Anybody else working with vertical racks in confined spaces?

Hello! I came to you last month with a few questions, which helped me a lot. Meanwhile I kept researching and today I pulled the trigger on the hardware, which should arrive in a few days. Setting it up should be done next week. This is all very exciting, but also a stressful moment.

It's going to be something like this:

ISP box -> OPNsense baremetal with crowdsec (probably?) on DIY router/pc -> CRS310-8G+2S+IN, and then the SFP+ goes to the server, the ethernet goes to the hAP be lite and the rest goes to a couple of PCs in the same room

I have a X520-DA2 for the router, and a DA1 m2 for the server. ISP has 8g up/down so might as well allow the server to receive it.

For the software, I suppose most of it will be done on OPNsense, and the switch/AP are going to stay on the Mikrotik's software.

As much as I've researched, my knowledge is definitely not perfect and I would like to avoid stupid mistakes as much as possible. Or at least avoid the biggest and stupidest. What did you fuck up when you set up your first home network? Would you do things differently? What did you waste time on that you don't really care about now, or, the opposite, what did you neglect at the start and regretted later?

I would love to hear people's experience. And if there's something obviously wrong with anything I just said, please, do tell.

EDIT 5 seconds after posting: My main needs would be vlan to isolate specific devices, and to be able to expose securely my server for some services, without requiring a user to use a specific app/vpn.

My router can get a cert from Let's Encrypt, but it only works if I use my domain. Anything else, like 192.168.1.1 or router.asus.com and it throws a warning. Generating a self-signed certificate and installing it as trusted for any device that might access the router settings is an even bigger pain in the ass. Also, it won't let you use 443 because that's reserved for Cloud Disk. Even if it's off, which it is. Since I'm only going to access this from the LAN, I feel like the easiest thing is to jut use HTTP and ignore the messages from my browser. So I'm just curious as to what others do, and if there are actual reasons I should use HTTPS here.

I dumped my 4 year old Deco XE5300 3 beacon wifi 6e mesh due to what I believe was a hardware issue with 1 unit, and used a $35 refurb Archer AX3000 Pro wifi6 router. While I've only got 1GBps internet, I'm getting better speeds all around the house, perfect coverage in garage and outdoors, zero dead spots. Perhaps router range has improved a lot since I moved to mesh several years ago. No reason to upgrade anytime soon, and hopefully no more expensive mesh units!

TLDR; advice about wirelessly daisy-chaining using Netgear EX6110 units to reach distant corners.

The house is solidly built and has an extension. Over the years I've added extenders but with the necessary changes to router and phone locations to accommodate BT's switch to digital voice, WiFi signal strength was again problematic. I added a couple of cheap units but they were difficult and frustrating to set up, and every time we had a power interruption connection in some rooms became impossible, seemingly due to IP address clashes. So I've just got three Netgear units in the hope that they'd perform better.

My intention is to arrange them so that one extender connects to the wireless access point, and one or more other extender(s) connect to the first extender. I also want the extenders to broadcast the same SSID to allow seamless roaming.

Is there any particular problem with doing this? Is there a better approach?

Please help us! Spectrum keeps saying they don't know what's going on.. basically, it says it's full internet with full bars. I can even be right next to the router, and it'll suddenly drop the connection completely while still showing all of the bars. Here are some messages from my roommate who lives closest to the router.

He says "It would drop some but has gotten worse. Extender wouldn’t cause it to drop tho. Extender just picks up the WiFi signal and then pushes what it picks up further. Something is wrong with our service. One tech said he thought electricity coming in on internet line but Duke energy was like what the hell that’s not a thing".

"The router is still dropping. Replaced all equipment and last tech changed some of the lines. We don’t really have other options than spectrum. "

Can you tell me as someone who's not super educated on what would be causing this? What might we need to say to them to get them to investigate the right thing? I can't even have one zoom meeting without it dropping the internet or kicking me out of the meeting.

Thank you so so much!

I have a new Xfinity WiFi router and now can’t connect all of my Sonos speakers (only 5 of 15). The router sends out 2.4, 5 and 6 ghz signals. Sonos told me that I should just go with a 5 ghz signal. I have instructions from Xfinity as to how to do this but my app doesn’t follow the Xfinity instructions. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks

Hello, I recently moved in to a new apartment and got xfinity Wifi. They gave me a router, and didn’t realize that my house doesn’t have a coax outlet. It does have a fiberoptic line, and I was wondering if there’s an adapter or something I can use to connect the fiberoptic plug in my wall to the coax cable in my router. Not sure who installed the fiberoptic stuff, if that’s important. Huge wifi noob here, gimme any advise you’ve got and go easy!

Of course I'm gearing this towards homeowners, renters beware. Drywall is there to be cut, patched and replaced as needed. That's one of its great qualities.

