networking

[little schooner]

yeah they are all terrible

guarenteed

unless outside.

[peak cloak]

an AP requires ethernet fyi

[stark notch]

I mean like, 60mbps or less on a network where I'd normally get 200mbps or more.

[peak cloak]

so you would turn off wifi on your router and use the AP instead

[little schooner]

yeah

then its just a router

I ran my wires too. Im not proud of all the holes i made though

some came out better than others

one of them i had to drill through 5 layers of wood

[peak cloak]

This is my ap https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-EAP225-V3-Wireless-Supports/dp/B0781YXFBT/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=eap+225&qid=1609278608&sr=8-2

[little schooner]

it was ridiculous

[stark notch]

ah alright

[peak cloak]

@little schooner sunday I did another run and I made a hole in the wrong place, so now I have a hole right next to the outlet until I get to patching it and painting it

[little schooner]

thing with patching is that the original strength is all gone

[peak cloak]

@stark notch this one is also nice https://mikrotik.com/product/cap_ac

yeah

[little schooner]

I regret one of them i did

measure twice, cut once

I got this one: https://www.amazon.com/EnGenius-EWS377AP-802-11ax-Wireless-Features/dp/B07SGH1S4K/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=engenius+wifi+6+3x3&qid=1609278826&sr=8-1

by no means a cheap one

[peak cloak]

ah wifi 6

that explains it

[little schooner]

fast enough to replace the wire

for me.

[peak cloak]

idk, I just like the simplicity of a wire

[stark notch]

I don't get why some people get on their knees for gigabit networking. I can have 3 intensive apps, including games, open at once with a 190mbps bandwidth and be just fine.

Probably even more, for that matter.

[peak cloak]

local servers

gigabit is the standard for LAN networking now

if you have some money to spend 10 gigabit isn't THAT expensive

some of the most expensive things are the sfp+ pcie cards

[stark notch]

"some money to spend" alright Jeff Bezos

lol

[peak cloak]

I don't have have the need or money for 10 gig

[little schooner]

i dont have the money for 10 gig

[stark notch]

I just don'e see the need besides servers though. I know everyday people who have this stuff, and it doesn't make sense.

[little schooner]

and also dont need it

[stark notch]

don't*

Well

I don't know people directly but I see these YouTubers, streamers, and gamers who do this stuff

and it's ridiculous

[peak cloak]

I would want gigabit WAN, but tbh I don't need it

instead we got 300/300 instead

but it's fiber so low latency

[little schooner]

gigabit WAN down, no. gigabit WAN up, absolutely

even 300/300 ill take

heck ill take 50/100

[peak cloak]

300/300 is fios's lowest fiber speed

[little schooner]

i upload a lot of stuff for work

[peak cloak]

isn't 300 mbps google's max upload speed>

[stark notch]

I could probably make ends meet on a 30mbps connection, tbh

[little schooner]

not sure. but i use onedrive

[stark notch]

As long as the latency is low, and it's not like 10mbps, it's fine for me.

But I am lucky enough to have a 200mbps connection (and about 150-200mbps uploads) with like 4-5ms of latency.

[peak cloak]

most of the time my WAN interface is at kbps

but again bandwidth is like a pipe, so it's better to have more than you need

[little schooner]

oh the reason i went full wifi was because running a cable across floor in apartment would look bad

[peak cloak]

my parent's are kinda the anti-wifi type, so I used that to my advantage

[stark notch]

anti-wifi in terms of it's more complex, or anti-wifi in terms of nutty conspiracy theorists?

[peak cloak]

second one kinda, more on the health aspect

like long term effects of wifi and stuff like that

idk

[stark notch]

ah

that's why I get migraines

thanks

loljk

[peak cloak]

but unless you are out in the rural areas you still get hit with wifi radiation

even if you turn off your wifi

[little schooner]

radiation hasn't affected me

but

[stark notch]

I don't really understand 5G conspiracy theories. I mean... I do, but I don't believe in them at all. I can understand why people are afraid of new technology. It's called tribalism.

[little schooner]

i turn off all my wifi equipment every night

[stark notch]

Tribalism and caveman instincts

[peak cloak]

yeah I have the option to turn off the wifi radio as well, I just don't do it

scedule it that is

I'm wouldn't manually do that, I don't think your would either

[little schooner]

the killswitch is for all my electronics

oh yeah i do it manually via one button

[peak cloak]

really?

[little schooner]

i should get a smart adapter for it

yep

[peak cloak]

why? power usage?

[little schooner]

cuts my tv, router, wifi, speakers

yeah power usage

tv uses 30w on off

[peak cloak]

makes sense

[rocky badge]

I wanna fucking yeet this switch

its not fucking aggregating a port that I configured it to aggregate

🖕 unifi gui

[peak cloak]

https://www.amazon.com/Web-Power-Switch-Pro-Model/dp/B0765NCB2L/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=Web+IP+Power+Switch&qid=1609279950&sr=8-3

interesting

[rocky badge]

and configuring a unifi switch from cli is useless

[peak cloak]

oh yeah unifi

[rocky badge]

"aggregating" with "port 47 & 48" https://blob.rocks/FgGNzZE6So.png

I DONT think SOOo https://blob.rocks/DMAir5ubtj.png

https://blob.rocks/HDrrsBLuDZ.png and showing the running config???

its only adding port 48 to the agg group

and not 47

[little schooner]

@peak cloak something like this but the 1pk https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D2BDWTK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

connected to a power strip that has like 8

[peak cloak]

why does everything need to be wifi

can't there be a cheap ethernet switch

[little schooner]

@peak cloak because that would make too much sense

people dont like logic.

from the seller perspective

next thing that should be made cheap is the zwave flood sensor

[hollow marlin]

@rocky badge are you configuring just through the cli?

[rocky badge]

no

People on Ubiquiti discord are suggesting to submit a forum post and hope a Ubiquiti employee sees it

[waxen scroll]

buy juniper.

[dusty osprey]

arIsTa

[little schooner]

unifi support is as good as alibaba's return process

[waxen scroll]

short BABA

[hollow axle]

Um, $15k for a switch is expensive?

[hollow marlin]

Depends on the switch but not really

[hollow axle]

Lol, at my 9-5, we default to 93180YC-FX which list at like 55

Currently configuring some MDS 9706s (DS-C9710-V2K9) + DS-X9648-1536K9... I wish I could get reputable 100gig switches for that cheap

[waxen scroll]

i honestly dont know why LTT has no enterprise person

such a massive miss

they could even launch a new property specifically for it

im tired of thought leaders telling me what I should do when they have 0 hands on time

if you're gonna post videos about enterprise gear get someone who knows the concepts deep

you cant just stare at it like a cell phone and crap out a video

based on previous videos of theirs they dont understand subnetting, vlans, or any other topic slightly above basics

@hollow marlin

you'd have to pay a premium though. I'd want $130k

[peak cloak]

Anthony is the closest to that that and yeah that would be cool

[waxen scroll]

is he? cause im sure i saw him on video removing all the vlans from the building cause they didnt understand why/how they worked

😷

[peak cloak]

closest

[waxen scroll]

xD

[unborn sluice]

[hollow marlin]

I think I remember him specifically saying "do I need to configure VLANs?"

