Any ideas when/if TMobile can widen n41 in Orange County, NY?
Or even if they can add their C-band to sites here? I'm in Monroe, NY.
Or even if they can add their C-band to sites here? I'm in Monroe, NY.
Incredible what a good antenna and placement can do.
He was extremely close to me most of the time he was behind me, with a few times when I stopped at a stop sign he couldn't have been more than a foot or 2 behind me. He could have easily hit me as well as the oncoming car.
Wanted to share my completed 5G setup now that I finally have it dialed in. I have a direct line of sight to a T-Mobile tower about a mile away on a ridge, but keeping the gateway indoors just wasn’t cutting it for the performance I wanted. I decided to move the entire setup outside to see what it could actually do, which meant sourcing the parts and building a custom enclosure layout myself.
The Hardware:
How I routed it: Instead of running long, lossy coax lines inside the house, I mounted the NEMA box right under the antenna so the leads are as short as possible. From the box, I ran a 40ft outdoor-rated, shielded Cat6 cable down the siding and straight into my network rack inside. That single ethernet cable handles the 2.5Gbps data link and carries the power via a passive PoE injector inside the house.
The Results: I’m now consistently approaching 1Gig download speeds and hovering right around 100Mbps on the upload.
If you notice the ping is a little higher than normal, it's because I’m running a static IP in SA mode, which routes everything through the Charlotte data center even though I'm up in NY. Latency isn't really a concern for us anyway—the kids can max out Steam downloads at near-gigabit speeds and my daily work calls are completely flawless.
I also have a 1Gig/35Mbps cable line as a backup, and getting nearly 3x the upload speed completely over the air is just crazy.
If anyone has questions about drilling the gland, the enclosure setup, or the band configurations, let me know!
Has anyone seen this before? I have Bazzite installed on a brand new built gaming PC my son and I put together. Everything works, no issues there, but... Bazzite had a steam update, and it booted to desktop mode to update even though I have this setup in "console" gaming mode. Upon reboot, it went back to the console gaming mode, but all our accounts were signed out.
I noticed something recently. I have two WANS. One is 1gig down/35Mbps up and the other ranges from 600 to 800Mbps down and hovers around 80Mbps up.
In sqm with it being on, FQ as the type and adaptive as the mode, putting in the speeds of both WANS, devices that I have routing over the WAN with the faster upload never went over 32Mbps I noticed.
I changed the mode to static with no rules in place, and it seems to not rate limit the upload now.
I guess I’m wondering, how do I best set this up so I don’t ping spike on the 1gig line when downloading at full speed and also allow devices routed to the line with faster upload to use all that upload when needed?
Just a quick praise for the Firewalla folks. Putting aside this is not meant for outside, and I understand that, this thing is a beast. It’s been through snow, rain and now the heat wave we had in NY last weekend. 100 degrees outside. No problem!
I’m planning a custom gaming PC build that will serve as a dedicated "console" for the living room. It's going to be strictly for gaming, and I’m planning to run Bazzite on it so the kids and I can have a controller-friendly SteamOS experience.
I want to keep the footprint relatively small, so I’m looking at a microATX form factor. I've officially ruled out Mini-ITX because I don't want to deal with the absolute headache of tight GPU clearance and thermals keeping an ITX build quietly air-cooled.
Here is the hardware I’m currently planning:
What I need help with:
Would love to hear your thoughts, especially if anyone has built a similar high-end mATX rig running Bazzite! Thanks in advance! I'm hoping to keep this to 2k or less, but can go over if needed a bit.
I’m planning a custom gaming PC build that will serve as a dedicated "console" for the living room. It's going to be strictly for gaming, and I’m planning to run Bazzite on it so the kids and I can have a controller-friendly SteamOS experience.
I want to keep the footprint relatively small, so I’m looking at a microATX form factor. I've officially ruled out Mini-ITX because I don't want to deal with the absolute headache of tight GPU clearance and thermals keeping an ITX build quietly air-cooled.
Here is the hardware I’m currently planning:
What I need help with:
Would love to hear your thoughts, especially if anyone has built a similar high-end mATX rig running Bazzite! Thanks in advance! I'm hoping to keep this to 2k or less, but can go over if needed a bit.
This screen shot is just of one day taken from my router. I’m seeing packet loss essentially every day.
I noticed that the WAN graph is not working all of a sudden. I used to see both WAN's there. If I tap on it, I see it updating in real time. I see this issue on any device that I am logged into.
Third party gateway, business line with 1 static IP, on SA with 5CA. Not bad for being in NY and doing a test with a server in Alabama.
Our promo was up next month, which we currently pay $20 before the 10 dollar auto pay discount, for gigabit internet only service.
I called and spoke to someone from retention letting them know I was going to cancel unless they can give me another promo and the gentleman was kind enough to credit our account to cover 3 months free and then 15 per month before auto pay discount for 3 years.
I went from a core 2.5g 8 port POE switch and a 16 port 1gig switch down to a single 24 port 2.5g POE+ switch.
Also pictured:
Firewalla Gold Pro as router / 4 Firewalla AP's for WiFi with homeruns to switch
Two Wan's: Optimum primary, T-Mobile 5G as backup/secondary
24port 2.5g POE+ switch
Yolink Hub for water sensors
Two RPi's, with one running home assistant
Lenovo mini PC running docker running containers
Synology NAS with 70TB of usable space for storage
Not pictured: UPS below the NAS
I'm thinking of getting this switch, to replace my existing 1gig switch. I don't need managed at all really. Seems like a good fit, 2.5G POE ports so I can plug in my FW Ap7c's, as well as desktop AP7's. I saw that it has 10gig SFP ports. I'm wondering if I could use an SFP adapter that converts to ethernet? Or would a DAC cable work?
Also does this switch support what's needed for the FW7C AP's?
Thanks!
I have never seen something like this before. This is a major charging station for the area. The next closest one has 8 stalls with 7 down at the moment.
Has anyone seen an entire site close like this, for this long?
Just curious if that is possible. I'd love to limit anyone connecting to my guest wifi SSID to say 20Mbps up/down.