networking

[brisk ledge]

So ye idk.

I just dont do any Utp outside the rack anymore xd

[vocal river]

can someone remind me about the website that tracks bgp hijacks in near realtime?

[clear igloo]

BGPMon?
Code BGP?
Thousand Eyes?
RIPE Artemis?
Caida?

[vocal river]

accessible to the public, like bgpstream used to be

caida doesn't have enough presence in the part of the world i'm interested in

[clear igloo]

I don't know of any and can't find any open to the public outside of RIPE maybe but that's not really real time iirc

[gilded ice]

Over a week ago my internet will randomly stop working for hours and hours

Then it will come back on and work again for hours and hours

I did some testing it's about 10% of pings come back the rest fail

I should note this is a 5g router and my 5g phone works fine but this thing shows it's got a -103 signal

[fallow wing]

GUYS
my network problem from last time
IT FUCKING WORKS NOW

[flat rover]

anyone have any suggestions for MoCA 2.5 adapters?

[plucky pollen]

just buy a highly rated one on amazon probably

[opal pagoda]

maybe your router supports external antennas, if yes then that might improve 5g signal reception

[fallow wing]

moca ?

[peak cloak]

ethernet over coax basically

[plucky pollen]

Are Exos drives better than Ironwolf (Pro) for NAS applications?

[peak cloak]

from what I read they are basically very similar drives but with exos having a higher MTBF and being louder

[plucky pollen]

huh

cuz ive seen high capacity exos drives being cheaper actually

[peak cloak]

Yeah that's what I read too

Prob since they make more of them

[cosmic steeple]

I have a 1070 graphics card what cable do I need to plug in my graphics card to this monitor

[orchid minnow]

there are hdmi connectors on both...

dvi to hdmi works too, or hdmi to displayport works too

i mean dvi to vga works if you want the screw lock on both ends

[peak latch]

I am looking to do a storage system at home and only want to access the files at home. there are about 15 ish devices I would like to be able to backup. what would be the best way of doing this?

[ocean pivot]

dvi to vga won't work with that gpu, it's dvi-d

[gilded ice]

it doesn't i tbh think it broke because it's so weird what is up and my phones work fine

verizon told me they will either A call me and figure out the problem before the 8th or if not they will just send me a new one

[forest valley]

Does anyone know of a 24 or even better would be a 48 port, managed switch that does 2.5g to all ports for around 800 dollars?

[naive wave]

ubiquiti is the cheapest i know of, with 48 2.5g poe ports for 1600

[forest valley]

yeah i saw their 48 port one, but their 24 isnt full 2.5g

[naive wave]

yeah, no clue why its not, but those are still the cheapest im aware of for a similar feature set

[forest valley]

Agh… alright

[opal pagoda]

You could get that Chinese special "eSports switch" that was featured on serve the home few weeks ago

https://www.servethehome.com/insane-48-port-2-5gbe-2x-25gbe-2x-10gbe-managed-chinese-e-sports-cafe-and-hotel-switch-microchip-micron-sandisk/

[forest valley]

🤔 interesting

[sharp locust]

Got this server up and running! Going to use it for ether Proxmox or XCP-NG

Haven’t decided to switch to XCP-NG or keep using proxmox yet

[visual tangle]

So, I have a question about this...
What are you looking to backup?

15 devices is a lot to be backing up regularly.
What my spouse and I have is:
Our devices are each separate with their own apps, and we sometimes image how they're configured.
We then have a centralized NAS with a a lot of shared documents and media.
The shared NAS is then backed up to a second NAS and to a cloud backup.
Aside from some file locking things you need to be careful of if both of us went to edit the same file this greatly simplifies our life.

We have 6 devices we currently use with this.

(We'll probably be adding 3-5 more in the next few years now that we have our house and plan to tech out to our use cases.)

[crisp thorn]

is it okay to ask a non basic networking question regarding vpns
I have multiple interfaces with public ips and I cant setup a VPN to use a specific one, it always goes through default route in case of openvpn and wireguard just doesnt work at all

[peak cloak]

set a ip for vpn clients to use going to internet or vpn server IP?

[crisp thorn]

vpn server listens on correct ip, but when it tunnels traffic from clients it doesnt do it through the same interface(IP) but instead goes through default route which is another interface with different ip

[peak cloak]

I havn't worked with networking that detailed in a while, but essentially don't you need a NAT masquarade rule for traffic going out of your VPN subnet to the correct IP

[crisp thorn]

I do have that and nothing worked

I asked multiple professionals and no one was able to help

all failed

[peak cloak]

could be an error

or slight misconfiguration

[fallow wing]

@peak cloak@crisp thorn
what a coincidence, a related topic
you guys good with VPN clients on OPNsense ?

I'm trying to figure out how to make my client work as intended but... :/

[crisp thorn]

I cant even set up a server for 4 days so no

[thick minnow]

what vpn setup are you using

[crisp thorn]

tried openvpn and wireguard

[thick minnow]

yeah but how did you install them

are you using openvpn access server?

[brisk ledge]

Im using Zerotier and wireguard currently on my opnsense Server, see no issues there.

Wireguard is broken in any wifi for me, and Zerotier also doesnt really want to work when im connected to wifi.

Which is just annoying asf...

Like it always worked and now im basically powerless...

[random pier]

so I followed a tutorial on setting up a domain controller (WinServer 22 evaluation) on a vm and joining a winodws 10 vm. I got up to the point where I set the IP and subnet mask on the server and client; I am able to ping the server from the client but I can't ping the client from the server

[peak cloak]

Windows blocks pings by default

Is the client a windows client

[crisp thorn]

I tried using this script https://gist.github.com/dpino/6c0dca1742093346461e11aa8f608a99
but I have a weird issue with it, namespace has access to internet only if it runs on default interface

if I give it a interface myself it can only ping LAN as in other interfaces but cant get out to internet, why??

[bold drum]

Well that is weird. My wired connection to my laptop shows it is on the guest network but the guest network is only on wireless. Wat.

[peak latch]

it would be easily 3 laptops, some desktop, and some other devices. I wouldn’t want backups happen more than 2 times a month

[junior prawn]

What is the fastest tunneling method I can use to reduce ping in servers. Using a wireguard tunnel rn, to a linode for Ddos Prot

[drowsy fossil]

rent a server from every cloud provider in the closest datacenter they have to you, and run tests between all of them
in all likelyhood one of them will be faster than linode
now is this efficient? definetly not its a huge waste of money, but it will reduce your ping in all likelyhood

[junior prawn]

Im going for the cheapest route, which is for now linode. Anyway, I ask which tunnel is best in terms of doing something like this, I have a ubiquiti dream pro, and, I have my tunnel which connects into a pfsense on another linode

^ Which is how im managing traffic for now

[drowsy fossil]

you may instead want to use a dedicated service for it however
i havent really tested the latency of cloudflare warp but its usually pretty darn fast

me to google with warp

me to google without warp

screenshots are backwards oops, 53 is no warp 71 is with warp

[junior prawn]

What about warp?

im already using cloudflare argo tunnel, and, zero trust

[drowsy fossil]

are you playing the game through the tunnel or are you tunnelling out of linode?

im assuming you are connecting to servers not hosting them yourself?

[fallow wing]

If anyone got experience with making a NordVPN client on WireGuard on OPNsense, please ping me, I'm very much stuck...

[junior prawn]

Not playing, Hosting

Hosting servers, and since using the tunnel im portforwarding just on the pfsense linode, exposing only that port

[drowsy fossil]

ok so you want to minimize you to server? and the only thing currently in the middle is wireguard?

[junior prawn]

I want to get the fastest tunnel/method for this task

I want the least amount of risks with exposing my servers ips, with the fastest method to tunnel low latency, fast speeds

[drowsy fossil]

got it, yea i dont have an answer for you, i thought you were going computer to wireguard to linode to server on the internet and for that my suggestion might help

[gilded ice]

Sometimes my internet works good but other times it doesnt. These last few days have been so bad I'm lucky if it even turns on. Lucky for me it turned on got like 45 minutes a few hours ago, first time in like a day and a half

The router does show unusually bad connection values but even if I move it around so it's pretty good still basically no connection

[short igloo]

Hey 👋 are there any good sets for network cabling out there? I've been looking on Amazon but am worried about buying some cheap garbage

[hazy peak]

I have a problem with my network drive in the windows explorer. I few hours later the network drives just disconnect in my explorer 1 year ago everything worked fine

[scenic ridge]

did you need to say it 4 times?

[gilded ice]

i think that shows how bad my connection is...

[hollow basin]

Hello, recently bought a 12 bay JBOD dual 6gb/s SAS controllers home use type deal, can someone tell me what all I need to buy to get it running? I also haven't really been able to find any diagrams for wiring either so I'm a bit lost.. any help would be appreciated!

[random shoal]

Anyone in Canada try the UniFi U-LTE-Backup Pro?
Trying to figure out if it actually works with any carrier (Rogers/Bell, etc) or if it's locked to AT&T per the UniFi website.

[brave hinge]

hi, i've asked this question previously but i never got a conclusive answer. My network setup is currently a mish-mash of cheap APs, each with its own ethernet cable, all broadcasting the same wifi name to form a single wifi network. The problem is, devices sometimes connects to the AP that is further away and ruins my internet connection. does mesh wifi routers solve this?

[drowsy fossil]

the feature is called roaming not mesh tho mesh devices often support roaming

[brave hinge]

I c

[brave hinge]

I’m reading on google that roaming is worked out by the device though, not the AP. Would getting a mesh wifi help with better roaming?

[drowsy fossil]

sometimes 🤷 roaming mostly doesnt work well in general, you may want to space your aps further apart or reduce how many you have active?

if you have significantly too many, you can dedicate some to 2.4 and some to 5g

[opal pagoda]

its also very dependant on the device that connects to ap, some roam nicely and others wait untill conn drops out and then seek strongest signal

[peak cloak]

depends, there are protocols on the APs side to help with roaming

but that usually requires a centerlized AP controller

[pseudo blade]

IMO It's a Cat 4 LTE modem for far too many dollars. It reads like a carrier lock in the US and can't find useful info beyond that. I had a look to see if you could use a USB modem and after far too many braindead Reddit users speaking authoritatively without a clue determined that Unifi USG/UDR-type routers apparently have no USB modem support which kinda sucks for you and limits your options. Netgear Nighthawk 4G modems are well-reviewed and much faster apparently at a similar price. Hope that helps.

You can get CAT 4 wired modems for like half that price and even less via USB, supported by competing router ecosystems.