[peak cloak]

yeah, maybe not in networking, but at least in linux

I don't watch much LTT anymore

[waxen scroll]

@hollow marlin you cant do BGP with a firewall.

oh I watch one LTT per 20 now

im only here for some people

[hollow marlin]

Yeah he can walk circles around me in linux, but saying this is how something works without actually knowing it, like networking, is where the problem lies

[peak cloak]

the short circuit Brandon camera videos are nice

[hollow marlin]

Maintenance at 3am with a customer for a peering on their SRX (Juniper Firewall)...

[waxen scroll]

i hate when the FW team is like NO so you have to do multihop + static routes

[hollow marlin]

They ever give a reasoning?

[waxen scroll]

yeah "its not tested"... "we dont want to add additional load"

bla bla bla

current job does this but we're getting new ones and will BGP to them

and then if you get them to agree to do it, they refuse to do much more. no modifiers or anything else

[hollow marlin]

Not sure why netops is not required to know networking, at least everytime I deal with them

[waxen scroll]

are they not?

ours know

well OK fine. the other companies didnt know much

they were alert monkeys

get alert, do basic check, ask for help

[hollow marlin]

I should say in terms of more than just focusing on types of traffic and not knowing how traffic flows from A-Z or what is protocols are involved in doing so. At least to the point where if you say OSPF or BGP their heads dont explode

[waxen scroll]

🤔

[outer lance]

I have a networking question

[waxen scroll]

@tame carbon

[peak cloak]

finally got ipv6 up

[outer lance]

Anyone?

[peak cloak]

yeah just ask

[outer lance]

Oh ok

Instead of getting a new router can I just add a modem and a router to anywhere where I have coax?

And I don’t have hardwire Ethernet

[peak cloak]

to like expand wifi coverage, no

[outer lance]

Why not

[peak cloak]

you can only have one 1 modem and router

[queen lark]

WRONG
I'm using 2 routers

[peak cloak]

you technically can, but ISP won't like it

[outer lance]

Will they notice?

[queen lark]

I use one as a switch with the radio disabled

[peak cloak]

in what context

[peak cloak]

then it's not a router

[queen lark]

One for WiFi/main ethernet
One as an Ethernet switch with the radio disabled because it fought with the main router

[peak cloak]

yeah, as expect

of course

[queen lark]

They were within 1.5 feet of each other

[outer lance]

So my only hope to extend WiFi coverage is to run Ethernet or mesh system

[peak cloak]

double-NAT and dhcp conflicts

[peak cloak]

no, moca exists

[outer lance]

Like AiMesh or something like that

Yeah

[peak cloak]

it's like powerline, but over coax

[outer lance]

That’s kinda where I got the router modem ideas

Over COSZ

Coax

Actiontec 802.11ac Desktop WiFi Extender with 4 Internet Antennas 5GHz, Gigabit Ethernet, Bonded MoCA for Whole Home Fast WiFi (WCB6200Q)

Sorry for the long title

But is this not gonna work

[peak cloak]

that only has coax input

[outer lance]

So would it word

Or would some mesh system be easier

[peak cloak]

yeah that'll work as the "end" router

[outer lance]

Or running ether house

[peak cloak]

but boy is that overpriced

[outer lance]

Can I run multiple of those things

I mean can I run coax into it in my bedroom and run Ethernet from it to my pc

I mean part of the problem is we have an isp provided router

It doesn’t look cool

And it’s spotty in my room

[peak cloak]

draw a diagram of what you want to do, it'll make it easier

[outer lance]

Wdym

[unborn sluice]

you can probably ask them about this, so you can replace it

[outer lance]

Ik

[unborn sluice]

2k

[outer lance]

This is also a problem in one of our offices

And it’s worse there since it’s an isp provided modem router combo

With no hardwire Ethernet

So what about a mesh system

[unborn sluice]

a combo without an ethernet?

[outer lance]

Like AIMesh

[outer lance]

Sorry if I wasn’t clear, the office doesn’t have Ethernet ports

Not the router

Or Razer Sila

[unborn sluice]

first time I heard about the razer sila

[outer lance]

I’m a Razer fanboy

So

I mean i have to have Razer

[peak cloak]

ew no

plz no

[unborn sluice]

Wish you are trolling

[outer lance]

But aimesh is the cheapest and most common place option available

So I’m at a bit of a personal crossroads

And the Razer router is ~$250

[peak cloak]

overpriced

[outer lance]

So my idea is either two Razer routers

Or aimesh

[unborn sluice]

[outer lance]

Any suggestions

[unborn sluice]

that's some good sht you're smoking

[outer lance]

I mean

It’s not the worst idea

That would be to run Ethernet house wide without putting it in the wall

[peak cloak]

why can't you put it in the wall?

[outer lance]

The router is a floor below and about a hundred feet across

Meaning it has to go up two stories

Across my entire attic

[peak cloak]

I moved my router to the basement

[outer lance]

And back down Into my room

[peak cloak]

it's only a router so it has no issues

wifi AP is in the center of the house on a wall

[outer lance]

I wish I could do that

But

[peak cloak]

best bet is 1 router, and use moca adapters

[outer lance]

It was already a pain when the spectrum guy who installed it

[peak cloak]

if you want to "extend" wifi use AP's not routers

[outer lance]

It’s a pain in the as to run Ethernet to the center

Then why are things like AIMesh so popular

Or Razer Sila

[unborn sluice]

is razer sila really popular?

[peak cloak]

popular != good

[unborn sluice]

first time I heard it

[outer lance]

I mean

I am a Razer fanboy

So idk

But That’s besides the point

Why is a AP better than a mesh system

[unborn sluice]

Wired networking ftw

[peak cloak]

mesh is just an advanced word for a bunch of APs with one router and a wireless backhaul

[unborn sluice]

[outer lance]

So mesh or access points

[peak cloak]

mesh is a bunch of AP's

[outer lance]

Ik

[unborn sluice]

[outer lance]

I tried boosters and range extenders

But they never worked

[peak cloak]

@unborn sluice how do I edit /etc/gai.conf so it prefers ipv4 over ipv6

my ipv6 connection is slow

I've looked online, but can't really find a concrete answer

[unborn sluice]

even the precedence doesn't work?

