networking

Hi all

Just snagged a fortigate 60D from work that has gone EoL, what can/should I do with it.

another quick question, the 5gHz wifi seems very slow - any pointers?

I run a Ubiquiti DMP at home and I want to help a relative manage their network. They're getting a Ubiquiti Dream Router. Should I set their network up under my account or can they set it up under their own account and share access to it? I don't pay for any Ubiquiti managed services. Any help would be appreciated!

So I need to move my server closet out of the guest room closet and into the basement so the closet can be used as a closet again.

I’ve got like 15 shielded cat6 with insulated risers patched into the back of a rack mount patch panel.

My goal is to end up with all of the existing cable extended 15’ or so to the new patch panel location, with maybe some kind of small door in the wall of the original closet so I can access the splices if anything goes wrong.

I invested in shielded cat6 when networking the house to future proof everything, and I have solid home runs to every location. I’m currently only running gigabit speeds, but I’d like to preserve the integrity of the original cables as much as possible.

With that in mind, what’s the best method for this extension? I’ve seen shielded punchdown junction boxes as well as female/female inline couplers. Keep in mind that there will be a bunch of them, so any advice on keeping things organized is appreciated.

(I know that I should have just used a mesh network)

I have a router from my ISP, and it is placed at one end of my house. My Chromecast, printer, and other IoT devices are connected to it. I recently connected another router via Powerline to the other end to get quicker speeds, and to get Ethernet for my PC. However, I can't print off of the second router's network, and I can't use the Chromecast virtual remote. The router shows up as a single device on my ISP router, and none of my other devices connected to it show up.

Do I need to put the router in bridge mode, or do I just need to mess around with the configuration of it?
Will the router support 5GHz still? (My ISP router is only 2.4GHz) \

Second router model: Linksys EA6350

I have an orbi rbr50 with vowel firmware. I am abroad, but use openvpn to connect to nordvpn to connect via the united states.

Whenever I restart my router my configuration folder for open VPN gets deleted and I have to redo everything. AFAIK this is not supposed to happen. Anyone familiar with voxel firmware/orbi, that could potentially give me some insight for troubleshooting?

Hey everyone,

There is no real "homenetworking" community like there was on reddit so I thought I would try my luck here.

I live in a 130m^2 house (~1500sqft) that is being completely stripped. That means I am putting in 12-14 Ethernet jacks in the rooms that might need it and have to completely redo my home network setup.

It is a house from the 1950s in belgium, so 21cm thick internal brick walls, a bit thicker concrete floors on the 2 levels. It is essentially a square (8m x 9m outer dimensions), and most of the advice on the internet is built for sprawling American wood houses which have completely different absorption of wireless signals. It has central stairs and essentially 4 rooms, 2 on either side with the kitchen in the back being bigger.

The little advice that I have seen is "brick walls -> get a bunch of access points" but that doesn't sit right with me.

1. Currently we are using a Proximus (our ISP) modem/router in the northwest most far corner or the house and still get weak signal (enough for lower quality videos like Instagram reels) all the way in the southeast corner on the 2nd floor. It goes through 2 brick walls, a concrete floor, and a door and we can still use WiFi 6. Intuitively I would then set up something like an Asus rt-ax58u or a zenwifi XT8 mounted to the staircase wall or in the hallway in the center of the house. I don't know if that would be strong enough to reach everything we need, but it seems better to me than a router in each corner and blasting channel noise at our neighbors' houses since in belgium there isn't much side-garden if any.

2. I have a home server running a variety of local and internet-facing services for myself and family. Due to ease of wiring, I would prefer running modem -> TP-SG1SG016DE -> Wireless Router and using an Asus router. Would the TPlink kind-of-managed-switch be able to isolate the modem fron the rest of the network and just run it to my router to use the LAN of the router for the rest of the ports on my switch? It has port isolation functionality, so I assume so. Then I don't have to run double Ethernet to the hall.

I want to go with Asus because I hear that they generally have more features than other brands. I for sure need port forwarding, QoS, disabling PnP, assigning static IP, and NAT loopback if possible so that local access of services doesn't have to go through cloudflare and can go directly to my reverse proxy. My TPlink Archer A7 that I use now can't do NAT loopback and it makes any file transfers limited by my 5:1: asymmetrical upload speed. Also having VLANs for any cameras would be great, but I think you can do something similar via parental controls on an ASUS (restricting a certain device IP's internet access.

Would the Asus rt-ax58u or a zenwifi XT8 have the festures that I would need for my simpleish home server?

Thanks for the help!

Edit: Tl;dr since nobody reads this long of a post:

• I am running Ethernet (cat6) to every room. Modern laptops as well as phones have no Ethernet port, so I need wifi

• I am looking at 1 wireless router, no "mesh" bs at all. The advice of overstuffing a small house full of a dozen access points is overkill and detrimental to performance without power and channel usage tuning.

