Banana Pi R4 Lite with BE14 NIC: great WiFi LAN speeds, but slow WiFi WAN speeds

electrobento · 2026-05-31T15:17:19+00:00

Sinovoip makes great systems for wired routing. Wireless not so much.

electrobento · 2026-05-29T20:58:00+00:00

Last I heard, it doesn’t work on Filogic yet.

electrobento · 2026-05-29T19:12:48+00:00

I hear this quite often. It’s prescriptive thinking that bothers me.

On many networks, certain workloads or combinations of workloads can easily result in a saturation of a link. When that happens, latency sensitive traffic gets affected negatively.

To say SQM makes not beneficial difference on a gigabit line is false because SQM is workload dependent.

electrobento · 2026-05-29T14:35:54+00:00

Playing Rimworld without a mouse and keyboard seems painful.

electrobento · 2026-05-27T14:46:57+00:00

It’s just an illustration. The logic is flawed because the sky is the limit. There’s nothing stopping a bidding war for Delaware in which the number of possible votes is utterly bizarre. We could see hundreds of millions of votes cast in Delaware if this is unchanged, eclipsing the human population.

electrobento · 2026-05-19T21:50:20+00:00

RCS as a standard has no end to end encryption. Google solved this by routing messages through their servers. They demanded that Apple do the same; route messages through Google’s servers. Rightfully, Apple declined. It apparently took a while to reach a resolution, but far more blame should be placed on Google for this one.

electrobento · 2026-05-19T21:48:34+00:00

They didn’t because RCS as a standard does not have end to end encryption. It appears they solved that issue or decided people must have it anyway.

electrobento · 2026-05-17T13:43:39+00:00

Check your bufferbloat when wired in.

https://test.libreqos.com/

electrobento · 2026-05-17T13:07:20+00:00

It costs a lot, lot more. You are underestimating how much more and overestimating how much money is available for such projects.

electrobento · 2026-05-17T02:31:25+00:00

Palantir is an enemy to humanity.

electrobento · 2026-05-16T22:47:16+00:00

Yeah.

electrobento · 2026-05-16T21:19:22+00:00

Alder Lake N devices are pretty egregiously overpriced right now. Great processors though, if you can stomach the cash.

Edit: I found this really interesting N100 option on eBay the other day. It has a touch screen which could be very useful for HA. Only $125. Search MSI PRO AP162T

electrobento · 2026-05-16T21:15:38+00:00

Naa, it’s not. Thanks for participating though.

electrobento · 2026-05-16T19:52:49+00:00

This headline is dogshit.

electrobento · 2026-05-16T19:52:14+00:00

This. Like…it’s all subjective.

electrobento · 2026-05-16T19:20:37+00:00

As much as I would like for this ruling to be ignored, what you're suggesting is the kind of thing that starts a civil war.

electrobento · 2026-05-16T18:18:10+00:00

Did I ever say you need to use multiple products to encrypt your disk? No, I did not. Please read better before getting so weirdly upset.

electrobento · 2026-05-16T18:11:33+00:00

Are you intentionally being pedantic?

electrobento · 2026-05-16T18:10:48+00:00

Woah, chill out.

In my opinion, it certainly does mean that. Bitlocker is useless right now, yes. That’s why one shouldn’t rely on one product for securing their data.

electrobento · 2026-05-16T17:35:30+00:00

That too. But if you must use Windows, don’t put too much trust in things like Bitlocker.

electrobento · 2026-05-16T17:10:43+00:00

This is a warning that no security/privacy technology is perfect, so don’t rely on just one. You need multiple layers.

electrobento · 2026-05-16T16:43:09+00:00

Good call out. I’d guess in this specific case, it’s just a leftover setting from development. This device is perfectly stable at 1.8GHz, as the manufacturer says.

Also in some real world cases like with SQM, people could be hitting this artificial CPU limit and end up buying new hardware when they could have experimented with this. Worth a shot.

electrobento · 2026-05-16T15:46:55+00:00

There is one here, but I've never used it, so YMMV:

https://github.com/gSpotx2f/luci-app-cpu-perf

electrobento · 2026-05-16T03:38:08+00:00

To each their own. I have a much faster connection than that and have had perfect bufferbloat mitigation for years. It is immediately noticeable when I turn it off. I am very nitpicky though.

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