Hello!
I’m renting and the internet here has been extremely bad. Me and my gf plays video games but it’s unplayable because of the lag.

We’ve got a WiFi extension here because the WiFi is the same that the people we rent from upstairs, but it doesn’t really work very well and we keep it unplugged.

Is there anything we can buy or do to fix this? To make it better? It wasn’t this bad when we moved in. We talked to the landlord and he suggested taking out the extension and that worked for a while, but now nothing works. I literally got two bars on the phone ALL THE TIME and I turn of my wifi on my phone when I play. Not that it does anything.

Yes, I know this question has been asked before. Yes, I know and agree that performance is adequate with a 150 foot run of Cat 5, meant to be buried in the ground, but I have a unique wrinkle to the problem.

I've been having trouble lately with my VOIP phone through Google Voice using the old Obihai boxes. When I answer the phone, the handshake between the phone and Google doesn't seem to work well and I often can't answer the phone when it rings.

I tried the T-Mobile wireless internet and everything works just fine with a direct connection to the router and a short run of cable. This got me thinking that amplification of the signal might solve my problem with a repeater/amplifier of some sort?

What do you all think?

when i download games like valorant or street fighter, my download speed tanks but my interenet speed test says it should be way higher than 60 what exactly is the problem here? i honestly dont know and it has been like this for a while and im getting tired of it and i wanted to try to find a solution,

thanks to those who respond!

My office was moving to a new space and my company was gonna toss this legend in the e-recycling bin. I couldn’t stand to see it suffer that fate, and gave it a good home where it can be comfortable in retirement.

Long story short: packet loss and ping jitter on a LAN PC been a problem for a year now and ISP has no clue what to do or where to look.

• Router upgraded (2Gbps download)
• New CAT-7 cable installed
• Same issue appears on multiple devices and servers/tests
• Limiting bandwidth / turning off wifi completely doesn't help the issue
• Ping to router is always stable <1ms
• Ping to anything else permanently jitters no matter what
• Internet used to be flawless for 10 years, I've changed nothing on my end til this occured

One very interesting hint is that when I run waveform's bufferbloat test (which I always score D or F because I get +600ms download latency under load) and it finishes, the following 30 seconds my internet is literally perfect 0ms jitter but then returns to garbage.

I highly suspect the issue is in the ISP's infrastructure and cables outside of my house but I'm unsure how to confirm while they are taking their time on it :)

I will be infinitely grateful if anyone takes some time to help solve this because I'm genuinely curious what is causing it and I'm going insane.

Hi everyone,

I currently have a VPS that I use as a personal VPN server, but I’m looking to switch to a solution that supports the built-in VPN clients on both macOS and Windows, without needing additional software.

Ideally, I’d like something self-hosted with a web UI for managing users, devices, and connections.
Any recommendations or experiences with similar setups?
Thanks!

Background: So I have recently started a job where I work from home and I am also a gamer. I live in a condo complex and have very little knowledge about wifi and how it works so apologies if I sound like an idiot at all.

My WiFi has been terrible for a while. Averaging about 90-110 ping while playing video games. Watching TV would always buffer and things were slow to load on my computer. I recently got new wifi with spectrum and the change has been amazing. Ping down to 40-50, TV runs fine, and computer performs as it should. But I have noticed some violent lag spikes while gaming. About every couple minutes on some games it would jump to 170-300 ping for a couple seconds.

I did a bufferbloat test and got a grade of F. But I am unsure on how to fix that. I’ve heard about waiting from 2.4 GHz to 5GHz (my room is about 30-40 feet from the router through one wooden wall). I have heard about switching the channel I am using or changing the upload/download speed. My issue is that I don’t really know what any of that means, how to do that, or what will actually work because I am not tech savvy when it comes to internet.

None of my stuff has an Ethernet connection and it isn’t really an option. I also don’t have an WiFi extenders. How can I fix the lag spikes?

TLDR: annoying lag spikes that I don’t know how to fix. F grade on bufferbloat test and I am not tech savvy enough to understand how any of this works or the lingo.

I'm trying to diagnose a recurring Jio AirFiber issue and would appreciate help from anyone familiar with wireless backhaul, P2MP networks, or Jio's C6/RMDU setup.

For the past 4 days, my connection and my neighbour's connection have been going down simultaneously, usually before 5 AM.

What I've observed:

- My indoor router shows a red LOS light.

- The rooftop C6 LVD stays green.

- The RMDU has a blinking green LED on port 1 (mine)and a steady green LED on port 2(neighbour).

- My Jio mobile data continues to work during the outage.

- Both connections worked perfectly for around 6 months before this started.

What has been changed:

- C6 replaced.

- RM/RMDU replaced twice.

The issue still keeps recurring, and service returns after a technician intervenes. Unfortunately, I haven't been present to observe exactly what they do to restore it.

I'm wondering whether this could be a scheduled reset, a shared power issue, an upstream radio/backhaul problem, or a fault with the RMDU's uplink.

