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Vaginal Engineer: Jan 23, 2007

TomWaitsForNoMan posted:

Wired transfer speeds are absolutely fine, and I'm having the slow wireless issue on both my laptop and my ipad. The machine I'm transferring the files from has a wired connection to the router so it's not at that end either.

Yeah, I'd try installing third-party firmware and your router and see where that gets you.

# ? Mar 29, 2012 21:47

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# ? May 14, 2024 01:24

Devian666: Aug 20, 2008; Take some advice Chris.; Fun Shoe

President Ark posted:

Powerline networking I'd never heard of before now. It goes through the electrical outlets but gives internet? What sorcery is this?

Powerline networking is continually improving and some of the hardware available is reaching acceptable speeds. Some goons have reported good performance with good house wiring, there are also reviews in old houses that give very poor performance. It is a way to avoid wireless networking problems though.

# ? Mar 29, 2012 23:54

maniacripper: May 3, 2009; STANNIS BURNS SHIREEN
HIZDAR IS THE HARPY
JON GETS STABBED TO DEATH
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So I put Tomato USB on my new Linksys E3000 and there's some sort of Purple-Willow (my new nickname for penis) guest account showing up on wireless scans that I can't seem to get rid of. Anyone run into this?

# ? Mar 30, 2012 00:27

Heresiarch: Oct 6, 2005; Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that no single book is. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

Space Gopher posted:

set key to dog's name

What if it's the dog you grew up with, that has been dead for ten years?

# ? Mar 30, 2012 00:37

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

Dogen posted:

Moving the router is your best option so long as it doesn't screw with any other network setups already in the house, they should be able to do it (or honestly you can probably do it yourself, I don't know what kind of service you have).

Moving the router is a good idea anyway. Basement routers are the devil.

# ? Mar 30, 2012 01:54

Space Gopher: Jul 31, 2006; BLITHERING IDIOT AND HARDCORE DURIAN APOLOGIST. LET ME TELL YOU WHY THIS SHIT DON'T STINK EVEN THOUGH WE ALL KNOW IT DOES BECAUSE I'M SUPER CULTURED.

Heresiarch posted:

What if it's the dog you grew up with, that has been dead for ten years?

Well, if you've set up your key in memory of playing fetch with good ol' DyBpcOQtuJm7P, then you're probably secure. If the dog's name was Rover, not so much.

# ? Mar 30, 2012 02:29

Devian666: Aug 20, 2008; Take some advice Chris.; Fun Shoe

Space Gopher posted:

Well, if you've set up your key in memory of playing fetch with good ol' DyBpcOQtuJm7P

You guessed the first half of my dog's name.

# ? Mar 30, 2012 03:58

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Heresiarch posted:

What if it's the dog you grew up with, that has been dead for ten years?

Your ex-best friend from middle school is hacking into your network RIGHT NOW.

# ? Mar 30, 2012 04:07

Erdricks: Sep 8, 2005; There's nothing refreshing like a sauna!

Erdricks posted:

Any recommendations for a 5ghz adapter? I'm in a high traffic area and I love the 5ghz signal from the WNDR 4000 that I get on my laptop, but I've got a new desktop and am having a hard time finding something.

Anyone?

# ? Mar 30, 2012 04:45

fagalicious: Jan 15, 2004; WHAT FAG

President Ark posted:

So I'm moving into the 3rd floor of a building with the router in the basement. There is another cable hookup in the same room but according to verizon there is absolutely no way, nu-uh, to use that to get internet into that room because of the router already there. Are they telling the truth or just being dumb, and if that is correct is there any way to get internet from the basement up to the third floor without running a big drat ethernet cable through the house? I work for a company that has a work-at-home thing but I need a direct internet connection, they don't like you using wifi.

is it fios or dsl?

# ? Mar 30, 2012 04:51

Gyshall: Feb 24, 2009; Had a couple of drinks.
Saw a couple of things.

I just moved into a new apartment which has FIOS. I'm pretty happy with it, coming from Comcast. The only major gripe I have is that I have to use the poo poo Actiontech router Verizon gives you. I've had to reboot the thing more than once, if I'm torrenting/useneting/streaming media and try to do other crap like VPN/SSH into my work computer - the thing just takes a crap.

