networking

[loud mauve]

thats the problem

[keen urchin]

I mean you still need a username and password

[loud mauve]

thats okay

[loud mauve]

i think im going with a Synology RackStation RS422+. Is Synology reputable?

[keen urchin]

Yes

[hollow marlin]

@clear igloo Just spun up a TREX docker and got the GUI running on Ubuntu. So far it very much resembles Ostinato. I will move to testing in a VM instead so I don't have to deal with docker's networking crap

[quaint siren]

In my network course, we had to use pfsense and Windows server to setup L2TP/IPsec with RADIUS. Windows Server was used for using domain accounts for RADIUS.

I ran into a problem where pfsense could authorize the domain accounts but when I tried to connect to the VPN, I either got error about VPN being "full" or security layer error

I get the second part but not the first part

[clear igloo]

Nice!

[hollow marlin]

It didn't take me long to give up. Simple to get started, but documentation is pretty poor for script statements. I gave up once I found a server/client design requires heavy involvement and emulation aspects that go over my head for it to work.

[clear igloo]

oh that's not fun 😦

[rotund sable]

following up they said:
Me: do you potentially mean an internal website/portal that only employees can access secure files and information
Them: Yes, and create logs, post calendars, store files, etc.

They also asked my rate. Which I've never done this before so I don't even know what to charge and whether im capable of this. If it involves any coding im out. I wish they would provide more specifics. But based on that should I take it or should I ask more questions?

[ornate jungle]

Sounds like a job for something like Office 365 (Sharepoint, Teams, etc.) or Google Suite, though both come with enterprise-level complexity, so you may want to explore alternatives like Confluence-based https://linchpin-intranet.com/

[rotund sable]

that's what i was thinking too

[ornate jungle]

It's not "hard" to spin up an "intranet" (just a fancy word for employee facing usually internal-only collaboration system) but administration, management, and training of such an environment is the tricky part. We use Office 365 at my job, but I'd wager only around 30% of the company actually knows how to effectively use it, resulting in too many email attachments. 😡 Project_Charter-DRAFT-V2-Final-FINAL.docx.pdf

[rotund sable]

which i can easily do but i'm concerned they might want something more custom and if that involves some code i dont want to do that

[rotund sable]

that too adoption is always the hardest

[ornate jungle]

That's something a Project Manager or Solutions Architect would ideally hammer out during the planning phase of such a project, cause you don't really want to get halfway through rolling out THING only to find that THING doesn't do what the company needs to succeed.

[rotund sable]

ya they're really small and I dont think they have such a person. it's sounding like i need to do a discovery call and iron out kinks if i were to pursue this further

[keen urchin]

yes but also who is going to maintain it and back it up? They 100% need SaaS

I recently had to do this - I ended up going with notion.

[peak cloak]

If already using office 365, SharePoint is a good option

[rotund sable]

i did ask them if there would be a point of contact in their IT, and said they would get back to me at a later date

also ya im not going to build one that doesnt already have built in support, back up and maintanence

[keen urchin]

you mean a free and ... sufficient... option 😉

[pseudo blade]

I migrated a small shop (5 seat franchisee) to SharePoint pretty much invisibly using a drive map

Stuck their major collaboration documents in there and pretty much off they went

Pretty much all that's left is killing off DNS and switching them over to Azure AD/maybe just local logins because their software makes a manager manually sign in on each account+device to approve every new browser login to Salesforce for some incredibly stupid corporate reason

I'm sure the goal was to prevent logins on personal devices but when the authorizations expire, people float between desks and the managers aren't always there it gets incredibly tedious

They used to use hardware tokens and if you were willing to steal those for access you're probably willing to steal the manager-authorized computers

...Or clone the special manager authorization cookies they probably have...

[rotund sable]

See most of the words u used I dont understand, so a lot of it is way over my head. i also have 0 idea if they are already on something like microsoft/google, how many of their team is familiar with any sort of tech and it could get complex fast

I've decided to offer discovery and consultation only aka i give them an unbiased opinion of the options at there and will even help reach out to get the best deal. beyond that? hire someone else

what should I charge for that and the other project. im going to be doing hourly rate. is $50/hour too much?

[pseudo blade]

It's far too little.

[pseudo blade]

Because you really want to pay for someone who can plan everything like this

But if they already have Microsoft 365 already... Sharepoint Online will do a lot of what you're asking for by design.

[opal pagoda]

🤔 10 gig garage mayyybeee

[plush peak]

Question, we're getting 5 gig google fiber currently looks like nothing they provide does 5 gig past the ONT

SO been trying to build a network stack the best way possible, need 10x 10gig rj45 links so going to need a switch for that and then unfortunately it seems the ONT google provides doesnt do SFP+ out so I need a router that can take a 10 gig WAN (RJ45) and also do 10gig LAN (can be sfp or rj45 from this point)

this has become a pain to shop for

[frosty stone]

generally, with such high speed services you should be using your own hardware anyway

[plush peak]

We cant replace the ONT unfortunately but thats what im trying to do for the rest

[frosty stone]

I'm of course not talking about the ONT, that's never optional

as for SFP, RJ45 modules exist

[keen urchin]

SharePoint files is just OneDrive

[pseudo blade]

Well... Actually OneDrive is Sharepoint

So is Teams channel attachments

[keen urchin]

SFP+ RJ45 are annoyingly expensive, but easy to buy.

[keen urchin]

No, it's all onedrive.

.... Except for onenote. It pretends to be a file but it isn't.

[frosty stone]

sharepoint is just enterprise/commercial onedrive

[keen urchin]

Plus other crap that is generally terrible

SharePoint calendar. Is it compatible with outlook? ... No. No it fucking isn't.

[pseudo blade]

Onedrive is implemented as a Sharepoint directory.

[keen urchin]

Can you integrate an outlook calendar into SharePoint? No. No you fucking can't.

[keen urchin]

That must explain why I use the OneDrive API to get the files.

[pseudo blade]

I don't

I use the Sharepoint ones

[plush peak]

does this look sane? https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/rj45-to-sfp-module

[frosty stone]

idk what your budget is since you've not specified,
but I'd just go for a UDM-PRO or SE and whatever suitable ubiquiti switch, SFP into the UDM with an rj45 module, and sfp out to the switch

[frosty stone]

yes

[plush peak]

i have about 4k to play with ish

[frosty stone]

oh easy then

[plush peak]

can go more would prefer less

[frosty stone]

4k is plenty

[keen urchin]

.... Yeah ok dude.

[keen urchin]

Yeah that will do it

[keen urchin]

When you say api, what do you mean, because I'm talking about msgraph.

[frosty stone]

$1765 for a UDM-SE, USW-Pro-24-POE, and two U6-Enterprise-US APs, cables and whatever ain't gonna bump that over 4k, you can probably even include some cameras for the lols

replied to the wrong message lol

@plush peak ^

[keen urchin]

I have a 10gig switch... only thing plugged into it is my router, kek

[frosty stone]

this is the way to go

don't need a use for it, just need the want to have it

[plush peak]

Based, okay yeah I was looking at the USW-EnterpriseXG-24 and the UDM-SE cause I can get both slightly below msrp from my workplaces stock

[plush peak]

but didnt know there were SFP+ RJ45 modules

okay F we dont have any 10G modules in stock and neither does ubiquiti directly any brands you guys recommend or anything works type situation?

[frosty stone]

oh and you will need a full 10G switch, forgot about that part in your list

[plush peak]

we have 300 1G modules in DC stock but none of them solve my issue lol

[frosty stone]

I get trade pricing at the local ubiquiti supplier, which means I get to pay a near normal price (this is NZ)

[plush peak]

painChamp im sorry for your loss

[frosty stone]

I'm not even in any trade, I just made an account and they offered it to me for the lols

[plush peak]

wait isnt the USW-EnterpriseXG-24 full 10G?

[frosty stone]

I was meaning in my message, I didn't include that, just a normal switch

[plush peak]

ah fair

nice we barely used half the max budget

cries in cables

probs wont be much though

[plush peak]

on the note of this are any modules I can find fine or are there specific brands that are preferred?

[frosty stone]

that's annoying

startech maybe?

nevermind they charged hundreds for some reason

https://www.fs.com/products/66613.html

seems legit

nice price too

[keen urchin]

Hence my bitching about SFP+ to 8p8c pricing

[frosty stone]

don't know what the difference is, but they have an option for a ubiquiti specific one

https://www.fs.com/products/89572.html?attribute=26&id=421

[keen urchin]

It's literally cheaper to replace the card with an SFP+ card and use DAC

Or use fibre but yeah obviously all depends on a bunch of things.

[frosty stone]

only thing they need it for is the wan input

[plush peak]

yeah

[keen urchin]

Oh yeah, I mean my switch has 4 10g 8p8c ports, and I was able to get some super cheap older Intel x540 copper cards, and my desktop already has cat7 to it, so it saves me a bit of screwing around. New stuff I add I'll use SFP+

[frosty stone]

ah

[keen urchin]

My interlols is only 1gig anyway.

I have a bunch of gig fibre SFPs but honestly I think they are ewaste at this point

[frosty stone]

when our LFC finally gets there shit together, I may get 2/2, 4/4, or 8/8
the main LFC for the country already has these plans almost everywhere, started the rollout in 2020
our one started trialing it in the city center in august 2021
it's still only in the city center

[keen urchin]

It costs me 2.5x as much to go from 1000/50 to 1000/400, because fucking nbn

[frosty stone]

oof

[keen urchin]

Yeah it's absolutely stupid

$4.20/day for 1000/50, $12 for 1000/400

[frosty stone]

our 300/100 is like $75nzd or something

currently 4/4 from the one ISP providing plans (because the others don't want to until it's available everywhere) it's like $160 or something

could get 900/500 for like $90, but I don't really need it lol, I'd only get the faster multi gig plans for the lols

I want a reason to need a UDM

[keen urchin]

And honestly.... 1000 is mainly for the flex value and because why not. It is pretty amazing when a game update comes down and it's like, "meh".

[frosty stone]

which means my mum in the middle of fucking nowhere can get 8 gig symmetrical, but I can't because my area chose to roll their own network instead of waiting for chorus

[keen urchin]

I went with a mikrotik router.

[frosty stone]

and I certainly don't have the money to rent a tiny apartment in the city center just for memey fast internet

[keen urchin]

My router only has one 10g port, so if I had faster than 2.5 internet I'd have to VLAN it into the router.

[fallow quest]

I seem to be getting throttled by my isp, im supposed to get 300mbps but when im on any device im only getting 10-20. and theyre the only devices on my network, my game consoles seem to be fine, but im not very far from my modem, im literally underneath it. would a vpn likely solve these issues?

