• Re: Testing - Network Upgrades

    From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Nazferiti on Mon Aug 23 08:23:00 2021
    Nazferiti wrote to Zip <=-

    how much I've been fooling with the WiFi and disconnecting her while I configure everything.

    "Honey, the internet is down *AGAIN* and I have a zoom call in 10 minutes!

    <clicks the reboot button and quickly closes the router admin page>

    "Damn Comcast!"

    Ran CAT-5e all over the house and added Ubiquity
    Access Points to fix dead spots. New PoE switches and security
    gateway. I'm finally pumping all the bandwidth that I am paying for to every device in the house.

    I just called my local cable/AV guy to pull some Cat6, finally. I found a great little container script called internet pi that combines pihole, an internet speed test and grafana dashboard in a container, and found out I'm getting 470 Mb/s down, 11 Mb/s up. At my upstairs office, that drops to
    around 40 Mb/s over powerline.

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  • From Nazferiti@21:3/107 to All on Wed Aug 18 17:45:20 2021
    I just upgraded my network and installed a new Ubiquity USG-PRO-4 Router,
    WiFi and CloudKey and set up all the port forwarding for the BBS Telnet/SSH
    and BINKP. Wanted to make sure messages were still getting out.

    I have high hopes this resolves the disconnects that some users have reported.

    - Mike

    Regards,
    Mike Pedersen

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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to Nazferiti on Wed Aug 18 20:17:18 2021
    On 18 Aug 2021, Nazferiti said the following...

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    I just upgraded my network and installed a new Ubiquity USG-PRO-4 Router, WiFi and CloudKey and set up all the port forwarding for the BBS Telnet/SSH and BINKP. Wanted to make sure messages were still getting out.

    I have high hopes this resolves the disconnects that some users have reported.

    - Mike

    Regards,
    Mike Pedersen

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    Got you here! :)


    Jay

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  • From Zip@21:1/202 to Nazferiti on Thu Aug 19 14:08:38 2021
    Hello Nazferiti!

    On 18 Aug 2021, Nazferiti said the following...
    Telnet/SSH and BINKP. Wanted to make sure messages were still getting out.

    Seems to be working just fine! Nice with some new stuff. :)

    Best regards
    Zip

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  • From Nazferiti@21:3/107 to Zip on Sat Aug 21 13:23:38 2021
    On 19 Aug 2021, Zip said the following...

    Hello Nazferiti!

    On 18 Aug 2021, Nazferiti said the following...
    Telnet/SSH and BINKP. Wanted to make sure messages were still gettin out.

    Seems to be working just fine! Nice with some new stuff. :)

    Best regards
    Zip

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    It's always fun getting some new "toys". Though my girlfriend dislikes how much I've been fooling with the WiFi and disconnecting her while I configure everything. Ran CAT-5e all over the house and added Ubiquity Access Points
    to fix dead spots. New PoE switches and security gateway. I'm finally
    pumping all the bandwidth that I am paying for to every device in the house.
    I may be upgrading the BBS software to A47 next week as well.

    Regards,
    Mike Pedersen

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  • From Zip@21:1/202 to Nazferiti on Sat Aug 21 19:53:06 2021
    Hello Nazferiti!

    On 21 Aug 2021, Nazferiti said the following...
    It's always fun getting some new "toys". Though my girlfriend dislikes how much I've been fooling with the WiFi and disconnecting her while I configure everything.

    :-D

    Ran CAT-5e all over the house and added Ubiquity
    Access Points to fix dead spots. New PoE switches and security gateway. I'm finally pumping all the bandwidth that I am paying for to every
    device in the house.

    That's good!

    When my ISP-supplied router proved not to be up to the task of forwarding port 80 because "it was used by the management interface" (on the LAN side, yes, and the admin GUI was not exposed to the WAN) -- %-( -- I was in a hurry to get something that "just worked", which resulted in a cheap 100 Mbps router despite having a 250/100 service...

    Although it has its limitations and some Wi-Fi interoperability quirks, it has been working rather well. But I'm planning to replace it with a Gigabit router, with AC or Wi-Fi 6, sometime.

    I may be upgrading the BBS software to A47 next
    week as well.

    Nice! That's a rather big upgrade. Make sure to wade through whatsnew.txt and check what applies to you. =)

    I've been following the A47 prealphas for a long time now, and they have generally been working very well.