[outer lance]

What kind of access point do you recommend that’s under say 300 for a two pack, and is from a reputable company

[unborn sluice]

where is the mikrotik salesman when you need him @tame carbon

[outer lance]

And therein is wireless or wired better

[unborn sluice]

wired

[outer lance]

Actually wait

Why the heck don’t I just do mesh

It’s easier to manage

[unborn sluice]

wireless mesh
It's easier to manage

[outer lance]

So wireless mesh is the most superior solution

[peak cloak]

@unborn sluice got it, I was editing it wrong

[outer lance]

I mean then I must set forth and conquer

[peak cloak]

well, ping now defaults to ipv4, but not firefox

I can see when streaming from yt music, wireshark shows a bunch of ipv6 requests

do I need to reload a service or something?

[unborn sluice]

no razer sila

[outer lance]

😦

[unborn sluice]

you didn't reload the processes?

[peak cloak]

which one?

gai?

[unborn sluice]

like firefox?

[peak cloak]

oh I restarted firefox

[unborn sluice]

[peak cloak]

ok so google chrome works

as in yt music doesn't constantly buffer every 5 seconds

@unborn sluice that explains it

[unborn sluice]

https://tenor.com/view/kachow-cars-lightning-mc-queen-pixar-disney-gif-5931942
135kbit/s

[peak cloak]

it's free, so I'm not complaining

ok, so I'll make a vlan just for me so I don't mess up other's internet with slow ipv6

[unborn sluice]

I don't mess up other's internet with slow ipv6
This is an opportunity, they can technically access the internet but not quite

[peak cloak]

oh boy, I never labeled my ethernet runs

now which port is mine

[little schooner]

Is Ipv6 faster?

Comcast shoves it down pfsense at college

[peak cloak]

well, at least not though tunnel broker

[little schooner]

I remember watching a video where they tried to compare the differences

But it wasn't conclusive

[peak cloak]

if I paid for ipv6 tunnel it would probably be faster

and if fios had ipv6 that would be even better

[little schooner]

How much would they charge you for that

A lot right?

[unborn sluice]

If you paid more than ipv4

[little schooner]

I'm gonna have to try it sometime

I never actually did it with intention before

Only in Cisco books

Or Cisco training

[peak cloak]

what tunnelbroker or ipv6?

[little schooner]

Ipv6

[peak cloak]

I don't really understand the whole router advert stuff

and the subnetting

and also scary hex digits

[little schooner]

I'm worried I might misinterpret the firewall rules

And allow stuff in by mistake

[peak cloak]

tunnelbroker has a thing where you can scan an ip

so you don't have to do it through some port scan website

I followed this guide for the most part (not exactly because I did it on a vif not an eth interface)

https://blog.k.io/atech/creating-an-ipv6-network-with-an-edgerouter

[little schooner]

I see

[peak cloak]

it's the whole router-advert and assigning ips that confuses me

and these firewall rules (except dhcp)

https://gist.github.com/dmtucker/cf3f241cf002367825633c988ff19fcf

[little schooner]

I see

[peak cloak]

this is the worst part, where some support ipv6 and some don't

[hallow nimbus]

Thats some shoddy ass speeds

[hollow marlin]

Technically yes. Do to its design of having the header as slim as possible and moving most fields that do not pertain to plain routing as extensions makes it quicker to process. Also other things such as no more NAT, QoS flow processing, etc

It can handle more PPS but to be noticeable in the real world, meh

[peak cloak]

Power is being weird rn, reminder I should get a ups

It's like flickering every so often

[tribal ferry]

Does anyone know which POE injector USW-Flex-3 switch from Ubiquiti would use?

It doesn’t seem to be able to be powered by passive PoE, only 802.3at or bt

[little schooner]

@peak cloak my server had data corrupted on NTFS volume after a power outage. I only found it because I went to check my backups....

and they couldn't be restored.

now imagine if I really needed to restore from a backup

I am toast.

[waxen saddle]

No QoS in IPv6?

[hazy river]

I just upgraded to a new comcast router, the 1gb one, and my ethernet is getting about 20Mbps and wifi gets me from 150- over 300. Is there anything I can do to try and fix this?

[sacred fiber]

Anyone know how to fix packetloss

Wait does installing or updating your network drivers help with packet loss?

[dusty osprey]

Not really

Odd, google should accept pings and reply to them.

[sacred fiber]

?

So do you know how to fix packet loss

[unborn sluice]

You fix it somewhere else

[dusty osprey]

Updating network drivers has nothing to do with packet loss. We cant "fix" packet loss, there are many reasons behind it

Could be your isp, could be the website/game your tryna load,

[unborn sluice]

Could be you

[sacred fiber]

Problem is I don't get packet loss on my ps4 only my pc for some reason

It has something to do with the pc

Some setting or idk man

[primal ice]

tracert 1.1.1.1 or pathping 1.1.1.1

[unborn sluice]

Turn off packet loss

[sacred fiber]

Oh ya why didn't I think of that duh

[dusty osprey]

[sacred fiber]

So any suggestions to help with it?

@dusty osprey?

[dusty osprey]

Look

It could br anything

[unborn sluice]

it go brrr

[tame carbon]

wat

@unborn sluice you go brr

[unborn sluice]

I agree with that

[toxic citrus]

Hey I've asked a similar question before but with a different setup. I'd like to be able to use an ax router for VR. it's not connected to the internet and I'd like to hook it up to the internet router in the house. I want the vr router to remain as the vr router as the house router is pretty bad. Is there any way i could hook it up so it gets internet access, while remaining as a separate entity in the network (not be a repeater)? Thank you

I can do so wired with a Powerline adapter or wirelessly. Don't want speed or low ping, just any degree of internet access

[unborn sluice]

What do you mean not be a repeater

what are you trying to achieve

[toxic citrus]

I mean i want the vr router to just have internet and not become a repeater for the house router. The house router has internet, the vr one currently does not

Basically, i want internet access for the vr router

[unborn sluice]

then hook it up?

wdym not become a repeater?

[toxic citrus]

Yeah but then wouldn't it become a repeater?

[unborn sluice]

like a wifi repeater? (extender)

[toxic citrus]

Yes

[waxen saddle]

On VR router, disable DHCP and connect a LAN port to your house router

[toxic citrus]

Thank you, I'll try that right now

[waxen saddle]

Oh, and set a static IP on it that isn’t in the House router DHCP range

[toxic citrus]

How would i identify an IP that isn't in its range?

