networking

[rigid frigate]

Hey people

I've got a doubt

I have three wi-fi routers at my disposal that needs to be used to deliver an optimum signal strength to all the rooms at my home.

Only one of these has internet access, and I did set up the other two to act as wireless repeaters.

[tame carbon]

repeaters?

[rigid frigate]

Even though the SSID is same from any of these routers, the connection drops when I move out of th range of the current router I'm connected to. This is especially an issue while dealing with video calls, say over whatsapp.

[rigid frigate]

I believe the configuration mentioned something like WISP

[tame carbon]

ew

repeaters 👎

@rigid frigate wired ethernet is the solution to poor wireless

repeaters cause lot of problems

[rigid frigate]

yes

I'm facing one such problem already

The earlier broadband I had subscribed to, used to deliver signal to the modem through a phone line that passed through an ADSL splitter. That modem gave me the power to use RJ45 connectors to get the job done

[tame carbon]

what, you got one of those all-in-one boxes now?

[rigid frigate]

But the current ISP uses some proprietary pin and wi-fi enabled modem that I cannot take and place elsewhere, owing to cabling issues

[tame carbon]

@rigid frigate does it not have ethernet at all?

[rigid frigate]

it does have four ethernet connectors as output

But there are 6 mobile devices and 3 computers at my home which share the same internet.

[tame carbon]

and?

[rigid frigate]

For the time being, I have connected these computers with RJ45.

[tame carbon]

that's good yeah

[rigid frigate]

That's working decently.

[tame carbon]

now for the other APs you have, to also be connected with a cable

instead of using wifi repeating

[rigid frigate]

Thanks for that suggestion. I need to try that. I will.

[tame carbon]

if you need more ports on the router

get a switch

https://www.tp-link.com/us/home-networking/8-port-switch/tl-sg108/

Something like this ^

[rigid frigate]

On the other hand, I also believe that getting these mobile devices to switch between APs seamlessly would also be a workaround

[tame carbon]

they should already do that

clients decide on what AP it connects to

it usually picks the one with the strongest signal

[unborn sluice]

imagine if a standard exists

like we could call it roaming

[tame carbon]

yeah but 802.1r/k roaming

is very rare on consumer wireless

its enterprise stuff

[rigid frigate]

The APs are currently positioned with interfering signal ranges

[tame carbon]

@rigid frigate reconfigure the channels they operate on

[unborn sluice]

tbf, 2-3 second downtime while switching in AP isn't that crucial

[tame carbon]

2.4GHz has only three frequencies that don't interfere

@unborn sluice without 802.1k, a reconnect takes less than 0.5 second

[rigid frigate]

But that is intentional, to capture the signal as repeaters

[unborn sluice]

wait what

[tame carbon]

@rigid frigate yeah but I'm saying that repeaters are a terrible solution, and likely the origin of your problems

[unborn sluice]

oh repeaters

This man can get half the speeds, network engineers hate him. Click to know more

[tame carbon]

xD

[rigid frigate]

I happen to have a 50 Mbps connection

The speeds I get are okay for the use cases

[unborn sluice]

https://tenor.com/view/kid-kazoo-kid-where-meme-gif-8150309

[rigid frigate]

lol

[tame carbon]

50mbit wat

[unborn sluice]

50mbit red

[tame carbon]

50mbit over wifi is terrible

at least 300mbit

[rigid frigate]

third world issues

-_-

[unborn sluice]

I am in a 3rd world dude

[tame carbon]

https://i.imgur.com/2Ob5scg.png

pog

[unborn sluice]

i got 35mbps but atleast I don't add repeaters in the mix

[tame carbon]

I only use wireless on my phone

[unborn sluice]

agreed. phone over ethernet is ehh

[tame carbon]

lol dongle that stuff up

[tame carbon]

dat ping

fiber optics?

[rigid frigate]

yes

[unborn sluice]

i probs should upgrade my speeds

[rigid frigate]

One thing I didn't mention is that 90% of the traffic is from just one computer.

👀

[tame carbon]

https://i.imgur.com/Qz97y6F.png

[unborn sluice]

$70 dollars for 150mbps. yikes

but not bad for 3rd world

[tame carbon]

You can see the bandwidth shaping my ISP does at the beginning

the download goes to 500mbit/s initially

and then slows

[rigid frigate]

Not even my university has given me that kind of speeds

[unborn sluice]

qos kicking lel

[rigid frigate]

My plan is about 7$ /month

[unborn sluice]

probs should pay to get more

[thick minnow]

ATT customer in the US, and speed test show it runs fast, but only with one computer on at a time. And my mother is a teacher.

[rigid frigate]

unlimited

[tame carbon]

I pay over $100/month

[unborn sluice]

wait what

100 for 250 mbps

?

[tame carbon]

but I have a symetric fiber line, with an extra set of addresses

yea

[unborn sluice]

so our ISP isn't as bad as I think it is

minus the static IPs

[tame carbon]

@unborn sluice 79 euros for 250M internet, but there's bunch of additional fees

like 13,50 for fiber itself, TV plan and extra /29 public IP

I think the 8 extra IPs I pay 16/month for

[unborn sluice]

well, static IPs in our area is reserved for businesses

[tame carbon]

This is a business line

I registered it with my own company

but my company address is same as my home address

[rigid frigate]

@tame carbon so you're saying that Indian ISPs give better bang for the buck for their customers?

[tame carbon]

probably lol

[smoky basin]

Hahaha

What a joke

[tame carbon]

but I have a 6 hour SLA

so if something breaks, they fix it within 6 hours, or they pay for damages

[smoky basin]

Here's some trickery bangladeshi ISPs do

[tame carbon]

@rigid frigate I also don't get a modem from my ISP

[smoky basin]

They give a price and promise like 10 MBPs

[tame carbon]

they provide just a fiber module, which plugs directly into my own gear

[smoky basin]

But give 5 MBPs

Luckily Link3 and Asianet don't do that

[rigid frigate]

Back in 2010, when we had our first broadband at home, they offered us 2 Mbps speed and a modem.

[tame carbon]

yeah but my point is

no crappy all-in-one router crap box

[rigid frigate]

yeah

I hate it too

[tame carbon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/776722183119699988/777646103775674368/IMG-20200922-WA0001.jpg

network cabinet @ home

[thick minnow]

Man I wish we didn’t have one of those crappy all I’m one router modems.

