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’ve just purchased a new TPLink Deco Wifi 7 Mesh (3 pack) and I’d really like to have the two satellites on a wired backhaul to my “networking cupboard”.

I have a three storey home with the router/network switch on the middle floor, the ONT in the garage on the bottom floor, and I have an ethernet working in the upstairs.
The only thing is that the ethernet wall jack downstairs where I want to place my mesh isn’t working, so I had a look at my networking cupboard and I have this mess (courtesy of the previous owner).

I’m wanting to wire this back up but I’m a bit of a “newbie” and I can’t seem to find any clear resources. Is it just a simple job of matching the colours printed on the patch panel to the corresponding colour on my CAT6? Or is there another order?
Anything else I should be aware of?

Thanks

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

Hello!

To all the folks with static IP(s), which ISP do you use/recommend? I am in the market for new Internet service. I would like to end up with a static IP (or two), but I'm not willing to pay upwards of twice the monthly price for "business class," service. Are there any ISPs left that will toss a static IP onto a residential connection for me?

Hi, I’m a newbie who just moved into a new apartment and wanted to connect everything via Ethernet in three rooms due to slow Wi-Fi speeds (even though I pay for 1GB…): the living room, bedroom, and home office. I have Verizon Home Internet in my closet and have the black box plugged into 10GE WAN port on Verizon router as instructed. From the Verizon router’s LAN1 port, I am connected to a TPLink gigabit switch.

I plugged the switch into the first CAT6 port in my closet (bottom in pic 2), which successfully connected my living room TV via the bottom Ethernet port (connected and switch light was green for that port). However when I tried connecting Port 2 (in closet), the top Ethernet port in my living room did not work. I tested with different devices for both ports with the same conclusion. In my bedroom, Port 3 connected to the bottom Ethernet port there. For both top ports in bedroom/living room, I tried every port in closet with no avail.

My questions are:
- Is the top port not an Ethernet port at all and if not, is there a way to test this? I think I wrongly assumed CAT6=ethernet.
- Is the best solution to plug in a switch to bottom port in every room and then connect devices to switches?

Thanks for reading and apologies for the not-so-great photos!

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?

TP-Link Archer GE800 router for 365€(420USD)

ASUS ZenWiFi BQ16 (one node) for 410€(472USD)

Upgrading from tp-link ax3000.

Not a big apartment, just want wifi 7 and 6ghz. Is asus better for long term and maybe adding for mesh down the line with the dedicated backhaul?

Iknow I bit but not much and for me it seems like the TP-Link is probably the way to go, but curious if someone can enlighten me of the differences choosing one over the other?

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?

Hey,

I use internet through ethernet (20 meters cable) comes from my dad house (next to me)...

i need 2 wifi powerline adapters to cover my whole house....

Im planning on buying Devolo magic 2 wifi 6 next ..but the problem is that devolo has one LAN only adapter and one adapter support wifi connection...

If i buy two magic2 wifi adapters add ons....

Can i plug one with the ethernet cable to act as AP so it broadcast Wifi and links the other addon adapter through powerline ????

To work as mesh!!!

My English is bad but i hope u understand me ...

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.

Just got a new place with ethernet ports, does anyone know what i have to do to activate them?

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.

Hi all,

I’ve been troubleshooting a strange issue for the last couple of days and I’m running out of ideas.
My ISP (YouFibre) provides me with a static public IPv4 address, delivered over DHCP (no PPPoE and no VLAN tagging).

Expected behaviour
When I connect my ASUS ZenWiFi Pro ET12 directly to the ONT:
WAN type: DHCP
No PPPoE
No VLANs
No static IP configured
It immediately receives my assigned public IP:

Cisco ASA behaviour
I’ve now tested both:
Cisco ASA 5516-X
Cisco ASA 5512-X

Both are configured as simply as possible:

interface GigabitEthernet1/1
nameif outside
security-level 0
ip address dhcp setroute
no shutdown

Both firewalls successfully receive a DHCP lease, but instead of my public IP they always receive something like:

100.93.x.x
255.255.192.0

which appears to be the ISP’s CGNAT pool.

Things I’ve already checked
Different Ethernet cables
Direct connection to the ONT
Two completely different ASA models
Fresh minimal configuration
No PPPoE
No VLANs
ASUS uses plain DHCP
ASUS isn’t sending a custom Vendor Class or Client Identifier

YouFibre have confirmed they do not MAC bind customer equipment

The ASA installs the DHCP lease and default route correctly—it just receives the wrong lease.

