networking

[meager ginkgo]

I can get my full gigabit speed over WiFi 6…

[sonic notch]

So I wouldn't need to put this in a backpack, but would need it in a suitcase

[meager ginkgo]

I guess those are fine then.

[opal pagoda]

i mean if it checks all of the boxes and is smaller... 🤔

[meager ginkgo]

U7 Pro is nice just not something I’d consider for a typical “portable” setup

[sonic notch]

I'm gonna be in dense Wi-Fi environments and would like 2+ clients to do gigabit between each other

[meager ginkgo]

Fair enough. Renting?

[sonic notch]

Yeah

• have internships in other parts of the country

[opal pagoda]

Cisco Catalyst 9120AX for a portable setup

[meager ginkgo]

If the clients have Ethernet ports you can use MoCA adapters to use each homes existing coax

[sonic notch]

Nah, that makes it less portable. I ideally want to limit it to 1 ethernet device other than the SBC I have taped onto my existing router lol

[meager ginkgo]

How frequent are we talking lol?

[sonic notch]

Basically what I mean by "portable" is a giant block that I can set up and tear down by just plugging 2 or 3 cables and putting it on a desk or wall

[sonic notch]

Every few months

[opal pagoda]

get a 10 inch rack

[meager ginkgo]

That’s not a bad idea

[opal pagoda]

mount wheels and handle to make it a pseudo suitcase

[sonic notch]

Honestly I would if I was driving places

But I need to fly ;(

Also to be clear, my current setup is portable but not performant

It's a TP-Link AC1750 but I think the CPU throttles at times

[meager ginkgo]

Why not just grab a good mesh system and call it a day..? A lot of them let you flash custom firmware onto them

[sonic notch]

Maybe, I'm assuming you mean a single pod of those mesh systems?

[opal pagoda]

nah 2

[meager ginkgo]

Depends on how big the homes / places you’ll be staying in

I’d probably get two minimum

[sonic notch]

They are gonna be apartments

So a single AP of any kind would work I'd think

[meager ginkgo]

Just grab a single node mesh system and call it a day then tbh. Lugging UniFi stuff around isn’t really worth it IMO

I use UniFi in my own home but if I was constantly traveling I wouldn’t want to lug all it

[sonic notch]

Is the Express/7 Pro that big?

[opal pagoda]

or Beryl AX as it can easily connect to vpns without reflashing

[opal pagoda]

um yes

[meager ginkgo]

They aren’t really THAT big. For me it just seems like a pain having to carry just one more “device.”

[sonic notch]

Rip, only really used the UDM and NanoHDs

[sonic notch]

O I was just gonna tape them all together and call it 1 device

[meager ginkgo]

lmao. I wouldn’t recommend that

overheating 😛

[sonic notch]

I mean I'd space it out on a board

But either way I have to tape stuff together since I'm using an SBC and SSD in my setup lol

[opal pagoda]

express isnt that big but ap is quite big and heavy
Dimensions Ø206 x 46 mm (Ø8.1 x 1.8")
Weight 680 g (1.5 lb)

[sonic notch]

1.5 lbs for the AP?

[opal pagoda]

yes

[sonic notch]

Honestly that might be fine

[sonic notch]

Do they have a 6E/7 version?

[opal pagoda]

have you considered getting a single 1l tiny mini micro system and consolidating a router and that server together

and then using a ap or even a wireless card to provide wifi

[sonic notch]

ngl looks expensive

The server is a $50 LibreComputer board

And I don't wanna touch the setup that I got working on it

[opal pagoda]

is it just a file server?

[sonic notch]

Specifically for running Resilio Sync

[sonic notch]

ngl this is the cheapest I could find
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/google-geek-squad-certified-refurbished-nest-wifi-pro-6e-axe5400-mesh-router-snow/6522668.p?skuId=6522668

not sure if it would meet my needs since i might need to switch to wifi backhaul instead of ethernet

[meager ginkgo]

https://a.co/d/b0qbA2E

[sonic notch]

i mean connecting to apartment wifi instead of ethernet when i mean wifi backhaul

[meager ginkgo]

Hmm. I’m not sure of any routers that do that besides the travel routers

[sonic notch]

including unifi??

[meager ginkgo]

I don’t think UniFi can do that

[sonic notch]

do you have any idea of how much i can put through this before the cpu becomes an issue?

[meager ginkgo]

Not sure. It has 2.5Gig ports so it should be reasonably capable

[sonic notch]

Any issues with the Google one I sent?

[meager ginkgo]

I wouldn’t get a Google router just for the sake of that it’s Google and they will have all your data and internet traffic.

That’s more of a personal thing tho 😛

The TP-Link probably has more advanced features aswell

[sonic notch]

That's what I thought ngl

I just can't find a cheap Deco

[meager ginkgo]

Amazon refurbished excellent is $119

for that same model

[sonic notch]

what about router flashing like you suggested?

[meager ginkgo]

Google probably locks down their product insanely.

[sonic notch]

big concern is that amazon takes ages for them to deliver where i am

[meager ginkgo]

I doubt you’ll be able to do anything with the nest

Have you checked Walmart?

[sonic notch]

you said that right when i brought it up lol

[meager ginkgo]

Looks like they only carry the WiFi 6 variants

[sonic notch]

they only have 2 packs rip

[meager ginkgo]

BestBuy?

[sonic notch]

only refurb at best buy are nests

[meager ginkgo]

hmm. Thats unfortunate

I don’t Ubiquiti would have been quicker than Amazon also 😛

[sonic notch]

fair but i also get really good customizability and longevity out of it

[meager ginkgo]

Oh for sure. I’m not criticizing their products just was mentioning the shipping time

[sonic notch]

i get it, but i'm saying that fact makes it worth the wait

• it's one generation ahead (wi-fi 7)

[meager ginkgo]

Go with Ubiquiti then. You won’t regret it most likely.

I run a UDM Pro and two U6-Pros

love it.

[sonic notch]

other thing i need to consider is that even if i won't regret ubiquiti, i might regret losing $300 lol

i think tp-link is solid even if it's not ubnt

[meager ginkgo]

Yeah they’re both good options. Typically I recommend UniFi for larger setups where you can wire backhaul around the house. It should be fine in your case though.

The TP-Link is good for simpler setups. Both have easy to use apps

UniFi gives you more configuration aswell

[sonic notch]

not sure what configuration i'd need short term tho

long term unifi is 100% the way to go

[meager ginkgo]

Unless you dive into VLANs and all that I’d probably recommend the TP-Link. Yeah long term definitely UniFi.

[sonic notch]

Are there any reasons to use a VLAN other than separating traffic between 2 groups of clients?

[meager ginkgo]

Mainly if you have a lot of smart home devices (for security)

I doubt you’ll have a ton though since you mentioned moving a lot

[sonic notch]

Meh, I do have some smart home stuff but keeping all of those devices on a separate AP is a huge hassle

[meager ginkgo]

You don’t need a separate AP. One AP can broadcast multiple WiFi networks

there’s also something called PPSK which can set multiple passwords to one WiFi network and depending on the password entered assign that device to a certain VLAN

[sonic notch]

I mean separate SSID, srry\

[sonic notch]

that is really cool wth

[meager ginkgo]

All good. Guest network is another reason but that isn’t really a issue since most routers have guest isolation as a feature

[sonic notch]

So basically no need for VLANs except for funsies or incredibly niche scenarios lol

Ughhh the tools Unifi offers are so good though

[meager ginkgo]

Essentially. Or unless you’re worried about a device from China talking to your other devices 😛

[sonic notch]

But they will 100% come out with cheaper Wi-Fi 7 APs

[meager ginkgo]

Ehh. Competitors are still having high prices on their WiFi 7 APs

[sonic notch]

Honestly will never go to China so don't mind 😎

[meager ginkgo]

The reason the U7 Pro is so cheap is because it only has 2x2 MIMO

[sonic notch]

Don't they have a history of releasing "Lite" APs tho

[meager ginkgo]

The U6 Pro has 4x4 MIMO on 5Ghz

[meager ginkgo]

They do. Most people think the Pro is their baseline AP for WiFi 7

[sonic notch]

o no

[meager ginkgo]

WiFi 7 is still pretty expensive to develop so as time comes I’m sure new products will come out

[sonic notch]

And the only 6E is the U6 Enterprise right

[meager ginkgo]

Yep.

[sonic notch]

ughh

[meager ginkgo]

And U6-Enterprise In Wall

[sonic notch]

I'm assuming it's 2x2 MU-MIMO on the 6 GHz channel?

[meager ginkgo]

On 6Ghz it doesn’t matter as much since 6Ghz can get insanely fast

[sonic notch]

Would that matter much in a home environment?

[meager ginkgo]

I honestly don’t think so from the tests I’ve seen

People compared U6-Pro vs U7-Pro on 5Ghz and the U7 Pro still beat the U6-Pro

despite less streams (2x2 MIMO)

MIMO is kind of like a highway

2 lanes of traffic and 2 directions

for 2x2 is my analogy

[sonic notch]

Wi-Fi 7 allows for shorter "vehicles" too right?

[meager ginkgo]

lol yes

most of my clients on my U6-Pros are only 2x2

I don’t think more than 3 of my clients at most use 4x4 or 3x3

[sonic notch]

Ngl I'm surprised the U6-Pro is only 2x2 when the NanoHD is 4x4

[meager ginkgo]

U6-Pro is 4x4

[sonic notch]

o

[meager ginkgo]

U7-Pro is 2x2

[sonic notch]

ohhh

im a dummy

[meager ginkgo]

but the 6ghz band still makes it an insanely better option for future proofing despite the MIMO

and if you have newer clients with WiFi 6E or newer

I assume their reason for lowering the MIMO was to make it so affordable

[sonic notch]

So if I were to go through with trading a kidney for Unifi, do you think I should wait for the Gateway Ultra to be in stock or just get the Express

[meager ginkgo]

Express only has WiFi 6

[sonic notch]

I mean along with the U7

[meager ginkgo]

and limits the amount of UniFi devices you can have to 3-4 I believe

[sonic notch]

oh rip

[meager ginkgo]

UXG-Lite is the other option IMO

[sonic notch]

Is it worth?

[meager ginkgo]

Issue with that is you have to host your controller

[sonic notch]

It's the same price

[meager ginkgo]

To be able to manage it

[sonic notch]

I have a UDM at my real home

[meager ginkgo]

UDM has UniFi OS

UXG-Lite just runs UniFi Network. No onboard controller / UI

[sonic notch]

So I can't manage the UXG via my UDM?