[waxen saddle]

If your DHCP range is 192.168.1.50-192.168.1.200. And your House router is 192.168.1.1... you can use anything in 192.168.1.2-192.168.1.49 and 192.168.1.201-192.168.1.254

I usually group my routers close together IP-wise. So I’d choose 192.168.1.2

[unborn sluice]

edit the DHCP range of your router NAT

[toxic citrus]

Ah yes so the house router is x.x.8.1 so I'd make the vr router x.x.8.2 and make sure it's outside the DHCP range?

[unborn sluice]

you change the DHCP range for say, x.x.8.10

so it would only give dynamic IP in 10+ range

or maybe

most router NAT can give the static IP

soo

do that isntead

like assign x.x.8.2 to device 69:: (mac)
then that ip would only be assigned with the designated mac, and not be given to others

[waxen saddle]

@toxic citrus Correct

[unborn sluice]

you're right corewyyn

[toxic citrus]

Aight ima do this stuff so I'll be kicked offline for a bit. Thanks guys

[waxen saddle]

I don’t think the VR router would request a DHCP address, which is why we have to set a static address to match the House router network. That’s been by experience at least.

I haven’t touched consumer-grade stuff in several years. Maybe things have changed.

[spark cedar]

do you have a router and a modem?

oh nvm i’m stupid lol

[toxic citrus]

Aight so I gave the vr router a static IP now, that should be all yes?

[waxen saddle]

If you plug in to the VR router and your gateway router on your computer is set to your house router - it's working perfectly. We just need to know why you can't access the VR router any more...

[toxic citrus]

I can now yes

[waxen saddle]

Oh perfect.

Is your gateway router on your computer (connected to the VR router) set to the house router IP?

[toxic citrus]

The b525 is house router and other one is vr router

Does this look correct?

[waxen saddle]

Yea. If everything is working correctly, you should have 1 House network. 2 Different Wifi networks (House + VR).

(The 2 wifi SSID's just connect you to the single house network)

[toxic citrus]

Aight so if i play virtual desktop it won't use my house network to do the processing?

[waxen saddle]

If you have 2 devices that talk to each other and they are both plugged in and/or connected to the VR wifi network. Then yes, their traffic won't touch the rest of the household.

[toxic citrus]

Ah jeez but my pc plugs into the vr router via ethernet

Wait

[waxen saddle]

That's perfect

[toxic citrus]

So that will work

Lmao aight ima test it right now, thanks for all your help

[waxen saddle]

NP mate. In a nutshell: All your devices in your house will be able to talk to each other as they are on 1 network. They can all access the Internet too. Routing is efficient too - if 2 devices want to talk to each other and are plugged in to the same device, the traffic won't go to another switch/router and then bounce back. They'll just talk directly to each other.

Hopefully that makes sense. Try it out yourself too. 🙂

[toxic citrus]

I tested it there and it works almost perfectly! A few mins after i blocked access to house router, my vr headset lost connection as the vr router doesn't know how to assign IPs. However it wasn't actually using the house router for anything since it did work for a few mins with no connection to it. This is exactly what i wanted and I'm so glad you were able to help me out

Only thing left to do now is optimise the vr router for low-latency throughout

Got it down from 15 to 12ms there, so far so good. Thank you 😊

[waxen saddle]

Nice. 🙂

[peak cloak]

hmm, for some reason browsers like chrome and firefox are not respecting the entry in /etc/gai.conf

system tools like apt and ping respect it

after a full system restart chrome now seems to default to ipv4

but firefox still doesn't

[kind pivot]

I got a 2.5Gbps connection but from time to time I have to reboot the router from the fai because i only have 200mbps

It feels like it's done on purpose by the fai ...

[peak cloak]

2.5 gbps is pretty damn good

@kind pivot ISP router?

and ethernet or wifi

and with ethernet, most ethernet cards support only up to 1 gigabit

[kind pivot]

Yeah isp router

[peak cloak]

yeah isp router's suck

[kind pivot]

When I said fai I meant isp my bad

Ethernet ofc

[thick minnow]

I want more white hat hackers

[kind pivot]

My isp router and motherboard supports 2.5GbE

[thick minnow]

Dude stole my Crunchyroll account an hour ago

[peak cloak]

do you pay for 2.5?

just to make sure

[kind pivot]

And i have them,just that sometimes I have to reboot the router to get it

I even have 5Gbps but not on the same line

Since my equipment are 2.5GbE

[peak cloak]

how long is the cable from router -> pc

and type of cable?

[kind pivot]

Something like 20 meters and cat 5E i believe

[peak cloak]

yeah cat5e isn't rated for anything higher than 1 gbit

[thick minnow]

@peak cloak can you make it so people never steal my Crunchyroll account again?

[kind pivot]

But I got my 2.5Gbps, it's just that sometimes it goes down to 200mbps and then I need to reboot the router to go back to 2gbps

[peak cloak]

yeah then it's router

[spiral drift]

Anyone have any experience with AT&T fiber? I'm setting it up in a new place and if possible I'd like to use my own equipment as opposed to the ISP-provided combo box

[peak cloak]

I assume you have fiber?

[kind pivot]

No no you can have 2.5GbE With cat&e

5e

Yeah fiber optics

[peak cloak]

@rocky badge has at&t I think

[rocky badge]

I don't

[kind pivot]

I'm pretty sure my isp is bottlenecking me on purpose

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo does

[peak cloak]

ah

[spiral drift]

@kind pivot I'm trying to perform first time setup with my own equipment if possible to minimize ISP interference

[peak cloak]

I would say it's bad ISP router

do you know what model it is?

[kind pivot]

But why a simple reboot would solve everything ?

It's a "Freebox pop"

[peak cloak]

bad firmware, maybe memory leak

[kind pivot]

I don't know if I can plug in my own router

I don't think so

[peak cloak]

I'm checking rn

it looks like it's just ethernet

[spiral drift]

from what I can tell for my ISP anyway is that it's pretty straightforward to set up an additional network branching off the ISP box, but I'm trying to figure out if I can disable the routing and other functionality completely and just use the ISP box as a dumb modem

[peak cloak]

@kind pivot you could maybe try and see if it's just normal ethernet and plug your pc in the cable that goes to router

[kind pivot]

My PC is already plugged into the router via ethernet

[peak cloak]

oh

that's ethernet out

@kind pivot is the fiber connected to something like this?

[kind pivot]

Yeah

[hearty seal]

Anybody need some more network bandwidth?

[kind pivot]

And this thing directly goes into the router

[peak cloak]

yeah then you could use your own router

[kind pivot]

The sfp cage

[peak cloak]

it's sfp+

[kind pivot]

Yeah

[peak cloak]

yeah then you could use your own router

you just to need to find a fast enough one

mikrotik have relativity cheap network devices

[kind pivot]

Wouldn't the ISP block it ?

[peak cloak]

how?

