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- A bit of a tifu: I messed up the network setup at my parents’ house
- Cat5e in attic terminating in phone jacks. Advice in converting to 1000mbps network.
- Will buying a modem fix my problem?
- Lag Spikes While Gaming
- New Apartment Setup help
- Captive Portal for Home Network?
- How to connect a router into a wiring panel to make wired ports active throughout house.
- Which client bridge?
- Software to Transfer 4TB of Data
- Any cable modem experts around here?
- Connecting PC with Ethernet to Range Extender
- Need replacement Heatsink push pin in for Arris SBG6950AC2
- Is 10GbE upgrade worth it?
- Can I fix my ping between servers??
- Issues With pfSense and Mikrotik
- Need help on a setup. Would like to monitor total bandwidth per device and have a pi hole and pisense setup on a raspberry with a x4s r7800
- VLAN & IoT Best Practices?
- Help with netgear c7000 and r7000.
- 5 GHz internet speed much slower than 2.4 GHz w/excellent signal strength?
- 100/5 Comcast router and modem
- Should I swap routers?
- I have ethernet ports around my house. They work. I also have gigabyte connection. If I connected a 3-port jack to the wall jack, so I can have 3 devices with ethernet on the same wall, will I still have gigabyte connection for all those devices? Or will they be split?
- Ethernet IP Issues How To Resolve?
- An Ethernet connection on different stories
| Feedback for Home Network Diagram Posted: 01 Jan 2020 10:29 AM PST Howdy, I finally found away to easily fish some network cable to the 2nd floor(hooray defunct central vac!). Goals:
I created the following diagram and want to get some feedback before I pull the trigger. https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/16euMbHCi89O2IowSFge0R0KArIOKz_thlHAjn6xDG24/edit I have a couple of TP-Link Omada for the access points and plan to add the Omada controller in the future. Don't have huge aspirations for a ton of POE devices but may put an outdoor WAP in the future to get better wireless outside. Haven't bought the switches yet, was planning on just some TP-link ones to match the size of my ambition. Would I benefit from a managed switch? I'm savvy but will likely do my research and get this set up and hopefully forget it. Thank you. [link] [comments]  |
| A bit of a tifu: I messed up the network setup at my parents’ house Posted: 01 Jan 2020 06:18 PM PST Today I was trying to clean up the cluster of wires in my parents house. They have Time Warner Specture that comes with a phone line that can make free international calls. In the middle of cleaning I tried to untangle a bunch of phone cables and internet cables so I unplugged a bunch of things, and could not remember if I accidentally knocked anything off their sockets. Long story short I was able to put the internet back up, but I end up with a weird internet phone situation. Here is a little image I did to illustrate the whole cluster: Cluster I now have a Cisco ATA with Router connected with the internet router. Which I think is the way it should be. Cisco ATA with Router is connected to one of the female port of a phone splitter via a phone cable #1. There is a dsl filter connected to another one of the female port of the same phone splitter, the other side of the dsl filter is connected to phone cable #2, and this phone cable is connected to an actual phone. The phone splitter has another unused female port. Here is where it became very confusing to me. I am not sure the male port of the phone splitter was connected to anything. There is a phone jack on the wall right next to the male port of the phone splitter but I just could not remember if the male port was in the wall jack or not before I did the cleaning. I tried the phone without plugging the male port of the phone splitter into the wall jack, and there was a dial tone. Then I plugged the male port of the phone splitter into the wall jack, there was also a dial tone. I am 100% sure I did not mess around with the phone cables. I am only not certain about wether the male port of the phone splitter was originally in the wall jack or not. I guess my question is: does the internet phone with ATA need to be connected into a wall jack in order to work? Also, if I don't plugged the male port of phone splitter into anything, does the two female ports just daisy chains two phone cables together? I am afraid of trying to make an international call, without knowing if everything is working properly and my parents makes international calls quite often so I have to make sure everything works. I have to say I am a little paranoid right now T-T. Thank you so much for your help and happy new year! [link] [comments]  |
