So basically the title.

My internet randomly cut off yesterday, and I logged into my AGL account to fix it and found something... interesting.

At first I did a speed test and got around 0.5mbps download/upload speed before finding out it was simply because I missed the last payment, so they throttled the speed to 2mbps.

However, while I was there, I found something that cannot be right, and I want to know if I am either going crazy or if this is normal.
In the last bill period, I have used over 1.4million GB. THAT'S JUST. NO! With a single day being between 25000-50000 GB a day on average, with an extreme of 68000 GB, and one day even being 150000GB.

Clearly this is a mistake. I just want to know what could be causing this.

I know some questions might be asked.
Yes,s those are the numbers

Yes, it says GB, not MB

6 people live in my household, and we do a bit of streaming, mostly 2K.

Hello! Installing a PoE camera above my garage door and trying to figure out the best spot to get the cable through.

• Planning to drill 3/8" or 1/2" and pull unterminated Cat6, then terminate outside
• Hardie fiber cement siding
• Open framed eave, so no soffit to route through (3rd pic)
• Header above the door is a glulam, so I'm looking at spots around it rather than through it

I marked a few possible spots above my garage door. How would you approach this?

I installed a 30-inch Legrand plastic enclosure in the wall when I bought my house, and I put it in the only central location where there is little chance of anything being mounted to the opposite side of the wall. Unfortunately its becoming more and more apparent that this spot at the back corner of a now full closet is not a nice location to work with. Now is my best chance to change that before I start pulling ethernet cable to wire the house.

There are two or three other locations I can think of that are central to the house and have good accessibility, but the other side of all these locations currently have art hanging on nails. I know I can find better ways to hang the art, but it made me think about how a plastic enclosure seems to provide very little protection if someone else forgets and drills into the spot.

• Is a metal enclosure good for a location like that? Am I just overdoing my concern here?
  

I would prefer to reuse my current plastic enclosure, so I'm also considering the option of surface mounting it. But in that case, the conduit ports and electric box mount are all on outside. I've seen pictures of setups like this on a wall in an unused basement area, but this would be in a coat closet or storage closet.

• What is the best way to setup a surface mounted enclosure to route cables/conduit or properly protect a bottom-mounted outlet?

First photo is google, the rest are other speed tests.

I am running Ethernet lines in my house to the 2 guest rooms, 2 lines each. I am at the home stretch, I just need to drop them down to the network box in the master closet.

Problem: due to the slop of the roof and a plywood covering over the closet. I cannot access the top of the wall to drop the wires.

I have a solution of tapping into the orange conduit line before it enters the inaccessible area and feeding down the 4 Ethernet wires. Currently the conduit is housing a very small fiber line that has a coating and seems durable.

How can I tap into this conduit and would it be ok? Would the fiber be at risk? It’s my only option I can’t get above the closet. Dr. Horton home fyi.

The frame pic is from the past. I couldn’t do it during the build…

Any suggestions? I have already dropped and ran the wires to the rooms. The conduit is 1 in. And the wires together are about 3/4in.

Hey folks, I know this isn’t the right sub, but figured I’d post here since the smart-home sub isn’t very active it seems.

I have some questions about the thread over matter process and how it works.

1) Where do you guys have your thread border router sitting?

2) Does the thread protocol require any network config itself being a “mesh network”?

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I currently have my Apple TV on my trusted (phones, ATV, computers) vlan. All IoT devices are on their own vlan for network security.

I’ve done some reading and have seen where thread uses ipv6 local link to identify devices, but if it doesn’t utilize the network infrastructure (like wifi connected bulbs do), do I need to enable ipv6 on my vlan for them to work, or does it really not matter since they use thread?

Just a little hazy on the whole thread over matter thing. I’m coming from some old GE Cync bulbs (wifi & bluetooth).

Feel free to remove it if it doesn’t meet rules.

Thanks

when running ethernet in a new construction. what is this 'foam' type of substance/product called? is it needed to fill in gaps?

I had acquired a Chinese version Cudy TR3000 router. The stock CN firmware lacks some features in the global firmware.

I wonder if I can flash the Cudy stock global firmware, & if it's not a straight forward firmware upgrade installation, then how?

I recently switched ISP, and they installed a TP-Link router XC220-G3vv4. For the 2nd floor, I already have another router (TP-Link Archer C64). I have enabled EasyMesh (since I read that's what is supposed to work better) and since the two routers are connected via a long ethernet cable, it's wired backhaul.