[thick minnow]

Using a VPN wouldn’t allow you to disguise as someone else to your ISP. Because before you connect to the VPN server to change your IP information, you have to go through your ISP. So I don’t think that would help. I’d say, if you have a laptop, then you should sit it right next to the modem and check the speeds then. Then check the speeds when you connect to the modem using a cable Ethernet. I have a feeling the problem is environmental. Like interference or bad coverage. I know you said you’re right under the modem, but I think a modem transmits in a donut shape. Here’s a picture of the radiation pattern:

The modem would be in the middle of this. So you can see that it has bad coverage below and above it.

Or maybe, if this is a coverage problem, you can fix it by laying the modem on its side. That’s worth a try. Then testing the speeds when below it again. Or just messing with the antenna.

But, in the room below the modem, what is the roof made out of? Certain material can really interfere with Wi-Fi.

[fallow quest]

thats a note worthy thing let me read through everything

just lumber

but i moved my pc around, and did some configuring with the wifi card, and it seems fine

[thick minnow]

That’s good then 👍 Ya if it’s fine then it’s fine.

[fallow quest]

like i was get 90 ping on cod

it was rough, that whole game i was at 40ms and it was way better i went 3rd place with highest kd

[late tide]

network peeps, I have come in the time of need

Is there a way I can remote restart the router?

Asshole landlord is away until tuesday, There was an advisory this morning by the telcom providers to restart the routers

I have no physical access to the machine

however I can connect to it but can't get an internet, Is there anyway I can force restart the router?

[long thistle]

best linux distro for router?

3600X and I already have nic with 2x sfp+ based on mellanox connectx-3 pro

will 1 core (2 threads) be enough?

[peak cloak]

If you can login to it's administration web interface

There may be an option

[late tide]

Don't have the creds sadly

[peak cloak]

Then no

[meager ginkgo]

If you have access to the power panel you can try to flip the breaker off/on

[late tide]

can't do the breaker as it would shit off power for the rest of us

I'll just have to deal with not having a wifi for abit

sadly

[mighty mountain]

Spectrum does remote reboot where I am. It's definitely a feature that should have 2FA or other auth.

[late tide]

problem is I live in a shared house with flats

I can't ring the telcom on their behalf

it has to be them

[mighty mountain]

Sounds like you need a dedicated power Wi-Fi switch like Kasa... But I think needs network access, I don't think it's possible to set it up as one to one. So that would be Kasa, UPS, plug router into it.

I'm open to corrections if I'm wrong

Some enterprising soul with Pi experience could definitely make that work. Low voltage control of higher voltage switch.

[peak cloak]

it's not under their control

[plush peak]

@keen urchin @frosty stone it has begun

that isnt final price

just making a shopping cart and sending it off to the DC team at work so they send me an invoice before I run by the DC to take the hardware

[frosty stone]

nice

[mental crystal]

I need your help.
My friend has good internet and he is using a cable but while he play he gets normal ping but a lot of packet loss for unknown reason...
He connect his cable to a port inside the wall that connects to the router because the router is far from his room
Upload and download is fine but for some reason a lot of packet loss

[drifting raven]

I'm currently planning for a new rack in one of our DC locations. Previous sysadmins were pretty lazy and the current rack is a mess.

For future maintainability, would it be worth cutting every network cable to length, or would that be just too much of a hassle? The cables will be running from 2 10G switches to our servers

[clear igloo]

Leave at least a bit of slack, just get it close with an extra couple feet give or take

Definitely don't cut your own though, buy premade 100% so it's not your problem if someone has an issue with a cable

[fervent brook]

On a scale from 00000000 to 11111111, how bad of an idea is it to stick something in the fan of a network switch because the fan started making too much noise?

[clear igloo]

eh, provided you don't do it too long should be fine

[fervent brook]

i'll probably forget about it. i might switch over to my less "smart" unfanned unit

[spare oak]

Hey guys would this be a good spot for getting a recommendation on a router?

[long thistle]

NAS' transfer speeds would depend on max speeds of drives or rather on speed of cache?

I mean does amount of RAM determine the time after which speed of transfer will be throttled by speed of hard drives while transferring a big amount of data?

considering that I have 10 GbE on the server and a client

[clear igloo]

No, not even 100GbE would be impacted by RAM speeds at DDR4 2133 which is about 136Gb/s (17GB/s)

but that's assuming it's being cached in RAM, in most cases it's storage that's the limiting factor

[opal pagoda]

just take it apart and unplug the fan

and you can read model number of fan and order a replacement

[tranquil aurora]

hey maybe you guys can help me

i have 2 COmputers (1 Win 11 1 Win10) which shared Folders to each, prev they were connected over a netgear switch and everything worked fine

i now connected them via a FritzBox Router/modem
and while the Win10 PC can access shared folders from the Win11 PC
the Win11 PC all of a sudden has to enter a userlogin to access files from the Win10 PC even thought password etc it disabled in the network settings, i even did the regedit solution and it still requires a login, - but even stranger it seems all i have to enter is a username "admin" and it works, is there a way to get rid of that? i dont know why it stopped working without just after switching from the netgear switch to the fritzbox router

[waxen plume]

i keep on getting crazy ping spikes like this and im on ethernet, any reason you think?

[still flax]

how old is your router?

[waxen plume]

pretty new, it only started today

[hollow marlin]

Pings to a single website is not a clear indication of spikes. What are you noticing issues with that lead to the test?

[waxen plume]

playing fn and gta and noticing packet loss and ping spikes

[flat wagon]

just got my second server chassis :S

[hoary yoke]

So if i now get another wifi router to my room and the older one is at the hallway would there be an conlfict with the old one?
Or is there something i need to think of before installing it

[keen urchin]

Dude that's the first troubleshooting step.

[keen urchin]

Yes - what are you trying to do with it, what are your preferences and skills, and what's your future plans for it.

[fervent brook]

It's a 24 port Gb Netgear that is what I'd call "semi-"smart"". I got it for 10 dollars at goodwill. I chick I can just remove the fam and let it run itself into the ground.

I'm only using about 8 ports anyway

[fervent brook]

isolate the new router and connect it to your pc. look for an "AP" or Access Point mode

if it doesn't have one, change the IP address of the router itself to 192.168.1.2, then let it save and reboot, then turn off DHCP

then you should be able to connect the two routers via their LAN ports. not the WAN port. ama access the main router via web setup at 192.168.1.1, and the secondary router via 192.168.1.2

[lavish plank]

I have an ubuntu server with wireguard server.
Is it possible to install PiHole with their bash script, then change the DNS Server in WG and route it through Pihole?
In PiHole I would use my current 1.1.1.1

[mystic latch]

https://github.com/IAmStoxe/wirehole

[south blade]

Do I need a special cable for this to work?

I've got it connected to a 20ft Cat6 cable connected to the POE side of a Ubiquiti POE plug

[wind edge]

as far as I know those are for passive poe , basically shoving 12v from barrel jack connector into the unused pins of the ethernet cable

when running at 100 mbps

does the manual / product page say it has some kind of processor/chip to detect the poe mode the switch uses and convert the poe voltage (up to around 50v on the cable) to something reasonable like 12v?

[wheat solstice]

Hi LTT, about to start buying parts for my plan and figured I'd run it past you folks first.

When my house was built they ran ethernet from everywhere to the garage, great, then they put some weird-ass shelf on the wall and left it at that. Didn't even have a switch. The cables are all too short to reach anywhere I could put a cabinet. So my solution is to put get a 1U wall mount and put a patch panel in, plug the cables into that, and then run the cables over the door to the other side where I can put a cabinet.

Plan seem good? or does anyone have any better suggestions?

[pseudo blade]

If you put a switch on the cable side with your patchpanel you can just run one cable over the door

Or two if redundant house networking's that important

Could even just route that one or two cables over in the roof and put a bit of conduit in for a cleaner look

[long pecan]

Anyone able to help me with my NAS? I’ve got it set up using open media vault, I’ve set up the file system and network share, just can’t connect to it

It’s definitely something I’m doing wrong

[jolly crater]

Anybody interested in a USG, 8port PoE switch and 5x UAP AC Pros?

[long pecan]

I got it sorted, I set up a network share but didn’t enable SMB globally 🙄

You’d think it does that when you create a share

[boreal holly]

Hey I’m looking to build my first Nas home server that will run truenas and some applications like plex and also have a vm that can run games does anyone know if this build will be any good for that my budget is around $1,200 https://pcpartpicker.com/list/XzTXRK

[jolly crater]

I'd add like a p1000 or p2000 for plex if you do any transcoding

[boreal holly]

So have 2 GPUs?

[jolly crater]

Yeah, you can pass through one to plex and the other to the vm

[boreal holly]

Any other alternatives for a more budget approach

[jolly crater]

X99 used is cheap and feature rich

[spare oak]

My sister has a 3500 sqft home (everyone is more centralized in the home sleeping is when they spread out) she needs a modem with cox she has the 1gbs plan her and my brother in law game with the 4 offspring and they are pushing the providers modem pretty hard so something that can take a beating and the lag can be more manageable I was looking at the AX2700 by netgear

[jolly crater]

I run x99 with a ES 12c/24t Xeon and 96gb ddr3 ecc

[jolly crater]

Ubiquiti or omada or ruckus tbh

[boreal holly]

I meant for the p1000

[jolly crater]

That's a lot of space and use

[jolly crater]

A p600 but that can only do like 2 simultaneous streams tops

[boreal holly]

Ok

[spare oak]

Brother is active military and was stationed in Japan and everyone almost killed each other so they went big being stationed in the states 😂

[long pecan]

Yall this is my NAS… I know it’s a mess… I was planning to 3d print a case for it, but that’s both effort and expensive when a cardboard box works just as well!

I do plan to get a few more ssds and run it in raid1, but this is good enough for now

[jolly crater]

I've done business installs of around that size and depending on layout and # of floors and whether you need outdoor coverage .... No fewer than 3 access points, more like 5.

[boreal holly]

I looked at x99 but didn’t have enough pcie x16 i would need two at least and I want a mobo that’s matx

[jolly crater]

Those chinesium ones are usually matx, my board is machinist

[spare oak]

No those kids don't know what grass is it's a rental they have upped the gaming since number 4 became of age to be a try hard 😂 and I've been telling them for a while now we are gonna see these issues well boys the issues are here lag and connection issues

[keen urchin]

tbh with that sort of application I'd be looking at something simple and off the shelf like a decent wifi6 mesh pack. Ubiquiti is also going to be a good option, but it's more of a premium semi-pro setup

basically like smashedtater said, one AP simply won't get the job done to standard

[meager gorge]

how can I find my best dns server if im from romania?

[opal pagoda]

get a tesla p4 on ebay

on datasheet it says it can do 35 streams "Hardware-decode engine capable of transcoding and
inferencing 35 HD video streams in real time."

and they are really cheap on ebay rn

[spare oak]

Oh for sure I appreciate the help guys

[long thistle]

but the speeds will always be throttled by hard drives or only after the cache will fill in 100%?

