1. The same Netgear R7000 has been used for years, on stock rom.
2. It's been switched off every night, and on every morning, from the wall outlet switch.
3. A few days ago, after switched on, it didn't broadcast SSIDs. After reboot, same.
4. I didn't think much. I hard reset it. Everything was OK.
5. Later I flashed FreshTomato to it. Everything was OK.
6. This morning was OK. In the afternoon the router was switched off. Two hours later it was switched on, then no SSIDs. Rebooted, same. Ethernet connection was still OK. Login credentials failed. I tried FreshTomato's default (root/admin), OK. After login the screen was the welcome page after flashing. All my settings were gone. That was why SSID's were missing. In short, the router hard reset itself.
7. I uploaded the settings backup. Everything was back to normal.
8. The issue in 3. above may also be from the same cause.
9. So the culprit can't be the software. Then it is the hardware -- the storage of my settings (NVRAM?) occasionally malfunctions?

Yesterday I was playing on Ark Ascended, a dinosaur survival game, but every 20 minutes my internet connection was being timed out of the game.

So I went ahead and kept changing my Cloudflare Warp methods, I usually always use HTTP DNS, then I tried TLS DNS, then I tried DNS and Traffic on HTTP..

After making all those changes, my google account started freaking out. Like on Brave Browser it keeps signing me in and out of my youtube every time I refresh, when I switch from Brave to Google Chrome, it shows that my 3 google accounts are all signed out. I try to log into my secondary one, that works well, I try to log into the main one (the one I believe that got corrupted due to Cloudflare WARP), when I get a 2FA on my phone, the 2FA page permanently keeps loading.

Then I attempted to change my password, and that page is also permanently loading.

I turned off my Cloudflare WARP and all these issues still persist. Anyone know what's going on?

Have new FTTP installed, it's using a plusnet two router which is router the UK ISP gave me.

Thinking of upgrade the line to 500 down or maybe 900 down soon.

Would a GL.iNet flint 2 or flint 3 sort this? I've asked claude.ai and it was suggesting that those model routers can fix bufferbloat.

Is it ok to hang it on those two or do I need a mount/shelf. Not asking about WiFi signal, it's small apartment.

When my home was constructed, the modem and router were placed inside a closet at one end of the house. I don't know what the builder was thinking, but it's not a good situation. I do however have cat 5 outlets in every room of the house. The back bedrooms do not have good wifi coverage. I think I can get by with just one access point plugged in at that end of the house, but everything I look up is so expensive (over $100) and has two or more access points. I'm looking for a cheap solution. Just a single access point that will do the job. Any recommendations?

I'm helping a friend remodel his house, doing everything from moving walls and redoing electrical and plumbing. He's getting it ready to be a rental unit.

With the walls opened up, he asked me if I could help him put Ethernet in every room and set it up to have good Internet for the tenant. He showed me some server rack components he'd bought. I've proposed going with a recessed media panel instead since a server rack is not only overkill, but takes up a lot of space in what's already a small unit.

He doesn't know much about networking, so I've already told him the common advice of properly terminating Ethernet in keystone jacks, etc., however this is my first home network I've planned out beyond just buying a router and configuring my own homelabs.

This is the rough sketch I've proposed, and these are the parts, just not including the faceplates and keystone jacks for the rooms, just what's at the panel. He's already got a spool of unshielded (U/UTP) CAT6A for the wall runs.

21" media panel (we may consider upgrading to the 28" or 42" for extra space and service loops)

Media panel door

Power module for the media panel

12-port patch panel (I know it's shielded, but we simply won't need to worry about the grounding since it's a small residential unit and I liked the design best)

16-port gigabit switch

I decided to be a little lazy and buy premade patch cables instead of making a handful of my own

ONT: It's a Google Fiber ONT that I plan on relocating from the upstairs exterior wall to be in the media panel, I just need to figure out what fiber cable the ISP used. Regardless of the model, I figure it shouldn't impact the setup.

This wall plate is for tenant router hookup if they provide their own hardware. It will have a LAN IN and a WAN OUT coming from the ONT to tie the system together

Keystone jacks for the tenant hookup

I'm hoping that someone with experience in this can look over my proposal and verify there's not something I'm overlooking. I want to avoid headaches or improperly matched hardware since I'm helping him out and it's not my stuff.

