networking

[peak cloak]

well then you should be able to get some moca adapters

just make sure to put a moca filter on

between ISP and your house network

[thick minnow]

k thx

[waxen saddle]

Also with Powerline, they don't like extension cords, power strips, or breakers. (Basically they don't like additional "connection points". So it's best to plug them directly in to wall outlets and if possible, have them on the same breaker as well.

[noble solar]

I feel like this should be illegal.
student accommodation wifi, so you’re using unencrypted wifi for 1-3 years

[waxen scroll]

I have no problem doing sensitive things on public networks without VPN, why dont you?

literally doesnt matter with https

[ebon wasp]

Also the difference between secured wifi and unsecured wifi is really small when using just standard security

[waxen scroll]

@rocky badge is your uni unsecured?

[rocky badge]

no

Only the guest wifi is open

students and everyone else has to use a WPA2/3 enterprise network

[waxen scroll]

BRAVE, using 3 already

[noble solar]

My accommodation’s private btw, the uni network is encrypted

But, surely someone on the wifi could look at the packets tho

[peak cloak]

yeah, but the packets are encrypted because of https

most traffic is encrypted now

[waxen scroll]

thats why I hate youtubers who advertise VPNs

[peak cloak]

Ikr

[noble solar]

Fair enough

[waxen scroll]

set your windows to "public" network and thats all the security you really need

non-https is so rare now

[noble solar]

I think it’s public and I think I have auto upgrade for https so I should be good

Would they have any reason to have it unencrypted tho?

[peak cloak]

easier to have people join

also

[noble solar]

You still have to sign in, and you have to manually add your devices MAC addresses

[peak cloak]

oh

then idk

[noble solar]

You have to make an account, it’s really annoying

[peak cloak]

all we have to do for uni network is sign in with your uni account credtials

radius auth

[rocky badge]

guest wifi here just a captive portal terms of service

but everything else is ad creds

[noble solar]

Uni you sign In with your uni account but the accommodation wifi is a private company for sign in

[rocky badge]

Residence halls are through apogee which is Azure SSO

but you gets a PPSK

[peak cloak]

residence halls have the same wifi as everywhere else

[noble solar]

We’re also only allowed 5 devices unless we want to pay £10 a month

[peak cloak]

@rocky badge also

[peak cloak]

library pcs I think also have global IPs

[rocky badge]

lol nice

yeah every wired device here has public’s

[peak cloak]

yeah that's how it seems for the most part

idk about the engineering CAD labs, haven't checked

[noble solar]

I think we have internal ips??

[waxen scroll]

have you tried making two wifi devices talk? they probably block that

look at blob with a $1000 phone

[noble solar]

Could try

[rocky badge]

lol

[cobalt iris]

blob do be fancy

[sudden kayak]

that part sounds like the real scam lol

college housing is such a racket

my second year i moved from a 4 person suite on campus in a shitty neighborhood to a bigger and totally private studio apartment in a really nice neighborhood and paid less

(it was still tiny though lol)

[waxen saddle]

Yep.

[pseudo blade]

tbh 5 devices as quite a few for a single student

Phone, tablet, a PC, games console...

If you want more than that just set up a router with NAT as one of the five devices

[vale storm]

Hey guys, this is my plan for setting up my own network in my dorm. I’ve gotten as far as connecting a device to the internet through my laptop acting as a wifi-to-ethernet bridge. However, when I connect my router to the laptop instead of my test device and then connect my test device to the wifi network created by my own router, I don’t have internet access. I suspect it’s either a DNS issue or some kind of firewall problem. Or maybe the router doesn’t have the correct gateways and stuff configured. But I don’t know how to validate all my settings. Any ideas how I can troubleshoot this?

[pseudo blade]

I actually have a good idea why that's happening, and it's related to what this is describing: https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Wireless_Station_Modes#802.11_limitations_for_L2_bridging

Have you considered sidestepping the problem entirely by just setting up a virtual AP on your router, setting it to station/client mode and connecting to the upstream router with NAT?

[vale storm]

If I read this correctly, it refers to wireless bridging. But I am bridging via ethernet.

[pseudo blade]

Not according to your diagram you're not

[vale storm]

In my text I'm specifying that my laptop acts as a wifi-to-ethernet bridge.

[pseudo blade]

Your diagram talks about a wifi-to-ethernet bridge, with the laptop acting as a station

[vale storm]

Maybe I worded it the wrong way.

[pseudo blade]

If the laptop is a station, the above link applies

[vale storm]

Maybe I meant ethernet-to-wifi bridge?

[pseudo blade]

Yes

[vale storm]

I don't know which way around those things are specified.

[pseudo blade]

See the above link

It's because you can't bridge a network to WiFi from a device acting as a client without some meddling

[vale storm]

The laptop is connected to the network via wifi and supplies my own router via ethernet.

[pseudo blade]

I have acknowledged my understanding of this multiple times

That's why you're having problems

[vale storm]

I'm sorry, I'm not a native speaker, maybe I'm misunderstanding.

[pseudo blade]

You are using a pure bridge on the laptop between the interfaces

Doesn't work

[vale storm]

Yeah, so it works when connecting another computer to the bridge but not with a router?

[pseudo blade]

No.

Devices which are not the laptop connected to the bridge will not receive traffic back

Because of differing MAC addresses

There are ways to work around it, but you likely don't have access to them bar setting up NAT on the laptop

But doing it on the router is more sensible

[vale storm]

But I connected a PC to the Ethernet side of the bridge and did receive packets.

I have no access to the host router of the dorm network.

[pseudo blade]

Yes

You received packets from the laptop, correct?

[vale storm]

I could access google.com

So the packets did get routed

from Google
[...]
to the gateway of the dorm network
to my laptop (via wifi)
to my PC (via ethernet).

[vale storm]

Or what did you mean by this? It wasn't just local packets.

[waxen scroll]

your design is too complicated

look at products like this https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-Wireless-Travel-Router-TL-WR902AC/dp/B01N5RCZQH

[rocky badge]

@waxen scroll @clear igloo I'm gonna reverse engineer this control API...

[clear igloo]

Nice, what for?

[waxen scroll]

🤔

[rocky badge]

its not that hard but its all through WebSockets

Crestron

[waxen scroll]

why not ask them for the manual

[rocky badge]

There is none

[waxen scroll]

https://www.crestron.com/getmedia/29921c49-86df-488c-a63b-ab88620d7175/mg_pg_rest-api-crestron-virtual-control

[willow wigeon]

Is there a noticeable difference between wifi 6 and 6e

[clear igloo]

in terms of what?

speed and latency within about 15-20 feet of the AP or router?
Yah
Beyond that? not really

[sudden kayak]

6E is crazy in like an ideal situation

like actually getting gigabit over wifi

but you have to be super close

[green coral]

So if I have a WAP (wireless access point) in my room it'll be great?

[graceful orchid]

guys i have a serious problem , i broke my tp link archer c20 trying to flash openwrt , now am trying to flash original fremwere using tftp , it accepts the firmwere but reboot in same state 🥴🥴🥴

[pseudo blade]

Do you have access to the UART serial console?

[meager ginkgo]

Your speeds depend on the devices you are using also

[bold drum]

So it begins...

[vast shard]

All of my network cable are attached to fake 8E

[vestal barn]

trying to setup a server rn and for some reason i can connect to port 8080 but not port 443 even though both are being listened on and both are enabled in firewall. when using tshark to examine the packets i noticed that on port 443 after getting the syn it sends a rst/ack instead of a syn/ack like on 8080. no idea why and looking for help

[paper valve]

Is https enabled on your server?

[peak cloak]

Someone scanned your IP probably

Pretty normal

[waxen scroll]

in the corporate world this usually means a firewall or IPS is in the path and is responding on behalf of the host

[vestal barn]

Ended up figuring it out. Was just a misunderstanding with setting the port in docker compose since the docs were kinda confusing lol

[jaunty fable]

Needs more work. Waiting for more things. Another patch panel, Ethernet cable to do custom length cables, and a power distribution box.

What do you guys think from that stupid panel that was there before

It's still messy, but hopefully in the next month or two I'll have more time to re-do the wiring

[willow wigeon]

Is wifi 6e worth it over wifi 6? (Ping on reply thx)

[cobalt iris]

I'd say wifi 6e is worth it if you are in an area congested with 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz

[willow wigeon]

Worth like 20 extra bucks?

[cobalt iris]

Is there a lot of wifi in your area and is yours slow?

I'm still using 2.4 and 5 because I don't really benefit from the higher ones. The only things that use the wifi is my TV, phone and my cameras

Plus your devices connected to it would have to support it to actually benefit

[carmine moss]

If you not gonna swap it in 3 years I would say get 6e over 6 but depends a lot over your location

[willow wigeon]

My area has pretty good wifi

[small glade]

Probably a very stupid question but can't find a straightforward answer. How do you forget a wifi network in command line only Linux? I'm repurposing an old laptop as a server and for ease of setup I had set up wifi during Ubuntu server install but now I want to use it on ethernet only and not have it communicate over wifi that might take away bandwidth from other devices

[small glade]

https://linuxconfig.org/ubuntu-20-04-connect-to-wifi-from-command-line OK this worked except I nuked the file not edited it lol

[reef dagger]

either that

or you use iwd , iwd is perfectly easy to use

[main tartan]

Any advice on ubiquity gear for a three story concrete house?

[meager ginkgo]

you probably want in wall units

U6-IW

in every other room if you can afford it.

Concrete is horrible for WiFi

[main tartan]

Oof alrighty, so a mesh system probably won’t suffice?

[meager ginkgo]

Probably not.

What country are you in?

[main tartan]

The Netherlands

[meager ginkgo]

if you have coaxial cable in the walls you can use MoCA

and get a 2.5 gigabit Ethernet link

[main tartan]

No clue if we have that, we just moved in here. We have a coaxial plug in the living room. But none upstairs

[meager ginkgo]

Ah. You can try a mesh system but I would think the concrete walls would seriously decrease the signal

your best option is probably running CAT6

[main tartan]

Would love that, but my mother is like: Nope, not gonna drill into any walls. And I don’t want any visible cables going up the stairs.