[meager ginkgo]

I don’t think so

[sonic notch]

;(

[meager ginkgo]

Some people have tried adopting the Express with their UDM Pros and it doesn’t work

I think it may work for WiFi but nothing else

Not 100% sure

[sonic notch]

so wait for the ultra or is there another option as well?

[meager ginkgo]

The Ultra + U7 Pro or TP-Link IMO

UXG-Lite would be a pain to self host your controller since you’re moving frequently

Express limits the amount of UniFi devices you can have and is CPU limited

[sonic notch]

I could put it on my SBC

[meager ginkgo]

That’s an option then

It needs to run 24/7 for the mobile app and stats to work

[sonic notch]

ugh

[meager ginkgo]

The Ultra will probably be a while before it comes back in stock too :/

Dream router only supports speeds up to 700mbps

so that’s out aswell

and the UDM is pretty old and not really mainstream in UniFi’s ecosystem anymore

[sonic notch]

this is so sad

[meager ginkgo]

Yeah.. it’s reasonably capable

[sonic notch]

Isn't it better than the UDR too

[meager ginkgo]

In some aspects

[sonic notch]

Except for Wi-Fi 6

[meager ginkgo]

Basically yeah afaik

[sonic notch]

Right now my real home has 3 nanoHDs and a UDM, so I could replace those with TP-Link no?

Then go Unifi later?

[meager ginkgo]

How many sq ft?

[sonic notch]

3500-4000

[meager ginkgo]

if you get multiple nodes yeah

[sonic notch]

3?

[meager ginkgo]

Probably

[sonic notch]

Without ethernet?

[meager ginkgo]

I think each node has Ethernet

that’s something I hate about eero

[sonic notch]

I mean without wired backhaul

[meager ginkgo]

I hate autocorrect sometimes

[meager ginkgo]

They should be reasonably speedy due to the WiFi 6E

Of course if wired is available use it

[sonic notch]

so best buy sells packs of 1 and 3 decos

but not 2

but walmart and amazon list the 2 pack for $189.99

[sonic notch]

other mesh wifi systems i might want to consider?

[meager ginkgo]

ASUS has some good ones but they’re expensive

[sonic notch]

also is there a difference between the xe75 and the pro version? only difference i can find is the 2.5g ethernet port

[meager ginkgo]

just that port afaik

the pro might have more software features aswell

[sonic notch]

are they cross-compatible to your knowledge?

[meager ginkgo]

I believe so

[sonic notch]

I.e. can I buy different Decos and have them work together

@meager ginkgo Do you also know if I can use each node as its own network?

[meager ginkgo]

Like as multiple routers?

You should be able to.

[sonic notch]

I guess so

Like is each node identical?

[meager ginkgo]

99% sure.

If they all have Ethernet ports they should be router capable

But double check that

[sonic notch]

@meager ginkgo You said the firmware can be flashed too right?

[meager ginkgo]

I’m not 100% sure on that. You will need to do some googling with that model

[sonic notch]

cyberpsych is such a good name

[broken hearth]

4 android devices running youtube videos at 1080p
2 work laptops using remote desktop systems (working from home)
One PC streaming youtube at 1440p

Is 50 Mbps (2-3ms ping) fiber internet connection enough for this scenario?

[broken hearth]

Thanks 😅

[sonic notch]

How much is up and how much is down?

[broken hearth]

Both 50 Mbps

[sonic notch]

IMO it's usable 70% of the time but you might get hiccups for the other 30%

I'm assuming you're accessing a system on the internet using a work laptop at home?

[broken hearth]

Yes correct

[sonic notch]

Is there ever a situation where you'd access a device in your home from the internet?

[broken hearth]

No, there is no such situation

I don't have any network setup at home

[sonic notch]

And would you be doing all of these things at the same time? If not, which tasks would run simultaneously?

[broken hearth]

There are few occasions in a day where all the listed will happen at same time

[sonic notch]

You will see slowdowns in that case

[broken hearth]

If this is too tight, I will go for 100Mbps, cool. Just curios to know

[broken hearth]

Okay then

[sonic notch]

If upgrading is hella expensive than you could probably make do with some tinkering. You'd want to prioritize the traffic on your work laptops and deprioritize the mobile phones

100 Mbps should be much more comfortable but 50 is workable for most of the day

[broken hearth]

Thanks, I will go with 100 Mbps and forget it 😉

[sly compass]

Yay i got my two 10gbit switches with dual ports 🤓

[pseudo blade]

Switches?

[sly compass]

Network card for my homelab, one is for my server and one is for my gaming/work computer

[random solar]

Yoooo

Looking to get a router since Monday I'll be getting a proper internet installed. Anything good to recommend for up to 70euro (75usd)? I live alone so I'll be using wired connection. Gigabit capability preferred but no less than 500mbps

[nimble shadow]

Why are the AP pro so cheap on eBay are they completely ass?

[wind current]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0B8B8MCF1/
are there any better mesh systems for around this price?

[mystic latch]

If you can swing it with cabling, the unifi or omada lines are better than mesh and a similar price point.

[sonic notch]

If you get the non-pro variants, they will be much cheaper especially as refurb

https://www.ebay.com/itm/144782360525

The AXE5300 is functionally the same as the AXE5400 non-pro; there's a different model number because the 5300 is sold in wholesale clubs

The difference between the pro and non-pro is that the pro replaces 1 of the ethernet ports with a 2.5 Gbps port

[wind current]

https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-AXE5300-Tri-Band-Whole-Home-Renewed/dp/B0BGQLRLW4/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?crid=2EVYL2CFMBR8L&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.VFSpexeKq-YG0xZyrKOmD4PoP3Hlly-IWrUkAYmqI8E7h-iSlbK5QaQtbkn3fZSY38IbRjk0p3PsRZKQktluyDJk9QJHz18mVS2-AGa42O86-YLl4RtaZg6yPffY8nz4KhJccdjG_7aXbwIoqjFB620nl-5onTqJ7jBvKWueHcHfOEEjrf0XF5HON38PLYhKD_Ff8pX2Q2d3bTtVf4tJSg.EdzSL1z7Wm_p41jEZr6tcXYLjiIN5gtVnyCVLE81Tho&dib_tag=se&keywords=axe5300&qid=1709655481&sprefix=axe5300%2Caps%2C96&sr=8-4

[sonic notch]

That is the same, but I'm not sure if the warranty is as good

[wind current]

ehh it's amazon

good enough

[sonic notch]

I mean the length of time. I think Amazon Renewed is 90 days but eBay Refurbished is 2+ years

[wind current]

two year warranty is solid though...hmm

I'll do the eBay one

[sonic notch]

• if you have those credit card warranty perks, I think they'd extend the eBay but not the Amazon one since the eBay one is OEM certified

[sonic notch]

(but don't quote me; I'm mostly speculating)

[wind current]

I've had pretty bad experiences with tp link so far, even on new hardware

The Ethernet ports tend to fail

[sonic notch]

Rip, I've had ok experiences with them

None have failed but I've had performance issues on their lower-end models

[wind current]

I'll order that mesh as soon as adorama pays me

[wind current]

anyone else make this stuff for a similar price?

[sonic notch]

Wdym?

I'm not talking about deco btw, either their "no sub-brand" or cheap Archer routers

[wind current]

want some alternatives if possible

[wind current]

oh we have their cheap archer routers rn

[sonic notch]

I don't know which other ones are worth

[wind current]

may explain it

I'll grab it, tysm

[sonic notch]

That eBay seller does free returns in case y'all run into any issues

[wind current]

I don't even think we need mesh lmao

[sonic notch]

What issues are you running into?

[wind current]

with our current stuff?

[sonic notch]

Yee

[wind current]

it's old ish, and none of the Ethernet ports work

[sonic notch]

Tbh I haven't heard many negatives about the Deco so it might be worth getting anyway even if you don't need mesh

Also does anyone know if the Pro variant is gonna be worth it for VR? I already have a good USB-C cable

[wind current]

I'm actually upgrading the router for VR as well

tbh I could get away with a singular stationary router but it's $30 more for 3 mesh routers

[sonic notch]

You should def try to wire them if you can

[wind current]

wdym

[sonic notch]

Run ethernet between them

[wind current]

no chance

[sonic notch]

Probs not a big deal

[wind current]

well idk how and I don't wanna pay anyone

[sonic notch]

One way is just getting a super long cable but it's probably fine

[mystic latch]

Wiring isn't complicated, though the environment dictates what you can do. If you have coax cables/ports you can use those as your backbone for connecting things in different rooms.

[sonic notch]

@wind current Heads up, most Deco settings can only be changed via the app

The web interface is super limited

Don't know if you can do anything to change that; might be a dealbreaker for me

[wind current]

that's a dealbreaker for me asw

i dont like hardware tied to apps

[sonic notch]

I honestly don't think you can find a mesh system without an app requirement

All that being said, the app is very good

[wind current]

might have to skip out on mesh then

[sonic notch]

You could go for their $200 routers instead I guess

The WiFi 6E/7 ones

[wind current]

ill probably do that

[fading trail]

Bro wtf going on with my 2g wifi 💀

It worked fine like a week ago now it's taking forever to even load up the router settings site

5g works fine can load everything as needed

Like look at this, polar opposites

[pseudo blade]

Well it's trying to tell you what the issue is

And it's interference from other WiFi networks.

@fading trail

Not much you can do but change your channel if there's a better option

[fading trail]

I have changed the channel and it didn't make a difference

[fervent brook]

Narrow the width to 40? Maybe that will make it easier to find a channel that is less disturbed

[agile torrent]

I am kinda inclined now to make this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio

Anyone willing to lend a device 😄

using icmp packets as a block device is something definitely we did not need, but I WANT it now 😄

[long pecan]

Got a new amp; so while Im screwing around with my setup I decided I should wall-mount my network stuff

[sonic notch]

Will Wifi 5 clients see any benefit from having a Wifi 6E AP?

Ik Wi-Fi isn't necessarily forwards compatible, but I wasn't sure if future Wifi standards did some magic to handle older clients differently

[tight pecan]

Maybe from higher quality antennas and possibly higher power configurations

So there's a reasonable chance to get a more stable connection over longer distances

[sonic notch]

But, as an example, a Wave 1 Wi-Fi 5 client won't be able to benefit from the "splitting" that Wi-Fi 7 does?

[tight pecan]

I'm pretty sure the splitting requires both the access point and the client to support that feature and have the capability of using multiple bands

[fervent brook]

Has there ever been a whole version on WiFi that gives advantages to an old version?

