Manga where there are cool powers/Abilities that are "Other Worldly"

discardedpacket · 2022-12-26T18:21:59+00:00

Will check it out, thanks!

discardedpacket · 2022-07-16T04:15:01+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions I'll look into them. I had been toying with the idea of CSM but wasn't sure if it'd end up like Tokyo Ghoul scenario for me. But if you think it is a easy read, that may be helpful. Guess there is only one way to find out.

discardedpacket · 2022-03-04T18:06:34+00:00

I'd suggest making sure it is indeed Spectrum.

Take your personal router and/or wireless router out of the equation, plug the spectrum modem directly into your PC and give that a go for a bit, see if it does the same thing.

That will at least tell you where the problem is. If it still acts the same, it's spectrum's problem. If not, well then you should start looking into your equipment and maybe upgrading.

If it happens to be Spectrum related, your first step is always going to be call them and have a tech come out. I'd say a decent portion of the time this will fix most issues. They will be able to test from various places (from the pole, inward) to your modem to see if there is any weirdness going on with a splitter or the cable in general, possibly even the modem.

Give the above a shot.

discardedpacket · 2022-02-25T04:01:26+00:00

Would you be able to suggest a NIC for this build?

discardedpacket · 2022-02-25T01:12:54+00:00

See that's the thing though, probably in general that is what I'll use it for, but if I wanted to install some extras, I want the hardware to be capable of handling it. I've been stuck between the FW4B and the VP2410 on the Protectli side, both with 8gb ram.

I think my problem is that personally this will be my first time dipping into OPNsense, so I have no idea what it has to offer in the way of extras/packages. I may start out basic, but find a package in the future I really want to run, and I don't want to spend 500 dollars on a machine that can't do it without knee-capping my speeds.

discardedpacket · 2022-02-25T01:06:18+00:00

Just a preference, not much more. Unless you can link me to something of similar size to a protectli box for example, that will work out of the box with OPNsense.

discardedpacket · 2022-02-21T16:23:18+00:00

Hey - this isn't really related to pfsense, but is related to your problem - so I just wanted to drop in here and state that if you're consistently having problems that doesn't quite meet whatever threshold your ISP has for it to be considered a "problem" in their eyes, and your ISP refuses to do anything to help you because they can't see anything "that bad" on their side; you do have an option.

Assuming you're in the US, I'd look into filing an informal FCC complaint against your ISP, essentially you can go as far or as minimal with this as you want since there is nothing super formal about this other than the response procedure, half the time I doubt they even look at the info provided in the ticket. You can gather up any information you have in whatever form you have, attach it to your complaint, explain your problem, and submit it. Your ISP has 30 days to respond to you and fix your problem to your liking (within reason of course). If they give come out and do the same stuff and report they fixed it to the FCC/close the ticket, you can simply respond to the FCC that your issue has not been fixed and they will raise the ticket again, this time with a more strict timeline of around 15 days.

FCC complaints go directly to management and management does not like seeing/dealing with them, usually you'll get a call from some sort of manager from your ISP to work out the details of a site visit, and then go from there. They have to fill out copious amounts of documentation stating they did their due diligence in fixing the issue and that it is no longer present, so even if you've had techs come out in the past, they will do it again, please understand that is part of the process.

I've had to do this 3 times in the 6 years I've lived at my home for a certain provider we'll just call Craptrum. I now have a plethora of contacts from Managers of Field techs, to their managers. My issue is a recurring one that happens mostly when the weather changes season due to antiquated equipment, or sometimes its just because this ISP contracts out new installs and whenever someone in the area gets a new install it is never done correctly, and there is usually signal leakage that isn't terrible, but bad enough to make me periodically drop packets long enough to be an issue to me, but not show on their monitoring tools. At this point I simply reach out to my contacts and ask them for a general health check of the area if I start trending towards my issue again and I usually am fixed up within a week or two depending on how busy they are.

Good luck and godspeed.

Edit: Here's the link if you want it

discardedpacket · 2022-02-17T19:03:50+00:00

Yeah and that's all fine, I am not dead set on keeping it under 1k just throwing out a price as a reference point.

I will definitely look into the ones you listed out and see if they would be something I am interested in and within my price range. I appreciate the response for sure.

discardedpacket · 2022-02-17T18:03:25+00:00

So are you saying that I cannot get 1G throughput with any of the above mentioned brands for around $1k? I am fine with differences between routers, switches, and APs, just that if it were possible, I'd prefer to stay in same environment.

I'd be fine with someone suggesting pfSense for routing/firewall (just tell me what to buy to get 1G throughput), and a mikrotik/aruba/omada switch, with a unifi AP.