[jolly crater]

Tesla doesn't have built in cooling, and custom cooling might be a no-go since he was looking for MATX and multiple gpus

[opal pagoda]

Do you have access to a 3d printer?

[jolly crater]

I do, but the guy looking for gpus might not physically have enough space in an matx case with multiple gpus for a custom cooler

[opal pagoda]

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5863167

With this fan attachment you keep 1u low profile size

[jolly crater]

Sure.... But you add to the length @opal pagoda

[wheat solstice]

thanks, not a bad shout actually, the flip side is I'm trying to get weight off that shelf since I don't trust it 😂

[wheat solstice]

also actually thinking about it it's not one cable, it'd be:

Power for switch
Ethernet from switch to USG
Ethernet from server to switch
Ethernet from UPS to switch

probably not worth it

[clear igloo]

HDDs have like no cache, the speed is always limited by the read/write speed of the drives

[long thistle]

yeah but the ram is cache, isn't it?

[unborn sluice]

[wanton hamlet]

I'm not very experienced with wifi or Ethernet but does anyone know a wifi router that supports 10g Ethernet?
I don't need fast wifi speeds but I want to take advantage of the 10g Ethernet my motherboard supports

I heard there's switches? I think that only needs 1 Ethernet connection to support the others but I thought that was for server stuff or it cuts the connection in half to get those speeds

Correct me if I'm wrong though

[clear igloo]

No, a switch is full speed all the time
WAY WAY WAY back in the day before full-duplex became common that might have been true but not in the past 20+ years

The only limit is your uplink to the router and traffic that needs to get to the internet, that would be limited by the uplink BUT anything on the 10G ports would be 10G between them unless they need to go to the router to get out

[wanton hamlet]

Thank you, I guess I'll invest in one

[fervent brook]

I know of some routers that can do link aggregation, but I dont know if they have modern versions or if they're affordable

[fervent brook]

I found a spare Netgear GS324...I can just fall back onto that.

[peak cloak]

Link agg won't get you true 10gig

[fervent brook]

no idea what "true" 10gb is. Also, those routers are 1Gb, so no, you would never get 10Gb

If you have a switch with 8 10Gb ports with Link Aggregation and you aggregate two ports, is it still not "true 10Gb"?

[peak cloak]

No, link agg is only for total throughput, not per connection

[fervent brook]

Do those words mean anything?

I thought Link aggregation was for aggregating links...

define "a connection"

[peak cloak]

https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/s/uKkgDXHMGD

Look at the first comment

[fervent brook]

"It can be done even without Link Aggregation support.

I do this between my Debian file server and my Windows 10 Desktop with 2 network cables connected to my switch from each PC and I get about 220MB/s on single connection file transfers.

It's achievable through SMB multichannel. I didn't really have to do anything special or have any special hardware to make it work. Unfortunately the Samba software in the Synology NAS is too old to do it."

[peak cloak]

Yes there's hacky solutions on a network level and on a protocol level

[fervent brook]

You told me to read the first comment

[peak cloak]

I guess yours is different

[fervent brook]

Also, what's stopping a user from using LA?

[peak cloak]

Network engineer here. I am on mobile so can't give you the long answer but in a 'sane' scenario (one MAC address and IP on the NAS, same on the client) you will never get throughput higher than the capacity of a single link in the LACP bundle. This is because receiver reordering is difficult and so devices use a hash of the MAC or IP to select a member link and use it consistently. Some very high end datacentre grade switches can do something similar to what you want (using TRILL or something like Brocade VCS) but it is expensive and not likely you have this support without already knowing it. It's intended for inter-switch links. The multi-VLAN thing that guy describes is very interesting in that it forces traffic to use all 4 links, performance will depend heavily on the ability of the hosts at both ends to do the reordering. Sounds like an interesting hack but I wouldn't try it in any business-critical environment.

[fervent brook]

Are you saying LA will let you link between network hardware, but for some reason using LA on a host machine is impossible?

[peak cloak]

no

what I'm saying is that with 2 1gig links you won't nessicerly get 2 gig for example

[fervent brook]

With 1 1G link you wont necessarily get 1G...

[peak cloak]

you get the idea..

[fervent brook]

yes, i understand pedantry

[peak cloak]

ofc there will be overhead and other factors

[fervent brook]

so, what do you get with 2 1g?

[peak cloak]

you can get aggregated 2 gig between different devices, etc. So for example between switches, switch to router, etc.

[fervent brook]

you said it wasnt real

how far from real is it?

[clear igloo]

You get 2 streams of about 1gig each

[fervent brook]

wow...that's horrible

[clear igloo]

Link agg is for capacity for multiple hosts to multiple hosts not 1 to 1

For 1:1 you want SMB multichannel which is hit or miss still afaik

[fervent brook]

"for" doesn't mean it's not possible

[clear igloo]

LACP does NOT balance single stream loads, period, that's not how it works

[fervent brook]

Now that's a proper answer

took you long enough

[hollow marlin]

Darn IEEE and there efforts to eliminate OOO packets!!!!

[clear igloo]

You packet take order in any s

[hollow marlin]

ACK = 1
send it all back again

[clear igloo]

[hollow marlin]

I believe I recall reading not long ago that most OSes will now handle OOO packets within a window else it's just a selective ACK

[clear igloo]

Yah, I've heard that but I don't trust it

shifty layer 7 developers

[hollow marlin]

I lost trust when I ran a capture between an Ubuntu and PopOS machine and ACKs were completely different even though PopOS is based on Ubuntu

Ubuntu was ACK'g around the window and PopOS was ACK'g every segment

[waxen scroll]

NO U

[south blade]

I know it's harder to get signal through metal but, what's a decent but cheap AP that I can ceiling mount and has a big range? My current TP-Link C7 v2 is failing, was powering a USB fan to cool at 5G modem, after disconnecting the fan (maybe I should have turned the router off before having done that?) The 5G modem has WiFi but I don't think there would be any way to turn off DHCP and set the WiFi to be used as AP for the OPNsense box to be used as DHCP like I have it right now.

[peak cloak]

it's not metal itself that's the issue as much, but the fact it's grounded which it can act as a faraday cage

[south blade]

Well, either way this routers' WiFi is seemingly turning off an on after I pulled the plug on the USB fan

Depending on the phone, what trees are in the way, if I was facing the house, I was getting WiFi maybe 250ft away, not fast but enough to still browse.

[peak cloak]

if you want a descent AP look at TP-Link's Omada Line

[mystic latch]

Can vouch for omada APs. Better price than unifi and works great for me

[random tangle]

guys i moved my setup a bit further away from the router (only by a room distance) and now its acting up. my download speed is extremely slows and varies from speeds such as 0.13 to 100 mbps...however my upload speed is consistently at 20 mbps. is it due to the distance between pc and router or other issues

[deep verge]

i recommend ethernet

[random tangle]

i was considering so too, but was wondering if there were any other solutions avaliable, but i will keep ethernet in mind

[pseudo blade]

Your alternatives are testing different combinations of APs, settings, client devices and locations+antenna positions until you find one that works, or if none work including ethernet blame your router/ISP

[keen urchin]

"a room distance" - yeah but how does the signal get to you now. It could be very different.

[clear nest]

Help im way too dumb for this to understand 💀

[gentle ginkgo]

My Wi-Fi is connected but showing “no internet access, secured” as it happened after I installed vpn

[keen urchin]

I bought a cheap switch and I was having weird problems with the Realtek card in my Linux server.
I did some extensive reading and troubleshooting.... Turns out some cheap switches and Realtek cards don't play nice in Linux. I replaced the shitty switch with a mikrotik and a ubiquiti and have had no further problems.

... Then I realised that the Realtek NIC in my thunderbolt dock had similar weird unreliable issues, and that was with windows. So I changed the network from the other USB NIC I was using (an ms surface NIC fwiw), and plugged it into the dock.... Yeah works perfectly now.

What the fuck in 2023 we are having fucking layer 1/2 issues with basic ethernet.

[visual tangle]

Today I get to test QNAP support...
My NAS is completely devoid of power/life.

[shrewd zenith]

noit quite understanding subnets, here i have 2 different segments of a network. i imagin it wont just make it a subnet by itself.
are subnets just something you configure yourself?

but then what happens if i dont configure a subnet but i exceed 255 devices on the one subnet?

[clear igloo]

Then those new devices don't get a DHCP lease or when an existing device leaves the network long enough for the lease to expire then a new device will get a lease but beyond that, no connection for those other devices

A subnet can be as big or as small as needed, it's not just a /24 you can have a /30 (or /31) or go huge and do a /16 or /8

[peak cloak]

yes, on the router you set your interface IP and subnet

[thick minnow]

Hello! Could anyone help me with some weird internet issue? My provider said the problem weren't on their side. I tried many tutorial videos. https://discord.com/channels/375436620578684930/1170084462965571604

[opal pagoda]

we use /8 for whole network, /16 for locations, /24 for usecases/departmets

[onyx bobcat]

ok not sure if this goes here or somewhere else but its not really basic, it makes no sense whatsoever
My main PC only ever downloads off steam at 50-100 Mbps, has been like that forever. we have 500Mb internet, speed tests can get up to 400 i guess
but i am currently messing with another computer, very old whatever, and when i downloaded a steam game it was going at 300-400 Mbps. i used the exact same cable and port on the router, and my main PC can just never reach that speed
Main PC has 2.5Gb on the mobo, that shouldnt be the issue. i opened it on safe mode to run these tests, with just steam open and minimal traffic on the router. main PC ive tried with 2 different NVMe SSDs to ensure that it wasnt them being slow

[rocky badge]

Lol that's what I do on my network
10.0.0.0/8 contains every site I have
10.x.0.0/16 is a site
10.x.y.0/24 is a VLAN at a site

pretty nice as its easy to determine what's where and interconnecting

[opal pagoda]

play around with steam download regions

[keen urchin]

Or, if you enjoy chaos, you can have /27 networks, and routing tables that make baby Jesus cry. It doesn't make any difference to the routers, but it's terrible for people

[keen urchin]

There's nothing stopping you from having a subnet bigger than a /24, other than sanity. Most subnets in most networks aren't anywhere near full.

[charred pond]

When steam added multiple Internet connection downloading (On screen two ISPs)?

[rocky badge]

Why would you even have something smaller than /24, especially on a big corporate network?

my university owns a /16 and the smallest we do is a /24 so it can still be announced by bgp

and that way routing tables aren't crazy

[hollow marlin]

In the SP private space, it's common for mgmt to be </24s

No real reason to do so in the enterprise space

[rocky badge]

Yeah but clients

[clear igloo]

Depending on the ISP I've seen them give out /29s and whatnot for single static IPs and the like

[rocky badge]

Hmm

But they are routing internally to announce /24?