[tight pecan]

The main benefit I could see would be better MIMO capabilities, but I'm not too well-versed in the different wifi standards

[tight pecan]

Generally you can see benefits in things like multi-client capabilities

[fervent brook]

Like MU MIMO, or just multiple radios?

[tight pecan]

Higher MIMO streams and MU-MIMO yeah

[fervent brook]

I'm still deciding on which routers I wanna keep in use

[tight pecan]

Honestly, whatever is built better in terms of durability is the one you should keep, unless you require higher bandwidth and/or lower latency

Then go for bleeding edge/newer stuff

[fervent brook]

The problem is it isnt clear which is best, but I think im just gonna keep my modem and my wifi 6

[tight pecan]

There has to be a difference somewhere that you care about, no? Range, bandwidth, max device support, higher uplink, etc.

Just figure out which one suits you better

[fervent brook]

I have a Netgear C7800, TP Link Archer C4000v2, Netgear RAX45, Netgear NH X6 R8000

I'll probably keep the C7800 and the RAX45

[sonic notch]

5 and 6E with new bands

[fervent brook]

Wifi 5 Didnt have the bands, then later when Wifi 6E got more bands, Wifi 5 devices were able to use those bands?

I also wasted about 40 dollars on a Linksys AX1800 just before I got the Netgear RAX45...

[fallow wing]

I'm trying to generate the public key of this example but I'm obviously doing it wrong

the command won't return me what I need

unless I'm actually that dumb

[tight pecan]

As step 2 says, you just feed the private key to wg pubkey

So if your private key is abc123, the command should look like:

echo abc123 | wg pubkey

And that'll give you your public key

[fallow wing]

I did that though ?

but the terminal tells me to fuck off with a big red error message

aaaaaand nevermind

I tried again on another PC, terminal gave me something

go figure

[lunar spade]

My WiFi router supports 802.11n and later, my laptop from 2007 supports up to 802.11g. I noticed that I am still able to see my WiFi router, enter the password for it, and join the Local Network, but not the Internet. I am still able to connect to the internet via ethernet.

Why am I still able to view and connect to the WiFi router even though my laptop doesn’t support 802.11n?

[opal pagoda]

wifi is mostly backwards compatabile
if you can ping local ip but you cant access internet you should check gateway settings on that device

it could also be the case that laptop doesent support authentication method used

[sonic notch]

Wi-Fi 5 added 5 GHz, so fewer devices would be using 2.4 GHz and would lead to less interference. Similar thing with 6E and 6 GHz.

[fervent brook]

How many 5GHz capable routers would I need to completely populate the 5GHz spectrum and annoy my neighbors?

[tribal sequoia]

you'd never annoy them because it wouldn't reach very well through the walls 😄

[sonic notch]

Depends on the region and your local government

It's impossible to completely saturate it by myself

Too much government interference kicking me off my channels

[pseudo blade]

https://help.keenetic.com/hc/article_attachments/360010946680/80211ac_channels.png

So... 2 160mhz, two 80mhz, one 20mhz for full coverage in the US.

Then to properly ruin it, put another AP in with 50% offset channels over the top of each of those so the channels all experience additional interference from eachother

Something like what these monsters are doing on 2.4ghz

The adjacent networks will observe the other networks as interference

[sonic notch]

Does 5 GHz let you offset like that?

[pseudo blade]

Huh

It does not

So I guess you should install custom firmware/superchannel just to rain on our improved standard

[sonic notch]

Is that legal

[pseudo blade]

Should be as long as you don't broadcast outside of allowed spectrum

For the love of god don't, it's dumb

[sonic notch]

My thinking is that it would be allowed if it was legal

[pseudo blade]

Oh wait in the US it might be an FCC issue

[sonic notch]

Yeahh

[pseudo blade]

It's against spec

[pseudo blade]

-mostly because the FCC has opinions on custom firmware more than the resulting frequencies being illegal to transmit on

[sonic notch]

I imagine that the FCC follows spec unless it's 2.4 GHz

[pseudo blade]

FCC allocates blocks of spectrum

5ghz isn't just for WiFi

[sonic notch]

They set rules on who can use the spectrum and when

Parts of 5 GHz is reserved for Wi-Fi, and another block allows Wi-Fi if it's not being used by the government

But if any non-Wi-Fi interference exists within that "kinda allocated" channel, the radio has to switch to a different channel

[pseudo blade]

Some cordless phones use 5ghz spectrum

It's not just WiFi

And they're not going to automatically obey 802.11's channel plan

[sonic notch]

Nvm you're right, the 5 GHz filing is for a set of unlicensed uses including Wi-Fi

But that doesn't mean there aren't rules for using it

[pseudo blade]

There are. EIRP is one

But I highly doubt they've mandated any specific center frequency or band width as long as the entirety of the band fits inside the allocated spectrum

That would be very limiting and would rather defeat the purpose of allocating unlicensed spectrum for ISM use

[sonic notch]

ISM?

Also I was reading through filings but they're way too long sI stopped

[fervent brook]

For 2.4 I just did 3, since it was mostly more for my utility and i didnt want overlapping channels

[nimble shadow]

Any recommendations for a 12-15u open or closed rack

[tribal sequoia]

1 6 11 is pretty standard here

[fervent brook]

Yeah, those are the three you can use that dont overlap

[fervent brook]

15u!?

oh you mean the rack itself...i though you were asking for a device that was 15u

[tribal sequoia]

core router for an isp maybe lol

[nimble shadow]

💀 no just the rack

What in the world would take up that much space holy shit imagine

[clear igloo]

There are some routers that take up 33U

Some are an entire 46U high, they just replace the rack

[analog prism]

Time to cry about my problems...

I setup the exact same wireguard config on my android phone and windows pc, and it only works on the android phone.

On the PC it doesn't let me access any of the devices on the local network when connected to the VPN

[nimble shadow]

This is for my home not a data center 😂😂

[clear igloo]

Need moar power!! 😄

[green hemlock]

I'm moving to a new router.... If I set the wifi ssid and password on the new router to the same as the old router....things (like echo dots) WON'T just automatically switch, will they? that's just wishful thinking, right?

[peak cloak]

Yes, they should

Kinda flawed imo, but that's the behavior I recall seeing when switching AP

[green hemlock]

yep…changed the new router to the old name and the alexa near me just went on as normal

good.. changing things like computers is fine, but didn't want to have to go all wild on the smart stuff

[oak abyss]

40mhz on 2.4 is just wrong

what on earth are they thinking

[green hemlock]

is 1.1.1.1 still a bonzo dns server?

[frosty stone]

what?

[pseudo blade]

Those are 20mhz, just horrifically aligned.

[silent flax]

cloudflare

[silent flax]

https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learning/dns/what-is-1.1.1.1/

[green hemlock]

right.. I meant.. still the a+ thing to use? still great and all?

[silent flax]

well you avoid your IPS DNS if you use those (well, with IPv6 it is more complicated, but yeah)

[frosty stone]

yes

[fervent brook]

How am I doing?

"According to this data, you suffer from paranioa. I'm sorry..."

[vagrant zinc]

FYI - anyone in AUS

[ashen needle]

never gonna drop wifi ever again

[waxen relic]

When are they going to change the name networking bc people use it for LinkedIn type of “networking”

[drowsy fossil]

its the same concept computer networking is just alot higher bandwidth

[tribal locust]

Any recommendations on 0.25m SFP+ DAC's?

[low pond]

FS seems to have minimum 0.5m
https://www.fs.com/products/40109.html

[elfin socket]

Networking and gaming is when old people go to the casino to talk to each other over AYCE crab legs

[jade vale]

anybody know something like https://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/glasnost.php that works?

[pseudo blade]

Looks like they hosted a paper about it but can't download it... so I'm going to take a crazy wild guess that it's designed to mimic bittorrent traffic by using protocol elements (possibly the actual protocol) or otherwise exhibits behavior that mimics it.

To slow a specific kind of traffic you usually have to set up a firewall to look for a marker in that traffic that matches what you intend to slow.

Could be something as simple as sending TCP traffic to BitTorrent's common ports.

Looks to be a pretty identifiable protocol too, so you could easily just look for that in traffic and slow down connections/ports which contain the relevant markers.

[jade vale]

I resolved the issue

There was some setting in my torrenting application that limited my up/down speed

I think I was playing around with the settings late at night and forgot I f'ed something up

kinda crazy that all of wikipedia is only around a hundred gig

[waxen relic]

Most people didn’t get my joke, they must have missed the update 💻

[cosmic steeple]

Hi, it is about time that I do something with my Wi-Fi situation. my family keeps complaining that they’re not getting the best coverage throughout the house.
The budget is secured so it’s time that I build my own networking rack and pimp out my networking.
Current networking solution is an AXE 1100 and a arris S33 paying for one gig in Internet.
The household contains two pieces, 20 Wi-Fi connected devices at all times and 30+ Wi-Fi connections on top of that when people come over which happens all the time.

Is there like a PC part picker but for networking equipment with rack. Have 1400 to spend. Or is there a wait for wifi 7.
willing to take suggestions on how to take on this project .
below is some of the sizings and the spot I want to put the rack on. networking, holes and wall inserts are already underway.

Sourcing for parts, primarily on my local Micro Center for convenience, but willing to go elsewhere as well.

Now that I think of it I might want to future proof it to be able to equip its own power back up supply for my room, PC and a future high storage Nas.

[opal pagoda]

is your house already wired up for networking?

[cosmic steeple]

Working on it currently have holes that move cad 8 cables to 2 rooms

[thorn delta]

How big is the house? sqft wise

The AXE11000 is probably a half decent router. The AiMesh feature does let you do wired backhaul, so you could setup another couple Asus routers with that feature turned on to use them as WiFi APs in spots that aren't covered well. Wire up the runs to a dumb switch connected to your router. I don't imagine you'd need a full rack setup and $1400 to fix your problem.

[opal pagoda]

cat8?
dont do it, use cat6a

cat6 even

just dont get cca (copper clad aluminium) cables as they suck

[cosmic steeple]

Do you have any recommendation list on the hardware, Mr. @thorn delta

Ok cad 7?

[thorn delta]

Whichever WiFi 6 dual band Asus router/APs you can find that have that aimesh feature and gigabit network ports. I'd probably skip wifi 7 until prices come down.

