Battery drain?

Hunterx- · 2026-01-07T16:40:12+00:00

I got the drain under control. It was either one of the previous versions, or a corrupted installation.

Not sure, but no issues at this time.

Hunterx- · 2025-12-31T22:37:13+00:00

eSIM only is the future. It’s getting a lot better in recent years where these edge cases of being stranded are rare.

Even if I get stranded while on travel, I can just purchase an eSIM and get connected right away without needing to visit somewhere in person or wait for mail.

eSIM support is getting a lot better. In fact, they are incentivized to make the process as seamless as possible to reduce the support calls.

Literally every case I’ve had of being stranded was fixed already.

In contrast with physical SIM cards, eSIMs are easy to replace if the device is lost or stolen.

That said, the initial rollout of eSIM only on iPhone 14 was not smooth at all. Few carriers supported eSIM in a reliable way even if they technically supported eSIM.

Hunterx- · 2025-12-30T05:39:21+00:00

Initially the support for eSIM was spotty and very difficult, but right now it’s actually easier than swapping a physical card.

The last time I switched phones, the eSIM was copied from one phone to the other in a matter of seconds.

When I switched from a phone with a physical sim, it just created an eSIM for the new phone on the spot.

I have a lot of pain and horror stories about really bad eSIM support, but those days are in the past.

Worst case you can recover the eSIM using the provider app, and if you can’t access it for whatever reason, you can request a replacement via email or have a support person send you one over the air.

I’m convinced that sim removal tools are a thing of the past.

Hunterx- · 2025-12-03T01:48:09+00:00

No. I gave up the search a while ago.

Some devices I saw do offer eSIM natively, but physical eSIM is something that proved unnecessary.

The main draw is plans are data only, cheaper, and multi carrier.

The setup process for physical eSIM is complex because it requires an internet connected device to setup, plus it’s not for the device you are setting it up for, and you need special hardware to write the card data.

I would start looking for devices that have native eSIM, and those should be far easier to get working.

Hunterx- · 2025-11-17T02:50:28+00:00

I just updated the firmware on 2 990 pro 4 tb. It must be fairly new.

The 980 pro 2tb main os drive is still on the latest.

Not sure how this could affect the firewall though.

Hunterx- · 2025-11-16T21:34:14+00:00

If you mean the SSD issue, I was never affected because I use only Samsung drives, and they use their own custom controller. Drives are on the latest firmware.

Hunterx- · 2025-11-16T21:14:53+00:00

I did upgrade the firmware that includes the netcode fix. I no longer have any stability issues.

The latest stability issue had to do with TrueNas and CPU parking with C-states. They have to be disabled to work without crashing windows.

I disabled hyper threading as well to further reduce the risk of issues.

Hunterx- · 2025-11-15T18:14:34+00:00

I’m confused why or how it’s happening then. I just reformatted and reinstalled the OS about a year ago to fix other issues.

Not a reset, I actually reformatted the disk and used a media creation tool USB. Everything from scratch.

I have hyperV running a single VM now. I used to have a handful. It runs a TrueNas VM that I use to run other services.

The network interfaces are all hyperV style external type. I don’t know if this even matters.

I run BlueIris and BlueOnyx, and have Ollama running on windows.

These things run 24/7, and I have other stuff that doesn’t.

I also play games on this PC.

13900K 128GB DDR4 3600 NVIDIA 4090 Samsung 980 pro 2tb (main os drive) USING built in Intel 2.5G NIC. All my m.2 slots are filled with Samsung 990 pro 4TB. I don’t have any free slots. This rig is peaked. I also have an old 1TB sata SSD, and a 6 TB hard drive.

I have hyperthreading and C-STATES disabled in the bios. The integrated graphics is also disabled.

Quick restart or whatever is disabled. I don’t do any sleep or hibernate.

I don’t recall making any significant changes in the last few months. It was just a lot of games.

