mudmanc4

@ mudmanc4,
This is the post I found the YouTube link in.
 
If you don't know the arrow in the upper right corner takes you to the post.
 
I should have said I am also saddened by Richard's passing.
I had a lot of fun with the movie quote topic with him.
Other topics as well.
Richard's birthday was one day later than mine but 4 years earlier.

Wel that was fast , gonna try out right now

I hope everyone enjoyed Family, football and food. 
 
Peace

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Same from me .
God bless all of you.
Don't eat until you explode.
 
 
 

To you's & your family!  
 

I've been loosely following this thread. Not read it all. Keeping this in mind..........
 
Everything Microsoft has very serious fatal issues. I left Windows after they torched NT/ 2k , everything since stinks on ice with a laser show, on the best brand new shiny hardware with the latest in connection technology. Although I am still forced to deal with it.
 
MS Enterprise is a dumpster fire behind a back water New York City greasy spoon on life support with krok'd out staff.
 
Now that this is out of the way and likely has nothing to do with the topic .........
 
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No idea if this has been mentioned in this thread so forgive me, if it were me, first thing I might do is remove all possible hops on internal network.
 
Remove any and all 'other' devices from the local network.
Test different times of the day in that setup.
 
I would chill, because I have been around the Sun enough times to know the likelihood of my systems achieving what any ISP sells me are slim. And make the best of what I can do with what I have been granted. Paying for or not.
 
Aside this, if I require a 1 gig service to be 1 gig constantly, then I would get setup with a business account, because I would never fully utilize 1 Gig in my residence unless I was testing for it. Not the way streaming media is setup. Not the way anything residential is setup as far as I am aware.
 
I might go find a local acquaintance and setup an iPerf server between.  

After a couple years the blue LED in the AP-Pro's withered to a mere shadow, not that this really matters for functionality, but it does. It's a status report.
 
Anyway I searched around to find the next size up from the 0603 which appear to be the original size, both the 0805 and the 0603 rates ~3v@ 20Ma. I opted to use the larger of the two. The size of the 0805 claims 2/1.25/.8 mm, where the 0603 sits 1.6/.8/.6
 

 
For reference here is the 0805 in my hand , and on a Lowe's gift card. The Anode (+) is the green mark.
 
 

 
 
The job could have used a solder tip 1/4 of the smallest size I had which was ~1.5mm, as well the solder could have been 0.3mm Vs. 0.6mm
 
 
 

 
 
The blue LED is located at 'D11', the white is 'D12'
 

 
Below is the before and after replacement of the LED's The new LED floods the lens.
 
 

 
 
At any rate, it was more difficult to spudge the cases open than the LED's were to replace. There is a  small amount of silicone type compund around the rim, and three interlocking standoffs on the case. Snapped back together as if they were happy.
 
Before / after
 

 
This whole thing started after running a CT of Unifi for the controller. They use a version of MariaDB that is no longer maintained, therefore the base OS cannot be updated without hacking together a system. There is a shell script someone came up with that Ubiquity is linking to, I was not entertained. Considering I've used the container to manage the AP's for a while I was ready to update some hardware. 
 
The UDM-SE wants to live in front of everything else, considering I'm a PfSense user, that was not going to happen.  I gave it it's own physical LAN port on the Netgate 4100 in it's own VLAN, chose to set the DHCP to relay, nothing I've done so far allows the IP's the DHCP server in PfSense lease to the AP clients, to pass data through the UDM. Spanning tree refused to allow me entry to the UDM when setup this way. Turning off RSTP allowed access to UDM (but only from connecting to the UDM.) Loving level2.
 
I'll need to segregate and run a PCAP while a client.
 
So for now the UDM sits on the side in it's own VLAN corner, serving IP's to clients in it's own subnet. The double NAT doesn't seem to effect throughput by any noticeable difference.
 

 
 

Hello rebrecs, good to see you're still visiting!
 
When you run a speed test it generates random information.  This information is cleared from your cache as soon as the test is complete.
 