[meager ginkgo]

See if you can get a WiFi 6e mesh system

The increased bandwidth should help a bit

buy it from somewhere you can return it to if it doesn’t work out

[main tartan]

Alrighty, I’ll give that a try. Thank you!

[meager ginkgo]

no problem!

[peak cloak]

For wires could look at cable channels

To hide them

[ivory birch]

yo

anyone knows how to fix my shitty wifi? i live on a school home, and there is only wifi, so i had to buy a usb wifi adapter

but my internet is slow af and when i play rocket league, im lagging like crazy

is it better to buy a pcie network card instead of a usb adapter?

or is there a fix

[cobalt iris]

Could use a wireless router and use it as a repeater then wire straight into it. This would basically allow you to place it somewhere where the signal is better without moving pc

Usb wifi dongles usually suck

Or use a repeater with an ethernet out port

[urban narwhal]

hey umm does anyone know how to get rid off ip conflict warning?

[urban narwhal]

never mind i fixed it

[tall zodiac]

What your internet service profider

[main tartan]

KPN

[tall zodiac]

Ok

KPN is roling out fiber in the netherlands slowly so ask them what you have

[main tartan]

We have copper temporarily, they will be connecting fiber here at the end of November.

They have disabled copper in this area altogether.

But the house we bought used to be rented.

The last person that lived there was over 70 y/o, so they refurbished the entire house. But I think she didn’t use internet at all.

[tall zodiac]

Yea since your getting fiber in november ask kpn about their line of accespoints

[main tartan]

They do provide mesh network points. Problem is, you have to rent em.

And they aren’t that great

[tall zodiac]

Yea they changed it

They used to have wired ap's

[main tartan]

Sadge

In our old house we had wooden floors and brick walls, so one wired AP connected to our router & modem was enough to provide a stable connection throughout the entire house. Even on my room in the attic we still had 200Mbps.

Not perfect, but certainly good enough.

[tall zodiac]

Could we continouy this conversation in dms since were both dutch so its saves on translation

[main tartan]

Sure, but I’m off to work. So it will be a while before I respond

(Internship)

[unborn sluice]

smoothly sliding into DMs

[waxen scroll]

pls dont

[glacial linden]

can ufw be used to deny connections to/from a specific user?

@peak cloak Here... In rules.v4 I can specify a rule like this to drop connections from a specific user

but this is iptables v4 and I dont know how to make these rules for v6 too... Was thinking if ufw can be used for this instead

[peak cloak]

Don't think so

I've never had the need to block things based on user

[glacial linden]

In this case, the minecraft server itself runs through tunnels (which are setup on all my friends' end devices). Minecraft server doesn't really need to connect to internet to function (have to keep it in offline mode since it's behaving as LAN-Only mode, logically)

I've always kept things as restricted as possible when it comes to networking because if hypothetically, log4j exploit was tried on this server over internet a few years ago, wouldn't work... Also I'm using a lot of mods with fabric and don't want any potential security problems

[tall pagoda]

Does someone know where i can buy 5G NR usb dongle for pc, antenna input is also an good option

[peak cloak]

You can just block inbound from Ethernet to Minecraft

And that'll do it

Yeah you can can restrict every single little thing, but for me it's impractical

[glacial linden]

Already done... also - the server is modded and any potential malicious code in any mod on the server also won't be able to connect since I've also denied outbound to that user as well

This current vps is for personal use only, atmost letting a few friends access it in my area (similar subnets) so it's easy... Next setup I'll try won't be shielded by vps cloud firewall like this so

Has anyone used fail2ban?

[waxen scroll]

yes, a long time ago. I couldnt tell you how to configure it right now

you should probably migrate to certs rather than passwords anyway

[sudden kayak]

it's a good thing to have set up (if nothing else to reduce noise in your logs)

but you should have either cert auth or at least pubkey auth and disable password login completely

if you disable password login, you really don't strictly need fail2ban

can't really brute force 4096 bit rsa

well, if you can you have more exciting things to do

[thick minnow]

i need some help with speeding up steam download speeds

does anyone know any tips

[sudden kayak]

connect by ethernet

get a faster internet plan

[flint matrix]

Download more ram

[soft kraken]

Depends on cpu also

[hardy python]

Downloads depend on certain things like: Internet speeds, storage speeds, and CPU handling. Not sure what your specifications are but use this as an example

If your download speed from your ISP is 1Gbps, you are going to get that throughput from your ISP. I know in my state, probably within the United States, ISP's can claim 80% of 1Gb is 1Gb. However, if your storage media within your computer does not read or write data at 1Gbps, you will not get the performance and speeds from your network. You will be hardware limited due to the slow HDD or shitty SSD. Make sure that your ethernet controller can support the speeds you are wanting. At home I have two different ethernet controllers on my computer, one of them is the motherboard ethernet controller that can handle 2.5Gbps and the other is USB3.0-to-ethernet, which can handle 1Gbps.

[waxen scroll]

@clear igloo https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/yem27r/meraki_just_disabled_all_our_hardware_in_russia/

[clear igloo]

rip

[unborn sluice]

is that even legal

[clear igloo]

If sanctions are forcing their hand then maybe?

But I know for Umbrella and other services they had announcements for months as to when they would cut things off

[unborn sluice]

As much as I hate wars and sht,
This is why we no longer own things.
we may have the hw but they can mess with the software

[meager ginkgo]

👀

[waxen scroll]

yeah thats the crappy part. I try to steer places I work away from that model

thats fine if I have to buy a perpetual license for a switch but nothing that expires and nothing cloud managed

they tried pitching to me that I should make my datacenter cloud managed

asked them if they're nuts

@clear igloo they put ACI in before I got here. I would have said no to that too

looking at retro I think we are all agreeing that it was a mistake

😄

really the whole nexus 9k line is just a mess

bug after bug after bug

[pseudo blade]

Sweeeeeet

Just spent an hour breaking my project router's config so I could test my Python script for reconfiguring Quectel modems for use on RouterOS from blank config

So now all I need to do is put a brand new modem into a brand new device, let it boot, run the Python script and it's neatly and fully configured

[pseudo blade]

As far as I'm concerned devices on which I must depend on a vendor's continued benevolence to manage aren't really mine and have negative value - the more utility the hardware offers, the more utility the vendor can take away.

[clear igloo]

Just don't turn on the bleeding edge features, ez

[waxen scroll]

we dont. it fails at basic BGP, layer 2, and other things

[clear igloo]

You're doing it wrong! /s

[waxen scroll]

ive never had to worry about a cef table until I started dealing with n9k and NCS

oof

or COPP

[pseudo blade]

Got sent a job posting today for a hospital and they want VXLAN

I'm at a loss as to why any business that isn't an ISP or a public cloud datacenter would need VXLAN

[waxen scroll]

SD-LAN probably

either they did it by hand or just threw it in there because

if by hand its not software and they did spine/leaf at the access

[clear igloo]

Yah, SD Access uses VXLAN

[pseudo blade]

Reading about it now

[waxen scroll]

my pal @jaunty talon went over kill and did the same at his job

reddit says run away from hospitals tho, so I would pass

[pseudo blade]

NGL my previous job with a US cybersecurity company laid me and a ton of other people off in August and I've been getting silence back from most stuff I've applied to since, so while I'm not broke I just want something at this point before we get there, can always keep applying after and find something else

Been applying for whatever I can find, spinning up a side project in the networking+IoT space I might be able to commercialize as a plan B, diversifying my skillset a bit to help with that and/or look better on a resume

Every news story about a lack of skilled IT people in aus makes my blood boil a little

[jaunty talon]

VXLAN+EVPN is awesome, no more spanning-tree

[pseudo blade]

Because it all terminates at the access level?

[jaunty talon]

yeep

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo 👀 I love networks

Controlling all of this AV stuff over the network

[jaunty talon]

Our whole network (dcs + office) is evpn+vxlan (not same but separated with routing)

[rocky badge]

We're probably gonna have to figure out video over fiber soon

[pseudo blade]

I guess it's cool but it does sound a tad overkill for a few hundred seats

[rocky badge]

but that should be easy since we're an all IP workflow

[jaunty talon]

at dreamhack we did a lot of video over fiber and ethernet :)

and they still do!

[waxen scroll]

are you US based or authorized? what kind of role you looking for

[pseudo blade]

Sadly no, Australia-based without authorization to work in the US at this time, not very fussy on the role - Software dev backend/IoT (I can and have done frontend+app dev but not my passion), Systems/Network/Cloud admin directly and as part of an MSP, TAM support - done all of these, will happily do any of them again.

I know the real money's in the US for those kinds of things

[waxen scroll]

yeah, I have jobs open but its US only

also they pay

[pseudo blade]

Unfortunate, but expected.

[sudden kayak]

I've never heard of claiming 80% of the advertised speed counts. in fact we have to provision 120% of the advertised plan speed to avoid problems if there are slight drops in performance due to bad signal out of our control. maybe you're thinking of the FCC's metrics but that's about overall capacity for a whole area over a longer time period to measure reliability

[pseudo blade]

It's an interesting debate, that one

NBN Co. in Australia used to not overprovision but have since consumer protection authorities decided that users should be able to get the throughput advertised in speedtests and real-world workloads and not just raw throughput of the promised speed.

It's somewhat intuitive to me that advertised speeds offered are the connections raw throughput but it isn't to a typical consumer.

They pay for gigabit and only see 940mbps

[sudden kayak]

i mean, it depends on the ISP and the quality of CPE they're willing to provide 🤔

XB7/8 have 2.5Gbps and can definitely handle routing that, even on the 1.2 Gbps plan that's really provisioned around 1.5Gbps

And have some headroom for future stuff but I'm not sure if i can talk about that lol

[nocturne kraken]

Could someone briefly explain DOCSIS to me? I'm rather networking illiterate; is it just another name for a HFC system where fibre is sent to the cabinet and it's regular old coax to the home, or is there fibre and coax going on in the same place or what???

