networking

[snow anchor]

sadly I cant have an ethernet cable running across the house.

I have an eero mesh network and im considering buying another one and putting it in my room and just using it for ethernet to my pc but do yall have any other ideas?

[agile iris]

Are you open to using one of the Ethernet over power setups?

[opal pagoda]

do you have coax in your walls
if yes then moca
if no then powerline

[agile iris]

Relevant video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0vy1VzFbf8

Linus did good coverage for Coltons house on the various options

[sage crow]

Could always run it under the house if you have a crawl space

If not a mesh system is probably your best bet but still not as fast

[fleet gate]

ok is it normal for the ping to keep spiking like this? i asked earlier and someone said it was normal. im 30 miles from the data center

the technician who came out yesterday gave me a new wifi box(which looking at it, isnt new and is instead from 2017), changed some cabling and looked at the cable box outside and rectified all issues yet im getting constant dropouts

its taking like 30 seconds to even load ookla speedtest

[agile iris]

No where near normal. Although the Ookla speed test being slow to load is not abnormal, I have google fiber and it can still be slow to load at times. If you are on a Cable provider with Coax, it could be many things. If you are on wifi, could be that, but ISP wise it could be the ISPs head-end hub, it could be a coupler or a splitter, it could be at the tap, etc. It can be really hard to diagnose the issue without more diagnostics. If you do a ping or a trace route, you can often times get a hint of where the drops happen, you can do a packet capture and sorta see there. But a ping itself is not gonna help diagnose much.

[fleet gate]

coax wise he checked all of the connections inside of the house and external as his system showed a few faults. so i know the coax connection is all good

one second the connection is good, next the whole lot just goes down, excluding wired devices

and on the hubs self test it says 90 percent of the wireless devices have poor signal strength, even when your in the next room along or even in the same room

just done another test and look

normal again

[agile iris]

Are you able to connect to the device wired and run a few tests and see what happens?

[fleet gate]

the only tests i can do are on the hubs control pannel, which i can connect to wirelessly

even so because its an isp router, its pretty locked down. i had no issues with the netgear one i used to have from them. but since theyve changed to arris and ive had issues with them since. this is the 3rd hub 3 ive had now. but they dont wanna give me the new hub 5

[agile iris]

So, I would see if there is anything you can connect directly to the ISPs modem/router and see if you are still getting that issue. Unless that is what you mean by Hubs control panel. But a hard wire to their device will let you get the best test. But a trace route will also give you a slight possibility of seeing where the drop happens, but it wont identify if that route itself is the drop, or if your wifi just happened to drop you at that time. But its hard to say if its wifi or not without a hard wire test.

If you plug your wire directly into the ISP modem/router and then do a test, like trace route, it will give you a better sense of where the issue might exist. Could be the ISP, could be whereever the specific colo they share is, etc.

But a real diagnostic would require a service technician who cares enough to not just shove another modem at you and walk away

[fleet gate]

ohh i get what your on about

seeing if theres any connection issues between the isp's datacenter and my router?

if thats what your reffering to, he checked that and rectified it. as there were 3 faults but the lots showing green now

If you still think something is wrong, please check the following
1 Gateway IPv4 address is valid.
2 Your broadband connection is working.
3 Your broadband connection is ready.
4 The temperature of your Hub 3.0 is normal.
5 The status of telephone line 1 is not ready.
6 The status of telephone line 2 is not ready.
7 The device ec:8a:c4:5d:14:89 has low signal strength, please move it closer to Hub 3.0.
8 The device 10:09:f9:46:6c:5c has low signal strength, please move it closer to Hub 3.0.
9 The device cc:d3:c1:7c:54:6b has low signal strength, please move it closer to Hub 3.0.
10 The device 1c:12:b0:59:4b:cc has low signal strength, please move it closer to Hub 3.0.
11 The device 08:a6:bc:1a:47:06 has low signal strength, please move it closer to Hub 3.0.
12 The device ce:05:ed:63:84:c7 has low signal strength, please move it closer to Hub 3.0.
13 The device b2:c6:c7:79:fc:49 has low signal strength, please move it closer to Hub 3.0.
14 The device fe:37:48:26:4b:88 has low signal strength, please move it closer to Hub 3.0.
15 The device b2:16:87:b2:28:84 has low signal strength, please move it closer to Hub 3.0.
16 The device f2:75:72:6a:39:f6 has low signal strength, please move it closer to Hub 3.0.
17 The device 12:e0:7f:f4:b6:3d has low signal strength, please move it closer to Hub 3.0.
18 Please place your WiFi device near the Hub 3.0.

thats all the test is throwing at me

[agile iris]

So yeah seems like Wifi is more of the issue. Might be worth looking into some sort of wireless AP device you can connect to it or something like an eero device to extend it

[fleet gate]

do you think fighting for a brand new router is a better shot? i never had issues with the old hub 1. no drop outs or anything like that

thing lasted 10 years until it cut

[agile iris]

Its worth a shot, just depends on if its a design flaw or a one off issue with that device

[fleet gate]

where as since ive had the hub 3 all it wants to do is cause an issue

[fleet gate]

i mean its the 3rd one ive had now because of issues

[agile iris]

Might be worth just investing in an AP or wifi extender or something sort, or look at the ethernet over AC adapters to add more wired capability to your device.

[fleet gate]

thing is with all the issues its reporting, id practically need an extender here there and everywhere

im gonna try pushing for a hub 5 first of all, then seeing if im having issues with that, or even a hub 4 as ive not seen one person say theyve had an issue with it

[agile iris]

Well it depends on the issue and space. If the issue is its a really crappy wifi chipset/module, then one good wireless AP/extender can solve it. You can also buy a different, 3rd party router with Wifi to plug in and serve you wifi instead (something like a TP Link, NetGear, LinkSys, etc)

But will depend on your apetite for expense

[fleet gate]

yeah, thing is they used to use netgear, but then cheaped out and went with arris

used to be netgear for the wifi boxes, and cisco for the tv boxes

and now its arris for the lot and were on the 2nd downstairs tv box(which we dont have much issues with at all) and the 3rd hub box which fails so much its not even a joke

guy who had the same issue with me posted this in virgins forums

[devout scaffold]

nope, it isn't

what package are you on?

even though virgin has an abysmal network, it's not that bad

[fleet gate]

been on m125 since we joined virgin

never had an issue with the superhub 1, but superhub 3 has just been constant issues

[devout scaffold]

if you see consistent latency spikes it usually means interference at some point in the chain
could be a dodgy cable that someone has installed on the street or somewhere in the chain leading up to you for all we know

[fleet gate]

only ever had 1 superhub 1 which lasted 10 years

[devout scaffold]

SH3 is meh

[fleet gate]

the tech yesterday checked it all and fixed the faults

[devout scaffold]

the next time you get an engineer called out, ask for a Hub 4

[fleet gate]

tried my luck yesteday and he said its chargable

[devout scaffold]

worth it

Hub 4's are solid most of the time, despite being on puma

[fleet gate]

is the 5 better than the 4 do you know?

[devout scaffold]

yes but it's only being given out to a select few due to stock and chip shortages

I'm one of the lucky few and I had to go through hell to get it :^)

[fleet gate]

gonna ring nd play mary hell and say the tech has checked all other points of error, replaced the hub and its still happening and i want a 5 because its the 3rd hub 3 with an issue

yes the house is fully made of concrete

yes the house is larger than average. but when i had the hub one no issues at all, and you could get signal out on the street. hub 3 you cant

[devout scaffold]

the only reason I managed to get a Hub 5 is because I played on the fact that previous hubs only had 1G ports on the back, the 5 has a single 2.5G port

in your case, it's very unlikely that you'll get a Hub 5, but the Hub 4 is solid and there's a somewhat decent chance you'll be able to get it

[fleet gate]

what package are you on though?

[devout scaffold]

Gig1

[fleet gate]

yeah, apparently hub 4s and 5s are only for people on gig 1

[devout scaffold]

should be 1.25Gbit/s

[devout scaffold]

yeah because of DOCSIS 3.1

[fleet gate]

if they wanna book an engineer then its gonna be another long week

can only do the appointments on saturdays

[devout scaffold]

funnily enough, a painter tripped over our coax cable 4 days ago, and we managed to get a tech out the very next day in the morning to fix it

[fleet gate]

even though my dad or my sisters home, they just chat shit to them and nothing gets donw

[fleet gate]

haha, we just bought one of amazon when we were rearranging the upstairs bedroom for the tv box, has been a tank

[devout scaffold]

yeah you shouldn't really do that

I did the same and had constant issues with packet loss and latency at some point afterwards, it wasn't immediate but that cable played a massive part in the issues despite them not being immediately visible after installation

that's why I had the tech out to take a look, it ended up being a combination of that cable and an area-wide fault with interference on one of the more sensitive bands

managed to get a Hub 5 in the same visit, guy was super nice which is a change (and is the same one that came out to fix that coax cable a few days ago!)

[fleet gate]

fair enough, but to be fair that cables been in before we got a hub 3, so dont see that could be an issue

[devout scaffold]

fun fact, there was a fella a long time ago when CRT's were still a thing, that managed to knock off an entire neighbourhood's internet every time he turned his TV on

because the TV was interfering with the coax, and that interference travelled upstream and affected everyone else

[fleet gate]

ive had more issues with the call centers abroad on the phone trying to sell me wifi extenders, all the techs have been nice. but even they say i shouldnt need any of them

[devout scaffold]

VM's high-level support is dogshit I'll give you that

absolutely fucking useless

[fleet gate]

i know

[devout scaffold]

the only thing they're useful for is booking an engineer, other times you get bullshit responses

I'll see if I can find some old screenshots to show everyone here, I'm sure we'll all get a kick out of it

[fleet gate]

literally had one guy telling me to try moving the router into a different room, but how can you when the coax goes into one room from upstairs?

