at least AC now

if you want the latest, AX aka wifi 6

[carmine moss]

Only reason to get something WiFi 4 or older is if it's free or really cheap

Like a year ago I got a ubiquity uap pro the original model for 5 euro that's a good price even for not supported gear. But if was a consumer device nah don't

[onyx hawk]

i found cell tower. its approx 2km away from my home. i had driven there. i did save coordinates.

i always use wired

[fast valve]

Hello people i need someones help that knows connection problems more then me

[pseudo blade]

We might be able to help you if you give us more information. This might be helpful to you: https://dontasktoask.com/

[fast valve]

xD i tried to fix it with people in tech chat but nothing

[glossy spindle]

Does anyone have a dream machine pro?
I have one but I'm time poor lately so I've done nothing more but set it up as a modem.
I'm just wondering what are some features I should look at utilising?
It just runs on a home network of about 20 personal devices, 2 servers then 3 APs.

[pseudo blade]

You could set up IPS?

Other than that just use it to solve problems you already have, rather than finding more things to do with it and making problems instead :)

[glossy spindle]

You are probably right, instead of messing with this device that's been running my internet flawlessly I should leave it to do its job 😂

[tulip basin]

If any network guru could help me on this, I would really appreciate because it's driving me crazy.

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1461466-home-network-loses-internet-access-when-downloading/

[cobalt iris]

Was fine before?

[cobalt iris]

You have your modem plugged directly into the switch? If it has multiple ports just use the modem directly. It's best to have the modem just as a modem and use a separate purpose built router that goes to the switch.

Modems typically suck as routers

[tulip basin]

It would take a bit of work but I could manage to set up the cabling to be like that but right now I want to figure out the issue because if it's cable damage then it will have issues in the future

[clear igloo]

If you have issues when the switch is in the path then it's either the switch is junk or it's overheating

[cobalt iris]

I'd try plugging straight into the modem and diagnose from there

[cobalt iris]

Yeah. Cheap switches have crappy cooling

[clear igloo]

and by junk I mean it's either crappy design/cooling or just dying but hard to say for sure

[cobalt iris]

My qnap switch has 2 40mm fans lol

[tulip basin]

Is there a way to make sure the issue is from the switch. I have a cheap switch (<10€) so I dont mind upgrading but I want to be sure because I don't want to spend money unnecessarily

I dont think my switch has any fans xD

[clear igloo]

I mean if, as you said, going direct to the modem/router combo unit doesn't trigger the issue then it's likely the switch

[cobalt iris]

Plus if you don't need the switch I'd just remove it

[clear igloo]

The only other thing I can think of is the Xiaomi AX3000 causing issues, maybe try disconnecting that for a bit?

[tulip basin]

OK I can try that

BTW is there a way that's not too expensive to test that the cables have no damage at all?

[clear igloo]

Not really but if the same cable going to the router/modem works, then it's likely not that

I mean you can check link speed but that's not really much of an answer, the other option would be iperf between two wired machines

[cobalt iris]

Did you do the cables yourself

[tulip basin]

The cable I used when I connected directly to the modem is different one. iperf hmm ok ty now I need to find a laptop xD

[tulip basin]

yes

[cobalt iris]

Could use a cheap tester but they will only tell you if it's wired correctly and not the strength

Also make sure it's real cat6a

[tulip basin]

Well the wiring is correct since I bought the cables with RJ45 connecters already installed

[cobalt iris]

Oh

I thought you did the cables yourself

[tulip basin]

oh that's what you meant, then no I bought them ready. They are made by lanberg

hmm the switch overheating might make sense, I ve been directly connected to the modem all day and am trying for a some time now with the switch to try replicating the issue and it still hasn't happened. Since it was cool it might take longer, I ll keep monitoring the issue and let you know if anything new happens. Thank you guys for the help.

[drowsy dagger]

pfsense- should i be using CARP or firewall rules to failover (load balancing, dual wan, yadda yadda yadda)

[peak cloak]

neither

according to the docs CARP is for HA

https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/multiwan/load-balance-and-failover.html

[drowsy dagger]

gotcha

[thick minnow]

does anyone know anything about cisco packet tracer? i can pay u lol (pls dm need help within few hrs)

[sudden needle]

Hi, i pay a 5gbps internet, and behind the modem there is 1 port 2.5G 1x1G and 1x1G poe. The remaining 500mbps is for the modem wifi. So can I get 4.5G network if I plug the 3 ports in one switch ?

