Internet speeds dropped well below the plan and begun to have consistent outages every 30 minutes. My investigation path eventually led to me checking out the demarc and adjacent. I started with the coax splitter box and found this surprise. Anyone ever dealt with this? How do I safely remove these dastardly creatures without damaging the equipment (more than it already has)

Edit: After many good suggestion I have decided to eated them all. Thank you all.

Also after observing traffic further I have deducted that the service degradation was caused by likely some maintenance downstream ISP wished to keep a secret from me... If not for that forcing my investigation, these wasp families could've lived another day. Too bad.

I heard there's a legacy reason but also the extra space reduces some crosstalk? I guess same goes for color order but I'm surprised that my flat ethernet still gets 1 gig. I'm also confused how my isp had Cat 3 for phone but I thought even cat 3 could have 4 pairs when deployed?

I’m trying to get a handful of outdoor camera traps off the collectthe SD cards by hand system. The house and detached garage are about 60 ft apart, with most of the cameras scattered around the yard beyond the garage. They don’t need live video or much bandwidth. They just need to wake up, connect, dump their files, and go back to sleep without me checking on them.

My first thought was to run Ethernet from the house to the garage, put a small PoE switch there, and use an outdoor AP for the yard. The easier option is a wireless bridge to the garage and an AP from there. On paper the bridge seems completely adequate for the amount of traffic. What I’m wondering about is the boring long-term stuff: weather, random disconnects, devices failing to reconnect, and troubleshooting an extra wireless hop six months from now.

For people who’ve networked detached garages, sheds, cameras, or other outdoor gear, did you eventually wish you’d just run the cable? Or has a wireless bridge been reliable enough that trenching for Ethernet would have been overkill?

Hi everyone,

Just bought a new house and the previous owner left their network a complete mess. None of the cables are labeled, there are Ethernet ports scattered throughout the house and back patio, wires running from the security cameras, smart equipment from the pool control panel, and more.

Just wanting to know where I should begin in dealing with this mess. I purchased a TP Link AXE5400 as a router and was thinking about getting the deco X20 2pk as supplement. The house is 3200 sqft and the closet is centrally located, almost exactly in the middle of the house, so I know I will need something to boost the signal

I can provide any more info if I need to. Thank you guys in advance.

Since you guys are networking people, maybe this little networking game calls your attention and you'd like to play it :)

It's basically a IPv4 Turf War, you can claim the IP you make the request from, and from there, getting claiming territories and getting more and more blocks.

You can check it out if you want: https://turfw.ar

cudy wr3000 vs m3000 ax3000which to choose ?

Hi guys,

Total newbie when it comes to networking but recently been diving into selfhosting and am looking for a new router that can at least be able to do VLAN isolation, as i plan to move away from tailscale to wireguard and the inevitable port forwarding.

Currently have my eyes on this 2, price wise they are pretty close with around $20 apart so that won't be a problem but would like to have suggestion on which one is better or probably more future proof.

Better could be in terms of user friendliness, better coverage (500 Mbps) etc.

Any advice is appreciated!

Hi guys,

Total newbie when it comes to networking but recently been diving into selfhosting and am looking for a new router that can at least be able to do VLAN isolation, as i plan to move away from tailscale to wireguard and the inevitable port forwarding.

Currently have my eyes on this 2, price wise they are pretty close with around $20 apart so that won't be a problem but would like to have suggestion on which one is better or probably more future proof.

Better could be in terms of user friendliness, better coverage (500 Mbps) etc.

Any advice is appreciated!

HP 1810-24G (j9803a), PL.2.10 firmware? where can i find it?

It seems you can no longer get the old firmware updates for this switch (j9803a). I followed various HPE forum links for this and sadly the portal came back with "The software you are looking for has been unpublished". I just added a 2nd of these switches to my homelab and would like to update the firmware to match my current switch of the same type. 

it's running "HP 1810-24G, PL.1.9, eCos-3.0, 1_12_8-customized-h" and i want to update it to "HP 1810-24G, PL.2.10, eCos-3.0, 1_12_8-customized-h"

Any help appreciated. thanks.

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So I have Starlink and ATT 5G home internet at my camper, the issue is I want to get rid of the Att and keep the Starlink but it’s proven to not be 100% since I had to replace one dish due to random failure.

So I’m looking to setup a WiFi setup to have dual wan and load balance since both get around 100mbps which is more then enough for the few days use each month.

So my question is what’s a good solution that isn’t to pricey and tech I have to babysit since I’m only at the location during the summer months…..

Hello,

I’m a complete novice when it comes to home networks, NAS, smart home servers and so on.

To ensure the upgrade or set-up is as secure as possible, I’ll be keeping my Fritzbox 7630 as a modem and backup solution. I have a 100 Mbit/s DSL connection.

For the router, I’ve opted for the MikroTik hEX S (2025) (E60iUGS) in combination with one or two MikroTik cAP acs.

I’m planning to segment my home network (work, media including streaming, IoT, guests and, later on, NAS).

A smart home server and a NAS are planned for later, and at the moment I’ve got my eye on an HP EliteDesk 800 G3 SFF with 16 GB.

And now I’d love to hear what experienced people think about this.