[tame carbon]

https://i.mt.lv/cdn/rb_images/1633_l.jpg

I have an RB4011

10gbit/s capable router

[rigid frigate]

cries in ZTE

[thick minnow]

We had metronet before we moved and that was our favorite isp by far. They just sent the internet and we could do whatever we wanted to get it to our devices

[lean pebble]

My fiber 😜

[tame carbon]

@thick minnow I just have a DHCP client on a VLAN

the internet itself is just ethernet over fiber

no PPP involved

[thick minnow]

I think that’s probably what metronet did, but I’m not an expert. ATT and Comcast both encrypt it so you have to use their box

[tame carbon]

they probably use PPPoE or the likes

[thick minnow]

Oh I don’t know the difference 😂🤣

[tame carbon]

PPPoE = Point-to-Point-Protocol over Ethernet

its a tunnel protocol

DSL routers use it to log in with your credentials

so you get your internet address

[thick minnow]

Oh ok

[tame carbon]

but its also used extensively on other internet connection types

[rigid frigate]

Now that you mentioned it, are DHCP and PPPoE two different tunneling protocols that get the same job done?

[tame carbon]

PPP is used over many types of physical networks, including serial cable, phone line, trunk line, cellular telephone, specialized radio links, and fiber optic links, such as SONET. Internet service providers (ISPs) have used PPP for customer dial-up access to the Internet, since IP packets cannot be transmitted over a modem line on their own without some data link protocol that can identify where the transmitted frame starts and where it ends.

[rigid frigate]

or are they fundamentally different?

[tame carbon]

@rigid frigate dhcp is a network configuration mechanism

my ISP doesn't use PPP to deliver internet

its just ethernet

[rigid frigate]

okay

[tame carbon]

and I get my public IP with dhcp

PPPoE is used over existing IP networks, to tunnel another IP network

[rigid frigate]

My university used to deliver internet to the hostel rooms through RJ45 connectors. Individual students had to use their own routers to use the network on mobile devices.

[tame carbon]

call it ethernet

that's what is transmitted over UTP/RJ45 cables

[rigid frigate]

okay

[unborn sluice]

deliver internet to the hostel rooms through RJ45 connectors
You mean dorms

hostel is kinda weird for me

[tame carbon]

hostel is a thing

[unborn sluice]

ik, but this in context

[tame carbon]

my school uses 801.1X for their network

so I have to connect to wifi, and ethernet using credentials

[rigid frigate]

There was an authentication portal, where each student had to log in for internet access for a preset amount of time.

[unborn sluice]

that's normal

[tame carbon]

@rigid frigate did they use a captive portal?

[unborn sluice]

that's what he meant lel

[tame carbon]

thats so bad lol

802.1X allows you to connect to a wifi network using username&password, instead of a PSK

[rigid frigate]

As I mentioned before, multiple users would share the internet from one wifi router. In such a case, only one device had to authenticate.

[tame carbon]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/802.1X_wired_protocols.png

[unborn sluice]

yea, I like having the raduis instead of captive portal

[tame carbon]

This is 802.1X in a nutshell ^

[unborn sluice]

using portal makes it seem like you are connecting to a public wifi

[tame carbon]

Radius is used for keeping track of users

[unborn sluice]

and good thing, raduis can integrate with AD

[rigid frigate]

On the other hand, if we switch come settingon the wifi router related to DHCP, each devices connected to it had to authenticate individually

[tame carbon]

@unborn sluice ayy https://i.imgur.com/u1aAwwq.png

[unborn sluice]

hmm raduis in the router itself?

[tame carbon]

it can do radius as well as relay

[unborn sluice]

i'd take one please

[rigid frigate]

But in case of power outages, it would f*#k up the whole switch handling that section of the hostel, or dorm, as you prefer to say it

[unborn sluice]

i wonder when is my friends in US would come home. maybe they could fetch me a hap ac3

now I want
hap ac3 -> switch (with poe) -> APs

[tame carbon]

@rigid frigate this is why captive portals are garbage

Dot1X solves this problem

by making the authentication part of the connection process

[rigid frigate]

I've seen that in other institutes

[tame carbon]

my uni has a global network called "Eduroam"

eduroam uses dot1x

[rigid frigate]

we use sophos

[tame carbon]

https://www.eduroam.org/

[rigid frigate]

and the censorship policy is very bad.

[tame carbon]

ssh -D 8081

[unborn sluice]

I remember when my school installed new equipment. we could play any online game

we had people playing dota in the hallway

good times

[tame carbon]

hehe

[rigid frigate]

What they did here is even better. They configured the authentication system to work in such a way that once a user is authenticated from one AP, nobody else could. (Nobody else had to, but people would try anyway)

[unborn sluice]

so you could only connect to one AP

[rigid frigate]

But in public places like the library and the reading rooms, each devices had to be authenticated seperatly

[rigid frigate]

That's funny. One could connect to many APs at once.

[unborn sluice]

so what do you mean then?

[rigid frigate]

People could be connected from APs that are geographically kilometres apart

One user*

[rigid frigate]

A second user couldn't log in to an AP if the first on is still authenticated.

[unborn sluice]

so a student can only use one device

@tame carbon also when they installed the new APs, there wasn't QoS in place for like a week,
I downloaded several sht in seconds

i hugged the bandwidth like a douchebag

[rigid frigate]

Say I return to my hostel after my class and I am trying to authenticate my device on this AP. I would get an error because some dude from the neighboring room had already authenticated from my wifi network.

[unborn sluice]

oh wait

you have your own AP per student?

[rigid frigate]

yes

in the hostel room

[unborn sluice]

ah yes, interference party. i love it

[rigid frigate]

The hostels are older than I am, and it appears that they didn't anticipate the arrival of wifi.

They gave two ethernet ports per hostel room

[unborn sluice]

yea, but why AP per room

i guess signal, yea

[rigid frigate]

If one wanted to use internet at university's expense on their mobile devices

[unborn sluice]

i'm not asking why they would have wifi. I'm asking why per room

[rigid frigate]

They did it when ethernet was the only option to access internet

Way before wifi became a thing

[unborn sluice]

I mean i used dial up back in the days

[rigid frigate]

They wanted everyone to have internet access in their own rooms.
So they gave each person an ethernet port in their room.
Setting up wifi Access points would have been simpler, but not in the 80s.

[tame carbon]

back when I first used internet

one person could be using it at a time

and no phone calls while its running

[rigid frigate]

I remember the time too

[unborn sluice]

guess we have the same experience

[rigid frigate]

dial-up!