[peak cloak]

no

[jade canopy]

so i have a quick question what are some good rural isp besides starlink

[drowsy dagger]

(insert cellular provider provider here) home 5g

[idle hornet]

EE

[cobalt iris]

If both modem/router and switch support link aggregation then yes

If you have 5gb internet your modem should have either 5g or 10g port tbh

Most consumer hardware won't support it tho

[peak cloak]

link aggregation doesn't increase since connection speeds

[cobalt iris]

It will increase the total throughput available locally overall but obviously not to each device

[peak cloak]

yes, but what I also assume they have is a modem/router

[cobalt iris]

Yea. And probably doesn't support it

Would need a faster port with a decent router like a pfsense one

[peak cloak]

so I doubt it even has more than 2.5G dociss support, not to mention if it has service to it

[cobalt iris]

If they have 5gbps I'd imagine it's fiber

Maybe it has a faster port but the switch is limiting it to 2.5

I also find using the AIO modem by the ISP bad. I always bridge mode or buy my own

[peak cloak]

yes, so do I

[peak cloak]

who said they have 5gpbs

[cobalt iris]

What isp is currently doing 5gbps over copper

Yeah docsis 3.1 can do that speed but they are all 1g-2.5g ports so it would be silly

[peak cloak]

oh wait yeah my bad, I misread

[cobalt iris]

I imagine docsis 4.0 having 10g ports when they're available

Which I'll gladly upgrade to lol

[sudden kayak]

yeah docsis 3.1 can do those speeds but afaik all production modems have at most a 2.5Gbps port

most likely by the time we get any faster than that on docsis, we'll already be at 4.0 so there won't be much point to anyone manufacturing 3.1 modems with 10GbE

[peak cloak]

Really pushing out as much as possible out of copper

[cobalt iris]

Comcast is supposed to be doing 2000/200 by end of year over copper. Sure that's not as good as fiber for uploads but it's definitely an improvement

[tulip basin]

My home network has some issues and decided to replace my cheap switch. Do you have any recommendations for a proper switch for my home network (5 ports are enough)

[sudden kayak]

i mean this is specifically what is possible to deploy with existing infrastructure built for mostly downstream capacity. I've seen lab demos of symmetrical 5Gbit over coax (albeit not on anything close to production hardware yet)

we're not really near the fundamental limitations of copper as a medium. it's more working within the constraints of physical plant that was built for a world of mostly downstream linear tv

[cobalt iris]

Yeah. Comcast was able to get 10g over copper using docsis 4.0. In theory we can do that with 3.1 but everyone knows we typically don't see the top speeds. Even 4G is a good example it was originally limited to about 300meg but rarely ever met that

I'm just excited for faster upload speeds finally lol. Their current max speed over copper is 35meg

LTE is even capable of up to 2000meg. But will likely never see those unless using 5G

[sudden kayak]

yeah we've already done a lot of work improving plant to be able to handle mid split (using more bandwidth for upstream), docsis 4 takes that further for symmetric gigabit at least

[cobalt iris]

iirc docsis 3.1 is supposed to be up to 10g down and 2?g up.

Unless full duplex then 10/10

And Comcast is now finally giving us 200 up woooo way to go lol

[sudden kayak]

so FDX is the full duplex version, docsis 4 comes in two flavors

the other one is ESD (extended spectrum) which goes up to 1.8 ghz

that requires more changes to physical plant

[cobalt iris]

The only fiber option available where I live lol

Used to be 1000, 2000, 3000 now 6000

And the price remained the same. Actually makes it worth it now. Upload supposed to be the same

[sudden kayak]

yeah I'm not sure what's up with the pricing tiers on the high end fiber stuff

i think there are more reasonable lower speed fiber tiers coming eventually

[cobalt iris]

I think its because they don't wanna spend lots of money on the line to the house and only charge $50 a month lol. Customer only pays like up to 1k install fee I think and if it's more than 8k total they either won't install it or make you pay the difference

[peak cloak]

unmanaged I assume?

something like this should be fine https://www.amazon.com/Ethernet-Splitter-Optimization-Unmanaged-TL-SG105/dp/B00A128S24

[sudden kayak]

yeah i mean the bottom line is that it's an extremely niche service making use of places where the existing fiber backhaul happens to pass close to residential areas and has excess capacity

it's never going to be mainstream so it's priced accordingly

[tulip basin]

I have no idea what the difference is appart from the price. I don't mind getting a managed one if the price is reasonable and if it's actually needed for my home network

[tulip basin]

WIll this be able to withstand a hot summer without overheating. The current one (cheap) I have I think is overheating and it's under 20celcius outside

[peak cloak]

for a basic network there is no need for managed, features such as VLANs, etc.

[peak cloak]

honestly idk, I don't personally have such switch at home, although I've used similar cheap switches at work with no issues

[tulip basin]

This is my current network (In the future there will be PC serving as NAS/Media server). The switch is on my attic with no insulation from outside temperature. So I want something that will be able to transfer data for many hours straight and take the heat. I have no idea what to choose :/

[cinder plank]

I took your advice and got a hAP mini, It looks great. It has a overwhelming amount of configuration options. I think I have figured out how to setup the connections and interfaces. I've setup ether1 and wlan1 as a bridge1 and ether1 as interface WAN(ether1 is connected to the home network and wlan1 is configured as an AP). Then for the TV box I have setup the ether2 and ether3 as a bridge2 as interface LAN(ether2 will connect to the tv box and ether 3 is there for other devices to be on the same network as the tv box in future). How do I configure the firewall and NAT so the tv box (LAN interface) can only access the internet and not the whole home network?