If you have more network cables run than you have ports on your AXE11000, pick whatever unmanaged gigabit switch has enough ports, there's no real performance advantage between unmanaged switches unless you go too cheap and end up with a 100M switch instead of a gigabit one.

Start with adding one, see if that helps enough, grab another one if you still have dead / slow spots.

[rough basin]

Not sure if this question fell under here or #linux since its a mix of both.

Essentially I am running a team where we are developing a service. This service is hosted on a vps I own but it is a little silly to keep authenticating with passwords as they aren't the most secure. Is there a way to manage ssh keys for a team of users and also manage sudo privileges for those users when they login to manage this project.

My current setup is everyone on the team has their own user on the vps but they don't have sudo perms, the only accounts that do are mine and the project account (which I made to store the project files and have a place to put them) Though idk if this is ideal.

I was working on securing my vps so it is less prone to attackers and thought of this issue while setting up fail2ban

[tribal sequoia]

I know hosted git can pull ssh keys from AD but I dunno enough about it past there

I'm sure there's something in there for you

[pseudo blade]

How about a different approach? Use something like https://github.com/warp-tech/warpgate with SAML+2FA (and/or tie in LDAP with a PAM https://wiki.debian.org/LDAP/PAM)

Central management of access is pretty awesome

[thick minnow]

What is WMM no acknowledgement?

Should I just turn it on?

[warm fern]

How do i prioritise my pc on the router?

[drifting marlin]

what hardware do I need to to have something like this setup?
Current have my main pc connected directly to modem router and the rest of my devices to wifi
the switch and the tp-link WAP is unused

i basically want to have 2 wifis for "trusted" and "untrusted" devices that can access my shared drives

[frosty stone]

sounds like you want vlans

[wanton stratus]

does anyone know what driver would stop my pc from uaing full internet speed?
my has been running fine, after couple of windows 11 updates now instade of 150Mbps I get 6Mbps, and I just installed a new windows 10 on my extra hard drive, and that one is fine and getting full speed, so its not hardware for sure, so it has to be some driver or software that is tinkering with my network, how would I go about finding that?

I dont want to go through the whole reinstalling process again, I have done it like 10 times since last year, that is why I'm asking

[thick minnow]

What model is your router? My router, which is nothing special, literally allows you to turn on “guest network”

[fast moth]

Hey guys! I recently installed a powerline adapter upstairs in our house to increase the internet strength in our upstairs floor, works great! But when i move from upstairs to downstairs or reverse my devices stick to the acces point it was originally connected to, even though there is a closer and faster acces point nearby (modem). I tried researching for a solution, but most results tell me that i'll have to change settings on the devices themselfs (laptop, smartphones, ...) or invest in a mesh network. Is there any way to setup anything in the existing network config to make the devices automatically connect to the faster acces point? Like a setting in the modem or anything? The modem and powerline share the same SSID. Thanks in advance!

[drifting marlin]

ill look into this tomorrow

[sonic notch]

Hey, so I have cat6 ethernet wiring in the walls of my house, and I was wondering what the max speed I can get through it is as well as what equipment I need to get those speeds

I'm asking b/c I switched ISPs and now our modem is in another room, and I need to rework my Unifi setup as a result

I have 1 Cat 6 line between where my new modem is and where everything in my old setup terminates, so I was thinking I could just get a 1 gig Unifi switch to fix it

But also I don't know what switch I could get that'll route traffic more efficiently

I.e. get gigabit speeds between 2 APs

[opal pagoda]

What?
Do you have a endpoint near your modem that you want to connect to lan but have a single cat6 between?

[sonic notch]

Not necessarily, my new modem is going to be placed where a current AP is. The AP leads to a different room where my current modem and UDM are, and this room is where all of my APs route to. The cable used between this current room and each AP is Cat 6

So since my new ISP needs to have the modem placed in a different room from my existing modem, I kinda have to move my UDM to where the new modem is. While I can connect the UDM to the wall in the new room and receive the ethernet in the old room, and while I can install an existing unmanaged switch and connect all of my APs to the wall in my old room, I want to make sure there isn't a bottleneck between my UDM and my unmanaged switch.

[opal pagoda]

You really need to look what vlan-s are

[sonic notch]

I.e. if one wired client is talking to a Wi-Fi client on AP 1, and another is talking to a client on AP 2, and both APs as well as both wired clients are connected to this LAN switch, I want to make sure that I can get full gigabit on all 4 clients

[sonic notch]

Iirc VLANs are just a way to group different clients together with their own DHCP and routing rules no?

[opal pagoda]

That is subnet, vlans are often confused with them

What you can essentially do with vlans is tag traffic, send them trough trunk ports and a vlan aware device can tell by what tag it has where it belongs

[sonic notch]

Does that require a managed switch or will unmanaged work fine?

[opal pagoda]

Managed

Managed switch> trunk> udmpro
Managed switch config:
port 1 trunk allow vlan 10,20
Port 2 vlan 10
Port 3 vlan 20

[sonic notch]

What is a trunk port exactly?

Also I have a standard UDM, non-pro

Not sure if that matters

[opal pagoda]

It doesn't matter what exact device as long it supports 802.1q

[keen urchin]

trunk port has all VLANs

[worthy gyro]

i got a new router for free

Netgear R6260

[sonic notch]

Part of me just wants to get rid of the Unifi stuff and switch to Deco stuff but that also means not having access to Wifiman or the UI interface

[peak cloak]

why

[sonic notch]

Less of a headache ngl

I don't need to care about optimal placement and other people's wants like aesthetics

[peak cloak]

I mean, you don't have to do VLANs if you don't want

[sonic notch]

Nah it's not that

My new modem isn't near an ethernet port like I thought it would be

And idek if that's something easily fixable without running more cables

Also Unifi doesn't have affordable 6 GHz yet but Deco Mesh could be had for like $230 for a set of 3

And since nobody in this neighborhood seems to have 6 GHz idt I have to worry about interference

[frosty stone]

idk how you couldn't have figured that out in 1 single google search, but cat6 will do 10g up to 55m if done properly

and the modem having to be in a specific weird spot sounds like a skill issue on your part. there's no logical reason it has to be anywhere, so tell them where you want them to put it.

[sonic notch]

Well I can't just put coax wherever I want for free

[frosty stone]

sounds like a trash ISP then lol

[sonic notch]

Welcome to America

[peak cloak]

if you have ethernet next to it your golden

[sonic notch]

Yeah but unless they come back (which they might, idk) the live coax won't be next to the ethernet

[peak cloak]

it's pretty simple to move coax around

I moved my modem around multiple times

[sonic notch]

Like going into the attic and running my own coaxial cable?

Or are you talking about something else

[peak cloak]

you said there's coax next to ethernet

it's trival to make that "live", it may already be

[sonic notch]

Nope it's not live

The guy who came couldn't figure out where it terminated

So it goes somewhere, dunno where

[peak cloak]

ah

[sonic notch]

I wouldn't be surprised if it passed through multiple splitters too since we used to use it for satellite tv

[hazy ether]

My asus router won't connect to the internet

[opal pagoda]

that is one messy ahh setup

could be broken cable or fiber issues (wrong orientation, dirty etc)

[hollow marlin]

@clear igloo @waxen scroll As there is surprisingly little docs/references at the low level for IPFIX/Netflow (as in say a walkthrough of the process from sampling to export), I thought I'd confirm with others if my understanding is correct in terms of sampling. I ran across a few docs last week that made me second guess my understanding.

Flow records are created based on each 1:n sampled packet and not 1:n per flow records correct?

I ask this as some of the Juniper Techpost and Kentik Blogs gave the impression that it's per flow record the way it was worded. Example was Kentik describing accuracy with large ratio sampling rates and **reliably **captuing small flows (like 10 packet flows at 1:4096). But that would require creating a flow record for every new flow based on if a new hash is seen and sampling based on the record.

That breaks my understanding of flow monitoring and the reason for sampling in the first place. I understand is as each 1:n sampled packet only will have a stateful flow record maintained in the table. In large ratio sampling rates, any low packet count flow where a single packet not sampled for the entire duration of the flow is simple never recorded and lost in the ether.

Am I correct or was I was overthinking what was wrote in the docs after 3rd 60+ hour week in a row?

[calm crest]

I don't know if I am on the correct channel but does any of you here have starlink?

[clear igloo]

netflow is full sampling with collection of all data in/out an interface and exporting periodically to a collector
ipfix is similar in that it samples based on flow and exports periodically as well so there is a small delay in flow collection but again it's per flow sampling so less random compared to sflow.
sflow samples packets at a rate of 1:n as configured (I think 1:4096 is lowest?)

What I forget for ipfix and netflow is the sample rate of the flow but I know netflow is 1:n per flow and I've seen as low as 1:10
for ipfix I think it's similar but maybe 1:1000 per flow

as for hashing flows I believe you can put it on port-channel interfaces and collect port info for the flow but that's more vendor specific based on support per ASIC/platform/etc.
I know in Cisco world you can do VLANs, SVIs and L3 port channels but not L2 port channels for the most part, not sure if that changes in Juniper world or not

[hollow marlin]

On the Juniper MX series, you can configure IPFIX, Netflow v9 and sFlow down to 1:1 if you wanted to, but that's asking for trouble.

[hollow marlin]

With Juniper, you can configure it for any interface include L2 LAGs. You just have to set specific configuration so that there is proper hashing for the flows on the LAG (for both L2/L3) and ECMP, else it just sets the same single next-hop for all the flows. If not, traffic over a LAG/ECMP will show all transiting a single interface.

[shut stag]

hey guys i just took down my diy network setup, because it ended up being really slow. if anyone could take a look at what they suspect would be a problem that would be greatly appreciated

my setup was as follows:
panoramic wifi modem (not in bridge mode)
i3 4gb ram optiplex with OPNsense
netgear 10gb switch
netgear mesh system in ap mode (probably the best part of the setup)

[opal pagoda]

Draw your network

[shut stag]

like a graph of the setup?

[opal pagoda]

Yea, so we get a idea how it is all hooked up

[shut stag]

pretty much hooked up linearly from that list

forgot to mention that the card in the pc was an intel network card thats pretty decent

im assuming my problem either lies with opnsense router, or my modem not being bridged

but im still double routing with the netgear router and its performing perfectly fine

this is what i currently have hooked up, without the opnsense router and switch

[opal pagoda]

what performance issues did you have?

[mystic latch]

I would hazard a guess that the modem not being bridged can be blamed for at least some of the issues. When I had cable in the past I always just bought my own modem and called the ISP to have it whitelisted.

