networking

[hollow marlin]

If you're setting your address statically to what you got when it was set to DHCP and your provider has the best practice configs, you'll lose connectivity when the lease runs out. Otherwise you're going to have connectivity issues eventually as your router will be competing via ARP with another customer and when they eventually discover the issue, they'll disconnect you until you revert your changes

[candid leaf]

if i use cloudflare dns (located in california) while i'm in pennsylvania, will the connection speed be slower because of how far I am?

[peak cloak]

1. cloudflare servers are not just in Cali
2. DNS does not affect speed

[clever hamlet]

DNS just connects you to the website. Cloudflare and Google have pretty fast DNS. But it doesnt affect your internet speed. Your speed is how much you paid for by your ISP. DNS will just render the website, regardless of browser speed, by doing a DNS request or callback. Some DNS service is faster at making requests and callback from others. But you are still hindered by your internet speed provided by your ISP.

[peak cloak]

DNS does not directly render site.
What it does it lookup what IP to connect to for a given domain name.

Basically every public DNS uses something called anycast, where you can have hundreds of servers around the world that have the same IP. So you will be routed to the closest server.

[clever hamlet]

I suggest using Cloudflare's 1.1.1.2 as it does malware protection and using 8.8.8.8 as your second DNS

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo charged a customer $115 for getting a switch, sending it for RMA, and setting up a temporary switch.

[inland creek]

is it normal that enabling native ipv6 on my router for my ISP would result in a 3-4x increase in latency? I had thought that it should technically be about the same if not lower

[chrome pollen]

do any of you guys have a telus wifi hub

i need some help lol

[silent spruce]

have a little issue when using IKEv2
it randomly disconnecting
and doesn't happen with TCP

UDP has same issue though less frequent

this sucks because TCP is a lot slower but IKEv2 got me kicked of game servers too many times

[lunar junco]

My WiFi adapter has been causing problems lately, it’s been turning off automatically whenever I play games (EVERY GAME) . I’ve tried everything, I’ve reinstalled the WIFI adapter driver, I’ve tried a hard shutdown, I’ve done a normal reset and a factory reset, I updated my bios, I’ve changed my router, I’ve disabled and enabled the WiFi adapter and the problem still isn’t resolved.

every time it turns of i have to run the troubleshooter , sometimes the troubleshooter solves the problem but other wise i have to perform a network reset or restart my laptop

is there anything else i should try?

[clear igloo]

That's it? You need to start higher for the prices 😛

[rocky badge]

😂

@clear igloo this fucking airmax shit uses 24v poe

[clear igloo]

RIP 😦

[rocky badge]

not 802.3af

@clear igloo https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/783396415921324052/996782126689173606/IMG_4629.jpg

but yeah the switch was toast

[clear igloo]

ouch, yah that's toast

[rocky badge]

no sys led or act leds

[clear igloo]

yup, dead

[rocky badge]

its already in UPS's possession

back to Draper, Utah you go!

[clear igloo]

lol

[static moat]

Coax cable ---> router in modem mode ----> this router

I literally cant set it to dynamic

It wont detect the network automatically

And in the country im in, the IP unless having changed router, has been the same ALWAYS

[velvet jolt]

Hello. I'm a beginner. My work gave me a free i5-6500 8gb ram HP prodesk 600 g2 without the drive. I want to learn how to make servers. I want maybe to make a NAS or host things on it. I have a 512gb nvme drive lying around as an external ssd and a 256gb Sata SSD in my main PC I don't need. Idk if it can boot from nvme. Would it be fine to just use an HDD or would it be worth it to use the ssds? Do I need more storage? Also should I get more RAM?

[sudden kayak]

definitely use the nvme as a boot drive, it will make things much faster

use a hard drive for bulk storage for the NAS

[velvet jolt]

Is 512gb nvme enough for server?

[carmine moss]

for a nas you want at least 2 hdd's of the same size in raid on or zfs

a 16gb usb is good enough for boot

4gb is enough depending on os

[velvet jolt]

I have just 1 2tb SSD. Redundancy isn't big deal as I'm really doing this for learning experience rather than actually needing a nas.

[sudden kayak]

good enough for boot, but nvme will be much better for any IO intensive software

[velvet jolt]

Should I upgrade to 16gb ram or is 8 gb enough?

[sudden kayak]

8 is fine to just try out as a NAS

[carmine moss]

8gb is enough depends on what you do if you upgrade

still would learn with zfs or raid array even for learning

can be some used 1 tb hdd's or 2tb hdd's

[velvet jolt]

Would proxmox Bea good place to start? Like to host multiple things?

[carmine moss]

yeah would boot that of a usb and use an ssd as vm storage

and then 1 or 2 hdd's for the nas part

[velvet jolt]

Thank you for your help.

[velvet jolt]

Should I worry about my ISP banning me or something for hosting the server?

Spectrum

[clear igloo]

What kind of server? If you're hosting a minecraft server or something for friends and you're not impacting their network (ie being DDoSed constantly) then they don't care

[velvet jolt]

I was thinking a NAS, web server, VPN,minecraft, and/or hosting things like bitwarden or nextcloud. Maybe not all at once. And really only used be me

[clear igloo]

I would highly advise against publicly hosting a NAS and stuff with files stored on it

VPN though to access that stuff would be fine

[velvet jolt]

Would the VPN need to be a different device? I have a raspberry pi

[waxen scroll]

no

[velvet jolt]

So if I make all my servers local but make a VPN, I will be fine with my ISP?

[waxen scroll]

yep

[velvet jolt]

I already have a VPN with my pi, except it's not working because my ISP switched us to ipv6 and their router won't let me forward with ipv6. Lol

[clear igloo]

You don't forward IPv6 in most cases

[peak cloak]

Just open firewall for a specific port / address

[velvet jolt]

It doesn't have any firewall settings sadly. It's very barebones

[peak cloak]

Yeah, Problem is many vendors didnt properly support v6

[clear igloo]

If Spectrum hasn't changed since I had them they still refresh your IPV6 prefix on every modem reboot, 11/10 security

[wanton cypress]

Anybody know of any good cheap routers for like gaming that can have more then 20 people on the network at one time?

[wintry flare]

well 20 people doesn't tell anything.. are all 20 of those people going to watching youtube at 4k or watching netflix/hulu/etc or just kinda sitting there doing email and basic web browsing?

and what if your internet up/down rn

[meager ginkgo]

@wanton cypress

[wanton cypress]

what

[meager ginkgo]

what are the 20 people doing on the network

[wintry flare]

and what's your upstream internet up/down?

[wanton cypress]

playing video games

[meager ginkgo]

if you want a decent experience it's not gonna be super cheap

Do your devices have wifi 6 and or wifi 6e?

[wanton cypress]

i just need something that can provide better internet like no more then $120

[wintry flare]

ok what is your internet up/down?

[meager ginkgo]

how big is the place you're in also

[wintry flare]

cause like 90% of what's going to cause issues is the internet up/down saturation well before your router gets overloaded

[peak cloak]

And most of the time it's wifi not the actual router

[wintry flare]

i mean unless you're rocking multi-gig internet any real upgrade to your router/switch etc is only going to provide better speeds internally rather than to the internet

[wanton cypress]

It is pretty small

[wintry flare]

if everyone is on wifi then having wifi ap's help spread the load out a little

[meager ginkgo]

you don't necessarily need multi gig internet to saturate an average router.