[cinder plank]

do i just add?

[thick minnow]

Can I have help figuring out why when my chromebook for school connects to my wifi all other devices slow down on the wifi and get disconnected from games

[unborn sluice]

Cause it’s home not wifi for school

[pseudo blade]

There are a lot of options, but you can get 95% of the way there by just going to Quick Set at the top and selecting the "Home AP" preset and putting in something like this as a config for it

That will set up your bridging, NAT etc. and set up eth 1 as your WAN port, which will face your outside network

Then you pretty much just need to make a non-nat firewall rule that looks like this on the forward chain, assuming 192.168.1.0/24 is the subnet you wish to keep private from the untrusted box. Make sure it's at the top of the rule list.

I didn't test doing that properly because I'd rather not tear up my config but it's something very much like that

You also probably want to adjust the ip/service and firewall rules so you can manage it from ether1 but nowhere else

[pseudo blade]

Be aware that using quickset will blow away your config changes

[cinder plank]

Thanks for the reply, I think that is what I had ended up with after lots of trial and error. I ended up editing the firewall rules.
input | accept | !LAN
forward | accept | existing | !192.168.1/24
forward | drop |new | 192.168.1/24
I was confused for a while trying to get it to load pages reliably but block the home network and of course it was due to the DNS. I needed to set a static DNS for the hAP router if i am blocking it from using the home network router DNS.
I got there in the end and the device is soo much smaller than I expected. I got one second hand, so it definitely wouldn't have been worth it waste time with openWRT.

[pseudo blade]

It is pretty small

That's the NAT section [in the screenshot you deleted]

[cinder plank]

I had to reset it a few times after blocking myself out the config. soo annoying... then at the end i realized there is a direct mac address access that is always open 🙄

[cinder plank]

yes

[pseudo blade]

There's also a feature called "Safe Mode"

Which just reverts your config changes since you pushed it if you get locked out so you can test stuff without losing access.

...Just make sure you disable it after you're done configuring or it'll wipe your config changes once you log out

[cinder plank]

Ah, I saw that but never used it. probably for the best otherwise i would have got it working then closed the config and lost it all.

the default config has access rules for ipsec, do i need to keep them?

[pseudo blade]

Not if you're not doing ipsec

[cinder plank]

Would the tv box use it? is it like upnp?

or is it something i would need to configure?

[pseudo blade]

No, it's an encrypted VPN tunnel

[cinder plank]

Is it setup on the clients or do i have to set it up on the hAP to make use of it?

[pseudo blade]

To set up ipsec?

That's largely up to how you want it to work, if you ever do.

It can be either

[cinder plank]

What i mean is, If i disable it in the router, would it stop a device that is expecting the router to have it enabled from functioning properly?

[pseudo blade]

Yes

[cinder plank]

👌

[pseudo blade]

The answer is actually yes

But IPsec NAT-T with a double NAT is really messy and you probably don't want to use it

[cinder plank]

also, what are the fasttrack rules?

should i remove them?

[pseudo blade]

You should leave them.

They significantly increase router performance when advanced configuration is not required

You could probably do without but it'd limit effective routing performance a bit

This router is not fast or powerful hardware-wise

Don't get too lost in what it can do unless you want to get lost and come out the other side 6 months from now with an MTCNA :P

Unless you do want that lol

[pine relic]

Can anyone identify this AP?

[cinder plank]

😆 From when i opened the config i realized it does allot more than i was expecting. Definitely a good learning platform, but ill save the learning for when I used another as my go to in the future.

In terms of limiting access form the lan to the wan will the forward DROP rule override other rules like the fasttrack in terms of keeping it secure?

[cinder plank]

I think it is an NEC access point.

possibly one of there dual band versions

[pseudo blade]

The drop rule must be above the fasttrack and default accept rule

Else it won't work. Just drag it there

You can just test if it works if you plug into ether3 and try stuff

[cinder plank]

above as in lower index?

[pseudo blade]

If you mean the column identified by "#", yes

[cinder plank]

I have tested it, and i cant ping any devices or see any ports. I'm just worried there is more to it than that in terms of access and security.

[pseudo blade]

There is, including MAC-winbox access like you're using to manage the router

[pine relic]

Yes I have determined that lol

But NEC does not have access points listed on their site, nor can I find any photos or products similar to what I've got here.

[pseudo blade]

Are you just spotting APs or is this something you're supposed to manage?

[pine relic]

It's at my Work, too high up to get down and inspect the model.
If I can figure out what it is I can advise on whether it's even usable.

[cinder plank]

Do you have an in-between zoom, (revers google image search)

[pseudo blade]

Do you know where it patches back to? it doesn't look powered right now

If you do you can probably power it and use nmap or something to identify it

[pine relic]

It goes somewhere here, port isn't labelled on the AP end sadly.

There are also 400 ports here, might take a while lol

[pseudo blade]

Doesn't matter too much what it is if you can't power it or know where it connects to lol

Sounds like you have some documentation and tracing to do

[cinder plank]

I mean in terms of connecting to the other devices in the home network. I was hoping a password was sufficient security for the mac access? can/should i disable it instead?