[shut stag]

only thing with that though is the current setup is perfectly fine. i would agree but it seems like the pc/homemade router is limited to 200mbps

[mystic latch]

Try putting it in bridged mode and put opn back in.

If opn is the one getting the direct DHCP assignment from the ISP and still being slow then you've got some setting messed up in OPN more than likely. Or maybe a bad cable.

[shut stag]

i probably have some settings messed up then

is there a reason to choose pfsense over opnsense?

[mystic latch]

I'd say there's reason to choose opn over pf personally. Netgate just has some scummy past behavior and very questionable management over their whole process. See: wg kernel fiasco.

[cloud otter]

hi so im having an issue with my internet not allowing me onto last epoch servers. doing some research im pretty sure that my isp is using cgnat (i cant upgrade or change internet though)

[mystic latch]

Do last epoch servers require that you have a port open?

[cloud otter]

im not sure. but ever since i switched isp the game doesn't work

considering the fact that i just as a test purchased a vpn, and it worked im assuming yes

[mystic latch]

So yea, looks like your ISP just sucks lol.

[cloud otter]

that blows lol...but thankfully the job i have leaves me with some extra cash i can use to purchase a vpn

[worthy gyro]

anybody got an idea why ethernet on router is slower than ethernet on modem

[shut stag]

double routing probably, sounds like your modem is a router as well

[sonic notch]

What's the absolute cheapest Unifi all-in-one device to use with a U7 pro? Doesn't need an AP, but I do want to saturate a 1 gig connection.

I could also trade something for a UDM in case there's nothing available to saturate 1 gig

[meager ginkgo]

Cheapest would be probably the UCG ultra or UXG Lite

[sonic notch]

I'm assuming no controller?

For the lite

[meager ginkgo]

UXG Lite needs a separate controller

[sonic notch]

aww

[meager ginkgo]

Cloud Gateway Ultra is a way better buy than UXG lite anyways

same price

[sonic notch]

Yeah sucks 'cuz it's out of stock everywhere unless I pay scalpers

[meager ginkgo]

Yeah Ubiquiti’s rollouts aren’t super organized lol

[sonic notch]

What if I just pair a UDM with a Deco AXE5400?

Kinda jank but it should be best of both worlds no?

[sonic notch]

I mean this by getting a single Wi-Fi 6E AP as well as Unifi software

I.e. get this for a home with 350/25 on WAN https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1800358-REG/ubiquiti_networks_ux_us_unifi_express.html
(home currently has 1 UDM and 3 nanoHDs)

Take the UDM from that home, get a 2-pack of Decos and use 1 in bridge/AP-only mode, connect it to the UDM, save the other Deco for later

[frosty stone]

...

[sonic notch]

Yeah I played around with my decos more and finally realized why they sucked

Awful speeds over freaking ethernet

[frosty stone]

because they're consumer trash meant for people that don't have a clue/will never notice any speed difference above 100mbps?

they're cheap for a reason

[sonic notch]

Ngl I was getting really good Wi-Fi performance out of them

Roaming was far better and clients were actually going to nearby access points

Tbf Idk how much that's because of Wi-Fi 6 vs. the actual hardware

But yeah I was lucky enough to find a distributor in my town that also happens to have U7 pros for MSRP so no more decos

[fallen grove]

Just got 2 U7 Pro ap from Ubiquiti but theyre barely breaking 200 Mb/s is there special settings I have to enable? Also, is it true that WPA3 could be causing issues with devices that don't support it

[frosty stone]

make sure the cables going to them are functioning correctly?

[fallen grove]

They are

[frosty stone]

is this consistent across all devices?

[fallen grove]

Yea its consistent on all the phones and laptops tested

[frosty stone]

how are you testing it?

what's the speed over wired?

[fallen grove]

Speed over wired is 1 Gb solid

[fallen grove]

I've tried speedtest, the wifiman app, etc.

[frosty stone]

and to make 100% sure... you get this speed if you go take down an AP and plug a laptop into the cable supplying it?

[fallen grove]

Yessir

[frosty stone]

do you have a different AP to test with?

are the U7s on default settings, or have you changed things?

[fallen grove]

All default settings

[frosty stone]

hmmm

[fallen grove]

I have the current U7 wired from the udm pro, to a pro 8 poe, then to the U7 ap

[frosty stone]

apparently you need to set up 6ghz yourself

(just reading reddit at this point lol)

[fallen grove]

Lmfao can't blame ya reddit is probably the only place besides here that would know what to do

[frosty stone]

someone complained about low speeds, someone said to enable 6ghz, and then that person did so and got much faster speeds

so probably the problem here I'd say

iirc ubiquiti also has a forum

[fallen grove]

Oh wow I didn't know they had one I better check it out

[sonic notch]

@frosty stone To your knowledge does Unifi have any "set and forget" options

I.e. set up that is similar to one of those poopoo mesh systems

Like I could manage this other person's stuff remotely but it would be better if they could do it themselves

Also, they live in a super dense area and not sure if they can do without 6 GHz (doubt they'll have any DFS open) and also not sure if they want to pay that much for Unifi stuff

[frosty stone]

It's been a while since I've configured any unifi stuff, and my memory is trash

[opal pagoda]

https://amplifi.com/alien

[sonic notch]

No 6 GHz unf

[frosty stone]

Oh that's what you were asking lol, no, unifi isn't about that shit. That's what amplifi is for, and it's generally not their priority because the market is already filled with that trash

[sonic notch]

Not exactly, I was talking about Unifi hardware that was stupid easy to set up

No channels or anything, just adopt and make an SSID, and doesn't let you change stuff like channels or transmit power on accident unless you tick an option saying you know what you're doing

[green meadow]

Hey guys would someone be up for a urgent DNS help?

[opal pagoda]

"it is always DNS"

[meager ginkgo]

@sonic notch https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/ucg-ultra

in stock

[sonic notch]

THANK YOU

[polar cedar]

"It can't be DNS."

[agile torrent]

I am keep telling myself that and somehow, in some way it always is...

[manic cape]

Is there a way to test local WiFi speed? As in from one device on your network to another?

One device is wired, the other is on WiFi

[mystic latch]

Iperf3

[urban jewel]

OpenSpeedTest

I think it is best if you only want to do some basic wifi testing to better understand wifi range and diagnose issues (if you are having any). It has a simple web based interface and works flawlessly.

[mystic latch]

Spinning up an openspeedtest server isn't exactly a super quick activity lol

[tribal sequoia]

i'm not a fan of unifi defaulting to mesh heh

sometimes i don't want to goddamned mesh in a business space, which is why i hate using them for a business

[agile torrent]

it's not that bad, though i would also cast my vote on iperf

[peak cloak]

?

it doesn't

[cosmic steeple]

Should I trade my axe11000 for a

ASUS Rapture GT-BE98 Pro - BE30000 WiFi 7 Quad-Band Gigabit Wireless Gaming Router with AiMesh Support

Or keep both

3 room 1 bath fl1

Pick up a switch

Field trip to Mircocenter

[coarse rapids]

Going to upgrade to 2.5Gbit fiber, included modem has 1 10Gbit out port, the rest is 1Gbit. Just want a basic 2.5Gbit switch for my desktop PC, 2.5Gbit in to 1Gbit out router, and future NAS. I live alone, don't share my network with anyone, no professional use. Is there any reason for me to not just opt for the cheapest model? Currently that's the trendnet teg-s350

[fervent brook]

In the WiFi troubleshooting map for Philips projectors, one of the steps tells you to make a hotspot on your phone and try to connect to it. I like that

[tribal sequoia]

They absolutely seem to default to mesh failover on when plugged into ethernet, maybe it's not actually and it's just the ones i've seen

but all of the ones i've touched it's been on and i don't want it on

[waxen scroll]

@clear igloo HAPPY PI DAY

[urban jewel]

using docker or even a Mac / Windows apps works flawlessly.

considering the device is hardwired, you can even run a server on your iOS or Android but it will not give you the best results or the kind of results you are looking for.

[clear igloo]

Drop and give me the last 15 digits of pi!

[waxen scroll]

no. but everyone here can enjoy 20% off at the cisco store today

[gentle bridge]

I am so confused why my nginx won't work 😭 Any of y'all big brains able to help me with it?

server {
    listen 443 ssl;
    server_name cipherservices.org;

    # SSL certificate and key paths
    ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/certificate.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/private.key;

    # SSL settings (adjust as needed)
    ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers off;
    ssl_ciphers ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384;
    ssl_session_timeout 1d;
    ssl_session_cache shared:MozSSL:10m;
    ssl_session_tickets off;
    ssl_stapling on;
    ssl_stapling_verify on;
    resolver 1.1.1.1 1.0.0.1 valid=300s;
    resolver_timeout 5s;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000; # Proxy to your Quart app
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
    }
}

using hypercorn in a venv to localhost:8000^
It works on the IPv4 at (example 123.123.123.123:8000)
just not 443 😭
also it will only show on 123.123.123.123 when I run hypercorn -b 0.0.0.0:8000 app:app and not hypercorn -b 127.0.0.1:8000 app:app or localhost
I also deleted the default in /sites-enabled/ and /sites-available/

[peak cloak]

what's the error?

did you allow the port in firewall?

[gentle bridge]

ufw is disabled

Only firewall setup is the one on Linode

Right now I have it accepting all outbound and inbound ports

[low pond]

I need it

Friends work got quoted 16k$ in Aruba gear for a small office with 3 or something APs 😭

[sonic notch]

@peak cloak I asked a question about VLANs a few days ago, but I wanted to see if this is why it's inportant:

These images aren't super obvious but I'm noticing consistently better performance over Wi-Fi than LAN. Sometimes the results get close but most of the time, the download speeds from LAN to client are under 50 Mbps. Clients in question are the Quest 3 and S24 Ultra. Setup is a nanoHD with 160 MHz, and there are like 2 unmanaged switches between my PC and UDM, but my PC and the nanoHD in question are connected to the same switch.