[wintry flare]

but if you have 400 down 100 up or something like that to the internet any recent router/switch even those provided by ISP's can handle that without issue

[wanton cypress]

ok any good access points you guys recomend

[peak cloak]

TP-Link Omada is pretty good for the price

[meager ginkgo]

It would probably be better to just get an all in one unit for your price range

[peak cloak]

I have 1 for the whole house

[meager ginkgo]

assuming you don't have another router.

[wintry flare]

true but given how slow most internet is (relative) most routers can handle traffic to the internet just fine.. it's usually internal you start having issues

[wanton cypress]

ok

any good recomendations for an all in one unit or just a router

[meager ginkgo]

what country?

[rocky badge]

I still can't decide what router i want to bring to uni

[meager ginkgo]

does your uni allow you to use your own router?

[rocky badge]

They say no "routers" but they mean access points

Anything is allowed as long as it doesn't emit WiFi

[peak cloak]

Im bringing hex s

I have one so why not

[rocky badge]

I'm debating ER-X, a used fortigate, or pfSense

I can do either IPSec or ZeroTier for S2S back home

[wanton cypress]

U.S

[peak cloak]

Yeah I have er-x for home , will prob use zerotier to connect the 2 sites

[wanton cypress]

they do because I think people have bought there own but I just want to know recommendations for one

[peak cloak]

I mean you could prob sneak wifi in, just name it like bob's iphone

[meager ginkgo]

https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Amazon-eero-tri-band-system/dp/B0866YH121/

slightly over your budget but probably the best option

and you can always add future nodes for more range

[wintry flare]

he hasn't told us what is internet up/down is so not even sure if upgrading the router will even do anything for him regarding internet speeds

[wanton cypress]

yeah all I heard was this room has very slow internet

[full vigil]

hey guys so I’m currently looking for a good router/mini pc that can run pfsense without any problem and that doesn’t exceed the 150$. It’s for home usage. Thanks!

[wintry flare]

https://shop.netgate.com/products/1100-pfsense

it exceeds your $150 limit by 39 bucks

[full vigil]

that’s nice

thanks

[wintry flare]

i found it by going to pfsense.org and looking at the products they ahve listed

[full vigil]

ik they have more hardware but that completely exceeds my budget

I also checked out the Protectli vault mini pcs and those are nice but hella expensive

[wintry flare]

you might be able to find it elsewhere for cheaper

possibly even ebay

[peak cloak]

not a fan of pfsense personally

[twilit lichen]

can someone give me a hand setting up a storage server

[twilit lichen]

...

it says i need a company email to use pulseway

also jesus pulseway is expensive

[peak cloak]

I've never seen anyone actually use pulseway in business

there are much better tools

[wintry flare]

iv'e seen it used in small businesses (like 4-10 people) where there is no-hand IT staff

[wintry flare]

Fujitsu S920: might be good.. there's a non-LMG youtuber that has a video about using that to make a budget opewrt, pfsense, opnsense) router

might provide you with a different option

[full vigil]

yeah i just searched it and it seems nice

[full vigil]

ok thanks mate!

[wintry flare]

that video just popped up my youtube recommends 😛

[carmine moss]

It's interesting that video tho depends on that you need etc as now Chinese boxes are starting to appear and probably price of those systems are going up because that video

[wintry flare]

need raspberry pi's to get a weee bit more powerful and maybe have a pcie lane >_>

you could do a raspi as a pfsense box depending on what your bandwidth through put needs are

the last company i worked for bought a crapload of raspi 3's and built these little custom pfsense boxes that sat between our work computer and the rest of the network so they could firewall each machine individually

they were a little paranoid

[twilit lichen]

First ever server build! Works beautifully! Raid 0

[peak cloak]

Raid 0....

Disaster waiting to happen

[twilit lichen]

Idk it’s a two way mirror set up

[peak cloak]

Thats raid 1

[twilit lichen]

Idk which raid does what lol I have it set as a two way. I followed the old pc server vid

[carmine moss]

Raid 0 is no redundancy just speed raid 1 is redundancy

[twilit lichen]

Ah ok. So yea it has redundancy

I’m very much new to servers

[wintry flare]

i need a raid 1+C designation

that auto sync to cloud storage

[peak cloak]

That's just off-site backup

[wintry flare]

yeah but it'd be nice to configure it so it's not something that has to be setup explicitly 😛

[peak cloak]

Uhh? You have to either way

[velvet jolt]

Turns out the desktop for proxmox doesn't have any m.2 or Nvme. Is a 256gb 840 evo with 2tb drive enough or should I get a 1 tb sata SSD?

[peak cloak]

Wdym by doesn't have

[velvet jolt]

There is no slot for m.2

[peak cloak]

Oh, I thought you meant desktop environment and was really confused

[peak cloak]

Personally what I have is a drive dedicated to proxmox OS which isn't that big, and then have all the VM storage on a seperate zfs pool

But one big ssd should be fine

Depends what you are using it for

[velvet jolt]

How big is your small SSD?

[peak cloak]

250

And then the pool is right now just 2 mirrored hdds

I did have some VM storage on the SSD, but majority is on the hdds

[velvet jolt]

I see. Hmm. Is it very write intensive? The SSD I have is like 8 years old. Lol

[peak cloak]

Proxmox itself I don't see why it would be. All it's writing really are config files, assuming the actual storage is separate

[velvet jolt]

Thank you for your help.

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/vyexye/let_the_deployment_begin/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

[dense sphinx]

so, i have very high upload and download but im still experiencing lag on my computer?

could anyone help trouble shoot?

[wintry flare]

o_o

42 ping ouch

[dense sphinx]

idk what the problem is

my internet was just fine yesterday

and now im getting 300+ ping on my games

[wintry flare]

unplug your router, wait 10 seconds and plug it back in

[dense sphinx]

i tried that earlier

[wintry flare]

call you ISP

[dense sphinx]

this always happens around this time of the month

it'll just go to shit half way through

last time i called they said it was because of all the people using the internet with zoom meetings and stuff but thats bs

[wintry flare]

are you on wifi or directly connected to the router?

[dense sphinx]

directly connected

[wintry flare]

welp your options are just waiting it out.. buying a new router or turning off the wifi on your router and checking your speed with just you using it

[dense sphinx]

wow

what router do you use?

[wintry flare]

the one that my ISP gave me

[dense sphinx]

what isp are you buying from?

[wintry flare]

AT&T Gigapower

[dense sphinx]

oh its fiber optic stuff

thats pretty cool

[wintry flare]

yup.. just wish the gear they give you would let me just bypass it >_>

run it in pass through mode would be nice

[dense sphinx]

nah cuz wtf is this :/

[lime pebble]

Anyone know the best load balance router for business use? other than that tp link made

[pale ridge]

Load balance how?

What are you trying to load balance

[lime pebble]

Trying to merge 2 isp into 1, does zenwifi pro et12 will work in this case, or i need something like linksys lrt224?

[pale ridge]

Ummmm how?

Like bgp?

Traffic engineer?

You are taking a full table or domestic plus default from both telcos?

Do you mean to use active active or for failover?

[jaunty talon]

I am pretty sure @lime pebble just want's to have two incoming connections from different ISP's in same router ;) Based on the routers he speaks about using :)

[inland creek]

That site seems kinda unreliable for speed/latency tests, top is speedof.me bottom is speedtest.net:

[dense sphinx]

what site should i use?

[inland creek]

the ones I tend to use are speedtest.net, fast.com and speed.cloudflare.com

[dense sphinx]

this is what i got

[inland creek]

so your ping is high generally and looks like it gets really high when your connection is being maxed out download wise

got any other devices connected to the router you can test on?