[fleet gate]

then sat there for 10 mins trying to get me to pay an extra tenner a month for a wifi extender, i shut him down on it, he agreed what i said made sense and that i didnt need one. 2 minuites later hes giving me the sales pitch again

[devout scaffold]

most of the talk in this one about the priority shit for the Hub 5 is completely false btw

there's no priority list like that at all, confirmed by someone at VM

"this will definitely fix the issue" - except that it didn't

[fleet gate]

theres no priority list, they just wanna be cheap and buy the least possible

thing is right, our 5g router at work has a more reliable connection compared to my router at home

connections not as fast but the fucking things reliable

weve had it for 8 months and not once has the thing gone down or had to be restarted

[devout scaffold]

this is what I was dealing with btw
note the latency on the 14th in the last screenshot

[fleet gate]

so very simular to mine in a way then

just spikes constantly

[devout scaffold]

the red is packet loss btw

[fleet gate]

nvm thats worse lol

[devout scaffold]

and then you'd have the days where there's no packet loss but there's this frequently happening in waves

and this

[fleet gate]

yeah ive had no packet loss just latency spikes constantly

doubt the one ive got now is gonna last long before it gets to that point

[devout scaffold]

I'm really wanting this local altnet to build to my street finally so I can only spend 30/mo for unmetered symmetrical gigabit

compared to 120/mo for shitty copper that only works 70% of the time

[fleet gate]

you live in lincolnshire im guessing?

[devout scaffold]

nah, wales

[fleet gate]

ohhh

im moving to sunny skeg vegas soon and im getting 40/month for 1000 up and down

[devout scaffold]

they're live one street away and have been waiting for licensing from the power company here to run their fibre through my street

[fleet gate]

even offered me a job when i was on the phone with them seeing if its available there yet

[devout scaffold]

not bad, what provider?

[fleet gate]

shouldnt be long, when i was on the phone with them it normally takes about 2 weeks to get the licensing, but then were on about lincolnshire

[fleet gate]

lightspeed

[devout scaffold]

oh it's been months here

I've had to resort to talking directly with the CEO on LinkedIn of all places to get updates on it

the sales team (no offense) are useless

far better than virgin, still

[fleet gate]

to be fair, i work in sales and direct marketing, and some people are shocking, depends on who you get through to, prior experience with it all etc

[devout scaffold]

they basically just tell me that there's no plans for my area, but I know that there are, because they are quite literally one street away

[fleet gate]

i trained a polish lad at work who english was his second language, after 2 days of training managed to net in 13 grands worth of business from 4 sales

[devout scaffold]

not bad

[fleet gate]

baring in mind he was doing door to door lol

[devout scaffold]

that's a lot of work

[devout scaffold]

did that say nokia?!

whistl is typing...

[fleet gate]

gotta love the 4 messages coming through at once

forgot to mention receiving whatsapp messages tanks the network

[devout scaffold]

sounds like ass cheeks

you might be able to get more done by complaining on the VM forums

there's some knowledgeable people there that could debug your router stats and tell you if there's any interference still

[fleet gate]

worth a shout, things just aint going my way atm

had shit wifi for a few months and only just getting around to getting it all looked at and fixed

and a graphics card fire

whats the 3rd in the chain of bad tech luc

[devout scaffold]

a shit ISP

apparently

[fleet gate]

im tempted to pull the "i dont want the wifi anymore"

[thick minnow]

Pro tip: Using traceroute to figure out where a connection goes is useful. Using TCP traceroute is useful for determining if a firewall, and which one, is blocking your application. In supporting 500+ applications across a cloud of thousands of servers, we often run into firewall problems. The default Linux "traceroute" uses UDP (Windows tracert uses ICMP) to try and trace a network path. This doesn't always work, because routers and firewalls often block those protocols.

If you run "sudo traceroute -T -p 443 www.example.com" it will use TCP SYN packets to track the route, mimicing any TCP client. If you have a firewall blocking you by dropping your packets, it'll help you figure which one. If you can traceroute to port 80 or 443 but not 8081 (or whatever), now you have evidence to show your WAN or security teams where the problem occurs.

[devout scaffold]

BT have also cancelled their plans to run fibre here too

[fleet gate]

that normally gets them to make the plan cheaper and gets their arses into gear

[devout scaffold]

which is surprising because they've got copper here and they had plans from anytime between now and 2026

[devout scaffold]

the broadband you mean?

[fleet gate]

when we moved we told them were moving over to sky and that then triggered them to give us free sky sports and were paying 89/month

[fleet gate]

yeah

[devout scaffold]

they won't let you do that, you can't have any virgin services without broadband now

[fleet gate]

guess its over to talk talk then lol

[devout scaffold]

when I was planning our move to altnet I was told the same, we can't keep TV and ditch broadband

so my new plan is to run both virgin and altnet, and use virgin for backup

[fleet gate]

just go for the cheapest package

[devout scaffold]

use the UDM Pro to route virgin devices through the virgin connection

since its on 3.0 now

[devout scaffold]

yeah

I mean, I was considering BT too, but it's just straight copper with 40Mbit/s down

faster than LTE mind you

[fleet gate]

true but then also depends on area

[devout scaffold]

aye

there's a hotspot here for 5G, but its 3G through walls

so using LTE for backup does work, it's just very slow

[fleet gate]

yeah so no point going to i think its sky

where it has the backup on 5g

when fiber goes down

[devout scaffold]

I've got my own thing

having a rack full of ubiquiti stuff comes in handy

this is what I use for LTE backup
https://eu.store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-wireless/products/unifi-lte-pro

[fleet gate]

nice

shame theres no room to put any kit like that in my house

without some tomfuckery atleast, and can only get 4g in my area at a very low signal, like 2 bars most

even so im gonna head off to the grave because work tomorrow

have a gooden lads

[gusty storm]

they told us we could, but for a solid 50 more 😂

[devout scaffold]

why am I not surprised

[devout scaffold]

you too, I'll probably follow suit in a bit

[fleet gate]

thats funny, anyways im probs gonna pull the i want a hub 5 and if not then im leaving bs with em tomorrow

see if i can get a reduction on the already discounted price ive got and the new hub

[gusty storm]

let me know if it's any good, we were gonna get one until i decided it's cheaper to pay the max cancellation fine and switch to a local fibre optic company

[fleet gate]

will do

anyways night lads

[devout scaffold]

I'd stick with it

Virgin really isn't worth the time and energy anymore

maybe when project lightning comes around

[gusty storm]

Oh in our case it was totally not worth it, we were paying 39 ish for 200/20, then they decided they can bump us to 108 after the contract ended. We signed a contract for 49 but then the local company came around and since we registered interest they gave us a 14.50 for 900/900 offer. So once the fine's paid off, it's massively cheaper

[devout scaffold]

the sad thing is that, if you want symmetrical gigabit, your only choice is altnet

BT and Virgin both only offer 1000/200-ish

[gusty storm]

yeah I heard, and the prices aren't great

[devout scaffold]

yep

[gusty storm]

though I dunno if anyone really needs more than 200 upload

[devout scaffold]

virgin are shaking in their boots

[devout scaffold]

it's just a nice to have

why limit people if they aren't going to use it anyway

[gusty storm]

yeah that's fair

[devout scaffold]

even business plans don't actually give symmetrical

[agile iris]

It's a limit of docis 3

And the typical house coax lines

[devout scaffold]

I was talking about FTTP with the big two providers here

Even with proper fibre, they don’t offer symmetrical

[agile iris]

Ah yeah, Even with Google I get two down and one up

[peak cloak]

kinda

ISPs could provide symetric, but it would reduce download

[agile iris]

Ah makes sense, which people do care more about

Seeing as I am gonna be moving away from a place with Google in a couple years, hoping DOCSIS 4 becomes standard whereever I live

[glass glacier]

Spectrum is starting to roll out FTTP

[rocky badge]

@peak cloak I hate that Windows won't let you create a hotspot without Internet on that interface

[clear socket]

Is anyone here that's good/familiar with Tailscale & Pihole on TrueNAS Scale? I really need some help. 😅

[pseudo blade]

I'd create a #1027757333117415424 thread for it unless you have a single question to have answered.

[soft ridge]

which is better for long range ?

this one :
https://www.amazon.com/Ubit-5400Mbps-Wireless-Ultra-Low-Supports/dp/B07XM6XZ1F/ref=sr_1_3?crid=4ASBNN7ZBUJ8&keywords=ubit%2Bwifi%2Bcard%2B6e&qid=1679905777&sprefix=ubit%2Bwifi%2Bcard%2B6e%2Caps%2C512&sr=8-3&th=1

or this:
https://www.amazon.sa/dp/B01H9QMOMY?tag=bgfg-pcguide09-21&geniuslink=true&th=1

the second one is "ASUS PCE-AC88"

[opaque stirrup]

i mean just a guess but the second one has 4 antennas and can be positioned better than the other card

[fleet gate]

Love when tech support refuse to do anything èxcept changing frequencies and make the issue worse

[devout scaffold]

they don't change frequencies

it's all placebo

[fleet gate]

"There's no fault with the router"

[devout scaffold]

they tell you what you want to hear in order for them to mark another call as successful

[fleet gate]

I know but he won't do anything else until I'm home

[devout scaffold]

the best part is when they tell you to run a speedtest using samknows while knowing that your box is in bridge mode

[fleet gate]

Exactly. I told him that I was using ookla and he's like that's right

[fleet gate]

Telling me to reset and reboot a box that's only been installed for less than 48 hours

And that was the floor manager telling me that

After I got off discord last night I was on YouTube shorts, and literally couldn't watch that for longer than 2 minuites without it going down and switching to mobile data

[devout scaffold]

send this on the VM forums in your post, and make sure you send a snapshot version from TBB and a "live" or "realtime" version

[fleet gate]

Will do

[soft ridge]

I need help with this

Anyone knows about wifi cards help me pls

[clear socket]

I did open a thread and no one answered. Just have one question though. Is it possible to use Pihole as a DNS for Tailscale when they both are running on TrueNAS. I can get it to work for my local network. But as soon as I set my phone to data it breaks the DNS IP.