[silent flax]

your both pictures show 500Mbps or higher ? If you really have <100Mbps via ethernet LAN cable which are neither of the two pictures, check/replace your ethernet cables and or switches. A broken ethernet cable can you drop to 100mbps or any weird speeds. I had a weird cable between a 2.5 gigabit PC to 2.5/10 gigabit switch to 10 gigabit NIC in server, causing the speeds to go around 200mbps (which is a really weird value, but whatever). Replaced the cable, instant constant 2.5gbps (minus the TCPIP protocol overhead)

[fervent brook]

Looks like my TP Link router decided to kill itself...Guess that solves that dilema

[sonic notch]

Sucks that it listened to Low Tier Router

[fervent brook]

I honestly don't know if TP Link is any good

all I know is it was 25 dollars

[sonic notch]

IMO they're decent for cheap routers

I've had no weird issues with TP-Link, just performance issues

[fervent brook]

It did what it had to do.

https://www.tp-link.com/us/home-networking/wifi-router/archer-c4000/

[sonic notch]

Most other routers I've dealt with had issues that were impossible to debug. TP-Link just slows down if the hardware ain't good enough

But man Unifi makes stuff way too easy

[fervent brook]

I curenly have a Netgear C7800, Netgear GS724T, Netgear X6 R8000, and a Netgear RAX45

And...appearently the TP Link decided to boot for some reason...oh well

I just realised. I have all Netgear at this time.

[waxen scroll]

@hollow marlin OH BABY serial is back

[fast ore]

I’m honestly astonished I don’t even know what to say but feel like it must be shared

[opal pagoda]

What tf is that?

[waxen scroll]

top one uses breakout cables for serial to other devices. bottom expands on that with some ethernets

[opal pagoda]

Rs232? How many serial "ports" does it have

[clear igloo]

Depends on the model but you can get some with NIMs and have 128 per box 😄

For when you need all the RS232 ports!

[opal pagoda]

When you need to manage a rack full of switches and haven't figured out how to ssh or how to stack them

[clear igloo]

Generally out of band as a backup

I've seen some with 4G backup connections, although it doesn't make much sense shrug

Ususally though it's the same with an out of band management network, if something bad enough happens it doesn't matter

[waxen scroll]

it does. why do you say no?

opengear for example uses LTE and can tunnel to a main controller

[clear igloo]

Well generally if enough went wrong for the LTE connection to come into play in the DC at least you probably have no power 😛

[waxen scroll]

have you seen the amount of cisco bugs in large switches that knock out networking?

😘

[clear igloo]

if cisco == true;
bug == yes

[waxen scroll]

aruba never had this problem

but yeah you need true OOB

things happen

[clear igloo]

yup

You never knew when it will save your butt

[waxen scroll]

we dont have that

we got close.... then wired our management l3 into the main switches

[clear igloo]

rip

[sonic notch]

if(cisco) {
return bug;
}

[floral parrot]

so I'm good with OSes and ok with coding but bad with networks however I bought a domain with the intent of renting a BSD server and being able to ssh into it and run my own email server

so I have the domain and I can get the cheap vultr server, how do I tie this together so I can ssh in to say openbsd and fire up a console, run mail, and use it like it outlook in 1975

from my domain

like big picture I can rtfm the details

[weak breach]

Question, if I want to use Ethernet and it can take up to 1 gig and my internet plan is 100mbps, will it use it all?

[thick minnow]

No your internet plan will bottleneck your speeds. So you’re capped at 100mbps

[opal pagoda]

Problem is that most vps providers block ports associated with mail due to spam, some will unblock on request, other thing is that you have to make your email domain trusted as if not trusted any email you send will be put into spam folder or rejected

[floral parrot]

what do you mean by trusted, does that mean I need an SSL certificate?

vultr blocks port 25 by default but you can request they unblock it, I don't know if they do that for the type of server I got (literally the cheapest one with an ipv4 address)

I assume I need a reserved IP, those are cheap with them

[opal pagoda]

domain needs to be trusted by a spam filter
that is what i ment

and it is not easy to achieve

[floral parrot]

oh for real?

is that like a paid thing

[opal pagoda]

i dont think you can pay to get bypassed

[floral parrot]

good? how do you do so then?

this is hard to google, I'm finding guides for people who want to get whitelisted so they can send spam lol

I'm sorry "targeted margeting opportunities for your domain" or whatever

[weak breach]

Ty

[green marlin]

Good way to make sure your mail is trusted is through DMARC

[weak heron]

why when my ps4 is on my whole network lags?

[weak breach]

Hey so if I’m using the whole 100mbps with Ethernet will my Internet still work for other people in my house or no because I have a brother that uses the internet too.

[thick minnow]

The whole 100mbps will be split among everything using the internet in your house accordingly. You don’t have to worry about that. So you’ll have speeds at something less than 100mbps

[weak breach]

Oh ok thank you, I think my plan is like 300 mbps but I always thought it was 100 mbps. How much mbps do you think people need for gaming on pc?

[thick minnow]

You don’t need much, which I was surprised to hear. I think I remember reading that it’s around 40Mbps

For gaming, latency is probably more the issue than throughput though

[weak breach]

Oh ok, I’m probably gonna go to the internet settings on windows and cap it at like 150 Mbps if my plan is 300mbps. On spectrums website it says the lowest they can give 300 Mbps.

Thank you so much for your help

[thorn delta]

In game it's less than a megabit, even with voice chat. I haven't measured anything recently but in the recent LTT video they measured some more recent games and it seemed to still be the case. Downloading updates for games is where the big use is, or anything that might do asset streaming from the internet like the newer flight sim game.

[agile torrent]

20-25? Tops. Low latency is much more important than raw bandwith. Above 25 IMO it's just faster downloading/patching

[peak cloak]

https://mattbanderson.com/one-year-of-running-my-own-email-server/

if you actually want to use it day to day and not as a project, don't

it's too big a pain and your mail will often go to spam

if you want to use your own domain, you can just use a hosted provider like fastmail or outlook

[floral parrot]

cool thanks

[mighty mountain]

300 Mb Spectrum, only got <40MB downloading (wired). I just had to queue up new monthly games and wait, PS4 lags like hell while downloading. Other wired devices, speeds were sometimes over 300Mb. Sony is not the best CDN.

[waxen scroll]

I figured that out quick in the 00s

email has gotton way more complex since then too

[silent flax]

when you think about board like this for a router as an upgrade for the old Sandy Bridge system due power consumption and then read the reviews

The power consumption is not as good as espected. The new setup takes in Idle 30W in comparing to my old setup (J4105) with 25W. (setup means: 2x nvme ssd, 2x 10tb hdd, 8port eth switch, cable-modem, WLAN-Router)

like sure, the 2x10TB HDD probably adds a lot, but in my calculation it still only drops you to like 15W-ish for the system itself ? which is not enough savings compared to my 30W-ish Ivy Bridge system with 2x2.5gbe + 2x SATA SSD

A common N100 system with 4 226 LAN ports is about 6 watts (10 watts incl. 2 built-in SSDs!). This system only pulls in the BIOS waiting without a connected SSD or plate times just 20 watts.
Yeah, it's even worse

like yeah, i would gain 2x 2.5gbe + 2x SATA and 2x PCI-E x1 NVMe, but at cost of ~150 euros the power savings just don't make it economical

[meager ginkgo]

https://www.balticnetworks.com/products/ubiquiti-unifi-cloud-gateway-ultra-ucg-ultra in case anyone is looking for a gateway

They’re a official distributor

free shipping too

[ocean hare]

Hey guys I got a Ax210 6E Wifi adapter and its somehow 500mbps slower than my old ax200.. does anyone know what the issue might be?

[gilded ingot]

I need some help bridging 2 networks, but i'm unsure how I would do it

How would I make wan and voip both onto 1 network so I can use voip ?

I got my old router settings dumped into a xml, so that might be of some help (that is how I figured out vlans)

[south blade]

Wifi over powerline...does it work from a main house to a guest house 200 feet away with it's own sub panel? :/

[peak cloak]

you can't bridge like that

esp WAN and a VOIP subnet

[gilded ingot]

How would I do it then ?

Would it be like with forwarding and stuff ?

I got my old settings I can send them to you if you want to help

[peak cloak]

sure

[gilded ingot]

i'll pm you then

[vestal atlas]

is this any package you have install on the linux box ?

[ocean hare]

Hey guys I got a Ax210 6E Wifi adapter and its somehow 500mbps slower than my old ax200.. does anyone know what the issue might be?

[pseudo blade]

It really shouldn't be, but could be an antenna issue. What are the actual speeds in question?

[thorn delta]

If you haven't already, try downloading drivers directly from Intel's website rather than using the ones that Windows installed automatically

[gilded ingot]

wdym ?
It's openwrt

[ocean hare]

So I get only around 300mbps with the new ax210 6E and my old ax200 got like 750mbps

[ocean hare]

Im pretty sure I downloaded the Bluetooth and WiFi driver

[hearty lily]

Hey guys so I supposed to have a 1gig internet Fibre connection I just ran cat 5e cable from modem into switch then into my computer it's only getting 200 down and 20 up

What do you think would be the cause the tp link switch says its a 8 port gigabit

Should I call my isp and say i don't think they are giving enough speed

[pseudo blade]

I'm going with "the new card has badly made/placed antennas"

[fervent yarrow]

I guess this could count under networking, I am building my first server and I'm using enterprise hardware, a Dell r710 power edge server. I just want to use it as a NAS and use any extra computing performance for hosting servers and such for gaming. Would proxmox or truenas be better for this? I tried truenas but can't seem to install it right b

[mystic latch]

Proxmox.

Truenas, the scale version at least, is a weird jumble of tech that doesn't always work nicely together.

[polar cedar]

I second poxmox, running everything ont a bare metal hypervisor and then having specific services separated such as game servers and storage is just so nice. Don't know much about truenas on the other hand, but if you still wants to use it I'm sure it could function as a guest on proxmox

[grizzled cove]

Anyone in here an "expert" with JunosOS?

[hollow marlin]

Ask away

[grizzled cove]

So, I have set up an ipsec site to site vpn to a Fortigate firewall. Absolutely no idea why it won't come up, Fortigates log is saying "peer SA proposal not match local policy" - usually on a Fortigate this means there aren't any v4 policies set up for traffic fow over the VPN however they are definitely there

I can send you the CLI commands I used to create the tunnel on the SRX if it helps?

Debugging ike on the fortigate doesn't show much at all, it looks as though it happily accepts the ike proposals and matches the gateway but then ends with "negotiation timout, deleting" then goes through the process of trying to bring the tunnel up again

No idea how I would even begin to debug ike on the SRX 😅

[hollow marlin]

The IKE/IPSEC config would help

[hollow marlin]

In Junos, there is an ad-hoc debug for IKE that helps, request security ike debug-enable local {{ local-src-ip }} remote {{ remote-dst-ip }} level 15. The last statement is hidden but gives you much more detailed output

[grizzled cove]

Thanks for this, does this then write the debug to a log or should it start showing in the console like a Fortigate device?