Nothing is stored on your device and all data sent to testmy.net (e.g. during an upload test) is randomly generated fake information.
 
Actually, I recently tested the operation to ensure this is still working properly.  By watching the browser's cache folder size during the test you can see its size increase and then sharply drop off after the test completes.  Giving back all of the temporary storage used during the test.
 

I went ahead with the ASUS RT-AX82U AX5400
 
Great price on that open box, It's for my Dad, updating from an older netgear, where they don't have all that many devices.
 
If this thing gives him trouble I'll mimic my home network to some extent.

Personally, I always use Netgear.
 
I might try the RAX30 -- on sale for $130 right now https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-Nighthawk-5-Stream-Router-RAX30/dp/B09BK8PM1M/ -- get a used one fro $84.
 
For mesh, I have one of the early Orbi systems.  Very reliable.  I haven't seen any reason to upgrade.  Got my 10G network on the side so I use it more for wifi and base level router.
 
RBR50 and RBS50 go for less than $80 on eBay.  RBR50 is the router and RBS50 is the satellite unit.  If I had a lot of square feet to cover and wanted nice reliable wifi across the entire area I'd definitely get these again.
 
Significant leaps have been made since but to get the same coverage with an AX system will cost WAY more.  And do you really need it?
 
Personally, my fastest devices are all hardwired.  I don't care as much about wifi.  Wifi I have is fast enough and works reliably.  I value reliability and consistency most.
 
I recently went to my brother-in-law's who has fiber and wifi6.  It was cool, extremely fast right in his main area.  But then I go upstairs and was getting much slower speed, I mean I was directly above the router, just the floor blocking. 
 
I'd rather cover my entire home with a slower stable connection than have one hot spot and a variable/poor connection everywhere else.  Especially if I can save money at the same time.
 
To be clear, he has a decent connection everywhere, I just think an RBR50 and RBS50 would cover it better for less money.  And for most people's daily use... they'd never tell the difference, speed wise.
 
Hell, get the RBR50 and RBS50... then connect a used RAX30 for wifi6 capabilities for the (near by) devices you want to be really fast.  Probably get all 3 on the secondary market for like $220.
 
Bang for your buck.

Yo,  I'm looking for thoughts and infos on wireless routers, maybe mesh, maybe wifi 6 , help me decide.
 
 

Thank you Fred,
 
Yes, I'm the developer behind all of TestMy.net. I taught myself how to program just so I could build this... and am still learning, every day well over 20 years later. I've had to become an expert in many fields to run this. Programming is just one aspect. Happens to be my favorite one and I wish I could just focus on that. Maybe one day.
 
I look forward to you seeing TestMy.net grow too. The new tools I'm brewing up right now are many years in the making and I can't wait to share them with everyone.
 
- Damon

I just thought I'd post something to see if anybody's looking at this forum.
I'm still using AT&T. It serves my needs. I don't ever use but 10% of what's available to me...
 
phred

Do you want to upgrade to windows 11, but like me your pc "doesn't qualify"  because of various reasons?  We have a fix. 
My pc missed qualification by a few generations of CPU. Everything else passed. Luckly i found this video! Hope it helps, and remember, as with any OS install, do @ your own risk. 
 
SIDE NOTE!   Use a USB drive to do the windows update; Mine failed mid install trying via SSD & almost bricked my system. Luckly, windows recovered. 
 
 
Total Time: Varies ( 30 min for me)
Difficulty: Moderate
Risk level: Moderate; depends on your PC/OS knowledge; 
 
Watch the video, & if it makes sense to you, I'd strongly recommend.  
 
 
 

 
 
Link: 
 
 

Ha! I remember when Tommie and I would race to get our post counts up 😆
 
Wasn't too long before there was no way forward for me to catch up to him.
 
We had our differences , but thats the way it goes sometimes, he’s one that would speak his mind and I liked that about him. 
 
 

Ha! I remember when Tommie and I would race to get our post counts up 😆
 
Wasn't too long before there was no way forward for me to catch up to him.
 