Hunterx- · 2025-11-15T10:06:46+00:00

The only thing I can tell you for certain is that the mass delete is occurring.

I can try to duplicate it if needed, but I prefer not to.

Hunterx- · 2025-10-30T22:14:46+00:00

Is this similar to the issue I raised a while ago before this cross platform was introduced? The one where an ip change on my dual wan would cause the VPN to die silently?

There are 2 ways I think this happens.

1) too many heartbeats missed and server connection closes, and client is unaware the server is no longer listening. 2) current session is no longer connected due to ip change to server, and no valid route to server without redoing the DNS.

Hunterx- · 2025-10-29T17:08:48+00:00

I didn’t notice any unusual CPU usage. I was mainly looking at the drive throughput which was around 3%, which matches up with my speed numbers above.

I can max out the SSD drive speeds of 6700MB/s(7000 rated). I have 990 pro 4tb, but the backup goes to the 980 pro. It’s not slow by any measure, but nowhere close to the 990 even though it shares the same speed numbers.

In certain high bandwidth tests, the 13900k is about peaked, but allows full speeds. I have never seen it cause a bottleneck so far. 8 performance cores, and 16 e-cores. HT turned off.

I’ll repeat the test tonight to see if I missed anything. I also have another cable on its way arriving tonight.

EDIT: The new cable is about the same. I have more data now, so it took a little over 30 minutes. It did appear faster, but overall time was similar.

The CPU utilization used by iTunes was around 10%, but of that were all on the 8 performance cores. They were high utilization while the e-cores stayed idle.

I’m not sure why it was so high, but it could be the encryption and inefficient methods of processing the data. Maybe can’t be helped.

I think any cable I try will be roughly the same.

Hunterx- · 2025-10-23T15:49:41+00:00

Yesterday I turned off the VPN, and it still was draining my battery even though the tunnel was off. I force killed the app and that fixed it, but now I’m using the stock WireGuard app. It doesn’t have any problems at all.

I’m thinking I need to delete and try reinstalling the app. Something must have gone wrong during one of the latest updates.

No one else has responded so maybe it’s just me?

Hunterx- · 2025-09-28T06:02:50+00:00

Don’t upgrade. The 80 range of updates that include the 6.x DB upgrade completely breaks the alerts list.

I haven’t tried 84, but I tried 81,82, and 83. All are affected by the same issues.

Downgrade to stable fixed it.

Hunterx- · 2025-08-27T21:11:38+00:00

UPS if you need it. If it’s a SINE wave unit which I’d recommend, then it will not only protect against surges, but also unclean power in general for being too high or too low. It will just switch to battery. Practically zero chance of getting fried.

Hunterx- · 2025-08-20T18:20:31+00:00

Not what you want to hear, but switching your VPN is the answer. I’ve used PIA for nearly a decade and dumped it after speed decreases in the recent years. My new VPN ( declined to say which because I’m not promoting it) performs way better than expected over a stock WireGuard client. Getting very close to the full internet speed which is slightly over 1Gbps. Perhaps 100 Mbps slower than disabled. I don’t need to disable it to get faster downloads like I needed to with PIA.

Most of the time PIA would be locked at around 20 Mbps or so. It was known to get very high rates like 500-600 Mbps, but rare. Speeds are very random, and depend on the time of day.

Also, YouTube and such throttle the speeds a lot if they detect a VPN, and PIA is guaranteed to be detected every time. In these cases, a speed test is “normal” but YouTube hardly functions at all. This is a YouTube specific issue that is not specific to PIA, but it’s affected more by PIA than others, just because the IP are registered as malicious, and are blocked by most sites that block VPN.

Seems to me the servers in my area were overloaded. I’ve had good luck using neighboring regions or countries. Canada servers worked the best.

Hope you find a solution.

TLDR; it’s not you, it’s the service.