The only way I can see to do that is running a Tailscale instance inside of the Pihole docker container in TrueNAS. But I'm not familiar enough with TrueNAS or Docker to say for sure how to do that. Just looking for suggestions. Thanks!

[peak cloak]

Wdym by "for tailscale"

Your tailscale network?

[clear socket]

Yah. In your Tailscale VPN you can set it to use a specific DNS IP.

My apologies, I mean the nameserver that Tailscale uses to resolve DNS.

[peak cloak]

I assume you would add the pihole as a tailscale device and then set it's tailscale IP as the tailscale network's nameserver

[clear socket]

Right. However that requires running Tailscale inside the docker container. I don't really know anything about that.

[peak cloak]

You can do that

There are other ways but that would require setting up a tailscale subnet router

[clear socket]

I tried setting a subnet router but I can't get it working. If there's some documentation you could send or a YT video about either method that you would recommend, that would be great. Otherwise I'm at work rn. So Ill have to continue convo this evening.

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo lol https://community.ui.com/questions/U6-Pro-US-PoE-Requirement-Missing-Another-misprint-on-their-website-again/a3d4cc4d-58cf-4e6c-bbd5-a97daa875999#answer/cc14c855-b7dd-4e09-8388-9bb193a43954

The APs were silkscreened with PoE+ but they only need PoE

[agile iris]

I am in such a conflicting spot with UBNT. On the one hand, theres no real other good consume level that provides products like they do (Aruba is a no), at the same time, their inventory (always out of stock) , quality assurance, and constantly rotating inventory stock of new and deprecation of products makes it really hard to care. I say this as I am about to push order on a dream machine pro SE

[peak cloak]

Omada is kinda a competitor

Especially in the wireless space

[agile iris]

Do they sell to consumers? I can't see any pricing on their website. Or is it through partners only?

Oh its owned by TP Link

[peak cloak]

Yes

I have their APs

You can buy on Amazon

[agile iris]

I might be sold... This is a damn good deal vs UBNTs offerings... https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-TL-SG2428P-Jetstream-Integrated-Protection/dp/B08J9LW6N6/

[peak cloak]

Never used thier switches

Don't know how good they are

[agile iris]

100 bucks cheaper than Unifi alternative with more SFP ports.

trying to redo my network rack with more POE since I need 1-2 more AP points and want to convert more of my home security cameras to POE

I run a mix of Wifi and POE for redundancy and backup. Although I have a full home backup generator as well as a UPS for my network stack so not likely to lose camera access unless the generator fails.

[meager ginkgo]

I have an ER605 Omada router - it’s pretty good overall but one thing I found that lacks really bad is the mobile app

Basically it’s only good for viewing stats / clients

almost no settings can be changed from it

[agile iris]

Hmmm, ok

[meager ginkgo]

Never mind, just checked and it looks like they added a bunch of options in the app with the latest release.

I’d honestly spend the extra $ on UniFi, If I were to buy a new router. Omada just kind of feels unpolished. Not to mention that most of the APs are huge and hideous.

There are exceptions to the APs but they usually sacrifice performance for smaller size.

[odd maple]

Has anyone tried these flat ethernet cables? any issues with them I would have to be aware of?

[meager ginkgo]

Would not recommend them for long distances

maybe they're fine for short distances.. but for PoE or anything semi long get a round cable.

[odd maple]

What would you consider long? I would probably need to go 20m

[meager ginkgo]

The problem with them is that they are usually not to spec of the cable type. In simpler terms, what they say is not accurate in the listing, it may work, may not depending on the situation

[meager ginkgo]

anything over 10 ft

3m

Are you trying to run one to your PC?

[odd maple]

trying to figure out a way to get ethernet up here that passes the "this is ugly, don't do that" approval. I am using powerlan but that 1000mbit powerlan reports 180mbit and transfer 70...

[meager ginkgo]

Do you have cable tv ports by the PC and the router?

[odd maple]

house was never wired for cable TV

[meager ginkgo]

What year was the house built/ does it have any phone lines?

If it's newer it will likely have ethernet as the phone line cable

[odd maple]

like 70s?

[meager ginkgo]

Ah okay, yeah. Chances are you don't

Have an air duct going between floors?

[odd maple]

There was an actual antenna cable going from the attic to the living room but we don't really know where that went

no ducts, European house so no AC

[meager ginkgo]

Well that explains the coax haha

[odd maple]

yeah, satellite TV

[meager ginkgo]

Do you have crown moulding or baseboards?

[odd maple]

Nope, not that fancy. Some base board but nothing I could hide soomething as thick as ethernet under

[meager ginkgo]

The baseboard doesn't stick out from the wall?

One option could be prying off the baseboards and running it behind that

[odd maple]

Oh, those kinds, no, we don't have those

[meager ginkgo]

Ah okay.

[odd maple]

the ones here are significantly smaller

[meager ginkgo]

What country are you in?

[odd maple]

Germany

[meager ginkgo]

do you all use amazon.de?

[odd maple]

yes

[meager ginkgo]

Give me a sec and i'll try to find something

What color is your trim?

[odd maple]

changes depending on the room, white mostly, some of it patterened

[meager ginkgo]

I usually recommend flat cable as a last minute resort but in your scenario it will probably be fine

are you just using it for gigabit?

[odd maple]

Gigabit only

i'd be happy if I get 300 up here

[meager ginkgo]

Just avoid CAT7, or CAT8

they're likely junk

CAT6a is the max you'd need- CAT6 is even fine

[odd maple]

"15m cat 8.1 network cable flat 40 gbits"? 19€. Definitely works right?

[meager ginkgo]

CAT5E could also work for gigabit but the cost difference is minimal

[odd maple]

I do not trust it at all

[meager ginkgo]

yeah I wouldn't trust that

[odd maple]

Length does cap at 15m so they might know something

[meager ginkgo]

https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Tronic-Ethernet-Network-Cable-Patch/dp/B07SR3JMZG/

this is probably fine- just don't try to use Power over Ethernet stuff on it. AKA don't power stuff using it

[odd maple]

yeah, this is what I was looking at when I went to ask here https://www.amazon.de/dp/B088R96D6T

[meager ginkgo]

those both should be fine from a quick glance

[odd maple]

maybe i'll get some decorative tape and hide it under that, might be able to save a few meters by going straight across the ceiling

assuming "shorter = better" in this case

[meager ginkgo]

As long as your cable doesn't surpass 328ft you're fine

that's 100m

[odd maple]

other idea I had was to use one of those ethernet to fibre converters but routing a thin fibre cable seems annoying with the bends required

like these high quality looking ones

[meager ginkgo]

They make armored fiber cables, but honestly the flat ethernet should be fine in your scenario. ( and significantly cheaper )

fiber is cheap but the ethernet adapters are expensive

[odd maple]

Oh yeah, this would be like 3-4x the price

and for some reason many fibre cables are yellow

[meager ginkgo]

Only if you want higher than gigabit / want to futureproof would I recommend fiber

[odd maple]

doubt this place will ever get faster than gigabit internet, no NAS either

[meager ginkgo]

yeah don't worry about it then

[odd maple]

also fibre is like alphabet soup if you don't know with their SC LC FC APC PC UPC...

[meager ginkgo]

you have to match the connector type to the stuff you buy

it's a mess haha

[odd maple]

yeah but then APC does not fit UPC but PC does...

[meager ginkgo]

yep

[odd maple]

but for some reason tons of cables are APC

[meager ginkgo]

do you know if monoprice ships to where you're at?

[odd maple]

"Monoprice has decided to stop selling through its own web presence in Europe"

[meager ginkgo]

rip lol

this would be the best product to use.

[odd maple]

that is quite cheap

[meager ginkgo]

yeah lol. I think monoprice does sell on amazon de but for your case I wouldn't worry about it again

probably alot more $

[odd maple]

this looks very trustworthy as well

[meager ginkgo]

I'd just buy that one you sent a bit ago and before you tack it up test it

[odd maple]

also gotta love the advertisement on some of this stuff...

[meager ginkgo]

literally 0 difference for gigabit lol

[odd maple]

even says 1000mbit on both bars

[meager ginkgo]

when you go above gigabit is when CAT6 becomes useful

CAT6a for longer distances (150+ ft)

and then fiber after that (or for outdoor runs)

[odd maple]

Thanks for the help

[meager ginkgo]

👍

[undone grail]

does anybody have any recommendations for a cheep router i am using the one my isp provided right now and i am having conection issues

[vale storm]

Following situation:

I live in a student dorm where all internet is served by central access points which I have no access to. I only have the password to connect to wifi, no ethernet ports or anything. Devices on the network can see each other. I want to set up a Pi-hole so my Chromecast doesn't get served any ads when streaming YouTube videos or whatever else. On my phone I use AdAway so that's not a concern, but I obviously can't change the DNS server for the Chromecast. How would I go about doing this under these circumstances? I have looked into somehow setting up my own subnetwork but I didn't get anywhere with that because all devices are bandwidth-limited and again, I don't have any ethernet port available to me.

[obtuse dragon]

It's certainly possible to do it entirely with a PI but it will be quite a bit of work and depends on how comfortable you are with Linux. Also given the PI wifi SoC you may want a separate wifi adapter. https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+as+a+router https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=293289

Another option would be to use a travel router like this https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-mt300n-v2/ and configure the DNS server to be your pi-hole.

[pseudo blade]

I'd personally go for something like the hAP AC^2, with 5 ethernet ports and a ton of features relevant to using them as clients.

You'd just have to lock down the management interface and prevent access from the campus WiFi-side

[tall zodiac]

nice plug

[finite shard]

plug??

[tall zodiac]

as in you plug the product

[sudden kayak]

get a faster internet connection

[fleet gate]

Day 3 of calling virgin and arguing with their incompetent tech support

Already seeing the signs of it tanking again and failing

The woman hung up on me at one point and I got through back to her

[gusty storm]

Good luck 🫡

[obtuse dragon]

Sure, I just picked a cheap option since they are a student. Although a PI is certainly not cheap these days.