[dense sphinx]

and so what does that mean for me

i do.. but they're sleeping there

could i message you tomorrow for more help though?

[inland creek]

wait till they wake up and try on theirs, if the ping is as bad then it is either a router issue or isp issue

[dense sphinx]

what if the ping is good?

[inland creek]

then it could be a bad ethernet cable, dodgy drivers or some other issue with the ethernet in your pc

[peak cloak]

what you want is dual wan

whats the budget, we deploy sophos to customers

if you want the best it's $$$

[sudden kayak]

i would strongly not recommend something like sophos for home use

you're paying a ton of extra money for fancy software features & security stuff that makes zero sense for a home setting, plus the extra processing overhead to run all of it

any of the ubiquiti stuff can do dual wan and it's a solid prosumer option

any basic pfsense/opnsense/openwrt/vyos box can do it

[peak cloak]

they said for business

[clear igloo]

All the wifi!!

[sudden kayak]

i mean they said for business but also asked about zenwifi or an older Linksys unit, so i think it's safe to assume their needs & price range are not the sophos kind of business use case... seems like they're more looking for SOHO type stuff

[dense sphinx]

its the same pretty much..

i think it might be an isp issue but idk

we have an amplify router if that means anything

[inland creek]

do you have a sep modem or are you full fibre?

[dense sphinx]

im not sure what either of those means? i know we dont have fiber optic connections

or what ever

[inland creek]

is there a separate unit that goes to your router before it splits out to your devices?

[dense sphinx]

i think so

ill take some pictures of what we have

[inland creek]

I'd expect that to have an issue before any of the amplifi kit, that stuff is generally rock solid

[dense sphinx]

Besides the amplify router thing

Those are the two things we have

[inland creek]

top one is modem

by the looks

could be that or the switch tbh having issues

if it isn't the isp itself/wiring to your place

I'd get on to your isp and don't let up when they try and blame other stuff

they love to avoid sending out engineers

[dense sphinx]

I remember the last time they sent someone out it like fixed it

ill try calling them though thank you for the advice

[hollow marlin]

Thats because tech dispatches are a significant cost

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo Asking around at uni about ITS networking jobs

[clear igloo]

Nice, best of luck

[waxen scroll]

I might be able to get you an internship with an F500 network team 🤔 . What are you going to school for?

[rocky badge]

comp sci lol

[waxen scroll]

perfect. thats what they like to hire for internships

its dumb... hiring coders for network internships, whatever. lol

our program is already half way over but theres always next year

[inland creek]

it's not that dumb there is plenty of overlap

[wintry flare]

automation of networking tasks 😛

[waxen scroll]

the problem is that network is very complex and 99% of the people we get have 0 base knowledge. So its hard to get them enough knowledge to participate in engineering work and none of that is code, at least on my team. We do have a team for network automation.

[rocky badge]

it's technically a computer science degree but my focus is cybersec + modern networking

so i take the base computer science courses then do other stuff

[clear igloo]

Remember, you can fit more 1s down the tubes than 0s so always try to keep the bits 1

[waxen scroll]

Also depending on the person because they're not coding they arent as engaged in the internship

[wintry flare]

@waxen scroll they may also be trying to entice them away from software dev and into network engineering

[inland creek]

that sounds like more of a filtering issue on recruitment

as most comp sci courses at least here offer networking as an option

[waxen scroll]

yep absolutely, they need to do better

my team and manager has very little say

[inland creek]

gotta love corpo recruitment

[waxen scroll]

however, if i press the issue its possible I can get them to extend an offer to blobby rather than this game of roll the dice

😛

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo @waxen scroll uni has vacant network tech and network support positions lol

[inland creek]

they should welcome referrals

less work right

[rocky badge]

they want cisco experienced people

[clear igloo]

take the tech role, support is usually printers

Printer no worky, I smash with hammer, network guy fix?

[rocky badge]

Makes sense since they are all Cisco though

[clear igloo]

Yah, helps to know the environment you're working with

[waxen scroll]

@rocky badge you could touch a network where if you make an outage it might be in the news. exciting right?

[rocky badge]

trying to stay away from the right half of the org chart

[waxen scroll]

if they say no, why not work in media?

[inland creek]

I like how every coder is a senior even the vacant ones

[waxen scroll]

setup A/V for events

[rocky badge]

Yeah

I'm already working with the esports team with live streaming and shit lol

Job Summary    
The Department of Information Technology Services is seeking applications for a Senior Network Engineer. Information Technology Services (ITS) provides the highest quality technology services to students, faculty, and staff and delivers technologies that advance the University’s academic, research, and administrative goals. The Senior Network Engineer reports to the Assistant CIO for Networking/Telecom and Classrooms leading network team in day to day operations. Steers network team for connectivity: 115+ HSU Buildings, 18+ remote sites, 10+ medical facilities. Manage 221 communications rooms, 3000+ network devices (switches, routers, access points), and 26,000+ network drops. Provide and manage network services through specialized (Cisco) devices including: Traffic filtering devices, VoIP Gateway, wireless networking, Wireless LAN controllers, management and monitoring devices, etc. Lead the networking team for the installation and maintenance of the network. Oversee network request and needs including: IOS updates, device configuration, moves, adds, changes, repairs, upgrades, troubleshooting, etc. Maintain network related databases including DHCP, DNS, network subnets, device inventory, etc.

[waxen scroll]

i used to do contract work in school where I would design/operate lights for events (not for the school tho)

[wintry flare]

Just put it all in the cloud! sarcasm

[rocky badge]

They use AWS for a lot of stuff lol

AWS runs the SIS, D2L, and virtual desktops/apps

[waxen scroll]

what exactly do you mean by "modern networking" anyway

[wintry flare]

that's where i specialize.. custom cloud deployment architecture and landing zones

[rocky badge]

they call "modern networking" IoT, wireless, mobility, and shiz lol

[inland creek]

gotta love the shoehorned in math

[rocky badge]

@clear igloo wait so if my uni has 3 ISE PANs how many PSNs do/could they have

or can PANs run authentication alongside administration?

[clear igloo]

PAN can do both or just admin depending on how they deployed it

[rocky badge]

oh

[wintry flare]

I wonder if somewhere in the dark corners of a uni tech closet there is still a token ring installed

[clear igloo]

Almost certainly, they send the bad students there

[rocky badge]

😂

[wintry flare]

i've gone into a networking closet at my old uni and saw hubs in the rack

usually in the liberal arts college's networking closet

and in the College of Science physics area

[rocky badge]

i wonder what my uni's access layers are

I know at one point they had 3750v2*

[clear igloo]

Depends on the refresh cycle, probably 3850s or 9300s but if they're ordering new now probably still 3750s 😛

[rocky badge]

😂

[waxen scroll]

I used to work at a place that had decom token ring in all their buildings from decades ago. It was fun seeing all of the signage from the 80s-90s like "Please contact <manager who still works here but promoted in the 90s> for assistance"

[waxen scroll]

I still have a few 4-pin token ring to 8pin Rj-45 adapters in my bag

the campus for that was built in the 60s I think

[rocky badge]

lol

i assume 2nd 10gig connection means 2nd 10gig wan services

@clear igloo not duo 😩 2. Proposed DUO if MS don’t work

[clear igloo]

lol, they're about the same these days

[rocky badge]

vi. Fortifying the settings on existing Firewalls, Cisco AMP, and Umbrella

[clear igloo]

AMP is pretty nice and lightweight so long as you're not pushing over a couple gigs on Windows

[rocky badge]

2. VPN for everyone will be rolled back and go to VPN requests. lmao

[clear igloo]

lol

[rocky badge]

oh i guess for covid

they gave everyone vpn rights

[clear igloo]

Makes sense

[rocky badge]

👀

[peak cloak]

I should look too

[waxen scroll]

https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/vz1epf/my_vlans_no_longer_work/

Just delete them. So 90s

[dry bronze]

Probably could find it in an lldp packet

[rocky badge]

not on campus rn lol

@clear igloo https://imgur.com/CvGyB1t

At least internet in the dorms isn't as bad as it used to be

[mystic nebula]

Hi, ive just recently finished my pc build and i set it up and everything. But i cant receive any wifi or anything even though i connected the wifi adapter to my motherboard. The only option they give me is still only ethernet does anyone know why?