[brisk ledge]

A smol list i have,

Unify and tp link need Hardware or Software Controllers for that

Avm has the controller build into their Router-aio-things - or well they are it...

Google Nest is also self Contained iirc..

[random shoal]

Using these in business settings so consumer routers don't work.

And correct, USB modems aren't compatible

Most USB modems compatible with routers are made by Huawei or other Chinese firms so that's not a great option either.

I used to use Meraki + USB modem which was easy, but USB modems also suffer with limitations on placement, which usually inside a rack or server room means low signal strength

The UniFi option (Meraki has a similar one now too) is handy because you can place it wherever, and even add an optional external antenna

Just not sure if it actually works with Canadian carriers. I found a single source in the UK that mentions an APN option but that's a different model technically.

[opal pagoda]

Take a look at mikrotik options like this one https://mikrotik.com/product/sxt_lte6_kit_us

[random shoal]

Mikrotik is a good option, but ideally want to keep in the ecosystem.

[quiet barn]

Hi, i need help I am stuck. i purchased a HP procurve switch. 48 port poe +. It will only boot to the boot menu. ( picture 1). when i try to skip or apply a application file or configuration file, it says they dont exist. I have found little or no info online. I did find the .mibs file ( i think is configuration stuff) and the .bin file which i think is an application file. I also think i am supposed to upload via tftp but can not get the switch to connect to any network, so xmodem ?

i really would like to get this thing setup i am at my wits end.

[ebon wasp]

And option 5 doesn't work?

[quiet barn]

no option 5 doesnt work it loops me back to the same thing. Thanks Bigbramel

[peak cloak]

could look at cradlepoint, but it's a bit pricey

[random shoal]

Takes up a WAN port. Want UniFi integrated since it works in addition to 2 wan

[hollow marlin]

It doesn't. You can configure the WAN/LAN for passthrough and it would inline your current WAN connection, as long as you're using copper though.

[random shoal]

True, I know there's lots of options. Still trying to find out if the UniFi solution works with Canadian carriers though.

[brave hinge]

I only have 3 APs. I need all 3 as my floors are concrete and i need one for each floor to get decent signal on each floor

[brave hinge]

I c. So cheap mesh solutions probably arent a very good upgrade then

[drowsy fossil]

You might be able to move them within the floor to a location that has even worse signal to the other floors, but still has good signal to the same floor

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo

40Gig for video

Smpte 2110

[steel cove]

i can only dream about having 40gbit

i only have 2.5 gbe local networking

[brisk ledge]

Only lol

Thats at least 2.5g, most have Gigabit cause it costs next to nothing xd

2.5g Switches are like 4x the price f. E.

And 10g Switches arent that much more expensive then lmao

[stiff steeple]

where all do i need to edit an IP address in order to change it?
I have a proxmox server. When I put it together, it managed to get a DHCP assignment (i think). But it doesn't show up in the DHCP reservation list on the router.
If i edit the second line in /etc/hosts to what i want to make its permanent address, all it does is make the device unaccessible via browser. it's still pingable at the old address.
So what else do i need to edit to change IP address?

[brisk ledge]

In proxmox you can Set the lxcs to DHCP and or static - for ipv6 also slaac.

VMs do what the operating System wants, usually DHCP.

DHCP, if you got an IP it got it from any Server it could find, which in most cases is your subnet.1

So if its not in the Reservation list - its weird.

To change the IP, you can do a static DHCP Reservation in your DHCP Server (f. E. Router) and restarting the vm/lxc (which i do mostly) or setting a static IP for your vm/lxc.

[stiff steeple]

i'd prefer to do reservation via mac address in the router. easy enough to do for the VM, it showed up in the client list.

but the proxmox server itself didn't.

[brisk ledge]

Proxmox Server is normaly static.

I have it on DHCP, but that requires a config change.

Via cli.

If you know how to do that to any linux, its the same way on proxmox. Can even use the webuis cli for that.

[stiff steeple]

i mean, it's relatively fine if it's static and declared on the server. the address i want to give it is outside of the reservation block.

which starts at .101

[brisk ledge]

Btw i can Tell you proxmox should be on the arp list from your Router

[brisk ledge]

You can just Set a static proxmox ip on the Network settings of that node

Hard to Tell you cause i dont have it in front of me tho...

[stiff steeple]

i'm assuming that's something other than just editing /etc/hosts

[brisk ledge]

It is.

Dont Edit that. Doest remotely do what you want

[stiff steeple]

well, I learned it does lock me out of the proxmox web interface, lol.

[brisk ledge]

/etc/network/interfaces

Is the thing that you want to Edit.

And the same is done via the Web ui

Do a screen of the pic before that - cause /24 confuses me rn...

So of the overview

[stiff steeple]

this is under system > network

.126 is the address i'm currently accessing under.

[brisk ledge]

Ye will be correct i guess.

[stiff steeple]

if i change it to .2 here, do i need to change it anywhere else?

[brisk ledge]

Change the IP, leave it at 24

[brisk ledge]

Nope

[stiff steeple]

will it accept the new IP address on reboot?

[brisk ledge]

For my understanding it should be /32 cause id doesnt need a subnet, but dont change it, leave it at 24 will have its reason.

[brisk ledge]

Yes. But confirm the settings are correct, otherwise you are locked out.

Ah, i got what you did btw... Proxmox does ask for the static IP during Installation, but you said get via DHCP cause that is an Option, only thing is, proxmox gets a DHCP IP and Sets it static for itself then, hence your 126.

[stiff steeple]

yeah... i was expecting to find it in the DHCP client list, get the mac address, and create a reservation for it under its intended IP.

[brisk ledge]

Most likely cause bridge Interface etc, so ye...

[brisk ledge]

Proxmox is static IP only - normally.

Changing etc/network/interfaces yourself to DHCP does work.

But its not normally doable cause its not reccomended. Servers are normally a static IP, DHCP can change randomly, which is Bad.

But as we are going static DHCP Reservation and give the Server the same IP everytime, its okay... Just proxmox still doesnt give you the Option from the settings.

[stiff steeple]

well, we'll see if i get locked out again, lol.

[brisk ledge]

Lol

[stiff steeple]

alright, in business

[clear igloo]

Only 40g 😦

[rocky badge]

That’s per unit tho

[clear igloo]

Moar speed!!

[rocky badge]

Gotta have 100 or 400 to something else

[clear igloo]

True, lol

I just mostly dislike 40g in general, it's something that's meh
25/50/100 is what I prefer these days even though SFP56 isn't widely out yet

[brave hinge]

Unfortunately i am limited to a single AP on each floor

[warm sable]

Hello i dont know if i am in the right channel or server but i am trying to host a local minecraft server with no luck on joining through another internet. Ive portforwarded 25565 on my router and on my pc. What might be the issue here?

[clear igloo]

Do you have an ISP that you're hosting on that's doing CG-NAT?
IE: when you look on your router does the WAN IP shown there match what google or another "what is my ip" site returns for your IP address?
Or does your WAN IP fall somewhere in the range of 10.x.x.x or between 100.64.x.x to 100.127.x.x

[warm sable]

i have no idea what ISP or CG-NAT is...

where do i check the wan ip

is it by any chance one of theese? i cant find anything named WAN

[clear igloo]

IP Address under Internet Connection Type

[warm sable]

subnet mask?

[clear igloo]

IP Address

[warm sable]

ip adress okay, what should i do with it

[clear igloo]

When you go to google
Search for What is my IPv4 address

Does the result match that IP address on your router?

[warm sable]

no. the search one is xx.xxx.xxx.x
and the one on the router is: xxx.xxx.x.xxx

[clear igloo]

Does the router address shown start with 100.64.x.x through 100.127.x.x?

[warm sable]

its 192.168

can i type it out or should i not do it here?

alr

192.168.1.170

[clear igloo]

But no ISP should ever assign 192.168.x.x range as IPs to hosts =/

Is that the IP you connect to your router with or is that different?

192.168.0.1 or 1.1?

[warm sable]

what do you mean.

i connected via ethernet cable

[clear igloo]

How do you get to your local router page, what IP address do you use to access the GUI?

[warm sable]

192.168.1.1

no not that one

hold on

[peak cloak]

What is it connected to

[warm sable]

192.168.0.1 this one

[warm sable]

the router is connected to a modem

[peak cloak]

Ah so that is probably an all in one modem which also acts as a router

[clear igloo]

Exactly

[warm sable]

i cant connect directly to the modem

well i can with a cable but not wirelessly

should i try with using a cable directly from the modem to my pc instead of going through the router

[peak cloak]

Can you access modem settings

[warm sable]

afraid not. couldnt find any login credentials on it but i can try to look it up

[odd lantern]

I need some help with setting up my AV500 power line adapter

I am trying to set it up without using the WPS button on the main router

[valid hatch]

Should I ask about SSH here?

k

Im on a windows 11 machine, Im setting up ssh server. I have enabled key auth from the ssh settings files in C:/ProgramData/ssh and enabled both the ssha (or whatever is the ssh server svc called) and the ssh-agent services. When I use ssh-keygen and go through the process, I cant find the SSH key. The <my user folder>/.ssh/id_rsha folder does not get generated.

Otherwise connecting over password is working properly

yeah those dont get gen'd in the .ssh dir

ssh-keygen

[hallow mural]

Did you Just enable openssh right now?

[valid hatch]

yes?

[hallow mural]

You'd have to restart, that happened to me last time

[valid hatch]

oh ok just a sec...

nope restarting didnt work
when i try to create a new key with the same name it says it exist

[hallow mural]

Please work dont embaris me

[valid hatch]

yeah i read that

[hallow mural]

I think it is .ssh

[valid hatch]

hm

the file that the command said it was saved in is not there

does generating the key on the same machine that runs a ssh server matter?

hmm

nope + already tried that before

[hallow mural]

I think files starting with a . are hidden check that

[valid hatch]

hidden files are on

[hallow mural]

Also try cating it with the terminal instead of file explorer

or whatever they do in windows

[valid hatch]

no

not there

[hallow mural]

Thats strange

[valid hatch]

i have Match Group administrators and the line under it commented out in the sshd_config file

yeah it says the same to me but its not actually there when i check

in powershell its dir no it does not

[valid hatch]

hmm

Here is my sshd_config file:

[frosty stone]

well you can use linux stuff like ls and clear if you've installed git and chosen the option for them

[valid hatch]

ok

still not there

i just found out it no support dashes

bruh

thats the problem when i retype it without a dash it works
thanks guys

oh i just found the files with dash, they get put in the user folder outside the .ssh folder
probably a bug

[hazy peak]

I have a problem with my network drive in the windows explorer. I few hours later the network drives just disconnect in my explorer 1 year ago everything worked fine

[valid hatch]

Check your ethernet cable or wifi connection. Try unplugging and replugging the cable in or unconnecting and connecting to your wifi network

[covert prairie]

My Internet speed on my pc is like 8 mbps download and 4 mbps upload

I think it is because I'm using this wireless wire

Would a pcie wifi card with an ax200/210 chip fix that issue?