[sudden kayak]

DOCSIS is specifically the protocol for internet as an additional service on top of coax cable tv systems

currently HFC is usually the way it's deployed but afaik that isn't inherently part of the standard

but... I'm also not aware of any other common ways that HFC is deployed so i guess you could say it's another name for it

generally HFC networks are fiber to the node

but that's not mandatory

[nocturne kraken]

thanks!

[nocturne kraken]

here's my deal:

i'm in the uk. up until now, all isps serving our property have been using this openreach connection; fibre to the cabinet, shitty coax to the home. despite the fact that the green box is right outside my semi-detached neighbour's, this means it'll never exceed 25mbps down and about 6 up. it usually stays around 20-22 or 23 down, can't recall ever seeing it break 27.

but virgin media just charged in and is offering us their Gig1 plans which would give us gigabit. they told us it was 'fttp' but i was like... is docsis really fibre? or are you doing something else, or is this just the shitty marketing tricks we've come to expect from isps... 😅

i'll be able to talk to this rep again soon, maybe tomorrow or a bit later...

regardless, i imagine it will perform better than or equivalent to my current connection in regards to ping and packet loss...

[peak cloak]

Fttp means fiber to the premise no?

But dociss is a coax protocol, so it's not fiber

[thick minnow]

what vpn do you guys recommend? im looking for one where I can also get a residential IP. I see so many videos but ik those people are just spammin them so people use their code or wtv

[sudden kayak]

i mean if they're explicitly saying it's fttp that probably means they're running new fiber directly to your home

i can't imagine they'd get away with actually lying about the nature of the service to that extent

[nocturne kraken]

true which is why im confused. i'll confront em about it.

[nocturne kraken]

i would advise not acknowledging any sponsored messaging about vpns

[pseudo blade]

Ah yes, the old Hybrid-Fiber Coaxial thing

It basically means there is fiber to a node serving a few hundred to a few thousand premises, but after the node it's Coax

It's no more equivalent to fiber to the premises than VDSL is

Calling it a fiber connection is misleading.

[nocturne kraken]

idk how they're doing it then, they actively said it was fibre to the home as opposed to our current fttc lol

[pseudo blade]

It can nonetheless still be faster than cellular or VDSL offerings

Much faster.

[nocturne kraken]

if im not mistaken we're currently using adsl but i can't recall and my overall knowledge is really hazy

[pseudo blade]

FTTC would be VDSL

[nocturne kraken]

probably that then lol sorry

i mean if virgin are saying their stuff can supply gigabit thats obviously a huge step forward regardless

as i mentioned we're stuck at like 20 down 5 up

[pseudo blade]

It can under certain circumstances

Easily over 100mbps down

[nocturne kraken]

lol nice

[pseudo blade]

DOCSIS 3.1 offers up to theoretical 10 gigabit speeds down 1 up but it's shared over all subscribers on your node

[nocturne kraken]

hm right

tbh i really doubt many people in our neighborhood are tech savvy enough to care about their internet and switch over

theyd probably go for their ~100 megabit plan if so

im presuming then if i get a gigabit plan that just means prioritization

[pseudo blade]

Not necessarily

Just a higher max throughput

It wouldn't do for high bandwidth subscribers to ruin everyone else's experience

If anything I'd deprioritise them, better for a gigabit service to degrade to 800mbps during peak load than 100 megabit services not loading webpages

[nocturne kraken]

so, all things considered, would this be better than my current situation?

[pseudo blade]

Probably, in terms of throughput

[nocturne kraken]

would packet loss be a problem?

[pseudo blade]

Do you need perfectly consistent throughput and reliable connectivity?

If so home internet is not for you

It's generally adequate though

[nocturne kraken]

fairs

thanks for all the help!

[pseudo blade]

No problem

[sudden kayak]

i mean yeah it sounds like they're saying they would run fiber to the home, not use the existing HFC at all

like i said, idk UK laws for sure but if they're explicitly stating fttp and they're actually using the existing HFC network, that would be a slam dunk false advertising or breach of contract etc case

or whatever the term would be in the UK you get my point

either way if they're advertising fttp gigabit it's gonna be a massive improvement over your current connection

the other catch could be that it's not actually available at your location, unfortunately the automated address service checkers can be wrong

[tulip basin]

Hello, recently I bought a Xiaomi AX3000 to have it as my main WiFi in the house.

I connected an ethernet cable from my Switch to the Wan port of the Xiaomi.
To the switch is also connected my Modem/Router (ZTE ZXHN H108N) which provides internet (wifi disabled).
And lastly my PC is also connected to the Switch.

The Xiaomi can be used as an Access point OR a router. I use it as a router because it has a very nice application for managing everyone who is connected.

My problem is, because the Xiaomi has its own DHCP, my PC has no access to the devices connected to the Xiaomi eg printer and vice versa.

Disabling DHCP and changing to a normal rj45 port on the Xiaomi works but I lose access to the managing app.

Disabling the DHCP on the Modem/Router doesn't seem to change anything at all.

Can anyone help me or direct me to a solution, thank you.

[thick minnow]

yeah i know most youtubers just take sponsorships as it's easy money, but im still looking for vpn recommendations with residential ips if you know any

[peak cloak]

Because it's acting as a router and natting

It's not longer a single LAN

Hence your PC can't see the printers since they are behind the nat of the Xiaomi

[tulip basin]

Isn't there any way, condifg to fix it/ bypass it? or make the two LANs comunicate?

[peak cloak]

Make the Xiaomi a AP

You can also put EVERYTHING behind the Xiaomi

But you should only NAT at one point

With everything behind Xiaomi you still have double nat but you can resolve that by setting ISP modem/router into bridge mode

[tulip basin]

How can I put everything behind the Xiaomi when it is connected to the switch via the wan port. Can I connect it to the switch via lan port maybe?

[peak cloak]

yes
Modem/Router -> Xiaomi -> Switch

[tulip basin]

Wow can't believe I didn't think of this, it was so simple. Thank you very much.

Now that I think of it again I can't bring my modem/router to the Xiaomi, the service outlet is too far. FML

[peak cloak]

Run a cable

Longer Ethernet

[thick minnow]

Thank you for being a person who knows things, I appreciate it

[grim flicker]

With a dsl service is the router associated with the account or the physical address?

[cobalt iris]

Typically both. They know what modem you're supposed to be using even if it's your own and if it's plugged in at a completely different address it won't work

[rocky badge]

@peak cloak @waxen scroll Damn, these boxes are pushing 686Mbps over the network for a 4K60 signal 👀

[raven falcon]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/395111204991008769/1035767178428948510/unknown.png

guys whats going on

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/395111204991008769/1035765540238671872/unknown.png

[pseudo blade]

What service are you running on that port? because you probably want to stop them from doing that

https://www.abuseipdb.com/check/89.248.163.216

[raven falcon]

I don't have any ports open that I know of?

[pseudo blade]

Oh nvm that's probably their source port

What router is it so I know what I'm looking at better?

[raven falcon]

Sorry for delay! it's a NETGEAR Nighthawk

[cobalt iris]

Is your internet running slow or dropping

[raven falcon]

i have been being blocked from google lately

and sometimes they make me put a captcha in, just to google something

i've changed my WAN IP and i'm still getting these:

[celest bridge]

hello i need help pls

i cant figure out if -70dbm is bad or not

i duno wifi stats but i need help is this good or bad?

[celest bridge]

nvm

[unborn sluice]

Ok

[main tartan]

Hi there, I’m planning to purchase mesh wifi nodes. But I can’t decide between these two options:

• 2x UniFi6 Mesh (€450)
• 3x TP-Link Deco XE75 Mesh Wifi 6E (€460)

What would be the best option for a three story concrete house?

||Yes, I know a wired connection would be better. But my mother doesn’t want any holes drilled into the walls. And we moved to a house with concrete floors and walls.||

[pseudo blade]

It's really hard to say, if it's all concrete walls and ceilings you might have to put a repeater near your stairwell or consider looking at powerline/MoCA to get connections between floors

Failing that you can just leave it broken until everyone's annoyed enough to reconsider on getting the place properly wired up :P

[clear igloo]

I'd almost lean to the 3x node pack for better coverage with the concrete and whatnot

[pseudo blade]

If you have an existing router it's probably worth seeing where coverage is OK from that so you can decide where a second/third node might go

[main tartan]

Good idea

[pseudo blade]

I highly recommend doing your testing on 5ghz only if you can because that's what you usually use for backhaul on a mesh router

[main tartan]

Thank you :)

[pseudo blade]

No problem.

Oh there's a potential gotcha for the TP-Link Deco you listed - the backhaul is WiFi 6E rather than WiFi 6, so the mesh APs have to be closer together (6ghz vs 5ghz, higher frequencies don't penetrate walls as well)

Depending on how your testing goes if you do need 3 of them, you might actually be better off picking a slightly lower-end mesh AP instead using Wifi 6 for backhaul

[main tartan]

Ohh, I didn’t even think of that.

[main tartan]

I just measured the WiFi connection in all rooms. I’ll put it in a nice graph in a minute and share it.

[main tartan]

@pseudo blade

[pseudo blade]

lol yeah this is not a good time to use a stacked graph

Yeah no idea where these rooms are relative to your AP, but most bar "bedroom 4" don't look too bad

What's your target speed?

[main tartan]

Yeah, don’t have Excel on my work laptop and never worked with google spreadsheet graphs :p

[main tartan]

Right now only 100Mbps

Cuz we’re getting fiber optic in 1-2 months.

[pseudo blade]

Yeah mesh APs should actually work pretty well in that case

[main tartan]

Alrighty thank you for all your help!

[main tartan]

Ohhh wait

[main tartan]

Would it be useful to get a UniFi Long-Range AP first? And hook that up to my router using ethernet, while disabling the wifi from my router?