[meager ginkgo]

You probably need to install the drivers.

[mystic nebula]

How do i install the drivers?

[meager ginkgo]

What’s the model number of the card?

Or is it built into the motherboard

[mystic nebula]

I think its already in the motherboard

Because i never had to install any cards

[meager ginkgo]

What’s the motherboard model?

[mystic nebula]

Its a TUF Gaming B660M-Plus wifi D4

[meager ginkgo]

Windows 11 or 10?

[mystic nebula]

Im using window 10 but the motherboard says windows 11 ready

[meager ginkgo]

ok. I just looked it up, looks like that motherboard doesn't include wifi.

[mystic nebula]

Oh

So what should i do?

[meager ginkgo]

You can get a PCIe card with wifi

for around $30

[mystic nebula]

Is there one you would recommend?

[meager ginkgo]

give me a sec, looking on Amazon

[mystic nebula]

Okay thanks

[meager ginkgo]

https://www.amazon.com/EDUP-Bluetooth-Wireless-Network-Adapter/dp/B0832MR4WB/

this one looks fine.

[mystic nebula]

Okay yea and how would i install it?

[meager ginkgo]

it would clip into this slot similar to how a GPU would.

wait.

does yours have that antenna thing?

[mystic nebula]

Yea

I have it plugged in right now

[meager ginkgo]

Ok. my bad. I was looking at the wrong motherboard..

[mystic nebula]

Oh no worries

[mystic nebula]

I have it plugged in and i still cant receive any though

[meager ginkgo]

Can you go into device manager then network adapters and see what the model is?

should look like this

[mystic nebula]

This is what i have

[meager ginkgo]

Hmm. Looks like it's not getting detected for some reason

[mystic nebula]

Oh

[meager ginkgo]

Is it enabled in the BIOS?

[mystic nebula]

I dont think i enabled it

How do i enable it?

[meager ginkgo]

Check and see if you have an option there

One sec

[mystic nebula]

Ok ill head into bios

[meager ginkgo]

does it look like this?

[mystic nebula]

Hold on

Its like this

[meager ginkgo]

press f7

[mystic nebula]

Now this

[meager ginkgo]

ok, go to advanced then onboard devices configuration

do you see connectivity mode?

[mystic nebula]

Yea

[meager ginkgo]

is it enabled?

[mystic nebula]

Yea

[meager ginkgo]

hmm. Can you plug the pc into ethernet temporarily?

[mystic nebula]

I dont have a router close enough for me

I have a wifi booster but the connection is poor and wont work

My GNA Device is off thoug

[meager ginkgo]

I'm thinking it's a driver issue if it's on in the BIOS. but I can't seem to find the drivers online outside of their utility

[mystic nebula]

Am i suppose to activate it in someway?

[meager ginkgo]

Found it I think.

[mystic nebula]

Oh?

[meager ginkgo]

Do you have a spare flash drive and another computer you can use?

[mystic nebula]

Yea i do

[meager ginkgo]

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/19351/windows-10-and-windows-11-wi-fi-drivers-for-intel-wireless-adapters.html

download that onto the usb

[mystic nebula]

Ok hold on I’ll download it

[rocky badge]

@peak cloak I'm still debating on what router to bring to uni lol

might just go for the ER-X tbh

its just sitting in a box rn, it runs zerotier and ipsec

and has enough ports to where i don't need to use a switch

[mystic nebula]

There is 2

[meager ginkgo]

64 bit one is the one you want

[meager ginkgo]

top one

[mystic nebula]

Okay yea its done

[mystic nebula]

Do i exit bios?

[meager ginkgo]

Yes boot into Windows

then insert the USB and launch the EXE you should have downloaded onto the usb

[mystic nebula]

Run as administrator?

[meager ginkgo]

yes

[mystic nebula]

Ok im installing it

[meager ginkgo]

It will probably prompt you to reboot. Let me know if that fixes it

[mystic nebula]

Okay

[mystic nebula]

Oh it does fix it

Thank you so much man

[meager ginkgo]

Cool. After you connect to wifi, download the Asus app that goes with your motherboard (whatever that is) and install the rest of the drivers so everything works correctly and you should be good after that.

[mystic nebula]

Is the app on the asus website b

?*

[meager ginkgo]

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards-Components/Motherboards/TUF-Gaming/TUF-GAMING-B660M-PLUS-D4/HelpDesk_Download/

scroll down and download armoury crate

[mystic nebula]

Oh im already downloading that

[meager ginkgo]

you should be good then

[mystic nebula]

The second i got connected to the wifi it asked me to

Okay and is that all that i needed?

[meager ginkgo]

yep! you should be fine now

[mystic nebula]

Although i am connected to the wifi, it still says this

[meager ginkgo]

does it say no internet over the wifi icon in the taskbar?

[mystic nebula]

It says there is

[meager ginkgo]

Did you reboot yet?

[mystic nebula]

Oh i have to reboot?

[meager ginkgo]

I would try to reboot to see if that fixes it

[mystic nebula]

OkAy

[mystic nebula]

Yea it still says the same thing for some reason

[meager ginkgo]

Does anything other than edge work?

[mystic nebula]

I tried mail and it seems i cant load into that either

[meager ginkgo]

ok. Go to Settings then Network & Internet and look for Network Troubleshooter

[mystic nebula]

And choose wifi to diagnose right?

[meager ginkgo]

Yes

[mystic nebula]

It says they couldn’t identify the problem

[meager ginkgo]

try these steps in Command prompt as administrator.

[mystic nebula]

I just did it

[mystic nebula]

Should I restart after?

[meager ginkgo]

Try it without restarting first

[peak cloak]

Might as well. Can't go wrong, it's still my main router....

[mystic nebula]

Okay yea thank you very much anyways

[meager ginkgo]

I'm out of ideas honestly. I'm starting to think you may need to reinstall Windows. Ask in #tech-chat-1 and see if anyone has any suggestions

[mystic nebula]

Thanks very much though

[meager ginkgo]

no problem.

[rocky badge]

Got ZeroTier setup on it lol

[peak cloak]

Custom package I assume

I should set that up

[rocky badge]

nah

regular install script

https://kruyt.org/zerotier-on-a-ubiquiti-edgerouter/
https://blog.kruyt.org/zerotier-on-edgerouter-p2/

[candid leaf]

So lets say I have a vpn. I wanna play a game like lets just say valorant with my friend, but hes in europe, and im in NA. I connect the vpn to europe. I then queue into a game with him. Would I still lag?

[rocky badge]

yes

[pseudo blade]

Of course. The VPN will add overhead and make it a bit worse too.