[unborn sluice]

good times, way back when yahoo had games

and I was amazed when I could watch a youtube video while buffering in less than a minute

[rigid frigate]

As a child I didn't even know what youtube was

but I knew orkut

[unborn sluice]

I didin't

[rigid frigate]

and now it's just a static webpage

[unborn sluice]

i've used facebook back in the days

but I was late to the party

only joined when flash games were in

[rigid frigate]

I started using facebook for Farmville

[unborn sluice]

why I can't stop loving Halo

one of my first games

[spare cypress]

I got fibre yesterday XD
https://www.speedtest.net/result/10514701164

[lean pebble]

I wish I had it to

Still old vdsl2

[spare cypress]

In my country nowadays it's either 4G/5G or Fibre

[peak cloak]

getting fiber monday

[lean pebble]

Here it's 3G / 4G vdsl2 and fiber only for buildings

[peak cloak]

I could get up to a gig, but it's more expensive

so 300/300 for now

[spare cypress]

I miss my old fibre line XD

[lean pebble]

I could to if they were connecting this stupid fiber to my house

[peak cloak]

major upgrade for upload from DOCISS

[lean pebble]

It's fucking under my house

[peak cloak]

right now it's 200/30 ish

with dociss

[lean pebble]

I can go outside from my house at take a picture of the fiber

[peak cloak]

So can I

[lean pebble]

Here it's on the floor

Lol

[lean pebble]

Just move the brick

[peak cloak]

All the wire mess is from isps not cleaning up old wires

[lean pebble]

But here it's disconnected from both sides

The second ISP put it under the floor

[peak cloak]

also fun fact, I'm near the border between two towns so when the there was a hurricane like 4 years ago some trees fell on powerlines and one half of the street had power and other half didn't because my street is divided between two substations

so there are no powerlines directly in front of my house

[lean pebble]

Haha nice

Here if the powerline is down no one have power and you see all the neighborhood outside asking each other if they have power 😂

No one checking the status of their electrical cabinet at home

[unborn sluice]

ask the neighbor if you can run some extension cords

life hax

[thick minnow]

hey guys i need help finding a wifi router am trying to help my parents with there bill right now we have at&t let just to they paying to much for Tv and wifi i was wondering if paying separate tv and wifi maybe reduce the cost

[waxen saddle]

You'd have to compare the price of the bundle vs. unbundling.

[lean pebble]

I hate my house.

1 network cable is down

[little schooner]

@lean pebble if possible, maybe you can run a second one since it's already there

[lean pebble]

I'm 2 lazy to fix it

[little schooner]

Tape and fish it up

[lean pebble]

I can't run another one

It'll be down to

[little schooner]

I see

It is easier down if you have that opportunity

[lean pebble]

I can replace it but I don't want another cable to be fucked up

[little schooner]

They sell outdoor rated cables

[ancient stream]

have you got enough intact strands you can rewire the ends in a non-standard way and get it working? If you don't need gigabit or PoE then you can get away with four strands to save replacing it.

[little schooner]

They should last longer

[lean pebble]

The cable I have right now died because the weather here I asked to put it behind a shielded enclosure but no one listened to me ...

It's running from my second room to the basement through my external wall

I still have 60m cat 6 here but it's not outdoors rated

Now half of the house without internet

All the TV's for me more accurate

Smart tv is useless now and vod

Does anyone have a good vendor that sell outdoors network cables

[hollow marlin]

What actually failed on the cable? Outdoor cabling just has slightly thicker shielding with UV protections but non-outdoor rated Cat can last as long as the shielding doesnt crack

[lean pebble]

Not working anymore

Connecting it to both sides nothing happened

[hollow marlin]

I get that lol. Have you inspected outside if the cable appears to be cracked

[lean pebble]

It's female connector from both sides

[lean pebble]

It's not I checked twice

Just not working

I'm not 100% sure that it's not cracked because it's along cable

At least 25m

I can try to remake his female connector the second side

[hollow marlin]

I would try re-terminating the ends before running a new cable. You could also force each side to 10/half to see if the cable is broken as a certain point

[lean pebble]

Maybe someone put something on it and killed the wires

[hollow marlin]

Oh there is a keystone on one end?

[lean pebble]

Ya

Shielded one

So I can do it easily

[hollow marlin]

If you have a punch down then yeah try that. 99% of the time its always the ends. I have seen some brutal cables work flawlessly

[lean pebble]

Haha

I'll try the second end because he is ultra long

The end that in my room nothing can touch him except a person

I guess that this is the root problem for all the network issues that I have in the last 4.5 weeks

[thick minnow]

what do you mean bundle and unbundling.

[lean pebble]

Working or not I just remake the second keystone

Well it's dead

[lean pebble]

Half working

The cable only works when connecting straight to the mesh unit but when trying connect it straight to my second switch no link

[peak cloak]

a cable tester may help?

you have any local hardware stores?

[lean pebble]

I have all the tools I need haha

Even the tester

It's working but only when connected to the mesh if connecting to my switch not working

[peak cloak]

but like, at all? shouldn't a tester show what wires are working

[lean pebble]

It is

The cable working ok

The only suspicious thing that it's not working only when connected directly to my switch

[hollow marlin]

What switch? Look at the port configuration to see if auto-neg is set or statically set to like 1000/full

And if it works with other devices, check to see what its linking up at like 10/100 full/half

[lean pebble]

Same configuration as my main switch

Works with other devices

Cisco switch

Sg250-08

Automatically

Default and completely disabled unnecessary services like acl and etc

[lean pebble]

Someone can help me ?

This switch is weird af

[waxen scroll]

😷

[lean pebble]

Ya I'm with you

I still can't believe I bought cisco

I ended with using my old linksys router as switch instead my cisco switch at the basement

[clear igloo]

Did you unshut the interface?
Do any of the interfaces come up?

[lean pebble]

All interfaces are working

I tried connect cables to all ports

But I still have this anoying issue with downloading

Internet is going down in 0 seconds

After 30 seconds of downloading all my network is getting disconnected

But router and bridge are ok

[leaden schooner]

reset everything

[lean pebble]

I tried

Didn't helped

[leaden schooner]

oof

[lean pebble]

Yap

3.5 weeks have this issue

Instead downloading a game in 40 minutes I'm downloading it in 4 hours

[leaden schooner]

contact your isp

[lean pebble]

They are idiots

Always blaming each other.
ISP blame the internet infrastructure and etc.

[leaden schooner]

that doesn

sound fun

[lean pebble]

Then the support guy from the internet infrastructure hangout to my ISP and me

All the time

Then they blame my network devices

Router and etc.

[leaden schooner]

who is your is?

isp*

[lean pebble]

Bezeq

I'm in Israel

[leaden schooner]

oh ok cant help with them im in vancouver

[lean pebble]

The worst internet infrastructure ever

Haha

Can you gimme fiber ?

😆

Straight line from Vancouver

[leaden schooner]

sorry no im gonna keep that

its to good

[lean pebble]

Lol

I have 2 fibers under my house none of them connected to me.

