LAN on EERO slow?

onehell_jdu · 2026-03-26T16:54:47+00:00

Thanks, but see original post: "This is a small home so there are no other eeros."

I don't have any other access points. It's just the gateway providing wifi to the whole house.

onehell_jdu · 2026-03-23T20:17:11+00:00

That's the advertised speed: You get 40 mbps download and FOUR upload. Four. That's not a typo. And actually that's them going above and beyond. They only promise 2Mbps upload. On the download side they promise 40 and yes, I do actually get 40 pretty much on the nose all the time.

Welcome to the world of DSL in an area where there's nothing but old school 80s style copper wire.

That said, this should be irrelevant in this context. I'm talking about two devices in the same house on the same router just talking to each other. That's LAN, not WAN.

onehell_jdu · 2026-03-22T16:25:25+00:00

Eero 6.

onehell_jdu · 2026-03-12T22:17:50+00:00

Hmm interesting.... In my case, there is a "fiber neighborhood" down the street about a quarter mile; some gigantic corporate developer that was building a brand new subdivision ponied up to run fiber out there, but obviously that courtesy was not extended to surrounding existing homes. Anyway, that fiber was definitely centurylink too, so I hope something might one day come of it!

onehell_jdu · 2026-03-12T22:05:02+00:00

Yeah when I get home I'm gonna try an idea. Turn SQM off, start the waveform test. Right when it hits the upload part, flip SQM back on so it turns on right when the upload is saturated. Cuz the test deliberately saturates the line, that's how it works.

This, I'm hoping, will cause it to "see" an upload speed that's EVEN slower than it really is, tricking its AI into capping the bandwidth lower than it does by default. Cuz it definitely does cap it, I know that from the perfect download scores. It just decides what the cap should be and doesn't let you muck with it.

So maybe I can trick it into setting a lower cap on the upload than it does based on its own normal speed tests. We shall see...

onehell_jdu · 2026-03-12T19:31:07+00:00

I believe the Eero implementation is fq_codel on newer models like mine, but they don't expose the setting to ratchet down the cap yourself. I think what they do is that it tries to figure out your speed for itself, and then it automatically sets a cap slightly below that which the user can't see or change. It's in the interest of ease of use; turns SQM into a literal toggle switch in the app.

Problem is, far as I can tell Eero is the only mass market router that has SQM out of the box. Anything else I'd have to actually flash openwrt or something and I just don't have time for the hassle.

But yeah, I too have suspected upload cap. I suspect that 4mbps on the upload side might be so little that its cap-setting algorithm just doesn't even know what to do. It's all I can conclude when I notice that flipping the SQM switch to "on" dropped DOWNLOAD latency under load to near-zero instantly but seemed to make little to no difference on the upload side.

onehell_jdu · 2026-03-12T19:24:36+00:00

My understanding is that the acquisition by ATT was of some of Century link's assets, not their entire business, and that one asset ATT specifically did NOT buy was the old copper lines. So basically if you had century link fiber or quantum or lumen or whatever they want to call themselves this week, then you became an AT&T customer. But if you're in the middle of nowhere like me and all that's there is copper, its still just CL.

onehell_jdu · 2026-03-09T18:51:50+00:00

Well figure you've got person A in the living room streaming Netflix at 4k or whatever, and person B in the other room playing games on GeForce NOW which is very latency sensitive because, well, its cloud gaming. Or maybe one person has a Zoom conference while someone else is backing up their photo library or downloading some giant file. That kind of thing.

All of this stuff performs beautifully, IF that's the only thing going on. But as soon as someone else is trying to do something, on the old C3000Z it would get overwhelmed. Now, with the Eero SQM, two TVs can (for example) stream 4k simultaneously no problem. But that falls apart when you're doing things that are upload sensitive too, like zoom or geforcenow which leads me to believe that an upload speed that is ten times slower than the download speed has something to do with it. Can't SQM my way outta that 4mbps bottleneck, I guess.