[pseudo blade]

Unfortunately not, cheapest I can get the 2GB model here is $160 in a largely unnecessary kit, $250-300 for the 4GB and close to $400 for the 8GB. AUD but still highway robbery and more than the hAP AC^2's superior wireless and ethernet options.

I pretty much ignore that the Pi exists now unless one's handed to me, used desktops or even laptops offer vastly better compute for lesss money and the NodeMCU ESP8266/ESP32 boards offer wireless and IO's for a few dollars each.

If I could get them for less than triple RRP maybe my opinion would be different lol

[obtuse dragon]

Can the hAP do dns blackholing?

[pseudo blade]

Of course.

It doesn't really have the guts for containers with 128MB RAM so if you want to run Pihole it's not exactly ideal, but it can. But it has its own DNS server you can do stuff with.

[thick minnow]

Have you checked out the Orange Pi 5 on Amazon, it's $150 US, shipping now. more cores, faster cpu, 16 gb ram, power supply included

[pseudo blade]

I'd suggest just using something else to run it, like any old computer equipment you have handy or an EC2 instance

Or a different SBC

[pseudo blade]

Tbh if you just want to run Pihole for yourself that's probably quite overkill :P

[thick minnow]

considering the shortage of rpi cards right now, it's pretty good

[pseudo blade]

But most SBC's have pretty crap wireless and if you're doing all your networking over it something with 2.4+5ghz radios and dual-chain can be very helpful for plugging kit into

Like your cheaper, less performant SBC or spare computing device

[opal pagoda]

do you know what is cheap, low power and has similar performance to ras pi?
thin clients, just dont get ones with arm cpus

or for more preformance you can get one of those tiny mini micro systems

[vague whale]

you can run pihole just fine on a rasp pi 3

if you already have like an OPNsense/pfsense or dd-wrt router you can do a lot of blacklisting with unbound as well, and with a bit of hacking you can do pihole as well

[waxen saddle]

I ran piHole on my rPi Zero for a couple of years and recently started using Adguard Home on the rPi zero. The DNS response is a little bit slower than the docker-container on my server, but still works well enough.
I actually use it as a secondary DNS in case the main server is offline.

[full path]

https://i.imgur.com/tr1DQuN.png

guys is this good

[vale storm]

That travel router looks very interesting.

[vale storm]

I don’t have a single device with an ethernet port so I wouldn’t need five ports on the router...

[vale storm]

And I have tried it with both my Pis (Pi 2B and Pi 4) but it only works as an open network, as soon as I add WPA2 all devices refuse to connect.

[nimble sable]

hey what am i looking at with the tabs and ubuntu icon?

[full path]

Windows Terminal with powershell running speedtest and the Ububtu tab is WSL

[nimble sable]

oh cool, i tried using it for ssh, from linus' video on it it looked cool, but the scrollbar makes it useless

[thick minnow]

whats a good router that has esim or sim support

[meager ginkgo]

Thanks T-Mobile for the free line 😂

[meager ginkgo]

Are you using it for travel, home, business? What’s the purpose?

Also what country

[torn lance]

T-Mobile and free are not words I associate with each other.

[thick minnow]

home

[thick minnow]

middle east
saudi arabia to be exact

[torn lance]

Probably a good idea to see what your carriers offer.

[meager ginkgo]

2/3 of those lines are free

They run promos often

[torn lance]

My eSIM management just juggles countries

[meager ginkgo]

Yeah, that’s what most people do I assume. I’ve gotten two free lines from T-Mobile in 6 months so I’m happy, lol.

You just gotta check when they’re running the promos

[meager ginkgo]

What websites do you use to buy products so I can browse what’s available there?

[obtuse dragon]

What's your wpa conf look like?

[thick minnow]

they sell Huawei ones and nokia ones
also an oppo one

[thick minnow]

amazon ig
i dont mind paying for something outside of my country and paying for shipping

[meager ginkgo]

What speed are you looking to get out of a router

[thick minnow]

Any suggestions for a ptmp base station that could connect to up to 8 devices. This is for vehicle diagnostics equipment that can be each individually configured as an ap. I want to network them as the usb b connectors are quite flimsy on them.

[thick minnow]

I got a 5g tower next to me so maybe reasonable speak for like 8 or 7 devices

Tbh im not looking at a certain speed
Just want the best device for its price
Most good routers dont support sim so thats why im not sure what to get

[meager ginkgo]

I’d look at a separate 4G/5G modem and router

then you can use whatever router you want

[nimble sable]

yea this! my dad basically got the 5th and 6th line for free cuz he paying for the first 4.

[pseudo blade]

"Free"

[thick minnow]

But at that point wouldnt it be better to stick to like nokia fastmile 5g gateway 3 or 3.1 instead of spending extra money?

[solid ibex]

Any internet gurus here. I’m super confused about router/switch

[pseudo blade]

Please be a lot more specific.

[solid ibex]

Currently pay for 10gb internet

Only getting 1gb

Router: ASUS ROG Rapture WiFi 6 Gaming Router (GT-AX11000)

Cable from wall to router - CAT7
Cable from router to PC - CAT8

PC - 2.5 gb port

I should at least be getting 2.5?

If my router is the issue, can I buy a 10gb Ethernet switch and use that to connect to the port in the wall and from there connect my PC to the switch and use another port to connect my router (so my house still has WiFi)

@pseudo blade

mainly the last part, I realized my router can’t support 10gbps

[pseudo blade]

The router's page suggests that the WAN port is also gigabit, so you're pretty firmly stuck at gigabit

RJ45 for Gigabits BaseT for WAN x 1, RJ45 for Gigabits BaseT for LAN x 4, Multi-Gig Ethernet port 2.5G/1G x1

It has a multigigabit port for the sake of being able to say it has one I think

[solid ibex]

But can I connect a switch to the port where my 10gbps comes out of and use one port on the switch for my router and another port on the switch for my PC

[outer pendant]

so paying for a 10gb internet is throwing money into a fire

[solid ibex]

Yeah, it’s the dumbest thing g I’ve heard of

[pseudo blade]

That's straight from https://rog.asus.com/au/networking/rog-rapture-gt-ax11000-model/spec/

[outer pendant]

https://tenor.com/view/linus-tech-tips-linus-sebastian-linus-colleague-slight-smile-hey-i-see-what-you-are-doing-gif-16264521

[pseudo blade]

If you have a practical desire for > gigabit that needs to go.

[solid ibex]

But will my switch idea remedy the issue (for my PC getting fast internet, what I’m mainly trying to accomplish)

[pseudo blade]

Fast internet's not happening without a better router.

You can't usually just connect a switch to the upstream network of an ISP and grab as many addresses as you want, as IP addresses cost money and it's a security problem if you don't know what you're doing

[solid ibex]

Is there even a router that supports 10gbps LAN

[outer pendant]

its best to get a router that supports up to 10gbs

[pseudo blade]

There's a few but it's not a consumer thing yet afaik

[outer pendant]

https://www.netgear.com/home/wifi/mesh/rbr860s/

there are a few, but they are all very expensive, and honestly not worth it

[pseudo blade]

Oh look! Useless!

[outer pendant]

oh woops yea, my bad

[pseudo blade]

RB5009 can do 10 gigabit on a stick if you don't need 10 gigabits full duplex

And beyond that you're into the more serious products/building your own

[solid ibex]

I’m on a military base and the ISP has a monopoly since it’s the only provider allowed on base. So they have a 1, 5, and 10gb package. But only the 10gb package has no cap on the internet you can use within a month

And I run servers 24/7 for some games, etc.

[pseudo blade]

Do your servers need 10gbps?

[solid ibex]

Not necessarily, but if I’m paying for 10gb for unlimited I might as well try to capitalize on the speed

[pseudo blade]

Here's a router that will actually do 10gbps with multiple ports https://mikrotik.com/product/ccr2004_16g_2s_pc

For what it is, it is very cheap, beatable only by taking a very cheap second-hand computer and putting used server 10gbps NICs in it

But not too cheap, as it has to be powerful enough to route+NAT 10gbps

I'd say check if you ever actually go over the quotas listed for lower speeds, else just ignore it

[pseudo blade]

Frankly if this looks expensive to you, you're not running enough servers to need it

[solid ibex]

I’m going to check at the end of next month with everything running. I didn’t realize it would be this troublesome to get sick internet tbh 😂

[pseudo blade]

Yeah multigigabit is still a bit of an enthusiast thing

10 gigabit is almost strictly enterprise

[solid ibex]

The multigig advertising on these routers is a scam and a half though

2.5 port, but can’t use it

[pseudo blade]

You can do gigabit streams to multiple computers on your LAN, a scenario I feel to be a tad contrived

The only non-enterprise option I know of is this https://www.qnap.com/en-au/product/qhora-301w

You stated "faster LAN connection" (Local Area Network AKA the bit behind your router), which can be achieved with a switch.

Won't change your internet speeds though

So he's correct but answering a different question which you posed to him

[solid ibex]

My brain is fried, I’ve been at this all day. Idk why I said LAN

[potent plinth]

something fishy is cooking...

anyone know how to fix a bit of packet loss? it looks like its coming in waves somehow. doesnt happen on lan, only wlan

OR

does anyone know how to split a single internet line (if its possible) between a TP-Link Archer VR300 and a VR1600v? So I've got 1 phone line plugged into the 300, and want to connect it via lan to extend to a VR1600V which I can use as my own one while my family uses the other. Is that possible?

Basically, daisy chain the two.

[faint bronze]

1 you could put your router connected to the lan of there router. 2 you could could hook up booth wans to the internet box. 2 you could hook a switch to the existing cable from your ISP and connect the routers to that switch.

[pseudo blade]

The VR1600V has a WAN ethernet port and can therefore be slaved to the VR300, which does not

[pseudo blade]

Both are modem-routers with VDSL so I'd suspect it's VDSL with no dedicated modem

[pseudo blade]

You can register two connections if you've got two pairs coming in, though you'd be paying separately for them. QoS is the most cost-effective approach.

