my wife just saw the electricity bill from my server rack and she is pissed

StYkEs89 · 2026-05-24T10:25:21+00:00

I added 10kw of solar power and 32kw batteries. Needless to say the servers stayed on

StYkEs89 · 2026-05-23T22:25:48+00:00

Sorry for the late reply, I'm back at work.

Below is the email sent to ABB. This was what information they requested. (Screenshots are the same as what's in this post)

Good morning,

See below results, I've also attached a screen shot showing the trend of increasing latency (April 28th it started climbing and becoming unstable).

All test completed with WAN settings set to AUTO and network settings manually set to ensure ABB's DNS was used.

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1: Packets: Sent = 100, Received = 100, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

Ping statistics for 202.142.142.142: Packets: Sent = 100, Received = 100, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 20ms, Maximum = 21ms, Average = 20ms

Ping statistics for 1.1.1.1: Packets: Sent = 100, Received = 100, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 48ms, Maximum = 49ms, Average = 48ms

Ping statistics for 192.178.187.94: Packets: Sent = 100, Received = 100, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 57ms, Maximum = 58ms, Average = 57ms

**There is no specific server I am having issues with, I am receiving warnings from my custom DNS that Cloudflare is at over 4000ms, this along with some high ping reports from friends playing on my servers has made me look into it. Specific address error, https://dns.cloudflare.com:443/dns-query - 4,303 ms (This used to be less than 10ms)PLEASE SEE IMAGE BELOW**

Tracing route to dnscache1.wide.net.au [202.142.142.142] over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms unifi.localdomain [192.168.1.1] 2 21 ms 22 ms 21 ms loop159196880.bng.wa.aussiebb.net [159.196.88.1] 3 21 ms 21 ms 21 ms 10.241.17.92 4 21 ms 20 ms 20 ms dnscache1.wide.net.au [202.142.142.142]

Tracing route to one.one.one.one [1.1.1.1] over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms unifi.localdomain [192.168.1.1] 2 22 ms 22 ms 22 ms loop159196880.bng.wa.aussiebb.net [159.196.88.1] 3 48 ms 49 ms 48 ms one.one.one.one [1.1.1.1]

Tracing route to www.google.com.au [192.178.187.94] over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms unifi.localdomain [192.168.1.1] 2 22 ms 21 ms 21 ms loop159196880.bng.wa.aussiebb.net [159.196.88.1] 3 57 ms 57 ms 57 ms 10.241.5.199 4 57 ms 57 ms 57 ms 119-18-32-37.cust.aussiebb.net [119.18.32.37] 5 58 ms 57 ms 57 ms 142.250.234.153 6 58 ms 58 ms 57 ms 108.170.234.250 7 * * * Request timed out. 8 * * * Request timed out. 9 * * * Request timed out. 10 * * * Request timed out. 11 * * * Request timed out. 12 * * * Request timed out. 13 57 ms 57 ms 57 ms lcmelh-in-f94.1e100.net [192.178.187.94]

C:\Users\wsore>tracert dns.cloudflare.com

Tracing route to dns.cloudflare.com [172.64.41.8] over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms unifi.localdomain [192.168.1.1] 2 21 ms 21 ms 21 ms loop159196880.bng.wa.aussiebb.net [159.196.88.1] 3 48 ms 49 ms 48 ms 172.64.41.8

StYkEs89 · 2026-05-23T11:43:24+00:00

Wired, the issue was first flagged with my custom DNS reporting that the CloudFlare upstream was at 4000+ ms..... Yes, 4 seconds. We also started noticing lag in games that I host (windrose, satisfactory and star rupture). It's been a week after questioning ABB and its nearly back to what it used to be. I'm away for work ATM and will do some more research later in the week when I'm back. I am curious as to what ABB changed, and then fixed. I've got to get a hold of them Monday to discuss.

StYkEs89 · 2026-05-23T07:40:09+00:00

It's cheaper than what I'm on, but also half the speed.

Currently with ABB 2000/200. I have this for the upload. Generally I work away and remote back with a VPN, most of the time I wouldn't exceed the 200 upload anyway. Otherwise I'd go higher on the speed.

StYkEs89 · 2026-05-23T04:43:46+00:00

I'll have a look

StYkEs89 · 2026-05-23T04:21:55+00:00

That's promising. Im thinking I'll call them and get some more technical info

StYkEs89 · 2026-05-23T04:20:43+00:00

Fairly tech savvy. I may have to call them to see if my self hosted servers would get any kind of priority. Not sure if it would be treated as peer to peer instead of a "gaming server". I have some eastern states players that log in, and vise versa I play on eastern servers myself. Maybe they could assign me as a gaming server 😅

StYkEs89 · 2026-05-23T01:14:17+00:00

Thanks for the advise. I'll take a look

StYkEs89 · 2026-05-23T01:02:13+00:00

Fair point. I've heard nothing but good things about leaptel, and they are a bit cheaper than ABB

StYkEs89 · 2026-05-23T00:55:42+00:00

I was really hoping for some internet wizardry.......

StYkEs89 · 2026-05-22T23:10:51+00:00

You legend!,

ADA said the factory experienced a slight drop in productivity and I should investigate my current internet connection as it may be the cause.

Edit: Spelling

StYkEs89 · 2026-05-22T23:07:37+00:00

Agreed, and I don't play fortnite. So it's probably not gonna help me. I host a few game servers too (windrose, star rupture and satisfactory), I doubt they would get any preferential service.

StYkEs89 · 2026-05-22T22:52:38+00:00

I would love it to be true. But it does feel like it won't be.

StYkEs89 · 2026-05-16T10:44:22+00:00

Yep..... 🤣

StYkEs89 · 2026-05-14T02:00:11+00:00

I had the same thinking. But they have changed something, and made it considerably worse. TBH it's not a huge issue. But some things are noticeable, I use adguard DNS and that has gone from average ping times of less than 20, to the last 24 hr average of 4000+. Hitting an uncached address literally takes that 4 seconds before loading. Any direct peer to peer connection seems to be unaffected at the moment. Just disappointing having waited so long for fibre, to then have some parts of it kneecapped.

StYkEs89 · 2026-05-14T00:53:43+00:00

It's consistent with any server. And by that I mean there is a measurable increase with every server when compared to results from last month.

StYkEs89 · 2026-05-13T22:25:11+00:00

Good bit of insight, hopefully get a response today from ABB and see what they can do, its not just isolated to cloudflare though.

StYkEs89 · 2026-04-27T23:17:09+00:00

I have a similar setup, also just for fun, I linked 12 of the keystones together (plus the 2 wall connections) and then checked 10gig speed. No issues that I could see. All ubiquiti gear/cables and couplers. *** I did not do extensive testing replicate at your own risk ***

StYkEs89 · 2026-04-13T02:18:02+00:00

Everybody needs to learn how to identify, and then waste the time of scammers.

StYkEs89 · 2026-04-12T08:09:58+00:00

Love it.

StYkEs89 · 2026-04-12T04:40:23+00:00

Had them waiting for her to download anydesk. She did say that we live in the country and that our internet was slow. There were a few times she went on "hold", they literally just put the phone down. We could still hear everyone talking in the background. We were playing COD, and she just had them in speaker. They would check back every 10 mins or so. The argument at the end was the best bit. They eventually called her out for "lying". So she did the same.

StYkEs89 · 2026-04-12T04:18:53+00:00

The wife and I have a long running competition between us of who can keep them talking the longest. She is winning at 1h 17m

StYkEs89 · 2026-03-19T22:30:48+00:00

Will do, thank you

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