[pseudo blade]

That would depend on your personal level of paranoia

But if you really don't trust a device it shouldn't be able to get at your router's management interfaces

[cinder plank]

good point

[pseudo blade]

My best guess is intended for IP-DECT, so telephony

[pine relic]

Yeah previous tenants shredded all documentation, left us nothing.

I've attempted to trace cables but they are all shielded CAT6 with alluminum foil sheath inside each cable jacket. Standard cable tracers do not work so I'd need to plugin to each patched port manually.

[pseudo blade]

Yeah my suspicion is the controller for that AP would have went with them and is therefore completely useless to you

Just replace it

[pine relic]

I could maybe figure out the port but I don't have anything to power it, part of why I'm trying to figure out what it is before recommending a PoE switch that isn't compatible, also expecting it to need a wireless controller.

There are a dozen of them though so it would be a waste to replace

[pseudo blade]

You say that but then there's the amount of time you'd spend trying to get power adapters for them, find a controller, research if they're even viable otherwise or if they're indeed intended for a very specific single purpose...

APs are dirt cheap if you're not picky.

Then you'd have a known device you can just manage

[pine relic]

In this case price is a huge obstacle.
Entire office is currently running off multiple 5G hotspots with 400GB data caps, non-profit company, not my decision.

[pseudo blade]

If your business is willing to waste a month of man-hours for a tech to figure out what might be an 802.11a/b/g access point with a proprietary controller, you have far bigger problems than I could hope to help you resolve

[cinder plank]

The labels are 5GHz and 2.4GHz would that mean AP instead? or are IP-DECT on those frequency?

[pseudo blade]

2.4 and 5ghz are pretty standard license-free frequency bands

They're used for all sorts of things, including WiFi, Bluetooth and DECT. These are almost certainly WiFi but a quick Google leaves me suspecting they're probably for a very specific use case DECT, which runs on both those frequencies

[pine relic]

It's more of my personal project, I'm not being paid for it, just something I look at during breaks.

[pseudo blade]

In that case, get one off the roof and have a poke at it

[pine relic]

This was previously a radio station, is it possible it may have been used for wireless mics or something?

[pseudo blade]

Hm actually after more Googling if they they are indeed part of an IP-dect system they're actually not WiFi

It's just IP on the ethernet side

[pine relic]

I looked a bit into that, they seem to all be of a different design

[pseudo blade]

One thing: Businesses that pull these kinds of stunts don't tend to be good to work for. Don't waste all your free time trying to improve their stuff as it'll be completely thankless

Do it for your own personal curiosity sure

[pine relic]

Yeah, there's some days where they send 60 people home because they ran out of data lmao.

[pine relic]

I am actually looking for a job with a "real company", interview tomorrow actually, but I'm still studying for CCNA so not expecting anything out of it.

[pseudo blade]

Good luck

[pine relic]

Thanks 🙂

I found one of these as well, they asked me if it was of any use lol

[pseudo blade]

No

It's ISDN, it's 2022 and your business uses 5G hotspots

[pine relic]

I know lol
Was just funny trying to explain

On another note, does anyone know what this thing might be?

[pseudo blade]

Prehistoric

it's for providing ISDN services from optical fiber and is probably long dead

[pine relic]

Jeez yeah.

[pseudo blade]

Ask Telstra to remove it

[pine relic]

It's a whole rack, wonder if they'd bother.

[pseudo blade]

I doubt they'd want the rack back

Bit surprised to see it having its own breaker and all

[pine relic]

It's got like 6 batteries in it too that are all leaking

[pseudo blade]

Yeah I was going to say

That's a bit hazardous

[pine relic]

Probably yep

nobody would be f'd making the call, this room isn't used for anything at the moment

[cinder plank]

It just the dedicated fire starter room

[pseudo blade]

Does the NVR in the rack do anything?

[pine relic]

Yes

1 camera works

The rest all have an unknown password

I was hoping some of the Fibre would be useful

[pine relic]

fr tho

[cinder plank]

Holy crap they have the new high speed internet. 2Mbit!!!

[pseudo blade]

The fibre would be useful if you had any infrastructure to connect it to

[pine relic]

Actual server room is way bigger

Seems like such a waste tho

[pseudo blade]

What's the approximate headcount?

[pine relic]

About 70

[cinder plank]

What connectors are those?

[pine relic]

The fibre?

[cinder plank]

the 3/4" holes

in the rack next to the cctv

[pine relic]

These?

[cinder plank]

sdi?

[pine relic]

Nah analogue audio

Of some sort

[cinder plank]

Wait. are they all 1/4 Phone connector?

[pine relic]

Repurposed radio station

[pseudo blade]

They're all cut at the back, why not just remove them from the rack at that point

[pseudo blade]

I sure hope you don't mind that you pretty much just gave us your location

[pine relic]

Think there's 8 studios total

[pine relic]

Come get me

[pseudo blade]

nah

[cinder plank]

I concede. I can't find what that access point thing is.