Thanks

Hello, I am currently on a 100mbps wifi plan. It has been working fine ever since. I iust got a new tab and a smart tv and the videos seem to buffer a lot on these devices, particularly for prime video and twitch (from what have noticed... somehow youtube is completely normal) The wifi seems to work fine on other devices and the tab and tv work perfectlv on alternate wifi. On the tv, the wif sometimes shows up as having a limited connection, even when it is working fine on other devices. I have around 6 devices onlv connected to the wifi at a time. Anvthing I stream seems to buffer for a minute and then it runs smooth, if I reopen the app, it needs to buffer again before it resumes. I have only tried messing around with device dns settings like changing to google and cloudfare dns, but nothing has helped. The issue remains. Any suggestions are welcome. Thank you.

Hi! This might seem like a totally common sense question but I'm just going to ask anyway.

Our router is on our 2nd floor, and we have a repeater downstairs (where i usually work/play). I've been wanting to turn our repeater into an access point however it only has one ethernet port. Which eliminates my pc being on ethernet.

Thus my question is:

Could I run an ethernet cable from my router, to a network switch, to the repeater thus making it an access point?

Thanks in advance!

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Hi all,

Noob here..

I'm looking for a mesh wifi system for my appartment (90m², concrete construction, only 1 wired point in the corner of the appartment) and i am in doubt between a 3 pack of the TP-Link Deco XE75 Pro (335 euro) or the BE25 (230euro). I currently have 400Mbps fiber, but might upgrade to 1Gbps fiber when I move to a new house in +-years that has multiple floors and hopefully aroudn 120m2.

I don't know much about networking/wifi, so I'd love advice from people who actually know this stuff before I buy. Or if you guys have other recommendations.

I'm a total newbie so I asked AI, and it said the following. Do you guys agree with this or is it crap?

"

It recommended the XE75 Pro over the BE25.

Main reasoning: the XE75 Pro is tri-band (2.4/5/6GHz) and uses the 6GHz band as a dedicated wireless backhaul channel between mesh units — so the backhaul traffic doesn't compete with my own devices' bandwidth. The BE25 is dual-band only (no 6GHz), so with concrete walls and fully wireless backhaul for 2 units, it could be less stable. My ISP modem only has 1Gbps ports anyway, so the BE25's extra 2.5G port doesn't add value in my case. Main use is just stable everyday wifi (work, Netflix, occasional PS5 gaming), and I want it to last 5-6 years

"

My internet provider provides a monthly cost for having a mesh system, 3 nodes across 3 stories of the house, and it cost £10 a month.

The nodes uses are - Linksys VELOP Whole Home Mesh Wi-Fi System MX5300 - wireless router - Wi-Fi 6

Am I better of buying a mesh system out right instead of doing this sort of subscription?

Its the orange cable coming out of the ground. Looking for some guidance on:

1. The conduit its coming out of, should that be sealed? If so what are some options
2. Should I somehow protect the fiber run from orange to black wire in some kind of conduit

Thank you.

Trying to get to the bottom of why Ethernet is limited to 100mbs through the wall?
Keystone is testing good now. 1->8
But the actual RJ45 jack is showing 1,2,5,4,3,6,7,8?
And physically looking at the rj45 it doesn’t follow T568A or B?

Well, today I had woken up to my wifi being funky, Xfinity with its occasional maintenance and such. Get up make food, only for hours later for my modem to be stuck looping itself trying to connect to the internet. I suspected it was Xfinity, called, went through all the usual talks for hours and such. And I was left with the modem stuck doing the same and a scheduled appointment 13 days out from now.

So I’ve decided to go checking the internet to see if I could solve my problem and here I am learning that a CAX80 is shit and now I have to suspect that the CAX30 I have owned for the past year and 6 months~ has failed on me finally.

Now I ask this reddit sub to bash me and to possibly answer on what possible modem to go for since I already own an Asus RT-AX3000 for my router.

Perhaps I'm being overly cautious here, but need a sanity check. I'm setting up a self hosted camera system using POE cams b

For a variety of reasons Ive already brainstormed about, I need to run some cabling for ~60 feet through my attic, then another 3-5 feet out some soffit vents where the cameras will be mounted. Running through walls not an option.

Far as I can tell, the move here is to just get some CMX cat5e cable and call it a day.

I'm wondering if I'm missing any safety concerns running it through the attic. It'll be hung by J hooks on the old beams running through the attic, then routed out through various vents.

Attic is insulated, but old as hell and gets decently warm/cold depending on the season (maybe 40 F to 120 F). Networking equipment is in a finished part of the attic.

Thanks I'm advance

I recently upgraded to gigabit symmetric fiber. Before this i had 5G home internet, and I'm still using the same 5G router right now (some Huawei from 2020), just running an ethernet cable from the fiber ONT into its WAN port.

Normally when I run a speedtest I get around 900Mbps down and up, so the raw speeds are fine. But whenever I start uploading at even like 200Mbps, my download immediately drops down to around 150 Mbps. Ping also spikes pretty bad while this is happening. Local LAN transfers to my server still work totally fine while saturating the WAN upload though, it's just the external download traffic that falls apart.
Not sure if this is classic bufferbloat or if this old 5G router just doesn't have the cpu to handle bidirectional gigabit traffic. It definitely doesn't have SQM or any real QoS settings to test out.

Planning to replace it, just not sure what price range or specs I need to aim for to handle SQM without bottlenecking things too hard. I don't need the full gigabit both ways simultaneously, but something like 700Mbps would be plenty good enough. Ubiquiti gear seems a bit too expensive for my needs, especially since the network is tiny with just the homelab box via ethernet, 2 clients on wifi, and a couple of phones.