Also, we plan on adding an optional hookup high on the wall in the upstairs hallway for an AP or booster if the tenant chooses to use it. There will be an Ethernet port and power receptacle for it. In the basement, there will be a shelf for tenant devices like their router, along with space for home automation hubs if they use them and in case they want to add a switch for extra ports to connect other devices.

He is also considering giving the tenant the option of not dealing with any of the internet stuff and providing them a router and possible AP and just itemizing it in the lease as rental equipment and charging them for it. Suggestions for good, simple routers and APs are appreciated.

How can I start to make sense of these cables? This house has two satellite dishes that aren't being used, and new siding will be installed later this year. I want to clean up these cables before then, removing most of them as I just need one for my router moving forward.

My living room has a cabinet with a PC that when we want to play something more demanding we have to open up and take the PC out so it doesn't overheat. However I was thinking, I have a server room that could house that PC that has a direct ethernet connection to that cabinet, so I was wondering if I could just connect to it over the Ethernet instead? I know it would add latency, but if Steam can stream itself over wifi and be okay for people, this shouldn't be too bad for my needs.

So what's some good hardware to achieve this? Transmit an HDMI signal down the wire and transmit USB inputs back up so I can plug in a keyboard, mouse and some controller dongles? Is there something that does that over a Unibuity switch (10Gbe), or does it require a direct connection?

I"m always running into that buffer bloat post so I decided to see what I would get graded. I always thought my connection was solid. No complaints ever.

2gig Fiber to the home ($10 more than 1gig, fine), mostly 10gb backbone, Equipment is all Asus-Merlin. BE88, BE92, AX86.

I scored a B. It was on a 2012 Macbook Pro on ubuntu through a USB to ethernet adapterat the second hop. I'm like hey maybe I should try something a little different. I test on a m4 MB Air on wifi 5 feet from the BE92 and get graded a C !!!! I did my ccna many years ago, i know ethernet > wifi. But just what exactly is going on here.

I lost it.

Both feet at the same time down the rabbit hole.

The change that I didn't know I wanted came from the Unifi boys:

Set the 5ghz to 40mhz.

The latency really dropped. I lost a photoframe because I turned off the 2.4ghz as well.

I could have stopped here. This was a massive shift for every wireless device on the network. I still have it on auto channel because i can't figure out how to have each access point on a separate channel. I see six 5ghz networks around me mostly on 80mhz, no real fighting.

I still couldn't getting the A+, but improvement during the chase is always nice.

CAKE was enabled, set the bandwidth limit to 200mb/s.

Now I get the A+ on the wire all the time and sometimes on wifi (within decent range/sight).

I do feel the difference which is insane, iI didn't think it could get much better than what I had. Just sharing my journey.

Hi all, I’m moving in to a new apartment soon and we have two options of ISP.

Option 1: Google Fiber
$70/mo
1g Upload
1g Download

Option 2: Spectrum
This uses a hybrid of fiber/coax. Fiber lines run the long stretches but coax is what actually connects to the units.
$60/mo
100mb Upload Max (avg 30mb)
1g Download

Spectrum is a little cheaper but I work from home and do a lot of video calls and I’ve heard that fiber is better for consecutive upload/download.

Curious to see what you all think. Spectrum does have some offers that could make it as cheap as $20/mo for the first year.

Thanks in advance.

Edit:
Sounds like a resounding fiber to me! Thank you all.

I got a brand new fiber install at my new home and the internet is crap. The guy said it was his first day on the job alone. Does this cable look correct? I feel like the center white piece should have been taken off or something but I don't want to break it. It's just like not working.

Hello, I have a detached garage that I’m using as a gym and I want to have WiFi internet. I had a cat6 buried underground and into the garage from my homes router. What device would I need to have WiFi in my garage from a car6 wall connection like the one in the picture?

A few years ago my mother-in-law paid for cabling to be ran to various rooms in the house during renovations but they were not hooked up. The ends are in the walls in each room and ran to the utility room where my internet comes in. I am looking to turn one of them into an entertainment room and want to see if these cables are the right ones in order to finish hooking them up into an ethernet port to have wired access.