[clear igloo]

Oh yah, they're definitely doing summaries before advertising to BGP and whatnot

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo the museum on campus has the best wifi I’ve seen in any museum hahahaha

[clear igloo]

lol, nice

[rocky badge]

Because they are included in the AP refresh

[clear igloo]

Oooo, fancy new stuff 😄

[rocky badge]

Yeah

Nothing on canpus has wifi 6E yet

New buildings might get it

[clear igloo]

Yah, 6E is nice but at that pace might as well just do 7

[rocky badge]

Every new drop for an AP will be able to do 10 gig tho

Not switches tho

I think ports are only 2.5g or 5g rn

[mild turtle]

I've finally swapped to someone with fibre and we've paid for 1GB broadband. They've not long gone, about 15 minutes ago. When I do speed checks I'm only getting 98MB before it caps out. I had a different switch but was gifted one after a storm destroyed ours. It's a Procurve 2610-24. The switch says that if the lights are solid then it should be 1000MB and if they're flashing it'll be 100MB. All the lights on each of the ethernet ports that are connected all display a solid green light on either side of the port. I'm not very good when it comes to networking and would really appreciate some help.

[south blade]

Am I not thinking of something? :/ What can I do to keep my OPNsense firewall (192.168.1.1, DHCP starting at 192.168.1.100-150) that I was accessing through a now dying AP (192.168.1.2), I've got the firewall getting internet though a 5G modem (192.168.100.1, that has WiFi, 2 LAN ports, DHCP 192.168.100.10-64), but my media center is connected to the firewall and getting IP 192.168.1.103. So connected to the only WiFi I have right now from the 5G modem, it can't see anything that's grabbing IPs from the firewall.

[opal pagoda]

Do you have 2x DHCP servers or one?

[south blade]

2 :/, one on the 5G modem knowing I won't be able to access anything on LAN of anything connected to my dying AP that's hooked up to my firewall on the second DHCP.

[opal pagoda]

You can only have one on a network
Try to draw your network layout

[south blade]

It's like this,

[south blade]

Big problem is, this 5G modem doesn't have that many features in settings, can't assign IPs, says it can do VPN but I doubt it'd be as fast as what OPNsense box is doing.

[hallow junco]

I just upgraded my router from an Airport Express to an Airport Extreme, and now my server is connected with ethernet.

[rocky badge]

@meager ginkgo I’m jealous

This is what brightridge does for ONTs

Fiber to the ONT inside

[meager gorge]

how can I find my best dns server if im from romania?

[south blade]

DNS Benchmark?

[meager gorge]

Thank you!

[opal pagoda]

Just use cloudflare (1.1.1.1) it will probably beat out everything else

[keen urchin]

You wouldn't, as a rule - that's the point. The problem is you need to understand that it's possible, and how netmasks actually work, rather than herping and internalising "this is the only possible way"

[rocky badge]

well yeah

[opal pagoda]

Basically you need to understand that ip addresses are in binary and dots don't mean anything

[keen urchin]

yes

[glossy trout]

any suggestions for offshore dedicated server provider?

[pseudo blade]

Question: Do you specifically need it to be real hardware or are you just looking for relatively consistent performance?

If it's just for yourself and you don't need any other cloud services I'd pick based on the best value for money (nothing listed with crazy old CPUs or who knows when it'll just die on you and what kind of support you'll get if it does)

I'd pick a major cloud provider's VM's with SAN-backed storage and image backups over a no-name host's value servers they may not have bought new (but the price can be a lot higher)

[frosty stone]

you quite literally get what you pay for

[pseudo blade]

Yep (Well, some fraction of what you pay for)

[gleaming kite]

How much bandwidth is supposed on a normal ethernet cable. I am transferring files from my PC to Laptop through ethernet cable and only able to reach 10MBPS, is my cable bad (my internet speed is 100MbPS/12.5MBPS) which I usually get on pc

[thick minnow]

Hello can someone help me please i have n issue with VPN so when i try to connect it wont connect it stock try to connect and try two others vpn and did not wokr eather

[pseudo blade]

I suggest #1027757333117415424

Also, you'll want to clarify your situation and be way more specific about your choice of VPN and relevant configuration if you ever want a real answer.

[mild turtle]

I need some advice. It would seem the switch I have doesn't support 1G speed. I know years ago TP and Netgear used to be popular because my dad who did networking would talk about them years ago. I've heard some things about them in recent years so from what I've heard they're not favoured any more. I need just a basic switch for internet and file transfer that needs at least 1G speeds. What would be some brands you'd recommend for £100 or less? Cheers.

[opal pagoda]

define "offshore"
if you just want a pc but not in your house look up hetzner server auctions

[trail cosmos]

Hey guys, I am running an email server that I want all traffic routed through a VPS server, I was using OpenVPN Access Server but it does not open ports that my server makes, meaning I cannot access the services my server is hosting via the VPS's IP.

Anyone got an idea of what software allows this?

[thick minnow]

Alirght Thank you

[clear igloo]

Anything from those brands with the number of ports you need would be fine from Amazon and the like

You can get gigabit unmanaged switches for like $20 for 5 ports

[kind pivot]

Why can I ping my server with
hostname.lan
?

I never set up any DNS anywhere, is that a common feature of isp routers ? (Starlink here)
Or maybe it's my mikrotik switch ..?

[opal pagoda]

most vps providers block smtp ports

its mostly due to abuse from spammers

[hallow junco]

running your own email server is stupid hard because scammers. There are services that handle the hard part, sending mail for you that you can hook into.

[junior prawn]

not really, just get a linode email them why you need the port, you get access

[naive nest]

Is it possible for my to do port redirection after the traffic leaves the network?

[junior prawn]

yea

[naive nest]

I'm trying to run a Minecraft server on a shared VPS, and port 25565 is already in use by someone else

[naive nest]

Could you recommend a method to do so please?

[junior prawn]

you just tunnel your internet to a different server with that port open, and, you redirect the port into it

Or you can just use TCPShield, it'll do that for you

[naive nest]

I'll give that a try

Alternatively, I could just buy another IP I guess.

[peak cloak]

even then your IP reputation is terrible

[peak cloak]

mDNS

[peak cloak]

I used wireguard to do a similar thing, it requires both config of wireguard but also NAT rules on the VPS and routing rules on home server

openvpn should also be able to do it

[junior prawn]

is it tho?

in my experience. its been fine

[junior prawn]

I do the same thing with wireguard

[opal pagoda]

or you can just host it on 25566 and specify it when connecting
your.ip:25566

[naive nest]

Yeah, that's roughly what I'm doing at the moment, but I'd like to get away from specifying the port.

[peak cloak]

Java or bedrock?

[naive nest]

Java

[peak cloak]

Java respects dns srv records, so you can use that to specify the port on the DNS side

[naive nest]

It's a shame my domain provider can't do the port redirection

[opal pagoda]

what domain provider do you use?

[peak cloak]

You don't need that, just a srv record

[naive nest]

Google Domains, but looking to migrate to Cloidflare

Since they sold to Squarespace and I'm expecting a price hike

[naive nest]

I'll give that a try, thanks.

[junior prawn]

Use a domain

[trail cosmos]

Boy they got me fucked up if they think they get to block ports for a VPS that is expensive (thankfully my work will pay for it lol). I hope they don't but if they do, gonna search for a better VPS then.

[junior prawn]

Not really, they do it so people like you using it for legitmate reasons, get good ips

if they didn't then there ip rating would be trash

[trail cosmos]

I suppose I'll set up WireGuard to do this because I went through all of the configurations that my OpenVPN Access Server gave me and saw nothing that allows me for that.
What are the settings I'd need to look at?

[peak cloak]

email spamming is a pita, most block it

[peak cloak]

well it's not just wireguard settings. You need to setup a tunnel between machine, setup NAT rules on VPS and routing on machine

[trail cosmos]

Wonder if they would allow it if I was to bring my own IP? I saw a setting for BYOIP. I seen a site that sells an IP too.

[peak cloak]

@trail cosmos take a look at this, it's kinda what I did https://github.com/mochman/Bypass_CGNAT

but I used VYOS on the VPS

[trail cosmos]

Thanks for that, I'll look into this.

[trail cosmos]

I think the tunnel should be possible but the NAT rules might be a little complicated since I need to figure out how I can get settings for that, probably need to dig in the settings.

[peak cloak]

what is the VPS running? linux?

it would be a pretty simple masquarade rule, and then dnat rules for port forwarding

you can use iptables, but I hate it

that's why I used vyos which has a really nice config language imo

[trail cosmos]

Yea, Ubuntu 23.04 LTS

Hmm okay, I'll look into that too.

[kind pivot]

Okay yeah and is it something that is on every router ?

My friend says it's not working for him

[peak cloak]

it's per device kinda

[frosty stone]

23.04 is not LTS

[trail cosmos]

It was one of those versions, I don't remember it off the top of my head.

Personally I would have gone with Debian instead of Ubuntu since I am more used to Debian.

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo @hollow marlin 😩 I wish the AV integrator didn't administratively shutdown the extra 10G ports on the switches

[clear igloo]

no speed for you!!

[rocky badge]

actually jk

[clear igloo]

nice

[rocky badge]

these ports aren't shutdown BUT they do not have any VLANs assigned

(51 and 52)

[clear igloo]

ah, makes sense

[rocky badge]

which sucks

@clear igloo I have idea /s

switch plugged into the extra ports in this rack, each port is a VLAN, 10G trunk to another switch with the same port & VLAN config /s

So I don't have to have 10 ethernet cables /s

[little schooner]

Is it reasonable to expect that a DOCSIS 4.0 cable modem will reduce connection latency vs a DOCSIS 3.1 cable modem? With a VPN between two sites, download/upload speeds take a big hit because my latency is 28-30 ms consistently at site A. Site B has latency in the single digits.

[pseudo blade]

Not really. It's more likely that your latency is coming from infrastructure past the cable, and from the physical distance from the premises to where the core routers+peering happens for your ISP and back.

[kind pivot]

Why are my local IPs with my starlink routeur + mikrotik switch ALWAYS changing ? It's super annoying

[muted cradle]

anyone able to offer some help? Got a truenas 13 server that has its pool 100% full but is online but SMB wont turn on, saw somthing about storage space etc so would the pool being full stop SMB from starting? i do have the recycling bin turned on for my share so is there a way i can delete files from it from the shell?

[pearl zinc]

How do y’all think Ubiquiti’s wireless networking gear will work 6 miles as the crow flies with a few obstructions?

[little schooner]

aww mann. I wish this building had made a deal with the fiber ISP instead of the current cable company, Xfinity. the infrastructure looks so busy

[opal pagoda]

Define "with few obstructions"

Is it line of sight?