One fiber is here 11 years but disconnected both sides

[leaden schooner]

thats rough

[lean pebble]

Yap

I'll try contact the ISP now

Let's see what they can do

[leaden schooner]

probably not much

[lean pebble]

Well there is a problem

Finally I talked with someone that look in the logs

Bridge not stable

Now it looks stable I replaced the rj11 cable with the wall connector

Already more than 10 minutes of downloading

Without crash

Well just talked good job me

16mb before the end of the download all went offline

[reef cloak]

Hey guys, I was just wondering if anyone would be interested in assisting with some research as part of my dissertation that I was gonna be carrying out at some point soon.

I was looking for some people (preferably outside of the UK) with a spare raspberry pi / computer, with consistent access to a residential IP. My research focuses on the deployment of ECN and where it is modified on the network. So I was looking for more 'vantage points' for observation.

The tool I'm using is open source (although currently incomplete) can be found here https://github.com/mylesalamb/IndividualProject

[unborn sluice]

Gonna run 24/7 ?

[reef cloak]

Runs a dataset once a day as a cronjob, around 5-6k different hosts so will run for a fair few hours of the day

[waxen scroll]

@clear igloo @hollow marlin @little schooner https://www.amazon.com/Router-Guard-Large-WiFi/dp/B07MXD75TR/

[hollow marlin]

@waxen scroll $90 and 4.3 star. WTF

[waxen scroll]

go look at the customer images

you can see the guy with the meter and comcast modem has the last LED (wifi) off when the cage is over it

[peak cloak]

anyone have experience with these guys: https://aquatis.host/

KVM's specifically

[unborn sluice]

That's cheap for 1/gb

And unlimited dB

Hmmm

[peak cloak]

yeah

they have good reviews too

bit worried about cpu clock speed though for a mc server

I want root access

I don't think mc servers have root access, but I asked in their discord

[unborn sluice]

Yea

Doesn't look like a VPS so it's cheaper

Looks like FTP access then use their server jars

[dusty osprey]

They probably use EPYC's or ryzen's depending on where the location or which other hosting company they bought the server from if its france or something near that probably ovh

[peak cloak]

nah they list their specs

have some of my friends arguing that repl.it is better than git

I hate it, so caotic other people changing your code around

[waxen saddle]

Actually, repl.it looks like fun. I’ll have to check it out.

[peak cloak]

it's nice in small groups

and when they actually know how to program

[lean pebble]

True

I like git because it's like a cloud folder in my pc 😂

Sending homework to my teachers via git instead uploading it each time to google classroom or to the college website.

[rocky badge]

X5000 series

[lean pebble]

Well the problem with the download is the ISP just checked with another pppoe from different ISP and everything is good.

[little schooner]

@waxen scroll i had the talk after the network administrator gave me elevated privileges to the domain controller and the server network. They told me to be very careful and that someone is always watching

I'm glad I was able to get credentials like this so soon so I can do a lot of new script work

@lean pebble yeah git is pretty good with that

I like how it integrates into vs code too

[lean pebble]

Ya me to

I just started use vscode

Really nice

[rocky badge]

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=eamodio.gitlens

[peak cloak]

the default implementation is already good, that makes it even bettr

[little schooner]

Nice

[lean pebble]

Aaaaaaaaa

1 hour call with my ISP they never had this issue 😆

[tame carbon]

@peak cloak my experiences with git in visual studio are mixed

[peak cloak]

I mean in vscode

vs is eh

[polar root]

Hey sorry to disturb but I have a question:
I am setting up a pihole and I while I was going through the visual interface and a warning message appeared (the one mentioned in the tutorial) and I stopped because I was worried the up might conflict, should I be?

Oh and I have a isp provided modem if that matters

[lean pebble]

Àaaaaaaa my ISP is broken

[waxen scroll]

its ur wiring

[lean pebble]

Nope

ISP username is not working no matter what username they gave me

Different ISP working properly

[little schooner]

admin/admin answers a lot of life problems

@lean pebble I know for my wiring that Comcast put a signal booster after the demarc point of the house to fix my speed issues

[dusty osprey]

did didscord just tank for somebody

i think it came back anyways

[hazy sandal]

Anyone familiar with using haproxy to tunnel ssh over ssl? Tried an older guide a few times (https://julian.pawlowski.me/geeking-out-with-haproxy-on-pfsense-the-ultimate/) but didn't get it to work. Running HAProxy on pfSense.

[opaque juniper]

im first of my city on upload speed

and second in download speed

[merry pilot]

holy

[lean pebble]

No I got the right speed but can't download every 1 minute of downloading I'm getting disconnected

All home network just crashing

With this specific ISP

I'll get new free ISP at Sunday

[opaque juniper]

my isp is

get for what u pay

~30€ for Symetric gigabit and 1/2ms

and good stability af

[lean pebble]

I wish

Here it's only adsl

[waxen scroll]

@little schooner wat

multiple comcast techs over the years tell me that booster is only meant for TV and not to loop modems through it

[tame carbon]

@waxen scroll I read the news

comcast is raising prices

and forcing traffic limits down people's throat

[waxen scroll]

thats only for some states... many states such as mine have been on those increases and limits for years

[tame carbon]

still, but with raising prices and and all

this is quite the FU to the consumer

[hollow marlin]

Now thats its all done through MC I would assume it should be fine?

[hollow marlin]

Glad last and current org we never had caps nor raised cost. Don't take me wrong but running an ISP is insane expensive and the original reason for data caps had real reasoning behind them but both nowadays can shove it

[tame carbon]

is peering so expensive then?

or has demand just gone up a lot?

[waxen scroll]

peering is a boys club based on IRL handshakes

im sure most of the deals are custom

juans company probably isnt involved with it

;o

its free or reduced cost cause you're agreeing to let the other side transit your network to other networks (not just customers in that network)

they agree on % of traffic allowed

peering in the sense that most of us call it is a mutually beneficial thing

[hollow marlin]

Peering on its own is pennies for an SP. The gear for transit is the cost. However, overall, especially with IX's in the core, transit traffic is not as high as you might think.
The cost is on labor. If you take into account running fiber, splicing the drop, installer on site, blah blah. A single install can average ~$1-3k overall. So even at say $100/m it takes time to recover that loss. Thats not including everything on the backend. DEMARK, blades, chassis, etc

[waxen scroll]

you forgot MMR

err

MRC

cross connects aint free

[hollow marlin]

That too.

[waxen scroll]

such a scam

you pay $300-400 which buys them 2-4 boxes of cable to begin with

then a monthly charge to use it

😄

[tame carbon]

@hollow marlin mh, I guess unless it gets subsidized, wont really be rolled out more

[tall pagoda]

How can i improve my ping?

