networks-security-and-home-servers

[crisp shadow]

That's my main personal installation

Where i do all my Redstone n stuff

[true venture]

You should join the server.

[crisp shadow]

I should be able to this afternoon

[crisp shadow]

@feral eagle @glass moat post driver reinstall

[crisp shadow]

I don't get it

I have tried everything I can think of

My dad's computer gets 400 mb/s up and down

So why is mine lopsided

It's not a mobo issue, I replaced it. It's not a driver issue, I reinstalled them. It's not a cable issue, I tried a different one. It's not a router issue, it works fine for everyone else.

[glass moat]

weird

[crisp shadow]

Extremely

[feral eagle]

honestly I've seen so many windows users complain about the exact same thing over the years and I still have no definitive answer lol

[crisp shadow]

That's annoying

First thing I do when my folks give the ok for not needing parental controls, I am getting linux

[limber hill]

Just saying though, maybe linux wouldn't solve the issue still. Internet is a weird thing to work with in some cases

[feral eagle]

Ye

You aren’t using repeaters or anything like that right?

[crisp shadow]

Whats a repeater

https://tenor.com/view/komugi-mugimeshi323-cat-minecraft-redstone-gif-7592065585228602424

[true venture]

It's a small device that picks up the signal from the main router then repeats the signals in the area. Often daisy chained to give a house full coverage.

Unless you're using a Ethernet that's directly plugged into the main router that could likely be the cause as I had the same issue.

@crisp shadow also have you checked if your PC has bandwidth limits set?

It's a windows setting.

[crisp shadow]

I haven't

I didn't know that was a thing

[true venture]

Outside the US, Unlimited Home Internet plans are not always the norm so Windows has a feature to limit the data consumption.

[crisp shadow]

Hm

[crisp shadow]

I tried changing it and nothing happened

[karmic wedge]

Has anybody tried Netbird? How has it been? (I'm a current Tailscale user but I'm curious about it)

[quaint stirrup]

If I make a homemade NAS

do I buy regular HDDs or NAS HDDs

or HDD's "for NAS"

[charred cradle]

normal sata hdds

if you make a nas with a SAS compatible motherboard then use SAS drives theyre cheaper

this is all me guessing also

[quaint stirrup]

bet

[charred cradle]

this is me guessing idk about it

[quaint stirrup]

@feral eagle do you know anything bout this ?

[feral eagle]

CMR drives are typically more desirable, you probably just want SATA drives, this kind of thing is more of a per model basis but I usually just buy refurbished enterprise drives. those usually end up being HGST or Toshiba branded

[feral eagle]

sometimes I'll also look at failure rates for specific models to see about how much life I might expect

[quaint stirrup]

what are CMR drives

[feral eagle]

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1kdck5m/smr_vs_cmr_vs_new_thing_of_the_year_choosing_the/

[quaint stirrup]

and are there a list of them ?

[feral eagle]

Sometimes they will just have it listed on retail site or you can look up the model

[glass moat]

SMR only useful for archival

CMR for basically everything else

[small sinew]

Possible random. I’m having issues with my internet. I went to an Orbi mesh system 8-9 months ago never had an issue with it lately have been having the issue where some devices are connected with no internet and some are connected with internet this is happening with wired and wireless devices. I’ve tried rebooting everything to see if it was a simple little glitch but that did not work. Any thoughts comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated

[snow sandal]

Hey guys dk if this is the place to ask but I'm moving into a new apartment that's a bit larger and I'm looking to get a new router

I'm out of the loop on the current tech. I'm looking for something around 150USD. Home speed is 300mbps, just need it for my PC and wifi for about 10 devices. The only IoT device I have will be a smart lock and some Philips Hue bulbs