Questions:

1. What would you investigate first, given that both connections fail simultaneously at almost the same time every morning?

2. Can the C6 remain green while the upstream link is down?

3. What do the RMDU port LEDs actually indicate on this setup?

4. Technicians say that the C6 is close to the tower so it is failing. But it didn't for the past 6 months.

I've attached a photo of the rooftop installation. Any technical insights or suggestions for narrowing down the root cause would be appreciated.

This is a pre-made cable but I dont understand the configuration and also why it works as a straight through cable. I plan on using a klein ethernet tester tomorrow.

Good day fellow citizens of r/HomeNetworking! I humbly seek your advice on the following matter that's been troubling me the past week.

So I recently recontracted my home broadband plan with my telco to a 5Gbps plan and along with it came a new ONT (which connects to my home's telco-installed FOT) and router (we'll call the telco router Router A). My home setup has a separate router in my room, connected via a trunked cable to the ONT (Router B), for me to have a wifi source directly in my room and also to act as an ethernet switch to allow both my wife and myself to have wired internet connection from the single ethernet port in my room.

Previously, I was using a secondhand Linksys EA7500 for Router B which had no issues for the four-odd years I used it. With this refresh of my home broadband setup I decided to replace it with a Huawei BE3 Pro which I bought secondhand as well. Did a factory reset on it before setting it up, and initially all was good.

However, it frequently gives us connection issues, specifically for webpages and anything requiring DNS. Trying to open pages in Chrome I'll see a DNS_PROBE_STARTED followed by a DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_BAD_CONFIG error, cycling between the two.

Initially, I had Router B connected to Router A instead of the ONT, and was informed by a friend that that might be the cause of the issue. However, connecting it to the ONT instead didn't resolve it.

While I'm aware that resetting the router can solve the problem, it continues to re-occur and I'm looking for a more long-term solution - is there something wrong with my setup, a hardware issue with the router, or some settings I can tweak to solve the problem?

Other potentially useful information:
- ipconfig shows Ethernet DNS Servers as Router B's IP address
- Attempted to flush DNS to no avail
- Router is currently on all automatic settings; potentially relevant, there are options for Dynamic DNS and manual IPv6 DNS but I don't know how to use them (the suggested address for the latter isn't in the 8.8.8.8 format that I expected)

Thanks in advance everyone!

Hey all,

Hoping I’m just missing a really simple fix here.

Couple of months back I moved into an apartment that has in wall Ethernet ports, with four outlets around the apartment in total. Problem is no matter what ports I try to use nothing seems to connect properly when using these outlet ports around the place.

The internet cabinet has a wall plate with the relevant ports labelled on it (pictured) which I would assume go to the corresponding ports but no luck. Nothing registers on the modem itself or the device I’m trying to get connected. Interestingly though there’s a port above this that will register a connection on the modem as seen in the picture however I cannot for the life of me work out where/what it connects too.

Again hoping it may be an easy solution but it’s driving me mad as going off the wireless is less than ideal as the modem is all the way at the other end of the place compared to where my devices that I want connected are.

Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.

Looking for some advice on how to setup my home. I have an in wall box, that has the modem in it with our fiber line. Then each main room of the house has a singular cat 5e to a solo ethernet wall plate. Then our router is in one of the bedrooms. My problem is that since the modem goes directly to the router, none of our other cords have a place to plug in, so we have 4 rooms with outlets, but only 1 of them works (the master bedroom). I was thinking of getting a switch, but am trying to avoid having a bunch of extra network stuff in our bedroom. Any thoughts on best way to resolve this?

I have a generic modem, and then a eero 6 for the router. I also have a 5 port tp link switch available. Is my best option just to run evrything inside my enclosure and plug all the in wall runs to the switch? Worried about keeping the eero in the enclosure

Hi all, I currently have a Yealink VoIP phone plugged into my ISP's router. I do still have an analogue phone & landline number that I don't use now, but that would be useful to get into for a while so I can change my number with certain places that need to call me on that landline number as part of the update my details process, that sort of thing.

I've done some reading up here & elsewhere and am thinking of just trialling a basic ATA maybe a grandstream, am I right that it will be ok to try using it alongside my VoIP phone? My ISP router has 2 ethernet ports and the ATA will have an RJ11 adapter.

Is it straightforward or is there anything else to be aware of, for example a poster on here mentioned in reply to a similar question that "technically you should disconnect the telco phone line from the outside of your house", hoping this isn't necessary?

Thanks for any tips.

As the title suggests, I'm having issues with my Ethernet connection when my IPTV box is connected to my Ubee EVW32C-0N router.

When the IPTV box is connected, my ping to the router (192.168.0.1) sits around 25 ms and sometimes spikes to 50 ms. When loading web pages I have these enormous spikes. This also makes ordinary web pages load noticeably slower than usual.