[waxen scroll]

you dont, that ping is amazing

proof

Reply from 2a0b:7280:100:0:1c00:97ff:fe00:2682: time=116ms
Reply from 2a0b:7280:100:0:1c00:97ff:fe00:2682: time=117ms
Reply from 2a0b:7280:100:0:1c00:97ff:fe00:2682: time=117ms
Reply from 2a0b:7280:100:0:1c00:97ff:fe00:2682: time=118ms```

you're better than mine

[hollow marlin]

@tall pagoda what ms are you expecting?

[tall pagoda]

What is normal for DOCSIS connection?

For around 70 km from my computer to my server

[waxen scroll]

10ms from your house to ISP exit then the additional to the server

[peak cloak]

@tall pagoda for dociss that is expected

this is mine (on dociss)

oh yeah, fiber coming monday

[lean pebble]

I get 5/6ms to 1.1.1.1 / 1.0.0.1

[ruby nebula]

question

how do i know if my wifi outlet is working

because I plugged in my modem and made sure the coax cable is tighten

and the thing was suppose to shine but its not shining

which means the modem is offline

[south blade]

Hello, I need some help with RJ-45 wiring. :/

most cables you hook up from a router to a computer are standard patch cable, right?

So should be like this?

[hollow marlin]

@south blade Yep, both ends should be B

[thick minnow]

can someone explain to me what exactly the interface metric setting does

like the lower the number, does it prioritize my device over all other devices on the network?

or does it have something to do with having multiple adapters

[worthy whale]

@thick minnow https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/networking/automatic-metric-for-ipv4-routes

[waxen saddle]

@thick minnow It has to do with routing on your local computer. Specifically, which Interface your OS will prefer. The lower the metric, the more preferable the interface will be. It does not affect anything else on the network.

[thick minnow]

@waxen saddle so changing it won't affect connection speed or bandwidth priority?

[waxen saddle]

Correct. It's just used by the OS to try to determine which interface to use. For example, if you have 2 interfaces (with Metric 17 and Metric 1) connected to the same network and assuming all else is equal, the interface with metric 1 will be used.

[tame carbon]

@thick minnow thats only if your PC has multiple network interfaces

and more than one interface can offer a valid route, you can set prioritization

but this has nothing to do with service quality

[thick minnow]

oh ok

[unborn sluice]

oh ok

[tame carbon]

@thick minnow route metric is only really interesting if you have for example two ethernet connected at the same time. With wifi and ethernet it is less interesting because,

the OS by default will give the wired ethernet a lower route metric

because both interfaces offer a default gw to 0.0.0.0 (public internet)

[hazy sandal]

pfSense with 5 wans, is it possible to split traffic between them something like this:
wan1: all http/https/general traffic
wan2: gaming (steam, battlenet etc)
wan3 & wan4: load balanced, video/audio streams (twitch, yt, spotify, netflix, disney+, prime etc)
wan5: nothing (used for incoming vpn connections only)

Tried using the traffic shaper feature, but that only seems to be able to change traffic priorities, althou, new to this xD

[lean pebble]

Someone know a good router with 8 lan ports ?

[unborn sluice]

just get a switch man

[lean pebble]

No

I have one

Not working properly

Nothing here not working properly

I need router that does all.
Supports ADSL / vdsl2 / fiber / ssl vpn

[peak cloak]

router routes

switch switches

[lean pebble]

I hate my network

Now all down

😑

Not while downloading

[peak cloak]

you sure it's the switch?

[lean pebble]

I guess it's my router / bridge modem

One of them for sure

[unborn sluice]

router routes
switch switches
access point accesses

[lean pebble]

Switch just restored to factory

I have cisco switch

[peak cloak]

a big enterprise one?

[lean pebble]

Now all my network is not stable

[lean pebble]

Home one

[peak cloak]

ah

[lean pebble]

Sg250-08

[unborn sluice]

the one with the speeds not enabled cause you didn't paid enough

[peak cloak]

yeah lol

[lean pebble]

Nah

Just the internet went down completely

[peak cloak]

connect directly to your router

test

[lean pebble]

And my mesh system stop recognizing the router

Something here is super weird

[obsidian token]

Are there differences?

[lean pebble]

I have wifi but mesh system not connected

[unborn sluice]

Money would make it different

[obsidian token]

I mean shouldnt a 8 port gigabit switch be able to provide 8x1gbit?

[peak cloak]

it's a joke about enterprising licensing

[lean pebble]

4.5 weeks have one problem can't download 1gb files or bigger because all my network crash after 2 minutes, now nothing works

I have this fucking shitty fortiwifi

[peak cloak]

get a mikrotik

[lean pebble]

I need a good modem that support vdsl2 first

[peak cloak]

why, don't you want a stable router first

[lean pebble]

First modem because the modem not stable to

I can confirm that he is not stable

Lan LEDs are orange instead green

[peak cloak]

just buy a modem only

[lean pebble]

For 1 year

[peak cloak]

not router

[lean pebble]

No one sells this here

And I need one that support vdsl2 b35

[obsidian token]

What country are you in

[lean pebble]

Israel

[obsidian token]

Im guessing its your isp not your modem

[lean pebble]

That is the core of all network problems here

[lean pebble]

Ya

But all the rest network devices are mine

ISP modem sucks

[obsidian token]

I doubt it. Your gear can be as good as it gets, if your isp is unstable, your connection is too.

[lean pebble]

At 2019 they gave me vtech router and it was disaster

I switched it 7 times in one week

Their network devices sucks man

All their routers from 2014/15

[obsidian token]

That doesnt matter

Our router is ancient too and it works fine

[lean pebble]

It does they are not new

Their routers are renewed

It used somewhere else 800 times

[modern pewter]

Forgive me please,
I used to have 3G on my phone for 7 years

[lean pebble]

I used 4g for downloading games 2 years ago

Because it was faster

[modern pewter]

i use ethernet to download stuff

i mean i use ethernet for everything on pc because it doesn't have a wifi card

and ethernet is a lot faster

[lean pebble]

I used usb because ethernet was 2 slow

[peak cloak]

wut

[lean pebble]

Ya

[peak cloak]

unless your cable was 2 pair

[lean pebble]

My internet speed was 2 slow

Adsl

[peak cloak]

wdym by usb

[lean pebble]

Because 4g from my phone

[peak cloak]

ah ok

[lean pebble]

I had 400Mbps up/down

[peak cloak]

makes more sense

then use that

instead of dsl

[lean pebble]

I had

Now it worse

They killed it to

[modern pewter]

i have 800Mbps up/down on ethernet

[lean pebble]

I have 40

Down

0.5 up

[peak cloak]

I could have gigabit, I just didn't buy it

still better than dsl

[lean pebble]

What better than dsl?