My parents gave me an old Motorola NIM100 unit a while back that I have been holding onto for a while - at their old house, I used it to bypass the Actiontech router on their FIOS connection. They had an ONT box that had CAT5 run straight to the router, which was nice, because I could use any router I wanted (DD-WRT, etc.)

I'd love to be able to do the same thing at my apartment. The problem being that I don't have direct access to the ONT box in the building. My current setup looks like:

code:

                        Coaxial => DVR boxes
Coaxial => Splitter => 
                        Coaxial => Actiontech => Cat5 to PS3/switches/computers/etc.

Is it possible to utilize the NIM100 to ditch the Actiontech in favor of a Linksys running DD-WRT? Or am I screwed?

# ? Mar 30, 2012 18:55

Rexxed: May 1, 2010; Dis is amazing!
I gotta try dis!

Gyshall posted:

I just moved into a new apartment which has FIOS. I'm pretty happy with it, coming from Comcast. The only major gripe I have is that I have to use the poo poo Actiontech router Verizon gives you. I've had to reboot the thing more than once, if I'm torrenting/useneting/streaming media and try to do other crap like VPN/SSH into my work computer - the thing just takes a crap.

My parents gave me an old Motorola NIM100 unit a while back that I have been holding onto for a while - at their old house, I used it to bypass the Actiontech router on their FIOS connection. They had an ONT box that had CAT5 run straight to the router, which was nice, because I could use any router I wanted (DD-WRT, etc.)

I'd love to be able to do the same thing at my apartment. The problem being that I don't have direct access to the ONT box in the building. My current setup looks like:
code:
                        Coaxial => DVR boxes
Coaxial => Splitter => 
                        Coaxial => Actiontech => Cat5 to PS3/switches/computers/etc.
Is it possible to utilize the NIM100 to ditch the Actiontech in favor of a Linksys running DD-WRT? Or am I screwed?

I haven't worked with those specific routers, but you could always set up the NIM100 as a DMZ host on the actiontech, so that it passes all incoming data to it, and then use the NIM100 as your router. That would be giving your connection double NAT routing, which is technically fraught with double the possible failures, but I've done it to use VPN routers before on FIOS. It's not without a couple of issues. The main one is to make sure the internal addressing on the actiontech is different than on the NIM100. So set up one as 192.168.x.1 and the other as 10.x.x.1 or somesuch (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network). Configure a DMZ host on the actiontech to be like, 10.1.1.5 (where the actiontech is 10.1.1.1) and then on the nim100, make its wan IP static as 10.1.1.5 with 10.1.1.1 as the gateway, then make the internal network on the nim100 all 192.168.1.x.

Yeah, it's an ugly workaround. Maybe someone with more experience with FIOS combo modem/routers has a better solution.

# ? Mar 30, 2012 22:14

fagalicious: Jan 15, 2004; WHAT FAG

Gyshall posted:

I just moved into a new apartment which has FIOS. I'm pretty happy with it, coming from Comcast. The only major gripe I have is that I have to use the poo poo Actiontech router Verizon gives you. I've had to reboot the thing more than once, if I'm torrenting/useneting/streaming media and try to do other crap like VPN/SSH into my work computer - the thing just takes a crap.

My parents gave me an old Motorola NIM100 unit a while back that I have been holding onto for a while - at their old house, I used it to bypass the Actiontech router on their FIOS connection. They had an ONT box that had CAT5 run straight to the router, which was nice, because I could use any router I wanted (DD-WRT, etc.)

I'd love to be able to do the same thing at my apartment. The problem being that I don't have direct access to the ONT box in the building. My current setup looks like:
code:
                        Coaxial => DVR boxes
Coaxial => Splitter => 
                        Coaxial => Actiontech => Cat5 to PS3/switches/computers/etc.
Is it possible to utilize the NIM100 to ditch the Actiontech in favor of a Linksys running DD-WRT? Or am I screwed?

Weird that you don't have access to the ONT, I guess you have a shared one in your building? My sister's is in one of her closet's in her apartment.

Anyways, see this for the various work arounds for hooking it up: http://www.dslreports.com/faq/16077

The NIM won't give you a connection for the internet, its for the local network for the cable boxes.

# ? Mar 31, 2012 05:05

VulgarandStupid: Aug 5, 2003; I AM, AND ALWAYS WILL BE, UNFUCKABLE AND A TOTAL DISAPPOINTMENT TO EVERYONE. DAE WANNA CUM PLAY WITH ME!?

