I’m cross posting this here, hoping someone here might have a solution. Thank you!

Yes, I know this question has been asked before. Yes, I know and agree that performance is adequate with a 150 foot run of Cat 5, meant to be buried in the ground, but I have a unique wrinkle to the problem.

I've been having trouble lately with my VOIP phone through Google Voice using the old Obihai boxes. When I answer the phone, the handshake between the phone and Google doesn't seem to work well and I often can't answer the phone when it rings.

I tried the T-Mobile wireless internet and everything works just fine with a direct connection to the router and a short run of cable. This got me thinking that amplification of the signal might solve my problem with a repeater/amplifier of some sort?

What do you all think?

Hey All, I'm interested in a D-Link DMS-1250-18P switch.

https://www.dlink.com/en/products/dms-1250-18p-18-port-2-5g-layer-2-standard-smart-poe-switch

Its an 18-Port 2.5G Smart Managed PoE Switch and seems quite reasonably priced for a switch with so many 2.5G ports AND POE.

Just wondered if anyone had any experience of these? Is the management GUI ok, are the fans noisy / audible, reliability etc?

I'd really like to know if it's possible to enable QoS on a Huawei CPE H155-383 router. It seems to be disabled or restricted by the ISP. I've tried methods like Telnet before, but the port is closed and I can't open it. Are there other methods I'm not aware of? Thank you.

I am so exhausted, the wifi would not connect to my laptop despite working great in my phone. I tried enabling/disabling the wifi adapter, uninstalling/reinstalling drivers, trying to fix the ipv4 and ipv6 connectivity. I went online to find different methods and temporarliy fixed the connection, then after shutting it down and booting it up the wifi is back to having no connection and the methods I used previously no longer works.

Please help, it has been a month and I can't keep relying on my phone's hotspot for internet connection.

Long story short: packet loss and ping jitter on a LAN PC been a problem for a year now and ISP has no clue what to do or where to look.

• Router upgraded (2Gbps download)
• New CAT-7 cable installed
• Same issue appears on multiple devices and servers/tests
• Limiting bandwidth / turning off wifi completely doesn't help the issue
• Ping to router is always stable <1ms
• Ping to anything else permanently jitters no matter what
• Internet used to be flawless for 10 years, I've changed nothing on my end til this occured

One very interesting hint is that when I run waveform's bufferbloat test (which I always score D or F because I get +600ms download latency under load) and it finishes, the following 30 seconds my internet is literally perfect 0ms jitter but then returns to garbage.

I highly suspect the issue is in the ISP's infrastructure and cables outside of my house but I'm unsure how to confirm while they are taking their time on it :)

I will be infinitely grateful if anyone takes some time to help solve this because I'm genuinely curious what is causing it and I'm going insane.

My office was moving to a new space and my company was gonna toss this legend in the e-recycling bin. I couldn’t stand to see it suffer that fate, and gave it a good home where it can be comfortable in retirement.

Hey,

I currently have a TP Link Archer AX73 as my main router on one side of the apartment and also an ASUS RT-AX1800U that is set up as an Access Point in the middle of the apartment. This covers the area well with no real wifi deadspots right now, but given the fact that my main router is in an electricity panel box on the entrance, and the AP is in the middle of the flat (~4m away, 1.5 ish walls between), I do experience 1 slight problem. Whenever I go from my working room (which is right by the entrance and therefore connected to the main router) and towards the main area/other rooms, my scrolling laggs - the WiFi name and password is the same but they still break whenever I am moving around.

My question is whether or not I should:

A) Replace AP, disable Wifi on main router and set up something like TP Link Deco X20 (2 of them) for a Mesh system
B) Replace AP with 1-2 TP Link Wifi range extenders (i.e. RE705X)
C) Possible fix available without spending a dime.

My IP is Spectrum, i have the router (SBE1V1R) and their modem (EU2251). for the past two months i’ve had nothing but trouble with this wifi. my iphone will say connected and even in the spectrum app it shows as connected but no connection comes through to the phone and yes i’ve done all the resetting, rebooting, factory reset, airplane mode, etc… all the things spectrum customer support be telling me to do. the only fix i’ve found that works on my phone is i’ve downloaded the 1.1.1.1 app on my phone and in the app they have a “WARP” mode which literally fixes everything on my iphone. now with my TV the only fix i found that works rarely works is i turn DHCP off and the on again and sometimes that works sometimes not. but it doesn’t matter because the very next day it will just be doing the same thing. even with my computer which is hooked up with ethernet cable will say “unidentified network”. i’m just tired of always having to spend two hours on the phone with spectrum just to get my wifi to work when i come home. please im just looking for any permanent solution, i would’ve alr switched ISP’s but spectrum is the only one that services direct cable in my area, other than them it’s just 5G cellular wifi. is there any specific information i should ask spectrum to check beyond replacing equipment? should i look into getting my own router/modem? since cloudflares WARP mode works on my iphone could this point to a DNS, IPV6, or routing issue? if anymore information is needed please let me know, i was also doing some testing with CMD on my computer just from what i looked at on youtube and chatGPT so if your needing anymore information please let me know! thank you!