[modern pewter]

gigabit routers aren't that expensive tho

[lean pebble]

You have fiber

[modern pewter]

i have a tplink archer c6

it's pretty cheap

[peak cloak]

@modern pewter ew

[modern pewter]

it works good tho

[peak cloak]

I just don't have gigabit because it's more expensive per month

[modern pewter]

it's hella cheap for me

$5 per month

[lean pebble]

Where you from?

[modern pewter]

ukraine

[lean pebble]

Oh

[peak cloak]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/623265423533801483/770431306970038302/20201026_193753.jpg

my thing

modem will be gone soon

[modern pewter]

damn

[lean pebble]

But monitored by the government am I right ?

[modern pewter]

wow even rpi

what do you use it for

[peak cloak]

vpn, dns

[lean pebble]

Hack the pentagon

[modern pewter]

oh

[lean pebble]

Haha

Can I have your modem?

[peak cloak]

by vpn, I use it so access my network from anywehere

it's dociss

and leased

[lean pebble]

Oh

So leave it there

[peak cloak]

I have to give it back

along with cable tv box

we never use it anymore

[lean pebble]

I want fiber to

[peak cloak]

I need to redo my pi setup and use docker so I can use it between multiple vlans

[lean pebble]

I thought to make vlan but I'm lazy

[peak cloak]

or use linux network namespaces

[lean pebble]

I don't remember anything in cisco

Couldn't even find the dhcp option

For the vlan

[peak cloak]

i'm familiar with the vyetta setup

so edgemax, vyos

[lean pebble]

I'm familiar with fortigate vlans but not with cisco one

[peak cloak]

wait, the cisco is just a switch

[lean pebble]

Ya

[peak cloak]

you don't dhcp for vlans

router handles that

[lean pebble]

Because I'm lazy to use all of his function

I know, but this switch should be able to do dhcp to

At least dhcp relay

[peak cloak]

why would you need that

[lean pebble]

Just 4 fun

Just wanted to see where it is

[thick minnow]

Fellow Canadians dropping expensive things fans

I require some advice

my isp is trying to saddle me with this very sad, very lame modem/router combo

I already have a pretty ballin router

[unborn sluice]

[thick minnow]

Netgear R7800 with dd-wrt

and they want to charge me 10 bucks a month for this 60$ modem/router combo

https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Ubee-Modem-UBC1322BA00-32x8-DOCSIS-3-1-Advanced-Wireless-Voice-Gateway-/284040748299?nma=true&si=rRYGNVpBSY0urzCgI%252BDqjLS4Poo%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

So now I'm thinking, surely I can just purchase a standalone modem, the question is which one

[unborn sluice]

[gloomy plover]

?

[peak cloak]

is it a seperate SSID?

[gloomy plover]

I'm afraid I don't know what that is

[peak cloak]

wifi name

[gloomy plover]

Not that I know of, no.

[peak cloak]

is it a windows computer?

[gloomy plover]

I just picked one. Think I picked 2.4GHz.

Yes, windows.

[peak cloak]

ok then go into device manager and check what wifi adapter it has

ok so it's ac, so it supports 5ghz

could you take a screenshot of your wifi's

[gloomy plover]

my wifi's....?

[peak cloak]

ex

I don't know how to name it

[gloomy plover]

I use ethernet, so the other listing is just for a wireless connection.

you probs already know that

[lavish hatch]

i want to extend my wifi range using my old router
can anyone help me??

[unborn sluice]

depends

if you have ethernet, then forget 5ghz

[lavish hatch]

depends on what??

[peak cloak]

if you have ethernet why use wifi?

[gloomy plover]

I just don't get why it doesn't give me the option in the first place.

[peak cloak]

because it's on one SSID (wifi name)

[unborn sluice]

ngl, I think you already asked this question long ago and you are already answered

[peak cloak]

your network adapter chooses what to connect to

[gloomy plover]

So as long as I use an ethernet, I'm not missing out on much I take it?

[unborn sluice]

fate

[peak cloak]

ethernet > wifi

as long it's at least cat5e

[unborn sluice]

wifi > bluetooth

bluetooth > infrared

infrared > idk really

[peak cloak]

li-fi

[gloomy plover]

Alright. What about my iPhone 5S? Apparently iPhone 5 and later support 5Ghz but mine is listed as 2.4 in my router.

Is this to be expected?

my family's iphones are 5ghz but they are much later models

[peak cloak]

I wouldn't worry about being on 5ghz anyway tbh

for me it's a nice to have

[gloomy plover]

How much faster is it anyway?

[peak cloak]

depends

alot

5ghz can't penetrate as well

[unborn sluice]

tbh, you're more likely bottlenecked by your WAN speed than the wifi/ethernet

[peak cloak]

yep

[gloomy plover]

i see.

[lavish hatch]

my routers are
Main router (D-LINK DIR-615)
second router (MERCUSYS MW325R)

[gloomy plover]

Suppose I upgraded to a later phone model, would that use 5ghz out of curiousity?

(i wouldn't upgrade just for that reason, just wondering)

[unborn sluice]

that's cool

[lavish hatch]

pls help i want to extend wifi range using these routers

[peak cloak]

wifi or ethernet backbone?

[lavish hatch]

wifi

[peak cloak]

depends

certainly not with stock firmware

[lavish hatch]

but is it possible to do so

[peak cloak]

yeah

I wouldn't reccommend it though

[unborn sluice]

[lavish hatch]

so it is not possible for me

[peak cloak]

it is

use dd-wrt

or something

idk, never done it myself

[unborn sluice]

I wouldn't reccommend it though

[lavish hatch]

ok

[thick minnow]

i need help in vmware esxi
can someone help me?

[peak cloak]

https://dontasktoask.com/

Just ask

[thick minnow]

are there any experts on internet here at the moment?

[lean pebble]

@peak cloak what router you advise me to get? What kind of mikrotik?

[peak cloak]

HEX S @lean pebble

that's the one I plan on getting

[lean pebble]

Ok thanks I'll look at the price here in my country

[peak cloak]

or the HEX

if you are on a budget

[lean pebble]

Wow man it's cheap

67$ ? 🤔

Am I looking on the right one ?

Cheap af

[peak cloak]

the hex S, yeah it's cheap

remember no wifi

just a router with a switch chip

they actually publish internal block diagrams

https://i.mt.lv/cdn/product_files/RB760iGS-esw3_190600.png

https://i.mt.lv/cdn/product_files/RB760iGS-dsw_180523.png

discord media proxy is broken

just click open original

[lean pebble]

I have mesh at home I need router no more wifi products 😂

[waxen scroll]

why is there a beeper

[peak cloak]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

idk

[nimble sable]

@somber meadow 1 laptop for NAS, 1 laptop for router. modded truck battery for UPS

[thorny vector]

@thick minnow Still need that esxi help?

