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The super simplest option is rent something from Spectrum. I’m not suggesting it, just noting it. Don’t get a combo router/modem. Modem: Motorola MB7420 works well for most folks. WiFi: tp-link ac1750 works well enough or any of its siblings.
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astral posted:Friends don't let friends get combo modem/routers. Any specific recommendations? What should I look for in a modem and what should I look for in a router?
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rufius posted:The super simplest option is rent something from Spectrum. I’m not suggesting it, just noting it. Thank you for these recommendations! Very much appreciated!
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rufius posted:The super simplest option is rent something from Spectrum. I’m not suggesting it, just noting it. I have spectrum and in my area they don’t even give out combo units anymore.
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Feb 25, 2021 02:16
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MarcusSA posted:I have spectrum and in my area they don’t even give out combo units anymore. Ah interesting. I’ve had CLink gigabit for years and haven’t used an ISP’s equipment so my experience is limited to in-laws and my parents getting cable modem combos from Comcast. What do they do instead? Just give you a modem and let you figure the rest out?
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Feb 25, 2021 02:21
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rufius posted:Ah interesting. They gave me a modem and separate router.
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I've just got a BT Business Smart Hub off eBay as an upgrade for my Plusnet router, which I had various problems with. The BT router seemed to be a common solution on the Plusnet forums. It's resolved the issues that I was having (the main one being that DNS resolution was falling over at least once a day until the router was rebooted) but I have a new one. Today I noticed that most of my Cast devices weren't discoverable from my phone. The devices were still online, I could issue voice commands to play stuff on them via a Google Home, and they would play, so they obviously had a working connection, my phone just couldn't see them. After some pissing about, on a hunch I disabled the 5Ghz WiFi band and everything instantly showed up in the list. After some experimentation, it seems that Chromecast discovery works fine with it switched off, but as soon as you turned it on, everything goes to poo poo. The router was configured to be dual band, combined networks (i.e. same SSID and password, security settings and everything). It's my understanding that in this configuration, the devices should all be able to see each other, shouldn't they? What's going on at the physical layer should be irrelevant if they are all on the same subnet, shouldn't it? But it certainly seems to make a difference, as if the router is somehow separating the two networks. It seems as though the only devices my phone can discover are the ones on the same band as it is. Anyone know of any known issues that might cause this? Or router settings that might help? Otherwise I'll just keep 5Ghz turned off I guess. edit: Some searching is pointing to a setting called AP Isolation, but I can't find this in the router config, and also, it seems as though if this were turned on, none of the wireless clients would be able to see each other at all, same bands or not. Another edit: I'm seeing other people reporting similar issues, with Chromecasts and also with Sonos systems. Do clients get new IP addresses when they roam between bands? I wouldn't have thought so but if they do then I guess that could be it maybe? Or maybe the problem lies with how the Chromecasts handle different bands? chippy fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Feb 25, 2021 |
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Oh gently caress, apparently eero released 6.2 firmware which allegedly fixes the double NAT issue that has been a considerable annoyance for a few years now, including for myself. I’ve had to drop a second router between my eero gateway node and my ONT in order to get an IP address from Consolidated. It seemed to be just an issue with this specific ISP and eero always blamed CCI and CCI always blamed eero for years. I’m not seeing the update on my eero Pros yet, but just reading this on Reddit made my day. Henrik Zetterberg fucked around with this message at 19:52 on Feb 25, 2021 |
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See a lot of talk about wireguard, can anyone post a good guide on getting set up with it, particularly as it relates to tunnels?
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codo27 posted:See a lot of talk about wireguard, can anyone post a good guide on getting set up with it, particularly as it relates to tunnels? what platform at each end of the tunnel
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How bad is Ethernet over coax / the adapters? I have a good run of cable that I could rip up and replace with Cat6, but since it's already there....?
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Shumagorath posted:How bad is Ethernet over coax / the adapters? I have a good run of cable that I could rip up and replace with Cat6, but since it's already there....? MoCA works pretty well but the adapters are a little more expensive than power line. If your ISP (FiOS for example) provides a MoCA router than it can be a pretty good way to get wired latency to wherever you want it. Otherwise it's a little pricey vs. some cable but would definitely save you some effort. Last time I looked it was $75 for a MoCA adapter?