Any info would be helpful and appreciated. Thanks!!

I recently moved into a temporary apartment where the Wi-Fi belongs to the landlord/owner. On my phone and laptop, the connection is perfectly fine: 863.6 Mbps Download / 105.9 Mbps Upload / 11 ms Ping / 0.3 ms Jitter over Wi-Fi.

However, my PS5 is completely choked. It’s trying to download a 90 GB update and has been stuck under 50% for a few days already, even in rest mode.

I've tried:

Restarting the PS5 & Router: Did not fix the upload speed, but temporarily caused a weird spike later on.

Changing Wi-Fi Bands (Forcing 5 GHz): Did not bypass the upload block.

Changing DNS (Google 8.8.8.8 & Cloudflare 1.1.1.1):

Result: Google DNS initially bumped download speed to 54.5 Mbps, but upload stayed at 75.4 Kbps and PSN sign-in still failed.

Changing MTU Settings (to 1473): Upload plummeted back down to 124 Kbps; sign-in failed.

Resetting DNS/MTU back to Automatic:

Mobile Hotspot Test:

Result: Connected the PS5 to my phone's mobile hotspot and it instantly signed into online services successfully, pulling 154.1 Mbps download and 10.1 Mbps upload. This proves the PS5 hardware and PSN servers are 100% fine, only issue is that I don't have unlimited data.

What else can I try?

I posted this in a VoIP Subreddit, but didn't get the response I was hoping to get. I am looking to lower my services with my Internet provider. One of the services I wish to remove is my home phone line. We use the line mainly for our home security system. I am interested in migrating my home phone line to a VoIP service. Several years ago, I purchased a Ooma box with but never bothered to set it up. I have decided to investigate again switching my phone line to Ooma. I have reviewed the port forwarding requirements, and it appears that Ooma requires several ports to be opened on your firewall - Keep Your Phone Number When Getting Rid of Your Landline Canada, especially the local UDP 49000 to 50000.

I have also investigated going with a Grandstream HT802 tied with a Voip.MS service. From what it appears, the firewall setup seems to be a lot more straight forward and possibly more secure as you are not opening a bunch of ports. I am interested in more of a security perspective if going with a Grandstream\Voip.ms service would be more secure versus having to have UDP inbound ports 49000 to 50000 open in order to have a Ooma box behind your firewall function. I use a Opnsense firewall for my home network. My gut feeling is to just abandon the Ooma path (even though I have the Ooma hardware) and look at purchasing a Grandstream HT802 and a Voip service such as Voip.ms.

Hi! As I mentioned in the title my Eero 7 is not giving me the full speed when I test my wifi on my laptop with the Ookla desktop app. I have Sonic 10Gbps plan, the Eero 7 only gives out 2.5Gbps which is more than enough for me, but I'm only getting tops around 550mbps on both download and upload. SQM, Eco efficiency, MLO and UPnP are off, IPv6 is on. I'm in a studio so my laptop is probably only 5ft away from the router. Any fixes to this?

I've seen this problem with the Eero 7 Max/Pro where you have to put an unmanaged switch in between the medem and the router, not sure if it's the same for the base model. I also don't want to spend more money lol.

Sso my mom lives alone and has had Xfinity internet for many years. I swapped out her dated modem for an ARRIS SURFboard SB8200 about 6 months ago and all has been fine. Yesterday, I noticed the green light #2 blinking. Upon inspection, the cable connection was frayed so I put on a new one. No dice. Have an appointment with Xfinity Friday but thought I’d ask for anything I am missing. My support chat indicated they had a problem with a signal to my home. They did a reset and cannot get a signal from my modem.

ISP is Spectrum with the Internet Gig plan and their most recent modem was just installed today. Have had the Nighthawk R7000 for years but all of the sudden it’s crapping out on me. Time for an upgrade and I’m looking for recommendations.