[thick minnow]

Yes, but can you help me tomorrow?

[thorny vector]

yeah

[thick minnow]

Ok th

[unborn sluice]

[thick minnow]

Ahh, fellow homelabber

[nimble sable]

someday i plan to buy one of those rack dealios

[thorny vector]

It'll change your life

[thick minnow]

Hello! I have a networking problem I am hoping someone might be able to help. I am running a hyper-V Server, with a static external IP I have a basic router, and setup a few TLDomains to point to the virtual machine, everything works as expected. Now I am adding more virtual machines and I want to point a specific TLD to a specific VM. Since I only have one Static IP from my ISP, how can i solve this problem? Do I have to setup a DC? Internal DNS server? I'm not sure. Any articles or direction is much appreciated! Thank you!

[thorny vector]

@thick minnow Look up reverse proxy servers.

[thick minnow]

@thorny vector Ok, i will look them up Thank you!

[thorny vector]

All the HTTP/S traffic goes to the proxy server, and based on the url, it'll redirect it to the correct internal upstream server

[thick minnow]

ahh

that makes sense! I am actually running NGINX on a virtual machine already.

I hopefully might be able to configure it!

thank you @thorny vector

[thorny vector]

no worries

[peak cloak]

yeah nginx can be used as a reverse proxy

[solemn yoke]

Hi! Dose having 2 SSIDs in same router reduce the range? I know it reduce the bandwidth.

[dusty osprey]

it doesn't probably

It shouldn't

[solemn yoke]

@dusty osprey i couldn't find any information about this, all they say is it will reduce bandwidth.

[dusty osprey]

Does it reduce the bandwidth also, yea I reslly am not 100% sure about this myself actually

[thorny vector]

No range decrease

No bandwidth decrease either.

Minus maybe some broadcast scheduling conflicts

@dusty osprey

[solemn yoke]

@thorny vector @dusty osprey thank you both,

[thick minnow]

Can anyone help since this a networking channel

[thorny vector]

What's the issue?

[peak cloak]

could be just google

[thorny vector]

Where is the download from?

[peak cloak]

just because you have a fast speed to one server doesn't mean you have fast speed to another

but kb/s that's really slow

[thick minnow]

idk wher ethis is

typo

[thorny vector]

Seems to be hosted in NY

[thick minnow]

im on the other side of the country

[thorny vector]

May be part of it, as well as perhaps some weird routing because someone doesn't want their traffic through their ASN

[thick minnow]

mmmh

is there anything i could do

[thorny vector]

Maybe a NY local VPN exit

I just did a route trace from me to their server, and it was 16 freaking hops, and I'm on the east coast

[thick minnow]

Time to downlaod free vpns ;-;

[peak cloak]

@thorny vector I'm right in NJ next to NY and it was 11

[thorny vector]

lol

route heck

[peak cloak]

hosted by giganet?

[thorny vector]

Thier registered ISP is PureVoltage-Inc

[peak cloak]

gigenet, not giganet is the last hop

[thick minnow]

I didnt know i had a vpn ;-; from bit defender

NICE

[peak cloak]

use a tunnel maybe idk

if you are advanced enough he.net has free ipv6 tunnels (kinda like a vpn)

[thick minnow]

Now im back to waiting even more ;-;

[somber meadow]

I genuinely am stumped at how to setup IP passthrough cause according to my AT&T gateway the passthrough is set up right, but the router is having internet access seemingly disabled completely

[nimble sable]

pretty sure you can yea, make your own CA, i do that for my pfsense box

ofc youd then need to install the root certificate on everything

[thorny vector]

@thick minnow Yes you can. Beware, managing certs can be a pain

[thorny vector]

I'd use either windows server cert services, or pfsense to run your CA and sign certs

Relax, its good to be careful, but don't freak out so much

Unless you're portforwarding stuff, you shouldn't even be doing any WAN rules anyways. And even then, you can have a even if there's an open rule for something, if there's nothing behind it, there's no real harm

[unborn sluice]

@thorny vector hey, so uhh when you access windows server
do you RDP or Vnc

[thorny vector]

RDP

Or through my vcenter console

or kvm

[unborn sluice]

cause I didn't activated my windows VM

[thorny vector]

You might be able to rearm it for 30 days

slmgr.vbs /rearm

Besides, don't need to be activated to RDP, if that's what you're thinking

[unborn sluice]

wait you don't?

[thorny vector]

Nope

[unborn sluice]

oh , are we talking about home/pro

[thorny vector]

Both

[unborn sluice]

just you might be talking about windows server

[thorny vector]

Fairly certain its for all versions

[unborn sluice]

hmm, last time I check RDP is only for pro

dunno if my mind plays tricks

[thorny vector]

Nope, RDP is for all windows things

[unborn sluice]

taking your word for it

lel, still no rdp in this freshly installed windows pro

[thorny vector]

Oops, I'm a liar. The wrapper for it is removed, but the core utilities are there

https://www.itechtics.com/remote-desktop-windows-10-home/

Heres a windows 10 RDP workaround

[unborn sluice]

Oops, I'm a liar
Taking your word for it

but rn, I need to stop windows update

eating all of CPU time

fuck

there should be one easy button

"No update, I hate myself"

or something

[thorny vector]

net stop wuauserv

[unborn sluice]

oh nice, i didn't knew the update name

I was going to the services.msc route

good thing you were faster

[thorny vector]

For I am the keeper of Windows. All remains in my sight.

[unborn sluice]

so uh, any command to stop windws defender

[unborn sluice]

good thing you're the first guy that comes to mind regarding windows

[thorny vector]

sc stop WinDefend

[unborn sluice]

soo uhh access denied for admin cmd

anything I need to do beforehand

[thorny vector]

admin terminal

[unborn sluice]

yea, admin cmd

soo

[thorny vector]

eh, powershell route

Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $true

or from an admin CMD window

powershell -c "Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $true"

[unborn sluice]

next up:
command to stop cortana

I should've gone to window server route

instead of installing windowsw pro

[thorny vector]

https://github.com/mujahed85/speedup-winodws10/blob/master/Win 10 Disable Cortana Completely.bat

One of the scripts I use for cleanup

[unborn sluice]

finally

15% cpu usage

@thorny vector

now time to try out that RDP alternative

[thorny vector]

Well, it is RDP

But home edition doesn't have the main controlling application for RDP, so you just need a wrapper to hook into the utilities that still exist

[unborn sluice]

I'd take anything honestly. don't need special crap

[thorny vector]

Microsoft REEEEEALLY like doing that, just removing the frontend of an application to disable it.