We had our differences , but thats the way it goes sometimes, he’s one that would speak his mind and I liked that about him. 
 
 

How did I possibly miss this! I'll marinate on this for a minute.
 
What happened ? Can we go there ?

Everyone is doing well here still kickin around just no screamin.
 
Sorry for not answering if you messaged on FB, lost access a couple years ago.
 
Seems like every week we lose someone else, guess that happens as we get older. 
 
Hope everyone good on your end !
 
 

I just wanted to say hello. I've been using TestMy.net for quite a while. I decided to check out the forums today. I don't know if I signed up correctly. Will find out eventually...
After I read through the forum some, I'll post something.
 
Best regards,
 
phredtx

IG it's not too terrible for an area that's horribly overprovisioned. 
 
 

DANG!
 
If that's what you get in "an area that's horribly overprovisioned." -- sign me up!
 
Sorry I'm slow to respond dude, been consumed with building a couple of ZFS servers on the backend. It's a process, that's just about complete.

Hey all. Just wanted to say a big thank you to the creators and maintainers of testmy.net.
 
I live in Jamaica and we don't have fast or quality internet service here unless you live in the more populated areas. Where I live there are no physical internet connections available so I've had to use fixed wireless options for years. I've been through every single one that's been available and your speed test has helped keep my sanity. Basically all of them have tried to send me to the sites that make them shine and make me look like the crazy unreasonable customer.
 
My current provider just upgraded my package after almost 15 years and wanted me to do daily speed tests to make sure everything was fine. They told me to use openspeedtest.com and I told them I would use testmy.net instead (been using you for years and loving it, THANK YOU again) but they said they wanted to measure jitter as well so I relented. Well, after a while I  noticed the connection was acting up and while testmy.net gave me the real world, openspeedtest.com was giving results saying I had full speed and nothing was wrong.
 
To cut a long story short, after 2 months of telling them something was wrong and trying to convince them to use testmy.net instead, they have finally relented and admitted there's a problem  on their network. So thank you again to each and every one of you who has and anything to do with this site. Please continue to do what you do and fight for the little guy.
 
Much appreciated.

Still working on this, will update in a few days.

I'm lurkin' too. Reconfiguring my server cluster for high availability. Some pretty killer backend upgrades. Pretty sweet, all coming together nicely.
 
You may be able to notice when the site has migrated to the new setup. Some really heavy database queries in testing are returning at least twice as fast as they currently do. In the latest configuration I'm running directly off 100% Optane memory. I swear, it's alien technology.
 
It's not about how fast it is, there's faster (on paper, if only scratching the surface -- totally different story in the real-world) -- but it's at what queue depth that matters. And there are NAND drives out there that perform amazing. But what none of them have compared to Optane...
 
Optane can write directly to memory without the need for DRAM cache, it's THAT fast Optane doesn't need to first erase the cell before writing Optane has nearly unlimited write endurance Optane loses no performance as the drive fills up Optane does not require trim (goes on and on really) -- it's in between RAM and NAND  
For my workload it feels the same as going from HDD to solid state. Or from solid state to raid-10 solid state. It's that big of a difference, mind blowing really. Over just a few days of testing I thrashed it with about 60 TB of data and it never broke a sweat -- literally, the drive didn't fluctuate in temp.
 
SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02) Critical Warning: 0x00 Temperature: 40 Celsius Available Spare: 100% Available Spare Threshold: 0% Percentage Used: 0% Data Units Read: 48,816,551 [24.9 TB] Data Units Written: 105,693,840 [54.1 TB] Host Read Commands: 937,508,694 Host Write Commands: 1,177,333,140  
It just sits there at 40°C like, "Is that really all you've got? Do you realize who I am? HIT ME! I DARE YOU! This is my idle temp FOO!"
 
 -- in other words, it's bad ass. It's a different kind of memory entirely.
 
Old but relevant video describing 3D XPoint (cross point)