[pseudo blade]

I will say that if you want do that for the sake of performance... Nope, that approach is not likely to end well for you with that class of device if you just set that up as-is.

The VR300 does claim to support QoS though it probably wouldn't be my first choice of device to do it with, and is the one of the two that can only be used with VDSL upstream (barring custom firmware)

[faint bronze]

I am implying there is Ethernet out of some ISP box that could provide internet. The phone line plugged into the router doesn't mean that it is a DSL connection. I have seen ISP provided boxes that use some coaxial wire for internet and hooks up a phone like to provide phone service since they want to appear as if they have a dedicated phone connection, but do not.

[potent plinth]

its dsl

we dont have fiber yet 🙄

[faint bronze]

Then you are probably stuck with packet drop as you are attempting to put more than n bytes through a smaller connection.

[pseudo blade]

Oh hey the VR300 actually can do ethernet for WAN... it's just 100mbps and they did that thing where they remove the extra four bits of copper to save some fraction of a cent

[potent plinth]

i uhhh

only get 50 so thats fine ig

[faint bronze]

In the case of DSL the limiting factor is probably the upstream DLS connection. The packet loss it because your d vices are trying to go faster, and the modem/router cannot send packets that fast and the packet cache does not extend far enough to allow for the peak packet flow speed.

[devout scaffold]

I feel your pain

[potent plinth]

nbn (australia) liked to cheap out rather than future proof

like we're not even eligible to upgrade yet

[devout scaffold]

Bandwidth is expensive there

[potent plinth]

69.99aud a month for 50mbps

and 10-20 upload

[devout scaffold]

Sounds about right

We’d have spun up servers in AU long ago if it wasn’t for the extortionate pricing

[devout scaffold]

What are you using for this?

[potent plinth]

packetlosstest.com

[devout scaffold]

I’d recommend PingPlotter and ThinkBroadband, or “abusing” a service like betteruptime

[potent plinth]

eh, i can send up to 30mb of data with just the website so its not really something id do

like,

[devout scaffold]

I’ll be honest, that tool does not seem very accurate

Have you measured packet loss elsewhere?

[potent plinth]

i didnt really know where else to check

[devout scaffold]

Right okay

Id suggest going and downloading either WinMTR or PingPlotter and running a test against 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8

Both are free

[potent plinth]

its only going up - 45 mins rn

for 20.9 mb for gods sakes

if i use a download manager its like 1-2 mins

4 seconds nvm

thats about 1 and a half mins

ill wait for the whole graph to be filled

[devout scaffold]

Yeah so there’s not really much packet loss at all

[peak cloak]

and ping isn't a great indicator

since it's ICMP, gets the lowest priority

[devout scaffold]

It’s a good starting point

[low pond]

Anyone who works with Ciena 6500 or similar gear here help me with something? (I'm aware of the donotasktoask, but this is a bit specialized)

[hollow marlin]

It's been a while since I worked with the 6500 specifically. Now just 3k/5k series but ask away

[knotty moat]

Inc wall of text for anyone able to help me plan:

Moving into a new place want to do the network properly.

currently have ubiquiti USG and 24 port poe with two access points. Have been super disappointed with the USG. Bogs down constantly. Would like to switch to something new. Also want to add a camera system which seems impossible to get from ubiquiti.

Looking at a firewalla gold plus, will keep the ubiquiti poe and get a couple more access points to cover the 3100 sq ft. Also looking at a reolink system for cameras and NVR.

Fiber internet.

Please hit me up with a reply if you have any advice on the plan.

[meager ginkgo]

Why not get a Dream Machine Pro as the USG replacement? They seem to be in stock regularly now

I’ve not heard of many bad experiences with the UDM Pro as compared to the USG

As for cameras, I’d look into Scrypted or Frigate as the NVR.

[knotty moat]

that’s good to know. i’ll look into scripted and Frigate as well ty

[potent radish]

Why is auto-negotiation not working correctly (connected to gigabit)

[peak cloak]

faulty cable?

[potent radish]

i will check

cable looks ok

[peak cloak]

how did you check?

[potent radish]

nvm you were right i have 2 cables and i checked only one
thanks a lot

i need to do another cable

[devout scaffold]

The UDMP also runs OS 3.x now in EA which is definitely a good step forward and implements new features such as load balancing and VPN clients

[meager ginkgo]

Ooh yeah. I forgot to mention that!

[devout scaffold]

I just invested in UniFi for my camera system by purchasing my first one, the quality is pretty good and having network and protect all under one roof is very convenient

[potent radish]

i need to fix wake on lan now

[south mist]

im trying to connect to my own TF2 server and it wont let me

its not localhost

google says i need to do something with NAT loopback

does anyone know anything about this

[peak cloak]

Well to make public?

You need to port forward

[south mist]

its already public i think but it wont let ME connect

im on the same network

[peak cloak]

Use your local IP not wan IP

[south mist]

i am

it still wont let me connect

[peak cloak]

It should work then, no reason not to

[south mist]

i used the 10.0.0.x IP

and my external ip

[peak cloak]

Right port?

What about 127.0.0.1?

[south mist]

27015 is the port that TF2 uses

[peak cloak]

If on same PC

[south mist]

the server isnt on my pc

[peak cloak]

Ah ok

[south mist]

its on another computer downstairs

[peak cloak]

Firewall rules?

[south mist]

havnt checked

[peak cloak]

Are you only using one router

Or multiple

[south mist]

i have one modem that connects to some network switches

[peak cloak]

What's the IP of server and your desktop

[south mist]

10.0.0.212 is the server's ip and 10.0.0.136 is my computers ip

can you try to join the server

ill dm you the ip

[peak cloak]

I don't have tf2

[south mist]

🗿

[peak cloak]

But if no one has checked that it works via wan, then it is entirely possible it's firewall on server

Lan usually always works

Windows or Linux for server?

[south mist]

Windows

[peak cloak]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/windows-firewall/create-an-inbound-port-rule

[tender cypress]

Hey, I use both PIA VPN and I have Avast Antivirus, and idea which VPN is better? Or how to configure settings for PIA?

If you respond, please do it as a reply so I can find it more effectively, I have to go to bed

[proper scarab]

PIA is better, Avast is insecure, slow and they log your data.

[pseudo blade]

IMO the best VPN is one you build yourself, once you understand Wireguard it becomes stupid easy to set up in AWS/the like

[pseudo blade]

Failing that all the VPN nerds tell me Mullvad and nothing else (Tor's not a VPN per se but is great for privacy, better than any VPN host can hope to offer, however if you're expecting speed look elsewhere)

[thorny osprey]

WHAT DOES THIS MEANNN

[pseudo blade]

You're trying to add a port-forward. Ports can only be bound to one process/forwarded to one device at a time (without special software).
The rest is pretty clearly written in the message, which I propose that you read.

[thorny osprey]

can you help plz

[random raptor]

Hrm, I wonder if there's someone here that might be of help 😄
I'm fighting with a vexing IPv6 issue.

I have my UDM Pro set up to serve VLAN 5 (my DNS server stuff lives there) a static dhcpv6 range of fd62:89a2:fda9:e23::2 -> ::7d1.
Regular networks use prefix delegation from my ISPs native ipv6 setup (/56 delegation size, 2001:xxxxx and so on)
I have my Pi-hole set up with ::5 from that range.

Now, here's the issue:
All non-windows machines can successfully both ping the fd62 address, as well as use the dns server on it.
Windows machines though? Destination host unreachable.

The same windows machines can successfully access IPv6 addresses from the internet, however, so that part works fine. Just local routing is being stupid and I have no clue how to fix it.

Also, to make matters weirder, Windows machines can ping the gateway (fd62:89a2:fda9:e23::1)

[thorny osprey]

WHAT IS THE STARTING PORT

is everyone dead

[outer pendant]

https://tenor.com/view/dying-monkey-dying-gif-13123180

[pseudo blade]

Tbh if you had read the names or descriptions of any of the fields you were entering data into or the error message maybe you'd have had better luck.

[clear igloo]

Well you have a period in your numbers only field so....

[thorny osprey]

without it is the same error

[clear igloo]

Well if you read the error it says LESS than 65535 and you have a number equal to 65535

[thorny osprey]

i need to use the port UDP 49152 - 65535

[clear igloo]

No you don't, any game telling you to port forward 16K ports is a failure

What are you trying to accomplish?

[thorny osprey]

roblox port forward

[clear igloo]

Why? You don't need to port forward unless you're hosting a server

[thorny osprey]

heard it can fix roblox error 279

[vestal sundial]

Did you check every other thing before trying to port forward? https://en.help.roblox.com/hc/en-us/articles/203312880-General-Connection-Problems. The problem might still be related to your router, but port forwarding is the last shot.

[fickle hamlet]

should I get separate Bluetooth & wifi usb adapters or a Pcie one that has both

[peak cloak]

you don't need to port forward roblox

[polar vault]

Hi, I do not know where else to ask and thought someone might know from here. I have an opnsense firewall running on a used lenovo m700 that has an i3 6100 in it, I have installed wireguard (looks like it came with the KMOD version) set it up with the mullvad tunnel but I am getting 1/3 to 1/2 of my normal connection, is there anyway to increase this or would I have to upgrade the cpu/get a newer processor?
I used this guide to setup wireguard - https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/wireguard-selective-routing.html
Without mullvad vpn - 600-800Mbps down and 90-100Mbps up
With wireguard (mullvad tunnel) - 200-300Mbps down and 80-100Mbps up - attached is a screenshot of cpu usage when doing a speedtest on the subnet that goes through the tunnel

[polar vault]

hmm, alright will do some trial and error testing tomorrow morning. I did try opnsense with the exact same HDD in a machine that had an xeon e3 1226 v3 and was able to get 400-500Mbps so I will try to find another pc that has a better processor if changing mullvad server doesn't work. Thank you.

Yeah, will definitely do that first. But if that doesn't solve it, I will either look for a more powerful 6th gen cpu or go with a newer generation

these are the 2 cpus that i've tried so far
i3 6100 - 300Mbps down
e3 1226 v3 - 400-450Mbps down

so im guessing if i find a cpu thats around 6000-7000 points i should be alright?

