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- If you have daisy chained Cat5 cables meant for telephone use, you can most likely still use utilize them for Ethernet.
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- A simple tool to monitor home network traffic.
- can I tether my mifi 8800l to my ax86u
- Need advice on my home network
- How do powerline adapters implement "beamforming"?
- Faster home Network speed
- Looking for advice on how to configure my network, vlans
- Need Help Troubleshooting Network Issue
- Internet keeps cutting out every hour or two only on my pc
- Question about new house with Cat 5e sockets
- 5% packets lost when I ping websites?
- Using a USB Wifi antenna as an access point?
- Slow Ethernet Port
- Moved into new apartment but can't connect Xfinity
- Hue Bridge issue with UnFi Dream Machine
| Posted: 27 Feb 2021 10:19 AM PST Not many people know this. Let's say you have one Cat5 cable running back to a central point. You want to terminate and plug this Cat5 cable into your router or switch, to be an uplink for your devices. But the rest of the line is daisy chained, what do you do? You see those telephone jacks on your wall? If you open up the wall plates, there will most likely be two spliced cables behind the plate. If you're lucky enough, they'll be Cat5 or better and not just two or four conductor wire. The most common splicing method for telco cables is using scotchlocks, they could also be spliced like this, and that's fine. Separate all spliced cables behind the wall plates, this involves cutting the far end of each cable to allow you to terminate both to different keystone jacks using a punch down tool. If you don't have a means of properly identifying which cable is which by using a cable toner or with preexisting labeling, then the above step will have to be repeated for all daisy chained wall plates to keep things simple. Once you have both cables terminated onto the keystone jacks, you can now clip them onto the keystone wall plate. Great, now how do you get Ethernet capability out of these lines? Essentially what you did is remove the permanent chain between all the cables. The cable that was running to your central point is now detached from the next link and is now independent. Simply plug in the first cable into your router or switch where the central point is, and at the wall plate side, plug it into a small network switch. You now have Ethernet at this wall plate. What about the other plates? Simply plug in the cable running to the next wall plate to the small network switch. You now have an uplink for the next wall plate. Easy enough? Just repeat for all locations. Essentially, you'll need a small cheap switch at each wall plate side to utilize your newly converted cables. If there's any questions or anything I didn't explain well, please drop a comment below and I'll make sure to get back to you shortly. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Feb 2021 08:25 PM PST Although there are many dual WAN posts, I'm not seeing my sort of dual-LAN with bridge setup. This is a fairly complex setup, but the folks at r/networking frowned on the consumer level hardware of it, so here I am. Current net: super vanilla single WAN with WiFi router (ASUS AC-1900/DD-WRT) Basically, I am setting up some fairly bandwidth intensive IoT things that I wish to have separate WAN source for (faster WAN not possible). I'd like to be able to access IoT from regular network and for IoT to support port forwarding (ofc), both behind e.g. pfSense. IoT likely to be all wired, regular net wired and WiFi. FWIW, I'm thinking 12ish or so IoT on net A and 0 or 1 wired devices on net B with the rest of B WiFi. ...and as stated access between at least part of B <—> A. (ofc B won't access A WAN and vice versa, BUT I would like the capability to failover to WAN B for regular stuff in the event of WAN A failure, although not necessarily vice versa, and I'd prefer that the WAN failover be a manual process [and not require moving a cable from one port to another, lol]) Edit: This page describes essentially what I want except with another WAN, and a route from a subnet of LAN B to LAN A (but not to WAN A). The author here does a great job of spelling out the pfsense stuff, but he is apparently too busy to respond to my inquiry. Many questions: 1) I want both nets firewalled. I've been itching to geek out with pfSense for a long time, and that is my preference and goal. However, I'd be interested in hearing opinions on more cost effective solutions that should be considered. I've been looking at these boxes for pfsense, although reviews seem to be mixed. I have never set up pfSense before (although it isn't beyond me). (The question finally:) Will I be able to have multiple WAN with split network config like this with a single pfSense instance? (I pondered multiple pfSense/docker instances - any merit to this?). 