[kind pivot]

I don't know

[peak cloak]

maybe they could

but I doubt they would

just use the same sfp+ module

[kind pivot]

Why ?

It's just a box of metal

[peak cloak]

no

sfp+ cards convert fiber to copper signals

[kind pivot]

Well, it's converting fiber to ethernet or smth i believe

Yeah ok

[peak cloak]

and there are different fiber standards

[kind pivot]

I'm checking if I can use another router

[peak cloak]

you can get this https://mikrotik.com/product/rb4011igs_rm

has an sfp+ cage

[hearty seal]

There are different transmission standards and the transceivers are also coded, although Mikrotik usually works with all brands of transceivers

[peak cloak]

hmm

it doesn't have a higher than 1 gbit output though

[kind pivot]

I can't use another router

The ONT is inside the ISP router

[peak cloak]

huh?

the ONT is the sfp+ module

[kind pivot]

Apparently no

[peak cloak]

could you maybe a link the site so I could look at it?

[kind pivot]

https://lafibre.info/remplacer-freebox/remplacer-freebox-pop-par-un-routeur/

"L'ONT étant ingéré dans la Freebox POP, il est impossible de s'en passer.

De ce que j'ai compris, le SFP+ est un simple optique, la partie intelligent de l'ONT (qui intègre habituellement un CPU, dans le Ram et de la flash) est géré par la Freebox Delta."

Sorry it's in French

[peak cloak]

it's fine, google translate exists

[kind pivot]

I believe the easiest thing would be to try it out

A friend of mine has a LOT of high ends router, he must have one with a SFP+ cage

[peak cloak]

oh, it's PON

that's why

[kind pivot]

So the best thing we can do is use the box as a bridge

[peak cloak]

yeah, that's what I was about to suggest

and the output is only copper

which kinda sucks

[kind pivot]

And it wouldn't forcefully solve my problem

Maybe it's just overheating

It's like REALLY hot when I touche the SFP+ cage

It burns me

[peak cloak]

yeah, that's probobly it

[kind pivot]

Can't touch it for more than 2s

[peak cloak]

bad ISP router again

[kind pivot]

Yup

next time i'll check CPU temp when my download speed goes down

[peak cloak]

the whole problem is that it's PON, which is the same fiber tech my isp uses

which is why you can't just plug the SFP module in

[kind pivot]

Okay

Well, my speed is down right now

[kind pivot]

If I reboot now it will go up by a factor of 10

[peak cloak]

yeah, I bet it's throttling

ping of 23ms with fiber?

that's pretty bad

[kind pivot]

(last hour then last day)

[outer lance]

I have a problem

[peak cloak]

yes?

[outer lance]

My pc keeps disconnecting from the internet every 2-3 minurtes

And I rebooted the router already

Any clues why?

[outer lance]

It appears to be a problem with my pc

Because I’m streaming 1080p YouTube on another desktop and it’s not disconnected

[peak cloak]

wifi or ethernet?

[outer lance]

Wireless

WiFi

I half considered getting starlink when it comes out for that half of my home

It’s annoying as all heck

[peak cloak]

why

just run ethernet

cmon

not that hard

[outer lance]

I can’t

[peak cloak]

why not

you can if you try hard enough

[outer lance]

It would be probably terribly expensive

[peak cloak]

ethernet is cheap

[outer lance]

It is

[peak cloak]

I got 1000ft of it for like 50 bucks

[outer lance]

I mean to have someone run it

[peak cloak]

do it yourself

not that hard

[outer lance]

How hard is it

It’s more work than it’s worth honestly

[peak cloak]

to run it in walls, kinda annoying, but you can buy some shielded wiring and run it around the house outdoors

[outer lance]

If i wanted to run Ethernet, I’d hire someone and regardless

Anyways

What’s the cause of the problem

[peak cloak]

probobly wireless driver or something

[outer lance]

Ughhh

How do I fix it

[peak cloak]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

reinstall the driver?

idk

[outer lance]

Isn’t there a windows driver thing

That tells you if your drivers are up to date

[peak cloak]

yeah, I forgot the exact steps though

and I can't check rn because I'm on linux

[outer lance]

Oh ok

I could find it on YouTube

Also

Another small problem

Whenever I start my pc it’s always disconnected from the internet so I have to do it, but it takes like 2-3 minutes for it to start working, and recognize my network

Is it just the same driver nonsense

[stable warren]

anyone here familiar with WDS?

PXE boot etc

[waxen saddle]

I'm semi-familiar with PXE booting.

I know enough to make it work perfectly for my Ubuntu LTSP server

[stable warren]

it's pretty weird, Vsphere 7.01b (or something latest version) Server 2019 WDS working on Vsphere, i can PXE boot/install etc, however when i try to re-image my laptop nothing

it boots from PXE, it shows loading files and windows logs show TFTP download fail

[waxen saddle]

I think you can have different images or something for PXE booting. You just need to point it to the right directory. Kind of hard to do if you're advertising PXE as a DHCP option on a network. You'd have to spin up another network with the correct PXE directory.

I'm assuming it's not loading the correct image.

[stable warren]

using windows server 2019 boot.wim

laptop is set to uefi/scm

it starts just shows error 4101 tftp download fail

[waxen saddle]

Does it tell you what the client was requesting?

[waxen saddle]

oh the .wim file itself

[stable warren]

just replaced network cable just to be sure (the laptop has windows 10 on it and it had internet)

[waxen saddle]

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/aa063ef0-90ef-44c7-b1b7-ce65a2a66119/issues-with-wds-after-march-2019-cumulative-update?forum=winserversetup Try changing the Maximum Block size? There's a screenshot showing it a little past halfway down the page.

[stable warren]

did google the issue and disabled the 'tftp option' variable windows extension

[waxen saddle]

Try setting the Maximum Block size to 1024.

[stable warren]

weirdly enough it works fine from vm to vm

KB4489891 isn't even installed :x

[waxen saddle]

At the very bottom, it mentions a couple of KB's that fix the issue described in the article. Do you have both of those KB's installed?

[stable warren]

only see 13 updates :x

those 2 KB's aren't in catalog anymore :x

just don't get why from server 2019 vm to 'blank' vm it works just fine lol

works just fine on VM, not so much on laptop

weird af

works fine on VM

[dusty osprey]

Uhm.

"Windows 10 Pro 20H2 Decrapify"??

[peak cloak]

lol

[tame carbon]

why does it have an H

meh

only a garbage OS requires a decrapifier

[dusty osprey]

I may be understanding this wrong but WHAT is "DeCrapifier" ™️

If I have to guess, modified windows without any bloat, and optimizations

[frozen finch]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p5kzaeLoBzUDKqH1p4cgvi2sNShFHU5i/edit

Got that from this guy's video... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdKMiFKGQuc

[waxen saddle]

That was an extremely informative and helpful video. Thanks for sharing mate.

