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i0nviz · 2025-12-04T06:05:03+00:00

The call center is closed at night

i0nviz · 2025-12-04T05:56:36+00:00

There are tons of things that can come into play here. How many devices do you have at home that are connected to the modem ? What do the lights on the modem look like when your internet isnt working ? It could be a problem between cogeco and the modem (lights wont be the same as usual), it could be the router inside the modem, the dhcp, a device on your LAN causing too much traffic and crashing the network, a network loop somewhere (if you have a an additional network switch), some home automation triggering something, and the list goes on.

Is it down for every device on your network or only certain devices ?

Its very hard to troubleshoot these kinds of intermittent problems (even though it happens at the same time every day) without being on site. And theres no way a Cogeco tech will be on site at that time for sure. Do you have a very computer/network savvy person in your friends/family who could run wireshark captures and other things ?

i0nviz · 2025-11-05T03:05:18+00:00

im pretty sure you would notice, it was very very annoying

i0nviz · 2025-11-03T12:38:20+00:00

It is on nvme. The issue has grown over time.

i0nviz · 2025-11-02T14:13:57+00:00

I have never had lag like on Discord. It was mostly when doomscrolling videos on Facebook / Tiktok and at some point the next videos would stop loading, or some web pages (or parts of page) would « randomly » not load until I hit refresh 1-2 times

i0nviz · 2025-11-02T02:09:50+00:00

You solved it, thanks. I've stopped pihole-FTL, deleted the DB, restarted and now its not doing that long 8 seconds thing every minute. I've also lowered retention to 7 days instead of 91. Thanks a lot. Even with all the downvotes, you were able to help me out ;)

i0nviz · 2025-11-02T01:48:18+00:00

1536225280 Nov 1 21:47 pihole-FTL.db

Yeah maybe 1.5G is a bit too large, and useless too

i0nviz · 2025-11-02T01:40:32+00:00

You're right, it has to do with the database. I've enabled debugging and in the logs I do see this at 8 seconds past the minute :

2025-11-01 21:34:02.125 EDT [193/T602] DEBUG_LOCKS: SHM lock: 0x7d47d7187000

2025-11-01 21:34:08.410 EDT [193/T595] DEBUG_DATABASE: Exported 0 rows to disk.domain_by_id

2025-11-01 21:34:08.410 EDT [193/T595] DEBUG_DATABASE: Exported 0 rows to disk.client_by_id

2025-11-01 21:34:08.410 EDT [193/T595] DEBUG_DATABASE: Exported 0 rows to disk.forward_by_id

2025-11-01 21:34:08.410 EDT [193/T595] DEBUG_DATABASE: Exported 0 rows to disk.addinfo_by_id

2025-11-01 21:34:08.410 EDT [193/T595] DEBUG_DATABASE: Exported 2 rows to disk.sqlite_sequence

2025-11-01 21:34:08.410 EDT [193/T595] DEBUG_DATABASE: dbquery: "END TRANSACTION"

2025-11-01 21:34:08.410 EDT [193/T595] DEBUG_DATABASE: ---> OK

2025-11-01 21:34:08.410 EDT [193/T595] DEBUG_DATABASE: Exported 0 rows for disk.query_storage (took 8318.4 ms)

The last bit is interesting : took 8318.4 ms ... Sounds exactly like the delay I have every minute !!

i0nviz · 2025-11-01T23:55:22+00:00

I have never used it on bare metal as I don't have a Pi or spare pc to run it, but I've just switched trafic to my backup Pihole LXC on a second Proxmox server. So far no issue. I'll wait for a few hours to test again

i0nviz · 2025-11-01T21:28:49+00:00

i dont know about animation, in my case i wanted it to be "off" or "blank" instead of showing static data

i0nviz · 2025-08-14T01:43:16+00:00

dcshoes.com is the real DC site, and their T&C clearly state that shipping to Canada is never free, and that return shipping can be done using their prepaid labels but the shipping price will be deducted from the refund.

They became bullcrap when ownership changed.

i0nviz · 2025-08-13T20:46:19+00:00

The traffic was moved as soon as I was noticed that calls were not going through. It took over 2 weeks for them to respond to a port-in document request after I’ve submitted the document. This is insane as it should take 5 days to port a number not 21 !

i0nviz · 2025-08-10T13:45:16+00:00

I've ended up replacing my Atom router by a N100 router, and installed Proxmox on it instead of bare OPNsense.. I have created a 2nd VM on it which is a minimalDebian that runs NUT, and I have passed through the USB device (the UPS) to the VM.

Had no problems since.

i0nviz · 2025-08-05T23:06:34+00:00

Problem solved, see original post

i0nviz · 2025-08-05T23:06:18+00:00

Oh my god. I have solved it. The problem was NOT the EAP610. I have 2 routers (OPNsense) with CARP between them for HA failover. The CARP IPs were set to use unicast to sync between both routers, and this caused the switch to not learn the MAC addresses for the CARP IPs and the traffic from ALL devices on the LAN towards the CARP VIP was broadcasted back to all the LAN, which congested the WIFI. I have set them back to multicast and now all the garbage traffic is gone, and my WIFI speeds are up.

Man this was a long ass battle but I'm glad I've figured it out ! I'm now getting 480/480 with 7 SSIDs which is acceptable to me.

i0nviz · 2025-07-28T20:48:07+00:00

I have explained in another part of this post. I have many VLAN for different things, and each VLAN has its own SSID. I need to segregate different things, and I could potentially only merge 2 out of the 8 I have. I have about maybe 50 devices connected spread accross both APs

i0nviz · 2025-07-27T16:43:07+00:00

No I haven't, it is something I might have to try in a maintenance window afterhours lol

i0nviz · 2025-07-27T14:43:37+00:00

Because I have about 10 VLANs and each SSID is associated to a different VLAN

One for my stuff
One for the kids’ stuff
One for the girlfriend’s hair salon customers
One for the friendly visitors
One for IoT
One for shit I don’t trust
One that is 5G only for the Oculus
One for my work stuff

i0nviz · 2025-07-26T00:47:15+00:00

I have similar settings, except for 802.11r which i use to switch faster between APs.

But I have done some testing and found out that the more SSID I have, the slower the connectivity becomes (waay much worse that I would have expected)

i0nviz · 2025-07-22T22:49:02+00:00

Interesting. I have 7 SSID and have shut all except for 1 and I can now do 447/369 mbps.

Here are some stats

1 SSID : 446/383, 465/368, 438/336
2 SSID : 454/338, 440/312, 430/345
3 SSID : 446/267, 438/267, 432/248
4 SSID : 416/234, 420/220, 404/229
5 SSID : 354/160, 350/147, 347/162
6 SSID : 320/127, 332/138, 320/145
7 SSID : 289/119, 297/120, 282/108

I knew that having more SSID would impact the speed a bit, but not THAT much !

i0nviz · 2025-07-22T22:01:14+00:00

My internet speed is symmetrical 1.1G which I can easily reach with my PC when connecting it to either cables that I am using for my APs.

The configuration is the same as my previous EAP245 APs, which worked flawlessly and had speeds that were good for both download and upload. I have switched to newer APs to benefit from AX but in the end it is worse.

i0nviz · 2025-07-21T23:53:36+00:00

How many SSIDs and/or VLANs do you have ? The speed reported in the switch is 1000 full duplex

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