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Am I correct in thinking that having MoCA encryption/filters is unnecessary in a standalone suburban house? Just set up a 2-box network using the existing coax runs in my house and it has been the very definition of plug-and-play. Went from 250mbs down on 5G wi-fi to 950mbs down using the adapters. Rock-solid connection too. Do I need to worry about turning on MPS and what not? I looked into it a bit and it sounds like a hassle to set up on these ScreenBeam adapters.
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 16:51 |
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# ? Apr 17, 2024 23:13 |
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Cross-Section posted:Am I correct in thinking that having MoCA encryption/filters is unnecessary in a standalone suburban house? If your coax connection to outside is connected, I'd put a filter there IMO.
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 17:09 |
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Cross-Section posted:Am I correct in thinking that having MoCA encryption/filters is unnecessary in a standalone suburban house? Is your coaxial run connected to the street? Are you certain? You can hide splitters anywhere. If so you need filters. Period. It's a bus network and any neighbor within range with a moca adapter will wind up on your network or causing problems. If you aren't using the catv line from the street at all just go unhook it. Bingo bango air gap filtering.
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 17:17 |
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H110Hawk posted:Is your coaxial run connected to the street? Are you certain? You can hide splitters anywhere. If so you need filters. Period. It's a bus network and any neighbor within range with a moca adapter will wind up on your network or causing problems. If you aren't using the catv line from the street at all just go unhook it. Bingo bango air gap filtering. The latter option is fine with me since we don't have cable TV anymore. I ambled over to the side of my house, unscrewed/yanked off the panel so helpfully marked "Television" and unscrewed the cables on the left from the below splitters. I have no clue where these cables actually run to but would I be correct in assuming at least one of them runs out to the green cable box next to the street? Or should I just unscrew all of them to be safe?
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 17:53 |
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That's impressive. I would tape and number left/right in case you need to put any back, but if you get in there one should disappear into a cavity that isn't your house, likely "down", and the rest will go elsewhere. That's the one. Otherwise yeah just keep unscrewing. You might wind up killing your moca connection which may run through there, this is when you need to do troubleshooting on combining them back together and why you should really find the one from the street. Put your phone on wifi, disable mobile data. Fire up a streaming app. If it cuts out you got the wrong one. Assuming your wifi is on the other side of the moca from the router. If it's not, zoom from the desktop to the phone with a screen share that's moving (YouTube). Same test. You can also just go to the street box, if there's only 2 connections you can just unscrew the one that goes to your house. If you can't tell ask your neighbor if they have internet or TV via. <spectrum|xfinity>, if no unscrew both. If yes ask if you can coin toss their internet down. Unscrew one, have em go to a website or fire up Netflix.
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 18:05 |
This thing is super handy for figuring out where all the connections go and labeling them: Klein Tools VDV512-101 Explorer 2 Coax Tester Kit, Includes Cable Tester / Wire Tracer / Coax Mapper with Remotes to Test up to 4 Locations https://a.co/d/6Yic0pc
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 18:38 |
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H110Hawk posted:That's impressive. I would tape and number left/right in case you need to put any back, but if you get in there one should disappear into a cavity that isn't your house, likely "down", and the rest will go elsewhere. That's the one. Otherwise yeah just keep unscrewing. You might wind up killing your moca connection which may run through there, this is when you need to do troubleshooting on combining them back together and why you should really find the one from the street. I did some more finagling around (and did actually end up finding my moca cable connected on that bottom splitter). The rest of the coax cables connected to the splitters run up and out. There are three conduits coming out of the ground; two resolve to cables that run through the compartment and into the garage, but third ends in this: ... which was already disconnected from anything but said after-mentioned cable coming out of the ground. Mission accomplished, I guess? (read: am too chickenshit to run out to the street and mess with city property lol)
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 18:49 |
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The thick cable with the chunky connector on it will be the one from the street
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 18:53 |
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Now that I'm thinking about it, our previous TV cable setup worked through a coax port on a Verizon-provided router (and I remember the set-top boxes would show up in the router dashboard) so it might have not even been using the street hookup in the first place? Well, at least I got a little refresher on my home's communications infrastructure lol, thanks everyone! Cross-Section fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Apr 13, 2024 |
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Cross-Section posted:(read: am too chickenshit to run out to the street and mess with city property lol) Now now, that is government grant private monopoly property unless your city owns the local cable TV company. gently caress em. And yeah Verizon TV would have been fios. Fiber internet. Perfecto.
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 19:06 |
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i needed a filter in front of my cable modem because i guess that particular model gets weird when there is a moca adapter present. i put another one where the wire came into the house just as cheap insurance for the dang college kids living near me. who knows what theyre up to.
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# ? Apr 14, 2024 01:55 |
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H110Hawk posted:They're the feed through connectors where the crimper cuts them off. I guess there could be some kind of poor cut on the end I need to trim. I didn't have much time to troubleshoot this morning. Well it was this. The 3 wires I tested had poorly cut feed through. Potentially coupled with the panel being stp or something. I swapped it for a utp panel from the same cheap brand testing a couple of still loose wires - worked great. Put it in, test the wire I had issues with before which I had already zip tied in place and nope. Finally looked at the end and saw like 1mm of cat6 wires sticking out. Patched in about 8 more cables, only 12 more to go! Also the coaxial keystone I bought for the old patch panel doesn't fit in this one. Welp. Internet is up, u6-lite has taken over the wifi, and I setup a guest network w/ isolation on it to take over the eero network. Setup the eero to be a bogus name and very long password.
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# ? Apr 14, 2024 04:03 |
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Hello, I'd like some hints from people with knowledge in running low specs pc as opnsense. I'm currently assessing moving from my current 1000/100 ftth line to 10000/2000 but the isp provided modem for that offering is absolute poo poo (sagemcom f@st 5688). Other common models of sfp+ or 10gbase routers sold in my area like udm pros or qnaps have a bad rep on running faster than 2.5g. What is lowest i can go in processing power to manage 10g routing, an handful of firewall rules and port forwarding along 150mbps+ of wireguard? I would need two 10g ports, one terminated in copper (ISP ONT) and one in optical (switch uplink), so it would need at least four if not eight pcie lanes. Any experiences?
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# ? Apr 14, 2024 09:13 |
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My attempt to homebrew a pfSense continues. I have a dual-NIC mini PC that has one WAN port and one LAN port. On the LAN port I have tagged VLANs A and B, where A is management and B is (ideally) going to serve a VPN out over the WAN port to anything behind it via Network Manager. The problem is that I’ve gone with Ubuntu Server to have full control over firewalling and run headless, so I don’t get a nice little GUI toggle to do this for me. Is there an nmcli incantation that will let me share the VLAN B connection into a switch with a few access ports? Can I even run a VLAN “object” as an IPv4 sharing device, or does that only work via the physical interface?
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# ? Apr 17, 2024 23:13 |
A internet speed testing website that, at least in my experinence gets better speeds, is Tele2's speedtest. And the bufferbloat test probably also needs to be mentioned. If anyone's using iperf, be aware that version 2 and version 3 are not equivalent - version 2 uses multithreading, version 3 uses singlethreading. You kinda need both.
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# ? Apr 17, 2024 17:38 |