networking

For the last few months I have been experiences intermittent connection issues on my home network and I need more ideas to try and test to see what the problem is. I am coming for help! ISP: Spectrum (I know... but they're my only option) Internet type: Cable internet Modem: Spectrum Modem...

I'm at my the end of my rope with Ubuntu, I cannot get my ports to listen or open. I have tried every ufw command, I have tried turning ufw off, Ive tried disabling it. What I've discovered is that apparently ufw doesnt come pre-installed anymore because Linux/Ubuntu come by default with every...

Hey! Over the past month or so my internet has been totally dropping out, a lot, a bunch of times a day but it only lasts for not even thirty seconds and then it reconnects. Comcast has been out twice and the second time they seemed to have fixed the problem after replacing the buried cable that...

I have tried it so many times over the years. The furthest I got was to get two PCs to see each other and work together over a home network. But even then, the network did not persist. If I shutdown or rebooted either or both PCs, they couldn't see or connect to each other anymore. Things are...

So I’m having an issue where my windows 11 shows no internet connection but I am able to browse the internet perfectly fine. The problem I’m running into is that windows updates or any program such as Nvidia GeForce Experience that checks for internet connection doesn’t work because it thinks I...

Hello everyone, I’m looking for some advice on improving remote access speeds to my Synology NAS 220+. It’s set up at my home, and I’m trying to connect to it from outside with good speed. However, I don’t have a static IP, so direct connection isn’t an option. I’ve explored several solutions...

Hello, I wanted to set up port forwarding so that I could turn my pc on while I am in another country. I have enabled UPnP in my router and port forwarding is also enabled. The issue is I don’t really know what to put in inside the boxes. For the first one, do I just put the ip address that I...

I was doing a large file transfer from my main PC to my Pi server and saw that it was taking an unusually long time. Checking the Pi server, I figured the reason was that it was trying to transfer the file using the WiFi connection. So I disabled WiFi on the Pi server hoping that it would make...

How do we create subnets with an Ubiquiti mesh system. The system in place now is made up of 2 AP6 Pro https://ca.store.ui.com/ca/en/collections/unifi-network-wireless/products/unifi-ap6-professional

Okay, so I have a PfSense running, 3 VLANS 1 - Data 10 - CCTV 20 - Guest All network scopes set up with dhcp servers Port group created with all 3 vlans. Goes off to a GS110TP, into Port 8. Port 8 is Untagged VLAN 1, Tagged 10 and 20, PVID is set to 1 I have a couple of Ruckus AP's, 2 SSID's...

I have a Asus RT-AX3000 and a Windows 11 computer with a ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI (AM5) Mobo connected with a CAT-6 cable. If I reboot my router and wait for it to come online, my computer shows that I am "connected to the internet" but all apps fail and tell me that I am not connected...

I have an old Asus N55S laptop I bought back in 2012 with Win 7 (home premium). Haven't used it in years because the network stopped working, both wired and wireless. I recently picked up a USB wifi adapter to try and use the laptop but ended up with the same issue. It'll say I've connected to...

As the title says, My ethernet link speed keeps changing to 100Mbps. PC Specs: Ryzen 7700x Asus ROG STRIX B650-A GAMING WIFI 32Gb DDR5 Corsair Vengeance RTX 2080 Network: Virgin Media Hub 5 Netgear GS308 My network is as follows: Router (1Gbps download) > around a 15 meter Cat6e Externally...

On my LAN I have 3 network printers. 2 printers are connected via StarTech.com PM1115U2 Print servers and 1 printer is directly connected to the LAN as it is a network printer. All printers are printing from all computers within the LAN but I need to print from a remote network. To do that, I...

Hey guys, this is my second time trying to narrow down the issue. I live in rental place (house bottom floor) my landord live above me and has the WiFi router up there Laptop specs: It's a gaming laptop AORUS 7KB CPU Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.6GHz OS Windows 11 Latest update (with copilot)...

So long story short: we have multiple locations and we want to connect them with L3 connections. From the ISP side everything has been set up correctly, their device is working. We have a Juniper SRX220 (and also an SRX 240 but it dosent work neither) that we can ping from our network without...

I am looking to get Virgin Media Gigabit and having two installation points. One in the lounge and one in the home office. Virgin only provide 1 router/modem. I do have the Draytek Vigor 130 modem and Netgear Nighthawk XR500 (this is router only, no modem capability). I am looking at having one...

3 days ago I got a new ISP and I bought a used 5G router for it because my old 4G one had 3-8mbps upload with this new ISP and the 5G router reaches around 150-200mbps download speed. The problem is not the speed, it's the fact that while I for example live stream or download something my ping...

Hi! I had a company install a media cabinet for me but there were no hooks/straps that came with the cabinet. There is also no identifiable brand name on the cabinet. Does anyone know what type of screw or hook I can get to strap each piece of equipment in? I tried using zip ties but they...