So I'm currently looking at two NetGear "N600" models. They are both simultaneous G/N and have good XBox360 compatibility, and have a USB 3.0 slot for attaching network storage. The WNDR3400 is cheaper and doesn't have gigabit LAN, the WNDR3700 is more expensive but does have gigabit LAN. However, the CNet review claims that the 3400 has faster wireless speeds and NAS performance. So the obvious choice seems like the 3400, being cheaper and all.

My question are: How important is Gigabit LAN? And how important is USB3.0 for NAS? I'm generally not transferring huge files over the network, there's no nightly imaging or anything like that. I just want to watch some videos every so often from different devices in the house. Sometimes up to 1080P MKV rips, but usually not.

Currently, I am using a LinkSys WRT150N, which has been pretty good. No simultaneous G/N though and no USB for NAS. I bought it from a Circuit City when it was shutting down, it was the router they had been using, so I'm a little worried about it's age.

VulgarandStupid fucked around with this message at 14:19 on Mar 31, 2012

# ? Mar 31, 2012 14:07

Ragingsheep: Nov 7, 2009

Are you sure the 3400 has a USB3.0 port? Regardless, the inbuilt NAS features on routers generally aren't very fast.

# ? Mar 31, 2012 14:39

maniacripper: May 3, 2009; STANNIS BURNS SHIREEN
HIZDAR IS THE HARPY
JON GETS STABBED TO DEATH
DANY FLIES OFF ON DROGON

So my new E3000 is all setup with TomatoUSB 2.6 EXT specifically built for the E3000. Whenever I have Usenet going (only 4 threads) everything else takes a poo poo. My ping in games jumps to 2000+ and Web surfing slows way down. This never happened with my old Buffalo WHR-54G so what gives? The specs of this new router are superior in every way so I'm thinking it's probably firmware right? Guys? Guys?

# ? Mar 31, 2012 16:31

Devian666: Aug 20, 2008; Take some advice Chris.; Fun Shoe

Are you getting better download speeds than before? If so you might be saturating either upstream or downstream connection.

Your download speed and connection speeds would be be useful information.

# ? Mar 31, 2012 18:29

dunkan: Jul 10, 2006; rage is everywhere

maniacripper posted:

So my new E3000 is all setup with TomatoUSB 2.6 EXT specifically built for the E3000. Whenever I have Usenet going (only 4 threads) everything else takes a poo poo. My ping in games jumps to 2000+ and Web surfing slows way down. This never happened with my old Buffalo WHR-54G so what gives? The specs of this new router are superior in every way so I'm thinking it's probably firmware right? Guys? Guys?

What Devian said, but also I use an E3000 with Tomato 1.28 and it works fine. I usually run 8 threads since I don't seem to get any more speed with more threads. My pings are not affected.

# ? Mar 31, 2012 18:33

maniacripper: May 3, 2009; STANNIS BURNS SHIREEN
HIZDAR IS THE HARPY
JON GETS STABBED TO DEATH
DANY FLIES OFF ON DROGON

My connection is 30Mbit and we max out at around 4.3MB/sec. We limit the usenet to 3MB/Sec and pings still go up to 250-600ms, we limit it to 2.5MB/sec and it seems to be okay. I'm going to put stock firmware back on tonight and see if it does the same thing.

# ? Mar 31, 2012 19:57

Gyshall: Feb 24, 2009; Had a couple of drinks.
Saw a couple of things.

fagalicious posted:

Weird that you don't have access to the ONT, I guess you have a shared one in your building? My sister's is in one of her closet's in her apartment.

Anyways, see this for the various work arounds for hooking it up: http://www.dslreports.com/faq/16077

The NIM won't give you a connection for the internet, its for the local network for the cable boxes.

Makes sense, thanks. I'm going to just put the Actiontech into Bridged mode and run my Linksys behind it.

# ? Mar 31, 2012 23:09

Alpha Mayo: Jan 15, 2007; hi how are you?
there was this racist piece of shit in your av so I fixed it
you're welcome
pay it forward~

So I have both Comcast cable (16Mbps) and CenturyLink DSL (40Mbps). Basically the cable sucks for gaming (random lag spikes) but is fine for downloading, and the DSL is great for downloading and games.

I am wondering though, is there any way to bond them together for downloading (mainly Usenet), but only use the DSL for gaming?