[pseudo blade]

It wouldn't solve the attenuation problem, so not really

It's also not great for performance if you have a client at the edge of coverage trying to use as much bandwidth as possible

[main tartan]

Ah okay

Ty for all your help

[cobalt iris]

Anyone Network+ certified?

[hardy python]

Studying for it.

[cobalt iris]

Professor Messer?

[hardy python]

No, I am studying using the CompTIA guide

Then after studying I take some lab questions or multiple choice questions

[cobalt iris]

Oh. I'm using YouTube lol. Then gonna do a practice test

I'm a visual or hands-on learner. Reading something doesn't work

[main tartan]

Would I need a Ubiquiti router to use their mesh nodes?

[south mist]

Linus made a video exactly like this

[versed seal]

Could someone help me out with an internet issue im having?

[cobalt iris]

I actually bought one of those TP-Link ones. Haven't used it yet but only bought 1 for now anyway lol.

[zealous ledge]

hey guys anyone here have any experience with google nest wifi

[bitter thistle]

high download, slow upload.

im not sure why this is, my wifi provider has it unlocked, but im being capped at what seems 27mbps. on upload. whilst my download 1g

[cobalt iris]

Cable?

[bitter thistle]

yes i do use ethernet

[cobalt iris]

I mean your isp

[bitter thistle]

ohh

no its not, cable is a different provider

[cobalt iris]

Who your isp

[bitter thistle]

im in the us, we have windstream rn, and dish cable

[cobalt iris]

So you have fiber?

[bitter thistle]

yes

[cobalt iris]

Did they promise fast upload

[bitter thistle]

yeah they do

With fiber-optic internet, download and upload speeds are identical, which is referred to as symmetrical bandwidth. This ensures that whether you're uploading or downloading data, you'll enjoy the same fast internet speed you've been promised with your internet plan.

"identical"

[cobalt iris]

Did you try unplugging it

There should be 2 fiber lines then. 1 up 1 down. I'd check the ends

Unless it's bidirectional

If it stays slow I'd contact your isp

[cinder plume]

Idk if anyone is in Australia but,
Telstra internet WTF

[cosmic steeple]

What’s The best premium cad 6 10GB weatherproof cable on the market.

[cobalt iris]

Would be hard to determine what the "best" is

trueCable seems pretty good tho. I have 1000 feet of it

Plus depends on if you want to terminate it yourself

[austere acorn]

is it worth running a lan cable?

[pseudo blade]

Is wireless insufficient for your needs?

Is running a cable of the required length better or worse than dealing with a wireless setup instead?

[cobalt iris]

You need a router

Unless the modem has a built in router you don't connect the modem to the switch. It should go modem - router - switch

Have you already tried using it?

Depends on what kind you have

Usually RJ45 ethernet cable

You connect from the router straight to the switch

If your router and switch have SFP/+ you can use that too but the most common for homes is RJ45

And unless your modem is an all in one modem/router then the modem isn't the router

Could be your port. 800-900 is usually all you'll see on a 1gig port. You won't get the full 1gig

Basically yeah. Unless your modem or router is also limited to 1gig ports

idk what you mean by do your own fiber

[main tartan]

Can you use Ubiquiti’s Unifi 6 Pro with PoE adapters for power while connecting them wirelessly to your router? (Like a mesh network)

I kind of want to get those instead of the Unifi 6 Mesh because they are cheaper and run less hot.

[main tartan]

Just pulled the trigger, went with the safe option of the U6 Mesh.

[zealous ledge]

egg router

we ordered 3 more of these

wifi 6e apparently

[neat whale]

Why is my RAX 43 Netgear Nighthawk not letting phones connect, but letting anything else connect?

Also most of my smart devices can't connect either. Although the router claims they're connected. Yes, we've tried rebooting it dozens of times.

[cobalt iris]

Looks like a giant tic tac

[zealous ledge]

it does

wintergreen mint flavored wifi router

[cobalt iris]

They look smaller in the pics

I was thinking like a tuna can size lol

[neat whale]

Factory reset didnt fix it either.

[waxen saddle]

I’ve heard of network bridges. Nice to finally see one.

[main tartan]

Airpods case XXL

[small shell]

Does anyone body have a recommendation on ethernet cards for a desktop. Preferably under 30 dollars US.

[peak cloak]

Anything Intel is fine

You can buy nics used too for cheap

[small shell]

Ok, thanks

[cobalt iris]

Also depends on what speeds you want. If you want a 10g one but go with anything older than the intel X550-T2 wont support 2.5g or 5g

If u want 2.5g then realtek 8125 or intel i225-v are fine

[small shell]

Mine internet is only a few mb/s. I think there may be something wrong with the ethernet port on my motherboard (not driver related) and I was looking for a card to see if it fixes it

[small shell]

I should add that when I say bad, I mean I'm not getting the full bandwidth like everything else in my house that's connected

[peak cloak]

Have you isolated the issue to be the adapter?

Not the cable?

[small shell]

I have not guaranteed that it's not the cable, but it's been used with other devices in the past and didn't have this problem

[small shell]

Just tried another cable, same speed

[lean pebble]

Someone know how to configure ipv6 on opnsense?
I have opnsense VM on hetzner dedicated server under xcp-ng virtualization (fork of xenserver) ipv4 working perfect and ipv6 can ping other VMS that have ipv6 IP but can't ping to the wan and the internet.

How can I fix it?
I have /64 subnet from hetzner.

[pseudo blade]

How is your VM connected to the internet? Bridged to the server's ethernet interface? Or is the host forwarding/routing? Is the IPv4 of the VM in the same subnet as the host's interface's IP?

[lean pebble]

My opnsense have its own public ipv4 address that specified by virtual Mac addresses from hetzner and the Ipv6 is part of this Mac address to

[pseudo blade]

Ok, so you're using DHCP on the VM and it gets its IP from upstream?

[lean pebble]

Yes

[pseudo blade]

And you have some addresses assigned to you from a pool of Hetzner's public IPv4's and your pfsense router is bridged to your server's internet-facing ethernet port

And you have a /64 allocated to your server on ipv6

[lean pebble]

Yes, opnsense ipv4 Public IP address is good.
Yes I have/64 subnet of ipv6

[pseudo blade]

And that /64 is assigned to the MAC of your server's internet-facing port?

[lean pebble]

Yes it's assign to the same Mac address of the ipv4 Public IP

[pseudo blade]

Is the ipv6 address of your pfsense router in that /64 and dynamically assigned?

[pseudo blade]

You have two public ipv4 addresses, correct?

One for pfsense, one for the hypervisor? Which one is the ipv6 block assigned to?

[lean pebble]

I have 1 public IP address that the IPv6 is assign on his Mac address

Except the other ipv4 I have that allocated to different VMS

Detailed info:
Hetzner ipv4: 1.2.4.5 have his own virtual Mac address that allocated to the VM network card and configured under wan as spoofing Mac address.
Hetzner ipv6: /64 subnet that not yet configured on my opnsense.
Having troubles with configuring it on opnsense.

Hetzner support static / slaac configuration for ipv6

[pseudo blade]

Are you trying to use SLAAC on pfsense?

[lean pebble]

Yes

I have tried both, slaac and static but without success

[lean pebble]

It worked ok while I was on VMware after I moved to xcp-ng (xenserver fork) it stopped working

[jaunty fable]

I still have some cables to make. But I’m proud of this…

[peak cloak]

@sudden kayak how's the er605 router. I'm considering getting it to replace the er-x

I need good v6 support, vlans, and static routes mainly

thinking about a fortigate as well...

@rocky badge you have one right?

[rocky badge]

Yes

[sinful ice]

For bulk cat7, do I have to use gg45 ends? And if I do where do I find them, because they seem to be a mythical being only heard about in legend.

[meager ginkgo]

no you don’t. You can use RJ45

Also I wouldn’t buy CAT7 in the future

CAT6a is the best Ethernet spec I’d go up to

[sinful ice]

It was cheap. I think I know why now. Pain in the ass

[meager ginkgo]

^^

Shielding is just not worth it 99% of the time when fiber exists

[lean pebble]

Don't buy fg 60d/c heating like an oven I have 2 here that I ditched and moved to mtik hex-s at home.
Fg is good only in newer versions, I have worked with it for 2 years with 600e I think it was pretty good and stable.

[cobalt iris]

Wat

You said you have fiber

A coax cable modem isn't fiber

You won't get full speed with a 1 gig port

And you said they are using coax

You need a faster network card or router

[peak cloak]

You can't

There's protocol overhead as well

[cobalt iris]

If you're saying you want to run your own fiber line to the nearest node outside you can't

[peak cloak]

No

[cobalt iris]

What router do you already have

[peak cloak]

Not at router level

ISP rate limiting is done not at your house

[cobalt iris]

He's wanting new hardware to get the extra 100mbps lol

Can you take a pic of it and the connectors

I wanna see the ports

The ports are limited to 1gig

So 900 is normal

I don't see it happening lol

Crazy they giving 1000 up over coax

That's about what you'll see

You won't always get your max speed even with faster hardware

[peak cloak]

that's normal

[sudden kayak]

not much to report, that ended up at my parents place so I'm not doing anything crazy with it. pretty much just a flat network. but it's been working well and they told me the network is rock solid

[nimble sable]

question: what happens if i plug in a 3Amp plug into my 3.5Amp requiring AP?

[sudden kayak]

gigabit/1000Mbps is the link rate, there is overhead in the protocols (at every layer) so 920-940Mbps is the fastest you can get in real life with actual IP traffic

you can try to find a router with 2.5GbE (the next step up) which will be massively more expensive to get you 80Mbps more throughput

[nimble sable]

yea even just going locally to my server i dont see it going above 950 on a gbe

[sudden kayak]

yeah that is pretty good for GbE

[sudden kayak]

it will probably be fine. but there's a decent chance it will brown out and reboot under heavy load

[sudden kayak]

or worst case scenario the power brick gets overheated and explodes and burns your house down. idk if I'd risk it

[nimble sable]

brown out? that sounds gross lol

oh yea im 1 dude, no way i'm going to overload this monstrosity

[sudden kayak]

if you're lucky and you have a direct point to point connection and do an artificial test with something very low overhead, yeah you might hit 1000 but that's not gonna happen in most scenarios

[nimble sable]

$60 for a bloody power adapter wtaf

[sudden kayak]

yeah try it and if you don't see any smoke you're probably fine lol

or PoE for more convenient & easily hidden wiring

but that's a bigger investment

[nimble sable]

can an ethernet cable really do 2.5Gbe AND 30W of power?