[hollow marlin]

It stores it in logs, show log kmd I believe

Just make sure it's disabled after as it's a lot of writes with request security ike debug-disable

[grizzled cove]

Do you mind if I DM you the some of the log?

[hollow marlin]

Sure thing

[ocean hare]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CMT8VJVK/ref=twister_B07VY2M1QL?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 I got this one and My antena's are placed the same way they were always placed

[silent flax]

Me: Why isn't this server on localhost not working?
Also me: Typing localost instead of localhost
😄

[shy gulch]

anyone know of a good guide for setting up a router with debian 12/nftables? It appears that 12 finally ditched iptables (you could still easily install it on 10/11) and nearly all the guides that come up are for iptables

The best I've found (and i'm trying now) is https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/Simple_ruleset_for_a_home_router

[grizzled cove]

Shout out to @hollow marlin for helping me for over 2 hours with a firewall issue. He's the real GOAT 🐐🎉

[modern cairn]

just got a new laptop but realised its wifi card is kinda sh*t(Realtek 8852CE WiFi 6E PCI-E NIC) how can i find a wifi card that is compatible with my laptop. I really want to upgrade it

[silent flax]

looking at grabbing one of this for my "router", with possibly 5 euro coupon from the ali games 😄 , so it would be 29 euros for a dual i226v card (then i could possibly "retire" the two single realtek ones), maybe

[waxen scroll]

@hollow marlin what's your contract rates?

[hollow marlin]

Typical contract rates are 3x hourly correct?

[waxen scroll]

no. they're what you think you're worth

[finite coral]

Just a quick one, my dad’s looking for CCTV and I’ve recommended the ubiquity G5 bullets using the UDM. this doesn’t require a subscription or anything right?

[frosty stone]

of course not

[pseudo blade]

The UDM doesn't have storage support for CCTV use.

The Pro does but if you're looking for camera support mostly, look instead at the Cloud Key Gen 2 Plus or a higher end Unifi product with storage support.

[frosty stone]

they were likely talking about the pro

the UDM isn't available anymore

was changed to the UDR

which does have an SD card slot fyi

and comes with 128gb of internal storage

basically an upgraded UDM with and name change

[finite coral]

Thanks for the reply, it’s the pro I spect out with an 8TB drive is the udm pro better than the cloud key gen 2 if we decide to get more gear such as APs in the future?

[clear igloo]

$1500/hr 😄

[pseudo blade]

The biggest difference is that you can't route on a cloud key

[finite coral]

So i can’t access the cameras outside of my network?

[pseudo blade]

No no as in it's not a router, you'll have to use your own with a cloud key

[finite coral]

I’m not the best when it comes to networking terminology, but what your saying is the biggest difference between them is that the cloud key requires a router and the udm pro doesn’t need a router as it’s built in?

[tribal sequoia]

anyone else hate when you don't spot a firmware bug in the list when looking at an issue and then see a firmware update pop up later that fixes exactly what you were experiencing

rendering your earlier troubleshooting moot? goddamn i hate it

[pseudo blade]

Yes

[crude dirge]

So not really networking but In a similar field I was wondering what the difference between a das and a hard drive enclosure is because I want to make a Plex server with a nvidia shield pro

[hollow marlin]

@clear igloo @waxen scroll Never thought I'd run into the issue regarding MPLS VPWS/VPLS and MACs that start with 4/6, but once I enabled IPFIX with the MPLS v4/v6 template, Kentik has been flooded with invalid flows consuming our flow-rate license. Glad CW was disabled by other engineers prior!

[waxen scroll]

fun fact, I personally know the founder of Kentik

also fun fact, I dont use his products

xD

[silent flax]

DAS (Direct attach storage) is a global term for any external storage protocol. So DAS is USB hard drive or eSATA hard drive too. Or even Fibre Channel etc. Point is, you have a physical hard drive(s) connected to the system.

But in case of Nvidia Shield you simply want USB, as Shield doesn't have any other port anyway. Personally i don't think NVIDIA Shield is a good Plex server, but that's me.

https://support.plex.tv/articles/220391808-media-storage-options-for-nvidia-shield/

[tribal ether]

I'm remodeling a home and I don't know much about networking. I plan to get a fiber connection. I'm also wiring up keystones around the home. I don't think I need a modem since it's fiber?

[hollow marlin]

I am surprised we license it. While I have not seen the cost, I know it's far from cheap.

[sand tide]

Can I use a unifi flex switch without a network?

Thinking something like this

[finite coral]

Ok I understand thanks for your help, I really appreciate it bro

[crisp thorn]

anyone here know docsis from practical pov

when I touch my coaxial cable metal part (sometimes it takes few tries) TV gets interference and internet can go out sometimes

but why would that do anything, shouldnt the stuff that screws into splitter be protected?

[pseudo blade]

You'll need to statically set IP addresses on the machines but it's certainly possible.

[hollow axle]

this week's brain f networking... PRP

[peak cloak]

you do

most of the time

sometimes the ISP can provide you with a SFP module that will work with thier network, otherwise it's better to just use their Modem/ONT, which will also terminate phone if you want it

I wouldn't get the edgerouter X, as much as I like it, it's basically not getting anymore feature updates and is basically deperacated

if you want unifi, this is probobly work well https://store.ui.com/us/en/pro/category/all-cloud-keys-gateways/products/uxg-lite

[peak cloak]

with you touching it (I assume the copper part in the center), you are interfering with the signal

[sand tide]

Can you explain? I set them as 100.100.100.2, and 100.100.100.3, with a mask of 255.255.255.0, not sure what to put for a gateway

[drowsy fossil]

if theres no internet, theres no gateway, you can leave it blank

[sand tide]

Since I can’t ping between the devices, what do I need to do?

[drowsy fossil]

you did this, manually set the ip addresses, and cant ping still?

[sand tide]

Let me check again

[drowsy fossil]

probably want to use the standard numbers, 10.x.x.x, 172.16-32.x.x 192.168.x.x etc

might be some stuff hardcoded to only consider this stuff lan

[sand tide]

thanks, I got it. any tips on getting full gig bandwidth out of this? or am I getting limited by scp?

Don't get me wrong, tranfering a 3.5gb file over ethernet rips compared to my wifi situation, I want to know if there's any performance left on the table

[sand tide]

hmm, having done an iperf3 test, seems like I'm actually getting the full gig. Thnx for the help, I've been bashing my head on this for a while

[hollow axle]

Never use 100.x. That is specially reserved for carrier grade nat

[meager ginkgo]

If you’re remodeling I highly suggest you run conduit and lots more than 8 Ethernet drops

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LNONZXsLi-R9ejamD9Bd2UfzpqjqEWVt0ZepTGmMC50/edit

check this out. It covers everything you could want most likely

[hollow axle]

Smurftube!!

[meager ginkgo]

💯

[hollow axle]

Remember, never pull a pair of fiber strands

Pull a bundle. The increase is cost is negligible

[meager ginkgo]

You’re better off running a conduit to the outside because the ISP might need a certain type of fiber that you didn’t run

Worked good when AT&T installed our fiber

and you can run other stuff to the outside if needed in the future aswell 🙂

[hollow axle]

Outside is death in some environments

Just run proper conduits inside

[meager ginkgo]

You’d mount a box over the conduit outside not leave it exposed haha

I had AT&T install their outdoor box right over the conduit then sealed around it with caulk

[hollow axle]

https://www.showmecables.com/combo-cable-2x-cat6-utp-2x-rg6-quad-shield-500-ft

I might pull that to two walls on every room

[meager ginkgo]

It’d be cheaper to just get the proper cables and pull them together. CAT6 is usually 23awg that’s 24awg aswell

Can get 1000ft of CAT6A 23AWG 750mhz for $250ish

coax is cheap

500ft for around $80 if you find a deal

Coax is becoming more and more useless today though. Only good really if you want cable TV, cable internet, satellite tv/antenna or subwoofers.

A lot of cable boxes can connect via Network aswell anyways nowadays

[crisp thorn]

No, the screw mount

I dont touch the copper, actually even if i just moce the cable and splitter touches amything or is shaken it can break signal

[warm fern]

is PIA a good VPN?

[tribal ether]

the drywall is already mostly put up

[meager ginkgo]

Ah bummer

[tribal ether]

how come you suggest more than 8 ports for the switch

[peak cloak]

More as just having more ports around the house

Not all need to be connected to switch if unused, to save costs. That's what I do

[silent flax]

also get a label printer and label every plug & cable 🙂

[peak cloak]

Yeah, I terminate everything to a patch panel

All labeled nicely

[opal pagoda]

how do you all document fiber distribution?
currently there is little to no documentation about fiber connections and I want to change that

most connections consist of home run from idf to dc and a rendundant link that goes trough FD cabinet

[hollow marlin]

Excel sheets are still sadly very common. One of the better open source options is Netbox which has an incredible inventory system outside of all it's other features.

[opal pagoda]

i have used ipfabric which looks similar to netbox from what I see
i was even thinking of creating a DB where every fiber connection has a unique key and then that key is refrenced trougout a fiber distribution

[hollow marlin]

You can but it's not needed. The mapping feature shows you the topology of the links and all FDPs along the path

[opal pagoda]

ipfabric would just show l1, l2 and l3 layout/map with no ability to add in FD information

problem is that our ciso really doesent like open source software...

[hollow marlin]

Closed source equals security obviously, cough* Solarwinds cough*

[opal pagoda]

yea...
closed source software totaly isnt using open source projects in it

[knotty plover]

Getting this on PS5 and can't really find a method to not see it

[sterile galleon]

Anyone know of any better alternatives to a Raspberry Pi4 (or 5) for running docker containers, mainly networking programs? Ideally I'd like it to be quite cheap, a small form factor and low power consumption.