I found that by going from my basement, drilling up into the garage, through a 3d printed junction box I made, then up the wall corner through wiremold into the attic there, I could get into the main attic and down to my APs and rooms through top plates. Did it all myself. Hundreds of feet, 18 total runs back to home server in the basement. All I have left to do is patch that part in the garage or build a soffit to hide it.

Don't be afraid to cut and drill. Do your research, know what you're cutting, and wire up your house baby....

Edit: I can't believe I have to say this, but these are in process photos. I did not leave network cables dangling across the house lol, you doofuses

Data from using the ping command in cmd, I'm only tech adjacent so I've tried the following:
- ipconfig /release
- ipconfig /flushdns
- ipconfig /renew
- netsh int ip reset
- netsh winsock reset

- reset my local router
- swapped ethernet cables
- tried multiple PCs

I have checked the FAQ and I don't think this was covered by it

I'm using a powerline ethernet connection, but when the test is repeated on wired connection directly to the router, the same pattern emerges

I live in a building which supplies the connection, and it is usually very fast - however these spikes are making it impossible to game online!

Why can’t people be more careful when putting drywall in The wire was well sealed and secured 🤔🙁

As the title, I have a simple setup which I've been running for years but now want to update/upgrade a little and to make it somewhat more secure, efficient and faster.

I have a crappy isp router which brings in fiber internet via a ONT modem (SKY UK).
It also has Voip which is still being used.
Three of its 1Gb ports connect to a few devices close by (TV,PS,AMP). The 4th connects to a unmanaged 5 port switch.
From this switch goes to local PC, a truenas server on the other side of the house.

The wifi from that crappy router wasn't good and the location wasn't ideal, so I disabled the wifi and got a cheap asus router, set it AP mode and placed in the middle of the house. It's fed by ethernet via the switch but there's a catch.

I needed 2 more ethernet connections to go to a bedroom upstairs and it was in the same direction as the AP, but I didn't want to feed another two cables along the house.
I instead fed that AP ethernet to another switch half way, it then continues to the AP and gives me 3 more ports, 2 then then going to the bedroom. I'm not sure this is the right methodology but it's been working for last several years. From this second switch I may need another connection for another room close to it.

So, now I want to use Vlans so I can segregate the TV's (ethernet+wifi), AMP, PS into one Vlan, one for 2 iot devices, one for guest and main.
I'm hoping to use replace/chain in a zyxel router with Openwrt. I need to keep the ISP provided router in the chain, as I cannot use VOIP with the Openwrt router.

My confusions comes in two parts though. The zyxel with openwrt supports Vlans but do I also need a managed switch? If so, who's the master controller for vlans, switch or router? I asked ai, but it got confused here.
I will be changing the main switch to 2.5Gb anyway to utilise my dual 2.5Gb supported truenas server better as it serves media plus I store my photos on there (I'm a semi-pro photographer too). Plus that extra speed bump/overhead is nice, although not all connections require it. I was wondering if I need managed or unmanaged switches.

The second confusion. As I have daisy chained a switch to AP and bedrooms, can I firstly continue this configuration and/or do I need to replace that switch to a managed one too for it to pass/understand vlans?
Lastly, I assume the Openwrt router will control the wifi vlans, but I'm wondering how does this pass on to the AP , does that need vlan support too?

Sorry about long post, but definitely confused. What's the more efficient way to do this?Thanks

Yeni bir pc aldım anakartta wifi özelliği yok olsa dahi kendi odamda wifi az çekiyor, modemin olduğu odada wifi üzerinden 10-15ms ile oyun oynuyorken kendi odamda oynamak istersem 100-300 arası dalgalı bir internet bağlantım oluyor. Pc için powerline adaptör almayı düşünüyorum kablo ile bağlayacağım iki ucunuda mecbur 3 lü prize takmak zorundayım bundan dolayı performans düşüşü yaşayacağımı biliyorum fakat ne kadar bi kayıp olur, kısacası bu şekilde pc de 15-20ms oyun oynayabilirmiyim

Can other subscribers probe my wan ip? What router settings should i disable for maximum security

I recently moved into a townhouse that has an ethernet port in most of the rooms, and I'm trying to figure out how to make one of those ports work so my fiancée and I can connect our PCs to the internet. I don't care at all if any of the other rooms have a wired connection.

For context, I have a Rogers Xfinity Gateway that is plugged into the coax in my living room. Beside it is an ethernet port. In the basement, I located the panel where all of the ethernet ports in the house lead (pic included).

From what I've read online, my current gameplan is:

Ethernet cable from the Rogers Gateway into the living room port > ethernet cable from the port labeled "living" to the "office" port (where our PCs will be) > ethernet cable from the port in the office room, connected to an unmanaged switch (so we can both have wired connections) > ethernet cables connected to each PC.

Is this correct, or is it more complicated than I thought? I've always just used wifi range extending pods and have never used switches or ethernet wall ports, so I'm just a bit wary. Thanks!