# ? Apr 1, 2012 04:51

UndyingShadow: May 15, 2006; You're looking ESPECIALLY shadowy this evening, Sir

Meta Ridley posted:

So I have both Comcast cable (16Mbps) and CenturyLink DSL (40Mbps). Basically the cable sucks for gaming (random lag spikes) but is fine for downloading, and the DSL is great for downloading and games.

I am wondering though, is there any way to bond them together for downloading (mainly Usenet), but only use the DSL for gaming?

I have yet to find an affordable non-hacky solution for Dual-WAN. Apparently it's just that loving hard.

Short of building a PFSense box, which even then, has a nightmare setup that involves forced static IPs (Don't have static IPs? They suggest connecting each of your modems to a router and then connecting each router to the PFSense box...I wish I were kidding)

I also considered trying to use two separate routers and just having each machine point to the "correct" router, but any attempt to figure out how I could have my Usenet downloading box use both for better speeds met with futility.

# ? Apr 1, 2012 23:24

kri kri: Jul 18, 2007

What is a decent way to RDP into my home network from outside my LAN? I would prefer RDP or VNC and I would also rather not use teamviewer or logmein.

I run a 54g with tomato.

# ? Apr 2, 2012 00:23

UndyingShadow: May 15, 2006; You're looking ESPECIALLY shadowy this evening, Sir

kri kri posted:

What is a decent way to RDP into my home network from outside my LAN? I would prefer RDP or VNC and I would also rather not use teamviewer or logmein.

I run a 54g with tomato.

Poke a hole in your firewall and setup DDNS?

# ? Apr 2, 2012 00:43

Alpha Mayo: Jan 15, 2007; hi how are you?
there was this racist piece of shit in your av so I fixed it
you're welcome
pay it forward~

UndyingShadow posted:

I have yet to find an affordable non-hacky solution for Dual-WAN. Apparently it's just that loving hard.

Short of building a PFSense box, which even then, has a nightmare setup that involves forced static IPs (Don't have static IPs? They suggest connecting each of your modems to a router and then connecting each router to the PFSense box...I wish I were kidding)

I also considered trying to use two separate routers and just having each machine point to the "correct" router, but any attempt to figure out how I could have my Usenet downloading box use both for better speeds met with futility.

Yeah, looking into it I am not sure how I would resolve many of the issues that would pop up. Like having two different IP's trying to connect to Usenet when most providers only allow one per account (so two accounts would be needed, I guess). And honestly 16Mb isn't really worth it for the amount of work required, though if I had two DSL lines and could do a true bonding for 80Mbps I'd be all over that.

I do see a possible way to do Load Balancing using OpenWRT though, and I do have a spare compatible router lying around. But I'd still have to set up a ton of port rules to make sure my games never use the comcast bandwidth.

# ? Apr 2, 2012 00:44

kri kri: Jul 18, 2007

UndyingShadow posted:

Poke a hole in your firewall and setup DDNS?

I have DDNS, guess I will set up SSH and call it a day. Is puttytray still the go-to ssh client?

# ? Apr 2, 2012 01:00

UndyingShadow: May 15, 2006; You're looking ESPECIALLY shadowy this evening, Sir

kri kri posted:

I have DDNS, guess I will set up SSH and call it a day. Is puttytray still the go-to ssh client?

Yup, pretty much everyone still uses putty.

# ? Apr 2, 2012 01:12

Nerf Herder: Sep 2, 2006; Scruffy-Looking

I'm going to throw my 2 cents into the ~$180 router recommendations. My netgear WNDR3700 died last week and had to get a new one.

Enter the ASUS RT-N66U.

- Dual band
- Gigabit
- Tomato/DDWRT support
- External antennas
- Great features in stock firmware (FTP, VPN, SMB, BitTorrent, Good QoS)
- 2 USB ports
- good cooling

This is by far one of the best consumer routers on the market. I have yet to have any issues. Asus has built this thing to get your open source firmware on, I have seen a tomato release but not much on ddwrt but it looks like someone is close to getting a stable build out.

Anyone else tested this thing yet?

# ? Apr 2, 2012 02:32

UndyingShadow: May 15, 2006; You're looking ESPECIALLY shadowy this evening, Sir

Nerf Herder posted:

I'm going to throw my 2 cents into the ~$180 router recommendations. My netgear WNDR3700 died last week and had to get a new one.