Even when the IPTV box is turned off, the issue persists. The only thing that consistently fixes it is physically disconnecting the Ethernet cable from the IPTV box. Once I do that, my ping to the router drops below 1 ms and everything loads normally again.

I've already tried different router ports and other troubleshooting steps, but I haven't found a permanent solution. I'm now installing Wireshark to see if I can identify anything unusual about the network traffic.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Could this be an issue with the router's IPTV/multicast handling, IGMP snooping, a faulty IPTV box, or the router itself?

Would replacing the router likely solve this, or should I investigate something else first? I'm open to suggestions for diagnosing the root cause and finding a permanent fix.

Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=862ms TTL=64

Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=632ms TTL=64

Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=471ms TTL=64

Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=442ms TTL=64

Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=269ms TTL=64

Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=133ms TTL=64

Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=55ms TTL=64

Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=64

Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=64

Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=51ms TTL=64

Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=64

Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=64

Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=64

I live alone in a rented apartment and my router shows four currently connected devices. I can account for only three of them: my iPhone, MacBook and Samsung Smart TV. As far as I know, I don’t have any other Wi-Fi devices. I’m also the first person to ever live here, so it’s a little unnerving. The router is a FiberHome SR1041Y.

The fourth device shows up as:

MAC: 14:13:33:6E:78:C5
Hostname: 1413336e78c5
Band: 2.4 GHz
Standard: 802.11n
Link speed: 6 Mbps
RSSI: around -51 dBm

OUI lookup: AzureWave Technology Inc.

The router showed it as currently connected today, with roughly 8 hours of session time when I checked.
The device has no webpage at its local IP.

What would be the best way to identify the actual hardware before I block it/change my WiFi password? Could this be a surveillance device, or is there anything in the connection details that points toward something more ordinary?

I got a bunch of these from work after they were replaced. Some have 8 ports, some have 24. There's no manufacturer name anywhere and the web UI is pretty terrible. Are they any good?

Hello,

I've been trying to get wireless pcvr to work with a Sagecom f-3896 wifi 6 router as a Wi-FI access point for my gaming pc to stream wireless pcvr. however as seen with iperf3, there is constant packet loss on every package coming from pc to client, but not the other way around.

Wired connection to the router provides stable lossless 1G both ways, and wireless router-to-client has throughput over 750/850Mb/s. Wireless ping to the router is around 2-3ms, deviation under 0.5ms. signal strength is -33dB and there is direct line of sight to the router. both the 5 and 2.4Ghz radios present the same packet loss. I'm out of ideas what to try next. maybe a different access point? The router is close to roof height on top of my rack, but moving it ~ 0,5m away from the rack didn't give different results. Client is within 3m of the router.

i have tested different wifi channels and widths which provide different bandwiths but none under 0.5% packet loss. I have gone through every setting i can think of from the router, albeit its an isp provided one so quite limiting. Wifi 5 vs 6 gives same loss, "Airtime Fairness" does nothing. There are no other devices connected to the router than the pc (wired) and the client (wireless).

this is an example output from iperf3 with the packet loss at 1.3% at a sensible bitrate for streaming vr. Every package has consistent loss from pc to client; not a single package has 0% loss. The test have been run on an i7 Thinkpad T14 Gen. 3.

[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Jitter Lost/Total Datagrams

[ 4] 0.00-10.01 sec 179 MBytes 150 Mbits/sec 0.000 ms 0/129459 (0%) sender

[SUM] 0.0-10.0 sec 3627 datagrams received out-of-order

[ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 176 MBytes 148 Mbits/sec 0.022 ms 1655/129459 (1.3%) receiver

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! :D

Ok so here's my dilemma, perviously I used the Nord suite of apps, NordVPN (Configured in my Flint 2 Router, and also running on my phone), and Nord pass for passwords etc.

I have recently setup Nextcloud and Immich on my Unraid server and have them working nicely through tailscale so I can connect with the corresponding apps on my phone.

Problem I now have is that I connot use Nordvpn on my phone whilst also using tailscale.

Anyone have any suggestions, I have stumbled on Mullvad that integrates with tailscale, but any advice from folk that have experience or solved a similar issue.

Thanks

Hello,

I have a problem with hosting any kinds of servers on my PC, and I can't find a way to troubleshoot it.

Some things first about me and my system, is that I have very little experience in network management specifically. I'd say I have a developed understanding of computers and software, but just not anything that involves internet. I'm running Arch Linux on a personal computer, NetworkManager with iwd backend and ufw firewall.

I've previously managed to successfully host a QLDS server, and a Minecraft Java server over the internet (Open port -> launch server, it was pretty straightforward). But after reinstalling my system (Archlinux again) they seem to have stopped receiving nor sending any public traffic, and can only connect locally. I still have the same IP address and the same ports forwarded on my router. Not very proud of it but I have tried to vibetroubleshoot it with an AI like Claude, which didn't bring any results.

I'm kind of stumped of where to even begin or look, and could really use some navigation. Would appreciate it lots, thanks.