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Shumagorath posted:How bad is Ethernet over coax / the adapters? I have a good run of cable that I could rip up and replace with Cat6, but since it's already there....? I've had a good experience so far with the Actiontec adapters. Able to max out my gigabit connection with no issues so far (few months)
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codo27 posted:See a lot of talk about wireguard, can anyone post a good guide on getting set up with it, particularly as it relates to tunnels? If it’s single user use case I highly recommend Tailscale. Their single user product is free and automates all that.
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chippy posted:I've just got a BT Business Smart Hub off eBay as an upgrade for my Plusnet router, which I had various problems with. The BT router seemed to be a common solution on the Plusnet forums. The IP shouldn't change when roaming as long as both bands are on the same VLAN, but from what I can google the BT Business Smart Hub doesn't allow you to create multiple vlans. By default, Chromecasts and Sonos systems are required to be on the same network as your phone/controller. And yes, AP Isolation doesn't sound like the issue here. I'd still verify the IP thing by connecting our phone to 5ghz and then 2.4ghz and seeing if it has different IP addresses. Also, under your wireless settings, do you have it set to Separate Bands On and manually configured the network name and security types to be the same? You'll want Separate Bands Off.
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Cyks posted:The IP shouldn't change when roaming as long as both bands are on the same VLAN, but from what I can google the BT Business Smart Hub doesn't allow you to create multiple vlans. By default, Chromecasts and Sonos systems are required to be on the same network as your phone/controller. And yes, AP Isolation doesn't sound like the issue here. I'd still verify the IP thing by connecting our phone to 5ghz and then 2.4ghz and seeing if it has different IP addresses. Separate Bands was off, yes. If you turn separate bands on, the hub won't allow you to use the same SSID for both anyway, it insists you set them to something different. I'll verify the IP thing, I wouldn't expect it to change either.
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gently caress, just missed out on three AC Lites with all the trimmings for the equivalent of $120.
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Thanks for the MoCA tips. I might still rip up the coax and run Ethernet since it's a single room perimeter but it's nice to have options. Stupid builders should have just run a third patch but on well....
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What's the latest recommendation for a modem for Comcast/Xfinity? Still a Motorola Surfboard? I bought an ASUS CM-32_AC2600 about 6 months ago, and while it's not bad, it will lock up when I'm trying to use too many simultaneous connections. Probably because it's a modem and router in one. I think its time to finally separate the two
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IndianaZoidberg posted:What's the latest recommendation for a modem for Comcast/Xfinity? Still a Motorola Surfboard? I bought an ASUS CM-32_AC2600 about 6 months ago, and while it's not bad, it will lock up when I'm trying to use too many simultaneous connections. Probably because it's a modem and router in one. I think its time to finally separate the two For gigabit I am assuming? There was some related discussion a few pages back: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3442319&pagenumber=554&perpage=40#post512441382
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fletcher posted:For gigabit I am assuming? Gigabit, Yes. Thanks. Looks like either the Motorola MB8600 or the Netgear Nighthawk CM1200. I'll look into both of them
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I'm trying to connect my Oculus Quest 2 to my PC with a mobile hotspot. I have Intel 802.11ax onboard and I think it's only connecting at 20 mhz but it's a 160mhz card. Can I force it to connect at over 20 or is Microsoft hotspot implementation stuck at 20? Virtual Desktop is complaining about slow speeds so I'd like to boost it somehow.
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Have you tried messing with this setting? Honestly no idea if it has an effect in AP mode. This isn't encouraging. 20 mhz limits you to 140ish mbit which isn't super great. You could hang a real AP off the ethernet port of that PC...
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Yeah, that option only has 20mhz or auto. From what I've read you need to leave it on auto to use greater than 20mhz.
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Is there a way in Windows 10 to connect to wifi by the mac address instead of SSID? I'm trying to connect to an xfinitywifi SSID and it randomly switches from the hotspot 20 feet away to one a block away with bad ping.
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Not any built in method that I know of. But if I'm understanding you in that they are two completely different networks, you can stop that by turning off automatically connect on the other network /forgetting it.