    ...which reminds me that I should pay some attention to the file areas of my BBS -- the only local one right now is the upload area. :-O

    But I've been busy going through menus, prompts and other parts of the configuration this summer.

    Best regards
    Zip

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Nazferiti on Mon Aug 23 09:23:00 2021
    Nazferiti wrote to Zip <=-

    how much I've been fooling with the WiFi and disconnecting her while I configure everything.

    "Honey, the internet is down *AGAIN* and I have a zoom call in 10 minutes!

    <clicks the reboot button and quickly closes the router admin page>

    "Damn Comcast!"

    Ran CAT-5e all over the house and added Ubiquity
    Access Points to fix dead spots. New PoE switches and security
    gateway. I'm finally pumping all the bandwidth that I am paying for to every device in the house.

    I just called my local cable/AV guy to pull some Cat6, finally. I found a great little container script called internet pi that combines pihole, an internet speed test and grafana dashboard in a container, and found out I'm getting 470 Mb/s down, 11 Mb/s up. At my upstairs office, that drops to
    around 40 Mb/s over powerline.

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  • From Pat Jensen@21:4/163 to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Aug 23 18:45:04 2021
    I just called my local cable/AV guy to pull some Cat6, finally. I found a great little container script called internet pi that combines pihole, an internet speed test and grafana dashboard in a container, and found out I'm getting 470 Mb/s down, 11 Mb/s up. At my upstairs office, that drops to around 40 Mb/s over powerline.

    You're going to love that CAT6 upstairs in the office. Nice low latency and jitter. I ended up pulling 12 runs and it was a game changer. Add a Fire Stick 4K and a nice TV and you are set.

    Pat
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  • From gcubebuddy@21:4/129 to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Aug 24 06:53:20 2021
    "Honey, the internet is down *AGAIN* and I have a zoom call in 10
    minutes!
    <clicks the reboot button and quickly closes the router admin page>
    "Damn Comcast!"

    haha i have done that before lol.

    Thanks
    - Gamecube Buddy

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Pat Jensen on Tue Aug 24 10:57:00 2021
    Pat Jensen wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    You're going to love that CAT6 upstairs in the office. Nice low latency and jitter. I ended up pulling 12 runs and it was a game changer. Add a Fire Stick 4K and a nice TV and you are set.

    I'm swearing at the current situation enough to love it. My powerline
    adapters are only getting 30mbps, wireless clients about the same, and wired to the modem is getting 470mbps.

    Not sure what's going on with my router, but it might be time for an
    upgrade. One I got for free from a Linksys beta program a couple of years back, the AP was $5 at a Goodwill. :)

    They've been rock-solid until now, but I'm running Entware-NG on them, with nginx running as a proxy on it. I'd think it has enough horsepower to manage that, but they are quite old. I should look at some of the newer MIMO
    routers and see what's out there.

    Mesh wireless might be nice, but I still need ethernet ports on the router end, and a lot of the ones I see have only one LAN port. gig ethernet
    switches are getting cheaper, but that's just One More Thing.

    Or, I could just get the Cat6, toss the powerline adapters and manage each floor on one of my (existing) routers.





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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Aug 25 15:33:06 2021
    On 24 Aug 2021 at 10:57a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...

    Mesh wireless might be nice, but I still need ethernet ports on the
    router end, and a lot of the ones I see have only one LAN port. gig ethernet switches are getting cheaper, but that's just One More Thing.

    I'm using a Edge router and a wired Cat5e network running gig speeds. Fibre comes into the router from the ONT and I have a number of rules etc. set up
    on the router.

    For home wifi I have a google nest setup with several access point extenders around the home creating a mesh. The only downside with the nest is it wants
    to be your router as well so in my case the nest is plugged in to a switch
    fed from the router and then takes it's own subnet (so double natting) and assigns all the wireless devices on a different subnet.

    For me it's been working fine. I have no issues with the wireless devices working on the home wifi and no major gotchas with wireless needing to talk
    to wired devices.

    All of which is to say I have found the mesh system of google nest gear to be good here at home :)

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  • From dflorey@21:1/226 to Nazferiti on Mon Sep 13 20:32:44 2021
    Those USG-PRO-4's, although feature limited, are pretty robust! As long as
    they continue to see the controller for anything you may have turned on that requires controller access, you'll be sweet.

    The key missing feature in the USG line in my mind is a decent DNS server / service...

    Otherwise, enjoy!!!

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