Hmm, I have no clue if it is the cpu now

Or if there is a hidden setting somewhere which is tanking performance

I could probably find a sff desktop on eBay for cheap, will keep an eye out. Cheers

[devout scaffold]

Could it be related to MTU and overhead from WireGuard?

Just about any of my devices only get up to around 500Mbit/s through a WireGuard tunnel while having access to gigabit

And that also includes Cloudflare WARP

[velvet jolt]

Should I enable ipv6 on my router? It is capable

Also since it would not use NAT anymore, to make a raspberry pi accessible, i should change firewall settings instead?

[pseudo blade]

You'd still be using NAT unless you were planning on disabling IPv4 entirely

-Which is a terrible idea if you'd actually like to use most of the internet, as many network admins are still deathly afraid of it because big funny hex string.

You can of course expose your Pi via IPv6 and it would be accessible to any device with IPv6 connectivity or CloudFlare/similar if you were looking to use their reverse proxy functionality.

[vale storm]

Does a device exist which basically is a USB hub (with maybe four USB ports) but instead of attaching it to a PC exclusively via USB it can work as USB via Ethernet?

[pseudo blade]

What's your goal, exactly?

There are ways of achieving such but they have varying caveats.

[vale storm]

We have a flowboard with a bunch of valves which we want to control via USB but if the need arises we want to be able to do it via Ethernet as well.

[faint bronze]

What is close is a switch.

[vale storm]

Because the flowboard might be far away from any PCs and USB cables might not work

[pseudo blade]

Ok, so you don't want Ethernet's cabling or reach, but rather TCP/IP

Unfortunately you have picked the hardest path

[vale storm]

We want to use RJ45 to USB basically

[faint bronze]

Oh...

[vale storm]

I know RJ45 is a plug type

And not a protocol

[pseudo blade]

Ah, but that's not what you just said

You want to use existing cabling, which can go directly to the control computer?

No switches in the way?

Devices exist that will do that

They're kinda rubbish and have different distance limitations to gigabit ethernet.

But they are cheap.

Take this entirely random device I picked off Amazon for example: https://www.amazon.com.au/Over-Ethernet-RJ45-Extender-Adapter/dp/B0029HRYBK/ref=asc_df_B0029HRYBK/

Claims up to 150ft of what could only be USB2

These devices calling themselves "usb over ethernet" isn't really a correct explanation of what they do

I'm not guaranteeing that this device will work for you btw, do your own research

[vale storm]

Something that can work as both of these. Not simultaneously but either or.

[pseudo blade]

This doesn't really help me understand, sorry - to do that your devices would need to natively support USB or ethernet as connectivity options and you just said they do not.

Please pick one of the two scenarios outlaid above and run with that

[vale storm]

Hmm... Basically the link you sent is good but it should also have the option to directly attach it to a PC via USB.

[pseudo blade]

What

[vale storm]

Yeah.

[pseudo blade]

But it does? Go look closer.

It is a pair of devices which must be connected to eachother to work, with a USB male on one end and female on the other.

It would need to be combined with a powered USB hub to operate

[faint bronze]

Does the USB device act as a serial port?

[vale storm]

Yeah, i see. But it doesn't allow direct connection of Ethernet, right? Without the male USB dongle in-between?

I'm sorry if I'm not making sense, this is a requirement by my university and a guy I know asked me if I knew such a device.

[pseudo blade]

No. But I think you're either asking the wrong questions or misunderstanding entirely

If you want to connect from a USB host to ethernet, use any ordinary USB to ethernet adapter.

[vale storm]

Would that work without drivers?

[pseudo blade]

No, nor will it work unless the device is a host.

[vale storm]

Okay.

Yeah, makes sense.

Obviously not. I'm stupid. Sorry.

[pseudo blade]

You're missing key information if you're getting confused between the two and as-is you're probably going to end up ordering the complete wrong devices

Honestly, I'd suggest not doing anything until you actually understand what your device is, USB and ethernet/IP are not standards you can trivially change between and the cabling is a different problem again, and unless you understand all three you're going to run into problems.

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo the worst part about the printers at university is you have to release the job by signing into the MFP on the touch screen keyboard

[clear igloo]

lel, no badge access?

[pseudo blade]

Ah yes I've had a few companies where that was required

[rocky badge]

Nope

[clear igloo]

dang, that's the worst

[rocky badge]

“your password must be this complex”

But you have to also type it on a MFP keyboard that doesn’t register half the touches

[clear igloo]

🤢

[rocky badge]

Mobile print through Pharos web doesn’t have to be released but if you print directly from a windows machine you have to

Also @clear igloo

I 100% guarantee that these MFPs have global IPs

[clear igloo]

😄

[faint bronze]

@vale storm the reason I was asking if the USB device was USB to serial is because industrial devices can use serial to avoid needing to write USB protocol code. If it were a USB serial device you could use two raspberry Pi's to relay the USB serial data over TCP/IP. This would allow it to run over RJ45.

[rocky badge]

I mean I get why you need to release the job and such…but the way to login is just so annoying

[pseudo blade]

It can be a bit clunky

Ours were all Epson and weren't too bad really

Like they were a pain in the ass and you couldn't just have your stuff be printed by the time you got to the printer, but it only took maybe 20 seconds and cuts down on wasted prints

I noticed everyone senior just had a small laser printer on their desk - no idea why

[polar vault]

not quite sure, changed the MTU and still no changes. Changed the mullvad server and still no changes. The cpu still gets up to 80-90% when doing a speedtest. iirc i have seen lower spec machines able to reach higher speeds with wireguard

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo I hate how the university did networking here

All of the data drops for this floor are on a /23

There's like 500 drops in this space alone, let alone the floor. So once the pool runs over it just goes to another VLAN

[clear igloo]

VLAN all the things in a craptastic manner!!

[clear igloo]

So no dynamic VLAN and pool assignments or anything just random VLANs based on when the IP pool runs out?

[rocky badge]

I have no clue

but its annoying that stuff is having to cross vlans

[clear igloo]

lol, yah

[peak cloak]

We just have to scan our ids

[rocky badge]

lucky

[peak cloak]

It's pretty seamless for the most part, you print and go to any printer

Same with scanning, scan id and then it will scan to email

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo

😩 this is to the gw

[mortal stratus]

Looks fine

@peak cloak that’s pretty slick.

[clear igloo]

I think I know why 🙂

[dull mirage]

Im getting a lot of jitter on my network and router logs are giving some error logs..

58    Mar 31 11:28:47    user    err    dhcpc    dhcp6c: dhcp6sConfDnsListUpdate: dhcp6sConfDnsListUpdate : Enter
59    Mar 31 11:28:47    user    err    dhcpc    dhcp6c: client6_recv: client6_recv
60    Mar 31 11:28:47    user    err    dhcpc    dhcp6c: client6_send: client6_send
61    Mar 31 10:58:47    user    err    dhcpc    dhcp6c: addPrefixInfoToMsg: addPrefixInfoToMsg : Enter

Might this be related to to that?
Its dhcp i think and i think it is not but im not that much of a expert anyone how might know?

[rocky badge]

Why

[pseudo blade]

Wow that's stupid af

Like if you're right and that's what they're doing they've sunk engineering into making a shitty solution work

Engineering which could have otherwise went into... adding a second subnet + a gateway for it and going on with life, segmenting in a more appropriate fashion or even... actually doing some planning before you build something.

[opal pagoda]

just use rfid

[rocky badge]

Not my decision

[rocky badge]

Oh yeah I hate it

[opal pagoda]

we have printer auth handled trough pass or the same rfid that everyone has and its used to clock in/out, pay for stuff on premise, etc

[nimble sable]

what is actually the CON of having a bigger that necessarily block? (outside of obvious things like clashing with adjacent networks and the like)

[rocky badge]

We’re on the same subnet as the chick fil and other retail dining a on campus, I can see the kitchen fryer & all of their stuff

[nimble sable]

i think you may have answered my question, lol

srsly who the hell designed that network, i'm a newb and even I know this is way off

[nimble sable]

omg do it! can you do it? mess with the chick fil a

[opal pagoda]

turn it off

it will be separated real quick

[nimble sable]

you underestimate the power of laziness and miserliness

[opal pagoda]

and you underestimate the power of opportunity cost

[lucid siren]

the moment you peer with henet on a IX

its free uplink

[pseudo blade]

The downside of larger networks is that you increase the size of the impact of the smallest screwup in that network, have less control to isolate the screwup, and consume additional address space.
The advice I was given was to avoid having more than a few thousand devices in a subnet if possible, and to divide on logical boundries (office branches I'd consider critical to separate for network integrity reasons, buildings sometimes, security boundaries if you're not using a zero trust solution for that/one isn't viable like security cameras - I'd never let a fast food court on the same subnet as office systems/security cameras for example)...

[nimble sable]

oh yea but what if like, i do a /16 in my house for my non IOT stuff? realistically its never gonna be more than 4 computers for example

[pseudo blade]

It's unnecessary but also not really a problem in that environment

I don't really like scenarios with client devices in /16's much though because it's really unlikely you're going to have 65k computers you need to have layer 2 access to each other and where it doesn't make sense to segment them into smaller groups.

IPv6 rules are a bit different but you still want to separate stuff by branch and where security boundaries should exist.

[drowsy fossil]

It also makes sense for guest nets where the devices are blocked from seeing each other regardless

[pseudo blade]

Oh definitely

[drowsy fossil]

We use /20s for that tho lel

[pseudo blade]

That's fine for that application really

Just... don't weld sites together into one subnet over VPN tunnels.

I saw an MSP client that did that and it was dreadful for everyone involved until that was removed.

I'd say the same for point-to-point wireless and long-range fiber links as a rule - even if you are insistent on using the internet connection at one site leaving yourself without any alternative is asking for trouble.

[pseudo blade]

They had DHCP on both sides but more often than not the remote side would win and they'd send a ton of traffic over this shitty VPN tunnel and wonder why performance sucked.