1B) One reason I'm leaning toward the aforementioned little pfSense boxes is that I will likely want to have much of the network VPNd from the firewall/router, and those have AES-NI hardware support to help with that. Q: How is your suggestion better/cheaper/faster/etc for my goals? 2) Let's say e.g. IoT is 192.168.40.x and regular (home net) is 192.168.50.x. If I want to be able to access my IoTs (locally) from my laptop and phone, what would that look like? I'm open to actual nets, subnets, VLAN etc. 3) What hardware is required? I realize this is broad, but basically, I don't want to spend more than a couple hundred USD (beyond a multi-NIC pfSense box if that is best). Will a "managed switch" do the job or do I need a bonafide big boy router router (aside from WiFi router)?. 4) Please provide an example of how I might (e.g.) kick IoT off the WAN, and let LAN B use WAN A in the event of WAN B outage. I am fairly technical (coder/general geek), but not an advanced network guy. I would like to KISS as much as possible. A humble $50 thank you bounty for the best advice for design/hardware/config in the next 72h (if no acceptable answers in 72h, best in a week) (PayPal, BTC, gift card, etc.) I'll publicly thank 'winner', and PM. Thanks very very kindly in advance!!! [link] [comments]  |
| Help troubleshooting internet connection issues Posted: 27 Feb 2021 06:03 PM PST Wireless internet connection drops intermittently most noticeably during peak hours on weekend nights. When playing PUBG live ping monitoring will shoot way up and then quickly return to low ping. Occasionally full disconnection occurs. Posted modem error logs, curious if anything stands out to anyone. [link] [comments]  |
| Mesh, Access Point, Repeater and Router Posted: 27 Feb 2021 12:06 PM PST I made a quickie video on Mesh vs Access Point vs Repeater and access point. [link] [comments]  |
| [In NJ] Replacing the free Gigabit Fios Router? Posted: 27 Feb 2021 03:06 PM PST Just about to get Gigabit service and I saw that the router rental is included. Does it make sense to replace the included router? Was thinking about replacing it with the Asus GT-AX11000 + using 2 of my currently used Google Wifi's as wired access points. Since the router is included with the $79.99/month plan, this would involve just stashing it away (I couldn't see any option to opt-out of getting the free router for a discount). Use case is that there are many devices that are gonna be connected to the Wifi, as well as 2 gaming PC's connected via ethernet directly to the router's LAN ports. Appreciate any advice! Thanks :D [link] [comments]  |
| What is the optimal OS choice for a 300-400 clients DHCP and DNS node Posted: 27 Feb 2021 02:36 PM PST Hi, I need a machine with 2 services: DHCP server + DNS caching. I'm thinking: - TrueNas core + Ubuntu server in a VM with PiHole ( I don't think it's possible in a jail for now ... ) - native Ubuntu server + PiHole - OpenWRT for X86 - ... another setup ? the considerations are: - it must be low maintenance, very low maintenance - the machine has: 8Gb of RAM on an Intel Core 8th Gen and, for now, 2 mechanical HDDs - given the hardware setup I would prefer a solution that hammers the RAM more than the disk The only real difference I can tell is the fact that the TrueNAS installer supports installing on multiple HDD and so the OS can be mirrored for redundancy . I can't really pick one over the other tough, any suggestions ? [link] [comments]  |
| Beginner's question on where to place router in the house Posted: 27 Feb 2021 04:45 PM PST My plan is to buy a modem (instead of renting a gateway from Xfinity for $25 per month). I'll plug the coax from outside straight into modem, in the basement where patch panel and 24 port switch is located. Question I have is, can I plug my WiFi router into an ethernet jack in my kitchen (so it's centrally located)? EDIT: In this scenario, the modem would be plugged into the patch panel? Or does the modem need to be directly cabled to the router? and then plug router into switch? I think my router wouldn't provide adequate coverage if I keep it in the basement near the modem. Thanks. P.s. if you check my other posts in this sub, I have pictures of my set up in my basement. [link] [comments]  |
| Question about switch and Cat6 Posted: 27 Feb 2021 08:22 PM PST Hi I'm building a space to have an office in the garden and obviously it needs internet. So I'm planning to take some cat6 cable and reach the office from the main switch. My question is, I'm planning to upgrade to 10 gb soon, I don't know when but I hope soon. The distance between my switch and the office is about 40 meters. Is that cat 6 going to do 10gb? I don't want to use fiber or other than ethernet cable because I don't understand the transceivers and bla bla. I just want to plug and that's it. [link] [comments]  |