Cause when I test my phone I get like 80mbps

[high widget]

https://www.facebook.com/groups/it.humor.and.memes/permalink/24298017783130677/

this pop up in my FB

not for the faint Hearted

[covert prairie]

Oh my god.

Im going to cry

I get 110mbps on my phone next to my router and using this horrible wireless ethernet cable I get 8mbps

[peak cloak]

Wireless Ethernet cable???

[plucky pollen]

Lmao

[plucky pollen]

Bro what's a wireless wire supposed to mean lol

[steel cove]

pain

[thick minnow]

Bro, how is this confusing. It's a wire, without the wire.

[steel cove]

any reccomendations for a 10 gbe switch that doesnt cost 300 bux? ive seen and like the ubiquiti flex xg, but its pricy. and the trendnet 2x10gbe 4x2.5 gbe is a little sketch on the reviews

[peak cloak]

mtik?

you need rj45 or does sfp+ work

[steel cove]

rj45. my devices are a mix of 2.5 gbe and 10 gbe rj

[peak cloak]

ah, cuz they have a 4xSFP+ switch for $150

[steel cove]

yeah i know. would be spending like 250 or more for the adapters too

[peak cloak]

yeah rj45 sfp+ adapters aren't cheap

and aren't that great either, they use lots of power and run hot

[steel cove]

https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/unifi-flex-xg really want this, but expensive for a 4 port and 1gbe uplink

[plucky quarry]

So im trying to setup a true NAS server but its asking me to connect it to my router or modem and the thing is i dont have my router near by the only thing i have is my deco M5's but im not switching it to access point mode since i dont want to loose QoS and device isolation so i dont know what else i can do if i just try a different software or is there a way to just bypass that

[peak cloak]

Move it to be next to router. Nas on WiFi is just bad

[plucky quarry]

i though of that heres the small issue my parents probably wont like the server being downstairs and true NAS doesnt support wireless so im stuck rn seeing if i can just direct attach an ethernet from the server to my pc they are less than 1 meter away from each other or see if i can do anything else to get it to work

ngl i just thought of something idk if it will work but what if i just run a mobile hotspot on my pc its a long shot but if it works im good

[plucky quarry]

It didnt work i have no clue what to do

[tidal frost]

Consider unraid

[opal pagoda]

windows can share any network connection to any port/nic

try doing that

[sly mantle]

Can you buy the standard Cloud key gen 2 anymore as I can’t find it on ui.com

[frosty stone]

did you not try the search?

gen 2 is sold out, g2 plus is the only one available

not a very essential item anymore since it's built into the dream machines now

[sly mantle]

Do you know anywhere you can buy gen 2 atm?

[frosty stone]

from ubiquiti

or from amazon

or any other retailer with stock

[opal pagoda]

You could always run ubiquiti controller in a docker container

[frosty stone]

then that requires having something to run that docker container on

if you don't already have something to run it on, a cloud key makes sense

[covert prairie]

Imma draw it cuz funny

[sly mantle]

I have a NAS that could run it but its 32 bit architecture so that won’t support newest version and I also have raspi 3B+ that I previously ran it on but the SD corrupts too often for me to carry on using it and now I can’t use it as it only has 1gb of ram

[covert prairie]

I think dats how it works?

Whatever it is, I'm just gonna buy a pcie wifi card at this point bru.

Can I just buy any old one with 300mbps+?
Cause my max Internet is like 110mbps.

Sorry if I confused you by calling it a wireless wire. I have 0 clue on jargon in networking 😭😭😭

[frosty stone]

no offence, your drawing is rubbish and impossible to make any sense of

and also sideways

[covert prairie]

Just forget everything I said.
I just need a pcie wifi card which will get the connection my router is able to provide.

But idk which one to get there is so many 😭😭😭

[opal pagoda]

are you using wifi bridge?

[plucky pollen]

Just get a wifi card

Or yk, a cable if you can

[plucky quarry]

welp time to reinstall windows since true NAS deleted my windows install i had nothing on it but still lost the install

[stray crane]

hey everyone quick question, i have a problem that need a simple solution for probably. I have three wifi routers two of them acting and configured as access points (Netgear R6080 in a room and a R6350 in another room covering the other side of the home) both of them connected to our ISP provided router that had its wifi acess point disabled since the r6350 was beside it, we recently began having issues with our range on the living room, and since we have an ethernet drop there (and to save money) we moved the r6350 to the living room and connected it there, and we activated back the ISP provided router its access points back so it covers the master bedroom properly, the issue we have now is that the SSID & password were set identically for example (The corner house wifi) was the same for the netgear R6080 and R6350 units , and we did placed the same ssdi and password on the ISP provided router but we now have that wifi showing up twice on our devices instead of once. how could i fix this?

feel free to ping me and mention me in the reply so i can see the notification

[fossil pasture]

That's because it isn't a mesh network. You'll have to figure out how to make one the primary router (I would suggest the most feature rich router) and the other two as nodes. Many modern routers have the ability to act as a node as opposed to being a separate network, which is what you are experiencing now.

[stray crane]

yeah they are setup like that they are on "acess point" mode not router

the issue is mainly my ISP router, cause both of them were working fine and still do with their combined SSID and password we would just have one shown in the list, when i activated the isp one, even having the same SSID and password now we have two showing up on devices list

[peak cloak]

Nah, that doesn't matter

[peak cloak]

It shows 2 on all clients?

Like windows, android, iOS, etc?

And you are absolutely sure it's the same ssid? Copy pasted? There could be some hidden characters or something

[stray crane]

yes my windows,mac , android phone and iphone

[stray crane]

Copy pasted

[peak cloak]

Could you get wifi man and see the wifi details

[stray crane]

What device is it available on?

[peak cloak]

iOS, Android

My network for example

Only one physical AP, but technically 2 since 2.4ghz and 5ghz

[stray crane]

Btw thanks for the tip on wifi man, I just used fing before

[grand portal]

so whilst I was redecorating, I was smart and ran an ethernet cable under the flooring from my router to my office.... however I seem to be getting a maximum of 100mb in the office, I assumed all CAT5e was 1GBps?

[torn moss]

Guys, I have a problem. My tiktok doesn’t work here I’m in Indonesia now but I have a VPN to home in Netherlands where I can connect, how is this possible?

Reddit is blocked here and with vpn I can use it

But tiktok is not working with vpn

[brisk ledge]

Was it shielded? (ftp, s/ftp, s/stp)

If not (aka Utp) that may be an issue - or maybe one conductor is broken - many possible causes.

[frosty stone]

just to make sure, both ports at each end are 1gbps? some routers may not have all 1gbps lan ports

[grand portal]

It is a UTP cable yes sorry

[brisk ledge]

Well, that may be it.

Especially when next to Power wires.

[grand portal]

I would hope thhe router is using 1gbps RJ45 given they are supplying 500mbps broadband...

[grand portal]

Hmmm there is a fair bit of power cables at both ends 🤔🤔

[frosty stone]

re-read my message. I said it may not have all 1gbps ports. as in 1 or 2 of however many total lan ports. especially if it's an ISP provided router, as they're notoriously cheaply made

[brisk ledge]

I had issues with 15m Utp cat6.

Maybe 1m Was next to Power wires... Fallback to 100mbit.

Changed to s/ftp, issue gone

[grand portal]

I was going to purchase a cable tester this week to make sure a wire wasn't broken shorted. But interference sounds possible

[brisk ledge]

Tbh, Every Router nowadays is full gbit, no matter the price.

But some have Software downgrade modes to 100mbit.

Maybe Look into that, but giving its a relatively long Utp cable that is likely the issue.

[frosty stone]

the initial question in my mine when I first read the question was "why are people still doing new cat 5e runs in 2023"

[brisk ledge]

But looking at the Router end is free, so do that.

[brisk ledge]

Cat5e is fine. Using Utp is Bad tho.

[frosty stone]

you'd be very fucking surprised there mate. ISPs ain't gonna spare a cent if they don't have to

[brisk ledge]

At least ftp, s/stp or s/ftp costs basically nothing more.

[brisk ledge]

Im in germany tho.

Bacially only Avm and Huawei models here, all gbit.

Often even 2.5g wan, which is just useless.

Giving that the lan is quad gbit and stuff lmao.

[frosty stone]

germany is one singular country. and EU countries generally have their shit more organized when it comes to this sort of stuff lol

[brisk ledge]

And here in germany you can only get gbit Max...

[brisk ledge]

I know.

[grand portal]

Just looked up the router (I'm in the UK and it's a VM superhub, so yeah fairy shoddy, especially WiFi) but it has 3x 1GBps and 1 2.5GBps port

[brisk ledge]

Congrats on a basically useless ethernet run xd

But yea. The Chance is still there that just one wire is broken in it.

[frosty stone]

do you have other shorter cables laying around? - just to confirm it's not the router being weird, maybe move your computer to test, or plug in a laptop to test?

[brisk ledge]

But Utp is just Bad for everything over like 1m.

[frosty stone]

I don't doubt it's the cable, but still useful to test everything else first

[brisk ledge]

Not couting racks where you can get away with full utp

[grand portal]

I have no real excuses... I haven't kept up with ethernet cabling, and just used a 10m cable I had lying around

[frosty stone]

oh

[brisk ledge]

Its not even made for fixed deployment?

The ones you run in a house are Solid core wires rather than the fine stranded ones, cause much more reliable.

Not to mention, basically always shielded.

[frosty stone]

well if you're going to spend money, I'd F word it || futureproof || and install a decent cat 6a cable. that will definitely make sure you're safe until 10gbps is somehow too slow

[brisk ledge]

More importantly, use shielded.

S/ftp or s/stp.

[grand portal]

no it's not... starting to regret running a virtually useless cable...

[frosty stone]

hence the "decent" in my wording

[brisk ledge]

There are just as decent Utp ones.

Its just for different uses

[grand portal]

I don't plan on staying here for long (maybe a few years) so I didn't wanna go full set up, so it's janky and coming out the top of the skirting board 🤣

[brisk ledge]

But yea, if you run New...

