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After figuring out my pci-e wifi card is like 10+ years old and going down the new wifi card / power line networking rabbit hole for awhile I've decided to just run new drops. What was best practice again? Buy 500' CAT 6 from monoprice? What's a good crimping tool? I'm gonna go measure to make sure I don't need 1000' I may as well run upstairs too. I learned how to crimp cables in high school so at least it's not my first rodeo. Alternatively I can just try and figure out all the existing wires in my house, they don't seem to work for the most part and the previous owners have had multiple different providers of telecom. No one removed any of the existing installs, like there are 12+ wires on the side of my house.
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Tony Phillips posted:Thanks. Just ordered a TP-Link AC2600. Probably more router than we need, but not going to break the bank or anything. and with steps from https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/ My ping is better than my friends (PC gaming) I'm currently still on wifi. Quaint Quail Quilt fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Aug 13, 2020 |
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That Linksys 1900ac I had openwrt on a few posts up, I just bricked it I think flashing an update, apparently I can unbrick with a raspberry pi. I suppose I could get a new router that's not from 2014 too, but I kinda liked the bufferbloat settings and adblock. edit: power on then reset button 2 seconds then off x3 restored from dual flash backup. Now I have to take these overpriced radioshack cables back and maybe do a pi-hole or something neat with this board. 1/2 off everything my rear end. Quaint Quail Quilt fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Aug 14, 2020 |
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KingKapalone posted:Anyone have anything to say about Motorola MB8600 vs Arris SB8200?
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Aug 18, 2020 21:23
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I said come in! posted:This is something I would not have known, thank you! Are they all pretty much the same? So just go with whatever is cheapest? Any specific features I should look for? This is one area where I am totally in the dark, and want to make sure i'm getting something that is a good build quality and wont fail. I'd say don't consider the very cheapest unless it supports windows 10, a surprising amount of them don't. My card is ancient and I had a scare when I upgraded and fresh installed windows, no drivers would work, luckily I pointed to my old windows system 32 folder and it slammed a generic driver in there. After considering power line Ethernet I've decided to just ethernet my house in a more sane fashion.
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Sep 23, 2020 21:20
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After a brownout my openwrt compatible router's wifi messed up, wired worked fine. Weird I have a $200 UPS. I bought an orbi mesh system (costco sale) and 1100 netgear modem , I had the 600 modem I lost my bufferbloat stuff, but man the orbi just works, it came with 2 repeaters/access points and I think those are also like 1.2 ghz so.. more mhz of processing overall anyway.
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Cenodoxus posted:Is WiFi 6 a worthwhile upgrade over 802.11ac if I already have good coverage with multiple APs? I got wifi6 because I was due an upgrade, but then I bought an oculus quest 2 (and which is a wifi6 device) and wifi streaming from my computer to the vr headset works great! I imagine it works better than my several year old openwrt router.
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Apr 21, 2021 12:24
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I bought a firewalla gold rev b https://firewalla.com/ I'll have a hardware firewall, fq_codel or cake for bufferbloat sqm stuff, and I guess I can run my pihole in a docker container on it through unbound. I'm gonna tinker on it after work today for my weekend. I'm adding it with my Costco bought modem and orbi mesh system that I haven't backhaul wired yet. I miss my old openwrt and tomato router functionality and this may reduce my ping by 4-8ms or something!
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I've just been telling people to get something with wifi 6 lately, it helps with VR and modern devices and hopefully it's not bottom tier if it includes it. Speaking of brownouts and such toasting network equipment, I have a UPS surge protector and battery on my gear now, but I got sick of my stuff going bad every 2-4 years and just bought it from Costco If it goes bad too soon I'll take it back.
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