[peak cloak]

it's a big distance

you can't break physics

[sudden kayak]

i mean it is very possible that if your ISP has particularly bad peering and gets a route that is not ideal, a VPN could help you end up with a better overall route and reduce the overall lag despite the overhead

but that's a particular situation and you're still not going to be able to break the laws of physics

[paper dock]

So my clg wifi has a firewall on for everything until 6 pm. This itself isn't super bad but things like steam, epicgames, valorant etc are blocked at all times

Is there a way to get arnd this

Going the pirate route won't work either cuz it doesn't allow torrents like most school wifis

[thick minnow]

if i buy a new router can i access the router webpage login? im not sure if my isp lets me access it currently

[chrome pollen]

uhhhh what

just type in the local ip of your router

[thick minnow]

i can access the webpage but not login, i dont know if my isp lets me access it because ive called and they said i dont think you can use it or somethin prob so i wouldnt mess it it up but

[unborn sluice]

have you tried asking them for the login

[thick minnow]

yes a while ago

isnt there a way to factory reset it also if i were to buy a gaming router i could just access the router right?

[unborn sluice]

do you have the gaming login though

[thick minnow]

i ordered a router so im wondering if the isp can still control the routers settings so like i can update the firmware and stuff do settings on it itself
it could be because the isp owns the router/modem combo they could not give it out idk

[unborn sluice]

but you would need to plug the gaming router into the isp router

[thick minnow]

well i would need to get a modem from them so i wonder if i could just login to the gamin router

[unborn sluice]

do you have the gaming login though

[thick minnow]

not yet no

because i dont have the router,

[north crystal]

Idk if anyone here is good with MoCA connections for a replacement for wired ethernet, But I was wondering If I had a Verizon G3100 router if I could use an older version of MoCA adapter at my PC end since I would only need Gigabit ethernet speeds and not the 2.5 offered by MoCA 2.5. For example would I be able to use a 2.0 or a 1.1 adapter and connect it to my router which is MoCA 2.5 compatable. Thank you for any help!

[worn viper]

Is Xiaomi ax3200 worth it for 60 eruos?

[chrome pollen]

ok, scratch everything.

1. if you can't login to your router/modem/ap web page, always use administrator as username, and your wifi password.
2. if you can't do that, contact your isp.
3. if they don't help, ask for a modem, remove old gear, and also purchase a router.

4. you jave your line (coax, dsl, fiber,) and thar goes to your modem

run an ethernet cable from the modem to your router

your router will be separate from your isp gear

5. if none of that works, your explaining your problem wrong lol

[thick minnow]

ok i tried a lot of passwords for it currently like admin admin just admin a lot others so

i already bought a new router so i will get a modem from isp and i should be able to login because of new router

[chrome pollen]

yea

makesure your router has a built-in ap, if you don't have one

[thick minnow]

ok

it’s an asus rog rapture i think

[meager ginkgo]

Yes - MoCA is backwards compatible.

[zealous ledge]

not sure if this is the right place to ask but could i run a minecraft server off of two raspberry pis

like a minecraft server for like 10 people at most to play

well first of all can i even connect two raspberry pis

[thick minnow]

yea u could but would have to be limited plugins etc how much ram? does it have

[zealous ledge]

i would probably get two 8 gig pis

[meager ginkgo]

why not just get an older used dell optiplex mini or something along those lines?

[zealous ledge]

because i want minimal space taken up on my desk

[meager ginkgo]

2 8gb pis is probably gonna be significantly more expensive than a small dell optiplex

[zealous ledge]

300

whats a dell optiplex price

[meager ginkgo]

depends where you're at

[zealous ledge]

well around

[meager ginkgo]

I can get a 16gb ram one in the US for like $175

[zealous ledge]

hmm

interesting

[meager ginkgo]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/403730703757?hash=item5e0039a58d:g:CuwAAOSwPMRisfkN

[zealous ledge]

eh

this

i dont want like a flat box i was gonna get like a pi tower

anyway

im gonna switch channels because what i have to ask about now isnt related to network

[clear igloo]

ooof, that's pretty bad

[peak cloak]

Can't connect things up like that

[zealous ledge]

wdym

[peak cloak]

You can't cluster a single server

[zealous ledge]

darn

[peak cloak]

For mc

[zealous ledge]

i swear ive seen people do that though

[peak cloak]

You can have 2 servers

[zealous ledge]

they got like a whole bunch of pis and ran one server

[peak cloak]

Just not one server on both

[peak cloak]

Not a mc server

[zealous ledge]

eah it was an mc 😭

[peak cloak]

That are other applications that can be, Minecraft definitely can't

[peak cloak]

Link?

[zealous ledge]

i will look again for it

oh nevermind it wasnt them running at the same time it was if one failed

my bad i was wrong you were right

good job 👍

an actual network question now

in what scenarios would it be needed to use one of these and what exactly do they do

is it almost like an ethernet splitter or something

so you can turn like one ethernet connection into 5

[warm latch]

extra ethernet

[zealous ledge]

so if i were to like run ethernet through my new house would i use one of those to connect things like my pc, a console, and maybe some pis

[warm latch]

if youve used all avaliable ports on ur router

[meager ginkgo]

You only have 1 ethernet port and you need 4 devices connected to ethernet

[warm latch]

id guess so

[zealous ledge]

alright

thanks

[peak cloak]

yes, kinda

[zealous ledge]

im assuming its slowed down speeds a bit or is it the same

[peak cloak]

no

kinda

the total bandwidth is limited to the upsteam bandwidth, which in this case is gigabit

it's not like you are better than gigabit as internet

[meager ginkgo]

Only thing i've noticed with cheaper switches is for example, let's say a computer is running a speedtest, the other devices slow down

[peak cloak]

it's that something with flow control?

[meager ginkgo]

no clue. It's an unmanaged switch

[peak cloak]

don't know much about it

[peak cloak]

even unmanaged ones say they support it

have to read more about it

[meager ginkgo]

yeah idk then. My 16 port doesn't seem to have the issue

[peak cloak]

like it's not a 50/50 split?

just one device uses all the bandwidth?

[meager ginkgo]

wdym

no it's not

I had my M1 Air connected and my desktop, tried to run a speedtest to see what would happen on both at the same time and the one that started first would always get full speed while the other one would be limited to like 10mbps

[zealous ledge]

dang

[peak cloak]

yeah flow control is 802.3X, have to read more about it

[zealous ledge]

so what would happen if two devices require very fast internet speeds

would it just choose

[meager ginkgo]

it should be fine as long as you aren't maxing out the bandwidth

[peak cloak]

usually it's a 50/50 split (if maxing out bandwidth)

[zealous ledge]

ah

[peak cloak]

your router has an internal switch within in already

[zealous ledge]

my router is in the direction of red arrow and my room is in the direction of blue arrow i am using a google thing right now for ethernet 💀

[chrome pollen]

be careful lol, some buildings do have splitters, to separate poe from poe + data. it's called a switch xD its called that because instead of splitting signals, It decides where packets go. imagine a rail way, and there are 4 exits. someone has to know where the train goes, and needs to know which train to switch over.

[zealous ledge]

ah

[peak cloak]

never heard it called a switch

it's just a poe splitter

[peak cloak]

yeah, thing is that really isn't ethernet

[zealous ledge]

i know

i put a lian li sticker and some tape to dim the light a bit

it works better than normal wifi but i mean it sucks still

[meager ginkgo]

If you have coax ports you can setup MoCA which may be easier than running ethernet

looks like that

MoCA is Ethernet over your cable ports

[zealous ledge]

cable as in cable tv?

like the same

[meager ginkgo]

Yeah, you know like what a cable box connects to?