| Upgrade from nighthawk r8000 to ax3000? Posted: 27 Feb 2021 07:57 PM PST Really just looking for opinions if its worth getting the ax3000 if i already have the r8000, it gives me troubles on one users phone and i have to reset it sometimes but other than that it has treated me well. Any advice will be appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Feb 2021 11:22 AM PST We are out in the country so we have two internet connections here to try to keep up with bandwidth needs. I have an extra PC and would like to use it as a proxy to accomplish a couple of things. One is to cache downloads so that if multiple people are wanting to download the same file(s) (such as 4 of us installing or updating the same game on the same day, which could take several hours each) it doesn't have to download everything 4 times. The other is to allow both internet connections to be utilized by anyone on the network. I don't mean a single download/upload being sent across both networks simultaneously, I know that's a whole other ballgame. What I would want is for the proxy to route each request through whichever connection is currently under less stress, or to be able to assign certain devices to either connection, or whatever else there might be for options. For example currently if someone is streaming netflix, we have to manually going around the house and rearrange who else is on which network so that netflix isn't buffering. (There are wildly varying demands at different times of day, so whatever works great during school hours is awful at other times, etc.) I have a decent PC with a blank HDD, an extra Windows 10 Home license sitting around, I could install linux, or whatever else. I tried googling and everything I could find was based on setting up your windows PC to share an internet connection with others, which fails on both things I actually want. If anyone can point me in the right direction it would be appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| A simple tool to monitor home network traffic. Posted: 27 Feb 2021 03:07 PM PST Hello, I have a question, Is there any tool I can use to monitor my local network just upload/download speed for the connected devices nothing fancy just a list of devices and what bandwidth they are using. It's best if I don't have to install any clients on the computers/phones connected to my home wifi and it works on my windows PC. Sorry, I did google this but most answers are linked to checking my Modem Router, and the one I have only show usage in total not who is using it. Thank you [link] [comments]  |
| can I tether my mifi 8800l to my ax86u Posted: 27 Feb 2021 06:45 PM PST |
| Need advice on my home network Posted: 27 Feb 2021 06:40 PM PST I work from home and I'm a wannabe gamer. Heh. I live in a decent sized house and I work in the basement. My main pc is down there, so I have the router nearby, to use the ethernet connection. My wifi works fine down there and usually well I'm the living room. However, in other areas of the house the signal is either weak, inconsistent, or not present. Lots of issues in the bedrooms and rooms on the second floor. So far, I've tried a few things. I've tried moving the router around in the basement. No change. I've bought some wifi extenders and they made a slight difference, but nothing huge. I tried using one of my google hubs and it will not work with my router. To clarify, I am using a spectrum assigned router. So I was debating calling to see if they could help. But I wanted explore options. Such as possibly buying a mesh network. I wanted to post here for thoughts first. [link] [comments]  |
| How do powerline adapters implement "beamforming"? Posted: 27 Feb 2021 02:23 PM PST Powerline adapters advertise themselves with claims such as: Enhanced Powerline performance and range from MIMO with Beamforming technology. How does that work?? I understand how beamforming can work to improve WiFi and other radio signals by focusing the signal in certain directions, but I haven't been able to wrap my head around how beamforming would work over a cable. Powerline adapters that make this claim often use all 3 cables by incorporating the ground as a signal cable. Is it possible to implement "beamforming" in such a scenario? Or are they just using marketing tools ("beamforming = fast")? Edit: For those of you following along at home, I have found a technical paper explaining some of the information. I don't understand what it means yet, but there is apparently a distinction between multiple types of beamforming, and Homeplug AV2 MIMO uses "eigen-beamforming", as opposed to classical beamforming using phased array antennas. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Feb 2021 01:57 PM PST Hello All New to HomeNetworking and I'm getting more confused the more I read/watch YouTube videos. I have a Plex media server which serves 5 Rokus in various rooms around my home. When these are all up and running buffering is frequent and devices on the Internet suffer too. All my media is converted to mp4 format for ease of use by the servers and clients. I'm happy with my Internet connection but I don't think my ISP provided router is up to the job for my local home use. Is there a way I can have better bandwidth/speed in my home only. [link] [comments]  |