[sudden kayak]

i think they can do up to 60W yeah

oh wait maybe not

but the answer is yes for 2.5Gbe & 30W https://www.amazon.com/TRENDnet-TPE-215GI-2-5GBASE-T-Compliant-Integrated/dp/B08BS5C3HY

[hollow marlin]

Just in L2 overhead, the maximum payload you can get with IPv4 is ~965mbps. That with no UDP/TCP header either. 940-950 is the best case real world speeds you can expect

[sudden kayak]

I'm sure there's something that does 2.5 and poe++ but maybe only in a big ass switch

[sudden kayak]

yeah that sounds more correct based on my experience but this guy is saying he somehow got 1000 on the dot

[nimble sable]

apparently i need two +s

[sudden kayak]

maybe with jumbo frames? dunno

[sudden kayak]

ahhh yeah I'm not sure there's any of those in the form of a single poe++ injector on the market

[hollow marlin]

Jumbos net you like 990mbps if I recall. You'll always have 34bytes of L2 headers.

[nimble sable]

it's only for a week...tomorow my last day to return the stupid tp-link AP (all TP link wifi 6 AP's have a confirmed bug in that they are unable to use MU-MIMO)

[sudden kayak]

yeah that sounds about right 😆

[nimble sable]

sigh i'm torn...shd i hook this up? alternative is, i think i have an old AP in storage i can dig out for a week

[sudden kayak]

i mean it's not gonna blow up if you try it for 5 minutes

[nimble sable]

whatr is...what kind of nonsense adapter has an analog knob for selecting voltage

[cobalt iris]

I have 1200 plan from Comcast and spent $500 on a 2.5g x8, 10g x2 switch and a quad 2.5g card for my router because I was tired of only getting 900ish lol. Now I get 1200-1400

But it actually wasn't a waste since the plan is going to be 2000/200 eventually

[unreal valley]

I have 1gb/1gb and can upgrade to 5gb/5gb max. I was looking at different router options to manage my home lab in my rack. I've looked into Ubiquity but I didn't know if that was the best option for me because some of their products are designed for cameras which I wouldn't necessarily utilize. I also didn't know if it was worth it to try and install PfSense on a system and use that instead with a dual 10gb nic.

I have a downside in which my provider installs boxes that are modem/router aio in which I would have to passthrough whatever router I choose

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[nimble sable]

can someone convince me thatt MU-MIMO is real?
because i have yet to see evidence of this

[peak cloak]

It is

How well it works in your environment is another question

[cobalt iris]

If your isp allows it always bridge mode the modem they provide. And a lot of people recommend ubiquiti but I've never used it. I actually use a QNAP switch and does the job for me

[nimble sable]

it does what exactly? allow me to simultaneously use multiple streams? because...that's not a thing that is happening

i've loked around i am yet to see ANYONE post a screenshot of 2 2x2 devices connected to a 4x4 AP and BOTH getting 1Gbps AT THE SAME TIME

[unreal valley]

So your QNAP switch is in place of your router? Or performs routing functions?

[cobalt iris]

No. You still need a router. I use an old Dell Poweredge R210 II

Upgrading it soon tho lol

The switch basically just adds more ports. But I have a managed switch which allows more functions like vlan, link aggregation and more

[nimble sable]

can someoen please help me get MUMIMO to work ? this is like the 3rd AP i've tried

[unreal valley]

The plan was to have a managed switch behind it so I could link aggregate instead of buying 10gb nics for my VMs

Do you have software installed on the Dell poweredge?

[cobalt iris]

Libk aggregation doesn't fully combine the networks. If one is 1g and the other is also 1g and your internet is 2g you'd still only get 1g speeds on each device but you'll have the other 1g available for when someone else wants to download

[cobalt iris]

Just pfsense

[unreal valley]

The link aggregation was for inter-network communication like a file server everything would refer to and possible test PXE boot

[cobalt iris]

Then yea it would be useful because you'd increase your overall available local bandwidth

Thats mine. But it's all in a server rack other than the pc and ap

[unreal valley]

I have tried once to install PfSense but it couldnt get a LAN IP. I didn't look too far into it

What AP do you have?

[unreal valley]

Ok. Cool. Any problems with it?

[cobalt iris]

I haven't used it yet lol

Won't be home til Nov 21st

I plan on upgrading my router to a Dell Poweredge R330 with 4 x 3.5inch bays and slap 4 16TB hard drives in it and use it as my new router and NAS

[unreal valley]

Lol. With PfSense, do you know of any issues that would cause that? I was attempting to run it behind the existing network to test it

[cobalt iris]

Current cpu is from 2011 new one will be from 2017

What did you have the other port plugged into

With a pfsense router you need at least 2 ports. 1 is WAN which your modem goes into and the other is LAN which your switch goes into or another router but preferably a switch

[unreal valley]

My current plan was to use a dual Xeon x5550 with 48gb ram. I didn't know if that was overkill. 2 1gb integrated nics, 2 port 10gb nic, & 4 port 1gb nics

[cobalt iris]

You don't need the ports on the server really. All you need is 2 and go to the switch unless you want link aggregation going on

I have 2 1g and 4 2.5g but only 3 2.5g are being used

[unreal valley]

Do I need to tell it which port it should should be excepting wan and which ports are lan?

Or does it auto-negotiate?

[cobalt iris]

I've always had ti manually do it

During thr setup it will ask you which is wan and lan

There's an auto detect but I never got it to work so I just manually type one of the options it gives and hope it's right. If it's not right I change which one is plugged in until I figure it out lol

It names them like in0 in1 or re0 re1

For like intel, realtek, and Broadcom is something like br0

Butttt it doesn't know where it's actually located. So if you have a 4 port it can literally name them 3,0,1,2

[unreal valley]

Ok. I'll try manually do it manually. One nic is an Intel; the other is a HP

[cobalt iris]

And common ones to use are intel and Broadcom

I actually use realtek even tho it doesn't play well with pfsense. As long as you install the proper drivers it's fine tho

[unreal valley]

Does pfesnse have a gui I would be able to log into?

[cobalt iris]

A web gui yes. You'll have to complete the setup tho first

There's lots of videos on how. Level1techs might have one

Wendell is one smart man but says things that are way over my head lol

[unreal valley]

Ok. Will look into it

Thx

Do you think the hardware is alright to use pfsense or too overkill?

[cobalt iris]

Kinda old cpu

While desktop/server cpus are good at being used as a router it's not what they are designed for. So typically the newer/faster the cpu you have the better it can handle traffic. Wendell did a video where they used an i5-12400 and he was impressed because it's performance cores are good

[unreal valley]

That's what I have to fit a 1U. Was trying to have it be its own system. No hypervisor. The rest of my systems are dual socket is 2697 V2s & V3s. Other than that I have gaming CPUs but I didn't know how to fit that into a rack if they are already in PC/gaming cases

[cobalt iris]

I'd use thr 2697s

Run proxmox or whatever hypervisor and virtualize pfsense.

[unreal valley]

I didn't know if that would cause issues. Thought I heard from somewhere that it would so I've been focused on the older hardware I have

[cobalt iris]

I havent personally done it yet but I don't see any issues lol

[unreal valley]

What is a good mix then of cores vs ram for 10gb speeds

[cobalt iris]

I'll be running Unraid with pfsense

You can just give it all cores and 8-16GB RAM is plenty. Storage doesn't really need much

[unreal valley]

I tend to use Proxmox because it has pretty seamless integration of CephFS for storage pools

[cobalt iris]

May want to disable hyper threading tho. It can cause issues sometimes

[unreal valley]

Duly noted

[pseudo blade]

It's wild overkill, you won't have to tune much for 2.5gbps, it's just that all the above hardware will waste power like mad while mostly idling

[alpine shore]

Hello, i personally use a virtualized pfSense as my home router. I've run into some bottlenecks which i've mostly resolve doing pci passtrough. You can also in some case suffer from degraded performance because of spectre and meltdown mitigation. You can run over that simply by putting hw.mds_disable=0 into your System Tunables wich are located in System > Advanced > System Tunables

Sorry if my message is inconsistent, my english is broken 😅

[pseudo blade]

I think that it's generally poor advice to unconditionally suggest people disable meltdown/spectre mitigations on a VM for performance.

[alpine shore]

If mitigated on the host there shouldn't be a problem i guess

[thick minnow]

how much would cost 200m of Optical Wire trough citypath

[nimble sable]

so here's something...my tablet (Lenovo Duet 5 Chromebook) is ONLY able to get 700Mbps whereas my phone using the same wifi network, same speedtest etc can get over 1Gbps

any idea why? that's an odd thing to happen (they're both on 5Ghz)

ok guys i have smthg weird happening which i CAN explain but that's not how i was taught wifi works

[meager ginkgo]

WiFi antenna

different antennas get different speeds

Same reason I can pull 940mbps over WiFi on a surface laptop go but only 550 Mbps on my MacBook Air

[nimble sable]

here's what i'm seeing. it gets weirder
1 device can connect to 2x2 160Mhz channel at full width on 5ghz. If an attempt is made to connect TWO devices for some reason they seem to BOTH pull down to 80Mhz channels and they both SHARE a single 2x2 80Mhz bandwidth

[meager ginkgo]

what access point are you using

[nimble sable]

so...what exactly am i getting for the extra 2x2 on my AP?

