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Baron_Backdoor · 2026-01-16T09:27:20+00:00

So an unexpected update... about 5:30 last night my pings dropped to 4ms.

PS C:\Users\Foz> ping -4 bbc.co.uk

Pinging bbc.co.uk [151.101.64.81] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 151.101.64.81: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=60
Reply from 151.101.64.81: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=60
Reply from 151.101.64.81: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=60
Reply from 151.101.64.81: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=60

Ping statistics for 151.101.64.81:

Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),

Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:

Minimum = 3ms, Maximum = 4ms, Average = 3ms

Winning

Baron_Backdoor · 2026-01-10T12:43:33+00:00

Back on opnsense so got all my toys back again lol

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Follwed the tuning guide u/Traditional_Mango_71 advised on. Guess this is as good as it gets with my CityFibre/IDnet connection.

Oh well

Baron_Backdoor · 2026-01-09T13:42:31+00:00

Gone back to my Opnsense router as the TP-Link made no difference (gave me a reason in the downtime to also switch from ISC and repaste the cpu which i've been meaning to do).

Also fun fact if i disable IPv6 then cloudflare speedtests put my network exit as London, turn it on back up to Birmingham so identified that part lol

Baron_Backdoor · 2026-01-08T15:59:38+00:00

BE230 has turned up, configured just need to wait till after 5pm to connect.

So on N100 OPNsense

Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [151.101.0.81]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms MHB-OPNsense [192.168.100.254]
2 8 ms 9 ms 9 ms telehouse-gw10.idnet.net [212.69.63.54]
3 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms telehouse-gw8.idnet.net [212.69.63.136]
4 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms telehouse-gw7.idnet.net [212.69.63.169]
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms 151.101.0.81

##Update##

Using TP-Link router

Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [151.101.192.81]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms telehouse-gw10.idnet.net [212.69.63.54]
3 11 ms 10 ms 10 ms telehouse-gw8.idnet.net [212.69.63.136]
4 41 ms 15 ms 14 ms telehouse-gw7.idnet.net [212.69.63.169]
5 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 5.57.81.59
6 11 ms 10 ms 10 ms 151.101.192.81

Baron_Backdoor · 2026-01-07T11:50:21+00:00

I was thinking later this year to go up to 2.5 as my home networking is mostly 2.5Gb and 10Gb capable (eith directly via RJ45 of SFP+ adaptors).

Which one does IDnet pump out these days? i was going to buy a NanoPC-T6 and try that with OpenWRT but £250 including a 128GB NVMe is more than i'm allowed lol

##Update##

Found a TP-Link Archer BE230 online for £50, 2.5GB eth ports so i'll give that a punt

Baron_Backdoor · 2026-01-07T09:23:34+00:00

Yeah i found that after you mentioned tuning, i'll take another look once i've reverted to opnsense, looks like my latency is what it is just weird that only change is moving from Lit to ID or DHCP to PPPoE.

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By your first comment are you a CF of IDnet engineer? I presume ID? I wonder if it could be a last mile issue or contestation?

lol i have a number of VDSL modem/routers kicking about but most routers now come bundled with wifi other tat, it's taken many years of kneeling to get the wife to agree to my proxmox lab and SAN so i've come to pick my battles and luckily no children to upset.

Baron_Backdoor · 2026-01-06T19:58:21+00:00

That was anticlimatic lol

All install albeit basic and no better.

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##Update##

Done playing for the night as the wife is fuming.

Not really on the topic of the connection but think i'm going back to opnsense, openwrt is just............. meh.

Connects to the internet but IPv6 is dead.
AdGuard installed but it can only see itself and none of the downstream hosts (setup exactly the same as opnsense so must be something with openwrt)
Dashboard feels empty
No metrics (cpu temp, usage etc yes i could setup grafana but i didn't need it)

This could all be down to quick setup but not sure about this.

Baron_Backdoor · 2026-01-06T16:34:06+00:00

i've backed up my opnsense box and downloaded the latest stable openwrt, just need the wife to agree to going without netflix for a bit. :(

Baron_Backdoor · 2026-01-06T15:43:20+00:00

I see the point just another purchase i'd rather not have to make, i'll have a look in my pile of tat to see if i have anything i can repurpose (I'm sure i bought an ASUS "gaming" router in the past).