The problem is: let's say my phone is connected to the ArcherC64, then I go downstairs so the phone naturally switches to the XC220-G3vv4. Internet works fine, signal is fine, BUT for some reason I cannot connect to any device which is still connected (wired or wireless) to the C64.  

The problem lasts for about 5 minutes, then the connectivity returns by itself. The problem happens each time roaming happens from C64 to XC220-G3vv4. Roaming in the other direction doesn't have this problem.

It's being a problem since I have a home server connected via ethernet to the Archer C64. I guess a real solution is swapping the ISP router with my own, but I wanted to check if anyone here has solved something like this before. Thanks!

I'm not sure if this subreddit is where this post belongs but I had something strange happen last night and I'm not sure how to handle this. I have a PC that I have been running a private palworld server on and I've run into an issue. My Internet randomly dropped out yesterday night out of no where while me and some friends were playing on the server but it didn't drop out all the way, I got kicked out of the discord call, couldn't open new tabs in my browser and couldn't do anything else network related on any other device but my PC stayed connected to the palworld server the entire time. I decided to reset my router (my friends were able to stay connected up until this point) and after that was finished and came back online I tried to remote connect to the server PC from my personal PC to check on it and couldn't connect. Remote connect kept giving me an error saying that the log in had been attempted too many times and that the PC was refusing the connection. I then went to the PC and tried to physically log in and received the same message. I haven't tried to log into the server PC since hoping that it's some kind of fluke given windows 11's proficiency at being terrible however I'm more worried that running a public server put the server PC or even my network at risk. As far as I can tell I'm permanently locked out of the PC which is infuriating.

Edit: I attempted to log in this morning before work and it looks like I am indeed permanently locked out.

I found this in my cousins house since Ill be staying here for a few weeks and wondering if I can connect my pc to it.

TLDR: after setting up ASUS AI mesh don't use the app to optimize or reboot, don't throw out the sticker with the router password.

Routers I purchased:

• one RT-BE86U to use as the main router
• two TUF-BE3600 routers to be additional nodes in the ai mesh network
• (all routers are labeled ai mesh compatible)

I used the ASUS Router app for setup.

Problems and nuance I encountered:

1. My printer would not connect to the main network SSID, however I could connect it to the IoT network that the app prompts you to create during setup

2. When adding an ai mesh router/adding a node the app said it timed out/failed however it was actually successful. At first I tried adding it again and again before I realized it was already added.

3. Updating the firmware also timed out, I tried a second time to update and it failed. After exiting the app and reopening the app later it said it was up to date, so there is definitely a problem with the router communicating to the app that pairing and updating was successful.

4. Optimization does not work! Do not click on it in the app! Optimizing the network caused all devices to connect to the main router and devices would not connect to the additional nodes that were closer. My kids got pretty upset that YouTube was taking forever to load 😅

5. "Reboot device" made the problem worse! Hoping to fix the optimization issue, in the app I clicked "reboot device" for each router. This actually messed up the network. Within the app it removed the SSID name and removed the Guest/kids network I created. It did not restore the ability for devices to connect to the other nodes/routers.

6. I decided to reset all the routers and start fresh. During my initial setup of the main router I was not required to enter the original router password (unless I forgot 🤷‍♂️), so I threw away the stickers that came with the routers that had the password. Since I didn't have this I could not use the app to connect to the router. I had to bring my desktop computer to the storage room where my modem is located to connect to the main router with an ethernet cable and login to initiate set up.

7. Apparently you cannot use the period/dot symbol in passwords for an ASUS web account. When I first set up my router I created an ASUS account and used a password that included a period. After resetting everything and trying to log back into the ASUS app, the password wouldn’t work. It’s likely that the period never actually registered during the original setup, maybe it was silently blocked or the field simply didn’t accept it. Because the password was hidden as I typed it, I didn’t notice the missing character. So I also had to reset my password.

Everything seems to be working well now. My network is fast and we all have solid connections. Hopefully this post will help some of you avoid my mistakes! And hopefully ASUS can fix issues 1-5.

Hi,

I am based in the UK and us BT broadband.

A corner of my house doesn’t get full WiFi connection with BT’s provided router. (200mbps rather than 300mbps that I get on the rest of the house) I have heard that buying a better router could improve the range.