[fiery elbow]

Anyone here have any experience with OPNSense? I migrated over from OpenWrt and having issues setting up a static route with a separate LAN.

[pearl zinc]

There may be a church steeple in the way but for the most part it should be in line of sight.

The mild pain in the ass is the master will be at a bungalow and the slave at a 3-floor Manor House, so not only will there be one or two houses in the way possibly (because countryside, but also likely a massive angle to deal with.

[keen urchin]

If there is line of site, even with obstructions, you should be able to make it work. Obviously the less the better.

My 10gb cards are at the damn post fofice

[pseudo blade]

If there are obstructions you do not have line of sight.

[drowsy reef]

what does it mean when my browser says "ssl connection occured"?

[icy shoal]

Hi, i am curently in a formula student team. We need some telemetry data of the car. The rules are limiting us to the 2.4 ghz range. We have som directional antennas and other networking equpment. The only thing we need now is the AP for the groundstation. whats the longest range 2.4 ghz wifi ap thats under 200$?

[opal pagoda]

What is required bitrate?

[icy shoal]

speed is not important. 1MB/S is tecnecly enoth

[opal pagoda]

Look into lora

[icy shoal]

thats two slow in the 2.4GHZ and i need the latancy to be somwhat slow. and we whould like to have the driver comunication on the same network if posible

lora maxes out at: 253.91 kbit/s in the 2.4 ghz spectrum. thats too slow

[opal pagoda]

NRF24L01+PA+LNA then

[plush valley]

Question for everyone. I'm using a Dream Machine Special Edition.
Can i use any 3.5" HDD? Or do i have to buy the ones from ubiquity?

[orchid plaza]

Small network 2 classmates and I set up

[keen urchin]

I don't know offhand, but I would think that you could get something older and enterprise grade second hand easily for that.

[sour trellis]

I have a TG800VAC modem/ap/router and an Apple AirPort TC. I've set the TC's wifi name and pass to that of the TG800VAC. Do I want them to be on the same or different wifi channel?

[thick minnow]

Hello, I need help with wifi problems

I have some random router which the service provider set up and the wifi isn't even able to reach the master bedroom

What can I do to improve i already tested those wifi range extender

[ashen cloak]

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/article-45-will-roll-back-web-security-12-years
Thanks EU...

[fringe marten]

The answer you might not want: run cable.

[ebon wasp]

Aah EFF, they tend to scream hard, but then you read the actual text and discover it ain't that of a problem.

Seeing how they refuse to link to the actual proposal (and pretty much any other party) I seriously doubt that it that bad

And after some googling, yes it ain't that bad

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52021PC0281&qid=1699550772487 New proposal, Eff and Mozilla claim that article 45 is the problem

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2014.257.01.0073.01.ENG the current regulation as comparison

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/files/2023/11/eIDAS-Industry-Letter-updated.pdf The letter of Mozilla with their explanation

They do not like one of the main the principle of the EU, where a product or service made in one country is allowed to exist in another country

Also they don't like that the current free for all, but controlled by a small group CA system is replaced by a legal institute and is thus scrutineered ny law

Also the claim that browsers are not allowed to include additional conditions is not true.

They just can't claim that without those additional conditions the certificate or CA is unsafe

And their attack on ETSI without any foundation is pretty weak

But it's sad that EFF again refuses to link the actual latest proposal and only links to examples that only serve them

[ashen cloak]

So long story short, its just a CA from the EU, and not verifying the certificate chain is just false?

@ebon wasp

[ebon wasp]

More that browsers need really good reasons (reasons that can stand in court) to ban a CA located in an EU memberstate.
Yes the certificate chain still stands, but some newer extra's like Certificate Transparency is not penned down as a requirement in the Annex. However the commission is on purpose leaving room for an European Standard agency to pen down better standards.

[kind pivot]

Those are the same machine, z mikrotik switch
It's a starlink router

Why is there two entry for the switch
Why is it sometimes the same for other devices
Why are my IP changing without me doing anything
Why sometimes IPs change every 5s and both IP are pingable BUT only one from wifi and the other from Ethernet
Why can I ping stuff with hostname.lan without having a DNS
Why is my cat not sleeping in my bed ????

I'm so lost I understand nothing, I can't get anything working server-wise cuz the IP are always going wherever the heck they want

This one doesn't even have an ip right now

15 minutes before the mikrotik switch didn't have an ip according to the app lmao

[gusty lava]

Anyone know how to fix this
Its been like this all day

[meager ginkgo]

What's your internet setup?

Usually that means you are double NATed, meaning you have two routers back to back.

[worn viper]

should I stick to mullvad or is proton vpn for 4 dollars a month a good deal?

[gusty lava]

So I have these two connected

[gusty lava]

@meager ginkgo I never had a problem until yesterday morning

[pseudo blade]

I would just use Mullvad

[meager ginkgo]

Sometimes it works without issue but it can cause issues with some games (after a update etc)

You need to enable bridge mode on the Verizon router

[gusty lava]

how do i do that sorry

[gusty lava]

@meager ginkgo i think i did it but the internet keeps going out evey now and then

[meager ginkgo]

Like complete outage?

How is that Verizon router connected? Is it coax, fiber, or an Ethernet connection?

[gusty lava]

i think so and then i was to reset the router to get it back to normal

[meager ginkgo]

So it’s working now?

[gusty lava]

Yea but in like 30 mins I goes out again it happened like 2 times now

[meager ginkgo]

try plugging this cable into your own router

and bypass the Verizon one basically

[gusty lava]

Alright let me go do that real quick

[meager ginkgo]

It may or may not work. Some ISPs require you to use their router

I’m pretty sure you can directly hook up Verizon though to your own router

[gusty lava]

That’s what I have so far

Alright that’s done, what do I do with this

[meager ginkgo]

Did you get internet on your router?

Like is it connecting?

[gusty lava]

Yes, I have internet

[meager ginkgo]

You can just store it somewhere then. I don’t know if Verizon charges a monthly fee for their router, if so you can return it to them.

[gusty lava]

Oh ok ok, Thanks man

[meager ginkgo]

👍

[gusty lava]

@meager ginkgo sorry for bothering you again, but should it disconnecting my phone and laptop from the WiFi.

[meager ginkgo]

were you using the old router for wifi?

[gusty lava]

Pretty much yea and the pc was just using the ethernet

[remote remnant]

How do you port forward ipv6?

[clear igloo]

You don't

It's all public IPs, you just allow them through the firewall

[storm oracle]

Is this good budget cable 10 usd for me

https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=11374

Can you describe if it's good or not

[meager ginkgo]

Are you just trying to connect your pc or something?

[storm oracle]

Yes

[meager ginkgo]

Are you running it in the wall or like along baseboards (or similar?)

[storm oracle]

Got 2 gigabit internet now

[storm oracle]

In basement

Going from router down to basement along the ceiling and back up to back room

[meager ginkgo]

So ideally you'd want to buy an unterminated cable and put keystone jacks on it

[storm oracle]

Idk what that means

[meager ginkgo]

Is the cable gonna come out of the wall?

[storm oracle]

Out of the floor

Just gonna make 2 holes and have it zip tied to basement ceiling

[meager ginkgo]

So instead of having a cable stick out far past the floor, you want to get a surface mount cat6 jack then.

Like this: https://www.amazon.com/Monoprice-Surface-Mount-Single-107092/dp/B005E2Y9WY/

You would then get bare CAT6 (without ends) and attach it to the jack

[storm oracle]

Idk how to do that not too inclined in cable stuff looking for easy cheep fix

[meager ginkgo]

It's up to you. This is the more clean way to do it IMO

[storm oracle]

Imo?

[meager ginkgo]

in my opinion

[storm oracle]

Oh ok wym clean

[meager ginkgo]

Neat way

Proper too

[storm oracle]

Oh ok do you have a list of recommendations

[meager ginkgo]

Hold on one sec

75ft?

[storm oracle]

75 to 80 80 would be better bc I needa move stuff for 75

[meager ginkgo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jkBI98e10s

This is what you'd be doing to each side.

A keystone is just a modular female port basically

[storm oracle]

Oh how would I connect it to my pc?

[meager ginkgo]

You use a short ethernet cable from the jack to your pc

and same to the router

[storm oracle]

Oh cool

[meager ginkgo]

This way it's not easy to get severed or anything like that

[storm oracle]

How much would it cost total

[meager ginkgo]

Probably around $50 total, let me put together a parts list.

May be a little less.

https://www.amazon.com/Monoprice-Cat6A-Toolless-180-Degree-Keystone/dp/B01KYD0IXQ/

[storm oracle]

Woah that's like 5x the price if I just get a 75 foot cable I could get the 100 ft for 20

[meager ginkgo]

Yeah, in the end both ways work. This is just the more proper "professional way" lol

[storm oracle]

Lol I ain't no professional lol I just need ut to work

I need high speeds us all lol don't need ultra connected

[meager ginkgo]

Fair enough. That cable is probably fine then.

Just be careful it doesn't get damaged.

Avoid flat cables like the plague haha

[storm oracle]

It should be pretty durable right?

It's not flat

[meager ginkgo]

Yes, i'm just worried about the cable coming out of the floor

[storm oracle]

Oh why

[meager ginkgo]

Normally when an ethernet cable is installed it goes into either a wall jack or surface mount jack

from there you attach a short ethernet cable into it to go to your device.

Like I said a bit ago, either way works fine. It's just up to you whether you want it to look good and be durable or "just work"

[storm oracle]

Well the cord should be durable enough right?

Is there a wire coat type thing I can put arround it to make it more durable

[meager ginkgo]

That's always an option yeah.

But at that point why not just put a jack

[storm oracle]

Bc it's cheaper

[meager ginkgo]

They make jacks where you dont have to cut the wire also 😉

[storm oracle]

Wym

[meager ginkgo]

you just plug the ethernet end into it from the 75ft cable and then connect a short ethernet cable to your device

[storm oracle]

Doesn't more cables mean less speed?

[meager ginkgo]

Typically no

https://www.amazon.com/VCE-Listed-5-Pack-Keystone-Coupler-White/dp/B0116T7XMQ/

[storm oracle]

Ok is the no cut option more expensive

[meager ginkgo]

No, it's pretty cheap

But it will make the cable much more durable and prone to last

[storm oracle]

Ok

[meager ginkgo]

You don't want a lot of cable exposed coming out of the floor

Just a tiny bit going into the jack

[storm oracle]

Well it's just coming out the corner of each room and there's a table leg that would wedge the wire between the table and the wall

[meager ginkgo]

I don't see much of an issue with that scenario, up to you what you want to do. Adding a jack (without cutting the cable) would be probably about $15 more than just running the cable straight out of the floor.

[storm oracle]

Ok so if I get the 100 ft for 20 is it better than 75 for 10?