Go cat6a (or cat7 depending on price, theres basically no Benefit)

And s/ftp or more commonly for hosue wiring s/stp.

[frosty stone]

anything above cat 6a in this situation just gets more annoying to terminate the ends

[brisk ledge]

I dont really feel any difference in wiring cat6a vs cat7

The shielding does.

ftp being very easy.

Utp obv nothing...

S/stp is - yea takes a little time.

[grand portal]

Can I go more janky and just shield the cable thats visible? there isn't much chance of power cable interference where it is running under the flooring

[brisk ledge]

You can try.

But i wont really think it helps that much.

Considering the shielding has to be grounded

[frosty stone]

you'd spend more money trying to "sheild" it than if you just run a new cable lol

[brisk ledge]

It might still be broken, cause Utp in soft is just - not good.

[brisk ledge]

Running a new cable is almost certainly more difficult.

Dont think they can just pull a new one in.

[frosty stone]

if they couldn't just pull one through, how the hell would you expect they'd plan on "sheilding" the existing one lol

[brisk ledge]

And if they can and did for the current one, im sure its just broken.

[brisk ledge]

Shielding the Part thats visible.

[frosty stone]

that wouldn't do shit lol

[brisk ledge]

Cause they say its the only Part where Power is running.

I dont think so too, but there is a (tho small) Chance.

[grand portal]

unfortunately running a new cable is not possible without pulling up the flooring in both office and lounge

[frosty stone]

did you secure it with something? lol

[brisk ledge]

Even if not, its not an Option.

Either the current cable just rips, and you are left with nothing, or a Solid Chance the new one Breaks

You could use armored ethernet cable tho, but thats an actual pita to use, and expensive.

Tho probably the coolest cable i have ever seen.

[grand portal]

I didn't do a smart job by running it in trunking or anything like that, I have laminate flooring, so it's basically just running in the small expansion space under the skirting board

[frosty stone]

in the expansion space?

where there is meant to be just air, for the purpose of thermal expansion?

I wouldn't be surprised if it's expanded and pinched the cable

[grand portal]

yep, like I said not the smartest, though the design of the house, there is a fairly large expansion space so shouldn't have pinched the cable

[frosty stone]

would've been infinitely better off just running it along the edge of the floor and having it visible

[grand portal]

I couldn't have that, would drive me crazy lol

[brisk ledge]

I have 2 beefy cables running thru my home xD

[frosty stone]

I'm on wifi because I can't be bothered running a cable around the outside of half the house

[grand portal]

there is a crawl space under the property, so I'm thinking my best bet now is to forget that cable, and see if I can run it straight into the crawl space and be done with it

[frosty stone]

that's what should've been done in the first place. and since it's barely any extra effort, run it up into the wall and do wall plates

[grand portal]

getting to the crawl space is not the easiest, and I'm not exactly a small chap, so I ran it around the edge of flooring when I redecorated both rooms

I'd have to get a friend round to get into it for me lol

[frosty stone]

this is what knowing small people is useful for

or even a child old/smart enough to know how to pull a cable and poke it through a hole

[grand portal]

haha child labour! 😉 nahhhh I only a have 7month old

[grand portal]

thank you both for your help either way, I'll forget about the CAT5 and just run a CAT6/7 S/FTP cable, just need to get the wife's approval factor lol

[brisk ledge]

Ye

Again, cat6a is for lan over rj45 not a Single bit worse than cat7, just that cat7 s/ftp (or s/stp) is so common that it might actually be cheaper, so Look out :p

[grand portal]

having a quick look on Amazon, CAT6 was around £20 cheaper lol

though I am looking at reels and crimping them myself

[brisk ledge]

I know.

[brisk ledge]

What exact type of cable?

Also - get cat 6a

[grand portal]

the one I was looking at was just CAT6

[brisk ledge]

F. E.

Local seller for me, cat 6a about 1 euro/m
cat6 1,2 euro/m
cat7 0,69 euro/m

All s/ftp

[brisk ledge]

Utp?

If yes, dont.

[grand portal]

CAT6 FTP

https://amzn.eu/d/8ZqAsPN

[brisk ledge]

Get s/ftp if you are at it.

[obsidian cedar]

does a switch work over a powerline adapter?

[brisk ledge]

Futureproof and stuff

[brisk ledge]

It does, cause powerline is simelar to just a cable - or like a Switch with 2 ports lol, but powerline sucks...

[obsidian cedar]

i aint got much choice

to get ethernet upstairs

[brisk ledge]

Just sain - but ye it works.

[brisk ledge]

Id rather lay a cable over the stairs lol

In fact - i did

[grand portal]

I'm guessing U/FTP is still unshielded?

[brisk ledge]

U/ftp is - shielded but like not great.

[obsidian cedar]

is it that bad

works fine what I mostly use it for

[brisk ledge]

Its like, the twisted pairs are shielded - but not the whole cable at once

[brisk ledge]

Yea.

Unreliable often, and definitly slow.

Slightly better than a basic wifi connection.

Often worse than a good one.

[grand portal]

My cousin used them for a while, general browsing was fine, but soon as we started gaming he had connection issues

[brisk ledge]

Yea.

And big Power drawers which are very choppy, most Electronic stuff, interferes with the powerline connection, it mostly still works, but not quite low latency, not fast, and drops packets or the whole link every now and then, reason browsing works fine.

[grand portal]

CAT 7 S/FTP is definitely alot more common than CAT6A S/FTP, I can't really find many on amazon lol

[brisk ledge]

Also try to avoid Amazon for Such stuff, or at least check price

Cat7 s/ftp should be under a Dollar per Meter, or definetly not over 2.

[grand portal]

unfortunately not in the UK

[brisk ledge]

Also, make sure it doesnt say flexible or something, i mean it doesnt matter that much, but often costs more and is actually worse for everything not moving.

[brisk ledge]

You didnt even check non Amazon prices xd

[grand portal]

there about £1 p/m, Amazon is about £1.1-£1.2 p/m

once you factor in shipping costs

[brisk ledge]

Btw wan and PC cable lol

[obsidian cedar]

dream

mum would kill me

[brisk ledge]

Lmao

For me its getting closer to mum living at my space - and im 19...

[obsidian cedar]

cant wait to be able to move

love my parents but ill just love my own space

[brisk ledge]

Ye

[obsidian cedar]

im 17 now but idrk when i will be able to move out

[brisk ledge]

I could, but why should i its getting my house lol

[frosty stone]

houses are expensive

[brisk ledge]

They are

[frosty stone]

live or free for as long as they let you/as long as you can tolerate it

[brisk ledge]

But im just as expensive to companies

I am close to paying more for the house than her lmao

[obsidian cedar]

i allready pay rent to them now

[frosty stone]

yikes you've got that kind of parents

[brisk ledge]

Its fair.

[frosty stone]

I understand after 18... but before? like wtf

[obsidian cedar]

i pick up about 150 pounds a week and my mum takes 35

[brisk ledge]

If you work, pay -

[obsidian cedar]

so it really isnt that bad

i legit do nothing round the house in return

apart from clean my room

[brisk ledge]

Lol

[grand portal]

I couldn't do this... cables drive me crazy!

[brisk ledge]

Cables are cool

Okay but fr, im fixing that sometime.

[grand portal]

I like my cables where they belong.... hidden

[brisk ledge]

Thing is just i changed the speakers so the cables are pretty short - and not hidden by the speakers itself lol

[grand portal]

yeah you need longer cables lol

[brisk ledge]

Some audiophile will surely say shorter cables make Sound better

Okay but fr, yea im doing that, when my plugs arrive, im sick of the screw crap...

[grand portal]

I try and hide all my cables where possible, the only cables I don't mind on show are USB cables (as long they are tidy...)

partly because don't have much choice lol

[brisk ledge]

I could go xt30 for speakers lmao - i wont.

[grand portal]

they probably do... but I'm sure the extra 2ft of cables won't make THAT much of a difference

definitely not to most people at least lol

[brisk ledge]

It will make next to no difference at all.

What would make some difference is different length.

Tho i wont Match that for my surrounds when i add them...

Not to mention good room correct would also Kick out that aspect lol

Back to network stuff, gotta get the Audiophile network Switch ltt showcased so my music over Spotify over chromecast over wifi sounds better on my decent speakers.

[grand portal]

I recently upgraded my surround system to using a DENON AVR2700 just sucks it doesn't support YouTube Music

[brisk ledge]

Chromecast. Kills everything imo.

[grand portal]

so I have resort to streaming through the TV, or bluetooth

[brisk ledge]

Got a onkyo tx-sr608 - very old but then kinda high end.

For that time at least...

Also #audio-tech

[grand portal]

ermm yeah got a bit off-topic for a second

my bad

[cunning lion]

What site was it again where they extensively test networking equipment?

[opal pagoda]

Serve the home?

[cunning lion]

The MIGHT be the one

Hmm that one seems to focus more on wired solutions

I was looking more for the mesh stuff

[white basin]

guys should i get a power adapter or wifi extender cus i got told not all houses can use the power adapter

[cunning lion]

There is also MOCA if you have coaxial through the house that was being used by satlite or cable

[opal pagoda]

Ethernet cable is the best if you can run it

[waxen scroll]

I got Klipsch RPII

[ornate jungle]

Sometimes you won't know if a home's electrical circuits will / won't work with Powerline AV until you test things out, so my recommendation is to buy from a store with a good return policy and test out the connection, if you can't run Ethernet cables themselves, of course.

[brisk ledge]

Im talking avr tho

[pseudo blade]

I've heard so much negative stuff about powerline at this point that I'd probably just do dual-radio AP's/"mesh"

[marsh oracle]

So I had this customer yesterday and talked to their own local IT dude,
because we have a device that wasn't behaving properly inside their network.
Found out that their Sophos UTM was routing their internal LAN 192.168.100.0/24 into another LAN in the same subnet 192.168.100.0/24

Asked their IT dude about that: "yes I know, but it works like that for years, so we keep it"

wouldn't that mess up the routing table so the router goes ahead and says "oh hi my routing tables are messed up, lets not answer to you anymore"

[pseudo blade]

You just can't. Any traffic bound directly between two client addresses will never reach the router.