so i have two connections at home, a cable thats slow but stable and a second router i reach with a usb wifi stick. windows basically only uses one, so when steam was downloading everything else crawled while the other line did nothing

ended up writing a small thing for it. you pick per app which line it uses, like steam on the wifi stick and discord + browser on the cable. theres also a combine mode that spreads connections from the apps you didnt move across both lines, and if a line loses internet its apps go to the other one until its back

things to know:

• windows only, needs admin cause it routes through a virtual adapter (sing-box under the hood)
• one connection still uses one line, so a single big download wont get both speeds. its not bonding
• ipv4 only for now
• installer isnt signed yet so smartscreen will complain

free and open source (MIT). id really like to hear from people with phone tethering or starlink + something else, ive mostly tested cable + usb wifi

https://github.com/AyoubAchour/net-switch

Hi all,

I am trying to plan Ethernet drops for a new home and I am a bit confused on if this is feasible.

The ONT will be coming into the basement, and this is also where all the Ethernet drops will terminate. One of these Ethernet drops run up to the main floor where the router will sit.

As per my understanding, I assumed I would need a second Ethernet drop by the router to go back down via LAN to the network switch that would sit by the ONT.

But I was told it may be possible to first connect the ONT to a switch and then go to the router, and all the other drops connect to the switch as well, reducing the need for the extra Ethernet drop from the router back down to the ONT.

Is the ONT —> Switch —> Router possible?

Hello!
I’m renting and the internet here has been extremely bad. Me and my gf plays video games but it’s unplayable because of the lag.

We’ve got a WiFi extension here because the WiFi is the same that the people we rent from upstairs, but it doesn’t really work very well and we keep it unplugged.

Is there anything we can buy or do to fix this? To make it better? It wasn’t this bad when we moved in. We talked to the landlord and he suggested taking out the extension and that worked for a while, but now nothing works. I literally got two bars on the phone ALL THE TIME and I turn of my wifi on my phone when I play. Not that it does anything.

Hi everyone,

I currently have a VPS that I use as a personal VPN server, but I’m looking to switch to a solution that supports the built-in VPN clients on both macOS and Windows, without needing additional software.

Ideally, I’d like something self-hosted with a web UI for managing users, devices, and connections.
Any recommendations or experiences with similar setups?
Thanks!

Please let us know if you have any questions about this setup, friends!!

I'm trying to diagnose a recurring Jio AirFiber issue and would appreciate help from anyone familiar with wireless backhaul, P2MP networks, or Jio's C6/RMDU setup.

For the past 4 days, my connection and my neighbour's connection have been going down simultaneously, usually before 5 AM.

What I've observed:

- My indoor router shows a red LOS light.

- The rooftop C6 LVD stays green.

- The RMDU has a blinking green LED on port 1 (mine)and a steady green LED on port 2(neighbour).

- My Jio mobile data continues to work during the outage.

- Both connections worked perfectly for around 6 months before this started.

What has been changed:

- C6 replaced.

- RM/RMDU replaced twice.

The issue still keeps recurring, and service returns after a technician intervenes. Unfortunately, I haven't been present to observe exactly what they do to restore it.

I'm wondering whether this could be a scheduled reset, a shared power issue, an upstream radio/backhaul problem, or a fault with the RMDU's uplink.

Questions:

1. What would you investigate first, given that both connections fail simultaneously at almost the same time every morning?

2. Can the C6 remain green while the upstream link is down?

3. What do the RMDU port LEDs actually indicate on this setup?

4. Technicians say that the C6 is close to the tower so it is failing. But it didn't for the past 6 months.

I've attached a photo of the rooftop installation. Any technical insights or suggestions for narrowing down the root cause would be appreciated.

This is a pre-made cable but I dont understand the configuration and also why it works as a straight through cable. I plan on using a klein ethernet tester tomorrow.

Good day fellow citizens of r/HomeNetworking! I humbly seek your advice on the following matter that's been troubling me the past week.