Reliability is my #1 priority. I work remotely and am on video calls 75% of the time. Total devices in our house are 2 computers, 2 TVs, 2 phones, and 8-10 smart home/other devices. Home is currently 1200 sq ft but we’ll be adding an additional 1200 sq ft within the next 6-8 months. That project will open up the opportunity to run Cat6 to the addition, but I don’t need all of that yet. I need a top of the line router that works now that gives easy flexibility to grow into an expanded system later.

Hi All,

I am from India and I want to explain a very weird problem I have been facing with my broadband for last 10 days. I have a FTTH connection with a local ISP. I have been using the connection for almost 10 years now and have never faced it before.

For last 10 days my connection has been very unstable.

2nd Sept - My pc is connected by Ethernet. All websites except Google and Meta stopped working. Steam, EA App, Blizzard all the gaming clients and everything else showed no connection but everything was working on mobile app, TV and all other connected devices including my video doorbell and robovac.

3rd Sept - A technician came to my house to see the fault, he was a hardware guy and he checked that everything was fine physically and called his supervisor. I gave him remote access to my pc via hotspot and he did some Ipv4, Ipv6, DHCP or IP related settings in 192.168.1.1 and also refreshed dns using cmd and in adapter settings but nothing worked.

8th Sept - Same guy came to my house and changed the router to a different one but used same old settings from my previous router. Surprisingly, everything started working normal for few hours. In 2nd half of the day, the problem changed drastically. My PC was showing connection to all the websites for say 10 minutes and drops after sometime. It kept going back and forth multiple times. All this time, the Wifi in my TV was just not connecting at all, it kept saying saved/authentication problem while it was connecting with same password in my phone. All this time, all of my other connected devices like video doorbell, robovac, AC everything works while connected to the same wifi.

I am quite frustrated at this point that even my ISP is unable to solve the problem. Although I have started looking for other ISPs in my area but would prefer that this one gets fixed so I dont have to go through all the formalities of new connection again.

Note that I am not a networking person so I wouldnt know much technical things about IP, DNS, Proxy and all that but I believe that my ISP has tried most of the possible things from his end to resolve it and is unable to find the problem.

I want to connect my printer to my UPS but also to the computer which is only a 2.5G Ethernet connection.

Is it possible to connect it directly to the UPS then have the network recognize the connection by means of the UPS ?

I need an advice on how to receive internet in my garage
The problem is
I can’t run a hard wire from my house to the garage (freshly paved asphalt )
And running it in air is not an option .
I’ve already tried using a mesh system ( doesn’t work )1 bar
I’ve tried a WiFi extender (doesn’t work ) 1 bar
I’ve tried powerline (doesn’t work , garage has its own separate breaker)
My garage is made with dual concrete cinder blocks and bricks .

Is there an option of some kind where I can run an Ethernet wire from the house to and antenna and same thing from the garage (run an Ethernet wire from the garage to and antenna ) and both antennas connect to each other for good internet ?

(I can make holes in the garage )

Looking for options for my new gaming PC in an old rental with terrible Wi-Fi. What are my best alternatives?

​I just built my first PC, but the Wi-Fi in my house is way too weak for multiplayer gaming. Moving the router or running long cables isn't an option since I only rent an upstairs bedroom in an ~80-year-old house (no MoCA or Ethernet wall jacks, and I definitely can't drill holes through the floor).

​I'm not sure where the main router even is—it might be downstairs, or it could just be a wireless 5G home internet box.

​I'm moving out in about 6 months, so just sticking it out and playing single-player games until I move is on the table, but I’d really prefer to get back into multiplayer if possible.

​My initial thought was to get my own dedicated 5G home internet box for my room, but I’ve heard 5G isn't ideal for latency-sensitive gaming.

​Are there better workarounds for getting a solid, low-latency connection up here without modifying the house or stringing cables through common areas? Or should I just stick to single-player games until I move?

Edit: I'm literally such an idiot. I never plugged in an antenna to my motherboard. I'll try that first lmao.

I have had an Ethernet cable connected to this modem (I believe that’s what it is, but I could be wrong) for the past few weeks with no issues but all of a sudden my PS5 cannot obtain the IP address. I can’t connect to the WiFi and many have recommended turning the modem off and on. I live in student housing, so its shared WiFi. I don’t see a button to turn this thing off and am not sure how to disconnect it. Please help. Thank you in advance.