[glass moat]

glinet flint 1 should be fine for your use

$100

[glass moat]

this type of issue could be of several things, whether it's your ISP, DNS, or router/cable feeding into the router failing/getting interference

there's not really enough information to be able to diagnose what type of issue you're getting, and would require troubleshooting

how often are the devices losing internet connection? what type of devices? are the meshed routers getting a good signal from the main router? it could be one of the mesh routers have a poor connection to the main router, and when your device switches to connecting with that mesh router, it is "connected" but not able to send/recieve data from the internet

are the wired devices connected to the main router and still losing internet connection while still having the connected status? if so, then maybe try changing the cable feeding into the router to a different cable, in case there's an internal break or something causing packet loss. Maybe if the router supports running a speedtest directly on it, try seeing if that has any issues running

maybe check out the status page or social media around your isp, maybe they're having some issues with their infrastructure?

check for any firmware updates on the mesh system, maybe try factory resetting it to see if that fixes anything

[small sinew]

Tv is wired. Has no internet. Laptop wireless same. Xbox wired has internet
Desktop wired has internet another tv wireless has internet . iPad connected no internet all wired devices are connected to main router
I’ve tried resetting the router. Can’t find where to check for updates. I’ll have to look more when I’m home. Connection loss has been constant for the same devices

[glass moat]

https://www.netgear.com/support/home/category?name=Orbi+WiFi+Systems here would be the firmware page

[snow sandal]

Hey thanks man. Is the TP Link AX55 still a good pick?

Where I'm from (South East Asia) glinet stuff aren't readily available. I should have mentioned that but I wasn't aware of glinet as a brand!

[glass moat]

i like glinet since they use openwrt out of the box (reskinned but still openwrt under the hood so you get all the features of openwrt)

the ax55 should be fine too though

though ax55 isnt supported by openwrt so youll be using tplink's firmware

[abstract copper]

I’m currently looking to get a modem and router for my WiFi and security cameras also for gaming

2,855 square foot home

Technically 2 floors because of loft

Any help and or suggestions please and thank you

[abstract copper]

I’ve been out of the loop with technology my Internet is xfinity 1 gig

I’m planning on upgrading to 2 gigs so preferably something comparable

Eufy cameras

About 8 cameras

[glass moat]

unless you need to do a bunch of data transfer for work or such, there isn't really much point in going to 2 gig speeds for a home network

i'm personally not the biggest fan of eufy's security cameras, especially with a past controversy of them recording the cctv footage onto the cloud despite claiming it was all local

for security cameras, i could recommend either going with ubiquiti's nvr ecosystem, which has one of the easiest installation (though in wall wiring would be ideal for that, and they're POE powered)

a cheaper diy approach would be using frigate, and they recommend using dahua cameras with that, but you can mix and match if you need to (also poe powered but requires a little more setup)

they recommend dahua, hikvision, amcrest cameras in that order

https://docs.frigate.video/frigate/hardware/ more information on the hardware needed/recommended for frigate

assuming you do end up upgrading to 2 gigabit service and it's fiber, your ISP would provide you with a fiber ONT, and then i would recommend something like the gl-inet flint 2 (wifi6, only 2.4ghz and 5ghz bands, but fast) or flint 3 (wifi 7 triband, more expensive but also pretty fast)

there are other options you could go for, but i'd recommend finding a router that works with openwrt as you can have the better qos for gaming (asus routers that support asus merlin is also good)

[feral eagle]

The security brain in me is agreeing with the eufy thing. Ideally you need a router that can support vlans and completely cut off the cameras from accessing the internet, using some kind of nvr system that is local only

[abstract copper]

My cousin has eufy and they’re pretty good but I’m not sure what router and modem to get?

I was looking at the asus rapture gt-be 19000ai but what would pair good with that one

[glass moat]

It's mainly issues with trust with the brand and how they treat security concerns (but this was several years ago)

Are you getting coaxial internet service or fiber?

[abstract copper]

Coax I don’t think fiber is available where I live

[karmic wedge]

I haven't had a break all week wow

[uncut sleet]

Hello,
I have a question regarding mesh nodes and best possible way to set them up

My co workers have 1 starlink device and they decided to connect meshes to each person’s room

The set up is smth like this

Starlink modem >> mesh 1 >> mesh 2 … etc

Extended main network rather than new access point

All connected through Ethernet cable

However there is a lot of desync/disconnects and the speed from the main router isnt transmitted properly, barely get 10% of the actual speed in some nodes

When i searched about it apparently 7 nodes is too much for starlink main router to handle or smth

I know it is an unusual case, living in an oil rig can be tough

Does anyone have a better solution for this situation aside from getting another starlink device ?