[proud coral]

I'm searching for an LTT Video. Something with shared cloud storage trough a NAS, different users and so on. What was it, I can't remember.

[stable warren]

well it's a great vid, and yes it works, great even from server->server (esxi 7/vcenter) however it doesn't work for my laptop, and some random board i used took about 1 hour to get the installer loaded and installation itself took about 7 minutes..

@tame carbon https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-information/status-windows-10-20h2

that's right there

[thorny vector]

Why not just virtulize everything? 😄

[hollow marlin]

shhhh...two more times and Phoenix is summoned

[waxen saddle]

Let's not summon him. It's much calmer here without him.

[thorny vector]

No, he likes containers

Full fat vm's though....

[primal ice]

@peak cloak firefox will always default to ipv6 unless you tell it to ignore ipv6.

[peak cloak]

that's a shame

my ipv6 connection is slow

as in low bandwidth

latency is pretty good

[primal ice]

yeah it was one thing I fought with when I first set up my ipv6 tunnel - firefox.

[peak cloak]

maybe artifically increase ipv6 latency?

idk

[primal ice]

its nice though it acts like an ad blocker - cause most of the ad servers are only ipv4

[peak cloak]

problem is that it is realllly slow

an ipv6 speed test shows like 128kbits

[dusty osprey]

I don't know or am sure but I heard chrome actually, when you click something or link it will send v6 and v4 requests at the same time and whichever reply it gets faster it will listen to that

[primal ice]

hrm is your ISP shaping your traffic?

[peak cloak]

idk

let me look it up

weird, because other's are saying tunnelbroker had fast speeds

[primal ice]

yeah mine is wide open I get the same speeds through the tunnel as my regular ipv4 traffic. just routed differently. maybe a few milliseconds more delay . though sometimes faster depending on the servers and routes being taken.

[peak cloak]

maybe just the NY server? idk

link betwwen fios and he congested?

[primal ice]

yeah you could try another entry point.

[peak cloak]

I'll make another tunnel

[primal ice]

oh did you add ipv6 dns servers to your router?

[peak cloak]

yeah

[primal ice]

okay

[peak cloak]

let me double check, but I'm pretty sure I did

that shouldn't affect speed test though?

[primal ice]

it would affect a lot of things cause its trying to figure out the names of stuff but has to default back to ipv4 after erroring out for awhile.

My dns settings

[peak cloak]

things are a bit more complicated on an edgerouter lol

nope still slow

it's not dns

because majority of the time it's on Transferring data from <>

[primal ice]

yeah I am gonna guess your isp is treating your tunnel as like torrent traffic and bottlenecking it. (traffic shaping)

[hollow marlin]

You in NY?

[peak cloak]

NJ

close to NY

[hollow marlin]

Ah, in NY here. If I can get a tunnel I can give it a shot. Fios here too

[primal ice]

https://tunnelbroker.net/ sign up do their tests free ipv6 tunnels.

[peak cloak]

hmm, looking at this: https://forums.verizon.com/t5/Fios-Internet/IPv6-support-and-ICMP-being-blocked/td-p/897508
it could be my edgerouter

[hollow marlin]

Yeah I know how, I thought I remembered recently they announced something along the lines of the tunnels are moving to a waiting list of sort

[waxen scroll]

@hollow marlin time to move

[hollow marlin]

Tell me about it. At least Im no where near the cities

[peak cloak]

my parents kinda want to move, but on the other hand everyone they know is in the NJ/NY area

[waxen scroll]

too bad so sad its a dump

high taxes, high cost of living

NJ is trynna raise taxes cause of work at home

[hollow marlin]

Yuuuup

[still zephyr]

How can I see if I'm being ddos'd because I was on Omegle earlier and there was this brat with a fortnite poster that grabbed my ip

[waxen scroll]

watching louis' self help videos make me want NYC real estate to crash so hard

[peak cloak]

we wanted to add an extension to the house, but the tax increase made it not justifiable

[thorny vector]

-_- Can't grab someone's IP from omegle

[still zephyr]

You can

[waxen scroll]

@peak cloak dont permit the work and taxes wont go up

[still zephyr]

There's a script I've tested it

[waxen scroll]

i guess a damn extension will be noticed though

[peak cloak]

yeah, but that's sketchy, if you are out in the woods then nahh

it all depends on if neighbors report it

[thorny vector]

Huh, very well. That's a stupid implementation by omegle. @still zephyr

[peak cloak]

yeah it's P2P apparently

[still zephyr]

Yeah ik it connects the other person to your network I think it's really dumb

[peak cloak]

less server costs for them

[thorny vector]

You can monitor packet drop at your edge router. But unless you're hosting some kind of service, they have to throw an ungodly amount of traffic at you (aka, not feasible for a single person/script kiddie)

[still zephyr]

Hm, yeah probably nothing then, I was just suspicious when I was cutting out afterwards

[peak cloak]

weird how it starts and then just stops

one of the responses on ubiquity's forum

about tunnelbroker

going to try to change the tunnel to a different server then NY

[waxen scroll]

lmaooooo

[peak cloak]

hmm, after changing HE endpoints, same issue

probobly edgerouter

stupid edgerouter

[primal ice]

😒

[little schooner]

@peak cloak did you trying spinning up a pfsense instance on a laptop or something and see if you get the same outcome?

If you think it's the Edgerouter

[peak cloak]

I could, problem is that pf sense would need to internet facing

because HE needs to ping it

I don't feel like messing with it rn

[little schooner]

I see

Yeah it would have to be taken down while you do it

[peak cloak]

I have a kinda prod mc server running rn

for friends

[little schooner]

I had strong hesitation taking down a windows enterprise ca from ad

I thought everything would break right away

I put it off for like a year

[waxen scroll]

@little schooner back to the "they better hire me or else they have BIOS to do"

let them not renew, it builds character

its time to get a $80k job

[waxen saddle]

I was offered an $80k/year job.

I turned it down. That's poor money in SF.

[waxen scroll]

That's great pay in SF for entry level at a non tech company

Chicago is high cost of living too and entry would be like 40-45k

[little schooner]

@waxen scroll the bios script was so good too. It basically handled all the Dell models

It suspends Bitlocker if detected and only runs if version is older and checks if user is currently logged in. Skips if they are

Before they had to create a new script for each model

Not as efficient

@waxen scroll I think they'll renew its just they are all on vacation

[covert hornet]

Hi everyone I have a question about SMB share ACL permission in FreeNAS.
I have the following datasets
-Files
-Downloads

I want to give a user permission in Downloads but no permissions in Files. How do I do this?(edited)
right now I can only do this if I give the user permission in Files as well as Downloads

[unborn sluice]

[thick minnow]

I found all the old networking equipment my dad use to use at his old job its crazy how networking equipment has change

I feeling like a archaeologist but for computer equipment

[tame carbon]

@thick minnow what do you mean, 10BASE-T over BNC ?