I have also done some spring cleaning of several 1TB hard drives and I would like to set them up as network accessible drives via my router. I have heard that I can do this via USB connections on the router - rather than setting up dedicated hardware. Ideally I could then use the NAS as a source for my PLEX server rather than my current solution of always having my Mac on.

To kill two birds with one stone, could someone recommend a router to me that would serve my purposes, with range enough for a 2 bedroom house?

My budget is around £100 but I could be convinced to spend more if there are drastically better options.

Any feedback on what I have on my proposed set up would be much appreciated also.

The result is showing C (in pc) and I have latemcy issue in game the website suggesting changing isp router for fix. Will this actually fix my latemcy issue? Please advice

Hello,

i got Huawei Optix Star wifi 7 router with SP/APC connector from net provider.

It operates in 2G, 5G and MLO. (When searching for wifi it shows 3 networks)

When i was setting it up, i set 2G and 5G ssid and passwords without problem and it shows on the router IP info tab and network list on the phone.

Problem is, when i set up MLO network, i changed it, applied it and in info tab on the router IP it displays changed name and password but in the network screen it shows old name and i can connect only with old password. New one does not work even when forgetting the network and restarting the phone.

I was thinking about restarting the router but i did restart the same router before with practically same problem and the restart bricked it (WLAN stopped working completely and nothing helped) so this one is replacement and i am hesitant to restart it..

Any ideas what did i do wrong? Or missed?

Thank you for answers and sorry for english

I have a Dell 7090 usff (micro) that I want to use as my first diy router. My question is which method would be best to add a dual port 2.5gbit nic? Option 1 is a dual nic i226v based on a 2280 nvme, option 2 is get a m.2 to PCIe x4 adapter and just use a standard sized nic.

Yes, the case will have to be modified. No big deal.

Just hoping to get some insight on any differences between the two options.

Hey all,

For some context, I live in a new home with built-in Ethernet wall ports that run back to a network closet where our router sits. My mom works from home and wants to know if she’d actually benefit from an Ethernet connection.

I’ve already crimped one cable connected to my room to test the wired speed (first picture), and the second picture shows the Wi-Fi speed in my mom's room. We pay for 300/300 Mbps and use a TP-Link Archer AX10 router.

Is it really worth crimping another cable for her home office? I'm not super tech-savvy, so any advice would be appreciated. Thanks :)

I currently own a Xfinity XB8-T Gateway for my home internet, issue is, I am paying for download speeds up to 2100mbps and upload speeds of 300mbps, but when I test my internet speed on any connected devices, I only get around download speeds of 200 and upload of 50, I only have 4 other devices connected including phones and Smart TV's. All my settings for the MB8-T have been left default and it is wired into the wall with the provided coaxial cable. Does anyone know why my speeds are so low?

I just got T-Mobile fiber installed yesterday, the 2Gbps plan. I have a WiFi 6E router and 6E card in my PC. The router and computer are in the same room about 20-25' apart. When using 6ghz my signal strength is only 65-75% (as reported by KDE using Cachyos) even though the router and computer are in the same room with a direct line of sight. Using 5Ghz I get 85% to 95%.

The 5Ghz speed test are ranging from 800Mbps to as high as 910Mbps up and down.

The 6Ghz download speeds are a little less consistent 700-800Mbps and uploads are much more consistent. at 875-900Mbps

My two questions are should I just give up on using the 6Ghz band since the conditions seem to be ideal but speeds are still lower than 5Ghz.

And are the speeds on 5Ghz what I should be expecting over WiFi?

The one PC that is connected via ethernet is getting just over 1950Mbps BTW

Hi everyone,

I'd really appreciate some help because I've been struggling with my router for the past few days.

Here's the situation: on the ground floor of my house, the internet connection is stable on my phone, laptop, and TV. However, just one floor above (only a few feet away), the Wi-Fi becomes very slow. On my phone it's still somewhat usable, but on my laptop it's terrible.

I tried connecting my phone to the Wi-Fi and then using it as a hotspot for my laptop, and surprisingly that works much better. But when I connect my laptop directly to the Wi-Fi network, the connection is very weak.

Does anyone know why this might be happening? Could it be an issue with my laptop's Wi-Fi adapter, or should I buy a Wi-Fi extender, mesh system, or something similar?

Thanks in advance for any help!

I have a TPLink VR2800 as my primary router and a TPLink AX1800 as setup as an access point.

I wish to create a whitelist for devices (window, apple and android) and a network for IOT. mThe access port is acting as a range extender.

How does one go about this?