[zealous ledge]

internet thing

[peak cloak]

cable tv goes over coax cables

[meager ginkgo]

^

[zealous ledge]

im very uneducated in network stuff if you couldnt tell

[meager ginkgo]

It will look similar to this

[zealous ledge]

my new house doesnt have the boxes outside

if thats what you are talking about

[meager ginkgo]

you don't need them

[zealous ledge]

nor do we have those ports anywhere in sight

[meager ginkgo]

Do you know what internet provider you have?

[zealous ledge]

nope

we dont know our options yet

they are doing the finishing touches on the house

[meager ginkgo]

Ah, you're moving?

[zealous ledge]

yeah

its still "under construction"

[meager ginkgo]

If it's new construction they likely have a box somewhere in the house with CAT5e or 6

[peak cloak]

get them to install ethernet

[meager ginkgo]

which is ethernet

[meager ginkgo]

Sounds like it's too late

[zealous ledge]

thats what im trying to get my dad to do

[zealous ledge]

but thats what he said

[peak cloak]

some contractors cheap out and are like:
wifi is fine

[meager ginkgo]

Are the walls already up?

[zealous ledge]

yeah

[meager ginkgo]

This bugs me a shit ton. lol

[peak cloak]

yeah bit late

[meager ginkgo]

Yeah you missed your chance

[zealous ledge]

darn

i mean to be fair we didnt have a chance then in the first place because when we put the house under contract it already had the walls up

[meager ginkgo]

Do you know the builder?

[peak cloak]

I mean I installed ethernet afterwards, but the way the house was built, basement was unfinished and there were 2 ethernet runs from basement to 2nd floor already which really helped

[zealous ledge]

no

i dont think so

i will ask my parents later they arent home rn

[meager ginkgo]

Alot of newer homes come with a little in wall panel with ethernet, so next time you go there check the closets and stuff

[zealous ledge]

wait i might have seen one of those

[meager ginkgo]

My 2018 home built by Pulte came with CAT6

[zealous ledge]

is cat 6 better than cat 5

[meager ginkgo]

yes

[peak cloak]

yes, you want at least cat6 these days

[zealous ledge]

makes sense

would it be possible to upgrade to cat 6 if its cat 5

[meager ginkgo]

Not easily usually

[zealous ledge]

darn

[peak cloak]

you have to rip the cable out, install new one

[meager ginkgo]

because they usually staple it.

[zealous ledge]

ah

[peak cloak]

yeah

I wired everything cat5e

should have used 6, but meh

[meager ginkgo]

Might have looked like this also

[zealous ledge]

man i wish we found the house earlier

next time i go up there i will check

[meager ginkgo]

If we build another home, I'd love to wire way more. We have like 12 ethernet runs (sounds like alot but it's really not)

[peak cloak]

I just screwed on a patchpanel on plywood

[meager ginkgo]

lmao

[peak cloak]

in the utility room, where the rack is

[meager ginkgo]

I hate the in wall enclosures, I would rather use a 2 gang wall plate and have the cables go into a rack

[zealous ledge]

so just to clarify is it "impossible" or just not easy to get ethernet installed if there isnt ethernet already

[peak cloak]

we just recently renovated the basement, but the whole one side of the basement has like an open utility area behind the walls

[peak cloak]

not impossible, but usually involves cutting into walls

[meager ginkgo]

this was my network closet when it was actually decent

[peak cloak]

and then you to patch it

[meager ginkgo]

Now there’s cables all over and crap lmao

[zealous ledge]

thats what i would think

[zealous ledge]

that looks

wow

lots of cables

[peak cloak]

if it's from unfinished basement to 1st floor you can usually do it without cutting

[meager ginkgo]

^

Or if you have drop tile

[zealous ledge]

we dont have a basement

[meager ginkgo]

if you have telephone lines you can also likely convert those to Ethernet

[zealous ledge]

ah

[peak cloak]

kinda, not well tho

[zealous ledge]

i have telephone right now in this current house

[meager ginkgo]

Newer homes I’ve found run CAT5e minimum

[zealous ledge]

what type of cable is telephone

[meager ginkgo]

depends on the year the house was built and what the builder did

[peak cloak]

I've seen them split the cable for 2 jacks

[meager ginkgo]

Yeah that’s typical in older homes

[zealous ledge]

because when i had my first really cheap usb racing wheel the pedals used telephone cable to connect to the wheel

it was strange

[peak cloak]

depends, if they used cat5e, then you can install a different jack

[meager ginkgo]

let me find a pic of a newer home I went in

[peak cloak]

yeah that's just the interface. I remember using lego mindstorms and having a similar click style connector

[meager ginkgo]

Not a good example but this is a million dollar home I went in lmfao

[zealous ledge]

cables.

[peak cloak]

I had a summer job for a little in NYC

[zealous ledge]

why are so many cables needed

[peak cloak]

did stuff with ethernet

they terminated everything into plugs...

ok... whatever you say boss

[meager ginkgo]

sounds fun

[peak cloak]

my hands hurt so much from terminating the jacks

punchdown is fine

[meager ginkgo]

Did you use passthrough connectors or regular ones

[peak cloak]

passthrough at least

but still, pain

[meager ginkgo]

That's atleast better than the regular ones lol

[meager ginkgo]

Cameras, anything that uses internet that can accept an ethernet connection I prefer to wire up, so that's probably what this person was thinking

[zealous ledge]

ah

[waxen scroll]

oooo wireless backup

I got rid of mine

[meager ginkgo]

It's the security system one

ADT garbage, still need to change it out

[waxen scroll]

$$$ for 0 use

[flat warren]

I have a ssl certificate that is .p7b format and I converted it to .crt but I dont have a private .key file for it, I do have from my org a "certificate password" and that is it, how do I obtain and or generate one?

[waxen scroll]

mines not ADT. I installed it myself and use a $8/yr place... or whatever it is now

err $8/mo

[meager ginkgo]

Ours is like $50/mo but my parents won't change it out

I want to get an Envisalink 4 and use the Envisalink monitoring service but they won't budge lol

[waxen scroll]

i use ELKM1G and Alarm Relay as the monitor

[meager ginkgo]

Ah nice. Elk is a pretty good system

[peak cloak]

I should install a security system

at least some cams

[meager ginkgo]

Ours is just a rebranded Honeywell Vista 20P

[meager ginkgo]

That's what I regret when we built this house.

We didn't wire at all for cameras

[waxen scroll]

the elk reacts pretty fast with home assistant

[meager ginkgo]

Yeah the issue is no-one monitors it here

I don't care for the "professional" monitoring personally but parents do

[waxen scroll]

I mostly use it for detecting people at night for dynamic night lights and then for fire to unlock doors/stop fans

[meager ginkgo]

sounds neat

[waxen scroll]

unlike the zwave crap the reaction is near real time and accurate

[meager ginkgo]

zwave is pretty real time for me

What USB do you have?

[waxen scroll]

I meant the sensors... many of the motion sensors just act as occupancy and dont give live info

[meager ginkgo]

Are yours hardwired?

[waxen scroll]

The elk stuff? Yeah. Every sensor is wired

[meager ginkgo]

Nice. I wish we wired for more stuff in this house, at the time I didn't know about all the stuff out there

was just getting started with the smart home stuff

[waxen scroll]

it was a pain in my ass to do and took a while

[meager ginkgo]

lol I can imagine

[waxen scroll]

I did it without opening walls for the most part

[meager ginkgo]

That's good, what'd you do, remove trim ?