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Cyks posted:Not any built in method that I know of. Same SSID different bssid (mac) is going to roam. Maybe there is a minimum rssi you can set somewhere?
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H110Hawk posted:Same SSID different bssid (mac) is going to roam. Maybe there is a minimum rssi you can set somewhere? Good point; I was assuming some type of authentication was being used on the correct network since it sounds like they are different networks. I'm pretty positive you won't roam if authentication type doesn't match and the chances of both having the same password is very slim if they are different networks.
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So I got my ER-X and Unifi AP. I've got internet on eth1 (from eth0) but 2-4 have squat, though they appear in the routers console. Cant be that difficult, just posting in case someone sees this and can point me in the right direction while I'm doing my own research
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codo27 posted:So I got my ER-X and Unifi AP. I've got internet on eth1 (from eth0) but 2-4 have squat, though they appear in the routers console. Cant be that difficult, just posting in case someone sees this and can point me in the right direction while I'm doing my own research How did you do the initial setup? Did you run a wizard?
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Yes, little changed really. For some reason its like 2-4 cant talk to 1 or 0 and I think it has to do with this switch0 I see but anything I do just makes the router console inaccessible without fixing anything Thought I just had a eureka where I'd been trying to apply static IPs to the ports but they weren't working, but I hadn't been adding the subnet at the end. Still says Cannot configure address on switched interface once I do codo27 fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Mar 1, 2021 |
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I'm not sure how to configure it in EdgeOS since I'm running openwrt on mine, but the way to imagine how is functions is as a 6 port switch with the six port being wired to a router in the case. Since the router only has a single "cable" going to the switch, it can only act as a router by faking having 2 ports with VLANs. One VLAN is a WAN VLAN, containing the first real port plus the router's internally wires port, while the LAN VLAN would contain only that same internally wired port and your second external port. the other 3 exist with a separate, probably default VLAN. just find a way to tag them with the same VLAN as the second port you get the connection through
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WAN VLAN: ethernet0 cpu0 #1 LAN VLAN: ethernet1 cpu0 #2 OTHER VLAN: ethernet2 ethernet3 ethernet4
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Just to clarify, eth0=ISP eth1=desktop eth2=office switch eth3=living room switch eth4=ap I have internet connectivity fine on the desktop. I cant imagine why they would just make 2-4 be separated out of the box, and even if so why those wouldn't have access to the internet. I just want everything on the network to be able to talk to each other but I cant find any clear guides on doing just a simple setup like that.
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codo27 posted:Just to clarify, I think they expect the other ports to be configured for different subnets or something and think users will run cables out of them to a core switch first
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codo27 posted:I cant imagine why they would just make 2-4 be separated out of the box, and even if so why those wouldn't have access to the internet. Well, it's a router, not a switch. (And a pro/prosumer-positioned one at that.) The fact that the router ports are capable of line-rate switching is something of a bonus feature as it is. Normally (without this bonus feature at your disposal), you'd acquire a switch and plug that into the LAN port on your router, and plug your devices into the switch. You can get reasonable gigabit switches in the <$20 segment. I assume you'll be able to get the switch functionality working (I've never used the functionality but I think it's mostly about explicitly adding ports to the switch0 thing), but if not, you can always buy a dedicated switch 
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codo27 posted:Just to clarify, Have you checked out the articles on Ubiquiti's website? Which wizard did you run for the initial setup? Actuarial Fables fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Mar 2, 2021 |
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Just the basic wizard. I've run everything off the eth1 into my office dummy switch which had more than enough ports, but I would have liked to set it up as posted above just to have greater control.
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Can you post your text configuration or PM it to me? Be sure to skim through and redact any sensitive info.
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Run the WAN+2LAN2 wizard, located in the Wizards tab all the way on the right of the dashboard. That'll get your device configured for Eth0 to be your WAN port and Eth1-4 as your LAN swtitchports. e. Once the wizard is run, the router will have two IP addresses. One will be your WAN/Eth0 address, the other your LAN/switch0 address. Switch0 will have Eth1-4 assigned to it. Actuarial Fables fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Mar 2, 2021 |
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