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- Bizarre internet problems after changing modem/routers. As soon as my PC connects via ethernet, my router/modem turns the WiFi off. WiFi can only be turned on when ethernet is disabled.
- Asking for advice about switching over to Ubiquiti from high-end consumer routers.
- How to serve 3 isolated SSID networks over mesh?
- Windows 10 hotspot for PS4?
- Can’t seem to get 200Mbps I pay for. Tech came out and used his router and showed me the speed test at 200. I average about 80Mbps.
- Random ISP latency, ISP technician couldn't help
- Can not connect to Plex from outside home network
- I've discovered that my ISP is using CGNAT on residential plans like mine and I cannot play some online games properly anymore or host anything whatsoever.
- Orbi Mesh Network Questions
- In apartment, router is in a room that is opposite and a bit off to the side of mine. Looking for help in ideas of how to connect ethernet from router to my computer without it getting in the way of anything in between.
- Help me design my new home network! 4 floors, ~5000 sq ft + outdoors
- Need help with some wiring
- Need help making a decision
- A few questions about routers
- Multiple PS4's / Gigabit Connection / ASUS RT-5300 Router / Getting kicked from Party Chat and/or game
- Best solution for 30k sq ft w/ 1800 sq ft + 800 sq ft in door areas. <10 users.
- Best router for a Gigabit network
- Nighthawk R7000 bad Ethernet input connector
- Cannot connect laptop to unmanaged switch
- Not able to achieve gigabit download speeds on Windows machines
- when i play on my ps4 my connection to the internet is great. but...
- Home modem placement. I want to move it.
- My ISP is doing DNS poisoning and forcing me on interleaved state. Don't know what to do.
- Local connections breaking on ipv6 only
| Patch cable & punch down keystones Posted: 30 Mar 2019 03:40 PM PDT Cat5e patch cable won't work with punch down keystones will it? I need solid cat5e for keystones ( for wall plates and such ) and stick to crimping rj45s on the patch cable correct? I ask because I have a 75ft patch of cat5e ran thru my wall down directly into my router ( rj 45 plus on both ends ) and directly into my PC. I decided to put a wall plate on one end. Punch downed the keystone. Plugged in a cable from the pc and...nothing. Terminated the keystone 3 more times. Nothing. Tried a surface mount keystone, same shit. Tried the OTHER end ( that was going into my router ) Same thing. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Mar 2019 02:24 PM PDT About 2 days my internet completely shit out. At first I thought it was because I recently moved and something got screwed up on Spectrum/Charter's end. I spoke to about 7 people and eventually got the billing/addresses issue resolved. So I finally got my new modem to connect to the internet. And I can get online via ethernet on my PC but when I do, my router/modem turns off the WiFi. I'm trying to even figure out if its an issue on my end or still on Spectrum's. Also, I was running a Pi Hole set up before. I suspect that might have something to do with this because it involved changing the DNS and all that. Right now, I cannot get into my Pi Hole through the web interface (no WiFi) and I cannot SSH into it through Putty for some reason. The connection just times out every time I try. I'm not sure if this is related or not. This is actually the third router/modem I'm on as well. I've returned one because I thought it was broken and my original isn't hooked up because I also thought it was broken. Now, I know something else is going on. This means 3 MAC addresses have been linked to my Spectrum account in the past 3 days or so too. I still think the issue is on their end but they swear up and down they can't see anything wrong. And in their defense, I can get online technically. Any theories? I can provide more information too. [link] [comments]  |
| Asking for advice about switching over to Ubiquiti from high-end consumer routers. Posted: 30 Mar 2019 03:18 PM PDT Hi everybody! For some background, I've tried all manner of home networking solutions. Mesh systems, multiple router setups, etc. I'm big into home automation so I have a ton of clients, and no matter how much I spend no router seems to be able to keep up. I am currently using the ASUS RoG RT-AC5300 and it has worked... pretty well. Until recently. I have Sonos speakers wired throughout the house and they've always suffered from intermittent dropouts, but after a power outage it has become unbearable. I just cannot figure out why they would struggle to stay in sync if they are all wired with ethernet. In addition to the ASUS router, I have an elaborate series of unmanaged switches throughout the house. Everything that can possibly be wired instead of wireless is wired. The biggest load on my wifi is definitely my 5 Nest cameras, which have also been struggling to stay connected. These cameras are uploading HD video constantly. I have a number of computers on the network, including a gaming PC and a