[silent flax]

considering you will need storage and power supply for Pi 5, you might as well grab one of those N100 mini PCs with dual ethernet and 8 or 16GB RAM, add some storage to it. Still going to be around 6W idle, but being x86 it is going to be way more compatible than Pi, more so for docker stuff

[lost lily]

i don't actually think compatibility is an issue anymore for aarch64 tbh

[silent flax]

still there are probably images not made for arm, but in any case, i would still go with N100, as performance is similar, power consumption is similar, and one is x86, which is always a plus as worst case scenario you can reuse that system as a normal windows hand-me-down PC for someone in family. Not trying to be bad to Linux desktop, but i would hard time getting family members to Linux 🙂

[sterile galleon]

Cheers will check them out, any N100 pcs you'd recommend? Not too familiar with them 🙂 I'd just want the cheapest really

[silent flax]

it comes down to size/feature set you are after. I mean there is stuff like T9 Plus with 16GB RAM without storage for 135 USD (i think it is around 150 euros with VAT), and you can put in any M.2 2242 SATA or NVMe SSD (if you don't want to buy china SSD) https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804706805743.html

there are also various different NAS boards etc, which can be a bit more expensive and some of them sadly consume more power in idle, but then they are motherboards

[silent flax]

n100 is pretty much all e-core 12th gen CPU with limited TDP & clocks, with very limited PCI-E connectivity (i think it has 8 lanes total for everything) - 4c/4t, 0.8GHz base, 3.4GHz clock, with 6W base TDP

[sterile galleon]

Thanks for info, looks like a much better option

[silent flax]

keep in mind that you can either pick an option with SATA SSD they give you, on buy some 2230/2242 SSD in your country, like the ones for valve steam deck. That is probably the biggest drawback, the limited options for 2230/2242 SSDs

[sterile galleon]

Yeah, I'll just pick up a cheap ssd somewhere, won't be a problem

[silent flax]

just be aware of the size limits, cause it is really small

[silent flax]

https://youtu.be/uZSbpA4ldmE?t=227 it's in czech, but it's about the video content at this time 😄

this is also nice with dual 2.5G and dual 3.5" hard drive "NAS chasis" with single 2280 SSD slot as alternative, but price nearly doubles, so yeah... https://www.amazon.com/AOOSTAR-R1-Support-Storage-Computers/dp/B0CKXMH977/

RAM being DDR4 in this case makes it a bit cheaper tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cktl1n5JHhg review of that "NAS" system

[lone sun]

🧐 So in Device manager for Bluetooth, I see two options:

1. "Bluetooth devices (personal area network)"

2. Another tab simply called "Bluetooth" containing different things, like "Intel wireless bluetooth".

My motherboard came with an AX200 Intel wifi card, which of course comes with integrated Bluetooth. But in Device manager, it seems like the thing that matters the most is "Intel wireless bluetooth", option #2, under the bluetooth menu since Bluetooth will not work if I disable it. But with option #1, I was still able to use bluetooth even with it disabled. So why is it even there if its not needed? What is the purpose of option #1? 🫤

[ornate jungle]

TL;DR: the Bluetooth tree at the top is for your typical Bluetooth connections (headphones, mice, keyboards, etc.) while the Bluetooth Personal Area Network is for IP / Ethernet over Bluetooth.
https://www.bluetooth.com/specifications/specs/personal-area-networking-profile-1-0/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_area_network

[blazing karma]

Phew

[lone sun]

Ah, so THATS what the hell its for. Its been bugging me for a long time. It makes sense that the option under "network adapters" has to do with internet. Like, that option just completely disappears when disabling "Intel wireless bluetooth", or option #2 under "bluetooth". In fact everything having to do with bluetooth disappears when I do that. So I guess that is the actual driver one installs from the motherboards website for the wifi adapters integrated bluetooth capability. Has to be.

This'll make it easier for me to help troubleshoot peoples bluetooth issues.

I actually didn't know there was such a thing as bluetooth over I.P. That must be a recent thing?

😒 Network+ takes yet another L. One of the things it couldn't be bothered to mention.

[ornate jungle]

Nah, PAN's in general have been around for over 30+ years. Bluetooth PAN's have been around since at least the early days of Blackberry devices, though don't quote me on the exact timing. Would be a good topic to research / dive down a Wikipedia rabbit hole though.

[lone sun]

👀 right

[cedar iron]

I want to get better wifi for gaming but i can’t get ethernet says my router is in a different room. Should i go for powerline or wifi extender?

[haughty spruce]

Guys? I have 80m3 appartement. Should I invest into CAT 7 for 10Gbit capable network or CAT 6a is enough?

[pseudo blade]

6a is fine for that

Frankly Cat 6 would work

[silent flax]

in short, "Intel wireless bluetooth" is the hardware device, rest are "virtual devices" for various functions. This is how it looks when you "Device by connection"

[silent flax]

in general, anything above Cat6a is waste of money. Cat6a can do 10gbe for any reasonable lengths (100 meters), and for anything above 10gbe you will go optical anyway

[pseudo blade]

Any vaguely square space of that area, you can run cat6e edge to edge multiple times

[silent flax]

also are you planning to run them in walls or just on the floor ? if you plan to run them in walls, you might consider also running fiber at same time, if you plan to move to fiber anytime soon

[haughty spruce]

I think 10gig will be max what I will ever use in the appartement

It will be in walls

[compact void]

Hello can somebody tell me why i cant connect to my pc from my mac to Transfer files

[silent flax]

the client on Mac might require SMB 1`.0 protocol support ? If yes, apple is really bad at upgrading https://superuser.com/a/1356645

[compact void]

Its tels me that i dont have permission to connect

It wil Comet but it wont let me in

[long pecan]

don’t you love it when your server only has a 100Mb NIC? 😅

[tribal sequoia]

ewww

[compact void]

I wil try thanks

Its stil not working sadly

[compact void]

Its sad that the paswoord can not be blank

Its working

[tribal ether]

okay so I'll get the 16 port varient, and would the unifi cloud gateway ultra be a better router?

[peak cloak]

I mean, do you need multi-wan?

[tribal ether]

i do not need multi-wan

ive heard "The edgerouter is a uisp device. It's not really supposed to be a home router"

[tribal ether]

maybe the uxg-lite is better for what i want

[meager ginkgo]

UXG lite requires a separate controller

keep in mind

I’d get the UCG Ultra personally

[silent flax]

which edgerouter ? Edgerouter X for example has a semi-usable UI, but you can always flash it to OpenWRT and then it is a really easy UI

damn, i was nearly going to buy a mPCIe AX210 wifi card, then found out you can't switch it to AP mode for 5/6GHz frequency range. That is sad and also makes it useless for me.

[blazing karma]

Anyone here has a proper guide on how to setup VLANs with Unifi switches?

Been at it for like a good few hours now but still isn’t fully done

Cameras currently resides in my Security VLAN with a subnet of 10.20.20.1/28, but my I tagged CKG2+ can no longer communicate with it even tho it’s still transmitting data

And yes I allowed all untagged VLAN traffic to pass through

All this VLAN is on switch, but if doing it on OPNSense is better I’m open to that

[mystic latch]

Is the switch L2? If not, you have to do the vlans in both opn and unifi

[blazing karma]

L3 pro max

[peak cloak]

so you need to set it up on both the router and the switch

iirc

also why /28, keep it simple with /24

[mystic latch]

Yea, that's what I did when I had unifi. Have to do it for omada too

[blazing karma]

So here and here?

[blazing karma]

Just like a random number I did, will tinker more tmr

[mystic latch]

Yea. You don't have matching tags

And your vlans should be based on your LAN interface, or whatever port your switch is connected to

If that's bxe0 for you then you're good

[rustic knoll]

Which one of these should I go with? My internet speed is 250Mbps
https://www.proshop.no/Nettverksadapter/TP-Link-TL-WN881ND-300Mbps-Wireless-N-PCI-Express-Adapter/2318060
https://www.proshop.no/Nettverksadapter/TP-Link-Archer-T2U-Plus-AC600-High-Gain-Wireless-Dual-Band-USB-Adapter/2771210

[tribal ether]

didn’t know thanks

[cedar iron]

I want to get powerline with ethernet. What should I get?

[shrewd robin]

I used to think that 10MB/s connection between a server and a computer (back in the days), is very fast : (

[pseudo blade]

Well the first is a ancient artefact and the second is merely shit and won't do what you want. I hope this helps.

[meager ginkgo]

Neither. You should get something wifi 6 (AX) minimum

[pseudo blade]

AC is fine but they'd need dual chain (2 antennas, 80mhz) at least for it to be decent at a medium range

[thick minnow]

I bought pi five. Is it possible to program it to detect YouTube traffic and send it through a different vpn tunnel, if so, how could I do it?

I want YouTube traffic to be routed through an Albanian VPN server

[blazing karma]

Matching tags as in like assigned?

[blazing karma]

and do i still need to enable dhcp server on opnsense side if the vlan gateway on unifi switch is the switch itself?

[pseudo blade]

That's a routing ask. You'd need to make the pi do your routing for that to work, then identify Youtube's IPs and apply a more specific route for them to be via that tunnel

I'd rather do this on a more routing-specific device or the client computer usually

[thick minnow]

Would it work for url or does it have to be ip?

[blazing karma]

Okay looks like my cameras are getting an IP from the VLAN now but

My unifi protect can't see any of the cameras eventho its online

It's on the untagged native VLAN but it can't see any of the cameras

[pseudo blade]

Only IPs. So you need some way to either identify traffic as youtube traffic from first connection (L7 inspection, expensive) on first outbound request, keep a list of and resolve every possible IP for every YouTube CDN and domain (good luck!), or act as a DNS resolver for the host and add every resolved IP from all target domains (of which Youtube uses a ton) and from those IPs add routes for them as soon as they're requested.

You'd have a better time VNC'ing into the Pi and routing all outbound traffic via the VPN.

Blocking is easier and even that's nontrivial

[mystic latch]

As in your VLAN numbers. They need to be the same on the router and switch.

[blazing karma]

Ah alright, looks like currently my assigned devices all has IP now, but no internet connection

And my CK can't communicate with my cameras as well

[thick minnow]

I intend on running my own local dns server, could split tunneling be set up through there?

[pseudo blade]

To affect routing, it must route.

[opal pagoda]

What is the reason you want to route yt trough a vpn

[thick minnow]

I simply would prefer

Since it doesn’t work with pi hole

[opal pagoda]

Is this elaborate plan to have ad free YouTube?

[meager ginkgo]

Yeah. The problem with AC is that the spec can vary widely— with some routers getting you barely 150mbps and others getting you 400+mbps

Same kinda thing with wifi cards

AX varies aswell but the baseline speed is much higher

[opal pagoda]

True but for wifi6 compliance ap doesn't even need 5 or 6 ghz

It can be fully compliant with 2.4g

[meager ginkgo]

Yeah but it’s typical to see wifi 6 antennas / routers achieving much higher speeds/consistency than older specs

Most wifi 6 network cards aren’t 2.4ghz only

they do exist but it’s not “really common”

[hearty lily]

Is any1 knowledgeable with the tp link deco units?

[thick minnow]

Yes

[opal pagoda]

https://dontasktoask.com/