| Cat5e in attic terminating in phone jacks. Advice in converting to 1000mbps network. Posted: 01 Jan 2020 08:04 AM PST Context: I discovered that in the attic I have cat5e cables running everywhere and down into the walls where they terminate into phone jacks (only two of the four pairs are connected.) In my office an at&t guy many years ago must have changed out the phone jack for an ethernet jack in order to provide me a hard wire for a desktop - back then I only had sub 100 mbps internet. I recently upgraded to 200mbps internet to discover my link speed on my desktop is limited to 100, as in it auto-detects the connection as 100/100 send/receive - and speed tests confirms the bottleneck. I opened up the jacks on both ends (in my office and near the router) to discover that only two pairs were connected to a cat5e ethernet jack with the other two pairs wrapped idly. Question: So I punched the two idle pairs into the jacks at both termination points, but it did not succeed in creating a gigabit connection. Thinking that it was due to my punching job, I bought new jacks and punched everything in from scratch. However, when I cable tested the two ends, it was only showing the original two pairs (1, 2, 3, 6) as active. Even though I connected the idle pairs on either end, they are not transmitting data. I need help diagnosing this issue. Is it possible to get a gigabit link speed in my house's existing set up? I'm not familiar with how contractors typically wire up a house. I'm currently thinking that the jack/wire in my office, and the jack/wire near my router are two separate wires that must come together somehow somewhere by way of an interface that connects 2 pairs. Is this a plausible assumption? Update: I had seen 2 cat5e cables in the attic, and just discovered the dmarc outside (image above). I'm guessing these are the same two cat5e cables I saw in the attic. The funny thing is that one of the cables does not connect to anything and only one of the pairs of the other one connects to connector thing at the top - yet, my cable test shows two pairs as active as mentioned above. Note that I do not have landline service. [link] [comments]  |
| Will buying a modem fix my problem? Posted: 01 Jan 2020 05:31 PM PST So I've been having random spikes of huge packet loss (25-60%) where every device on the network loses connection despite the router and modem both say they have internet. I called Spectrum and they came and replaced the router due to it "Thermal Throttling." It worked good for like 36hrs and now its doing the same thing. It happen both when I am gaming and when I am not. I reset both the modem and router too many times to count. I've factory reset the router before. The only devices on our network are 2 phones, 1 tablet, my desktop pc, and our roku. I ran some bufferbloat tests and it seems to most likely be the issue. I have the Netgear AC 1750 router and the ISP provided modem. The only thing I can think of to fix my issues are to buy a modem. The list Charter approves of is Here incase there are any reccomendations. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks ahead of time! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Jan 2020 12:47 PM PST First time to this sub, hopefully this post follows all the rules. I am a gamer and ever since I moved into my current apartment I have had horrible lag spikes. The internet company always just has me do a speed test when I call. This internet always works fine but it is not a good representation as I only experience the lag spikes for brief periods of time. They keep telling me it is my router, I have probably called 6 times and they say that if they come out they will charge me if they don't find something even though I am fairly sure it is their problem. Anyways, because of their insistence that it is my router I have tried 3 different routers and had the same results with all of them. I have tried 2 Netgear nighthawks (one purchased in 2017, in in 2019) and I currently have an Asus AC3100. The firmware was up to date on all of them before they were used. I saw on this sub that I should ping my Default Gateway to see if it is an issue with my wifi/router. Today I played a game of League of legends and I pinged my Default Gateway in Powershell while I was doing it. I experienced large lag spikes at 7 minutes, 12 minutes, and my computer literally reported me having no internet at about 22 minutes. When I check the logs from my ping there is no large increase in the reported time on my local gateway ping at any of those times, except when I disconnected, 4 requests timed out. It is also important to note that I am playing on wifi and there are only 3 devices connected to the router currently. In addition most of my complex is empty because of the Holidays so I doubt it is a bandwidth issue. My question is just whether you guys believe it is a problem with the internet company or something with my own devices. I want to insist the company come out here and check it out but I am not really looking to get hit with a huge fee if I am wrong. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Jan 2020 07:08 PM PST So I am moving to my first apartment soon, and want to get into Home networking and home lab stuff. I just want some input and help on how to set this up. Basically my ideal setup would be to have 3 networks:
For the personal network, that would be the one I am connected on with my phone, PC, etc. So it will be a wireless/wired network this will also be where I have my NAS, and in future a Plex sever, and a Virtualization Server (Plex and VM Server are later down the road), and then for the guest network, it will be WiFi only and guests wont be allowed onto my network, or the security network, they would only be allowed internet access. The security network will hold my one IP camera that I currently have and will eventually get more as time goes on. What would be the best possible way to set this up so that:
What would be the best approach of doing this or is there a better setup that still gets what I want? Any feedback/help is appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Captive Portal for Home Network? Posted: 01 Jan 2020 04:00 AM PST Hi, I want my home network to have captive portal so I can show some kind of login page first when someone is connecting to wifi, and after login that person can uses internet freely. I have ISP router on let's say 192.168.1.1 and raspberry pi on 192.168.1.2. Can I implement such captive portal? I have thought of installing nodogsplash, but I can't install it on my router/access point because it's not allowed by ISP. I tried to install nodogsplash on raspberry pi but I don't know how to make all wifi client see the nodogsplash html page. [link] [comments]  |
| How to connect a router into a wiring panel to make wired ports active throughout house. Posted: 01 Jan 2020 06:42 PM PST My sister in law just moved into a house built about three years ago. Most of the house is wired with Cat5E Ethernet ports, and they all run to a panel in the basement. I've taken a picture of the panel here: https://imgur.com/a/icTU538 I understand the ports are all wired in with the punchboard, but I need to understand how to connect the router into the board so each room has connectivity. There are ports on the panel, and in the photo I have a cable in the first port. I'm used to switches and hubs so I'm expecting that there is an "input" jack. How is this supposed to work? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Jan 2020 01:22 PM PST I just upgraded to 300mbps wifi however I think I need a client bridge to hard wire my xbox and computer because my current powerline adapters are bottlenecking the connection. Any recommendations for a cheap solution? Thanks!! [link] [comments]  |
| Software to Transfer 4TB of Data Posted: 01 Jan 2020 11:54 AM PST I'm planning on changing my 4TB NAS, which is set as raid 1 (2 x 4TB drives) to raid 0 so I can get the full 8TB out of it. I have a 10TB external drive that I'll copy the NAS files (some large 4k video files) to before re-configuring it, but just would like your thoughts on what software to use to do the copying. I was planning on using Teracopy and have it verify as well. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Any cable modem experts around here? Posted: 01 Jan 2020 01:17 PM PST Have a Netgear CM700 here that looks like it's flaky or something. I see these all of the time in the modem logs (192.168.100.1) Is this a bad cable modem or something else? Basically the problem is that the internet drops off the face of the planet suddenly a few times a day. Not sure if this is needed but here's a frequency list from the thing:https://pastebin.com/Kcg75PNT More often than not a simple reboot of the cable modem helps but once it devolved into an hour long saga of reboots and an unhelpful call to a script monkey at tech support. (seriously, had no knowledge, just followed the script) edit: wow.. twice in 20 minutes now [link] [comments]  |
| Connecting PC with Ethernet to Range Extender Posted: 01 Jan 2020 12:48 PM PST I know this isn't particularly a good idea but this is what we got to work with right now, I have the range extender connected to the router, can connect my phone to it, but when I plug the pc into the extender with the Ethernet cable it doesn't connect to the network. It says that it is in fact connected but no internet access. Extender is the Netgear AC1200. It doesn't connect with the Xbox either. Phone still works though [link] [comments]  |
| Need replacement Heatsink push pin in for Arris SBG6950AC2 Posted: 01 Jan 2020 06:40 PM PST I bought a Arris SBG6950AC2 modem+router [ https://shop.surfboard.com/sbg6950ac2-cable-modem-wi-fi-router-with-mcafee/ ] on ebay and the router came with the heatsink loose. The pushpins that hold the heat sink to the board are broken at the ends. The push pin is exactly 20 mm long Image of the heatsink and pushpins : https://imgur.com/a/rjpL7li I'm trying to find push pins for the heat sink so I can attach the heat sink back. I've looked all over ebay/aliexpress /amazon with different searches but no matches that look like the push pins that are broken. I need help with finding a push pin that I can use or an alternate way to hold the heatsink to the board. Thanks in Advance for the help! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Jan 2020 07:51 AM PST I'm planning to upgrade my network to 10GbE and by that i mean connecting my NAS and my Unifi switch by SFP+. My house has cat 6a cables and i have multiple Unifi Nano HD access points. Most of my devices are connected over wifi and i'm now wondering if the 10GbE upgrade even makes sense. My idea was that multiple devices could make their backups to the NAS without any bottlenecks. Is that correct? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Can I fix my ping between servers?? Posted: 01 Jan 2020 06:23 PM PST First of all, I'm sorry if this doesn't belong here. If someone could direct me to a more appropriate subreddit that would be greatly appreciated. tldr// I can't experience steady ping, on any of my hops. High ping between ISP n I. Satellite internet 10 Down 1 Up. LAN connected to PC straight from their black box. Lowest I've played on is 75-80 , NOT looking too lower my ping, looking to stabilize(ISH)** I recently built a pc and bought internet solely for it to be independently connected, and unless its a clear day with everybody in the neighborhood-Toronto-Chicago-KANSAS-Bellefonte,Pennsylvania- and Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania are disconnected from the internet, then the inconsistency and increase on my ping is astronomical. Ive gathers a large amount of information towards the issues, and it is showing on all hops, my route to my ISP will shoot above 250 consistently, and they say that that's normal being on the connection that I'm on. Im just curious what sort of actions I should be taking, in order to be able to be able to dispute their claim of me being SOL. I was limited to a few hours during the day, and at peak time I was screwed, but even at 9 am, Im about 150 ping. I understand that im not going to receive constant playable ping, but the limitations to what opportunities I can enjoy, and progress on are pretty annoying. Im an above average player with no way to prove it. Any information towards possible solutions will be greatly appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Issues With pfSense and Mikrotik Posted: 01 Jan 2020 06:13 PM PST Hello everyone, I am currently making the move from my R610 pfSense to the Netgate SG3100 and I also got some new switches with the Mikrotik CRS305, CRS326-24G-2S+, I also have another on the way. So far I configured the vlans on the pfsense hardware, and assigned it to the LAN port on the hardware. What I really would love some help with is figuring out the configs for the Mikrotik switches. I currently have the normal LAN, and four VLANs being sent out of pfsense. LAN: 192.168.1.1 I am new to Mikrotik and I hope someone here knows about it more than the mikrotik subreddit since they mostly fought there but I am having issues trunking the vlans. My CRS305 is the first switch, I have ether1 directly connected to the LAN port on the pfsense box. I used winbox to configure from there since I dont know the CLI for mikrotik too well yet. On Ether1, I configured the 4 vlans. I then created a bridge named bridge-trunk. Then added the VLANs as ports to the bridge, as well as sfp-sfpplus1 port to connect to the CRS326. I noticed then my switch's address acquisition was then changed from automatic to static. I placed it back to automatic, I was able to get an IP but strangely on VLAN40 without any additional config on the pfsense box. It also created ether1 port into the bridge-trunk as well, if I delete it, everything breaks. Using my PCs SFP+ card I installed, I cabled it up to the sfp+ port I configured for the trunk just to see if anything, and I was able to get an IP from the LAN. Tried accessing the admin page of the pfsense box and it was slow as hell and I couldnt reach it have the time, so I was unable to see if I could change vlans for the CRS305 for a different VLAN or get my PC off the LAN net. From there, I connected my CRS326, I was able to add all 4 vlans again, to sfp-sfpplus1 on this switch. Attempted to get an IP and I was able to, but I received a LAN net IP. To further mess around from there, I created a bridge for vlan10, added both ether2 and vlan10 interface to the bridge and then connected my computer by copper ethernet and get an IP, which I did again but I got an IP from the LAN net. Which confused me. Tried reaching the admin page to the pfsense box and was not able to reach it. Using the console port on the pfsense box I tried pinging the IP on the PC, through the 2 switches and I was unable to. Furthest I could ping was the first switch, the CRS305. Unsure what I am doing wrong. I thought it would be easier to just trunk from one switch to the next, then set up access ports and allow the pfsense box to set IPs but it seems like this is way more confusing. Any help would be appreciated. I guess my issues are:
Thank you [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Jan 2020 12:14 PM PST Ok so basically I have a Nether nighthawk x4s r7800 router. My goal is to get a pi hole and pi sense up and running but I have some other goals I'm not solid on right now I want to also have capability of bandwidth monitoring per device and all. And I also would like to maybe, have a nice firewall setup as well. I looked at yamon and also at pi sense. I also thought about a a industrial type of low level home router but I figure I would be over doing it So does pi sense give me the option to monitor and see bandwidth per device and also live? Can I install pi sense and pihole on the same 1 device which would be the raspberry? And how about a fire wall? Do I need one for home? What would be the best way to set this up [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Jan 2020 12:06 PM PST Setting up a VLAN for the AP I got for my IoT / smart home wifi devices and curious what tips and/or best practices you could share? Do you put everything smart-home related on that LAN? Hubitat Hub, door locks, video doorbell, etc., are the obvious candidates. How far do you take it? Rokus and Chromecasts as well? Since I'd need my phone to be on the same wifi as these in order for them to work properly, would that defeat the purpose of isolating them on a separate VLAN in the first place? Most of my smart devices are z-wave and zigbee (light switches, leak sensors, door and window contact sensors), so that wouldn't have any impact on set up, would it? Thanks in advance and Happy New Year! [link] [comments]  |