dedicated PLEX server. I use a ton of bandwidth (AT&T gigabit fiber). All told I have close to 50 clients on my network. Less than half of them are wireless. Reading a few posts on here and reviews elsewhere, it seems like going with Ubiquiti might be a good option. I am not concerned about the "non-user friendly" setup. My house is effectively 3 floors, basement, main floor, and attic bedroom suite. My initial thinking is to go with one EdgeRouter X in the basement and two UAP-AC-PRO-US access points. Both access points would be on the main level on opposite sides of the house. I don't think I'll need an access point in the attic bedroom or basement but could always add them later. This would all be wired using my existing series of unmanaged switches. The only thing that would be on wireless in the basement or attic would be my cell phone. My question is this... Would this actually work for my network? I am finding it hard to believe that a $53 router could outperform my $400 gaming router, but based on its recent performance it seems like maybe anything could. Would I need to go with a higher end Ubiquiti router like the Edgerouter Pro or something similar? Would the difference be noticeable enough to justify the much higher price? Also would there be any benefit at all to replacing the switches with Ubiquiti switches? Or is a switch a switch? Thanks for any and all replies! edit: Thanks again everybody, I went ahead and ordered a EdgeRouter 4 to play around with. We'll see how it goes! [link] [comments]  |
| How to serve 3 isolated SSID networks over mesh? Posted: 30 Mar 2019 03:03 PM PDT Hey all, My IoT device count has increased exponentially recently and I am starting to feel like it's time to invest in more secure networking. I intend to split my devices into 3 different networks - IoT, Guest and Main. My existing setup includes a Lyra Trio mesh network meshed with A68U because the area that needs to be covered is pretty large. I know the consumer devices do not support VLANs/Multi-SSID so I'm deciding on two possibilities: 1. Build another mesh network for the IoT devices and Guest traffic and use the existing network for the main devices 2. Add a commercial grade edge router that would somehow be able to segregate the traffic. 3. Change the entire system to support some MultiSSID, VLAN, Mesh capable APs which I need someone to point me towards. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Mar 2019 10:26 AM PDT Hi guys. I've recently put my sons PS4 in my gaming room and unfortunately the wifi signal here is dreadful. I run a cat5 ethernet cable from the living room to the upstairs gaming room for dedicated PC gaming. I've set up a personal mobile hot spot via a crappy little USB wifi antenna to get his PS4 online. We're getting around 15mbps on the PS4 with this setup, while the PC gets 200+. Is there anyway anybody knows to improve the speed so that we can both game simultaneously or is that the best we're gonna get? I know that we could go the ethernet switch route but he only visits twice a week and i'd prefer a quicker, more flexible setup like this - just with higher speeds if possible. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Mar 2019 03:53 PM PDT He told me it's because I have "more than 8 devices" connected to my network. This is true, I have about 15, but most of them are devices like iPads or Chromecasts that only occasionally are in use. The major bandwidth users I have are my Nest cameras that are always steaming and of course our phones and laptops when in use. I turned off the cameras, turned off the phones and computers, no noticeable change. I have a Netgear Nighthawk R7000. I've tried the 2.4 band, the 5.0 band, and wired. Can't get over 100Mbps. Is this just a crappy router? What am I doing wrong? Was the tech right? If so why did my speed not change when removing the major bandwidth users from the network? [link] [comments]  |
| Random ISP latency, ISP technician couldn't help Posted: 30 Mar 2019 05:21 PM PDT For the last month or so I've been experiencing intermittent and extremely high latency issues (~1600-6000ms), seemingly at random, from 30 seconds to 30 minutes. I run linux as my primary OS, so I began running traceroute and mtr when the problem occurred to diagnose the issue. Whenever the issue happens, the entire network goes down (wired and wireless.) Once the issue is over, the network speeds resume and I don't have the problem for a few hours or days. As we are cord-cutters, you can imagine how frustrating this is. Of course, a constant struggle with this issue is that it is sporadic. By the time I'm on the phone with a technician, the issue typically resolves itself. Initially, I though the latency was due to my personal wireless router, which I had running on a dedicated ethernet cable out of the gateay. I disabled everything on the ISP gateway except for the single port and had my new wireless router handle everything. Also connected to this wireless router was my PiHole, which handled DNS and blocked ads across the network. (Everything