Like idk what the best deal is

[meager ginkgo]

Get the minimum amount of ft you need

[storm oracle]

Ok

[meager ginkgo]

But yeah Monoprice is a good brand lol

got a little carried away..

[storm oracle]

Ok lol

My new question is would it be a better deal to get the 100 ft one for 20 the extra 25 feet for messes in my measurements or should I just get the 75 for 10?

[meager ginkgo]

An idea that may work for accurate measurements would be to run string from the router to your device and then pull it out and measure that string

Generally you want the minimum amount you need

[storm oracle]

Ok

I'll have to do that in the morning

[red fox]

I have a friend with an AC 9560 in a laptop that seems to have gone bad. Would something like an AX411 be able to drop in just fine with the same antennas? Should reasonable performance still be expected on the older antennas, including for 6Ghz?

[storm oracle]

hey blue just found out mono price dosnt do free shipping so lookin for one on amazon found this for 17 is this a ok brand https://www.amazon.com/Mediabridge-Ethernet-Cable-Feet-31-199-10B/dp/B001W2ENVM/ref=sr_1_6?crid=XVI3185KY77M&keywords=Mediabridge™+Ethernet+Cable&qid=1699745109&s=electronics&sprefix=mediabridge+ethernet+cable%2Celectronics%2C144&sr=1-6

[meager ginkgo]

Yes that should work fine

[storm oracle]

ok tysmmm

[plucky marlin]

I'm fed up of using old routers in AP mode and getting unreliable wifi.

I know Linus used to rave about the quality of the connections on his Ruckus APs, but having looked them up, they're a little too expensive.

What's the go-to, no hassle, doesn't have to be stupidly fast, but does have to have strong signal, reliable and just works AP?

[frosty stone]

ruckus is enterprise stuff, of course it's expensive

[plucky marlin]

Fair.

[frosty stone]

Ubiquiti, which is what linus currently uses
they have APs ranging from basic to quite high end

https://store.ui.com

[plucky marlin]

I hear a lot about Ubiquiti. I'm looking on Amazon at a few different variants. Would a Long Range one be more suited to make sure it covers a larger area?

[peak cloak]

Tp link omada is also good, what's why I use at home

[peak cloak]

Using multiple APs is better than LR

[plucky marlin]

I have quite a long drive and a shed at the back garden that would be nice to have access in.

[frosty stone]

if you're in the US or any other region Ubiquiti ships to, buy direct from their store I linked

[plucky marlin]

I have only ever had bad experiences with multiple APs and is what I currently have.

[frosty stone]

becuase you haven't used a good system

[peak cloak]

Are they connected via a controller?

The systems mentioned above have coordination between the different APs if setup that way

[plucky marlin]

Also fair...

[plucky marlin]

No, but I know you either have to go with an integrated mesh system, or a stupidly expensive and enterprise solution.

I'd quite like to just have one AP in the ceiling that covers the whole house. It's a 4-bed, but it's actually quite small. And if the Wifi reaches out to the front and back garden, that's a bonus.

Looking at the Ubiquiti stuff, I'm guessing the U6 Pro would be a better option than the U6+ or Lite?

[frosty stone]

I'd start with a UDR.
router and Unifi controller in one unit, with 4 lan ports, 2 of which are POE that can power some U6-Pro APs if needed

[plucky marlin]

Ah... I should have explained my network setup.

I have a coaxial line into my ISP router in bridge mode, feeding into pfSense running on a VM as my router.

I intend to keep that setup as I have it. It's literally just the APs I hate.

[frosty stone]

imo, a UDR is probably going to be better than pfSense running in a vm

¯_(ツ)_/¯

how on earth does that even work in a vm 🤔

if you want multiple APs, you'll want a controller either way, and the UDR and cloud key both cost $199

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[plucky marlin]

And I already pointed out that £400 was too much. Would one U6 (variant here) do the trick?

[frosty stone]

except you didn't mention anything about price or even where you're located other than Ruckus being too expensive for you

[plucky marlin]

Okay, we'll I'm in the UK and I'd like something sub £200.

[frosty stone]

simple then, a single U6-Pro

https://uk.store.ui.com/uk/en/pro/category/all-wifi/products/u6-pro

[plucky marlin]

Perfect. That's the recommendation I was after, thanks.

[frosty stone]

np

[keen urchin]

I am sad that I need two of them to get proper coverage where I want it

[plucky marlin]

I haven't actually ordered it yet. Would the Long Range version be worth considering if I'm sticking with just a single AP?

[fast sky]

why is my usb adapter getting faster speeds than my wifi card?

shouldnt it be the other way around

[ebon depot]

Hey! Me and my brother are setting up a virtual machine via virtualbox software. But we are stuck at the networking part of it. We want to have a linux virtual machine that we can accsess from anywhere, from work, home or in our doomsday bunker. But we need help with portforwarding and ip setup. Is anyone here know virtualbox and can help us with what port/ip goes where? We have googled and youtubed for hours, but still no connection. We are new to this, but trying to learn

[pearl zinc]

I'm not looking for insane speed though, just enough to say watch youtube.

[ebon depot]

No that lags way to much

[zealous shadow]

I was setting my router up in bridge mode and typed in the ip but accidentally hit enter before i could finish everything else, now I can’t connect to the router to fix it

Do I just have to reset it

[opal pagoda]

simplest no config way is to use tailscale

install it on vm, and on device you want to access the server from
it will assign a static "local" ip that you can acess server with

[ebon depot]

So there is no way to make it so i can use windows`s remote desktop to connect to the VM without tailscale? I am not after the easyest way, we want to learn how this works and how we can set it up

[clear igloo]

You do NOT want to port forward Remote Desktop unless you want that machine to get pwned as soon as it's exposed

If you want simple and secure which requires port forwarding to learn then wireguard or another VPN would suffice too

[ebon depot]

Ok, so what do we need to start this? Wireguard and a vpn? What vpn would you reccomend? Is the best way to connect to the VM teamviwer type software?

[clear igloo]

Wireguard is a VPN

And yes, Team Viewer or similar is the best way
Or just RDP once you're on the VPN on the local network

[ebon depot]

Ok. We are using it as part of tryhackme courses. So just to trying to understand, there is not a good idea to have a shared machine ( like a server ) that me and my brother can accsess to do tasks on? We thought that having a server like pc with linux, tons of storage to use as backups and learning would be a cool thing, is it not?

In your opinion what is the best team viewer type software we could use that its not as slow as teamviewer

[fringe marten]

Setup a vpn server,.maybe even on your router and then VPN into your home when away, then use RDP

[peak cloak]

it is a cool thing, RDP over the internet is not secure

use a VPN or remote desktop gateway

I like tailscale

super easy to use

[frosty stone]

yeah

[storm oracle]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001W2ENVM/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=A1DCPNQKKEISZB&psc=1 is there anything good and reliable thats cheaper than this

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo @hollow marlin I want to replace all multi mode fiber at work with single mode

[clear igloo]

Good, this is the way

[opal pagoda]

some toys that i can play with without disrupting production systems

[hollow marlin]

Well it's becoming more common across the board to just switch to only SM

[rocky badge]

12G SDI is only SMF

https://www.fs.com/products/69460.html

[mighty wind]

yeah All out AV over fiber is all single mode. I only know of one company still using multi for video.

ships still use coax but that's mainly due to legacy installs, new are using more 2110 or a mix of coax and fiber depending on needs

Kinda still waiting for more 2110 support and reduced costs on 10-25G network hardware.

Some of our equipment uses interesting BiDi modules so you can still have two way coms on a single fiber since you dont need the full 12+G both ways.

[opal pagoda]

bidi has full bandwidth both ways
idk what you are implying but 2 diffrent wavelenght are used, one in each direction

[mighty wind]

The transceivers we use are not full symmetrical hence the interesting part. 12G out and 1G back. I didn't expect that but one time while I was working on a matrix I noticed they had two speeds lised on the label.

[opal pagoda]

yea that is really interesting, never saw that

gpon even dedicated third wavelenght for video

[mighty wind]

Yeah its all just to support EDID management, IR and/or RS232 at the display/projector end.

[proven surge]

Do you have a VPN setup for remote access? Local IP doesn't matter so much as the VPN configuration.

[rocky badge]

Ours is MMF stuff bc people before me

Which sucks because some optics are hard to get to or not possible

[mighty wind]

that's usually how it goes, One reason why I'm glad I have been doing new construction, and staying off the ship yards.

[rocky badge]

Yeah we are a production company for tours, festivals, and corporate stuff...

So its all reused

[unreal valley]

In Proxmox, Im trying to pass through a network card to a vm via pcie passthrough. Proxmox is preventing me because "no IOMMU is detected". I enabled VT-d in the bios. Shouldnt this work?

[lament scarab]

Wifi on my Samsung galaxy s21 fe just doesn't turn on

[pseudo blade]

#1027757333117415424

[blazing karma]

Probably one of the most expensive modem I’ve bought

[hollow marlin]

I have never heard of those. I can't even find info on WTF the signaling is because it looks like it variable

[rocky badge]

😂😂

[rocky badge]

It’s just converting SDI to fiber

[rocky badge]

@hollow marlin @clear igloo

cursed

[clear igloo]

https://tenor.com/view/wtf-whatthehell-gif-5137620979516089508

purge it with fire

[rocky badge]

wait

So this thing is literally just a sfp+ to sfp+ LMAO

[opal pagoda]

DAC with removable cable

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo BRO WHY sc

[clear igloo]

because if it's cursed why not go full cursed 😄

[rocky badge]

and that is not single mode fiber

with 200m distance

[hollow marlin]

I don't know what SDI is but it sounds like it's not Ethernet so it's basically dead to me lol

[rocky badge]

SDI is serial digital interface, sends video

[opal pagoda]

its not?

[rocky badge]

yeah its mmf

[opal pagoda]

wierd

idk why but here they sometimes use mmf on smf transcievers
and it works

[rocky badge]

@hollow marlin @meager ginkgo I wonder how much money it would be to get the local fiber ISP to give us our own service in an apartment they serve. The apartment complex is doing a weird "we already do NAT and shit, data drops are behind our NAT & FW and WiFi is the same"

[flat wagon]

hell yeah.....

[unkempt mural]

Wait a minute, do they make coax over fiber? So I could do Ethernet over Coax, then Coax over fiber.

[hard oak]

If I currently have a network of three BT (British Telecoms) AC2600 mesh routers connected to a gigabit-compatible base router, is there any reason why I couldn't add a single AC3700 BT router so that I get my full gigabit speed in one specific room?

Modem -> Gigabit BT router -> Three BT 2600 Mesh for most of the house + One BT 3700 Mesh for a specific room

In other words ^

[opal pagoda]

dont think you will get gigabit troughput over wireless mesh

[rapid sorrel]

I'm at my wits end. So, I have internet, but I have to set a static IP. Is there any way to make a subnet with dhcp or something?