[drowsy fossil]

We have central DHCP servers that serve all of the sites and we only have problems weekly lol

[dull mirage]

My router is in charge of the DHCP... But in my switch i found setting DHCP mode... SHould it be enabeld or disabled?

[pseudo blade]

Disabled unless you want problems and frustration.

[vague whale]

depends on the switch and are you using VLAN's?

[dull mirage]

too late already been§

Okay

But soemthing is still causing funnies...
Cable in port 3 is reported as Mismatched / faulty by Cable fautl Distance 5
But cable 3 gets decent speeds and no problems..
But cable 5 has 200ping

Something is wrong

[vague whale]

what kind of switch are you using?

[dull mirage]

NETGEAR
GS105Ev2 – 5-Port Gigabit ProSAFE Plus Switch

He bit old but should be enough for home use

[vague whale]

is it just a flat network?

[dull mirage]

wdym

[vague whale]

like same subnet for all machines, nothing like VLAN's or anything? Not sure if those support jumboframes

[dull mirage]

Yes
ISP> Router > Swithc > 3 Computers
Wifi: 3 devices
same subnet for all

[vague whale]

ok. in that case, maybe you should factory reset the switch to make sure there's nothing set on there that you don't need

[dull mirage]

ok brb

[vague whale]

and the cables, have you tried plugging them into different devices to see if you're getting the same behavior (like you said cable 5 seems to have a high, ping plug it into a different device and see if that stays the same, to rule out any client issues)

[dull mirage]

ok done

DHCP Mode got enabled

Cable 5 gets normal speeds

[vague whale]

I don't believe those switches have dhcp servers, so I'm guessing dhcp mode means the switch will get a dhcp address?

[dull mirage]

Yeah me too i got confused abotu it

[vague whale]

is cable 5 still getting a bad ping?

[dull mirage]

yeah

[vague whale]

can you see duplex/speed of the client using cable 5?

[dull mirage]

port stats?

[vague whale]

sure can you see speed/duplex from there?

[dull mirage]

Cable 5
68Ping
70Jitter
38down (almost max)
8up(max)

Cable 3 Me
55
2,3
39down (max)
8up(max)

[vague whale]

what about client side

[dull mirage]

The speeds ping,download etc.. was client side

[vague whale]

No I mean can you check speed and duplex on the client

from command prompt you can get speeds: wmic NIC where NetEnabled=true get Name, Speed

[dull mirage]

Sure wait

[dull mirage]

which client?

[vague whale]

the cable 5 one with the bad ping

[dull mirage]

Cable 3:

Yeah

Cable 5:

[vague whale]

you're running vmware workstation?

[dull mirage]

Yeah (Cable 3) , but not active the mechines are powered off

[vague whale]

you have multiple network cards in that machine?

[dull mirage]

Nope

[vague whale]

I thought you said cable 5 was the one with issues?

[dull mirage]

Nah

Bruh

W8

[peak cloak]

Depends what it means

[dull mirage]

Im bonkers from school

[peak cloak]

As in DHCP client or server

[dull mirage]

Yeah it is the one

[vague whale]

it's a SOHO netgear switch he's using so it must mean client for the switch mgt

[dull mirage]

But only for the ping

Cable 3 is the one with cable issue but none are appearing

Cable 5 is only high ping but no cable issues

[dull mirage]

Im on that switch too (3)

[vague whale]

what ping do you get if you ping the ip of cable 3 from cable 5

[dull mirage]

However after factory reset its okay

The ping

5 to 3
avg ping 0-1
ttl=128
bytes32

cable 3 to 5
Timed out

The ping is okay for all now after the factory reset of the switch

But DHCP Mode is enabled

And when he starts downlaoding the whole network knows it cuz speeds get to 1Mbps down

But i could solve that by port rate limit i think

But the cable 5 still remains a mistery
also the DHCP Mode

[dull mirage]

Not exactly said in the manual but i found this:
"To disable the DHCP client of the switch and change the IP address of the switch
to a fixed IP address by using a network connection:"

By that i would say it should be disabled if the router does the dhcp

[vague whale]

no I'd leave it on

[dull mirage]

Also it would be nice to give the switch static ip bruh

[vague whale]

dhcp in this case means your switch gets a DHCP address

[dull mirage]

Okay then..
Here is the doc i searched by keyname
https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/GS105EV2/WebManagedSwitches_UM_EN.pdf

And dunno if it should but the network isnt balancing
If someone is downloading the client thats downloading gets great ping, speeds, but others get shit

[dull mirage]

Okay so... It means that the switch would use IP from the DHCP in the router

[vague whale]

correct

[dull mirage]

Im gonna do it static so i will turn it off

[vague whale]

ok

[dull mirage]

All good except for the balance

Which i dont know if its even present

100Ms ping
170ms jitter
2Mbps Down
5Mbps up

When one client is downloading
others get those speeds +-

[vague whale]

if you're maxing out your network that's expected behavior

[dull mirage]

the client IS

[dull mirage]

So i should introduce some Rate Control?

[vague whale]

you mean traffic shaping?

[peak cloak]

Qos

[lunar spade]

I have a 250m spool of cat5e ethernet cable. What is the longest I can make a cable that will still work at gigabit speeds? (More specifically, would ~7 meters be fine)

[clear igloo]

100m is the limit

[peak cloak]

And to add on, when running the cable make sure it's not close to any high voltage power

[lunar spade]

Its going from my cat5e ethernet wall port to my pc

[peak cloak]

Oh yeah that's fine

[lunar spade]

Now I just need to find where in the world I misplaced the cat5e cable tester

[marsh oracle]

that pfBlockerNG package for pfSense is weird, it seems to be configured correctly, but still does not block anything that is obviously set to block.
otherwise empty ruleset and fresh pfSense 2.6.0 install

has anyone ever set this up and got it working properly? (geoblock + maxmind API key, webfilter categories, ...)

[clear igloo]

I have it working right now

Do you have rules with pfB_ under Firewall > Rules > WAN?

[marsh oracle]

Have any clue where I can look why it is not blocking anything, even if its set to deny both (in- and outbound)

yes the rule exist -> floating

[clear igloo]

Hmmm, I have mine under the interface

[marsh oracle]

should work either way, I can disable floating rules tho when the box has finished rebooting

[clear igloo]

Similar setup?

[marsh oracle]

pretty much, yes except floating rules

[clear igloo]

Hmmm, interesting

I would try without just to see if that's busted but yah it should block

[marsh oracle]

indeed, it doesnt make sense. It is not blocking anything, even though I have geoip blocked both in and outbound asia for example, it still lets me access china.cn for instance.

[clear igloo]

Oh, did you force update/reload after changing options?

[marsh oracle]

could it be the "suppression" option up the page? its enabled

[clear igloo]

It shouldn't since it works for me with Suppression enbaled

[marsh oracle]

ye I think so, its default on anyways.
Still why dont the categories and geo ip settings work though, so weird

[clear igloo]

What if you make a custom IPv4 list in pfblocker and block like 1.1.1.1 and try to ping it?

[marsh oracle]

still not blocking, I give up. This pfblockng is not well designed I guess

[clear igloo]

Did you do a force reload option?

[marsh oracle]

I did under update -> reload -> run

[clear igloo]

hmmm, that's so weird

[marsh oracle]

indeed, I'd bether gather all the networks manually and add an alias manually in vanilla pfSense.
At least that works.

unter firewall -> rules -> lan there is the default anti lockout rule and right below the pfblocker rule with the alias that has 0/0B... for some reason.

[marsh oracle]

plus now this awful designed and coded pfblockerng says my perfectly fine MaxMind license key is invalid.
Good software, really.

"the best of the best of the best, sir!!"

time to hit the "remove package" button and clean up the firewall rules and remove this nonsense package for good.

[waxen scroll]

potatoes dont need networks

[clear igloo]

What sort of addressing for our IoP devices do we get?

[real shore]

Hello I am trying to extend my wifi to my room as it keeps disconnecting when playing games online it has been a issue for some years now. I am not sure about Ethernet as it would probably be annoying to put in the house as my room is a decent distance away and I am not sure how to set it up drilling and non drilling Ethernet cable. Any suggestions would be appreciated

Is there any other way?
I have been looking at wifi extenders and wifi routes to extend my wifi to my room

Something like this

My main router is a BT router and I am thinking of some how connecting it to another one which is closer to my room to extend my WiFi

Right now I am getting 1-2 bar on my phone on my bed. And when using laptop at night I have 2-3 bars of WiFi witch often disconnects randomly

This gets worse at night when everyone is on the WiFi this. This causes me to disconnect form my WiFi on my laptop when playing games witch frustrates me

[cunning violet]

How awful is deco software?

Really getting tempted by the draft wifi7 offerings

[peak cloak]

Wifi extenders aren't great

If you have coax ports you could use moca

[real shore]

Ok, what are those exactly? Is it like ethernet.
Also I have barely any idea how to extend my WIFI, IT and WIFI technology in general

[peak cloak]

It's Ethernet over coax

[fair sedge]

This channel should have been called irrigating

[clear igloo]

irrigation but yes!

[real shore]

I have looked into it would it be good to get this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-Deco-E4-Seamless-Replacement/dp/B07RXLF5XZ/ref=asc_df_B07RXLF5XZ/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=262248947449&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5284643373366227775&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1007421&hvtargid=pla-780409193883&psc=1&th=1&psc=1

[undone grail]

does anybody have any recommendations for a cheep router i am using the one my isp provided right now and i am having conection issues

[mossy vector]

🐷

💣

[glass anvil]

I have an HP DL360P G8 with 24 Ivy Bridge cores, 240GB of RAM, and 7.2TB of storage. Server 2012R2 is no longer support. I do have a legitimate license for Server 2016, but I would like to push it further, possibly to 2019.

The box is stand-alone and not in a domain. How easy would this be?