FYI, we still havent tried using ethernet switch

[glass moat]

I'm a bit too tired to write much, but aside from the router not being able to handle the traffic (which is somewhat unlikely depending on how many devices you have) the other possibilities are that

1. The mesh nodes are too far apart/signal is too weak for it to have a stable backhaul to the main router
2. There could be too much interference causing the network to be unstable (could be caused by having too many mesh nodes too close together, or other RF emitting devices, whether intentional radiators or unintentional radiators

Mesh routers could be easier to setup but a cable connection would always be more reliable in giving good connections

[feral eagle]

What model mesh points are you using currently

Usually mesh systems will have some kind of controller to manage roaming devices between points. If there are deadzones in the coverage it can cause drop outs or unstable device roaming. If this is a large area or outdoors you might want to look into longer range outdoor antennas

[karmic wedge]

LET'S GOOOOO MORE SHIT TO DEAL WITH
(Photo from CrystalDiskInfo. CRC Errors on a very important hard drive: 7 🫠)

I'm about to start a farm and live off the land ffs

Watching Clarkson's Farm isn't helping with that too lol

Sick of this bruh

[glass moat]

Bro stuck his hand in the screen

[karmic wedge]

Me reaching into the screenshot

[crisp shadow]

Do it its peak

[frank scroll]

I'm using AdGuard Home right now because I have a lifetime AdGuard membership & didn't feel like installing Linux to do the Pi-Hole mission. Ostensibly, it works just as well as Pi-hole did when I had it like, eh, maybe a year or so ago. Is there any compelling reason to use Pi-hole instead? I'm running Adguard Home on a 5900x/1080ti computer I don't really have another use for presently if that factors in at all

[glass moat]

If you have adguard home, there's not really much point in using pihole

[feral eagle]

Ye, i just like how easy pihole is to deploy and the customization options. That and using it for local dns for services

[karmic wedge]

I feel like AdGuard Home doesn't report everything instantly. Super annoying when I'm trying to unblock something

[karmic wedge]

AdGuard Home users. If you're looking who owns a specific URL, copy the domain name and the TLD (e.g. google.com) and paste it into GoDaddy's WHOIS database search. It'll find who owns the domain, when it was registered, when it expires, etc. Use this when determining whether it's safe to unblock a domain/URL or not
https://www.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx

[noble berry]

anyone knows if it's better to use asus router's adguard or run a different service on a separate device, like pihole?

[glass moat]

pihole gives you a bit more control but adguard works well enough

it's also easier for regular people to restart it if it runs into issues

(since it's hosted on the router, just restarting it should fix issues, compared to if you have a separate system that would need to be restarted seperately)

[true venture]

@karmic wedge @turbid canopy @noble berry @glass moat @crisp shadow if I recall you guys play Minecraft and I was hoping you could recommend me a list of performance mods Client and Server-Side for Forge on Minecraft 1.20.1. Please and thank you.

[turbid canopy]

It's lowkey been forever since I modded a server sorry

Oh for clientside you want sodium/lithium/phosphor. I think they've been ported to forge

[glass moat]

There's not many server performance mods that don't modify the way Minecraft works

The main enemy of server performance are stuff like hoppers and entities

The mods that solve those issues will cause stuff like vanilla sorting systems to not function

Or weird mob pathing, or causing items to despawn quicker

[karmic wedge]

None for server. The best "mod" is allocating enough RAM and having a good CPU. Network performance is also what you'll need

[true venture]

That's fine.

Currently running a heavily modded pack and I would like to improve the performance.