had run great with this setup for six months or so until the issue started to occur.) So about a month ago I start seeing the symptoms of the issue: latency jumps up, network speeds plummet, I'm left scratching my head. Called my ISP. They blame the wireless router, which is what I had concluded as well. So, I unhook the router and fall back on my gateway. (At this time, the PiHole goes with it, since I can't configure DNS on my shitty gateway.) I proceed with filling out an RMA for my router, which is still under warranty. So I run without my router and use just my gateway for a few weeks, and problem still persists. So this time they send out a technician, who nods at what I say and smiles and concludes it's the gateway this time that's busted. So I get a new gateway installed. Things were fine for a few days, then the issue arose again this morning (twice.) So I called the technician out again, explained all the troubleshooting I did. Guy was really nice, but when I showed him the mtr readout he looked at me like a deer in headlights. Said he's been on thousands of calls but never had anyone show him a readout like that. He didn't know what he was looking at. He seemed to understand what a ping was but I had to show him what all the text meant on the screen and how 5000ms was no bueno. The technician hemmed and hawed about it possibly being a problem down the line, and that there was very little they could do (he did call a guy on the phone and increased my line from 17Ghz from 8, whatever that is supposed to do... I assume it increases the speed of the signal coming through my DSL gateway?) He did say he was going to run my traceroute results past some of his buddies on Monday to see if they know anything, but other than that he basically just gave me a free upgrade, ran some diagnostics and sent me on my way. So here I am. Any ideas what the hell is going on? I use AT&T U-verse for my ISP. I've been with them for 10 years, and I can count the outages we've had over that time on one hand. These latency problems are new and they seem to be persistent. The traceroute symptoms are clear: all connections to the gateway have no latency, all hops out of the gateway are bumped wayyy up (1600-5800ms) Am I wrong to expect my network to function without the drops in service that I'm experiencing? Or is it normal to have occasional periods of super high latency like this? Is there any more troubleshooting I can do? If this is not the right place to be posting this, please let me know. Thanks in advance. [link] [comments]  |
| Can not connect to Plex from outside home network Posted: 30 Mar 2019 03:02 PM PDT I am running a Plex server on my home media server (Debian 9). I can connect to it with no problems when I'm on my home network by going to my media center's hostname ("quarterback") and plex server port (32400) in my browser. To make it accessible outside of my home network I have forwarded the port In my Asus RT-ACRH13 router settings I've added following my my port forwarding settings The "192.168.50.143" IP corresponds to my "quarterback" media server. At this point I would expect that if I went to <my external IP>:20440 (when not connected to my home network) I would be able to access my plex server. To test this I connected to the Xfinity hotspot near my house but when I tried I wasn't able to make a connection. However if I am able to connect through my external IP and external port when I'm on my home network. I tested my router by going here - putting in my external IP and external port (20440). The site said that the port was closed. I then tried using the Network Utility on my mac to scan my external IP for port 20440. When I was connected to my home network the port scan said that port 20440 was open. However when I connect to the Xfinity hotspot and try the port scan I'm not able to see the open port. So at this point I'm not sure what's to blame. Is my router bad and not actually forwarding the port? What further testing can I do to diagnose the issue? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Mar 2019 10:04 PM PDT They said if I want a public IP address it would cost me $20 extra. I would like to know if there's anything that I can do (preferably without any additional cost) to be able to play online and host stuff again. Important to notice that I cannot change ISP, because they are the only one allowed to provide internet services in my building. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Mar 2019 06:49 PM PDT I'm super new to home networking, but trying to help a family member set up a home network. They have a cable internet connection that is 250mbps. I was looking at an Orbi setup for their house, but had some questions. There's a bunch of different models and I want to make sure I'm directing them correctly. I was initially looking the the Orbi RBK50 which is a setup with one 3.0Gbps hub and a single satellite. Their internet connection is in the center of a two-story house, so I'm curious if the 2.2Gbps Orbi RBK23 set with its 2 satellites is a better play.