| Help with netgear c7000 and r7000. Posted: 01 Jan 2020 05:50 PM PST I hope this is the right place and I'm following the rules. First let me start with the initial problem. I was using my c7000 as a modem router to provide coverage for the basement and using my hardwired r7000 in AP mode to cover the first floor. Recently my r7000 just started losing connection to the modem. Then I learned that even with the assigned IP address I couldn't log into the r7000. I did a factory reset but following the prompts lead to disaster. I'm currently trying to do factory resets on both pieces of equipment but the c7000 wont cooperate and simply keeps generating the prompt asking to reset the admin password. I wanted to reset both devices to factory. Set up my modem/router (c7000) in modem only mode and then use my regular router as a router but I cant get the modem to reset. Please help. P.s. avoid netgear products, I'm over 500 bucks into equipment and while its been a couple years their tech support is only good for 90 days from date of purchase, for what I have into the equipment I'm positive that I'll never buy netgear again. [link] [comments]  |
| 5 GHz internet speed much slower than 2.4 GHz w/excellent signal strength? Posted: 01 Jan 2020 04:27 PM PST I set up an Asus router with the sole purpose of using it for streaming to my quest from my PC. This seems to work well. However, I noticed while connected to the 5 GHz wifi that the internet speed was extremely slow (<10mbps). Keep in mind the Asus router is in the same exact room as the quest and my phone when I ran these tests. So I connected my phone to the 5 GHz wifi and I get less than 10 Mbps but the 2.4 GHz gets 50+ Mbps while in the same room as the router. I ran some tests using wifi analyzer premium and the signal strength for the 5ghz is excellent (-35dbm; 0 percent channel interference; link speed: 866Mbps) I am running an Ethernet to the Asus router from a tp-link wireless extender so I don't expect any great internet speeds or latency but I expect the 5 GHz internet connection to at least be on par with the 2.4 GHz. Any ideas on what could cause this? [link] [comments]  |
| 100/5 Comcast router and modem Posted: 01 Jan 2020 08:54 AM PST Hey everyone, Just a quick question. My roommate and I just purchased the 100/5 Comcast plan. I personally run browse the internet/watch shows while he occasionally games. Nothing in 4K so I'm sure this plan will be enough. But to ensure we're getting our 100 down what would be a good modem and router to pair with this plan, and perhaps a faster plan if this does not suffice? I'd like to be cost effective. Anything helps, thanks a ton! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Jan 2020 03:59 PM PST Currently have a Netgear nighthawk ac1900 dual band docsis 3.0 and haven't really had any issues or anything with 275mbs dl speed and multiple devices mainly doing streaming and a little gaming. New roommate moved in and he's got a asus rt-ac87u and we were wondering if it was worth swapping over to the other or if there is any difference. Current Netgear https://www.bestbuy.com/site/netgear-nighthawk-dual-band-ac1900-router-with-24-x-8-docsis-3-0-cable-modem-black/4403100.p?skuId=4403100 Any thoughts here? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
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| Ethernet IP Issues How To Resolve? Posted: 01 Jan 2020 03:35 PM PST For the longest time, I have been trying to get a setup working that allows me to connect my Minecraft server to the world without having to deal with my parents' WiFi router (I. E., convincing them to let me forward ports, which requires access to the router configuration). I managed to put in an Ethernet hub between the modem and the WiFi Router, so that I could connect my server to the modem through the Hub, bypassing the WiFi router. The WiFi router still works fine when connected through the Ethernet hub, but both my PCs are getting "Ethernet doesn't have a valid IP address" errors when connected to the hub. On the other hand, my PC's will happily connect to the internet (even when wireless is turned off) via Ethernet through the WiFi router (which I want to avoid). How can I fix this problem? One possible solution seems to be to get a second WiFi router (could be a really old cheap one) just for my personal use only, but I'd like to avoid spending any more money if possible, and avoid dealing with the first WiFi router at all costs. What can I do to solve my Ethernet IP woes? [link] [comments]  |
| An Ethernet connection on different stories Posted: 01 Jan 2020 03:33 PM PST Hello, I would like to get a wired connection to both the pc in my basement and 2nd story bedroom. Currently, my internet coax cable runs through my basement up to the bedroom, with a modem connecting upstairs pc via Ethernet, and router connecting downstairs pc via WiFi. Is it possible to split the coax with a splitter, run an Ethernet cable to a spare modem in my basement, and then still have a modem to connect upstairs pc to the internet? I'm new to home networking so I appreciate the help. Thanks [link] [comments]  |
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