[pine relic]

Building being demolished at end of year, I won't be working here over a month from now

[pseudo blade]

I am Australian but I'm pretty far away

[pine relic]

There's another one here

[cinder plank]

nah, different i have fount that one

[pine relic]

Hello fellow australian

[cinder plank]

I literally couldn't be further away form you unless i jumped

[pine relic]

You know the stations?

[pseudo blade]

I know enough to know the address of that building

[pine relic]

Ah nice.

Building is built like a tank, shame that it's been destroyed, anything worth taking.you think?

[cinder plank]

hes on his way now to steal your ar130 router

[pseudo blade]

Looks like everything they left is junk

Patch cables?

[cinder plank]

there racks look good

[pseudo blade]

Could take a rack if you're crazy+have space but I really don't recommend it

[pine relic]

They did leave 1 server

Which is running XP

[pseudo blade]

lol is the back of it actually propped up by that cassette case?

[pine relic]

Yup

Cassette cleaning kit*

The cables are probably worth the most then I guess.
There'd be a few km of Cat6 here, annoyingly cut in a bunch of places tho

[cinder plank]

scrap copper at least

[pseudo blade]

yeah 70 people don't need that much infrastructure

[pine relic]

A lot of it was audio

2 radio stations broadcasted from here

[pseudo blade]

I know

[glacial linden]

Has anyone tried to run zerotier and/or tailscale on a rooted android phone? since android doesn't have a built in package manager, maybe with Termux? I want either (or both if possible) to run as root without their apps as VPN tunnels that don't route all data but if an app connects to an IP they can reach through the tunnel, it'll work.

Works the same on my ubuntu server - all 3 (openvpn comm server, zerotier tunnel, tailscale tunnel) exist while neither routes entire network traffic

[pseudo blade]

Why not just use zerotier/tailscale's app?

They both have apps on Google Play

I know you said without the apps, but not certain why you'd go that route

You can set up split tunnel with zerotier at least

[glacial linden]

The apps drain battery quite fast since I think they process all network traffic... Android's "Secure DNS" doesn't work when any VPN is connected even if it's "NoRootFirewall" (I have my own DoT / DoH / pihole server properly set up)

Tailscale can connect to iOS devices but it has 100.x.x.x IPs which are considered as "internet" by most firewalls, and each client has a random IP assigned when they join the network so I have to manually configure all my device's firewalls to allow (or block) each IP precisely. Tailscale uses wireguard but it's actually much slower (I get ~30 MB/s copy speed with SMB over tailscale on my 1Gbps wired localnetwork, 120 MB/s otherwise)

Zerotier has 192.168.x.x IPs which I can manually hand-pick for each device so it's much easier to set these up in firewalls. ZT also uses some implimentation of wireguard (iirc) but is much faster than tailscale (reaches around 100 MB/s when SMB runs over ZT)

And at last I'm used to having both of them connected between all my devices besides the android phone...

[pseudo blade]

100.x.x.x is public bar the cgnat block

[glacial linden]

Yes... still considered as "internet zone" in firewalls

[pseudo blade]

Because it is

[glacial linden]

I also have my VPS set up as a relay node for both ZT and TS... Either one would work fine

[pseudo blade]

Perhaps this might help you: https://wiki.debian.org/ChrootOnAndroid

Set up a debian chroot and then just install zerotier on that

[glacial linden]

has anyone ever tried this on android before?

[pseudo blade]

I don't know why they would

But if you insist on doing so, become a trailblazer

[glacial linden]

Yeah thought so... 😂 Will have to go all in with this while also keeping a proper backup of the entire phone in case I mess something up

[pine relic]

What phone are you on?

[glacial linden]

ROG Phone 5. Rooted with magisk

Android 11. Also used SystemRW script to make /system mountable as rw so I can write persistent changes to /system

[pine relic]

Don't see why it wouldn't work then lol

[glacial linden]

Both ZT and TS have instructions that use a package manager

[pine relic]

Referring to this

[pseudo blade]

The debian chroot is relatively uncomplicated

The networking part might be interesting

[glacial linden]

oh ok... will try it out, hope it works

[pseudo blade]

The Debian chroot will give you apt as a package manager

[glacial linden]

I've seen that Android doesn't allow more than one "tun" adapter at a time

but that might be for routing all traffic

[pseudo blade]

If you're going this route you're dealing with the underlying kernel

Which could cause all kinds of fun things to happen

I'd just use the apps

[glacial linden]

Worst case I have to restore a complete sector by sector backup

[pseudo blade]

Unlikely.