[marsh oracle]

well it somehow still worked

[ebon wasp]

Probably some NAT fuckery

[marsh oracle]

the other LAN was the WAN side from their internal networks point of view, but still. Super bad practise, I would change that if I was that IT guy

[clear igloo]

NAT fuckery is correct

[brisk ledge]

I love nat, it can magically work and magically refuse to work - funny thing

[ebon wasp]

That's why I hate it. IPv6 for the win

[clear igloo]

NAT66 😄

[ebon wasp]

Bad network admin, bad.

In a good IPv6 network you don't need NAT

[clear igloo]

100% agree

Unless you're on Spectrum in the states 🙂

[ebon wasp]

Whoever invented that deserves the burning stake

[clear igloo]

In which case I had to use NAT66

[ebon wasp]

I slowly understand why you Americans like SM. So much fuckery

[clear igloo]

They (Spectrum) give you a IPv6 /64 or /56 block that changes every once in a while or whenever your modem reboots. They sticky your IPv4 address to the MAC but not for IPv6 -.-

[brisk ledge]

I have both ipv6 directly for every device and nat on ipv6 for my wireguard Tunnel

[clear igloo]

yah, I had to NAT66 because I divided up my network into several VLANs with their own /64 (can't do smaller since android) so I had to NAT66 to the random prefix I would get every now and again from them

Thankfully AT&T gives you /64s that don't change, but you need to send multiple PD requests to get up to 8 /64s even though they "give" a /60 to your fiber box half are "reserved" or some crap

[brisk ledge]

Actually iirc i even have a /56 ipv6 (or a /60...)

But since basically everything using slaac i think - i use /64 of it.

Could do different prefixes for different Networks tho - but i wont. /64 is a lot.

[peak cloak]

there is some applications where it makes sense

Ex: failover without BGP ability

[ebon wasp]

..... In that case you don't understand IPv6.

[peak cloak]

wdym?

When you get a prefix from one ISP, that gets assigned to your LAN devices right?

Now you have another internet connectivity source, with a separate prefix

[ebon wasp]

IPv6 has no problem with multiple devices using same IPv6 adress. So you use an anycast IPv6 address

[peak cloak]

What you would want to do prefix translation

I'm not a network engineer but I'm pretty sure that's not correct

[static moat]

The timout for connecting to a java server on LAN times out after 25 seconds, but over WAN its 21 seconds exactly. any ideas? IK the difference because for the WAN i put my DDNS domain name insteadd of my local IP for the server

[ebon wasp]

Well I am from education and I graduated on it. IPv6 has support for anycast addresses, ie an unicast address in use by multiple devices. That's why IPv6 is so great and why it doesn't need NAT

[peak cloak]

v4 has anycast as well

[ebon wasp]

Only with cooperation of BGP and you need to be really sure that a IPv4 network only knows one endpoint

IPv6 has native anycast addresses and can be employed within a home network if you want to

[final oracle]

HI.

I have an issue:

This page isn’t working
thelibertypath.com redirected you too many times.
Try clearing your cookies.
ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS

Tried different browsers, clearing cookies etc.

Using cloudflare

[peak cloak]

is it your website

and it works fine for me

[steel grove]

Does anyone know what a person connected to my network with an Ethernet cable is able to do (in terms of security or hacking risks)? I know that if they got the WiFi password, they could perform a MITM attack or look at unencrypted traffic; is any of that possible when connected with Ethernet?

[brisk ledge]

Basically the same is possible via ethernet.

[steel grove]

Aren't those things preformed using WiFi? You could look at the network traffic by listening on to the wifi radio traffic, and performing a MITM attack by intercepting the WiFi signal?

[brisk ledge]

Not really.

One thing you can do is to act like a wifi AP, and do it that way, but on lan you can also just fake being the Gateway, and read basically everything.

Many possibilities.

[steel grove]

Like this?

[brisk ledge]

Exactly that.

That thing works 100% on wifi and lan.

[steel grove]

I understand now. Thank you!

[final oracle]

Yeah, I resolved it a couple hours ago.

[normal abyss]

Just got new internet in my house my devices connect to it but it says it has no connection

[ebon wasp]

Can you ping the router/gateway?

[thick minnow]

Cap

[brisk ledge]

Thanks for the pic, didnt know i need it.

Gotta find a way to hang that up.

[analog sonnet]

I have recently unboxed a Ubiqutit 16 Poe switch and the switch flex mini. I do not have a unifi gateway, im just using it as a switch, I have an Xfinity "all in one". However, I can not get either switch to adopt. Any idea?

[analog sonnet]

my pc

I had just turned off the firewall for now

Not working. Im supposed to be doing the IP of my switch correct? because that is what im adopting.

[analog sonnet]

yes but to connect to the switch

over ssh

[slender veldt]

Ive just moved and im getting terrible internet connection, im getting 5-7mbps download and less than 1 upload ive gotten a new router a 5g sim card but it doesnt seem to get better is there a way to get better internet without having to move, pay a lot of money or get like star link

[frosty stone]

well it sounds like you're on 5g wireless... so I guess, if you haven't already tried... position the box differently, if it doesn't work well anywhere, then you're too far from the tower

[slender veldt]

i tried a ethernet cable if thats what you mean by 5g wireless but it didnt affect the speeds also we have a antenna on the roof but it doesnt boost the connection at all when plugged in so i guess im just unlucky with the closest tower

[frosty stone]

no, I meant the actual connection, which you mentioned "5g sim card"
I then assumed it was all one box with the antenna in it, which is why I mentioned positioning it differently
but it's an external antenna, soo you're probably just too far from the tower to get decent speeds

[slender veldt]

yea im prettyy sure the closest tower is behind a big hill

are there any websites with internet tower maps?

like to see where they are

[frosty stone]

no, that information is generally not just given out
but it's not hard to spot a tower lol

or an antenna on a tall building

[languid parcel]

Ok Ive always thought about this. How does my router know where another computer is? It takes in a IP address, how does to know where to send the data physically? Does it just have a constantly updating map of all IP addresses and their physical location, or does it talk to another server who knows where that IP address is?

[frosty stone]

your internet is routed through many servers to get to the final destination

this is partly why you can sometimes have a very bad connection to one server but not another

[slender veldt]

i dont live in a city so i dont have tall buildings close to me

[languid parcel]

So it’s a game of telephone pretty much

My router doesn’t know where the data needs to be sent, it just knows who might know where the destination is, so on and so forth

[frosty stone]

if you're bored, you can use tracert <ip or domain> in windows to see the route of certain things

out from your router, it goes through ISP stuff, then out to the greater internet

[slender veldt]

btw lets say i would get star link do you know the approximate price for it and would it help me since it takes the connection from satellites

[frosty stone]

the price is listed on the starlink website last I checked

[slender veldt]

would it help me get better connection?

[pseudo blade]

It doesn't. The typical home router knows only two things: which interfaces are for your local network and which one is for 0.0.0.0/0 - "everything else". Most internet routers ran by ISPs have a much more complete understanding of where everything is and they guide your traffic between them until your destination is reached.

[frosty stone]

maybe

[pseudo blade]

Same is true for ipv6

[analog sonnet]

no

ssh ubnt@<ip> and it responded with connection timed out

[languid parcel]

Wait no nvm it’s not like telephone

It’s just like the regular post office

My house -> my local post office -> distribution center same area as destination -> their post office -> their house

My router -> my ISP server (who checks the global address to see who owns the destination IP) -> their ISP server -> their router

Kind of

[clear igloo]

Bigger routers know, those are your ISP or post office. Sometimes they're regional post offices (ISPs) and sometimes bigger so they know more.

[pseudo blade]

Well... I could be much more specific but that's not too far off, Mazkas

[slender veldt]

do i need to have a satellite in like a close radius of me and should i buy it from the starlink website or from a store close to me, on the website theres a 60€/month service fee but in the store close to me i dont think theres any fee but it is like 200€ more expensive.

[pseudo blade]

But yeah internet routers have "routing tables" which basically tell them what's on the other side of each interface.

[languid parcel]

all i need is a basic understanding

Im doing my A+ cert and the chapters on internet and networking have been the most complex, and this was the one thing that I just couldn’t figure out

Thanks fellas

[frosty stone]

starlink isn't some old fixed satellite rural internet thing, there's thousands of them and they're always moving

[clear igloo]

If you want to see more the current routing table size can be found here:
https://www.cidr-report.org/as2.0/
😄

[frosty stone]

just an example of price if you're in the US, not my location of course

[slender veldt]

yea i know but i live in finland and i was looking on the satellite map and there was like only 1 satellite close to me

[pseudo blade]

I hope you don't mind just broadcasting your exact co-ordinates to us all

[frosty stone]

oh finland lol

[frosty stone]

learn to read

"not my location of course"

I'm not even in america

[slender veldt]

on starlinks website its 65€/month and 300€ for hardware but in the store its 519€

and is the receiver thing the only thing i need or do i need a special router for it?

[frosty stone]

you buy all the hardware in one package

dish, router, and whatever else

[pseudo blade]

lol

[frosty stone]

https://www.starlink.com/kit

[slender veldt]

https://www.clasohlson.com/fi/Starlink-Residential-standard-kit-Langaton-reititin/p/39-2488 like this comes with all of the stuff right?

[frosty stone]

I will not recommend anything 3rd party as I have absolutely zero clue

starlink will sell you the kit themselves

[slender veldt]

thats a trusted store here

but im pretty sure i would get it cheaper from the starlink website

[pseudo blade]

In my region they're selling the hardware off much cheaper than that

Of course that's offset by the monthly cost somewhat lol

$199 AUD for the terminal but $139/179 AUD/mo for the service...

[peak cloak]

thats offical kit, starlink is sold at regional stores too now

[pseudo blade]

Huh.

News to me.

[tawdry dagger]

Anyone have suggestions for a router for a 3 story townhouse? The modern is on the bottom floor

[peak cloak]

Bestbuy has them

[pseudo blade]

Get several APs/mesh routers.

Depending on floorplan and bandwidth needs maybe just an AP/mesh router on floor 2 will suffice

[tawdry dagger]

Any specific brands/models? I've used ASUS in the past and they've been great. Also the home is equiped with cat 5e throughout from the builder (The details I'll know more once I take possession next month) Would I plug it into those ethernet ports?

[pseudo blade]

Oh perfect

Yeah just get an AP if you have cat 5e in the walls already.

[peak cloak]

Starlink stats are LEO so they are constantly moving relative to your location. Finland is a bit far north of standard coverage, but they have northern sats to cover these locations, although performance may not be as good

[peak cloak]

Yep, so it would be
Modem -> Router -> Switch (if needed) -> Cable in Wall -> Access Point

I use tplink omada and it works well

you probably want to get a POE switch to power all the APs from one location

[pseudo blade]

I use Mikrotik stuff but I'll be the first to admit that their "easy mode" app isn't perfect and configuring from scratch requires more prior learning than learning the entire interface of a TP-link AP.