• I have specific features I want in a router, can one of the listed ones do all of that like NAT loopback?

Weird question, I know. My apartment comes with a modern/router combo that, for whatever reason, does not have an Ethernet port. So a friend advised me to purchase a modem, then connect it via coax cable to my apartment's modem/router, then connect that to my PC via cat5. I did so, but the Ethernet connection on my PC shows no Internet. Is this possible to set up? Is there a software related step I'm missing to complete the connections?

I initially posted this over on networking@lemmy.ml, but that community is more dead than some of the animals in my freezer. So you may have seen it over there in the last few hours.

TLDR: While I know that the following will work, I'm looking for feedback on my proposed solution in regards to best practices and possibly an idea about establishing logging. If you think I'm way off target, then by all means tell me so and what you propose instead.

With all that said, I present you with the following wall of text, read at your own peril but thanks if you lend me the time to answer my post :-)

I have a classroom that doubles as a lab for my soon to be IT-supporters, devops, and operations specialist apprentices. My main subject is CCNA introduction to networking and some Windows Server configuration. And while I've been teaching for 10 years, I fear my real world IT experience has slipped.

The classroom is equipped with about 16 tables, and preferably a single student pr table – depending on the number of applications, some tables can host 2 students for the first month or two. So, the infrastructure must fit at least 32 students and a teacher.

Currently the setup is an extremely old cisco 1812 router running a NAT, and routing between the school’s network, and an internal classroom LAN. Each student has a /24 scope on a /16 net and is instructed to create their own LANs using SoHo-equipment. There’s no routing setup internally in the classroom, other than the students individual SoHo router/switch/AP.

It really is just a 1812 with a single fastethernet connection to a 24port 2950 (yes, that was a 5 not a 6 in there) and some extra switches daisy chained together to reach a row of tables going down the middle of the room.

We have a literal van-load of ancient cisco gear for use in our labs. This is also the gear we’re using for the current classroom infrastructure. It works, not great, but it gets the job done.

What is changing? We have arranged to have a public IPv4 routed to a gigabitethernet port in the classroom. That port will be the only wired link out of the room. There will be no change in the service on the school administered WLANs. They are still usable for staff and students, both with school administered equipment and BYOD.

While we do have a lot of gear, the newest bit of kit is some 1941 routers, that we got at auction and don’t have any service agreements on, so no updates for them – and we’re not switching to newer cisco gear for obvious reasons that rhyme with money, DNAC and supply chain woes. I don’t know about you, but I don’t really feel like exposing the existing equipment to the wild west of a the internet.

All this boils down to the following conclusions:

• I have to build something new and
• Most likely make a purchase recommendation for my admin.

Requirements:

1. 33 clients must be able to connect to the internet.
2. 33 clients must be able to connect to each other.
3. All traffic going to and from the internet must be filtered.
4. Filtering must be relatively simple to configure.
5. Filtering must be able to stop the most common p2p-protocols and workarounds. I want to teach, not have to deal with DMCA letters all the time.
6. Both external and internal traffic should be monitored and logged to help hunt down individuals that somehow bypass the filtering. Speed degradation is not too much of a concern – We can live with 100Mbps or less, if we can have metadata logged, but faster would be nice.
7. Silent equipment would be nice to have, as it will most likely be positioned about a meter from my ear when sitting at the desk in the classroom, on account of the internet-connected port.

What I’m considering presently is a MikroTik solution consisting of

• 1x CCR2004-16G-2S+PC, running individual networks for 12 students and the teacher, as well as being the gateway out.
• 1x CRS326-24G-2S+IN, a managed L3 switch, which will route the remaining 20 student networks and connect to the CCR2004 with a 10G fiber.
• 2x S+85DLC03D, one in each of the above, and a bit of multimode LC-LC fiber.

All in all I’ve sourced this from a single vendor for about 700USD with a week’s lead time. But I've got nothing in regard to logging.

My ISP provided modem/router combo (Home Hub 3000 from Bell Canada) does not have a firewall setting, is this an issue for all of the devices on my network? Or is the router doing some packet filtering or something along those lines without me knowing? If anyone has this or any other Bell modem/router and is knowledgeable about the topic that would be greatly appreciated.

I’m a pretty competent home networker who has volunteered to help a friend figure out some persistent networking problems. I think there may be an issue of signal loss due to the positioning of the router, and I want to be able to demonstrate that with data.

Does anyone know of a network surveying tool that would display, at a minimum, signal strength at various sample points? Ideally I’d like to be able to use this on iOS, but I can also use it on MacOS. I’m very comfortable with the command line if there are tools you would suggest using there.

Thanks!

I've got a USG, cloud key, and several APs. My USG appears to be dying and I'm trying to figure out how to move forward.

Should I just replace it with another USG?