[marsh oracle]

Does anyone have a list of trusted safe mail servers that can send mails to my own mail server?
I tried Google search, but cant find any, maybe not having the correct search terms I guess.
What I want is that spammers and malicious hosts with a bad rating can't connect to my mail server at all.
But I want trusted safe mail servers go thru

[glass anvil]

What you want is to set up an auto-reject ruleset. Things like reverse-SPF lookup and things like that.

[marsh oracle]

I dont think pfSense can do that and I use Mailcow docker

[glass anvil]

That would be handled by your mailserver docker, not pFSense.

[marsh oracle]

My intention would be to block the source IP adresses and/or their entire network in advance before they can even connect to my mail server

At the moment I very regularly watch my firewall logs and see what host is constantly trying to connect, check it on abuseipdb.com and if it has a lot of reports, I block their entire network ASN

[lavish gazelle]

10 Gb/s home internet goes brrr. (this is not a home server speed, this is actual internet from my ISP. Free SAS)

[marsh oracle]

could store your games on your Google Drive basically, but the latency is "crap"

[sharp sparrow]

I have a 3 node deco setup, works great.

[peak cloak]

I would not recommend a self hosted mail server at all

[marsh oracle]

because?

[peak cloak]

It's a pita to be able to deliver any mail, because of a variety of issues

You need constant maintenance

Lots of spam

[ornate jungle]

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/t8gqir/why_you_really_dont_want_to_selfhost_your_own/

[peak cloak]

Yeah I just pay for fastmail, so it's not google, but can still easily download everything

[ornate jungle]

It's not that you can't self-host email... it's just incredibly difficult to maintain reliable email delivery.
https://vadosware.io/post/its-never-been-easier-or-harder-to-self-host-email/

[marsh oracle]

all of those things listed dont really apply for me.
My network is on no blacklist. SPF / DKIM are set up from day-1 on.
I don't receive spam mails, because rspamd and keys are set up properly.
I have enough space and power to save an entire corporation exchange server.
I'm not the average internet user who barely was able to create a Discord account.
This and much more revolving around networking stuff is everyday business around here.

[peak cloak]

You have rDNS? Even without any blocklist, you could be on a greylist

It's not a simple thing to operate well, not at a level that could be used for everyday use

[marsh oracle]

worked fine here for years

[gleaming moth]

anyone have these yet? https://rog.asus.com/networking/rog-rapture-gt6-model/ I am debating if its truly worth upgrading from my current nighthawk setup

[vast shard]

I have that and Nighthawk all top speed, but I would rather get them with WIFI 6e

WIFI6e or it ain't that good

[lunar socket]

how do i set up a network switch

[vast shard]

Many of them are just plug and play but you may have to adjust something settings if you get a managed switch

[lunar socket]

it's also a router and when i plug it in it doesnt rlly allow traffic

i think it's from like 2005 because i saw similar software on my xp drives

[vast shard]

Old technology

[lunar socket]

is that the issue?

[vast shard]

Sometime a simple factory reset will do the trick. you have to remember your router admin sign if that doesn't get reset. Sometime it does.

[vast shard]

That is not the issue at all, it maybe settings issue within the router

[lunar socket]

how would i get into it

[vast shard]

Check settings first and if everything look fine reboot the router to see if anything goes through

[vast shard]

All router login would be 192.168.1.1 and then you would enter your Admin Login and Password

[lunar socket]

is data stored inside the router

because idk what the password would be

it's not even mine lol my dad has random shit

i DO remember the set wifi password

but im not sure if thats ever helpful

[vast shard]

Data is not stored inside the router but the changes you made would be if they were saved

[lunar socket]

would password info be permanently be inside the router?

[vast shard]

They are always Admin and Password to login and if you know how to factory reset it would help a lot

It will bring back all the orignal settings before anything was touch

[lunar socket]

shouldnt there be some way without password

is it like a physical hardware switch or

[vast shard]

Password info would be inside the router to login

[vast shard]

No there is not until you have a factory reset button then it will erase the changed password and put it back to original Admin and Password

[lunar socket]

would normal lan switches have such things because ik i have some lying around and i think i got it working before

[vast shard]

Lan switches would not have login stuff

[lunar socket]

no wonder

i have to get things from my storage and its kind of far away and i do not have a car

[vast shard]

They are just switches

[lunar socket]

i have to get my dad to get everything for me and he messes up more than often with his own hardware

[vast shard]

All routers would have login information, so no way getting around it

[lunar socket]

idk how he claims to have built a pc exactly 30 years ago because he doesnt know a single cpu past 1st gen core i

he's been using pentium 4 for longer than he should

[vast shard]

Pentium 4 I got that since 1990 something to 2000

[lunar socket]

he's been using the same router for like 10 years before he never updated it and we ere using at&t

now we have a router designed for children half my age

worst part is it wont even let me do my homework 😭

i found a reset button on the router but idk if i press it or hold it or if any lights supposed to change

this is the one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZoneAlarm_Z100G

[vast shard]

The main reset button would be a small tiny hole, you would use a paper clip to hold on it. but if it say reset it maybe a hold button too

[lunar socket]

its a big enough hole and i can press the button with my finger its a flat button

yeah it probably is from windows xp lol

[vast shard]

The network settings doesn't matter because it will be come straight from the internet provider

[lunar socket]

just leave at default and simply enable?

[vast shard]

Yes, always leave it at default

[lunar socket]

this is so much harder than just using my other switch...

but it's like 10pm and there's no way i can even go get it past probably 8pm

my parents treat 8pm like it's midnight 💀

[vast shard]

That router is so basic

[lunar socket]

i mean, i can't go get it rn

[vast shard]

Switches only transfer data from the router

[lunar socket]

its somewhere else

[lunar socket]

i only need to split my connection so i can run several pcs since i lost my wifi card

rather its more like my dad did

its gone

[vast shard]

Oh, running ethernet from the router to the switch, always work

[lunar socket]

well we use an ethernet connection directly from the main one and the router is meant to JUST be a switch

this is so complicated when you do the wrong thing this is the reason why i have a "no compromises" rule

worst part is theres a "bug" in my internet which only certain sites work at certain times

and there's an exploit if i start a connection to say, a game server it will stay there until you cut the connection, at that point you cant go back

[vast shard]

@lunar socket If you know how to change DNS Server settings it will help a lot

Just click around until you see DNS in the router somewhere. I changed mine only because it does help website load faster

[lunar socket]

which isnt a problem for afk, unless i want to start AFTER it disables, it used to be a very limited amount of sites, and now everything works fine except some of my games and discord app sometimes (browser is ok)

[lunar socket]

it happens across several routers but they were all xfinity, it only seems to do it on my pcs, my roommates arent haveing issues

[vast shard]

My Discord App runs off my internet, if I have no connection it won't load

[lunar socket]

well... yeah, but doesnt browser also do that?

half the time the app is ok, the other half only the browser one works

[vast shard]

Yes, browser will also not load if no connections

[lunar socket]

which im pretty sure it just uses an html/js conversion

[lunar socket]

i can get into the front page and it wont do anything when even the browser doesnt work

[vast shard]

The old router has a lot to do with the situation. Something has been changed on it or the PC network settings has been changed too

[lunar socket]

ik. its a different issue it hought it was my pc but it happened to my other one as well but not my rommates

[vast shard]

That why I research a lot on Youtube what to change and what not to touch

[lunar socket]

i have a pci lan card but i can only test on the other system because its older and has pci for some reason

i added it but i havent tested yet since i dont want to haul a monitor and pc downstairs

i should probably avoid this problem entirely by getting an actual easy switch

is this normal

it works for some but not others

[low pond]

Yeah, not all sites respond to pings

[grim basalt]

i'm having trouble getting ad blocking to work on my OPNsense router

I.E. i still get ads on my TV

[opal pagoda]

maybe its using their dns, go to settings and change dns adress to your dns server

[grim basalt]

i set up quad9 as per the instructions on their site and i setup squid

[grim basalt]

It occurred to me that I should reply as you are probably not watching this channel

[clear igloo]

Ads on streaming services or on the TV interface?

[grim basalt]

I have a chromecast and when i send youtube to the TV from any device it has ads, i think the youtube app on the phone does too, this is just my litmus test to make sure that the blocking is working

[clear igloo]

Squid is an HTTP proxy, most traffic is HTTPS
Squid doesn't (afaik) act as a DNS proxy and quad9 doesn't filter ads by default

Plus YouTube doesn't play well with DNS ad blocking anyway since that's usually streamed into the video directly or some other method

[grim basalt]

https://tenor.com/view/bartlett-west-wing-head-desk-gif-6012433

[grim basalt]

any advice to get it all to work? as intended. I do have an extra goat to sacrifice

[peak cloak]

You would need to setup like a pihole or Adguard

[grim basalt]

I do not have a PI and what is adguard?

my browser blocks ads with the way i have it set up, i just want adblocking on my phone and TV

[peak cloak]

You don't need a pi, its just a software

Adguard is basically like pihole, it's a DNS server that blocks certain domains

[grim basalt]

ok, is it paid?

[grim basalt]

Look, i'm on a fixed income, and im just tired of being told to buy "things" buy my TV, and since i block tracking on desktop and mobile it's random stuff. and on youtube half the ads are scams.

[peak cloak]

No

https://adguard.com/en/adguard-home/overview.html

https://pi-hole.net/

[grim basalt]

I'll see what i can do

[waxen saddle]

Uhhh

As someone who hates ads, blocking ads within the youtube app is nigh impossible without an HTTPS proxy.

The Youtube ads are served from the same domain as Youtube, so using DNS blocking is 100% ineffective.

If you can get a browser on your TV somehow, such as Brave, or stream from Brave to the TV- that’ll block the ads.

So far, I haven’t found a really easy-to-deploy Docker solution for Https proxy ad blocking. It’s especially annoying because it requires generating a certificate and importing that on your devices.

[versed nebula]

I'm looking for a new vpn provider but I don't trust any site reviews. :/

[thick minnow]

pihole is software to replace your dns server. no pi required. I run it on my firewall. Works fine, I like the LCARS GUI skin.