[nimble sable]

WAX630e

[meager ginkgo]

I’m not sure with that access point tbh. It may have something weird going on with the software

[nimble sable]

what precisely do i gain between a 5Ghz 2x2 AP vs a 5Ghz 4x4 AP?

[meager ginkgo]

if you have 4x4 clients you can get higher speeds

[nimble sable]

assuming i don't own anything that can do more than 2x2

[meager ginkgo]

you don’t really gain much in that case

afaik

[nimble sable]

ok so the thing abouut how "mu mimo means one can use 2x2 whiel the other uses the other 2x2" is NOT how it works? cuz thats what the netgear dude tells me and im hearing otherwise from the internets

[meager ginkgo]

I’m not an expert on WiFi haha. So I’m not 100% sure

[nimble sable]

same band btw, not 5G hi vs 5G lo

this makes sens because triband non 6Ghz APs have 5Ghz lo and 5ghz hi...the only reason they'd do that is to get a full 1200 on two devices at once

[meager ginkgo]

I just know that usually higher bandwidth (2x2 vs 4x4) lead to higher speeds on supported devices

[nimble sable]

ugh, i may have to finally give up on chromebooks and just get a microsoft surface or whatever. Hard enough to get a chromebook tablet, and they all have such poor wifi

[thick minnow]

for some reason, something is going on with our internet where webpages are slow to load on every device

DNS is Cloudflare (1.1.1.1), switching between it and Google Public DNS makes no difference

[thick minnow]

i should add: once loaded, they're fine

something...seems not correct about this dns time

found the problem: our isp's IPv6 is messed up, forced ipv4 and problem went away instantly

..or not, this is via PingPlotter. does that packet loss matter? that's the router btw

[peak cloak]

Huh interesting

I have the er-x and I have this issue with ipv6 and hardware nat acceleration turned on

With it off it's not an issue

I did some packet captures and I concluded it to be some issue with the way its handling tcp syn and ack packets. Don't remember the exact reason

[edgy ingot]

I have come into a lot of Cisco networking equipment, there are:
3x2911 routers
1x PoE 24 catalyst 3750G
1x PoE 48 catalyst 3750G
3x2811
1x2P11
2x2921
1x 2960 Catalyst 48
2xCyberPower CSW8RU

Are these of any sort of use? Can they be used for any sort of secondary/home function?

[mortal stratus]

all of it is out of warranty, so no more updated software, they also tend to be more power hungry being older, but depending on your current level of networking understanding, they can make a fun lab to play around with

eventually the more power friendly and cheaper optin to leran is to use something like EVE-ng/GNS3/CML to build labs and learn things, but there really is nothing like the feel of real hardware in your hands when starting out

[edgy ingot]

I was in CCNA in HS but never tested into it and didn’t really retain the info well, since it’s been ten years, but was thinking they could be fun, we’re a steal for free in my mind

[pseudo blade]

It's all ancient crap over a decade old and imminently leaving support, if you need a ton of gig ports on the cheap the 3750G's might be OK but other than that it's all pretty useless

If you want to relearn networking you will benefit from modern kit anyways, if you want Cisco specifically look at the simulation tools above, particularly Cisco Modeling Labs

[vale salmon]

is there any way for me to connect to my cisco router? i dont have a serial port on my pc (due to the fact that most pc's dont nowadays) and i dont have a cord from rj45 to serial... idk whether i should order a usb to rj45 to use the router?

[pseudo blade]

Is it new enough to have a MicroUSB serial port?

[vale salmon]

the router or pc?

[pseudo blade]

Router

[vale salmon]

no i dont think so

[pseudo blade]

You don't think so? What is the router specifically?

[vale salmon]

i believe its a 860 series

its an old one from my uncle he gave it to me so i could learn networking, he didnt use it anymore

[pseudo blade]

I guess you can learn basic networking on one but the 860s kinda suck (2 vlans, yay) and are also very old

You can buy Cisco rollover cables that go from USB, or buy a serial rollover and usb to serial adapter

[vale salmon]

the only problem was that i didnt know how to connect to it to access the console, becasue he didnt give me a manual or anything, just the router and power cord.

[vale salmon]

where, from amazon au? if so how much?

[pseudo blade]

Go look, idk where you are

[vale salmon]

.

[vale salmon]

would this work? - https://www.amazon.com.au/Console-Essential-Accesory-Ubiquity-Switches/dp/B01AFNBC3K/ref=sr_1_2?crid=13Z1V7OEDB4WL&keywords=cisco+rollover+cable&qid=1667360675&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIwLjAwIiwicXNhIjoiMC4wMCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=Cisco+rollover%2Caps%2C799&sr=8-2

[pseudo blade]

I'm sure it's not too hard to search Amazon yourself

Your link crashes my client

Should work?

[vale salmon]

i just put "cisco rollover cable" in amazon au and found "USB Console Cable USB to RJ45 Cable Essential Accesory of Cisco, NETGEAR, Ubiquity, LINKSYS, TP-Link Routers/Switches for Laptops in Windows, Mac, Linux (Blue)" its the first time ive done something like this before so i dont want to buy the cord to find out it dont work

[pseudo blade]

There's not much to go wrong there

[vale salmon]

ill try it then

thanks

[main tartan]

Ubiquiti goes brrr

My U6 Mesh access points arrived yesterday. One is sufficient for 2.4GHz coverage of the entire house xD. But imma install the next one when I’m back from work.

[hollow marlin]

That's about expected. Back to your original comment, you will not pull 1000/1000 over the internet on a gig link because as stated, there is overhead involved.

[clear igloo]

What do you mean overhead, I demand to speak to networks manager!!!

[tulip basin]

Hello, I bought a Xiaomi AX3000. I have it as a router + wifi to connect every device I have to it.

On the Xiaomi's WAN port I connected my modem/router (ZTE ZXHN H108N) also I have disabled wifi on my modem/router since I don't need it.

Do I need to do any configuration since they are 2 routers connected to each other or will it work with no issues at all?

[sudden kayak]

what modem? you should have no problem getting the full 1500Mbps

[pseudo blade]

I imagine the result of doing that without further configuration will be a double NAT, so you probably want to try to set the ZTE to bridge mode and use your Xiaomi as your edge router, as the ZTE's specs are awful and shouldn't be used for more than modem duties

[meager ginkgo]

I’m pretty sure they make you have XFi complete for the 200 up

[pseudo blade]

I really want to like the LtAP mini, I really do https://mikrotik.com/product/ltap_mini

But every time I go to use it in a project it falls ever so slightly short

It's a totally fine portable router with a PCIe slot and an ethernet interface, and if that's all you want it's a great option

I'm trying to offer some basic information about cellular signal to users but RouterOS's permissions are insufficiently granular to offer just modem stats without providing your entire config, and if you want to edit a few basic things you have to expose the ability to edit almost everything

[waxen scroll]

so query it on your backend and let the website display it

[pseudo blade]

It's a 4G modem, if users want stats it probably can't reach the backend because it's probably not in coverage range/no sim/troubleshooting

But Mikrotik doesn't offer container functionality on MIPS so I can't host it on device

[waxen scroll]

if its open source why not make a page that can be viewed with no login and package your own firmware

[pseudo blade]

Replace RouterOS with OpenWRT or similar?

[waxen scroll]

isnt router OS open source?

[pseudo blade]

No

It is built on Linux but the parts that make it RouterOS are closed-source and not distributed separately

There's multiple ways to get something together but it's either the hardware's not quite good enough (metarouter on 64mb boards isn't feasible) or it's RouterOS not quite doing what I want to make a product around it (insufficiently granular permissions, container not available on MIPS/MMIPS boards but they only have ARM in long-range radios+nonportable form factors)

And yeah providing a second board to run a backend along with this is kinda stupid when the idea is a small portable router with some smarts

It has USB but it's power in only and unlike all other products Mikrotik makes with that CPU doesn't offer data lines on its MicroUSB port because the mini pcie slot uses the one usb2 PHY offered by the SoC, and is power in only

[neat sage]

So i know i should know the answer to this but im running a 300 feet run of cat 6 cable from my house to my dads barn outback all inside then running it through conduit to get it out there but my question is do I need a booster on the line before it goes into the conduit or will i be fine with just a switch on the other side

[pseudo blade]

Should be fine

[neat sage]

So dont need a booster correct

[pseudo blade]

No

The only possible gotcha is the risk of a ground loop

[neat sage]

Which is what and how do I prevent because all were using it for out there is a router and streaming tv

[pseudo blade]

Oh and if your 300ft isn't the total length between your network switch/router in your house to the barn you should factor that in as > 28 ft will take you out of compliance

[neat sage]

No its the total length

Roughly

[pseudo blade]

As long as it's within 10%, spec is 328ft, it's not going to die at 329 feet but it won't be compliant and the further out of spec you take it the more likely something goes wrong

[neat sage]

Ok

[peak cloak]

Is the conduit metal or plastic?

[neat sage]

Plastic

[peak cloak]

Because I would be weary of running copper outside because of lightning risk

[pseudo blade]

If you're running cable anyways fiber's actually not much more expensive btw

[peak cloak]

Hmm, I would get shielded wire and ground it

Or fiber

[pseudo blade]

Basically when running ethernet cables between buildings you have to be careful about ensuring the cable is isolated so the cable shielding isn't connected to ground on both sides. The actual data pins are usually well shielded against this but the metal housing around the ports if connected to ground may cause current to pass through it if there is ground potential between the two buildings

[neat sage]

Ok and plastic is designed for direct barry metal is not and i know fiber isnt much more but i have no way of hooking up or running fiber i live in the country were still using coaxial cable to a modem to a router

[pseudo blade]

You misunderstand

You can get adapters that convert between ethernet and fiber optic

[peak cloak]

Yeah the whole point is for it to be electrically isolated

[pseudo blade]

So you end up with home router/switch > media converter > fiber > media converter > switch in barn

Because the whole lot running between buildings is fiber optic you can skip all the messy electrical problems

[neat sage]

Ok that makes sense

[peak cloak]

They look like this btw

[pseudo blade]

Yep, looks like that

[neat sage]

Ok

[pseudo blade]

And they're cheap as dirt

[neat sage]

Perfect now to get pricing

[pseudo blade]

You can use multimode optics and OM3/4 fiber at that distance easy

Have you already got a trench/conduit, by the way?