Not hard once you know how or if you're OK with quickset but their mobile apps seem to have problems

Tried to use it to set up a virtual AP repeater setup and it emitted borked config and I had to go get a laptop to do it properly

[tawdry dagger]

Thanks I'll try these out!

[pseudo blade]

:P

I personally am stunned that Mikrotik did not anticipate my use case

[languid parcel]

Are there any softwares that I can use to practice setting up network maps and seeing how they work?

[pseudo blade]

Packet Tracer, GNS3, uh crap what's the popular one here?

EVE-NG

[languid parcel]

Packet Tracer looks good, thank you!

[tawdry dagger]

From the cable in the wall from that attach a switch? for example I have 1 port in the room I want to turn into a home office but I have 2 devices that I want to connect via ethernet

[peak cloak]

you can do that if needed

put you would want to have a switch before, right after router to handle POE for APs

if you want a AP + Switch solution these inwall APs look pretty nice although I never used one myself yet
https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/uap-ac-iw
https://www.tp-link.com/us/business-networking/omada-sdn-access-point/eap615-wall/

[tawdry dagger]

Thanks!

[analog sonnet]

timed out...I must be doing something wrong. I did ssh <ip of switch.

[peak cloak]

what switch

iirc the flex doesn't have ssh

[analog sonnet]

the flex is what im currently doing, the 16poe isnt giving me an ip

could it be something to do with my xfinity router?

[peak cloak]

the switch won't give you an IP. Power on the switch, alone and just connect computer. Change computer IP to be within the network of the switch's default IP and connect to it manually

[analog sonnet]

It is only plugged into my pc, but I think my pc is whats connecting it to my main network

[peak cloak]

no, that's not how it works

PC won't connect it to another network without configuration for it to do that

[analog sonnet]

im not a networking expert as you can tell. all I know is that the switch is connected to my wireless network...and the only thing plugged into the switch is my pc

and it wont adopt

[peak cloak]

why are you connecting it to PC, connect it to router directly. It should get a DHCP address

[analog sonnet]

it said updating... then adopting... then adoption failed...

but it is now plugged into the router

[peak cloak]

yep, I have one and is kinda a pain to deal with since it's the only unifi device I have. At least now it can be a dumb poe switch the way my network changed. Bought it for POE powered + vlans
https://community.ui.com/questions/Flex-Mini-wont-adopt-SSH-says-Connection-closed-by-remote-host/a1d840bc-507a-4564-bb8c-b1bb6622e5e1

[tired karma]

I have this problem

I was doing nginx proxy manager - got it to work but I can only access portainer with domain along with ssl but anything else is giving me a 502 error (one machine hosting docker portainer) can’t access anything else: nginx : uptimekuma : any suggestion?

[rotund holly]

Hey! I think this is the closest topic to my question. I need a new solution for my long-term, never-loose-these-files solution. Basically old photos and the like. Currently I have a HDD in my pc, two external drives and a google drive account that basically have the same data on them. This is tedious and not the safest, since in the case of one drive failing, I have to manually create a new backup drive. Also, I constantly have to keep all drives up to date. Very error prone.

I thought about getting a NAS that does everything by itself but I don't really need it to run all the time. So I thought of just doing it in my pc with a second HDD and software raid, plus automatic sync to gdrive. And maybe some iterative backups (is that what you call that?) To avoid overwriting files accidentally. What do you think? I feel like I need an expert opinion here. Thanks in advance!

[peak cloak]

Most robust solution would be a dedicated NAS

ZFS has something called snapshots so you can rollback

[proven ivy]

How can I determine the speed of the ethernet port on my motherboard?
I checked and its an RJ45, but I dont know how fast that is.

[frosty stone]

by reading the manual or looking up the specs of the model

[hushed dawn]

Hi!

Would powering this 4G Router: https://www.tp-link.com/se/home-networking/3g-4g-router/archer-mr200/#specifications
with: https://www.amazon.se/Reliable-Cigarette-Lighter-Indicator-Motorcycles/dp/B09D3WRY2S/ref=sr_1_28?crid=1LAFGWO19ZG45&keywords=cigarette+lighter+socket+12v&qid=1692029426&sprefix=cigarette+socket%2Caps%2C142&sr=8-28

Be safe and ok?

[opal pagoda]

depends if the car adapter is regulated or not

[hushed dawn]

It's in a camper.

[opal pagoda]

lead acid battery voltage is up to 14.5v while charging

i would personally put a buck boost converter in the middle to regulate the voltage to stable 12v

a no soldering alternative would be getting a usb pd car adapter and this kind of cable with integrated pd trigger set to supply voltage of the router https://www.smart-prototyping.com/PD2_0-3_0-USB-Type-C-to-DC-Power-Trigger-Cable

[hushed dawn]

Hmm. I got USB-C ports installed few months back. Tho I think they 5v 2.4a.

[opal pagoda]

not all type c ports are the same

[hushed dawn]

Yeah, trying to find the ones i got from amazon.

https://www.amazon.se/gp/product/B0C2CN7HWB/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=A1GQ6VMTFIOZBT&psc=1

Got 2 of these installed.

[opal pagoda]

do you already have the router?

[hushed dawn]

Yeah, had it for some time now.
Thinking of ways to upgrade my 4G network.
But to be able to run the router in a 12v system would help alot.

[opal pagoda]

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005660659479.html
you could use this cable to power it with usb socket

[hushed dawn]

That is cheap! Going to try this!

[opal pagoda]

just select the correct version

[hushed dawn]

yeah! ordering it now. Thanks alot m8

I hope it works for now.
Saving up to rebuild the whole electrical system in my camper.

[opal pagoda]

if you own a multimeter then i would recommend checking volage and polarity when you recieve it

[hushed dawn]

Yeah, I will try it outside my camper at first aswell.

[shadow trout]

Are those ubiquity WAPs that LTT made a video for awhile back still a great solution for Wi-Fi?

[analog sonnet]

Im still confused, what am I supposed to type in for password because this isnt an access point

[peak cloak]

that would be the device password, no different from APs

[peak cloak]

unifi APs are pretty good

[analog sonnet]

how does the switch have a password?

anyways it randomly went online after I restarted it this evening and left it running

[peak cloak]

just how like a router does

[distant ferry]

not sure if this is the right place, but can somebody explain to me how NAT type works on PC? because I've been trying for days to get it to change to open, but I don't even know if I'm checking in the right place, let alone doing it right, because literally disabling the firewall (temporarily) didn't fix my issue. I'm so confused right now

[distant ferry]

Changing from moderate to open, to try and reduce latency because I get approx. 50 to 200 in games, despite having an ethernet cable and speedtest saying 6ms

[kind pivot]

Hello
I have a mikrotik switch plugged to my starlink router which does the wifi

I have a pc connected to the switch

I can't ping from my smartphone (wifi) or laptop (wifi) the pc
And same the other way

However, by mystyping an IP while pinging I wrote "127.168.1.31" instead of 192.xxx
And... It pinged ?????????
And switching 192 for 127 in every ping commands work in every way
And pinging things that are in wifi work with both IP

If I arp -a the theoritically right ip I get the right Mac address
If I do it for the one where the ping works I get nothing

This just make no sense to me I'm lost
Anyone is able to explain this behavior ?

There is nothing configured in my switch and same for starlink router

Also, I got the IP from starlink router and get-netipadress on win devices

I set up WoL on my living room PC with an Android app
And using this "false" IP works, this just blows my mind ??

[sly mantle]

Glitch?

[frosty stone]

obviously

[high leaf]

My wireless router un-alived today. The ISP gave us a new wifi 6 one for free but it is kinda bad. Something as simple as 2.5 and 5 bandwidths are not separate connections anymore and cannot be separated. Apparently users have experienced issues connected 2.5 ghz only devices. I will figure things out when I get some time after work. Settings have to be done through a mobile app now. Supposedly the user can’t even log into the router from a computer. Anyone have suggestions for a decent reliable wireless router I could replace it with? Not really big into advanced networking but I understand the basics. Something user friendly would be ideal. I was thinking I might as well upgrade to wifi 6e if it made sense.

[drowsy fossil]

how much do you want to spend, how few security issues do you want to deal with?
how expandable do you want it to be?

https://store.ui.com/us/en/pro/category/all-unifi-gateway-consoles/products/udr
if you want a simple recommendation however, here it is for a relatively user friendly solution

[high leaf]

Ubiquity sounds familiar. They also have security cameras if I remember right. I will have to look into it. Thank you for the information.

[drowsy fossil]

correct, this has storage and an sd card slot for DVR for their cameras

[high leaf]

Do you think wifi 6 is sufficient or should I even bother with 6e considering wifi 7 is almost here.

[drowsy fossil]

Sufficient, yes, but how much do you want to spend,

also keep in mind you can add an AP with 6e, the dream router supports POE

[high leaf]

AP?

Not currently do I have 6e devices

Yup

[drowsy fossil]

so yea its more expensive to add 6e later, but there arent any units as well rounded as the UDR

that seems like its the 4x4 aps

i suspect they have 2x2 for cheaper?

[high leaf]

By the time 6e APs get decent prices 7 will already be out

[drowsy fossil]

yea thats 4x4 lol

oh wow they dont!
yikes

much sad

tbh the only advantage of 6e is when you are in a super dense environment

[dreamy berry]

I wanna DIY build my own NAS from an old PC. Will this nas make my wifi slower? (Im going to use an ethernet cable from PC/NAS to the router )

[peak cloak]

wifi no

[thick minnow]

no, not really. You gonna stream things from it, like audio/video? That's not going to slow anything down, if the wifi client needs to use it.

[dreamy berry]

I plan to use it as Cloud Storage.

[thick minnow]

cool. I use netatalk for that.

[dreamy berry]

So it wont affect my Gameplay if the nas is connected directly to the router and my game running over wifi?

[peak cloak]

depends

[dreamy berry]

On what?

[peak cloak]

if nothing is downloading/uploading to nas, then no

if it has load, it could possibly affect, but depends on what speeds you have to house, etc.

[dreamy berry]

So if its just turned on but not doing anything my wifi will be ok.

[peak cloak]

games don't use much bandwidth anyway so it would really need to saturate the line to see something

[peak cloak]

your internet connection will be no different

[dreamy berry]

Ok

[south blade]

A+ guys, LOL.