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| Posted: 30 Mar 2019 05:08 PM PDT https://imgur.com/gallery/uHj08gJ Really bad drawup of my situation. The little hallway going to the right is our entrance so I really need to make sure not to disturb that. Right now my only idea was somehow rigging a long cable to the roof and snaking it to my room but that sounds like an absurd amount of effort. Looking for any tips [link] [comments]  |
| Help me design my new home network! 4 floors, ~5000 sq ft + outdoors Posted: 30 Mar 2019 04:48 PM PDT I'm moving into a new home soon, from a ~600 sq/ft apartment which is currently very easily covered by one AP and basic 8-port gigabit switch. Including the basement (where I'd like wifi coverage too), plus 3 other floors, it will cover around 5,000 sq/ft indoors, and I'd like to have some basic wifi coverage on the porch, and perhaps in the garage as well which is maybe 30 ft from the house. My needs/concerns outside the wireless coverage:
Anyhow, what should I be looking at for wireless APs to cover this, and work well together, have some degree of future-expansion, and deliver high speed/reliability? Budget isn't the main concern as long as it's not esoteric equipment. Not looking to spend 10x to get 10% more speed for example. High level of technical ability (I used to know my way around most commercial Cisco router config, etc). Kinda leaning toward some of the UniFi/Ubituiti stuff for APs [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Mar 2019 04:04 PM PDT Hey all. My house is wired for internet, but I need some help hooking things up. Here is what my bedroom (3rd floor) closet looks like. Ideally I'd like to have my router on the 2nd floor. What do I need to do that? Here are my thoughts:
If that's right, a couple questions: * What are the 2 coax cables on the right for? They're both male. * What does the splitter do at the top left? Do I need to plug anything into that? * Which coax cable do I plug my modem into? Thanks for the help! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Mar 2019 03:59 PM PDT So I have a decision to make. Recently, my ISP increased the price of my service that is no longer offered, and I am looking into either switching to their 300 mbps plan or their 1gbps plan so I atleast don't feel cheated. Either way I have to get a different modem and router that fits either one plus I am planning on switching over to a fiber provider with 1gbps speed. I'm debating on whether on getting a docsis 3.0 modem or a docsis 3.1 modem. The router that I am looking into is either the asus aac88u or a router that is rated at AX. As much as I would like to hold off on the router, I want to take advantage of the speed increase at some point. So pretty much should I get the equipment for the 300mbps and save costs for now but have to eventually get a better router later or just get the more expensive equipment now. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Mar 2019 03:49 PM PDT Hello everyone, I recently purchased a new house (2 story/3000 sq feet) and am looking into purchasing a router. I did some research and found this site quite helpful; https://www.digitalcitizen.life/things-consider-when-buying-wireless-router But they didn't offer any suggestions for products at the end. My questions are Would and dual band router be sufficient for a house this size? My wife watches Netflix and I game casually. Would the router be better placed upstairs or downstairs? I'm using my cable provider's modem, will that cause a bottle neck effect on the router and negate router changes in quality? What are some actually products that would be practical to use? Thank you [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Mar 2019 02:18 PM PDT Hi all, I have been searching the internet and finding all sorts of things that I should do in my case. I have 3 PS4's and while playing the same game, one player is always getting kicked from either the game and/or the party chat. It's not always the same person, it seems to disconnect players at random. So here's the situation. I have an XFinity Fiber Gigabit package (1Gbps down / 35Mbps up) connected to a SURFboard SB8200 DOCSIS 3.1 Modem, which is connected to an ASUS RT-AC5300 router and 3 PS4's. One PS4 is connected directly with a LAN cable and 2 are wireless. All PS4's are assigned a static IP address via the PS4 settings and the ASUS router settings. This is where I would like guidance on what I should do next. I had uPnP enabled on my ASUS router, but players were still getting kicked. Should I set up Port Forwarding? I see a lot of guides for setting up one PS4, but would it be different for multiple PS4's? Or should I do the whole one DMZ and the rest port forwarded? If I do that, do I disable uPnP? And what do I do with QoS? I'm just a little over my head here. I see a lot of people going back and forth about what to do and what not do. Any help would help. Thanks. Also, games we are getting kicked from: Destiny, Destiny 2, and Minecraft. [link] [comments]  |
| Best solution for 30k sq ft w/ 1800 sq ft + 800 sq ft in door areas. <10 users. Posted: 30 Mar 2019 01:31 PM PDT I'm learning toward Ubiquiti but I'm not 100% on the mechanics of a network like that.
