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?

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!

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.

I've always used an Asus AX6600 mesh at home. I've always used a wirless back end but it isn't great.

I'm goping to get cat 6 cable wired to 4 points in the house and may get more in the future. I just want a simple 2.5 Gbps network switch to take a cable to each access point and then I will set up my mesh with a wired backhaul.

My setup will be Modem -> switch ->seperate cable to each access point and then will plug in my 4 x AX6600s. Will that work? Is it that simple? I found this switch for £40. "UGREEN 8 Port 2.5Gbps Unmanaged Network Switch Hub". My use case is downloading big files (games) and streaming video and music. nothing crazy. Thanks

Hi all,

I am trying to plan Ethernet drops for a new home and I am a bit confused on if this is feasible.

The ONT will be coming into the basement, and this is also where all the Ethernet drops will terminate. One of these Ethernet drops run up to the main floor where the router will sit.

As per my understanding, I assumed I would need a second Ethernet drop by the router to go back down via LAN to the network switch that would sit by the ONT.

But I was told it may be possible to first connect the ONT to a switch and then go to the router, and all the other drops connect to the switch as well, reducing the need for the extra Ethernet drop from the router back down to the ONT.

Is the ONT —> Switch —> Router possible?

Hey,

I currently have a TP Link Archer AX73 as my main router on one side of the apartment and also an ASUS RT-AX1800U that is set up as an Access Point in the middle of the apartment. This covers the area well with no real wifi deadspots right now, but given the fact that my main router is in an electricity panel box on the entrance, and the AP is in the middle of the flat (~4m away, 1.5 ish walls between), I do experience 1 slight problem. Whenever I go from my working room (which is right by the entrance and therefore connected to the main router) and towards the main area/other rooms, my scrolling laggs - the WiFi name and password is the same but they still break whenever I am moving around.

My question is whether or not I should:

A) Replace AP, disable Wifi on main router and set up something like TP Link Deco X20 (2 of them) for a Mesh system
B) Replace AP with 1-2 TP Link Wifi range extenders (i.e. RE705X)
C) Possible fix available without spending a dime.

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

Why can’t people be more careful when putting drywall in The wire was well sealed and secured 🤔🙁

I'd really like to know if it's possible to enable QoS on a Huawei CPE H155-383 router. It seems to be disabled or restricted by the ISP. I've tried methods like Telnet before, but the port is closed and I can't open it. Are there other methods I'm not aware of? Thank you.

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

I have a very specific need. I have one device located out at the street outside my house. That device has an external antenna for which I have made a beer can reflector. Don't laugh as it actually seems to have improved things with RSSI going from -70 or -72 to - 66 or -65. But I wonder if I can still improve on things...

My router is an Asus GS-AX3000 and I really like it. The one thing I wish it had was removable antenna. In fact, I tried out a newer model and found that, while it did offer removable antenna, it not one whit better than the old router (a bit worse actually), so returned it. I have the router placed over 6 feet off the ground and with one of its antennae pointed as far as I can towards and angled to the outdoor antenna position (see red arrow). Even this minor angling made a difference - not much but...

I recently noticed a number of reflector products supposedly for drone use similar to this and this. I suspect that to use one, I would have to modify the hole where it slips on but that seems possible. The question is, is this likely to make any difference? I have no idea about drones.

Thanks!

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!

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

Hi all, looking for advice from anyone running a U5G Max with a UCG Max.

My setup - UCG Max as the gateway - U5G Max with two SIMs (Eir and Vodafone, set to failover) - Cisco Catalyst 3750X-24P (managed, PoE+) that all my devices hang off - Express 7 AP on UCG port 3 and a Mac Studio on port 4 - Two cables from the UCG to the switch: port 2 and port 5

What I was seeing Under Internet in UniFi I had 3 WANs listed: WAN1 (port 1, nothing plugged in), a WAN2 I created on port 5, and "UniFi 5G". The U5G Max is powered by the switch (PoE) and sits on my main LAN with a static IP. I assumed it needed its own WAN port on the UCG, but I couldn't set port 5 as WAN because it was one of my two links to the switch, and I didn't want to lose the switch.

What I tried I made an isolated VLAN (99) on the Cisco switch with only two ports in it. One port went to the 5G Max and the other went to UCG port 5, which I set to WAN2. I also moved the switch uplink to a single trunk on UCG port 2. The switch side looked fine. Both MACs showed up in VLAN 99 and PoE was on.

But WAN2 never got an IP and the U5G Max showed as unreachable in UniFi. I had no internet until I put the 5G Max back on the normal LAN VLAN.

What I found afterwards Looking at the UCG, it already talks to the U5G Max over the LAN through a GRE tunnel, and that tunnel is the "UniFi 5G" WAN. So my isolated VLAN cut the tunnel. As far as I can tell the 5G Max doesn't hand out an IP on its Ethernet port like a normal modem, so a WAN port has nothing to get an address from.

What I actually want My servers use a lot of bandwidth and I'd like them on one connection so they can't bottleneck the rest of the house, with home devices on a different one. I know about policy based routing in UniFi, but I need two real WANs for that.

Questions 1. Is it supported to plug a U5G Max directly into a UCG WAN port (with a PoE injector) and have it work as a WAN? Or does it have to be on a LAN network? 2. If the LAN and GRE method is the only way, what would you use as a second WAN for the split?

Thanks in advance. Happy to share more details or screenshots if it helps.

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.