[unborn sluice]

Atleast they leave the things intact so incase someone who knows what they are doing

or atleast someone who knows someone who know what they are doing

cause I don't honestly don't know much in windows crap

now I just need to prevent cortana and defend and update from starting after a restart

[thorny vector]

Eh, windows, Linux. At the end of the day, it’s just bending silicon to your will.

I think the GitHub repo I sent you has those as well.

[unborn sluice]

yea rn, I can't copy paste since I'm using on-browser VNC in my hypervisor

and edge won't bend to my will

oh nice it just started

[thorny vector]

Don’t need to copy/paste

Smb share or a python3 http.server.

[unborn sluice]

interesting I do have smb share

or even download it over my san

[thorny vector]

If there is network there is a way. Hell, even some netcat wizardry.

[unborn sluice]

we'll see if I'd do it over smb or just type the github page

so uhh

windows would kill windows

[hazy sandal]

Anyone interested in answering a few questions about the work-life as a sysadmin? Since I'm a student I'm getting intros to a bunch of interesting stuff, and I don't know if some things are worth getting deeper knowledge about, or even get certifications (ie CCNA)

[unborn sluice]

yea sure

we are talking about sysadmin rn

although i'm mostly linux sht

@thorny vector can I interest you in a RDP problem

but serously, thank you looks likes I'll put this RDP activator in my windows belt

[hazy sandal]

I'm really into linux, virtualization, networking. I find it really fun (been messing with it as a hobby for a couple of years). We've been through some Windows Server administration (AD DS, AD CS, IIS, GPOs, ISCSI), Unix/Linux (basic stuff, lamp, pfsense, zabbix, using ubuntu,freebsd and centos), and has now just started with Cisco. Our teacher seems to act like working with Cisco excludes working with server people. He always makes a clear distinction between network guys and server guys. But as a mainly server guy, is CCNA worth it? cause I find it really interesting, but if that's nothing I'll have a use for, it would probably be a waste of time getting the actual certification, and keeping it up to date

[unborn sluice]

CCNA worth it
it's a must

I'm technically not a sysadmin. but CCNA is part of our curriculum

cause what if you broke AD, and the problem is network. CCNA should atleast point you in the right direction

He always makes a clear distinction between network guys and server guys.
On business side of things, this can happen. but it doesn't mean you can't be both. You should have knowledge in both

[hazy sandal]

Okey. That sounds good 😄

[unborn sluice]

it would probably be a waste of time getting the actual certification
The actual certificate is debatable

it's not like everyone here do have that piece of paper to slap the management

i actually don't know which @thorny vector (the good guy) does have.
but honestly I don't care

it's the knowledge more than the piece of paper

[hazy sandal]

Okey, then it sounds like these 6 weeks of Cisco might be enough since we're going through a lot of what is included in ICND1 & ICND2

[unborn sluice]

Remember, go beyond what CCNA can offer

be more than someone who holds a piece of paper

I find it really fun (been messing with it as a hobby for a couple of years)
This is what would help you grow

continue being curious

[hazy sandal]

Yeah, I'm not much for papers xD But actually getting an education for this to get a better understanding and an easier way to get into the industry. It was hard to get a job as a developer (php, js, c#, java, etc) w/o any education.

[unborn sluice]

Reach for it

Confidence

[hazy sandal]

Well, that's something I need to get more of. It's gotten better, but I'm really good at doubting my own knowledge and experience

[unborn sluice]

i doubt myself daily

[thick minnow]

can you help me?

[hazy sandal]

What I mean is that even if there's something I basically can do w/o thinking about it in my own environment, I doubt that I could do it in a professional environment.

[unborn sluice]

@thorny vector RDP broke, I'm scared

[unborn sluice]

We usually experiment on what comes to mind

You can try out multiple things and not do it in your company

it's fine, you got the experience

[hazy sandal]

My homelab is for experimenting. That's basically all I use it for (atm a single Dell PE T610 w/ Proxmox).

Just recently setup a virtualized pfSense as home router with 4 wans (get 4 public dynamic ips from my ISP) and 3 lans, one for the home network, one for my "working" vms/cts and one for labbing. And the stuff I want available publicly is using wan3 & wan4 (one domain each), openvpn on wan2 and ordinary traffic on wan1.
And well, to get back to the questions, I enjoy everything from setting up the physical network to setting up the applications on a VM or in a container. And preferably I'd like to be able to do all that as a job (low chance for that, at least around here) but being a jack-of-all-trades (usually) means either limited knowledge is some areas, or a lot of years of education, and if I could I would spend all that time on education, but since I can't do that right now, I need to focus more on some parts, and I'm not sure which I really need to focus on.

[unborn sluice]

(low chance for that, at least around here)
Keep your hope, I thought I was gonna be a developer. but turned out to be more of a sysadmin-like

If you can show and prove your knowledge for sysadmin you never know

[orchid trellis]

gotta love it when my wifi extender's wifi is worse than being connected to my main one

[unborn sluice]

i mean yea

[hazy sandal]

I know that feeling. Started programmin at age 9 (20+ years ago), starting with Windows applications, going to mobile (Windows Mobile 6.5-Windows 10 Mobile modding and apps, Sony Ericsson modding, Android app/ROM building, etc) with web development always as a side-thing. And that eventually led me to setup a local LAMP stack on an old gaming rigg, which then led me to buying my Dell PE, and that made me realize that the whole networking/server area is waaaay more fun, even thou programming still is one of my passions

[orchid trellis]

i realize that my statement did not make as much sense as it did coming out. my apologies. my wifi is just bad in general

however, im stuck with it

[granite nymph]

So I just got a new Access Point but it refuses to connect via Ethernet and only works via Wi-Fi, which doesn't help me because I'm trying to add 5GHz to a 2.4GHz modem. Can anyone help?

The modem is a Keenetic Omni DSL (VDSL2) and the AP I'm trying to connect is a Keenetic City AC750

[thick minnow]

Refuse to connect via ethernet? wdym?

[granite nymph]

I can use it as a repeater but when I switch to the AP mode and connect it via Ethernet it just doesn't work

[thick minnow]

Prolly it's a dumb thing to say but, have u changed the ip of the ap?

[granite nymph]

I have assigned a unused IP, yes

[thick minnow]

What do you mean with doesn't work?

Like, you are connected but u get no internet

[granite nymph]

the wifi it creates does not have internet access, yes

[thick minnow]

Ohh, disable client isolation

[granite nymph]

It worked now, thanks