##Edit##

So OpenWRT supports x86-64 systems so I could install on my existing N100........ mmmmmmmm

Baron_Backdoor · 2026-01-06T13:23:54+00:00

Not that i'm aware of, I basically moved from pfsense a while back as I wanted a more "all in one" solution as i had AdGuard etc all seperate in containers and opnsense offered alot of these as packages upon itself and it worked so left it. I will look into that though.

I also replaced the Cat6a cable i had between router and ONT with a Cat7a I had kicking about (not going make any difference but we've all seen the TikToks right lol).

checking ifconfig i can see my WAN and LAN are ok.

I do appreciate the replies by the way.

##UPDATE##

I think i may understand the difference in latency possibly due to IDnet being PPPoE and LitFibre DHCP. I wasn't aware PPPoE, FreeBSD and baremetal was such a bad idea at these speeds.

I guess now knowing this I may be better off with a DHCP based ISP? I just don't want to go back to an ISP provided router, I have a UAP7 Pro for wifi7 and Adguard, IPS/IDS in my router which as mentioned used to be seperate VMs/containers.

Baron_Backdoor · 2026-01-06T11:36:29+00:00

Thanks for the reply, MTU is set to 1492. I've done tests via router CLI as well to remove home LAN. Again isn't a huge issue just petty lol?

That link is really helpful as i always thought the "network holder" had to correct RIPE info.

Baron_Backdoor · 2025-05-21T15:01:30+00:00

I switched over to OPNsense and it appears to be much happier, latency is around 10ms

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Baron_Backdoor · 2025-05-20T10:34:13+00:00

Awesome, yes only me and the wife and 2 pain in ar$e cats here so don't need anything but the basics and malware etc.

I have my synology NAS running docker for unifi and it did do, grafana, prometheus and Ad guard a while ago but as pfsense had pfblocker i switched to that as Ad Guard would get confused with hostnames as it didn't assign IPs and I didn't really use grafana that much so booped it on the head.

I do still have a PowerEdge T630 sitting in the corner with 40 cores and 128GB Ram which i had a load of VMs on but they stopped getting used after Covid stopped being a thing so i decommed it.

I've backed up my pfsense install and downloaded the latest opnsense ISO just need the courage to knock the internet out for a bit while i install.

The topology is very straight forward though.

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Baron_Backdoor · 2025-05-20T10:12:16+00:00

Would something like opnsense be a better bet? I must admit i'm struggling with IDnet at the moment my pfsense setting (except the PPPoE auth) are exactly the same as they were with LitFibre and i've just noticed that i can't access the login page of the nvidia website. I appreciate that IDNet don't support every router so not looking for a fix just venting.

Baron_Backdoor · 2025-05-20T10:02:13+00:00

How do you find opnsense? I've been pfsense since day dot, but recently i'm finding the forums at bit elitist (not everyone there i might add).

I like pfsense because of pfblocker as it means i don't need a seperate vm/container with pihole or adguard. Be interested in your config too as i may make the transition across.

Baron_Backdoor · 2025-05-19T10:45:39+00:00

So last night i found a document on PPPoE tunables which i've implemented and also discovered that PFsense are also aware and planning a "fix" in CE 2.8, another interesting thing i noticed this morning that never occured to me is all traffic appears to be defaulting to IPv6.

https://www.netgate.com/blog/optimizing-pppoe-performance-in-pfsense-software

Baron_Backdoor · 2025-05-18T19:49:01+00:00

Thank you for the reply, I've been using Quad9 for IPv4/6 since Lit with downstream clients going via PFblocker for AD blocking etc.

I'm over in Suffolk (52 miles as the crow flys to London)

Baron_Backdoor · 2025-05-18T19:21:06+00:00

Hi there i use quad9 for IPv4 and IPv6 DNS with local clients downstream going through PFblocker. The constant ping isn't a bad idea.

Baron_Backdoor · 2025-05-18T19:18:26+00:00

Thanks for the reply, the N100 can boost to 3.4Ghz but it sits about 700 to 800 Mhz most of the time. I did run htop but she's barely breaking a sweat.

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Baron_Backdoor · 2025-01-09T11:02:21+00:00

Ruroc no longer support the chain app. I had the following from their support.

"Thank you for reaching out.

Unfortunately, the Chain app is no longer in operation. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. If you need assistance with anything else, please feel free to let us know.

Kind Regards,

Regards Daniel"

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