I'd like to replace it with a Dream Machine Pro and a friend recently did the same in their own environment and they love it.

Since I'm already invested in the Ubiquiti sphere, I'd prefer not to have to buy all new access points and such.

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Hello! As a complete beginner in home networking I am a bit lost with my problem. Maybe someone can help:

Setup: Internet socket in the wall -> Fritzbox-router -> Linksys router with OpenWRT and a VPN (NordVPN)

I have to Networks I can connect to, the Fritzbox-Network (192.168.178.) and the OpenWRT-Network (192.168.1.). Most PCs/Smartphones are connected to the OpenWRT-Network to be a bit more protected with the VPN. Some are connected to the Fritzbox.

Now two questions:

• How can I connect those two networks so that I can e.g. ssh from 192.168.178.10 to 192.168.1.30?
• Who is providing the DNS, when I connect a PiHole to the Fritzbox, set it as DNS-Server and then connect my PC to the other network, which is routing everything to NordVPN? Does NordVPN use its own DNS-Server?

What do I need to learn to understand my own network better?

Hello everyone!

I'm trying to figure out what is wifi mesh exactly and can't really find answers.

I'm wondering if it's a real tech or just a nomination, example: if I'm setting up multiple old wifi routers on the same local network with DHCP turned off (except on the main of course) and just put the same SSID and passphrase on all of them: could we call it a mesh wifi or does the technology really add something to it?

I made my parents buy some TP-LINK Deco wifi mesh routers for their property ^(which I regret now because openwrt is not compatible but that's a other story) and I don't really see any difference from them and the basic wifi repeater(cable) I've put in a last dead zone.

Here's what android sees

I am trying to run a network cable for a AP but there is a new angled roof built on a old flat ashalt roof. I may end up drilling though the roof but I am curious if there are any other options to run a physical cable

Edit: Asphalt doesn't really block WiFi so I just put the AP in the attic

So my questions in to general parts.

My first question is can I use proper WiFi roaming with openwrt? I want to have my devices automatically jump to the nearest ap but currently they stay connected to the first one they connected to until the signal drops.

My second question is a little harder. Is it possible to make openwrt participate in a mesh network created by home mesh? I don't need to much functionally but currently I have an ap with the same name and roaming isn't working properly. It just hangs onto the openwrt connection until the absolute last second.

Edit: Fixed typo

My work gave me a L2 switch because they were going to toss it out. Is there any reason for me to use that over the built-in switch from my ISP's router/modem?

Hi, can someone give me a website where I can check peering status between two ASes? I want to know if the network between a customer and our datacenter is affected by peering issues.

My dream would be if I could just enter two ASNs and see any issues on the path inbetween. But it's also fine if I can only enter neighboring ASNs.

I know you can query BGP information with peering status e.g. on https://bgpview.io or https://bgp.tools, but that only shows if they peer, not if the link is currently up.

What properties that affect the range, speed and features should a consumer be looking out for?

Hi,

I recently had to deal with a bunch of Gaming Consoles (PS5 + Xbox) in a network. In the past I always go the UPnP route for them to get their "NAT Type 2" (open nat) achieved. Recently we had them sitting on to 1000 Series Cisco ASA with a standard NAT. No UPnP and I was a bit surprised why and how Cisco manage that all the consoles can achieve NAT Type 2 without upnp.

Normally when the console request a fixed port to test the nat capability and is not flexible with that. So external port rewriting not working. This is where UPnP steps in and rewrite. But on the ASA Configuration was nothing else then the default cisco NAT involved and it was flawless.

Anybody with more Cisco experience than I can shine some light on that for me?

thanks

Hey, I'm working as a Event IT Specialist. Currently doing a event in kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Just want to share the mess sands can do if you do not seal of the rooms properly.

;(

I have a 10Gbps internet connection. On a system with a 10Gbps Ethernet card, I can get ~8Gbps down and ~6Gbps up:

I'd expect this to easily max out a 2.5Gbps network connection. However, while the upload is maxed (or close to it), I can only ever get ~1.0 to 1.5Gbps down:

Both tests were performed on the same system. The only difference is that the first one uses a TRENDnet 10Gbps PCIe network card (which uses an Aquantia AQC107 chipset) whereas the second one uses the onboard NIC on my motherboard (Intel I225-V chipset).

This is consistent across two devices that have 10Gbps ports and two devices that have 2.5Gbps ports.

I'm using an AdTran 622v ONT provided by my internet provider, a TP-Link ER8411 router, and a MikroTik CRS312-4C+8XG-RM switch. I'm using CAT6 cabling, except for the connection between the router and the switch which uses an SFP+ DAC cable.

I haven't been able to figure it out. The 'slower' speeds are still great, I just don't understand why it can't achieve more than 1.5Gbps down over a 2.5Gbps network connection.

Any ideas?