| Looking for advice on how to configure my network, vlans Posted: 27 Feb 2021 05:39 PM PST Thank you in advance for any info! I am looking for advice on the most optimal configuration for my home network. I hardwired my entire house with Cat6 and I have Unifi APs inside/outside for WiFi. I am running an Araknjs router and multiple Araknjs PoE switches. My hardwired components consist of PCs, Game consoles, AVRs, Qnap NAS and a dedicated NVR for IP cameras. I also have a number of wireless Apple devices (phone, watch, iPad). I also have a bunch of IoT devices. Some are hardwired (Philip's hue bridge) however most are wireless (echo dots, harmony remotes, smart plugs/switches, ring alarm, nest thermostats, etc). Looking for the best practice when it comes to separating these devices and how I should configure my networks. I think my main issue is keeping them isolated from one another however letting certain devices talk to each other (ie iPhone being able to control an device on a different network. I wired, terminated and set up my racked equipment myself. I have decent networking knowledge however don't quite understand the process of setting up Vlans across my wired/wireless equipment just yet. I was thinking I should have a VLan solely for IoT devices, one for IP cameras and one last one for my phones/computers/consoles. I am open to suggestions and looking for any advice on this. Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| Need Help Troubleshooting Network Issue Posted: 27 Feb 2021 05:31 PM PST ETA: Fixed the issue. I went in to the router and released the WAN IP and renewed it force it to get another IP. Voila - problems gone. Sigh. For the past few days I've been battling an annoying issue with my home computer. My network is Verizon Gigabit FIOS, I dont use the wifi on the G3100 router but use Ubiquiti APs. I primarily use my home computer that is tied in via a hardline to the FIOS router (through a dumb switch). What's happening is that certain services - Facebook, Google docs, etc - fail randomly. For example, I tried downloading photos from google, and I'll get a network failed error. Sometimes none, sometime 2 or 3 in a row before simply trying it again. On Facebook, some messages I send (through messenger) get stuck on send. A google doc that I always have open (my todo list) will randomly report that it cant connect but then after a minute will report connected. In Gmail, I'll get the "loading" screen for much longer than I'm used to, or searches will take 10 seconds or longer with the "working" message. But then sometimes I don't. Certain websites will load, but the images will take much longer to load (15-30 seconds, which is unusual.) The icon in the tab will be in loading mode, even though most of the page has rendered so I know that there are some network calls that haven't been completed. Again, unusual. I've tried reproducing issues on my mobile devices, but I'm not experiencing the same sorts of issues. (The wireless devices are connected to Ubiquti APs which have a hard connection to the AP). But then again, I dont do the same sorts of network activities and slowdowns arent as noticeable as opposed to my desktop. Unfortunately its not an issue of not working at all times, but its working most of the time but failing just enough to piss me off. I tried pinging google.com and facebook.com, but I'm getting on average <10ms response with no noticeable spikes even after a couple of minutes. I'm scratching my head. It could be related to the latest windows update (the Windows 20H2 update), but I don't see any reports of similar issues. Even so, I reset the network stack by using netsh, and disabled and reenabled the adapter. I turned off all antivirus software and the firewall, and there is no improvement. I monitor system usage and dont see anything close to maxing out on resource consumption, and I don't see anything in the Windows event viewer. Of course rebooted the router several times as well, no avail. I tried Chrome vs Edge vs Firefox, no discernable difference. If I look at the DevTools display for Chrome, I'll see network errors in the console, usually ERR_FAILED or ERR_CONNECTION_RESET, but I don't see anything definitive how to isolate those types of error. I'm leaning toward it could be a Verizon issue, but wish I could pinpoint it exactly. Anything else I should look for? Thanks for your time. [link] [comments]  |
| Internet keeps cutting out every hour or two only on my pc Posted: 27 Feb 2021 09:49 AM PST before i got my new pc (which was 2-3 weeks ago) A new issue started occuring where my internet on my pc would just stop and it would disconnect then i would have to wait like 2-1 minutes for it to reconnect(i dont have ethernet) It was annoying but it wasn't that bad because it happened like 1-2 per day. now that i got my new pc, its been happening every 1-2 hours and its getting so frustrating playing games or online lessons. Literally only happens to me, doesn't happen on my phone or anyone else's to my degree which is very very regular [link] [comments]  |