Da fack? xD

[drowsy fossil]

the latency is just bad, it doesnt have bufferbloat

[stone loom]

"it was DNS"
I hate Netgear besides the hardware

Software is bloatware

[little shard]

Interesting.. Linus video showing up on the Cisco channel.

https://youtu.be/A0QqeLFnPZ4

[little shard]

And, my take on how Cisco is doing it half baked.

https://x.com/warcop/status/1691649150796878105?s=46

Warcop (@Warcop)

It’s been interesting to see @Cisco working more with @linusgsebastian Linus Media Group. (This week, the timing is a bit awkward) LMG has clearly shown off their DIY/Supermicro/UniFi approach for years. Here’s the 9500X #Linus Video link https://t.co/YTbFN1tmVh
my take below👇

Twitter · Aug 16, 2023, 3:12 AM

[compact urchin]

explain very simply what the mhz is

still confused on why im supplied with cat 5e cables is why

[vapid owl]

I want to set up a rust server for me and my friend, how do I port forward the server without router/modem access

[unborn sluice]

get own internet

[opal pagoda]

You could install tailscale on server, your PC and friends PC

[vapid owl]

alright thanks!

[peak cloak]

Frequency

Higher speeds require higher frequency

[wet grotto]

What is this test?

[glacial linden]

Sadly I assumed if a router says 750Mbps Wireless it'll have a gigabit ethernet port... Why TPLink, why... 100Mbps RJ45 ports are a curse for today's standards

[peak cloak]

That wifi number is often just marketing bs

[glacial linden]

Yup wth even is 300Mbps on 2.4 Ghz + 450Mbps on 5 Ghz

No device can use both bands at the same time

I'm realizing this after 1 month of having this router, can't even return it... almost a scam

[opal pagoda]

even then its theoretical and not in real world

[south blade]

https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat This test here.

[violet hound]

i can only get A

that traffic shaping is costing me like 100 mbps

[wet grotto]

Thanks 😄

[magic warren]

I am working on developing a network switch based off a r pi as a project and i was wondering how many of you would subscribe to the patreon or buy it when it comes out

it will have 2 firmwares one managed and one not managed

[drowsy fossil]

what advantage would the pi bring to the table?

[magic warren]

idk its just a fun project to me I guess also it has swappable firmwares which most switches that I know of don't. Also all of it would be open source. code, cad files ect

[peak cloak]

a switch is already super optimized with special hardware dedicated to switching at line speed

What I guess could do is use a pi as a controller for the switch chip

[magic warren]

thats what i want to do

pi controls the chip

[peak cloak]

Is there foss switch firmware ? Never heard of any

[magic warren]

whats a foss firmware again?

[peak cloak]

Free open source

[magic warren]

oh, I am realitivly new to the network space so I have never heard of any besides the one I am planing on working on. It is posable it exists tho

[peak cloak]

There's a lot of different router OSes, switchs not so much

[silver monolith]

I just ordered a BPI-R3, a 2.5GbE switch, and 2 2.5 Gb SFP to RJ45 adapters since my Netgear R9000 is on it's way out (wifi is super flakey now for no reason, TMO router works just fine so it's not interference)

Wanted to do virtualized appliances with some WiFi 6E hardware, but issues in OpenWRT stopped me

[south blade]

How do I apply this with a connection that's only 50Mbps? https://maltechx.de/en/2021/03/opnsense-setup-traffic-shaping-and-reduce-bufferbloat/ The guide says to do 300 for every 100, so I did 3 for every 1, so 150. Besides this I don't see what else I could get wrong but I'm not seeing any improvement to bufferbloat. :/

[sand narwhal]

Anyone know any good FOSS alternatives to pulseway and kemp's software load balancer?

[low gate]

Just bought my first domain 🤣 Noticed the domain that matches my local mechanic shop expired, snagged it for $16/year, forwarding to my portfolio on my friends host for now lol
http://tonysauto.ca/

Next time I'm in the shop I'm gonna casually tell them to check the site (they have no website), then offer site building+hosting for heavily discounted labor. This is the way.

[sand narwhal]

Work smarter not harder

[compact urchin]

at what point should you make the jump from a 5e to a 6e cable (in speed)

[unborn sluice]

Frequency

[ripe coral]

is there any point of network segregation through subnets, not vlans, if the switch is unmanaged?

like say I have a home network and an IoT network. lets say home is 5.0/24 and IoT is 99.0/24. I want to segregate the IoT device and not have it interact with the home network. Theres no vlans at all. Is there any point to that if there are no vlans?

[drowsy fossil]

you wouldnt really get any security from that, but you can get some measure of organization

[tough magnet]

So, I recently designed this Attractive and eye-catchy thumbnail for a gaming YouTube channel.

As the thumbnail speaks, the video was about the game Residential evil.

[violet hound]

i think i found out why some VPN tunnels at work keep dying

$ ethtool -S ens1f0 | grep error | grep -v ": 0"
     rx_errors: 741511
     rx_crc_errors: 738998
     rx_length_errors: 2513
     rx_csum_offload_errors: 509

is there any way this isnt a hardware issue?

[peak cloak]

So like doing it at the router?

Two separate ports, one for each subnet?

[peak cloak]

Yes there can be

[light swallow]

Ok everyone, got a question, not sure if this is the correct channel.

I currently use a qnap nas for photo backup. My wife is a avid photographer who takes many phones with her iPhone plus dslr cameras. We currently have 1tb of photos which are non replaceable.

The qnap nas is set up raid 6 with a hot spare plus a air gapped backup. but the system is starting to throw errors and I don't want to buy another overpriced system. I build custom gaming computers, so I have the ability to build a server. My problem is choosing a nas OS. Truenas vs freenas? anyone have any experience with this

[peak cloak]

freenas is now truenas core

just make sure to learn the underlying concepts of ZFS so you don't make a bad mistake, and setup the RAIDZ correctly

and offsite backups are crucial too

[light swallow]

So what is the difference

I'm a noob with nas

[peak cloak]

between what?

[light swallow]

What is zfs (I'll have to google this)

[peak cloak]

ZFS is what drives the storage on all truenas products

https://www.servethehome.com/an-introduction-to-zfs-a-place-to-start/

[light swallow]

Perfect thank you

[sturdy lark]

How reliable would something like the sabrent ds-utcb 10 drive USB c enclosure be for adding more storage to a full server using truenas scale?

[rocky wadi]

hey guys, if anyone could help i'd be very thankful: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1526433-powerline-connection-becomes-extremely-unstable-at-a-specific-time/#comment-16083793

basically here is a summary of the situation: My powerline is shit. Slow and as the title reads it goes completly unreliable (I'm talking 0.01mbps) at a specific time, and comes back around 3 hours later.

I've been preaparing to just run an ethernet wiring through my house but first I want to fix this.

[peak cloak]

powerline in general often sucks

[rocky wadi]

I don't think there is a solution to it being slow, as that is just how powerline is (I think) but the time thingy is really odd.

[rocky wadi]

I know, but my bedroom in particular hasn't got coax, if I had i'd just go MoCA

Here goes another question: what would be better, running a cable straight from the Router to my bedroom, or using MoCA in another room and then run a cable to my bedroom

[peak cloak]

better? depends on your criteria of better.

Straight ethernet would in theory be best for speed (as long it's run correctly), but moca is often just as good and if it makes it easier it can be the better option

[rocky wadi]

I have gigabit internet so it would be great to get the full speed (my powerline max gets 30Mbps)

And it's also less expensive right to run a cable directly right?

[peak cloak]

parts cost yes

[rocky wadi]

The only thing that scares me a bit is that i've never run a cable, so that will be an experience for sure

And I also don't know where the tubes go so... try and error I guess

[lone sun]

🫤 I VPN'ed into my companies internal network using cisco anyconnect, and I noticed using netstat that its using the loopback address even for the remote address. I didn't know using the loopback address was routable beyond the lan at all.

There are articles out there showing you how to set up a VPN to do that. Seems pretty complex.

[somber sandal]

Running ethernet is nothing to be afraid of. Quick google for what color goes where and a youtube of crimping a cable and you're all set.

[hollow marlin]

Common to the point of almost best practice.

I didn't know using the loopback address was routable beyond the lan at all
The problem is most assume lo is limited to 127/8 which is unrouteable but thats just defaults on hosts OSes. If you assign it an IP, it acts like a normal address

[lone sun]

🤔 well shit

[hollow marlin]

Yep. With some protocols, it can even be required (well without overengineering). Look up iBGP with IGP for loopback reachability. It's a simple design/config and docs will explain why using loopbacks provide a plethora of benefits

[pseudo blade]

I set off a burglar alarm by connecting to a WiFi network.

It was the funniest thing

Unused PIR motion sensor on top of the comms rack, pointing at the AP.

Connected, started a download

AP warmed up - oh no it must be a person

[trim yacht]

Worst thing I've seen is someone brought in their home router, plugged it in under their desk so they could get wifi for their phone and personal laptop at their desk... Ended up breaking the entire network for the office. This was years back but It took us 3 days to figure out what was breaking it and trace it to this guys desk.

[steel mauve]

That's a 200 IQ move 😂

[trim yacht]

It's funny now... but we were all at our wits end

[steel mauve]

How did you end up figuring it out? That sounds like a real pain

[trim yacht]

we ended up bringing everything up one by one. Gateway, Firewall, Core Switch, Then each individual switch

When we finally found the problem switch. we then checked it out, couldn't find anything wrong with it. But then while we checked the logs we went to those ports on the floor to see what was plugged in and found it.

[steel mauve]

So you basically checked everything one-by-one until you found the problem?

That's so tedious. People really don't appreciate the effort needed to maintain a network

[livid aspen]

If you block DHCP serving from anything other then your DHCP servers. Then you don't have to worry abou that.

But when your network can't do that. wire shark is like your best friend.

[trim yacht]

Yeah we've learned a lot since then.

[clear igloo]

Had a person at work with an Apple device/monitor and it would randonly start vomiting 10Gbps of broadcast traffic onto the network 😄

[potent axle]

That’s why y’all get paid the big bucks

[rocky wadi]

I think I found something, my father uses an iMac that is directly connected to the router via Ethernet. He just turned it on and suddenly, powerlines stopped working.

This could explain that "specific time", as he usually uses it during the time powerlines dont have internet.

[potent axle]

So would it be best to upgrade network if you have a reg isp provided setup? Lol

[tepid trail]

Looking for a RJ45 pass-through crimp tool. Cat6.

