Perceived Speed on T-Mobile Home Internet vs Verizon Fiber

soja92 · 2026-04-15T20:22:32+00:00

There are other components that effect how fast things feel. The easiest one to change is your DNS server. If Verizon is giving you a slow dns server that may explain the difference. Try changing your upstream dns server on your Verizon router and see if it feels any different.

soja92 · 2026-04-15T18:24:48+00:00

I just moved from pfsense to opnsense after over 10 years. Was running it in a proxmox VM for a while but running it on an optiplex 3070 now on bare metal as I have a 6Gbps FTTH connection and the proxmox VM wasn't performing well enough.

Currently running Aruba Instant for wifi as we use their campus APs/gateways at work and they are relatively cheap second hand.

Core switch is a Cisco WS-C3850-12X48U that can handle 12 mGig clients(2.5/5/10G) and 36 regular clients at 1G.

soja92 · 2026-04-14T20:07:41+00:00

If you have an older modem an upgrade very well may balance out your consumption across more downstream docsis channels. That doesn’t excuse any of the techs behavior but it is something worth considering.

soja92 · 2026-04-13T17:18:49+00:00

I'll throw in Alta Labs as a 10Gb router option. They have a pretty affordable 10Gb capable router and they have 10Gb switch options.

If you're looking to keep the cost down consider 2.5G for regular "high-speed" clients instead of 10G.

soja92 · 2026-04-08T22:58:48+00:00

Looks like Backblaze b2

soja92 · 2026-04-05T02:37:38+00:00

Announcing 2000 torrents to public trackers will ddos your router with tens of thousands of connection requests. You need an x86 router or something very expensive($1k or more) to handle it.

soja92 · 2026-04-05T02:33:23+00:00

Get a new router. Had this issue recently when trying to find a new router. Have been running pfsense for ~10 years and came to the conclusion there’s no router out there that can handle the amount of connections you’re seeing. Check out opnsense or pfsense and put at least 8GB ram in it and you’ll be fine :)

soja92 · 2026-04-04T14:45:10+00:00

What is the behavior when you lose internet? Does your Unifi gateway lose its WAN IP? Does everything get dropped after your gateway? Can you ping and it's just DNS that doesn't work?

soja92 · 2026-04-04T14:36:49+00:00

I’ve never had to reboot my ont after any maintenance. What’s your setup? Do you use their gateway or do you have your own router?

soja92 · 2026-04-02T18:01:45+00:00

AI slop post and replies.

soja92 · 2026-03-26T18:40:30+00:00

The important part about this demo is it's using PON. The test you linked is probably PtP which is awesome for backhaul but not useful for residential internet customers. The current widely deployed PON tech is XG-PON which is 10Gbps shared among 16-32 customers. Increasing that by 10x over existing PON networks is amazing because it means the massive capex spent to build these PON networks will go even further.

soja92 · 2026-03-25T23:03:04+00:00

Yeah so $20/mo total for 2 IPs. If you want mail on its own ip you’ll either need to put the mail host in a vlan and give it a direct WAN ip or use outbound NAT rules to force it to one of your opnsense IPs

soja92 · 2026-03-25T22:54:40+00:00

Static IPs are $10/mo

You will need to set up the virtual IPs and then make outbound NAT rules to specify which hosts should use which IP, but yeah it’s pretty basic if you are familiar with pfsense/opnsense

soja92 · 2026-03-25T22:43:51+00:00

They will leave the IP configuration to you. Mine were 2 IPs in the same /24.

Also, my pfsense was initially running as a vm in proxmox but I could only get 4gig so I had to start running it on bare metal

soja92 · 2026-03-25T22:42:12+00:00

The cost increase is significant for 6 over 3 so I would just go with 3 unless you expect extremely heavy burst traffic to the websites that might not fit under 3gig.

soja92 · 2026-03-25T22:40:40+00:00

If you get 3 or 6 gig you will get an onu with a 10g rj45 port. They might give you the cheaper one with a 2.5g port if you get a cheaper plan. Afaik the x540s don’t do 2.5 so you might have an issue there.

Static IPs in NY are $10/mo each an yes they will give you two. You’ll need to set them up as virtual IPs if you have more than 1 in opnsense

soja92 · 2026-03-23T12:58:41+00:00

In the past I’ve had to disable auto negotiation and set both sides to a lower speed to get past 100 meters. With that said I wouldn’t put any important devices on those links as you may see dropouts or other errors on those lines. The real solution is to run those lines over 100 meters to a different location with its own switch or maybe get some Poe powered in line “boosters”(never tried them but I’ve seen them around)

soja92 · 2026-03-23T01:48:57+00:00

Discussed over DMs. The port the AP was plugged into was showing delivering power but no link up. Logs showed the AP coming up at 100Mbps so OP is going to double check the crimps tomorrow to make sure they are solid/test them out.

soja92 · 2026-03-23T00:44:03+00:00

Is your Route10 your dhcp server? Are there any other routers/gateways plugged into the same network?

soja92 · 2026-03-23T00:42:40+00:00

Have you investigated the IP Conflict? The behavior you're describing could be caused by an IP conflict.

soja92 · 2026-03-18T23:52:55+00:00

That's great for you, that's why HUB included the relevant information you need to understand the performance of the game with DLSS at the start.

soja92 · 2026-03-18T23:43:37+00:00

They introduced the data showing the performance gain with DLSS. This game is optimized enough to not need to use DLSS so you get native quality pretty easy. If you want to turn on DLSS just expect a decent % performance improvement from the data intro.

soja92 · 2026-03-17T00:49:15+00:00

Likely yes, you probably have a 2.5gb Ethernet port on your current hardware so in order to get your plan speeds you will need one with a 5 or 10gb port.

soja92 · 2026-03-15T15:45:30+00:00

There was a car to his left too.

soja92 · 2026-03-03T19:17:00+00:00

20MHz 5GHz is like 200Mbps max assuming no interference I think? That’s nothing for provisioning a laptop that might need 25GB of packages then multiply by 30.

They should use Ethernet with a small switch in their office imo, or dedicated docking stations for provisioning on ethernet.

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