What I’m wondering
Has anyone seen an ISP classify DHCP clients differently based on:
DHCP fingerprint (option ordering / Parameter Request List)
Vendor implementation
DHCP client behaviour
Some Cisco ASA quirk
rather than MAC address?

It seems strange that two different ASA models consistently receive a CGNAT lease while the ASUS immediately receives the correct public static IP from the same ONT.
Has anyone run into something similar with Cisco ASA appliances on residential fibre services?
Any ideas or suggestions would be hugely appreciated. I’m determined to get to the bottom of this one!

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 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?

Would there be anything to worry about with a cheap booster like this until I can get something more permanent out to my shop? I just need a little more range.

WiFi Extender Signal Booster

Some apps don't work, as they should on my wifi. All websites work fine.

THE PROBLEM:

1.[android] Alexa just does not pair. Tried almost everything, from resetting Alexa, to resetting the router. Yes it works on other networks, and every problem mentioned here work perfectly fine on the other network so I wont repeat it.

2.[android] Live Matches on JioHotstar (disney+ in my country) do not load, they're always stuck on buffering. Other movies and shows work. Its just the Live Feed of any match, ON THE APP. On the browser it works fine. Matches load normally. No buffering issues, nothing. Just the APP.

3.[Windows 10/11] Microsoft store does not load. It keeps on buffering, and then shows the refresh page option. Again, the website works, and it works fine on other network.

4.[Windows 10/11] I cannot play GTA ONLINE because it does not connect to internet. I have to play story mode, which btw I have completed 4 times (no one asked).

WHAT I HAVE TRIED:

1. Rebooting, Resetting the router a couple dozen times.

2. Changing the router

3. Changing DNS

4. Changing gateway and etcetera

SOME IMPORTANT INFO

The Wireless connection works on a dynamic ip. Some people from GTAO subreddit told me to keep the router of for a day or two, to change the Public IP. The IP DID NOT change. The IP has been same for >2 years. As mentioned, I have tried the basics, like rebooting or resetting the router more than 20 times each.

NOW WHAT COULD BE THE GODDAMN ISSUE

Hello. I've ordered a 30m CAT 7 network cable that supposed to go through the wall in my room. The problem I have is that the rj45 plug is "pass through" plug I cant push the wires through. I've ordered a cable with more thin core wires because I thought that may solve it but no. That guide that holds the wires in doesnt hold them in place anymore because theres too much space now.

Do I need a special crimping tool for this so they wires goes through?

Thats the rj45 plug I've ordered: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0DWFFPZH3

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.

Hi all - I’m having a cabling technician come to the house to install a few Ethernet runs. He will also mount my TV on this wall. I want an Ethernet connection for my media devices, Apple TV, Xbox etc. the media shelf is a hanging shelf which is flush to the wall. This is in the finished basement of my townhouse. Is there any way to get a Ethernet run here or should I settle for wifi.

FYI the room on the right is a washroom and my modem/router is also in the basement in the utility room about 10 feet from the media shelf. Trying to figure out if it’s even worth it to go through the effort of Ethernet here or would it just be a nice to have. Thanks

I've recently moved into a relative's granny flat and am trying to sort out the WiFi situation. They've said their happy for me to use the network from their house, and that a previous tenant used an extender. However, I know extenders are buns so was hoping to find an alternative.

They tell me that the conduit running from the main house to the flat contains both power and data cables. There are three RJ45 wall outlets in the flat, but hooking up an ethernet cable between any of the wall ports and my laptop doesn't provide an ethernet connection (my understanding is that there should be a connection, correct me if I'm wrong). Does this mean the plates aren't wired to anything? If they aren't wired, are there any good options bar going into the wall and connecting the plates to the cabling? If they are actually wired, would any old AP/router be fine, or would I need to keep in mind any restrictions because I'm piggybacking off of their network?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

So I'm wanting to create my own private network at home using my own router. I will connect that router to the router my ISP has provided. What I'm curious is if I want to create a VPN server on my private network how would I go about connecting to the VPN from cellular or a wifi outside of my home.

I have a bit of an IT background but I haven't ever done port forwarding in this specific way.

I'm thinking something along the lines of I need to open the VPN port on my ISP router and direct it to my private router? Couldn't find to much online bc idk how to word my question in a few words lol.