[crisp shadow]

I don't know much about server side stuff

Lithium is go-to tho

[feral eagle]

I believe there are some server side mods that change the rendering or entity handling but that’s about it

[true venture]

Hmm seems I will need to do some digging

[glass moat]

Honestly
The only way to optimize server side for a modded server is for the mod developers to make their mods more optimized

The server isn't really rendering anything, it's just handling the world and some mods

On a vanilla or mostly vanilla server, your performance issues are typically of hoppers, block updates, and entities

For modded servers, it's those plus whatever badly coded or just heavy amount of simulation mods you have in the pack

You could optimize it a bit by using the optimal JVM flags but sometimes your best solution is to just use better hardware

Or set a world border

Pregenerate the whole world

(very complicated) You could also try sharding the server

Very complicated as in I highly doubt you could make it work with modded Minecraft and would likely require quite a bit of custom code

[feral eagle]

oh yeah by rendering I meant moreso the worldgen I guess would be the right term

[true venture]

I ended up installing a bunch of optimization mods for optimizing the code both server and client side and setting the server to use more threads for loading/rendering.

I have 4c8t from my 9950x3D and 24GB of my ram dedicated to the server now as well.

[noble berry]

I recently noticed that my windows 10 pcs on my network are not reachable anymore and I cannot ping them from other devices. doesn't matter if they're on wifi or ethernet, the pings time out. a lan scan from my phone also doesn't show the windows devices. at first I blamed my router since I had just changed it but it's not, old router same issue.
I first noticed this like two weeks ago after my Alexa started saying it couldn't reach my pcs for wol

other devices like phones and iot can be reached so I guess this is a windows 10 problem. any suggestions?

I tried disabling the network firewall but that apparently didn't help

[noble berry]

also I am able to ping other devices from those problematic windows pcs

[feral eagle]

That really does sound like a firewall issue

Is the network type set to private or public

[noble berry]

private

[noble berry]

I tried disabling it but that didn't fix the issue... perhaps something else firewall related is still blocking some incoming traffic

[feral eagle]

What kind of service is this? Like a smb share or a webapp?

[glass moat]

Firewalls can be on the PC and router simultaneously
And in fact they are, the router mainly protects against threats outside the lan though and usually gives free reign in the lan

For home routers specifically

[noble berry]

i dont think it has to do with the router's firewall since i've tried both new and old router

i mean i could try a third router but i doubt that'd change a thing

[feral eagle]

You don’t have like an iot network setup or something right?

[noble berry]

i'm just setting it up by separating ssids and having iot on 2.4ghz, but I had a very typical home network setup before

[glass moat]

Is ap isolation enabled

If so then that puts all wireless clients on a seperate vlan

[noble berry]

it's disabled, Imean i tried all the recommended solutions but it likely has nothing to do with wifi

communication is also broken for windows devices connected via ethernet

[glass moat]

they can connect to the internet though right? and just not in the lan? that's kinda weird

only windows pcs though? (that are having this issue?)

[noble berry]

they do have internet connection, the router sees them on the connected devices list, but i cannot ping/reach those -windows- pcs from other devices on the network (ping also fails from router builtin tool)

yet the windows pcs can ping other non windows devices fine

so it's likely just the inbound traffic for those

[glass moat]

you said you disabled the firewall to test?

on the windows machines?

[noble berry]

I'll figure it out, i should probably test a few other non windows 10 devices too

this is peak wifi

[digital canyon]

Got a rude awakening 3am today. ASUS ROG Rapture GT-BE98 PRO, started a light show that I didnt even know it can do. Different colors at once. I shut it down and turned on a backup till I can take a look at it.

[stone epoch]

so my family recently got AT&T fiber and its gigabit i connect via wifi and a few weeks ago i was getting 400-500mbps when id download on steam or ran a speed test and now im getting 200mbps how would i go about troubleshooting the speed on linux? my distro is nobara also ive tried running a speed test with a vpn on and am still getting 200mbps

i could use ethernet but for some reason my speed was actually better over wifi and the ethernet is through a mesh router which also should have support for gigabit

[glass moat]

the backhaul for that mesh router probably isnt the best quality of connection
have you tried directly connecting ethernet to the main router

[stone epoch]

Can't live with parents and mom doesnt want to run a wire down to my room

[glass moat]

I meant for testing

If direct is at the correct speed then the mesh unit is probably not getting a good connection