My work colleague are using this one: https://www.amazon.com/Platinum-Tools-100061C-ezEX-RJ45-Connectors/dp/B01N2AHQL6

Any other suggestions? For home use. So no expensive one are preferred since it isn't going to be used much.

I have seen a couple of kits on Amazon with several tools in the kit for less and nothing. But those crimpers doesn't cut the wires. So you need to cut them manually with a side cutter.

[high needle]

Looking at a new cityfibre FTTP isp and split between zen and idnet, anyone here had experience with either?

They seem smaller and more technically inclined, which is a problem I had with vodafone (explaining anything to them was a nightmare and they couldnt fix a problem with our order or even get back to us when they promised)

Also they kept saying we cant get FTTP even with other people down the same street having it installed and having the cable run right past us

Also giganet seems like an option but I wasnt as impressed with their call centre (had to sit through a long winded FAQ speech and ended up through to the most dis-interested sounding agent ive ever heard)

(This applies to fellow british members only)

[wide sparrow]

Does anyone have any good go to resources they use/recommend (or ones to avoid) to help research access points and their eco systems etc?

[somber sandal]

Is this for home or work, and does it need to cover outdoor units or large areas? For home stuff sites like wirecutter are decent, for any serious work stuff it can be useful to have a VAR, that you trust, that you can leverage exp from.

[north dagger]

Any PoE fans here?

[visual tangle]

I have used it for my access points.
I am contemplating using it for lighting one day.

[wide sparrow]

Home use, I'm in an English Vitorian house, and the WiFi doesn't get the coverage I want.
I would potentially like to gain the ability to have vlans to separate out the less secure IoT things from others.
Mostly looking for reading/research material on the pros and con of the different companies offering and platforms. Who's stuff is local vs cloud etc

[glacial linden]

Can an Android 13 phone handle 2 TypeC to ethernet adapters at the same time?

[peak cloak]

both omada and unifi have cloud based solutions as well

[inner summit]

Which direction would you guys look for getting help configuring DNS? Specifically I have a site.com with a server and I want to have a new.site.com point to a new server while it's in testing, while having new.site.com as the URL instead of the actual server IP.

[peak cloak]

wdym by

new.site.com as the URL instead of the actual server IP

oh, just make an A record

new.site.com -> 1.2.3.4

[inner summit]

Yeah, I have that configured already but in the web address bar it shows the actual IP address, not the host name new.site.com

[peak cloak]

then something is redirecting you back to the IP

wordpress site?

[inner summit]

Hmm interesting. It's an Odoo site - an online store.

It used to be called Open ERP

[peak cloak]

yeah I've used odoo crm

there's some chrome extensions that allow you to see any redirects

[inner summit]

The hosting site suggested editing a reverse proxy NGINX server so I tried that but I don't think I configured it correctly

I've configured so much stuff I think I broke something. :/

[peak cloak]

I've used this in the past for troubleshooting https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/link-redirect-trace/nnpljppamoaalgkieeciijbcccohlpoh

[inner summit]

Looking at it now... Thanks!

Well since I configured the reverse proxy it's just pointing to the "Welcome to nginx" screen. I guess I need to learn how to configure it correctly.

[peak cloak]

should be as simple as adding proxy_pass

[inner summit]

I edited the config for the server with my actual server IP - it was 127.0.0.1:8069

The proxy_pass - should that be different?

[peak cloak]

add another server block with

something like this for test.example

    server {
      listen       80;
      server_name  somedomain.dnsdynamic.com;

      location / {
        proxy_pass  http://finalserver.example.com;
      }
    }```

server_name is what you want to change, so that way you can have one public IP:port, 2 different servers

also add https and all that jazz

but that's the basic config

[inner summit]

This is looking more like a Monday problem.

Thanks for your help @peak cloak

[vernal condor]

anyone ever experience an issue with an asus gt-ax6000 on a 2gb fiber line. only getting 1gb on ipv4 and needing to enable ipv6 to get full use of the 2.5gb wan connection?

[high widget]

try to get a LAN kit https://amz.run/70cm i use
i do not use pass-through crimp tool expensive and what kind of setup are you thinking are you just going from your computer the router or running from switch to switch?

tip just use a scissors to cut the wires after you stripped it much more simpler than using a tool and you well get straight cut I found out the hard way plus and get wiring diagram for network cables on you phone or printed out

[buoyant shell]

So I’m getting a small apartment with gigabit internet via fibre, does anyone have any recommendations for wifi routers that are good for reducing latency and have Wifi 6E under around $200-$300 CAD?

[narrow jacinth]

Netgear and TP-Link are good companies to look at

[buoyant shell]

Alr yea, I was gonna go ASUS until I looked at the price

[narrow jacinth]

Last one I looked at was the Netgear AX5400

I'm pretty sure it's like 5 gbps and WIFI 6E

Top of my head though

[wide yoke]

it should be illegal to charge ANYTHING for 5mbps down 0.5 up

[narrow jacinth]

Are those your speeds?

[wide yoke]

yuh

a whole week to download gta5

[narrow jacinth]

Have you checked your contract with the provider?

No way those are the speeds they advertised

[wide yoke]

i mean i live in a rural area but i’m literally 1 mile from fiber

[narrow jacinth]

How much you paying??

Tbf doesn't even matter

No amount is worth those speeds

Contact provider, explain and see what they say

[peak cloak]

US ?

[wide yoke]

pretty sure $50-60

[narrow jacinth]

Yeah ain't no way

[wide yoke]

its tds

[narrow jacinth]

I'm Uk so I have no idea who tf that is

But that doesn't sound right

[peak cloak]

website shows they have descent speeds

unless your install is ancient and they never upgraded you

[wide yoke]

guarantee its ancient. its also dsl

[narrow jacinth]

Even the slowest DSL speeds are like 10 mbps

[peak cloak]

DSL depends heavily on distance to DSL termination

and many other weird factors

[narrow jacinth]

Fair but even still

[buoyant shell]

Dw bro I’ve been there at 10 down 1 up

Canadian prices are jacked up

My current speeds are 50 down 10 up

[drowsy fossil]

before switching to cable, my parents had 2.5 down and most of 1 up sometimes

5 gig fiber is available at the location and thats still the speed of dsl...

[blazing karma]

gotta reboot for my opnsense to update so goodbye 2.65tb stat

[heady lotus]

hi, question, do routers usually have an assigned static IP for connecting to the ISP?

[dreamy sky]

There are two main connection types to your ISP, DHCP and PPPOE, there are 1000s of ISPs out there, but most residental services do not have a static IP assignment.

[heady lotus]

I see

I have this really frustrating issue eith my router/isp

whenever I change any settings on the router (can be as simple as ssid) the router loses access to the internet

[dreamy sky]

What type of router do you have? I used to have a Asus router that each update would like a while, and I'd loose internet for a few

[heady lotus]

I then have to call the ISP cause I can't seem to figure out why that happens

nah it's permanent

it's a realtek router

[dreamy sky]

Wow that is very weird, is your MAC address changing when you update the router's settings? There is a lot of things that could be a happening, but it shouldn't need a call to your ISP to restore your connection.

[heady lotus]

yeah

happened for the 2nd time cause I changed a setting again

it always happens

changing one setting fucks the connection

the router itself works perfectly

but it can't access the internet

I can even change that setting back

this time I increased the channel width from 20MHz to 40MHz

when I set it back it still didn't work

I'm gonna check the mac address

[heady lotus]

where can I see the router's mac address?

I checked ipconfig but don't see it

unless I'm dumb

oh I got it

doesn't seem to change

[light swallow]

Ok question:

I just setup truenas core, set up users, got a pool and dataset, and set smb to enabled. Still can't find it on windows even when directing the explorer to the ip address. I've googled and watched a few videos. Anyone have experience with this

I feel like this shouldnt be this hard

[tepid trail]

Thank you so much! Crossover or straight isnt really important since the devices have auto mdi.
i like those pass-through rj45 connectors and also the toolless keystones.
ive learned to use the normal rj45 ones though and the crone tool for patch panels in the 90s. But times has passed and tech has evolved. Now theres lot of options for keystones and patch panels. The patch panels i like is those that are empty, withdrawable. Schneider electrics make nice ones.

So, you have no tips/recommendations for a crimper that fits pass-through and cat6? Cat 6 has a little thicker wires.

[tepid trail]

Yeah, thank you for the tips. Long time since i fiddle and made many rj45 cables and crimped them in to patch panels. You forgot when you dont actively have it practicing.

[distant wedge]

a lil late chiming in, I like Klein's passthrough crimper, Used it quite a bit and it does its job really well

https://www.amazon.com/Pass-Thru-Reliable-Klein-Tools-VDV226-110/dp/B076MGPQZQ/ pretty sure this is the one

[tepid trail]

Thank you for suggestion! I just found this one suggested on youtube. Crimps and cuts aswell. Klein Tools VDV226-005

https://www.amazon.com/Klein-Tools-VDV226-005-Pass-Thru-Pass-Thu/dp/B07R3GK9FQ?th=1

[distant wedge]

mhm

I've done structured cabling and such. They also have a punchdown tool that does 66/110 block. I'd recommend them for keystones

Klein VDV427-300 @tepid trail

[tepid trail]

Thank you!
Are you satisfyed with the one that you suggested? What are the difference between the one you linked and that i did? Seems to do the same thing?

[distant wedge]

The one you linked is the older style

The one I linked is the one you see in stores right now that probably come with a better way of doing things

As for satisfaction - I've worked with people in the low voltage security industry installing cameras and access control systems across large commercial buildings. Their recommendations are solid, and they've been doing the same work I'm doing for 10+ years, so I trust their word

[tepid trail]

Thank you, seems to be a great product and inexpensive. Ive heard about them from several people. Would work for my home needs i guess 🙂
The punch down tool looks great too. Good to have one in a little "network bag" or such. Maybe some kind of box with small pockets.. for connectors and stuff.

[distant wedge]

Absolutely. Another thing is to just make sure that if you get keystones or passthrough ends that you're getting them for the correct type of cable you're using. I've made the mistake of crimping a cat6a end on a cat5e connector. While you can do it, it becomes a lot harder to do

You're basically treating it as a non-passthrough connector

[tepid trail]

Yeah, the wires are thicker on cat5a. You need to have proper connectors.
I saw that Klein Tools also had the signaling device as well.

sorry for my english but i hope you can understand anyway.. 😄

Not my primary language.

[distant wedge]

You're doing your best, that's what matters. I'm not here to tell you how to use the English language, just to give you advice and help :p