[waxen scroll]

go in the basement, drill a hole up into walls. drill a hole where the sensor goes. use a combo of fish tape and snake cam to help guide the wire to the hole

[meager ginkgo]

Ah, we don't have a basement lmao. So it would be near impossible to fish cables on the 1st floor atleast. 2nd floor has an attic space but the network closet is on the 1st floor under the stairs so it's a bit hard

[peak cloak]

when wiring outside anything I should take into account, specifically?

[meager ginkgo]

You probably want to use shielded CAT6 or fiber

and ground the shielding.

[peak cloak]

yeah that's what I've seen reccomended

since I have this little section of outside I would would need to go up to go into like the overhang

then I can install a cam there

[meager ginkgo]

If it's a small section you can probably get away with unshielded if you cover it with something

[peak cloak]

I could possibly try to push it into the trim

[meager ginkgo]

and usually for outdoor installs you want to make sure the cable is sun resistant and water resistant

[peak cloak]

yeah I have some indoor/outdoor cable

[meager ginkgo]

👍

[waxen scroll]

the relay board off to the right side is a hack of mine. We have to use those 100v smoke alarms that are linked per building code, so I have a module for those which trips a relay if they go off. The board in the pic is a timing circuit. If the smoke alarms go off for 10+sec they're holding down that circuit and the relay will trip

prevents falses

[peak cloak]

that's pretty cool

we have that too

I shocked myself on one of those

[waxen scroll]

I almost did. I have a personal rule to test circuits I turn off. I actually removed the lock out from the breaker to turn it off and my head was somewhere else. I never flipped it off.

[meager ginkgo]

I made a prewire guide a while ago, looking for suggestions to improve it if anyone is interested - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LNONZXsLi-R9ejamD9Bd2UfzpqjqEWVt0ZepTGmMC50/

[peak cloak]

hmm, I had a small shock since I guess the alarm had some capacitance since right after unplugging I wasn't thinking and put my finger on the metal prongs

still hurt

[waxen scroll]

it was a "fun" project but IDK if I would do this in another house unless I was doing a reno

[barren creek]

made my day 😆

[waxen scroll]

RIP

[barren creek]

this is the best ending to the video 🤣

[cunning lion]

Can the weather REALLY affect cellular connections this much? Instead of my standard 100-200mbps I am now getting this

T-Mobile 5G Home Internet is what we are using

[meager ginkgo]

yeah if it's heavy downpours

[meager ginkgo]

also depends on congestion (if tons of people are using the tower)

[cunning lion]

yeah been rianing all morning apparently

[meager ginkgo]

is Verizon 5G Home an option at your place?

[cunning lion]

shrugs I just happen to go T-Mobile since its only $50 a month

[meager ginkgo]

Verizon is also $50/mo if available

[cunning lion]

NOPE

Verizon Home Internet services are not currently available at your address, but you can be among the first to know if they become available.

My phone is T-Mobile anyways

[meager ginkgo]

T-Mobile 5G Internet is good but Verizon is slightly better because you can customize more of the router

[meager ginkgo]

yeah I prefer T-Mobile for cellular service. Super fast

[cunning lion]

Mobile internet at my previous place was GARBAGE no matter who we went with

even tho my mobiles says LTE it was more like 2g-3g

[meager ginkgo]

We had 18mbps DSL up until 2018 then we got 940mbps (up & down) fiber

so i'm lucky AT&T came out and installed that

[cunning lion]

We had COmcast at the previous place then parents ended up moving down to FLorida and I moved in with a couple of roommates here

[meager ginkgo]

ah nice

[cunning lion]

We now have T-Mobile5G Home Internet here

[meager ginkgo]

How's it working for you (when it's not raining)?

[cunning lion]

Perfectly fine expect an occasional complete drop out where I have to unplug and replug in the box to fix aka it drops the wifi/ethernet connections completely

[meager ginkgo]

do you have the gray circular one or the black boxy one

[cunning lion]

Wifi basically dissapears completely and isn't even listed any more until I reboot the box

I basically get the no connection icon in windows

[meager ginkgo]

Weird.

[cunning lion]

with it telling me there are connections aviabile

that aren't mine

[meager ginkgo]

Yeah I don't know man

[cunning lion]

Yeah a reboot of the box fixes it

[meager ginkgo]

The T-Mobile discord might be able to help you - that's the only idea I have lol

[sudden kayak]

can you set the tmobile 5g gateway to bridge mode

it's available here and i thought about using it for dual wan failover

[meager ginkgo]

no

Only Verizon

[sudden kayak]

yeah that's what i was worried about

[meager ginkgo]

you'd have double NAT if you used T-Mobile for failover

[sudden kayak]

Verizon won't let me set it up at my address (despite having 5G cells in the area) and tries to sell me DSL 😆

also there is a local fixed wireless wifi provider, but that needs LoS and so would have to be on the roof... and my landlord isn't a fan

[meager ginkgo]

Can one of your neighbors get it?

the Verizon*

[sudden kayak]

i haven't checked but i doubt it

[meager ginkgo]

Are you in a 5G UW area or just 5G

[sudden kayak]

only 4G on my Verizon sim

but if i walk a block in each direction i get 5G

[meager ginkgo]

ah that's probably why you can't get it then

[sudden kayak]

i mean yeah, it makes sense

it's just weird to have dead spots in residential neighborhoods

[meager ginkgo]

my house is in a dead spot lol

[sudden kayak]

vz's 5G deployment in my city is literally just like... a handful of cells in major roads & near office buildings

[meager ginkgo]

I have to go upstairs to get midband usually

[sudden kayak]

just so they can say they support it

oh yikes yeah, Tmo is better here

[meager ginkgo]

TMobile is amazing here compared to AT&T or Verizon

[sudden kayak]

damn

[meager ginkgo]

Want to see AT&T? 🤣

[sudden kayak]

yeah my tmobile sim is through google fi and I'm on the non unlimited plan

so I'm not risking a speed test 😆

[meager ginkgo]

lol makes sense

Verizon pulls around 60mbps at town center

[sudden kayak]

i actually get surprisingly decent speeds on LTE here, so i could totally use this for home Internet

but i guess it being 5G specifically is part of the marketing so they can't let me sign up if i only get 4G lol

[meager ginkgo]

They have LTE Home Internet also. Weird they aren't letting you sign up for that

[sudden kayak]

oh hmm i wonder if i was just on the wrong page or something

[cunning lion]

Lte on my phone right now

Samsung Note 10 + here non 5G version

I assume 5G is worse than 4G thanks to the wavelength being worse?

Since LTE isn't nearly as bad as the 5G Home Internet

[meager ginkgo]

5G is better than 4G LTE. (or atleast supposed to be)

A simple way of thinking of it is - the higher the numberG the faster* speeds you are getting

*: not always accurate

[cunning lion]

LTE is netting me about 5 times the speed as 5G right now with the bad weather LOL

[meager ginkgo]

Yeah LTE is a lower frequency so that makes sense

[cunning lion]

Which is what I was getting at

[meager ginkgo]

Whenever T-Mobile launches more low-band and optimizes it more it will be on par with 4G if not better.

[cunning lion]

Hopefully my "box" will handle that when it happens

[meager ginkgo]

It should have all the "bands" neccesary.

