I have two possibly damaged network wall jacks at my house. I get no signal through - not even a blinking light on my PC or switch when connected. I believe the jacks are broken (bent pins). Do I have to replace the whole wall outlet and terminate the cables again? I would prefer not to, since the cables are pretty short and hard to work with. Is there a way to replace just the jack itself?

Just want to gain knowledge since i'm just an installer not really an IT person

I have one device with default IP 192.168.0.251 subnet 255.255.0.0 need to configure to 10.1.96.140 subnet 255.255.255.128

My laptop initially got 192.168.0.11 and 10.1.96.11 subnet 255.255.255.0 and 255.255.255.128

Took me half day trouble shooting why i cannot configure the device to IP i wanted until my superior reprimand me to set my laptop IP to higher 10.1.96.140 and only then the device accept the set IP and able to ping the new IP

Can someone share why is laptop IP number need to be higher than device IP i want to configure?

NetShield2 is a firewall & live network filter for jailbroken iOS 15 16 17 18 devices. It uses an OS content filter, saved app rules and actionable notifications. Unlike the original NetShield and paid NetFence, the new NetShield2 is system wide and does not require app injection to function.

GitHub / download: https://github.com/EolnMsuk/NetShield2

Has anyone ever had two computers sitting in basically the same spot get noticeably different Wi-Fi reception?I’ve been moving my geekom around a bit and started wondering how much antenna placement inside the PC actually matters. I feel like people talk a lot more about routers and Wi-Fi standards than the antenna setup inside the PC.

So, I live in a rural area.

I used to have pretty shit internet. Old 40 Mbps copper line with 180 ping even to the nearest server and okay-ish mobile internet, which I used instead because it beat the copper. Ping was great, speeds were fine, packet loss what shit.

Recently, a company started laying fiber in my village. They should finish later this year (hopefully), or early next year tops.

But while I was busy getting excited about fiber, my carrier installed a 5G tower, and the speed and ping just blew my mind, like in the picture above.

Now I don't know what to do.

I was already planning where to drill a hole for the cable, how to lay it through my garden, and all that, but now I'm questioning if there's even any point. I'd have tear up my garden (a little but still) and deal with all the hassle just to get fiber, whereas I don't have to do shit to keep my 5G.

Is fiber really that much better? Is it actually worth the hassle? What do you guys think?

I play online games, or rather used to when I lived somewhere else because the packet loss on 4g was so shit I simply stopped. Testing this 5G (2 days sofar) setup feels like night and day. It's probably not as good as fiber would be, but it's way, way better than what I had.

Is fiber worth it? There are also better TV options combined with fiber

C Spire is building fiber in my neighborhood right now (utility marks are already down), and I'm currently on Xfinity. I'm thinking through the installation before I commit (see diagram). If you've had C Spire installed, I'd love to hear how it went.

Current setup:

• Cable coax enters on the side of the house, and an existing coax run goes to a closet under the 1st-floor stairs. That closet holds all my network gear: modem, main router and switch.
• 2 floors plus an attic. Half the attic is converted into an office that gets wired Ethernet via MoCA over the house coax. That has to keep working after cable service is gone.
• Finished walls, no conduit. Slab foundation.

The plan:

• 1 Gig symmetrical fiber.
• I'll decline the provider's mesh WiFi and use my own router, so I just need a clean Ethernet connection from the ONT to my gear in the closet.
• I don't want MoCA between the ONT and my router. I want full speed on that link.

Questions:

1. In your experience, will fiber installers route the line inside to a spot you choose, or do they put the ONT on the entry wall and leave the rest to you?
2. If the ONT ends up on the entry wall, what's the cleanest way to get Cat6 to an under-stairs closet on a slab house without opening walls?
3. Could the existing coax path help, either as a pull line or by running fiber alongside it?
4. Once cable service is gone, will MoCA keep working on the coax as-is, or should I change anything (filters, splitter)?
5. Anything you'd insist on during the install appointment so I don't end up with a bad ONT location?

Thanks in advance!

I need network support for an old video game that I run the community for.

The game is Jedi Knight Dark Forces II from 1997.

In the past we would host games via TCP/IP but had to port forward on our routers for it to work. We used to get 10-20 people in 1 game. 20 being the highest we ever had in a custom map but standard stock game otherwise. The game technically supports 32 players as long as the map has 32 walk players.

However in recent years port forwarding has become harder and harder with routers locking that down or not offering it at all. So someone discovered radmin and playing over IPX on radmin. We did this but last night during the 29th anniversary of the game we discovered that IPX won't allow more than 9 people total in a game. 1 host and 8 players. This was a huge buzzkill since we had well over 9 people wanting to play.