[thorny vector]

@covert hornet If you still need help, let me know

[thick minnow]

@tame carbon like network switch network cards old server power supplies 1 gig network switches ect.

i could start a small network all i would need to get is just storage

[tame carbon]

@thick minnow 1G is still useful to have around

never know when you might need another NIC

[buoyant reef]

hmmm for some reason im getting only 500--700 kbps on a torrent even tho i have a 100 mbps plan

[clear igloo]

Torrents aren't direct downloads

[tame carbon]

@buoyant reef if there aren't any seeders, speed is bad

[clear igloo]

That too ^

[buoyant reef]

ah i see

[tame carbon]

@buoyant reef torrents can take a few mins to speed up

takes a while for the client to build up the DHT

it slowly discovers new peers

[tame carbon]

whats this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18xtogjz5Ow

lol fs.com

[dusty osprey]

I posted this veedio here few dais ago

xD

yeah that switch is only 25GbE for most part

Only few parts are 100gbe

What's the switching capacity on that tho

[tame carbon]

cringe

omg he touches the clean heatsinks

yes

reeee

[dusty osprey]

[clear igloo]

3.6Tbps iirc

[dusty osprey]

Mmm yes I think

[tame carbon]

ok so

https://i.imgur.com/7L8ZKeg.png

I see the thinkstation in their video

nope, not buying that

[dusty osprey]

ThreadRipper Pro.

What is that even >.>

Basically EPYC but without EPYC in the name

[tame carbon]

those thinkstations look nice, maybe buy and old one and upgrade it

[peak cloak]

I've been thinking of upgrading my "prod" server

[dusty osprey]

My onlije cloud servrr is also bad but yeah
At least it has 64gb ddr4

[peak cloak]

or I can ask about bringing home a server from school for "learning"

[odd notch]

Have your internet provider ever messed up by giving you more speed than whats in the bundle?

[peak cloak]

by how much? like 20 mbps more, yeah

it's not that they messed up

[odd notch]

My package is 50/50 Right and Right now for the past 2 weeks its 550/550

[peak cloak]

oh, by that much, wow

enjoy it

[low herald]

end of year gift 🙂

[peak cloak]

like we pay for 300/300, but this the speedtest.net speed

[little schooner]

I want that upload.

Then for work I can simply just make the labs here

and upload them to cloud

work pc isnt as great as my home pc

[peak cloak]

how bad it your upload?

[little schooner]

120/5

very bad.

[peak cloak]

ah, I had 200/30 for most of the time here

[little schooner]

even 30 would be significant

just SOMETHING

[peak cloak]

yeah, that's like more then 2x

[little schooner]

true

when i run the vms on my machine, everything is just instant

they dont have optane drives

they have those slow oem toshiba drives

[peak cloak]

maybe internal database error?

or maybe the "limiting" or whatever it's called isn't working properly in your area?

what's the max they offer?

[odd notch]

1.5gbps

[peak cloak]

yeah, probably database error

[little schooner]

@peak cloak thats a big error. Now if only that translated to bank accounts too

an extra zero wouldnt hurt

[peak cloak]

don't bank databases work on summing up transactions, not just a key value of your balance?

[little schooner]

yeah

so almost no chance for errors

[odd notch]

The funny this about this is that I connected my provider and be honest they were shocked and just had to say its working perfectly fine. we usually receive calls regards to slow internet or down and they just said enjoy it while it last.

I guess I was one of the lucky gamers to get a bonus... lol

[peak cloak]

nice ping too

1 ms

[tame carbon]

@dusty osprey so got sidetracked, continued the video

lol the windows again

and the explanation on that you need to get a special version of windows, so bad lmao

[peak cloak]

yeah ltt is not for advanced things

[covert hornet]

@covert hornet If you still need help, let me know
@thorny vector hi, yea I still need help with this

[thorny vector]

Alright, let me pull up my freenas so I can walk you through it

@covert hornet Ready?

@covert hornet

@unborn sluice Guess no help is needed. lol

[unborn sluice]

He wan't ready

[tame carbon]

https://youtu.be/Hi7Q6mmoIz8?t=51

[waxen scroll]

@tame carbon i forgot to see what happened when i tagged you on someone asking just to ask yesterday

u give them the rant?

linus rant tips

[peak cloak]

huh, so I did an iperf speed test directly from my router and it shows a much much higher speed

so maybe it's my switch??

I doubt it though

I'll try directly connecting my pc to the router next

[covert hornet]

@covert hornet
@thorny vector hey sorry I was replying with my phone. If you're still available I CA an go through it now

[thorny vector]

Yeah

although, just so you know, you'll be doing permissions with a windows box, not through the freenas web page

[dusty osprey]

wait u just said u did speedtest from router itself direcly

[peak cloak]

yeah

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo 802.1X assigned VLANs are cool!!
Mom signed into my laptop with her AD account, and she was put on VLAN 20 (main home VLAN) and UniFi shows the RADIUS user is her.
But if I sign into my laptop, I get put on VLAN 50 (my VLAN), and UniFi shows the RADIUS user is me

[covert hornet]

Ah ok that's what I had done before in freenas 9 or 11 but now that ACLs were out I tried doing that and couldn't get it to work

[peak cloak]

my logic is that the only thing between my pc and the router is the switch, so I'll try eliminating that. Before I was doing it my pc which resulted in kbits/s. The speedtest on the router eliminates a problem with the tunnel, but something with the switch and/or router

If I can get the switch out the equation I can be sure it's the router

[dusty osprey]

OH ok

I get it

what r u tunneling to exactly :p

[peak cloak]

tunnelbroker ipv6 tunnel

fios doesn't have ipv6 here, at least to my knowledge

[dusty osprey]

mmmmm

he tunnelbroker

Im to dumb to use it.

