Routers & Other Networking Stuff

Denamian

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Got the Alien and installed it on Tuesday. It's definitely overkill, but I'm happy with it so far. Turns out my Surface Pro 7 supports ax, so that part isn't completely wasted. Download speeds are significantly improved. I got 27 MBps downloading from Steam when I used to top out around 12.

The light on it is bright as hell, but that can be dialed down or turned off completely and it's odd having a speaker in it. Only problem I had was figuring out the Linux terminal voodoo needed to get my Plex server to see the NAS again, but that's not the router's fault.
 
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Denamian said:
Got the Alien and installed it on Tuesday. It's definitely overkill, but I'm happy with it so far. Turns out my Surface Pro 7 supports ax, so that part isn't completely wasted. Download speeds are significantly improved. I got 27 MBps downloading from Steam when I used to top out around 12.

The light on it is bright as hell, but that can be dialed down or turned off completely and it's odd having a speaker in it. Only problem I had was figuring out the Linux terminal voodoo needed to get my Plex server to see the NAS again, but that's not the router's fault.
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"Sleep mode" in the app should be able to set a time for the light to be on or off... just set it one for 1 hr a day or something.
 
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I'm just using various models of mikrotik routers scattered around my house all managed by capsman. Trivial to set up and gives me various toys I can play with. I had a problem with chromecast where if sending and recieving devices were connected to different APs they wouldn't be able to cast but fixed that by enabling multicast-helper. Not sure why that helped but oh well!
 
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sakkath said:
I'm just using various models of mikrotik routers scattered around my house all managed by capsman. Trivial to set up and gives me various toys I can play with. I had a problem with chromecast where if sending and recieving devices were connected to different APs they wouldn't be able to cast but fixed that by enabling multicast-helper. Not sure why that helped but oh well!
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A lot of routers have an option to enable/disable broadcast related traffic.
 
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Oooo let us know how it works. Looks pretty gucci.
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It's definitely overkill, but nice. Setup was about as close to idiot proof as you can get. Had a couple random reboots the first 2 days until it finally pulled down a firmware update that it missed during setup and has been rock solid since.
 
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Denamian said:
It's definitely overkill, but nice. Setup was about as close to idiot proof as you can get. Had a couple random reboots the first 2 days until it finally pulled down a firmware update that it missed during setup and has been rock solid since.
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Nice. Glad to hear it was an easy setup. Ubiquiti working as intended.
 
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Fucking HBO Max

My LG TV is hardwired into my network and i'm trying like shit to figure out how I can stream hbo max from my pc to the tv through it. I have chromecast but for some reason it hitches, lags and downgrades my streaming whenever I try it. I can easily play downloaded movies through the network and LGs built in video server, but I can't figure out how to stream over the wired network. Any ideas on how to tackle this problem?
 
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Fucking HBO Max

My LG TV is hardwired into my network and i'm trying like shit to figure out how I can stream hbo max from my pc to the tv through it. I have chromecast but for some reason it hitches, lags and downgrades my streaming whenever I try it. I can easily play downloaded movies through the network and LGs built in video server, but I can't figure out how to stream over the wired network. Any ideas on how to tackle this problem?
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Is it a Chromecast Ultra? There's an ethernet port in the power brick.
 
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Denamian said:
Pretty much. This is the one I grabbed.

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I actually do have the ultra - i'm still using wifi through the casting medium though right? or if I cast from my pc it will use the wire I guess ya?

that link doesn't imbed, what's the name of what you got?
 
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I actually do have the ultra - i'm still using wifi through the casting medium though right? or if I cast from my pc it will use the wire I guess ya?

that link doesn't imbed, what's the name of what you got?
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Yeah, if you use the ethernet port on the Ultra it will use that by default.

Switch is NETGEAR 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Unmanaged Switch (GS308). Might want to check your adblock settings if you're not seeing the embed.
 
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Denamian said:
Yeah, if you use the ethernet port on the Ultra it will use that by default.

Switch is NETGEAR 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Unmanaged Switch (GS308). Might want to check your adblock settings if you're not seeing the embed.
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sweet, ordered, thanks

will update if it works

fucking hbo max
 
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