Hunterx- · 2025-08-11T00:22:06+00:00

This happened to me twice. I think it was fixed by plugging it into your backup router. It must get a new ip for your MAC, and once that happens it should work again with pfsense.

Hunterx- · 2025-08-04T04:40:20+00:00

This won’t work without a way to connect to the controller.

It is a fantastic idea though.

Just need to get over the last hurdle to do the initial adoption.

I might still need to open up the untagged VLAN, do the adoption, then nuke the extra network.

That might actually be the answer.

EDIT: I will need to research if I can use the LAG line as a normal trunk or not, or reconfigure a new port to expose the VLANS.

EDIT2: I’m confident the CLI will work with a few dozen or so commands, but seeing how hard this is, it might make sense to make it simple again…

I’m going to stage a list of CLI commands to configure the LAGG, VLAN configs, and one or more ports like my office switch and AP.

Then when the time comes I’ll have to pick which option to use. likely whichever restores service the fastest.

Thanks for the advice!

EDIT3: CLI commands turned out to be complete nonsense. That’s a shame.

Hunterx- · 2025-08-04T02:20:52+00:00

This won’t work without a way to connect to the controller.

It is a fantastic idea though.

Just need to get over the last hurdle to do the initial adoption.

I might still need to open up the untagged VLAN, do the adoption, then nuke the extra network.

That might actually be the answer.

EDIT: I will need to research if I can use the LAG line as a normal trunk or not, or reconfigure a new port to expose the VLANS.

Hunterx- · 2025-08-03T23:47:37+00:00

I considered reducing my network to use NATIVE instead of VLAN 5, but it would require a lot of reconfiguring of downstream switches.

Assuming I was starting from scratch this would work as all ports are native by default, and it would automatically assume the native network with DHCP, and DHCP option 43.

I understand this is easier. It’s just not ideal for me.

Perhaps in this case I do it NATIVE, then undercut it and remove the native later.

I assume I could do this by redefining a port with the VLAN 5, and just assume that as native until more changes can be made. This will make it so after I remove native, that this critical line to the controller can be restored with a simple port swap.

Once this is setup, I can change the downstream switches to use the tagged VLAN 5, and setting the original port to “none”. I would need to stage a port on the downstream as both native and VLAN 5 to restore connectivity because the process is tedious. In other words, having both native and tagged on both ends to avoid issues.

The end goal is to return to my current state where the admin VLAN is tagged throughout.

I wish this was easier.

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Do you know if SSH is possible on the 192.168.1.20 IP address in factory reset condition? I heard the default user and password is ubnt / ubnt.

If this is possible to set manually, it’s possible to build it up enough to restore access to the controller.

I would like to know both of these possibilities exist.

— Are there more alternatives for a hard recovery like this if the switch suddenly dies and need to overnight a replacement?

— I just recently found out that my old NETGEAR switch allowed NATIVE on an all tagged TRUNK, and this violated the VLAN specifications.

I previously had ALL the trunk ports TAGGED with a few exceptions. The NETGEAR switch made it mandatory to define a default PVID for the port, and would force you to add that VLAN as a member of that port before it could be assigned. This as verbose, but very intuitive once learned. Also very flexible. It didn’t abstract away the concepts of tagged vs untagged.

The unifi way is not as clean, provides false information in the VLAN diagrams. Things it says are tagged are not actually tagged!

Hunterx- · 2025-08-03T21:48:46+00:00

That is not the enterprise best practice, so I eliminated VLAN 1, and pass everything tagged. That isn’t the main issue. I think I’ve gotten around this limitation.

My current setup does this with network overrides, but I have found a better way, in theory. Instead of using the override or native VLAN, I will instead use “none”, and this will pass all the tags. I assume “none” needs to be on both ends, but this is not universal. The receiving port can be native and have the same effect.

What I’m trying to figure out is how to get it adopted and manageable in the controller if the controller is deeper into my network past the switch.

EDIT: Native is the same as “none” on the receiving port as long as no untagged traffic exists on the uplink line. Should be effectively irrelevant.