Background: My apartment has wifi in the contract, but it is super weak for where I am located in the building, so I set up an AP to use gain for better signal and pipe it to ethernet. The way I found to make it work is to set a static IP on the AP. Sadly doing this seems to strip DHCP from any of my devices connected below the AP bridge. Is there any way to restore this?

[deft jungle]

What AP are you using?

[rapid sorrel]

ECB1750

@deft jungle

Actually, I am not sure how I am getting internet at all, cause I can not ping 192.168.1.1 (The appartment router) Which would seem to be why I can't get DHCP, but I can ping my AP.

[deft jungle]

Are you sure that is the gateway IP?

[rapid sorrel]

Good point, nope, I have no idea what is going on, on their end.

[deft jungle]

so, if you connect to the wifi (not through the AP) on your phone or laptop, check what your IP is. The first two octets are 192.168, consider trying 192.168.0.1.

If you have an Android phone, I have an app called "PingTools Network Utilities" that I use often for network diags.

[rapid sorrel]

I'll snag that as well, I just used termux.

Hmm, yeah, on the network, still can't ping that IP, I guess my assumption was wrong.

[deft jungle]

ngl, good on them for changing the default IP. That's a rarity these days. haha

[rapid sorrel]

On a network scan, it does bring up routerboard.com though which is why I assumed.

[deft jungle]

default ip for a Mikrotik Routerboard is 192.168.88.1

[rapid sorrel]

The scan says 192.168.1.1 is indeed the gateway.

not pingable though.

[deft jungle]

Not unheard of. Some devices you can turn off the ability to respond to LAN/WAN pings.

[rapid sorrel]

Found with Network Analyzer app by Jiri Techet on android.

[deft jungle]

So, what is the original problem exactly? Is your AP not able to connect to the wifi?

[rapid sorrel]

The AP is bridging to their AP, but in order to do so I must assign a static IP, and anyting getting internet from my AP no loonger has DHCP.

I'd be happy if I could set up TFTPD64 for a DHCP on my end, but idk if that would work, or even how to do that, been looking at tutorials.

Though, oddly, internet is distributed, just have to be static IP's, which has been fine for everything untill lately I wanted to set up HomeAssistant which requires DHCP in the VM.

[deft jungle]

How do you know the IPs are static? Are you setting them yourself through your AP?

[rapid sorrel]

I couldn't find a place to set them through my AP sadly, I have been assigning them on device.

[deft jungle]

ok. Are you running WIN or LIN?

or MacOS? cringe

[rapid sorrel]

All of the above.

I'm fairly comfortable in any, master of none.

[deft jungle]

ok . FYI: I gotta go get lunch. Be back in an hour or so. If you want to DM me to continue, that's fine.

[rapid sorrel]

No worries, yeah, sounds great, thanks for the offer!

[rapid sorrel]

Update: We got to a point where a guest network had DHCP, which is enough to tide me over. Regular wifi and ethernet still both do not have DHCP, but I will be investigating openwrt to potentially rectify that. Thanks NotAKangaroo!

[kind pivot]

Is using CRS309-1G-8S+IN as a router with routerOS a bad idea ?

[thick minnow]

my asus router has run into a problem yet again: it can access websites, devices on the network cannot

[unkempt mural]

Anyone know if I can plug this into a normal consumer motherboard that doesn’t have those extra pins on the right?

[waxen scroll]

@hollow marlin

[loud pendant]

Hello, all. I'll soon be transitioning to working from home with my company. They tell me that the equipment that they'll be sending has to be used with Ethernet but I don't have room to fit it close to my router/modem combo in order to do that. Would something like this be able to be used to get around that? https://amzn.to/3QAaWDQ

[thick minnow]

ok, we've now hit a new problem: devices on the wired network can access the intewrnet but devices connected wirelessly can't (besides the laptop, which works for some reason)

[fervent cape]

Not sure if this is quite networking but I recently got an entry level Synology, and am considering running a camera with it. If I wanted to store 4k video events for a week or two and still have space to play with, how much storage do you think would make sense? Is the synology camera good? what should I know?

[thick minnow]

problem resolved: the ASUS RT-AX58U just gave up i guess

[peak cloak]

Where's your wireguard server

[lavish plank]

PiHole is working!

[opal pagoda]

rip port
someone heavily violated that port's rules

[kind pivot]

Ouchie

[unkempt mural]

I physically shuttered after I saw that…

[keen urchin]

I'm impressed

[wispy spindle]

are these all that i would need hardware wise to get a 40gb connection between two PCs?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/355145793175
https://www.ebay.com/itm/325367988091

i don’t need fast access to my nas from any device other than my main pc so i was wondering if this would work

[onyx remnant]

Fun, was playing fortnite with my kid, and the ps5 (wired in) had 20% packet loss, and the PC (aalso wired) had 0. i wonder if a cable went bad- best way to test with out equipment is???? i figured id run some iperf but idk what else to test

[opal pagoda]

https://youtu.be/NAks6qM9jlM?si=knDfR1bGEmt4GC4p
You need that+ some configuration

[mystic latch]

Finally got ipv6 going at a basic level in my home network. Feels good, man.

[wispy spindle]

[waxen vapor]

Right how would I go about getting into a WiFi network I am not in nor have the password to cause I forgot it… I am stupid

And have never connected this device to

[mystic latch]

The router web interface itself would likely have the wifi passwords

Unless it's a network that you don't control. Then ask someone

[mild turtle]

Mum swapped ISP and since hasn't been able to connect her laptop to the WiFi. The old hub when plugged in comes up on her laptop, however the new one doesn't. Her and my phone are able to see the hub and connect, but the laptop cannot see/find the network but I can see ten (peoples) other networks. I've plugged in the old hub and disconnected it, reset the laptop. Reset the hub. Uninstalled the driver and reinstalled it. Disabled the network powersaving when on low battery. Nothing.

[meager ginkgo]

Hey all, my proxmox server is able to ping my VMs/LXC containers but not the other way around. My VMs/LXC containers also cannot access other IPs. Proxmox firewall is off and I’ve checked a lot of the basic stuff. Anyone have an idea why my networking is “broken”?

Nevermind, just got it working by unplugging and replugging the Ethernet cable weirdly enough lmao

[sharp locust]

Bought this recently

[pseudo blade]

You bought a POWER8 server?

[thick minnow]

Which one should I take between Ubiquiti U6 and NETGEAR WAX214?

[devout pebble]

hey guys i have been having this problem where i got a switch and i've been trying to connect it to the router/modem and it keep showing up as a unidentified network when ever i plug my wall directly to any device am i doing anything wrong i have image to show on what i did. do i need to get another router in my room for this to work or is there anyway to change the unidentified network

[clear igloo]

Your ISP device doesn't have a connection to their network from what I can tell

the white box at least seems to be missing the DSL (phone) cable

[devout pebble]

its says it doesn't have an proper ip configuration does that mean i have to get a router for this one or what do i have to do about this

[clear igloo]

No, the router (white box in picture 2) is likely missing configurations due to having no ISP/internet connection

[devout pebble]

how can i fix it?

[clear igloo]

Well you need to connect your router to the ISPs network

and make sure the white router is turned on

[devout pebble]

it definately on

ut if the isp network isn't connect doesn't that mean i also cannot use wifi?

[clear igloo]

Correct, I mean you can't get internet if you're not connected to the ISPs network

[devout pebble]

but i connect to its wifi right now

[clear igloo]

Does your ISP use the white box shown in the second picture?

[devout pebble]

yes

[clear igloo]

How is it connected then? because I don't see any cables aside power and one going to the switch

In theory the router should be handing out DHCP addresses but idk what the white box model is so I can't say 100% for sure

[devout pebble]

I think this is how they connect it

[clear igloo]

AH! Ok that makes sense, yes, so that's a fiber connection then you're good there

does the switch have any lights on the port connecting to the router?

or vice versa on the router side for that port?

[devout pebble]

These are the only light on it

Other then that nothing else

[clear igloo]

Interesting, I see lights on LAN1 and LAN3 but in your other picture it was only connected to what I assume is LAN4?

[devout pebble]

No it lan 1 is connected to the switch and lan 3 to the tv

[clear igloo]

Ah, ok

Hmmmm, well if there is a light for LAN1 then in theory the switch is connected fine signal wise

And there are lights on the switch above each port or no?

[devout pebble]

Yes there are

[clear igloo]

Interesting, then the router should be handing out DHCP addresses at a minimum
If you open command prompt on your PC and put in ipconfig and hit enter
does the IPv4 address returned start with 192.168.x.x or 169.x.x.x

It seems port 1 and 5 on the switch have link light so that's good at least

[devout pebble]

cna i share an image of the ip?

[clear igloo]

Yah that's fine, so long as its 10.x.x.x 192.168.x.x or 172.x.x.x

or 169.x.x.x

[devout pebble]

IPv4 starts with 192.168.18.13

[clear igloo]

ok, well that's good then
It's got a local IPv4 address
is the default gateway 192.168.18.1?

On your PC can you open a browser and go to http://192.168.18.1 and does that take you to the router's GUI?

[devout pebble]

yes the default gate way is correct

the link you sent me ?

or should i punch in my ipv4

[clear igloo]

Yah, just punch in the default gateway

[devout pebble]

its shows me this page

[clear igloo]

Interesting, well that's the router all right so that's good

in the command prompt can you do "ping 8.8.8.8" without quotes

[devout pebble]

its share me this

[clear igloo]

Well then you've got internet

I'm assuming you're on wired right now?

[devout pebble]

no

i have been using wifi

[clear igloo]

Oh!
You need to do those over wired 🙂

[devout pebble]

should i redo everything using wired?

[clear igloo]

yah, just tag me or post here when you're back online

you can also do ping 192.168.18.1 as well

[devout pebble]

Its shows me this when i fmdo ip config on wired

[clear igloo]

well crap, then something is wrong with your ISPs router possibly

If you plug your PC into a port on the ISP router directly does that work?

[devout pebble]

Lemme check real quick

[clear igloo]

Sure thing

[devout pebble]

Nope if i plug it in staight to my laptop it doesn't detech anything

[clear igloo]

ok, then that helps
That tells me the connection from the cables in the walls is messed up

What does the termination point for those look like?
Where your switch is

[devout pebble]

I have no idea what a termination point is

[clear igloo]

So basically the wires in the walls end somewhere yes?
One point is at the wall plate but what about the other side?

