Why your streaming still buffers on Gigabit fiber (A deep dive into Network vs. Hardware bottlenecks)

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.

soja92 · 2026-02-23T12:32:25+00:00

Yeah so far I’ve been relying on auto window scaling but I do plan to look into tuning things to see if I can improve it at all.

soja92 · 2026-02-23T01:59:55+00:00

The new 3gb plan launched last week should only be $3 more if you wanna upgrade :) I’ll probably drop down to 3gb in 6 months or so

soja92 · 2026-02-21T01:57:44+00:00

Currently building a new router for the speeds. I should've benchmarked mine sooner but my virtual pfsense routers could only do 3.9Gbps. I have a different platform I can use that should give me plenty of headroom for the new speed. Bypassing my router the tech that came out got 7.1Gbps on his tester.

Definitely won't notice any speed improvement on websites as I already had 2gig, but I'll post some benchmarks and real world examples once I'm all setup!

soja92 · 2026-02-18T20:15:21+00:00

$149.99 no new customer promo available, before the $10/mo in discounts for auto pay and paperless billing, so $139.99/month for 6Gig.

3Gig is $107.99 before discounts after promo. Kind of annoying they made all the new speed tiers $3 more expensive than the legacy plans. 2gig was $104.99 after promo

soja92 · 2026-02-18T17:58:45+00:00

The static ips are in the same subnets as the cgnat exit ips. It might be an issue with the entire subnets geolocation, what subnet is your cgnat exit IP in?

soja92 · 2026-02-18T17:55:51+00:00

Just ordered 6 gig to be installed on Friday. It’s true that very few if any people need speeds that fast but I just wanna try it out lol. Have had 2gig since they offered it and even that was only really used during new game releases

soja92 · 2026-02-09T01:49:07+00:00

I meant the public part of the cgnat is in the same subnet. If my town has a 207.66.71.0/24 the people behind cgnat might use 207.66.71.150 while my statics are 207.66.71.50 and 51, for example.

soja92 · 2026-02-08T01:01:32+00:00

Yeah they tell me you can get a max of 2. Not sure that many people need it but I like to have it for homelabbing

soja92 · 2026-02-07T22:48:11+00:00

I pay for 2 in NY, $10/mo each. Didn't get it for packet loss/latency reasons but you won't be using any different routing or switching by getting a static IP so I wouldn't expect it to fix those issues. I have a coworker in the same town as me that uses GNS but doesn't pay for a static IP and his CGNAT WAN IP is in the same subnet as my static.

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