[cunning lion]

Hopefully it does

[cunning lion]

T-Mobile seems to have 2 different Home Internet modems. A cylinder and a actual rounded off square one

The one you see in the promotional material then a different one you actually end up with

[chrome pollen]

looks fancy?

[cunning lion]

I have the bottom one LOL

[chrome pollen]

but it has an lcd screen lol

I jus think thas kinda cool

I have the telus trashcan

[cunning lion]

I need to use the buttons for everything tho lol

[cunning lion]

and even then the screen is just infomation can't do anything useful with it

[chrome pollen]

yeq, but it's still cool

maybe you could take it apart and rebuild it in a 1 or 2u rack enclosure

I might do that for my router

[cunning lion]

Meh I don't do racks here at home

[chrome pollen]

booo

[peak cloak]

awful amount of work for a meh router

[rocky badge]

why

just get a good rackmount router lmao

[cunning lion]

Looks like the rain as slowed down to a sprinkle

[thick minnow]

nice

do you have t-mobile router?

[cunning lion]

yes

t-mobile 5g

[abstract blade]

and i thought i was lucky when i have 10Mb/s on lan

[meager ginkgo]

that's not horrible.

I get around 110MB/s but I have Fiber which is relatively hard to get

[abstract blade]

aw maan

[sullen olive]

Meanwhike me with one gig internet

[rocky badge]

@meager ginkgo I’m surprised my uni doesn’t use bright ridge

[meager ginkgo]

they dont?

that's weird

[rocky badge]

Yeah

They use mountainet

I know they have 2x10G links from them though

[meager ginkgo]

their website doesn't even have https

[rocky badge]

yeah

Also apparently my uni has a /16

[meager ginkgo]

nice

[rocky badge]

They only have 2 peers

[meager ginkgo]

I wonder what the ping is to other speedtest servers

[rocky badge]

4ms apparently

On WiFi

[meager ginkgo]

that's not bad actually

[rocky badge]

4.5ms to 1.1.1.1

[meager ginkgo]

takes me about 10

[rocky badge]

heh since they have a /16

[abstract blade]

27ms to 1.1.1.1

[rocky badge]

Their rDNS doesn’t include the first 2 octets

[meager ginkgo]

lmao

[gray gulch]

Anyone with truenas experience want to help out with some extremely wacky behavior? Right now I can only access the GUI from outside the local network

[rocky badge]

@meager ginkgo

[meager ginkgo]

👀

[rocky badge]

i'm hoping s2s perf between dorm and home isn't bad

surely it can max the 100Mbps dorm internet limit

it's basically all Level3/CenturyLink from home to uni

because ISP has direct peering with Level3 and then qwest merged with CL

and uni has direct peering with CL

[meager ginkgo]

I should ping the IP from my house..

[rocky badge]

Seems like they have the /16, then announce ranges in it and several /23 & /24s

the 64.189.140.0/23 subnet is for their dorm networking

All of the PTRs are "apogeetelecom.com" which is their MSP for dorm net

151.141.0.0/16 seems to be where they have all of their services/websites

[meager ginkgo]

interesting

[rocky badge]

216.145.70.0/23 seems to be the NAT ranges for wifi

[meager ginkgo]

I'll be honest I don't understand most of what you said lol still trying to learn tho

[rocky badge]

lmao

[meager ginkgo]

I only know the basic stuff right now

[rocky badge]

https://bgp.he.net/net/151.141.0.0/16#_dns

like looking at this, this seems to be all of their hosted services

[meager ginkgo]

interesting..

[rocky badge]

I see vpn, remote desktop services, websites, cisco unified communications manager, library proxies for research sites, printing services, etc

[meager ginkgo]

I wish I could see all that just by glancing at that lol

[gray gulch]

Anyone with truenas experience want to help out with some extremely wacky behavior? Right now I can only access the GUI from outside the local network

[cunning lion]

BLINKS esports?

[rocky badge]

yeah

I'm actually helping with esports lol

[cunning lion]

LOL ok

Your school researching cold fusion?

[rocky badge]

idfk

[cunning lion]

according to the list there is a cold fusion site lol

[rocky badge]

lol

then prob

[cunning lion]

151.141.90.19 coldfusion-cs.etsu.edu

[static moat]

I set up a domain name with No-IP.com and i have my domain name and my current IP. If my current IP changes however, will people attempting to query the domain name still be able to reach me?

[peak cloak]

Yes that's the whole point

When router sees IP has changed, it will tell noip to change the record

Dynamic DNS it's called

[static moat]

yeah ik, but how does it know the new IP adress that my ISP has changed me to?

[static moat]

how?

oooh is that the login big for no-ip in the router settings

[peak cloak]

Yes

Router needs to be configured for it

It obv won't magically happen

[static moat]

wait is that all i need to do

login here or something else too

i also got dynamic ip to work (i had to enable get DHCP for unicast or something like that)

so will that auto update everything for me then?

i dont need to ever log into the site anymore?

[peak cloak]

in theory

[peak cloak]

we have a fair bit too

[rocky badge]

yeah a /16 as well

[peak cloak]

ah yes http://mercury.pr.erau.edu/

wonder the last time someone used this

[rocky badge]

lmao

Apache/2.2.15 (Oracle)

@peak cloak https://cscidbww.etsu.edu/

my uni actually has HSTS preload

[peak cloak]

looking at rdns can show quite a bit

[rocky badge]

yeah

lmfao

do they actually have a nextcloud instance

NXDOMAIN on public dns though

[peak cloak]

ah yes win2019testbox.erau.edu

[rocky badge]

OH THAT'S COOL, its the replacement for Z Drive

It's web access for Z drive

[peak cloak]

are these rooms..

[rocky badge]

lol

dang

[peak cloak]

for reference oconnor and stimpson are dorms

[rocky badge]

our resnet rDNS is

I wonder how those IPs work

[peak cloak]

if I get a public IP that would be interesting, but I doubt it

[rocky badge]

surely 512 isn't enough to give every resident a public IP

And I defo know they do NAT internally

but if each resident gets their own pub idfk

[peak cloak]

will report back in a month

[rocky badge]

descr: Apogee in service of East Tennessee State University

[rocky badge]

same lmao

That's interesting

@peak cloak do the dorms have ethernet

LOL https://flightcamnorth.db.erau.edu/?id=788#view

[peak cloak]

yes

[rocky badge]

yay good

[peak cloak]

every room has a port + coax

[rocky badge]

damn coax

i think mine will too but never use it lol

idk if they are even providing catv services over it anymore

[peak cloak]

yeah idk

ik they have like an LAN media thing

[rocky badge]

Streaming TV can be accessed on the Resident network through the Stream2 platform.Students can access Stream2 through apps for iOS, Android, FireTV, and Roku by searching Stream2 in the various app stores. The web player can be accessed https://webplayer.mystream2.com. 

They force everyone on 5GHz if you have 5GHz capable devices

@peak cloak Its interesting they have nextcloud even though students don't even get onsite storage

[peak cloak]

don't you have cloud storage?

[rocky badge]

yeah

1TB onedrive

Q is for faculty and staff 500MB

S is departments, T is college of medicine/HIPAA

ENCRYPTED EMAIL: Typing the word encrypt in the subject line of the email will trigger Microsoft 365 to encrypt the email message and attachment. huh

[peak cloak]

IT also offers 500MB of data storage on a shared network drive, as well as access to Microsoft OneDrive with 5TB of storage.

[rocky badge]

yeah its default 1TB but you can set users to 5TB