[devout pebble]

This is the area whrre the thing come in from

[clear igloo]

Ah, ok, so the cables in the walls just terminate to RJ45 jacks and plug directly from the wall into the switch

[devout pebble]

I a bit confused sorry

[clear igloo]

So basically it goes PC > wall plate > wire, and that wire goes directly into the switch

It's terminated (ended) with those plastic bits which are called RJ45 ends

[devout pebble]

The area where i have my wall is different from where i keep the rest the wall is in the second floor while the rest in on the first

[clear igloo]

Correct but those wires on the first and second floor all come to the same spot right?
The second floor doesn't end somewhere else right?

[devout pebble]

Yes

[clear igloo]

ok, cool,
Can you take a picture of the back of the wall plate where your PC plugs into?
I also want to double check what you said ealier, your laptop plugged into the wall socket also gave nothing right?

[devout pebble]

The laptop one i plug it directly to the router

[clear igloo]

OH! ok then it's the router that's the problem most likely

I assumed you went laptop > wall > switch > router

[devout pebble]

No i wanted to switch>wall>pc

Also these are the best i can get

[clear igloo]

Yah, but your laptop went laptop > router in this case and didn't get an IP right

[devout pebble]

It cannot get anykind of lan/ethernet connection

[clear igloo]

ok, then the router is the problem which leads us to a different troubleshooting path

On wireless right now I assume?
If so go to the router page again, can you login?

I wonder if something disabled the LAN ports or something

[devout pebble]

Ok i manage to log in

It bring me to this page

[clear igloo]

Cool, what do you see under LAN tab?

[devout pebble]

Only these

[clear igloo]

cool, go do DHCP Server Configuration

[devout pebble]

Ok i am in it rn

[clear igloo]

ok, lets check Security tab

[devout pebble]

Ok her it is

[clear igloo]

AHA!

logout and then try to login with this:
user: telecomadmin
pass: admintelecom
User and pass

That should give more options

[devout pebble]

its say incorrect account/password when i put the ones in

[clear igloo]

Did you see the edit I made?
I put the wrong ones 🙂

First one should be user
bottom one is password

[devout pebble]

yes i made sure of it

[clear igloo]

ok, try this password:
Converge@huawei123

[devout pebble]

i even compy pasted ity

user still the same

[clear igloo]

yes

[devout pebble]

still doesn't work

[clear igloo]

crap, ok let me dig a bit

[devout pebble]

ok

[clear igloo]

try username root and password admin

I'm seeing people say those should work and will give more admin options for LAN settings

[devout pebble]

nope still unavailable

[clear igloo]

crud, hmmm
You might (sadly) have to call your ISP and see if they can make sure the LAN ports are enabled
I see that ports 3 and 4 are for IPTV on that router and then 1 and 2 are for LAN

[devout pebble]

couldn't i just use the same one i login in from before >

[clear igloo]

Yah, you can log back in with that but the admin user should have more options from what I can tell

[devout pebble]

so i cannot fix it without a admin permission

[clear igloo]

correct

[devout pebble]

so i would have to call or text up the isp i got to sak it the lan ports are availabel

[clear igloo]

Correct

[devout pebble]

ok then i see... thanks for helping

[clear igloo]

Yah, sorry, I was hoping it would be simpler 😦

[devout pebble]

yeah i am also sorry for ending up wasting your time

[clear igloo]

Nah, it's the ISP who did 🙂

You can try as a last check, using ports 2 and 4 for the connection to the switch, just on the off chance

[devout pebble]

update i plugged it in to lan 2 and it instantly works💀 weirdly port 4 doesn't work tho and port 3 only works on the tv
so here a follow up question i wanted to use anothe lan wall in another room can i connect a router to make a wifi extender for it

[hollow axle]

Time for a new switch

[clear igloo]

I would just go with a second switch and an AP although a second router in AP mode would do

[magic warren]

Hey, does anyone here have experience with ruckus ap’s I have a r510 that my friends dad who works in it gave me. I hooked it up to my Mac book via Ethernet and reset the Ap. After waiting 5 Munster for it to turn on I turned off Wi-Fi on my MacBook and what t to the op adress that is on the sticker that is in the back of the ap but it refused to load. I tryed plugging in to each port on the ap. Nothing. It does also have a Wi-Fi but I can’t figure out the default password. It’s not the same as the one on the back of the ap. HELP any ideas on how to get this ap up and going.

[meager vine]

I'm not sure if this is the right channel, but it's related to networking, so here it goes: I currently have a satellite router with approximately 15-17 devices constantly connected to the network. I'm looking to find a new router and need recommendations. Additionally, there is only one device connected via Ethernet. My family requires stable internet that can handle everyone being online, playing games, and I also need a system that can prioritize a specific device if it's important.

[magic warren]

Most mid range to high end routers could handle that

[peak cloak]

is your computer that is connected to the AP on the same subnet ?

[magic warren]

Yea I think my MacBook is set to 255.255.255.0

[peak cloak]

you'll most likely need to set a static IP and subnet mask that's in the same subnet as the AP IP

[magic warren]

Ok

[peak cloak]

that's the subnet mask

doesn't mean it's the same subnet

[magic warren]

I also just thought of plugging it in and using a ip scanner

[magic warren]

How do I check then

[peak cloak]

what's the default IP of the AP?

[magic warren]

Idk my router is a AirPort Extreme so idk how to figure out most of this stuff in it

[peak cloak]

router doesn't matter

it should not be connected

AP <-> Computer

[magic warren]

Ik it’s not I also have to dig it out of storage to find any info on it

I got mad at it and put it away

[peak cloak]

https://descargas.diprotec.cl/contenido/drivers/Ruckus/R510/Users-Manual-R510.pdf

default IP is 192.168.0.1

even tells you what network settings to use on the computer

[magic warren]

Is it ok if I set the dns to my pihole or will that mess it up

[peak cloak]

doesn't matter, it's not like your computer will be able to connect to it anyway

[magic warren]

Ok

@peak cloak what is the default Wi-Fi pw

[winter vigil]

Hi,
I'll be able to get optical fibre soon (up to 600 Mb/s) so I'm thinking about refreshing/fixing my network. House in Europe (built in late 90s), RJ11 was put into walls so no use. What can I do to make my network a little bit better?

[thick minnow]

Has anyone tried to mount a network drive to an Nvidia shield pro?

It wants the info in a specific way

//domain;username;password@server\share

I'm assuming I can use the IP address for the domain, and then the server name in server, but what's the share but at the end?

[glossy cloak]

Yo. My wife smashed doors and cat6 cable with it. My internet speed was around 950 Mbps and now it's 10-20. I cut open the cable carefully in the same place it got squeezed and there is not single cable cut inside except the plastic filler. You can see the copper a bit in brown one but thats all. Could it cause the speed to go down that drastically? Upload went from around 100 to 0.2 however ping is stable. Is it cable fault or just a coincidence with my ISP? Wifi works as usual tho.

[opal pagoda]

that might be shared folder name

[thick minnow]

Thanks. That got me a different result, just not the one I wanted 🤣

I've activated the netbios in the SMB settings, which I've seen can also cause some issues.

Will see what happens with that once it reboots

[thick minnow]

Ok so the netbios option worked, so I didn't have to put the info in manually.

Retroarch keeps crashing though and then I have to reconnect every time. Is there any way for it to remember the login information at the very least?

[fringe marten]

Sounds like time to replace the cable

[drifting gulch]

Since starlink only allows one ethernet port, Does anyone have anything solution to add more ethernet ports?

[cedar niche]

look up bypass mode

[frosty stone]

a switch?

[drifting gulch]

I will try bypass mode and another router. If that doesnt work well I will buy a network switch thanks

[young arch]

Is starlink not a modem

[peak cloak]

switch

[peak cloak]

it's an all in one

[peak cloak]

I don't think starlink allows bypass, if it doesn't then yeah switch

nevermind it does, but you need to buy another wifi router

[drifting gulch]

I already have another router but I might just buy a switch so everything is on that same network

[thick minnow]

https://www.trendnet.com/support/support-detail.asp?prod=110_TEG-S327
anyone know how long that switch is? cause no way its only 6.29 inches

[frosty stone]

it definitely is 6.29 inches

do you realise how small ethernet ports are?

[thick minnow]

so you're saying it's shorter than this switch, which is over 7": https://www.trendnet.com/products/multigig-switch/6-port-10g-switch-TEG-S762-v1

[frosty stone]

I did the visual math very wong

yeah something ain't right with those dimensions

[thick minnow]

I think they put the dimensions for this switch: https://www.trendnet.com/products/2-5g-switch/5-port-unmanaged-2-5g-switch-TEG-S350-v1.1 on that 7 port by mistake

But everyone else online just copies dimensions from the manufacturer, so dont think theres any way I can figure out the correct ones unless I buy it and measure it

[frosty stone]

you could email them

make them aware of the issue

[thick minnow]

I have limited confidence that would produce an effective response...but maybe

looks like they dont wait emails. they make you register an account and submit a support ticket if you want to talk to them.

[frosty stone]

then do that.

[thick minnow]

nah

I'll live with not knowing

[prime summit]

Is wifi 6e truly worth $600 more than wifi 6?

[grizzled ember]

how can I improve my wifi speeds?

[thick minnow]

6e is much faster than 6, so yes

the numbering sucks. 6 speeds are on par with 5

[clear igloo]

but it depends on if that bump is speed is worth it to you
It's worth it to me but might not be worth the extra $$ to you

[thick minnow]

6e is faster. New stuff added to speed it up and greatly increase range and number of devices that can be on that much larger wireless network.

but nothing is faster than your uplink, so, how fast is your internet. Wifi 5e is faster than that, most likely

plus, don't forget, both ends have to support the new protocol, router and client. Still backwards compatible, but upgrading the client won't make any difference until the router is upgraded too, and visa versa as well.

[clear igloo]

WiFi 6 brought some lower latency, and improved client density, added WPA3 and is backwards compatible with 5 and older.
6E added new spectrum to further improve speed and reduce latency further since it's new unused spectrum and thus less congested and should be for a long while. 6E requires WPA3 and since not all clients support WPA3 it's not backwards compatible.
7 will improve upon 6E by bringing even faster speeds and some additional latency reductions and uplink improvements on top of 6/6E

[thick minnow]

Speedtest reports about 230 Mbps on my Mac's wifi across the office and full 1 Gbps when it's plugged in.

I hadn't heard a peep about wifi 7, but then I wasn't looking, so okay.

[clear igloo]

7 is around the corner, already some early consumer routers out with it and a few devices. It's not fully ratified yet so I wouldn't expect most devices to start rolling out with it until mid next year after that is done

I believe though 7 is set in stone as far as tech and ratification is just the final stamp unlike with 6 where there were multiple early iterations and then the final roll out and approval after more stuff was added and finalized. Could be wrong though

[thick minnow]

that sounds like a pretty quick development cycle. I thought wifi numbers were less often than 1 per year, but I guess the whole concept of "wifi X" is still fairly new.

Can't say I'm a fan of the "e" suffix though