[peak cloak]

I'm trying to learn ipv6

[dusty osprey]

but

i have native v6

[peak cloak]

nice

so no need for tunnelbroker

[dusty osprey]

yea my isp actually changed ftth modems, earlier we use dto fat huawei, now we use some thin huawei

I think changing the modems (becuz we upgraded from 12 Mbit to 250 max) they also set v6

they did 250 Down, 50 UP advertised, but i think they changed their mind for the price so did 261 MAX Down, and 102ish Mbps max Upload

[rocky badge]

my ISP isn't doing native v6 yet 😦

[dusty osprey]

hmm :/

my isp blocks v4 port forwarding fully. all prots

v6 works.

on some ports

[peak cloak]

ah that sucks

[dusty osprey]

like, ssh, and stuff

80 443 is dead

[rocky badge]

lol rip

My ISP doesn't block anything 😳

[dusty osprey]

but, SSH is on? then it means i can ssh even km;s away! my isps 4g also gives v6

[rocky badge]

and I have 2 IPs from them rn, I've had 4 at once before

[peak cloak]

I didn't try 80 or 443 on fios yet, I know wireguard and 25565 work

They only explicitly block 25 I think

[rocky badge]

https://blob.rocks/hIH8P7LyNm.png

[peak cloak]

what ISP?

[rocky badge]

local

[dusty osprey]

you know whas funny? i went 160km away because family trip. ssh'ed on a top of a mountain with no one around (it was kidna middle of nowhere on a famous mountain here in UAE) and i got 35ms.

then 4 hours later when i was LIKE 1 KM near home, I sshed to my laptop, and then also checked ping

135ms.
@peak cloak

[peak cloak]

ah nice

local ISP's are better tbh

[dusty osprey]

hmm

where I live full country only 2 isp's

the govt. is strick here and regulates a lot of traffic going

[rocky badge]

I've got: Spectrum, AT&T Fiber, local ISP, Verizon 4G LTE, AT&T 4G LTE

As options

[dusty osprey]

me: du, etisalat.
also me: forget the first option, they just send all their traffic to the 2nd option 🤣

[peak cloak]

I have optimum and fios as the only 2

well technically sat internet too, but ew

well optimum is now technically altice

[clear igloo]

Yah, that's fun stuff 😄

[peak cloak]

problem with this is that my parents would say it's too complicated

[rocky badge]

Lol

its invisible to them

All they have to do

[peak cloak]

yeah ik

[rocky badge]

first.last
ur password

[peak cloak]

also I don't the experience in AD

[rocky badge]

Lol

I only have experience from home

[peak cloak]

when zenmap can't be installed from ubuntu repo because python 2 is deprecated so you need to compile it yourself from a dev build

[thorny vector]

@peak cloak Why use zenmap?

[peak cloak]

gui to nmap, is there a better tool?

[thorny vector]

just nmap

putting a gui over nmap just kinda constrains it

especially once you start using ALL the features of nmap

[peak cloak]

hmm, alright I'll take some time to learn the cli

[thorny vector]

also, you might appreciate learning some of the fun stuff you can do with netcat

[peak cloak]

hmm, like what?

[thorny vector]

Anything and everything network connection

simple p2p chat connection. Simple file transfer. CLI over simple connection

[peak cloak]

ah, ok

[thorny vector]

You dream it, and if it needs a p2p connection, netcat can do it

[tribal ferry]

What would be the best UniFi switch that is powered by 802.3af or 802.3at power and can pass through 802.3af?

[rocky badge]

https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-routing-switching/products/usw-flex
https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-routing-switching/products/unifi-switch-8
@tribal ferry These are the only two I know of that are PoE powered and passes through PoE

[tribal ferry]

I did not know the Switch 8 had PoE in, thank you! Already knew about the Switch Flex but it did seem overkill.

[peak cloak]

Speaking of poe powered switches, anyone know of like a 2-5 port poe powered managed switch thats pretty cheap. Can't run another ethernet cable from downstairs, but my father wants ethernet connection however I want to be on a separate vlan than him

[thorny vector]

Happy new years on the east coast all!

[thorny vector]

Containers and VM's united!

[blazing violet]

What is your guys recommendation for a router with these connection?

[thorny vector]

Anything, really

Does it have to be a modem/router combo?

[solar leaf]

never got such a good speed . anybody knows how to get better upload speeds?

[blazing violet]

Kinda they give us a bad router that worth about 2 USD that called ZTE f609 pretty bad to be honest I'm currently looking at 2 router I want to upgrade to the tenda ac6 and the archer a6

[solar leaf]

same but worse

from huawei

:c

[blazing violet]

If you can change it to a 5ghz

[solar leaf]

how

how do i

[blazing violet]

Go to the router setting if you could find the setting where it said 802.11

[solar leaf]

ok

[blazing violet]

There should be a lot of option 802.11b/g/n this is the standard setting if possible choose the mixed option where it combine all 3 connection if there is an option for 802.11ac choose it

[solar leaf]

ok lemme see

no such thing in settings

is it in router settings or in network adapter settings?(i was in router settings)

@blazing violet

[blazing violet]

Hmm that's weird most router have that setting, well try network adapter settings

[unborn sluice]

what if his devices don't have 5ghz

[tame carbon]

@blazing violet those tplink routers are crap

and the ZTE routers provided by ISPs I've had issues with in the past too

[blazing violet]

So should I change to archer a6 or tenda ac6?

[tame carbon]

@blazing violet are you looking for just wireless connectivity, or a router as a whole?

I'm never going to recommend tplink

[blazing violet]

Well I'm looking for something more stable so that I don't get interrupted like unstable ping when I'm playing game

[blazing violet]

If his router didn't have 5ghz it should display 802.11 b/g/n if his router did have 5ghz then another option would pop up for example 802.11ac

[unborn sluice]

[frozen cobalt]

any idea of a way to get a nas set up on windows?

[tribal ferry]

https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-routing-switching/products/usw-flex-mini

$30, 4 ports, and fully managed

[thick minnow]

Happy new year. You all hear M$ source code was accessed by the solarwinds hackers? What I cannot find out is what Microsoft was doing using their Orion product in the first place? Surely they would/should be using home grown Azure network monitoring and management tools?!

[dusty osprey]

Wait, really?

[thick minnow]

yeah

[peak cloak]

@tribal ferry from the looks of it, I need to setup unifi controller? I can't manage it without it?

[tribal ferry]

@peak cloak Only when you want to control it.

You’ll only loose statistics by not running it 24/7

You can run it on your computer and turn it on when you need to manage it

Or, if you have a homelab server or unused computer, you can install it on there and run it 24/7

[peak cloak]

Oh ok

Then price is pretty good for that, surprisingly for ubiquity

[lean pebble]

Hello

[thick minnow]

Hello

[thorny vector]

@thick minnow Because azure tools are for azure. When it comes to managing datacenter hosts, there aren't many competitors for Orion.

There's a reason why EVERYONE got bent over by this hack.

[peak cloak]

usually downloads are measured in megaBYTES

internet speed tests are in megaBITS

8 bits in a byte

also your connection to a speedtest server may be faster than the actual server you are downloading from (this is usually the case)

@thick minnow

[peak cloak]

I bet you don't

no ISP measures in bytes

that would be 4 gigabit