[glacial linden]

I've done some stupid things... 😂
Playstore won't install an app (click install, downloads, says install again)
Saw it's something with Greenify iirc

[pseudo blade]

But it's still not something I'd recommend when alternatives are likely viable and there are apps

[glacial linden]

To which I landed on an xda forum post at 3:30am that said "delete packages.xml here"

and I was like ok 🤷‍♂️ deleted packages.xml, restarted and all apps were gone

Even permission manager was gone... I was locked out of my own folders (like DCIM/camera)

Had to "factory reset" from recovery and set everything up again

[glacial linden]

I've messed around with all sorts of stuff since I was 12... Not afraid of making mistakes since I'll get back up and try again eventually. Just that I don't think ill have enough time for this between college+work

[pseudo blade]

Solution: Do something less time consuming

[empty bronze]

Does anyone know of any app that does UDP to websocket tunneling?
Preferably an alternative to this : https://github.com/erebe/wstunnel

[hallow junco]

Anyone have any insight to people who refuse to accept cookies to setup an ASUS router?

[unborn sluice]

Probably muffins

[waxen scroll]

pretty sure you cant login anywhere on the internet without accepting cookies

[peak cloak]

Everyone thinks now that cookies = tracking

[clear igloo]

Wait until they learn cookies can hold things like that you logged into the site 😛

[peak cloak]

Yeah, I guess technically yes it is tracking...

Tracking your session and keeping you logged in

[clear igloo]

Yah, not tracking you across the web though in most cases

[peak cloak]

The whole cookie tracking was because of iframes right?

Embedded 3rd party content like Facebook or Google

[clear igloo]

I believe so, yah

[pseudo blade]

You can use javascript without cookies to do it

[jaunty fable]

anyone have a recommendation on a 24 port managed switch that is reasonably priced (1 gig, no POE required)

[pseudo blade]

Want L3?

[jaunty fable]

Yes

[pseudo blade]

CRS326

[peak cloak]

Local storage api?

[pseudo blade]

Yep, or similar

[jaunty fable]

That's perfect. I'm not a complete networking genius by any stretch of the imagination, but L3 switch has routing capabilities. It's just for home use, 300Mbps internet coming in (verizon FiOS) direct RJ45 to the switch, then from the switch I can separate VLAN's and such as needed, right?

I'm just "assuming" Verizon will only give me 1 IP address from that cable coming from their media converter

[peak cloak]

Yes

Well one ipv4

[jaunty fable]

Yeah

So this will allow me to have multiple devices still. I'm trying to simplify my network closet gore and put everything into a rack mount.

[pseudo blade]

I don't recommend using it for NAT or gateway purposes

[peak cloak]

Yeah, consider a dedicated router

[jaunty fable]

I do have a QNAP I could install PFSense, would that be a good solution to put inbetween the switch and the verizon?

[pseudo blade]

Probably fine as an idea

[peak cloak]

It would work, but I'm personally not a fan of software / virtual routers for the core router

[jaunty fable]

What would you recommend

I do have an older Linksys WRT1600

[pseudo blade]

A VM would be fine for 300mbps nat unless the qnap's super low end

[jaunty fable]

That has OpenWRT on it

[peak cloak]

Could get like a HEX , I have a er-x personally but don't recommend it anymore even though I like it for the most part

[pseudo blade]

The hEX isn't bad but go for a hap AC^2 or hap ax^2 instead

Both have much faster CPUs and the former is only a little more expensive

[jaunty fable]

What would be a dedicated one you'd recommend that is just plug and play

[peak cloak]

All mtik ones are basically plug and play

Through the wizard

It well setup a basic NAT

But any additional config requires some knowledge

[jaunty fable]

I don't need anything with a wireless access point

[pseudo blade]

The hEX doesn't have one, but it's not much cheaper than a hap ac2, dual-core 880mhz mips vs quad-core arm

And you can simply disable the ap if desired

I use a hEX for my network

[jaunty fable]

On amazon, the hEX is actually $20ish more expensive

than the hAP

[pseudo blade]

hAP != hAP ac^2

Triple check or you'll end up ordering a single core mips router

[jaunty fable]

There is a hAP lite, that is $24

[pseudo blade]

Not the same product, and only 10/100mbps ports

[jaunty fable]

https://www.amazon.com/Mikrotik-RB750Gr3-5-port-Ethernet-Gigabit/dp/B01MSUMVUB/ref=sr_1_6?crid=ZG7R29DFLV91&keywords=mikrotik+router&qid=1666118380&qu=eyJxc2MiOiI1LjE1IiwicXNhIjoiNC4yMiIsInFzcCI6IjMuODQifQ%3D%3D&s=electronics&sprefix=mikrotik+router%2Celectronics%2C67&sr=1-6&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.006c50ae-5d4c-4777-9bc0-4513d670b6bc

Is that what you were talking about

[pseudo blade]

That's a Mikrotik hEX yes

That's what I use for my setup, it's good for ~250mbps NAT without fasttrack, gigabit+ with it

The hap ac2 is more powerful

[jaunty fable]

250Mbps shouldn't be an issue. I just ordered, hopefully everything works. I'll update with pictures when I get it all installed

[cobalt iris]

Oh yall talking budget friendly stuff. I was gonna recommend a good switch but it's definitely not cheap (compared to those) lol

What I use lol

Looks good in a rack

[buoyant shell]

So I have a PC, Wifi extender that I’m using as an access point, Router and Switch, I’m trying to make it so when I plug my PC in I can transfer data between the extender and PC, and the Router and the PC have internet so I want the Extender isolated for data transfer only for VR, is that possible? Here’s a rough design, and here’s my switch https://us.dlink.com/en/products/dgs-108-8-port-unmanaged-gigabit-metal-desktop-switch

[digital wren]

If you have 2 NICs from the desktop to the switch? You could potentially fake it.