If not and you'd be paying to make that happen, consider using point-to-point wireless instead because it's cheaper and can be quite fast

[neat sage]

Yeah trench is dug and conduit in because we are running gas electric and wifi out there

[pseudo blade]

Neato

MC220L is very cheap, one for each side, then get a pair of gigabit 550M multimode optics for them, then your 100M OM3 cable

[cobalt iris]

I have it because it was the only way to have unlimited data. Just waiting for them to roll it out in my area

[pseudo blade]

Should work, I do not guarantee any of my advice though and suggest you do your own research.

Don't buy singlemode/OS fiber with multimode optics or vice-versa, don't buy longrange singlemode optics

[lean pebble]

What setup you guys suggest for home opensource router like opnsense with 10gig network card that I already own I need a case that can fit full size network card with 2 RJ-45 and 1x SFTP connection

[sudden kayak]

yeah :( for now at least. sorry

[sudden kayak]

why isn't openwrt an option here? I'm currently running a mikrotik hex and openwrt is great, runs perfectly and frees up a lot of customization

[pseudo blade]

It is an option.

But I will then have to test stability of the result, OpenWRT has published warnings for platforms with 64MB RAM, and I must do a few things that are otherwise done for me.

Seems openWRT support for this device isn't complete either, and specifically around the pcie slot I'm using - fixable I'm sure, but it's something to consider

Aiming to reinvent as few wheels as possible

Still quite likely worthwhile, the alternatives suck

[urban vault]

2.5g NIC PCIE recommendations ?

[cobalt iris]

Intel i225v

Or realtek 8125

[cobalt iris]

The actual brand will vary. Just check the ratings.

[urban vault]

okay thanks

[zealous ledge]

egg carton

[cobalt iris]

So many giant smooth teeth

[peak cloak]

Wut? Those 2 aren't correlated

Everyone is telling you, you can't get 1000/1000 on a gig link because of overhead

[nimble sable]

Rack setup etc can be done either way but as someone who recently tried to go that route it ended up being way more expensive than it was worth...ymmv ofc and it is cool but too much at least for me

[nimble sable]

on that note, can someone explain this please? How is that happening?

[peak cloak]

fast.com isn't the best

it like estimates

kinda

[nimble sable]

Ooh... Damn it has the best servers

[hollow marlin]

Yeah Netflix is compensating for overhead in their results. That said it's still reliable enough and the fact you can enable a run for a set amount of time is a nice touch

[rocky badge]

@peak cloak Apogee is a fucking joke

[ocean pivot]

I broke it

[cobalt iris]

I remember a long time ago if you refreshed speedtest and stopped it just in time it would sometimes bug out and say you have like 5gig+ lol

I was like "yup that's exactly what my DSL is capable of"

[ocean pivot]

I mean that's not far off my actual speed

[cobalt iris]

I'm thinking of signing up for Comcast 6gig but idk

[hardy python]

I would use speedtest.net for better estimates.

[crude scroll]

Hi, has anyone here used OpenWRT? I'm trying to setup my old router as a relay, but I can't get it to work

[faint bronze]

What device?

[crude scroll]

Its a netgear r8000 nighthawk

[faint bronze]

Did you find the directions? Here they are.
https://openwrt.org/toh/netgear/r8000

You download a file to your machine and then go to the nighthawk firmware upgrade and select the file.

[crude scroll]

The network I had connected the router to flashes between disabled and enabled every few seconds

So I got it to flash fine it seems, but when i try to create a relay bridge following the instructions on the openWRT wiki, it doesn't work

I tried pressing the reset button on the router and now I can't access the router settings at all. It tells me that the requested URL /webpages/login.html was not found on the server

[crude scroll]

So I tried doing a 30/30/30 reset with no luck

The lights are no longer flashing but I cannot access the router

[tulip basin]

Hello, I have a ZTE ZXHN H108N modem/router and a Xiaomi AX3000 router connected to each other. This has the issue of Double NAT (Confirmed with tracert as well).

I tried putting the ZTE in bridge mode but it doesn't have that option thought it has the option to disable NAT but it's greyed out (as can be seen in the 1st pic) so not really an option.

Checking the xiaomi, it doesn't have any options regarding NAT but it has a DMZ option. (as you can see in the 2nd pic)

The ZTE also has a DMZ option (as you can see in the 3rd pic)

I read on an article that DMZ can fix double NAT but I m not sure how to do it. I would be very thankful if you can help me fix my double nat issue.

---

PS I have made a reserved IP address in the ZTE for the Xiaomi if that helps.
PS2 I want the xiaomi as the main router as every device will be connected and managed there, for the ZTE I care only as a modem.

[peak cloak]

if you want that you need to put the ZTE in bridge mode aka disable NAT

you can't do anything on xiami regarding it, if you want it to be main router

[pseudo blade]

DMZ doesn't fix double nat

Just allows you to handle port-forwarding on the Xiaomi without having to do it twice

You might be best suited buying an ADSL2+ modem for your use case and connecting that to your new router

Or if you're feeling adventurous...

Your (ZTE)router apparently exposes telnet with creds: username:1234 password:1234

It's Linux underneath

[crude scroll]

OK so I managed to get into my router again after another 30/30/30 reset, I've set most of the settings to create a relay according to the openWRT wiki page, but when I try to ping openwrt.org it says bad address

[pseudo blade]

You might need to configure your router first

[crude scroll]

How so?

Just set it up normally first?

[tulip basin]

yeah but my issue is I dont know how to disable NAT on the ZTE

[tulip basin]

*sight* I guess I ll have to go on an adventure. Wish me luck xD

[peak cloak]

yeah ik, but that's the only way to achieve what you want

[agile thicket]

Hey LMG staff, I'm looking for a point to point wireless transmitter that does at least 10gbps. Directional is okay but if I could get omni that would be perfect. Are there any recommendations you have?

I only ask because I know Linus recently did this with your building infrastructure

[ebon sierra]

Can a USB-C port on the back of a TUF X570 motherboard provide wifi?

[agile thicket]

Only if it's connected to a wireless adapter

It can't act as an antenna if that's what you're thinking

[peak cloak]

Can look at unifi's and mikrotiks product lines

I personally never use p2p, but for 10gig that starts to stretch the limit

[agile thicket]

It's for 800 units spread over long distances with multiple connection points

[peak cloak]

WISP?

[agile thicket]

I was curious about what product they use

Nope, it's basically to connect different server rooms together

Instead of trenching a bunch of conduit

It's a full fibre network

[peak cloak]

Ltt didn't have a good experience with wireless

Your use case warrants direct fiber connections

[agile thicket]

Yup I know

I was requested by my higher ups to explore different options

My issue right now is the 10gbps units I've found have 1gbps or 2.5 gbps ethernet ports

Which makes no sense XD

[peak cloak]

unifi makes some with sfp+ no?

[agile thicket]

I'm not sure, I'm looking around

https://ca.store.ui.com/ca/en/collections/recently-added-products/products/airfiber-60-hd

This is potentially a good option I think

[glacial linden]

Well. OCI is being quite annoying now... Restarted the server after 46 days, perfection. Everything working perfectly even after the restart - no problems. After a certain time of day, my networking stops working, everything just stops working. I have no clue why. Finally upon troubleshooting a lot of stuff, found out that vnic has no internal ipv4 and I changed absolutely nothing... No amount of configs or even manually re-assigning the same exact ipv4 is working... Internal ipv4 is assigned, services can bind to it but can't be reached externally whatsoever. I create an alt vnic and try it - that one works??? This was an ephermal IPv4 = it'll change if I reassign it = I'll have to update the IPv4 on all my domain names and re-enable SSL on it with certbot all over again.

WHY?

Even in the logs of my services I can see - regular sync working, relay servers accepting clients, etc... at 1:37pm - bam - errors. Everywhere. Relay server throws errors and dies, nginx throws errors and dies, I notice it heavily because private DNS on android + SimpleDNScrypt on windows on all my devices everywhere simply stops loading anything at all.

100% sure something was messed up on oracle's side, my config was perfect.

[agile thicket]

First question

Is your IP config set with the correct subnet?

Did you also add valid DNS options and a valid gateway?

The DNS and Gateway sometimes doesn't apply correctly so the traffic is like "Wtf, what is this?"

[glacial linden]

Yes and yes. Here's the thing -- it was working perfectly until certain time of day

[agile thicket]

Try changing your DNS to 8.8.8.8

and see if that works

[glacial linden]

It does

[agile thicket]

Then you have a DNS issue

Your network is likely fine

[glacial linden]

-.- my self hosted pihole + unbound DNS server on my VPS stopped working because the VNIC's internal IPv4 disappeared for no reason

I manually set it up for all my devices myself and to have a full log of all accessed domains

[glacial linden]

Yes. My own network is fine. Network for all my devices is fine. Oracle Cloud VPS that I have is the issue

[agile thicket]

Their admin team could have made a configuration change on their virtual switch settings hosting your virtual environment

That's why cloud hosted stuff can be a PITA. Because at times, when hardware changes happen or a glitch happens that impacts that. It can cause all virtual appliances hosted on that machine to wipe their information

Essentially the machine sees it as a new card instead of seeing it as the same card

I recommend contacting Oracle about it

[glacial linden]

That'll take days of back and forth on email

[agile thicket]

It's not a common issue but it does happen

Yea, welcome to my life lol

[glacial linden]

I need things to work right now... Had to delete and create another vnic so I can configure it myself

Not expected from cloud services...

[agile thicket]

It's not a common occurrence

[glacial linden]

Glad that the primary vnic is still working so atleast I can ssh into it

New created vnic works fine. No idea why it couldn't connect even when I manually reconfigured the ips and ran their script too.