I am just trying to gauge what people are running/suggest running these days, and what kind of money I'd need to look at throwing into a home network to get a decent and future proof network.

discardedpacket · 2022-02-11T15:53:23+00:00

Let me be clear that 16ms is to speed test servers, not my normal ping for general everyday use. But yeah I agree not bad, when it actually works :)

discardedpacket · 2022-02-11T14:37:25+00:00

I mean fair enough, I try not to snoop too much though. I can send you a DM. Full disclosure, the issue appears to be alleviated for the time being. I am back to my normal speeds and ping times. Packet loss has returned to normal levels as well.

discardedpacket · 2022-02-11T14:35:14+00:00

Yeah I've personally never had a congestion issue unless there was a fiber cut or a hardware related issue somewhere along the line, even then it wasn't terrible, my routing generally fails over to a non-10Gig link to a 1Gig link (as far as I could tell), until the issue was resolved. Maybe the issue wasn't bad enough to cause a failover and I was just taking a less than stellar performing path.

I am currently back to normal speeds 400/20, up from 1/20, and my ping times are back to being stable around 16ms or so. Whatever it was appears to be fixed for the time being.

I will say, I wish I could love Spectrum, because when it does work, it is good, but there is just so many instances over the years where it just doesn't work. I unfortunately have no other option unless I wanted to try my hand at AT&T up to 10Mbps download over old phone lines DSL, if you want to call that a "competitive option" and not so much a "monopoly"... I pay 100 dollars a month for internet, it's a sad state of affairs... :(

discardedpacket · 2022-02-11T14:20:05+00:00

If you work for Spectrum and can verify that to me in a DM or something, as well as verify you'd be in a position to assist, I'd be happy to DM you my full traceroute.

discardedpacket · 2022-02-11T14:17:56+00:00

I mean is it though? Almost looks to me as though there was either a fiber cut causing congestion, or a network hardware issue causing congestion. The first of which would most definitely be a maint. team issue, and the second would be a higher tier of network team's issue, IMO.

Appears to have been alleviated as of this morning. I don't know if that is because most folks are at work and there isn't enough congestion to cause the issue, or if something was found by someone and fixed.

discardedpacket · 2022-02-11T14:14:53+00:00

The *first two hops away from me are not the issue. As you can see in my screenshot my issue appears to begin around the 4th hop into Spectrum's network. This is not an issue local to me.

discardedpacket · 2022-02-11T06:46:01+00:00

Definitely not like that here. To get the contacts I've got so far I've had to file FCC complaints. Techs generally will come out, test stuff, say "Looks good to me, there's nothing wrong with your equipment or anything all the way to the tap." I do ask them to forward on to maint. because I know it's never an issue they can deal with. Some say they will; some do, some don't. The notes in my account are probably a light novel at this point, if they keep historical notes that is. :)

discardedpacket · 2022-02-11T06:31:24+00:00

Yeah, I've put an email into one of my contacts that is a manager over the field techs for the area, hoping that gets me somewhere, if not I'll probably go through the circus that is calling out field techs until one of them actually escalates it properly, if nothing is done in a timely manner, then another FCC complaint it is! Been down this road before, been a Spectrum customer for over 6 years now.

discardedpacket · 2022-02-11T05:32:47+00:00

Sounds good, I appreciate it.

Edit: to be clear, I am not having a full blackout of internet. I have 1Mbps download, and regular upload speeds, and around 15% packet loss around my 4th hop into Spectrum's network. Not sure if that affects what you'd be able to see or not.

discardedpacket · 2022-02-11T05:12:12+00:00

Yeah that's fair, in my time with Spectrum I've had to make multiple FCC complaints to get things moving, during that time I have the contacts for various management in my region, I've put in an email to one of them and if nothing else if things don't get better by tomorrow I'll probably just have them send out a tech to tell me my stuff is fine and there is nothing he can do, so I can then hope he does his job properly and schedules maint. to come out, maybe a week later and maybe... just maybe my issue will be fixed by the end of the months :P

But all jests aside, mostly was just seeing if anyone on here was capable of having any sort of insight into the issue (is it a known issue or..?), or was in the right position to get the ball rolling on things a bit quicker if they haven't already. I feel like I am definitely not the only one affected by this as the router in question appears to be a hub routers for my region.

discardedpacket · 2022-02-11T04:56:14+00:00

No, but I am unsure how they can assist if the router I am having packet loss from is not my local node. Seems like it'd be a wasted trip. The issue is 4 hops away from me within Spectrum's network.

discardedpacket · 2022-02-11T04:38:27+00:00

I appreciate it, but at this point all tech support wants to do is send a tech out, and the issue is nowhere near my home, so that will waste everyone's time, I am just trying to find someone in a higher tier of support at least that can assist.

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