The Extender and the Computer would need a NIC Interface that's on a separate logical network from the router.
Example:
If the router is 192.168.1.XXX?

You'd need a second network card in the PC on:
192.168.55.XXX
And hard code the IP and subnet, and do the same on that network for the Extender.

[pseudo blade]

https://www.diagrams.net/ is a wonderful thing

A second NIC added to the desktop is likely how you'd achieve your goal

[buoyant shell]

Lmao, anyways I got it to work

I had a spare router and used this

Works so well

[peak cloak]

So you just wanted a AP

[lyric sierra]

Is a gateway a good idea

Or is it better to have them separated

And any suggestions for a good home networking set up?

[pseudo blade]

Be a bit more specific about "them"

Your question doesn't make much sense to me. Perhaps you should explain your situation a bit better?

[lyric sierra]

Gateway is broken and i am curious if it is better to separate the modem and router

[pseudo blade]

Only if you can't get a good modem for your connection type.

I'm not super fond of cable modem-routers for example

VDSL's even worse

[buoyant shell]

Yup with Ethernet ports because the PC and router have a dual purpose of network and data transfer such as

These are other connections options

[sudden kayak]

you understand that wifi is a shared medium right

having two APs in the same room on the same channel will make your connection worse not better, even if one of them is a separate SSID for the quest

[buoyant shell]

The application me using solely connects my quest to my PC for data transfer, and Router 1 to PC is a bridge for the network, also quest hitchhikes off of the wifi from the router so I get internet with it

[buoyant shell]

Seperate room

[sudden kayak]

or in the same building. or even down the block. the point is that a separate SSID does nothing to improve performance unless you also have a totally separate channel that nothing else in the area is using

[pseudo blade]

Tbh that's only a concern if you're in a dense area, otherwise you can just use a different channel

[sudden kayak]

at this point even in quiet residential suburban neighborhoods, all the channels are at least somewhat occupied in my experience

regardless though, a separate SSID does nothing unless you also manually pick a clear channel

[pseudo blade]

My 2.4ghz channels are a bit of a mess but 5ghz is pretty much clear

RIP to the poor bastard on channel 11

I wish consumer devices forbade channels other than 1,6,11.

[cobalt iris]

Too lazy to add the devices after the switch it's not easy using mobile lol

[hardy python]

To enhance the connection, you'd want a extender not an AP. Like Andrew said, it only makes it worse. There is no spread in frequency.

[thick minnow]

should i let enabled ALG by default ?

[buoyant shell]

Yup but I got this method to work with my spare router https://eu.dlink.com/uk/en/products/dir-890l-ac3200-ultra-wifi-router

No switch needed

[hardy python]

The link goes to the product and says nothing about using seperate APs for performance gain

Again, no performance will be gained by using to AP's

[clear igloo]

You do NOT want a wireless extender/repeater/etc.

[cobalt iris]

AP with meshing

[clear igloo]

Or did you mean an extension of the cable with a switch?

[hardy python]

Yes

That's what I mean

[clear igloo]

Ah, ok

[cobalt iris]

How long is the run

[buoyant shell]

From my room to the basement

[hardy python]

How many feet from your room to your basement?

[cobalt iris]

You couldn't use a longer cable?

I bought 1000 feet cat6. Still over 900 left lol

[hardy python]

If it isn't much from the room to the basement, you'd be better off creating a hole from your room to the basement and using a USB-C cable and wiring it down to your quest.

Or you could use a TP-Link circuit and connect it to your PC. If your PC can discover WiFi connections, connect to your Quest that way.

[cobalt iris]

Adding another router if you don't really need it can cause slight unneeded ping increase. Maybe only a few ms but every bit helps lol

I only use my old router as an AP everything else goes straight into the switch

[carmine moss]

a router in ap mode adds basically no extra ping it's just put it in ap mode not router mode

[hardy python]

I mean hell, you can isolate the AP only for your PC and Quest. You can still have the other network being a primary for internet access. You will have to change the channel the isolated AP is on.

[buoyant shell]

This is my solution right now in laments terms

[hardy python]

Does your PC have WiFi?

[buoyant shell]

The thing is if I use my primary router my bandwidth gets chocked

[buoyant shell]

Yup

[hardy python]

Do you have the Oculus Software installed on the PC?