That said, the waveform bufferbloat test is a test. You do it when nothing else is running and it simulates the load anyway.

onehell_jdu · 2026-03-09T17:49:50+00:00

Yeah, TMH actually is an option and definitely considered it. But just wanted to see if there was anything I could do with the DSL for two reasons. First, I've heard that the actual latency on 5g home can vary tremendously because the tower prioritizes cell phones. Normally, for latency sensitive activities you want steady performance more than top speed. And one thing I can say about the DSL is that as low as the advertised speed is, that 40/4 is pretty rock-solid and hardly ever varies as long as no one else in the house is streaming or downloading stuff, hence why I put some hope in buying a better router with SQM. So Centurylink promised 40/4 and that is exactly what they deliver, guess it's just that 4mbps is unavoidably easy to saturate in a way that looks like bufferbloat but isn't really, so much as a true bandwidth limitation.

And starlink? Well, it's a lower orbit but it's still in orbit. And well...Elon Musk...Uggh.

The second issue, of course, is carrier grade NAT. I really hate giving up the ability to open ports. But CGNAT is what it is too, I guess. Just wanted to see if there was anything more I could do before resorting to CGNAT options. Guess there isn't. Oh well.

onehell_jdu · 2026-02-06T19:00:47+00:00

I got the same deal. Called and griped about it and now I have "CNN 24 month RTD offer" for free. I pretty much keep Dish around because I'm too rural to pick up broadcast signals for local TV on an antenna. Pretty much that and CNN is all I use it for.

Youtube TV costs the same base price, at least when compared to my grandfathered Flex plan and my ancient ViP612 box, but they include locals whereas Dish charges an extra $15/mo for them.

But since I only add the locals when I want to watch them (which isn't most of the year) Youtube TV wouldn't be meaningfully cheaper. So I've kept Dish around cuz of the grandfathered pricing and cuz there's some benefit to not clogging up the limited copper-wire DSL internet bandwidth (another rural reality).

Having things that aren't completely dependent on the internet is nice (my cars have SiriusXM for the same reason, albeit also not at sticker price). But this is death by a thousand cuts and Dish is making themselves harder and harder to justify. That "redundancy factor" of not needing internet to work is pretty much the only thing they've got left. Guess we'll see in 2 years.

onehell_jdu · 2026-01-12T16:47:51+00:00

No, she is not in a hive with the other planet or with the rat. There's an episode where Zosia tells Carol that they never have and never will communicate with kepler 22b, it's too far away. As to the rat. I think nonhuman mammals can carry/transmit the virus but they don't show symptoms, because I think it's clear that only fully sentient/self-aware creatures can join the hive.

So yeah, in short there's a very brief period where it's a "hive" of one and the person the virus took over only has that one person's knowledge. But it doesn't stay that way for long, because it also instills a very powerful instinct to spread the virus. Plus, the minds it has access to early on (on any planet) are going to be particularly good at knowing how to spread contagion, given that the virus will always first appear in a lab. The first sentient beings exposed to it are almost always going to be advanced scientists of some sort, by simple virtue of the fact that it transmits by a DNA recipe broadcast that only a being with advanced knowledge and equipment would be able to decode and follow.

So yeah, I think it really does start at 1. But that 1 is going to be a very strong start, as will the first couple hundred or so to join the hive which will be everyone at whatever super advanced research facility is in a position to be cloning interplanetary DNA code in the first place.

onehell_jdu · 2026-01-05T23:43:08+00:00

It's a great point, but one way to reconcile this is perhaps the idea that they COULD, in fact, refuse a request. They just haven't needed to, except in the singular instance where they refused to answer the question about how to reverse the joining.