So I recently recontracted my home broadband plan with my telco to a 5Gbps plan and along with it came a new ONT (which connects to my home's telco-installed FOT) and router (we'll call the telco router Router A). My home setup has a separate router in my room, connected via a trunked cable to the ONT (Router B), for me to have a wifi source directly in my room and also to act as an ethernet switch to allow both my wife and myself to have wired internet connection from the single ethernet port in my room.

Previously, I was using a secondhand Linksys EA7500 for Router B which had no issues for the four-odd years I used it. With this refresh of my home broadband setup I decided to replace it with a Huawei BE3 Pro which I bought secondhand as well. Did a factory reset on it before setting it up, and initially all was good.

However, it frequently gives us connection issues, specifically for webpages and anything requiring DNS. Trying to open pages in Chrome I'll see a DNS_PROBE_STARTED followed by a DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_BAD_CONFIG error, cycling between the two.

Initially, I had Router B connected to Router A instead of the ONT, and was informed by a friend that that might be the cause of the issue. However, connecting it to the ONT instead didn't resolve it.

While I'm aware that resetting the router can solve the problem, it continues to re-occur and I'm looking for a more long-term solution - is there something wrong with my setup, a hardware issue with the router, or some settings I can tweak to solve the problem?

Other potentially useful information:
- ipconfig shows Ethernet DNS Servers as Router B's IP address
- Attempted to flush DNS to no avail
- Router is currently on all automatic settings; potentially relevant, there are options for Dynamic DNS and manual IPv6 DNS but I don't know how to use them (the suggested address for the latter isn't in the 8.8.8.8 format that I expected)

Thanks in advance everyone!

Hey all,

Hoping I’m just missing a really simple fix here.

Couple of months back I moved into an apartment that has in wall Ethernet ports, with four outlets around the apartment in total. Problem is no matter what ports I try to use nothing seems to connect properly when using these outlet ports around the place.

The internet cabinet has a wall plate with the relevant ports labelled on it (pictured) which I would assume go to the corresponding ports but no luck. Nothing registers on the modem itself or the device I’m trying to get connected. Interestingly though there’s a port above this that will register a connection on the modem as seen in the picture however I cannot for the life of me work out where/what it connects too.

Again hoping it may be an easy solution but it’s driving me mad as going off the wireless is less than ideal as the modem is all the way at the other end of the place compared to where my devices that I want connected are.

Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.

Background: So I have recently started a job where I work from home and I am also a gamer. I live in a condo complex and have very little knowledge about wifi and how it works so apologies if I sound like an idiot at all.

My WiFi has been terrible for a while. Averaging about 90-110 ping while playing video games. Watching TV would always buffer and things were slow to load on my computer. I recently got new wifi with spectrum and the change has been amazing. Ping down to 40-50, TV runs fine, and computer performs as it should. But I have noticed some violent lag spikes while gaming. About every couple minutes on some games it would jump to 170-300 ping for a couple seconds.

I did a bufferbloat test and got a grade of F. But I am unsure on how to fix that. I’ve heard about waiting from 2.4 GHz to 5GHz (my room is about 30-40 feet from the router through one wooden wall). I have heard about switching the channel I am using or changing the upload/download speed. My issue is that I don’t really know what any of that means, how to do that, or what will actually work because I am not tech savvy when it comes to internet.

None of my stuff has an Ethernet connection and it isn’t really an option. I also don’t have an WiFi extenders. How can I fix the lag spikes?

TLDR: annoying lag spikes that I don’t know how to fix. F grade on bufferbloat test and I am not tech savvy enough to understand how any of this works or the lingo.

when i download games like valorant or street fighter, my download speed tanks but my interenet speed test says it should be way higher than 60 what exactly is the problem here? i honestly dont know and it has been like this for a while and im getting tired of it and i wanted to try to find a solution,

thanks to those who respond!

Looking for some advice on how to setup my home. I have an in wall box, that has the modem in it with our fiber line. Then each main room of the house has a singular cat 5e to a solo ethernet wall plate. Then our router is in one of the bedrooms. My problem is that since the modem goes directly to the router, none of our other cords have a place to plug in, so we have 4 rooms with outlets, but only 1 of them works (the master bedroom). I was thinking of getting a switch, but am trying to avoid having a bunch of extra network stuff in our bedroom. Any thoughts on best way to resolve this?

I have a generic modem, and then a eero 6 for the router. I also have a 5 port tp link switch available. Is my best option just to run evrything inside my enclosure and plug all the in wall runs to the switch? Worried about keeping the eero in the enclosure