[buoyant shell]

Oculus, SteamVR, and Virtual Desktop Streamer

[carmine moss]

Would still hardwire the pc into the dedicated router and WiFi for the quest

[buoyant shell]

This is running through Virtual desktop

[buoyant shell]

Yup that’s what I’m doing

LAN #1 is Main Router, LAN #2 is direct to PC

[sudden kayak]

nope lol an extender is the same as an AP

you don't want any additional APs because the concept of a "dedicated" connection just fundamentally doesn't make sense for wifi when it's on a shared medium (the air)

all you're doing is adding another radio and more overhead for the same channel(s)

[carmine moss]

an extender is worse as uses wifi to extend wifi not a wire that an ap uses

[sudden kayak]

🤦

an extender is a marketing term for an AP with software to connect to an existing SSID as the backhaul

[carmine moss]

also having multiple ap's is usefull just depeds on the ssid

[buoyant shell]

Idk like 50ish

[hardy python]

Correct, I meant using an ap point backed by a network switch.

[sudden kayak]

in terms of trying to get a better "dedicated" or isolated connection for one particular device in a busy RF environment there is literally no situation where adding more radios helps

[hardy python]

On seperate channels ofc

[carmine moss]

extender is never in wording it's only consumer products that use that name

[sudden kayak]

the only way to improve that is using a different channel that nothing else in the area is using

which is unlikely to be doable unless you live in the middle of the woods. or in a giant faraday cage

[buoyant shell]

Virtual Desktop runs way smoother than my Oculus link I optimized everything on my PC and it would still stutter with USB C

[carmine moss]

also if your router has only 100mbit the ap has to connect to it to route the network

also if it's about vr and quest wireless you should probably use #virtual-reality

[buoyant shell]

I live in an area where it’s only my SSID that shows up

[sudden kayak]

what channels is your existing wifi on

[buoyant shell]

It’s on auto cause I don’t have an android to check channels

[carmine moss]

iphone also has apps for it

[buoyant shell]

Could you link me one?

Nvm found airport utility

[carmine moss]

well now you can see what channels are empty

also what your main router as that matters as an ap routes trough the router

[buoyant shell]

I’m just happy that it works at this point

[crude silo]

Anyone know any web APIs that I can use to ping an IP? One that preferably returns a boolean

[pseudo blade]

Can you just use ICMP from your application directly?

Or failing that attempt a connection to a TCP service hosted on the device in question?

It's going to be more robust if you can.

[snow elk]

New core router=]

There, woops

[tidal flower]

Where’s the other 9gbit

Nice upgrade for sure.

[crude scroll]

hey guys, just wondering if anyone here can help me with OpenWRT. I'm trying to make my Netgear R8000 a wifi repeater since I have it lying around. After following some Youtube videos and also reading the guide on the OpenWRT website, I keep running into the same problem. Once I have created the relay bridge and I try to create the actual Wifi connection, OpenWRT shows that the new wireless network does not have wireless associated with it.

Is there anything I can do? I've tried rebooting, I've tried changing the channel

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[bitter kayak]

what soft wear do people use to check internet speeds

[waxen saddle]

Would a website qualify?

[bitter kayak]

yes

[unborn sluice]

Okay great

[waxen saddle]

https://speed.cloudflare.com/ is a pretty good one. Honestly, I don't bother with any speed test that doesn't measure Jitter as well.

[bitter kayak]

thanks

[pseudo blade]

Haven't found any t-shirts capable of measuring internet bandwidth.

[bitter kayak]

what

[idle hornet]

soft wear vs software

[bitter kayak]

oh

im dumb

[waxen saddle]

Naw. We all make mistakes. 🙂

For example, the other day, my co worker and I spent way too long trying to figure out how a shortcut was issuing a custom start location for Windows Powershell. We had both missed it - 3x... staring us right in the face in the shortcut properties. It wasn't until I opened the shortcut itself in notepad and examined it that I determined that it had to be there in the properties. Then we found it.

...and all you did was misspell something. Psh.

[peak cloak]

Spent 2 hours stumped over why my program wasn't working

After finally debugging I figured out I missed that I put a = instead of == in an if

[lethal flicker]

oh that is a nice one

[placid elm]

Does anyone know which video it is where Linus was talking about the details of the server and networking details they use for real time video editing?

[gritty garden]

what does “will not connect on the current network” mean? did my school finally figure out a way to somehow block all protocols of vpn?

I tried ikev2, wire guard, openvpn tcp and udp, I tried everything there

it’s worked for the past year and now all of a sudden it isn’t

[clear igloo]

Well unless you're not using well known ports it's easy to block that stuff

[gritty garden]

dammit

maybe surfshark support could do something idk

if not then this vpn I payed 2 years for is useless

[thick minnow]

hi

so i recently got some powerline router things or whatever they’re called and they’re only getting 30mb/s when i should be getting 100

and i don’t know how to improve internet speed

[peak cloak]

powerline won't wok perfectly all the time. It depends heavily on electical interference, power line quality, etc.

best way is ethernet

[thick minnow]

ye but i don’t have that in my house

what’s the next best way then?

if there is one

[peak cloak]

second best is moca

ethernet over coax

[thick minnow]

oh

how do i do that?

[peak cloak]

well do you have coax in the walls?

[thick minnow]

i think

yes i do