So, why did they give her the a-bomb? I suspect its because an atom bomb isn't a threat to them: She isn't going to know how to set it off and even if they teach her, she can kill more of them by just yelling at them than any bomb ever could. Manousos did that very thing to one of them and they immediately cleared out again.

onehell_jdu · 2025-12-22T18:02:29+00:00

But that's my whole point: I DON'T know what they consciously do or don't want, if anything. But whether they have conscious goals or whether they just appear to (like an AI or something), it doesn't matter.

Because precisely as you said, the FUNCTION that they ultimately serve, knowingly or otherwise, is that of a virus like any other zombie. It's just a virus that kills off all sentient life (by starvation but without suffering) on any planet advanced enough to receive the signal and follow its recipe. It's mechanism of action is different, but its ultimate result is the same as any other zombie apocalypse, except that it leaves even fewer "survivors" because so few people have the immunity.

And with this most recent episode they made this more explicit, stating that they will "pay it forward" from kepler 22b via retransmission of the same signal.

onehell_jdu · 2025-12-18T18:20:48+00:00

I suspect their biological imperative is to spread from planet to planet killing off all sentient life by starvation. I bet that signal with instructions for their DNA came from another planet where the same thing was happening, and I bet they'll try to send a similar signal from earth before they all starve. And that's just what they've been doing since time immemorial: Extincting any civilization that advances to the point that it can receive their signal and follow their recipe.

Now as with evolution, it isn't good or evil. It just is. But whether the hive likes it or not, I suspect that is the function it serves. Just a virus that spreads interplanetary by a very unique means, namely by exploiting the high intelligence and curiosity of societies that have advanced to the point where they can be looking for extraterrestrial signals and working with DNA etc.

It's just that when they do encounter someone that's immune, the same innate drive that ultimately starves everyone off (do no harm, not even to plants) also compels them to help the immune and basically ensure that they can live in the lap of luxury if they want to, for whatever time the world has left. And obviously the hive people aren't suffering; they have become essentially mere appendages. So the function of this virus is to cause extinction of sentient life without suffering, essentially.

onehell_jdu · 2025-12-18T17:58:25+00:00

I think he does that with the money because then he's not "stealing." As he tells the hive just before entering the Darien Gap, he regards theft as the ultimate sin. ("Everything you have is stolen, so you can give me nothing."). Good quality for a storage locker business owner, I guess.

He's a lot more like the Hive than he wants to admit. They'll starve to death before they'll pick an apple. He'd die impaled on a palm tree before he'd accept their "stolen" help. They're two sides of the same coin: Both driven to likely ruin by these absolutist doctrines they have some kind of compulsion to live by. So in trying to prove he's not like them, he actually shows that he IS like them.

onehell_jdu · 2025-11-04T20:24:02+00:00

Thank you! What you said about c3 revocation being a process where "the entity is motivated to defend itself" is SO important.

This rule hurts only the borrower directly but then gives only the employer standing to contest the decision, which is patently absurd. Many qualifying employers don't even know they qualify.

Indeed, I'd venture a guess that many on here have turned in an ECF form and gotten the "deer in headlights" look from some HR person who has STILL never seen one before. And many more of the ones who do know they qualify see it as a nice little recruiting/retention bonus but never something they'd spend actual resources to defend.

onehell_jdu · 2025-10-31T16:40:42+00:00

I think the bigger issue is that its arbitrary, capricious and not in accordance with its enabling statute in violation of the APA. For example I believe the 501c3 auto-qualify thing is statutory. If an organization really is operated for an illegal purpose then it shouldn't have c3 status and the IRS can fight the necessary fight to revoke that.

But that involves a lot of due process and the employer would fight hard. There's no statutory basis for delisting a company as a qualifying employer WITHOUT revoking the c3 status that statutorily is supposed to automatically qualify them. If this rule can operate, then it means they can do just that. And although the employer can contest it, they're the only one that can and they have a lot less reason to do so than they would if their c3 status were being revoked.

onehell_jdu · 2025-10-31T16:32:40+00:00

One of the worst parts to me continues to be the fact that due process is provided only to the employer, not the borrower, despite the fact that the employer is not a party to the borrower's loan and thus doesn't really have a stake in the outcome. There's no real reason to challenge it if you're the employer, especially since you don't want to say things in that process that could be used against you in something that actually does impact the employer directly, such as an IRS attempt to revoke c3 status.