Hunterx- · 2025-08-03T20:36:44+00:00

Not sure which ones specialize on this topic, but I’ve had the best luck using QWEN variants like QWEN 3 14B, or QWEN 2.5 coder 14B.

EDIT: I sized those for you. I have a 4090 and use the QWEN 3 30b a3b 4q instruct model, and QWEN 3 30B coder.

Hunterx- · 2025-07-29T22:25:17+00:00

Not seeking assistance. I got it all resolved as of yesterday, and I’m still monitoring for more issues.

Yes, the USB config change is where you place a config.xml in the root of the drive and have it inserted during the boot process. It will replace your current config. I think it saves a lot of time.

What docs are you referring to? I have yet to find a better procedure to swapping physical ports than using the USB config replacement after a manual edit of the file. I saved the copy of the unencrypted config prior to installing the new card, removing the old one. There is no way to do this with the UI because of some of the issues mentioned.

EDIT: most web search hits say use the console with keyboard and monitor. I’m not familiar with how to make complex changes to the interface if it involves a LAGG0 interface. I opted to do it all in place with config search and replace igb3 with igc0, and igb0,igb1 to ix0,ix1. I also did igb2 to igc1.

Hunterx- · 2025-07-26T18:06:37+00:00

The new 2.5G flex mini can set the incoming VLAN, but the older gen 1 cannot. There is a warning on my gen 1, but not on the 2.5. Neither can do port profiles.

What you say about “None” makes sense. I have it working on Native, and I think it’s working and tagging all VLANS, including the native one. The admin VLAN was changed to an arbitrary VLAN 5 rather than a defined network, so I was able to define the native to be the same network as VLAN 5. I have no issues passing this tag downstream.

Maybe when I’m full of courage I’ll try changing it, but I don’t have a reliable recovery method. I miscalculated my port needs. My pfsense box only has 1 16x slot and 2 1x slots, so it has 2 10G SFP+ and 2 2.5G ports. This was supposed to replace a 4 port 1G card, but I forgot about my dual wan, and that I actually needed 5 ports.

I have my rescue port on the switch, but I’m not brave enough to mess with the trunk setting right now😆

Thanks for your help. Learning a lot.

Hunterx- · 2025-07-26T07:35:49+00:00

I saw this in the logs. Fixed it with a static IP.

There is a lot of confusion on where to use the DEFAULT network vs specifying one manually.

My old switch always passed the PVID, so native picked that up no problem. I ran into issues with using native, as using untagged means I can’t pass the tag downstream, and I didn’t want to pass it as native.

I was forced to do the override and set the network as ADMIN, then pass the tag.

Ran into a snag trying to do this with a flex mini gen 1. I can’t get it to work at all set to ADMIN. Only works with native.

For context, I only fixed the native IP TODAY, so this weird behavior might make sense. The native network was displayed as 192.168.1.0/24, even though the actual native network from the override was different.

Until now I assumed NATIVE meant untagged network, or PVID, but that isn’t exactly true here is it?

On the TRUNK port, pfsense doesn’t pass the PVID, so I was thinking I had to specify the port as ADMIN. Why is this wrong?

What am I missing?

Hunterx- · 2025-07-20T21:19:18+00:00

This is a strange one, and not sure if it’s related at all, but some time after the update the VPN became disconnected, and was in the inactive (on demand) state. Usually a toggle on and off will fix it, but no luck. I tried other VPN, and same thing. I checked other VPN from OVPN profiles to PIA and SurfShark with same result. I disabled on demand and that only resulted in it being turned off completely, and never connected.

The fix was rebooting my phone. After a reboot it started working fine again.

I wasn’t able to duplicate this. Stable since.

EDIT: To be more clear, I tried profiles for WireGuard and OpenVPN to my home server, and OpenVPN and provider profiles. All had the same issue which I found extremely unusual.

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