Enter the ASUS RT-N66U.

- Dual band
- Gigabit
- Tomato/DDWRT support
- External antennas
- Great features in stock firmware (FTP, VPN, SMB, BitTorrent, Good QoS)
- 2 USB ports
- good cooling

This is by far one of the best consumer routers on the market. I have yet to have any issues. Asus has built this thing to get your open source firmware on, I have seen a tomato release but not much on ddwrt but it looks like someone is close to getting a stable build out.

Anyone else tested this thing yet?

I have a toastman tomato build running on this guy. The wireless seems quick and doesn't drop out (although I barely use wireless)
Everything else is rock solid.

# ? Apr 2, 2012 04:58

Arrath: Apr 14, 2011

Welp, I'm having a case of network magic and I don't know what the gently caress.

I have a desktop running Win7 SP1 and an old computer running FreeNAS. After coming back home from being out of town and powering everything back up, my desktop can no longer access the NAS through 'normal' means.

By normal I mean the shortcut I added that goes right to the root share, which pops up an error window saying the specified network name is no longer available. Or by typing the network address right into an explorer window, which gives out a Network Error with an oh so helpful "Unspecified Error" Trying to diagnose the issue with the troubleshooter gives me nothing, of course.

Now, the weird thing is that if I go to the network devices window and let it populate, the NAS will pop up. I can access it just fine. If I type the device name into an explorer window, it'll also work.

So

\\192.168.1.103\data Doesn't work
\\FREENAS\data Does work

The NAS is still the same old IP address. The NAS comes right up on all other computers and devices in the house via the usual shortcut, only my desktop is having trouble.

The hell is going on here?

# ? Apr 3, 2012 00:33

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

In DD-WRT, if I want to have a wired port and a wireless network on the same VLAN, how would I go about doing that? I already know how to create the VLANs, but not how to join a wired and wireless into the same one. Is it as simple as just creating a bridge for the two connections? This is on an E3000 running V24 preSP2 Build: 16785.

The VLAN documentation on the DD-WRT wiki is pretty incomprehensible to me.

Inspector_666 fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Apr 3, 2012

# ? Apr 3, 2012 00:39

Rexxed: May 1, 2010; Dis is amazing!
I gotta try dis!

Arrath posted:

Welp, I'm having a case of network magic and I don't know what the gently caress.

I have a desktop running Win7 SP1 and an old computer running FreeNAS. After coming back home from being out of town and powering everything back up, my desktop can no longer access the NAS through 'normal' means.

By normal I mean the shortcut I added that goes right to the root share, which pops up an error window saying the specified network name is no longer available. Or by typing the network address right into an explorer window, which gives out a Network Error with an oh so helpful "Unspecified Error" Trying to diagnose the issue with the troubleshooter gives me nothing, of course.

Now, the weird thing is that if I go to the network devices window and let it populate, the NAS will pop up. I can access it just fine. If I type the device name into an explorer window, it'll also work.

So

\\192.168.1.103\data Doesn't work
\\FREENAS\data Does work

The NAS is still the same old IP address. The NAS comes right up on all other computers and devices in the house via the usual shortcut, only my desktop is having trouble.

The hell is going on here?

Maybe the DHCP server gave your FreeNAS box a new IP address? If it's set statically then I don't know. You can hook a monitor up to the FreeNAS box to see what IP it's running on, and also to configure the network card if you need to.

# ? Apr 3, 2012 01:01

Devian666: Aug 20, 2008; Take some advice Chris.; Fun Shoe

Rexxed posted:

Maybe the DHCP server gave your FreeNAS box a new IP address? If it's set statically then I don't know. You can hook a monitor up to the FreeNAS box to see what IP it's running on, and also to configure the network card if you need to.

This sounds a bit like one of the wacky things that win7 does. If you continue to have trouble connecting click on the network icon and open network and sharing centre. Look at the network map and there may be pending issues.

I suspect it's likely that ip addresses got leased after being away for the weekend. This can and will upset win7 until it settles down again. Once the network has settled down a reboot should fix this up. You also get problems similar to this when you change network cards or update network card drivers.

# ? Apr 3, 2012 01:13

Arrath: Apr 14, 2011

Currently the NAS is using the same address it always has, I've checked both the router and NAS itself and it is accessible as it should be from other devices. Entering the address in chrome brings up the web control panel. I can't say as to if the address was leased out at some point while I was gone.