I would like to avoid using any hardwire outside of the buildings, but I might try to hardwire both buildings together at least. At some point I will be adding surveillance (6+ outdoor and ~10 indoor) and a "homelab" of sorts, with firewall, nas, and all that good stuff. Is Ubiquiti overkill for a home solution, or is there a cheaper solution that'll effectively work just as good? Thanks! Bonus question to avoid another post: The house has phone lines, and it was claimed to have been recently updated. How can I determine if I can convert them into Ethernet? Do I just have to convert and test? [link] [comments]  |
| Best router for a Gigabit network Posted: 30 Mar 2019 07:27 AM PDT I recently upgraded my Internet to Gigabit speeds on Comcast Business. Now all I need is a router to take advantage of those speeds, but I'm not interested WiFi 6 (802.11ax) routers. I'm currently eyeing the Orbi Tri-Band performance router for maximum coverage in my home. I would get one mesh router upstairs and one mesh router downstairs. Do you agree with my preference of an Orbi router by Netgear? What are your preferences for routers designed to take advantage of Gigabit Internet speeds? [link] [comments]  |
| Nighthawk R7000 bad Ethernet input connector Posted: 30 Mar 2019 08:32 AM PDT I'm trying to figure out if it's worth keeping my nighthawk router that has a bad Ethernet input port (i.e. the only means to get internet into the router). Beyond repairing the port, is there any use for the router? I think it otherwise works but is useless to me at the moment. Given the cost I'd hate to trash it so I'm wondering what possible uses (if any) such a router could have? Thanks for any ideas Note the port was blown out by a lightning storm that rolled through one night. [link] [comments]  |
| Cannot connect laptop to unmanaged switch Posted: 30 Mar 2019 12:09 PM PDT I've bought an unmanaged switch (this one specifically https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B072BDGQR8) and I've connected it up as shown in the products installation diagram. Router > Switch > Laptop The ethernet cable I'm using definitely works, I've tested it with the laptop straight to the router, but it won't connect with the switch in between the two. Do I need to change a setting on the router or on the laptop first? Thank you [link] [comments]  |
| Not able to achieve gigabit download speeds on Windows machines Posted: 30 Mar 2019 11:58 AM PDT Ok, so I have gigabit internet with Comcast. When I run speed test on my apple TVs I consistently get 850-900Mb/s down. I have a laptop running Windows 10 and desktop running 8.1 and neither of those come close to gigabit. The desktop maxes out at around 275 and I managed to get the laptop up to around 500Mb/s after turning off flow control on the NIC. I have eliminated cabling concerns as my laptop has Ubuntu running dual-boot and I get full gigabit speeds consistently on speed tests both on chrome and firefox. I have also tried turning off Windows defender with no change in speeds. Jumbo frames are off as well... What else shall I try? Any suggestions would be appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| when i play on my ps4 my connection to the internet is great. but... Posted: 30 Mar 2019 11:33 AM PDT but when i play on my pc with the SAME ethernet cable that is connected to the same router, it's literal shit. anybody help pls [link] [comments]  |
| Home modem placement. I want to move it. Posted: 30 Mar 2019 10:52 AM PDT I tried to call comcast and also changed many wires in my attic. None of them worked downstairs. I have my modem and router set up upstairs. I have need to move it downstairs so I can connect it to my tv and stream netflix. Is there a way I can see where I need to plug what wire to make internet work downstairs. Comcast says they will cost $70 to come to my house. I am an IT networkign student and think I can do this. However, I am struggling with the wiring. Any tips advice. [link] [comments]  |
| My ISP is doing DNS poisoning and forcing me on interleaved state. Don't know what to do. Posted: 30 Mar 2019 03:10 AM PDT Hello there Am from Egypt and my isp is destroying my online gaming experience am suffering from too much latency and jitter in online gaming and packetloss as well they also blocked all the vpns [link] [comments]  |
| Local connections breaking on ipv6 only Posted: 30 Mar 2019 10:33 AM PDT TL;DR: Multiple ssh shells open to the same server, some on ipv4, others ipv6. IPv4 last forever. IPv6 randomly disconnect. Background: Normal linux server running on the local network. Its common for me to have a few shells open to it at all times from my main computer. Unless one of the machines is rebooted (which is like once every few months tops), the shells would always remain active/connected. Tracking the problem down: I recently updated the linux server (r'uh r'oh). Suddenly, all shells refused to stay active/connected. At most they'd last a few hours. I chalked this up to unknown changes to ssh or default configs (something I hadn't touched, ever). Well, after ruling out SSH and its configs, I got the shells to last around a day. Thats when I stumbled upon a new factor: IPv6. I've had IPv6 for almost 2 years now, but unknown to me, the linux server was not configured for/with it. The upgrade 'fixed' that. I didn't notice this at first, since I use a DNS name to connect to said server. Further, the DHPCv6 release time is 24 hours (hummmmm). At this point I split my shells into two different groups: one connecting via ipv4, one via ipv6. Sure enough, at some point all the ipv6 shells get disconnected at release expiry, and all the ipv4 shells are fine. Since the IPv4 address for the server is static, I assumed it had something to do with the renewal process. This still didn't make complete sense to me, since the server is always getting the same IPv6 suffix anyway. But hey, what do i know about ipv6. Assuming it was DHCPv6 caused, I set a 'static' suffix for the server, effectively mirroring its static ipv4. I then repeated the same test using ipv4 and ipv6 shells. Hazaah! both shells remained open for 24h+. Welp, fast-forward a week. I go to my computer and all my ipv6 shells are dead, again. All the ipv4 shells are fine, still. One of the shells lists the current time, so I knew when it had happened: it doesn't correspond to any DHCPv6 event. System logs for the server are totally clean. At this point, I'm at a loss. Its clearly an issue with IPv6. But I don't know where or how. [link] [comments]  |
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