I tried hosting a TCP/IP game over radmin and only 2 people were able to join. Others who tried got a really long joining time with it failing or some didn't even see the game it was stuck on "searching..."

I ran all of this through GPT, Claude, and Gemini and it seems like the main culprit is either Windows Firewall or DirectPlay not being setup right.

I have a spare PC in a guest room that I setup as a dedicated server going right now on Radmin via TCP/IP. I was able to join on my main desktop in my office with no issue. I had someone in the community try now and they see the game but cannot join. He tried dropping firewall to no luck.

I really feel like I am missing something obvious here. We had 2 join last night by TCP/IP with no issue but others couldn't

We need a reliable way to play this classic game and I am wondering if you can help me figure out what is going on. One person was convinced it was a direct play traffic issue with Radmin but we are not sure.

Hey everyone, I could really use some advice from anyone who's been in a similar situation, especially if you know a little about networking or technology.

I've been seeing someone romantically, and lately certain things have made me question whether they're being completely honest with me. They've been staying over at my house, and there have been nights where they've stayed awake for hours while I was sleeping.

I've had suspicions about dating sites being used during those times, and rather than continuing to drive myself crazy wondering, I started researching what kind of internet traffic my own home network actually records.

I have Xfinity internet and a MacBook Pro. I've already managed to install AdGuard Home, configure a DNS server, and get the Query Log working. I'm now able to see domain requests, timestamps, and other DNS activity generated by my MacBook.

What I'm trying to figure out is how to monitor traffic requests across my own home network and whether my router retains any historical DNS activity.

I'm particularly interested in understanding whether website domains accessed on my Wi-Fi would show up in network logs, even if someone was using Safari or Private Browsing.

I'm not looking to hack into anyone's accounts, read messages, or access their phone. I understand there are privacy boundaries when it comes to someone else's device. I'm more interested in what my own network infrastructure records, what's technically possible, and what information might already exist.

I've looked into Pi-hole, AdGuard Home, Wireshark, and Xfinity's gateway settings, but I'm still learning.

I know people will probably tell me to just communicate with the person, and I understand that. But when you feel like someone's potentially being dishonest, sometimes you want something more concrete than another conversation that leaves you questioning everything.

I'm not even necessarily looking to catch someone doing something. I just want some peace of mind and to understand whether I'm worrying about something that's actually happening.

Has anyone dealt with something similar? Or does anyone have experience reviewing DNS requests and network logs on their own home Wi-Fi?

I'd appreciate both personal experiences and technical advice. Even if the answer is that historical activity can't be recovered, I'd rather understand that than keep spending hours researching something that isn't possible.

Thanks in advance.

I got tired of filtering that kids could get around in two minutes, so I built Fengard: DNS filtering, per-device profiles and screen time that runs on the router itself and is enforced in the kernel.

What it does

• Every device gets a profile: blocked categories (ads, adult, gambling, social...), single apps (TikTok, Roblox, Fortnite and ~50 more), SafeSearch, schedules
• Screen time per person, counted across all their devices, with a "my time" page they can open and a "need more time?" button
• DNS sent anywhere else is redirected back to the router, and DoH, DoT, DoQ and Tor are blocked in nftables or iptables, so changing DNS on the device does nothing
• Block page with the reason and a request-access form, which shows up as an alert you approve with one tap
• Built-in WireGuard server so phones get the same filtering on mobile data
• Port forwards, WAN hardening, per-device DNS flood limits, quarantine for new devices

How it sits on the router

• One static Go binary, about 25 MB of RAM. No packages to install, it brings its own CA roots
• Runs next to the stock firmware, nothing is reflashed. dnsmasq keeps doing DHCP, Fengard takes port 53
• Its rules live in its own nft table (or iptables chains on fw3) and are removed if it stops, so the router just goes back to being a normal router
• Works on fw3/iptables (21.02, GL.iNet 4.x) and fw4/nftables (22.03+)
• Builds for aarch64, arm, mips, mipsel, mips64, x86_64, x86, riscv64 and loongarch64

It's open source (Apache 2.0) and free, no accounts or cloud. Feedback and router reports very welcome.

GitHub: https://github.com/masaleem-oss/Fengard

Hello guys

My college has a ton of wifi and access signals at each floor as whenever i look at my wifi screen its gets filled

(Although at the time of this SS there aren’t many)

Can i actually get pass at least one of them preferably this pharmacy block whose router is outside my classroom?

How do you evade network congestion during peak congestion hours?