If I try to bring up the network map I am told that Windows cannot discover any computer or device. This is despite the network screen showing 3 computers :v:

I haven't changed any network hardware or updated any drivers lately.

# ? Apr 3, 2012 01:38

Devian666: Aug 20, 2008; Take some advice Chris.; Fun Shoe

Every time some tells me how wonderful windows networking is I'll quote your post. Win7 does some retarded network stuff sometimes. In fact when the thread title was suggested it was in response to my computer suffering from the same problem.

# ? Apr 3, 2012 02:27

Arrath: Apr 14, 2011

Welp, it works now.

I literally didn't do anything, just hosed off and played some xbox. Came back to my computer and it works. :iiam:

# ? Apr 3, 2012 05:07

CuddleChunks: Sep 18, 2004

Inspector_71 posted:

In DD-WRT, if I want to have a wired port and a wireless network on the same VLAN, how would I go about doing that? I already know how to create the VLANs, but not how to join a wired and wireless into the same one. Is it as simple as just creating a bridge for the two connections? This is on an E3000 running V24 preSP2 Build: 16785.

The VLAN documentation on the DD-WRT wiki is pretty incomprehensible to me.

I'm pretty sure you'll need to bridge the interfaces. Tag them as being on the same VLAN and you should be in good shape.

# ? Apr 3, 2012 09:39

Cockwhore: Jul 10, 2005; a quintessence of dust

Question regarding VPN:

I want to create a VPN server out of my Tomato-flashed Linksys E3000, but because I'm literally retarded, I can't figure out how. In particular if someone can explain how authentication works, that'd be great. I can generate my own private/public key on OS X, using

code:

ssh-keygen -t rsa

and then create my a certificate using

code:

openssl req -new -extensions v3_req -key ~/.ssh/id_rsa -out ~/.ssh/id_rsa.csr

I'm assuming that then my local client will access the private key id_rsa and I'll put the public key somewhere like ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the server (it looks like this can also be done via the GUI). Looking at the tomato VPN page, other than the public key, it also needs a Certificate Authority, a Server Certificate, and something called Diffie Hellman parameters. I'm assuming the thing I generated above, with the filename is id_rsa.csr is the Certificate Authority? How do I create a server certificate? What are the Difie Hellman parameters, and how do I generate them?

Also, do I need to install OpenVPN via homebrew, or does a client like Viscosity / Tunnelblick contain everything I need?

edit: after continued googling, it seems that all the above can be done with a utility called easy-rsa, which is a part of the OpenVPN package. So I guess my question boils down to whether I can get away using Viscosity / Tunnelblick and not a homebrew openSSL package.

edit^2: as happens so often, after days of trying to do something, I figure out the solution as soon as I post. It seems that easy-rsa only consists of a bunch of shell scripts which should work fine in OS X as openssl is installed. I'll try generating various keys and certificates using those scripts when I get home, and report back if it works.

Cockwhore fucked around with this message at 13:42 on Apr 3, 2012

# ? Apr 3, 2012 12:11

poxin: Nov 16, 2003; Why yes... I am full of stars!

I have a stock Netgear WNDR3700v3 set up at work on a fiber line. Probably a dozen or so iPads and a dozen other computers connected via wifi. Would there be any particular reason why on 5G, I get the full speed of the fiber line (30/30) but only about half that on the 2.4 network? I know it's more than capable of providing that speed over 2.4 since my little WRT54GL at home can do it..

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# ? May 14, 2024 01:24

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

CuddleChunks posted:

I'm pretty sure you'll need to bridge the interfaces. Tag them as being on the same VLAN and you should be in good shape.

It ended up being dead simple: create 2 extra bridges, assign a VLAN to each along with wl0 and wl0.1, tag both and add a couple of lines to the firewall rules to stop the bridges from talking to each other.

poxin posted:

I have a stock Netgear WNDR3700v3 set up at work on a fiber line. Probably a dozen or so iPads and a dozen other computers connected via wifi. Would there be any particular reason why on 5G, I get the full speed of the fiber line (30/30) but only about half that on the 2.4 network? I know it's more than capable of providing that speed over 2.4 since my little WRT54GL at home can do it..

What kind of security do you have on each network?

# ? Apr 4, 2012 00:18

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