Hello, I have come across an issue in which only one of the two Ethernet ports in my apartment are functioning. I have attached photos of both ports as well as the hub in my entryway closet. I wish I wire my PC to my internet for wireless VR content and have had many bitrate issues. If you know...

My issue is connecting to an online gaming server where when I initiate ping tests, are resulting in about 250ms on average which is causing issues for other people (sliding around, teleporting, among other things). The specific IP I am ping-testing is 51.89.234.64 and I understand that I wont...

Hello everyone. Im currently tasked with creating fairly big cctv network with 100+ IP cameras accross several devices in the same network. My experience so far is limited to setting up not more that 1 or 2 NVRs in the network so i usually just connect the NVR's to the router and cameras to the...

I have recently picked up a pre-loved mini pc from HP and upgraded it with few readily available hardware with me. The system is quite solid with i5 12 gen (10 cores and 10 threads) and 32 Gig of RAM. Its come with one NVME slot, multiple USB2 and USB3 ports but lacks SATA ports for me to boost...

Hello all! Apologies if this is posted in the wrong area, I'm really unsure who could best help. I'm really at a loss trying to fix this particular issue I've been having, with no luck looking elsewhere on the world wide web. The thread title may seem ridiculous but I'm so frustrated and out of...

I live in Sweden and have some friends who live in asia. I usually play Valorant with them on Bahrain servers and get 109ms ping. But a week ago I started getting 150ms instead. By contacting support I found out that they changed the routing to the servers and were unwilling to change it back...

About a week and a half ago, while gaming, I noticed my computer starting to have ping spikes. These ping spikes have gotten worse and worse as this last week has gone on. when I try and ping google I get this Pinging google.com [2607:f8b0:4000:803::200e] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from...

Hey there, I hope this thread finds you all great, cause I need a bit of help right now haha. So I just finished building up my NAS server and everything is fine and dandy BUT, I'm getting speeds of only 10mb/s, unfortunately. And I have no clue why... A bit about my setup - NAS Server Specs...

Hi, my friend currently has a problem with his internet connection on his pc. He lives in a garage annex which is disconnected from the main house where the main internet router is. Currently, from this main router there is a cat6 cable which runs outside into the annex and into another router...

I have an odd network problem I can't figure out. Here's a basic map of the set up: The modem connects to a switch(1) then from there it goes to a router which provides wifi, a tablet, and another switch(2). The tablet works fine on ethernet and the wifi signal is working with devices such as...

Hi All, I have a MacBook with 250GB space. I only use 40GB locally and I want to make the other 210GB usable by my main PC via internet LAN share. They're both connected to the same local network. I have created a "Windows NFTS" Partition on the Mac using Disk Utility app. However, I am having...

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Backstory: Ever see lights flicker when you have a light on and then turn the ceiling fan on or plug in a vacuum cleaner. I noticed this for the last 2 years in my condo and now after some random PC issues, I believe that I am getting power shorts or surges (help me find what to call that) that...

I have issue on my ethernet device, it says "This device cannot start. (Code 10) Error Event: Device PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_15B8&SUBSYS_15B81849&REV_00\3&11583659&0&FE had a problem starting. Driver Name: oem4.inf Class Guid: {4d36e972-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318} Service: e1dexpress Lower Filters...

Whats the best piece of hardware for use in a hardwired garden room? Basically want the same functionality as a router. Hardwired and wireless connectivity. Have tried using a second router (BT home bub 5), changing ip and turning off dhcp but it intermittently cuts out. One suggestion for...

How Disposable email server works when compared to normal email server ? What is the algorithm ? How does disposable email server creates different email aliases each time ? How do I develop my own Disposable email server ?

Ill explain the best I can So i live in a place where the signals from the tower are very weak and dont reach well This was my attempt at trying to get better internet So there is a coax port in my wall and im trying to get it wired to my pc Would this work coax port ->moca...

Long story short: 2 routers-main- TP-Link Archer AX55(wifi6), 2nd (access point mode) TP-Link Archer C6(an). As testing I set up 4 SSIDs each router 2,4 and 5Ghz,as tested working great at maximum of my network and around 20ping, troubles comes with wired clients coming from Archer C6,it has...

I'm a college student, and I recently moved my PC back home for Thanksgiving break. I'm using an ethernet connection and the speeds are great, but I have significant latency. I have a 1 gbps internet connection at home. This wasn't the case before, and my internet connection at school was fine...

Hi everyone, First of all, please forgive me if this is the wrong section to post this in. I'm looking to make my home network more secure and I'd like to buy a fairly cheap server on which I could do virtualization, host my own website, host my home network files (FTP?) and maybe even my very...

I recently got the urge to visit the second-hand computer market and got some ancient computer parts. An Asrock H61m-DPS motherboard, an intel i3-2120, and a D-link DGE-530T rev-B2 PCI gigabit ethernet card. My initial idea is to move my file server, which runs on an old dell laptop now, to this...