| Question about new house with Cat 5e sockets Posted: 27 Feb 2021 05:09 PM PST Hi everyone, I recently moved into a new house and noticed that it has Cat 5e sockets all around. Im currently trying to hook up my desktop to the sockets and I noticed I have no internet access. My modem is connected to coax and I have wifi connection. My question here is; do I need to have an out connection from my modem to one of these Cat 5e sockets for ethernet to be distributed through my house? Sorry if this is a dumb question. However, seeing as there are no coax connections near any of the Cat 5e connections I would need a decently long cable to complete the connection. Thank you for any input! [link] [comments]  |
| 5% packets lost when I ping websites? Posted: 27 Feb 2021 05:05 PM PST My internet has been slow so I did a ping test with 1) my router and 2) www.google.com 1) none of my pings are dropped to my router but 2) i lose about 5% of the pings to google.com and other websites. how do i further diagnose where the issue might be? [link] [comments]  |
| Using a USB Wifi antenna as an access point? Posted: 27 Feb 2021 04:45 PM PST I am trying to spread my WiFi across the house better as my router is on the other side of the house in the living room. I have a ethernet cable running to the opposite side in the office connected to a switch where I have my desktop plugged in. What would be the optimum way to introduce WiFi to the office? I have a USB WiFi adapter, could that operate as an access point for the router from my desktop? Or should I get something to plug into the switch via ethernet? Thanks for the help lads! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Feb 2021 12:22 PM PST Recently I upgraded to a 1gb down, 1gb up Internet plan. My router/modem is plugged into a gigabit switch that runs Cat 6 to each room. In my office the Ethernet only gives me just under 100 down and up, but in other rooms I am seeing the full gigabit speeds. What I've done to troubleshoot the issue: 1) I tried a new cat6 cable from the wall jack to my PC. No change. 2) I thought maybe it might be a driver or PC issue so I tried a different device that I know supports gigabit speeds. Nope still 100up and down 3) I plugged the cable into a different port on my switch. Again, no change. 4) I thought maybe I had mixed up or nicked a wire when I terminated the cat6 next to my switch and put the RJ45 connector on, so I re-cut and terminated the line again. Still the same speeds.. I think that this basically narrows down the issue to either the cat6 in my wall or the keystone in my office.. Before I replace the keystone is there anything else that might be causing the issue? I'm really hoping that I don't have to replace the Cat 6 in walls because they ran all the wiring before the dry wall was up and made some 90 degree turns between studs and maybe zip tied all of the cat 6 lines together in the wall. [link] [comments]  |
| Moved into new apartment but can't connect Xfinity Posted: 27 Feb 2021 04:02 PM PST I just moved from one apartment to another in the same building. I was on Xfinity in old apartment and can't seem to get my modem to activate using any of the coax outlets in the house. I took a look in the cable box and saw there's a network box with AT&T logo on it. See here: https://imgur.com/a/uSzxg1H I can see in my old cable box that there's no such network box and my internet worked without issue. See configuration of old cable box here: https://imgur.com/a/HERsmTG I know nothing about networking but I was guessing maybe the blue wire that's wired into the CAT5 cable going into the AT&T box needs to be connected to the suttle 8-port? However I can't figure out how to remove the plastic ends and since this cord is blue I'm not sure if my theory is correct. Any advice would be much appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Hue Bridge issue with UnFi Dream Machine Posted: 27 Feb 2021 09:47 AM PST I am trying to connect my Hue Bridge to be used for 'out of home control' and the device will not connect. While on network and on the Hue app, I can control my lights without issue whatsoever. I have done all of the basic troubleshooting steps with the Hue Bridge and the application, still with no success so now I am thinking there is likely something that needs to be changed within my UniFi system. Currently there are no custom configurations and I have IPS turned on. Worth mentioning, my goal is to link the Hue account to Alexa through the Hue skill. Weeks ago, it was connected and everything worked, not well but it worked. In the process of troubleshooting I deleted the skill and I have not been able to add it since. I do not recall changing my UniFi network configuration during that period. Does anyone have any suggestions on what could be the cause here along with how I can fix the issue. Any help here is appreciated! [link] [comments]  |
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