Time to update everything to the new IP...

[agile thicket]

Have fun

[glacial linden]

wasted 4 hours of this day 😂 learned a lot though...
Didn't take much long to fix this either. Im already done fixing

Back up and running

[agile thicket]

Awesome!

[edgy ingot]

I know I’m a filthy casual but does this have any merit? Is it actually quick? Using a mesh Wi-Fi system

[latent glen]

decent enough, not like youll be using more than that

for resolution i mean

[unreal valley]

Does anyone have any suggestions for studying guides/practice for the Comptia Netowork+?

[cobalt iris]

Professor Messer videos for learning part

[unreal valley]

Would it be more beneficial (time/money) to aim for the CCNA if that is what I want to get in the end?

[cobalt iris]

Not sure. Some don't recommend any certs and just find someone that will teach you. But the Network+ is vender neutral so it might help while Cisco ones will only really apply to Cisco. I might get network+ and get ccna later

[unreal valley]

Ok. Thx

[magic forge]

does anyone know a good x86 box (with ECC) (like these pfsense router) with multiple ethernet or pice extensions for for adding multiple Ethernets?
I found something like Supermicro Mini-Tower

[cobalt iris]

Why do you need multiple ports

[unborn sluice]

Moar ports

[pseudo blade]

Is routing the primary goal for the box or is it also a hypervisor? What scale, ram, storage, CPU perf is needed?...

Because you've basically asked for "any computer" at this point bar the ECC ask

[magic forge]

low power for infrastructure services, and maybe it runs security onion

https://docs.securityonion.net/en/2.3/hardware.html

[pseudo blade]

What throughput do you need?

It can be a bit hard to size an IDS/IPS because obviously your ruleset has a massive impact

But if you're talking like 200mbps it's super easy

[magic forge]

it is for really small office with few computers.

[wintry pike]

Is wireguard e2e encrypted?

[cobalt iris]

If that's all you need then you only need 2 ports. 1 WAN and other LAN going to a switch

Making pfsense use different ports with multiple lans and all the devices plugged into it is more complicated than just using a switch

[pseudo blade]

Wireguard requires encryption for connections, wireguard connections are therefore inherently "end to end encrypted". But what you do with that's on you. If your client or target on either end is outside the encrypted tunnel, say a network or the internet, your connection to that resource is not end-to-end encrypted, because the encrypted tunnel stops before the "end".

[wintry pike]

I'm using it like this
wg client -> internet (isp nat) -> home router (wan to lan nat) -> wg server

I would like to avoid DPI on the isp side, any anything in between

[pseudo blade]

You're not going to avoid DPI (they'll know it's wireguard), but they can't decrypt the connection or view the tunnelled contents in that scenario.

[wintry pike]

So, am I safe in my current wireguard config?

[pseudo blade]

If all resources you're accessing are on the Wireguard server and nowhere else, and that server is secure? Sure.

[waxen scroll]

big brains only

[faint bronze]

Another example of not end to end is a single wire guard host at let's say Google cloud or AWS and clients that connect to that. By default of one of those clients connects to another it is not end to end encrypted, but instead end to host then host to end encrypted.

[pseudo blade]

Because it's decrypted in the middle on the wireguard server yes

Whether or not that is an unacceptable security risk depends on your needs and ability to secure said wireguard server

[faint bronze]

Hypothetically you could set up another second layer of wire guard to get end to end encrypted.

[sudden kayak]

"end to end" is misused a lot in marketing for consumer apps like chat or document sharing. the thing you should be worrying about in the context of networking infrastructure/wireguard tunnels is whether the traffic is visible to untrusted parties

you have to understand your actual threat model. if your traffic is encrypted everywhere except in memory by the wireguard server you operate, you probably shouldn't be worried

truly end to end encrypted traffic is important if your traffic is passing through someone else's infrastructure and you don't necessarily trust them

[peak cloak]

Wdym by safe

Because just raw https can be considered safe

[wintry pike]

It's my home lan

[wintry pike]

i use a local unbound container for my dns queries

So I just want my dns requests and all traffic to be not visible, save for the target

[peak cloak]

Just use DNS over https

If that's your goal

[wintry pike]

Not just dns over https, all the other protocols too

[wintry pike]

Yep, that's what's happening. Phone -> isp -> home

[sudden kayak]

i don't think that's what's happening. what i mean is that your traffic is not technically end to end encrypted, but the only place it's not encrypted is your own infrastructure

if you're trying to use your home network as a vpn relay and then the traffic is going back out through your normal connection over HTTPS to the target website, it's meaningless anyway

[thick minnow]

are you trying to use your home unbound container?

[hollow marlin]

I can tell you that most ISPs are not using DPI on customer traffic. The cost to do that at scale doesn't make sense. When it is done, it's offered as a paid service and usually only for business customers.

At most you're just obfuscating your traffic from netflow as it's just going to show the tunnel endpoints.

[thick minnow]

also depending on where you live there are pretty strict data laws on isps

[wintry pike]

I see

[wintry pike]

I live in the country of asia

[cobalt iris]

That's not a country

[glacial linden]

ProtonVPN custom DNS doesn't work 😐

[magic forge]

so you want to connect to home in which it is connected to a different ISP in same country? or different country?

[wintry pike]

Well, both

If I travel to a country whose government dastardly bans vpns, I need a way to obfuscate the information

[steep tartan]

yo Im trying to study for comptia network + exam N10-008, does any one know any good resources?
[4:11 PM]
or where I can get free exam study guide?

[nimble sable]

Anyone use Netgears "insight"

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo @peak cloak I almost accidentially shutdown both DNS servers at home lol

[clear igloo]

[feral cipher]

Couldn't figure out why my new phone stopped connecting to my home WIFI after a few weeks of use, turns out it is set to randomize MACs on each connection and used up all of my DHCP address space. Guess I'll have to drop the lease time, but clearing the old leases is a pain.

[rocky badge]

What phone

@feral cipher

[feral cipher]

Pixel 6. But I'm testing GrapheneOS on it so that may not be a default function. I think stock android randomizes the MAC but keeps it the same each time it connects to a certain network. Graphene defauts to random Mac every time but you can change it per network.

[rocky badge]

yeah I know stock Android and iOS just do random MAC per SSID

[feral cipher]

Yeah I changed it to not randomize on my home network but I still have to clear the old leases. And I'm (unrelatedly) probably not gonna stay on graphene but try Calyx instead.

[pseudo blade]

Thermal soak testing modem

[thick minnow]

24 GB?? dang

[steep root]

cries in 500 kb/s - 1 mb/s

[agile jay]

sheesh

[agile jay]

sheesh

[inland zenith]

SaskTell is supposed to come put in direct fiber next month for symmetrical 2GB

But its the third time they have promised to come out so im not hopfull

[agile jay]

lol, i live in the uk my isp is a virgin. so i got the 1gb fibre package

[inland zenith]

Thats your "1gb" plan?

[pseudo blade]

I wish I could get affordable symmetrical fiber

Because it's that or $109 for 100mbps down/40mbps up, everything between is priced in a similarly useless way

I'd say maybe in 2040

[wintry fiber]

Welcome to NBN

You can get 1000/1000 on other provider.

[waxen scroll]

thats affordable. its a business product, afterall

[pseudo blade]

Yeah but there is no consumer product

[inland zenith]

The 2G is $135

But its costing me $1200 for the line

[pseudo blade]

Other providers are much the same because they all resell the same product

Even 100/40 is now classified as a business service, pricing is pushing consumers to 100/20

[inland zenith]

Its crazy how variable internet cost is from place to place

[waxen scroll]

because the bulk of the cost is the physical link

[pseudo blade]

crazy how variable costs are Not really, it was highly political in Australia so they rolled out VDSL+HFC on DOCSIS 3 instead of fiber, crippling our digital infrastructure

[waxen scroll]

they did this in the US too. they got money for fiber and all they did was to the curb and then convert to vdsl

[pseudo blade]

The US has far greater percentages of people on affordable high speed plans

[waxen scroll]

ATT has been running fiber for years and claiming "in your area soon"

[pseudo blade]

It's not even close

[waxen scroll]

@hollow marlin comcast is doing 200mbit up and my friend is all excited asking if im getting it. No. 10mbit up is fine why would I pay more and be required to use a comcast modem?

[vast shard]

Mine is over a 1 GB and it all depend on the type of modem and router you are using. Configuration is the "KEY"

[vast shard]

I have 1000 Down and like 100 Up

Depending on locations of Provider

[agile jay]

Ye

[sudden kayak]

this is just to start with b/c of the issues w/ coam equipment supporting mid split

it may still require the xfi complete addon but the intention isn't to gate it behind actually using the rental gateway

also even now, you should still be able to get xfi complete and an xb8 and use it in bridge mode and surprisingly it's not even that bad a deal for a modem w/ 2.5GbE

[cobalt iris]

XB7 has 2.5g and I have it in bridge mode

Biggest difference between 7 and 8 is wifi 6e

DOCSIS 4.0 modems supposed to start rolling out next year and should have 5-10g ports

[tall pagoda]

Anyone else here recieved this email?

[rocky badge]

@waxen scroll @clear igloo

bruh

[waxen scroll]

thats nothing. the old minecraft used 1-5mbit/s per user

I used to sweat buckets because my colo only allowed 1mbit/s 95 percentile

[waxen scroll]

wheres lurick and my invite to the minecraft

[glacial linden]

what software is this 👀

[rocky badge]

my router

[glacial linden]

Monitoring port 25565? (how it determines minecraft traffic)

[rocky badge]

by the firewall rule

[sudden kayak]

xb8 also has thread/matter support theoretically

[raven falcon]

dumb question but:

do I need fast internet speeds to stream from my PC to my VR headset in another room? or do I just need a fast router?

[glacial linden]

Localnetwork so your ISP can be just 1 Mbps and it won't matter. If you have a router with better bandwidth (1 Gbps) it'll be better

1 Gbps routers are quite common now and not that expensive