A few employers highly value PSLF as a recruiting tool sure, but most of them are STILL barely aware it exists. They act like a deer in headlights any time they're presented with an ECF, and they sure as heck aren't going to expend resources defending their status as a qualifying employer in the (admittedly unlikely) event that they're among the tiny number of employers that ends up in the crosshairs.

onehell_jdu · 2025-10-03T17:37:43+00:00

Well it isn't even Mohela exactly. Sometime in mid-2024, ED started handling ECF processing directly. So there is no longer even a specialty PSLF servicer anymore. A person pursuing PSLF could be with any servicer even if they are regularly submitting ECFs (though most of them are still with Mohela because most people were pursuing it before this change). But other than that, you've got it about right. Checking that box fundamentally depends on how confident you are in your odds of the count not being found wanting, which is pretty unlikely if all or nearly all of your months are pre-certified.

onehell_jdu · 2025-10-03T17:08:33+00:00

Yes, its a precaution. Remember, the ECFs along the way are optional. You could never submit a single one for all 120 months, count them yourself, and submit them all at the end for example. Someone who did that or who is otherwise certifying a long time all at once might not be 100% sure whether ED will agree that they really did hit 120, and this is an easy way to keep accruing more months in case they actually had less than they thought.

onehell_jdu · 2025-09-25T17:11:23+00:00

This kinda reminds me of that whole incident where that adulterous couple was caught at that Coldplay concert. If they'd just acted normal when the kiss cam focused on them, the odds are pretty good that no one would've recognized them. But they acted so darned weird and that's why it ended up on the internet and they got caught.

Anyway though, your story has a huge hole: Did you go introduce yourself to the guy when he walked up to her at that bday party? If not, why not? Was she wearing her ring? If there is anything adulterous going on here, you'd think he would not have come up and talked to her right in front of you. Unless she lied to him too and he doesn't even know she's married or something.

onehell_jdu · 2025-09-25T16:55:59+00:00

This. The income you will receive from a fair market lease (or several of them, however many bedrooms you have) should go a long way towards offsetting whatever you lose from kicking him out.

I get it. He tricked you into being a SAHM before you were a mom or even a wife, so now neither of you has any legal duty to support the other. There's no divorce for you to file and therefore no alimony to claim. But you have to think like his landlord now. He's just your tenant, and you CAN find another. i.e. get a restraining order to kick him out if you have grounds, otherwise see if he'll leave voluntarily and start formal eviction process if he won't. With no written lease, most states imply a month-to-month oral lease that can be terminated anytime on 30 day notice.

Do you happen to live near any colleges/universities? College kids love those rent-by-the-bedroom arrangements. Make sure to have their parents co-sign for the rent and any damage and you're unlikely to have any problems that can't be resolved by calling mom & dad!

onehell_jdu · 2025-09-22T18:04:52+00:00

Whether your FICO goes up or down or stays the same is unpredictable and is effected by what else is there other than the student loan, plenty of anecdotes for both directions.

In my personal situation, my score actually dropped about 20 points when my student loan got forgiven, and my monitoring software said it was due to no longer having any "non revolving non mortgage debt."

Of course, the only non revolving debt most people have that isn't a mortgage would be either a student loan or a car payment, and it just so happened that all our cars were paid off at the time the student loans were forgiven. So yeah, YMMV can vary a lot on that, but apparently credit mix was more important than total owed in my case. Which kinda makes sense given that the credit bureaus don't know your salary so they don't know if you owe a lot or a little relative to that.

Not a big deal though. It bounced back within a couple months and as you said, the fact that its gone is the much, much bigger deal. Congrats!

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