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Go Net Speed (GoNetSpeed), speed test.

I am paying for the 2 Gbps and this is directly connected via Ethernet. Clearly, I am going to need to buy a 2.5 (or more) network card.

Wi-Fi test in next post -- Post 1 of 2

#Fiber #GoNetSpeed #FiberOptic #FiberInternet

You are the cable / fiber internet installer, and you are asked to use the pre-existing drill holes. How do you feel?

All these wholes were previously made and used by Charter Spectrum cable in the past. The outside hole goes into the basement, and the inside hole comes up from the basement into the living room.

#Fiber #FiberInternet #FiberOptic #Internet #Cable

I see Google Fiber now offers a fiber plan labeled as "8 gigabits per second".

What in the world would someone need that much bandwidth for? I get that having super-fast internet speeds means things like cloud storage is more useful, reducing the need for local storage, but what kind of use case would have 8 Gbps be significantly better than their lowest speed, 1 Gbps?

Their example is a 4k movie would take 2.4 minutes at 1 Gbps, which seems more than adequate to me.

#LibreQoS is one of the selected proposals eligible to receive a grant from @nlnet in the April 2024 NGI Zero Core call:
https://nlnet.nl/project/LibreQoS-2.1/

Thanks a lot, #NLnet!

I have some networking questions but am totally out of my depth on this as I don't even know the terms to look for.

I have an ISP provided fiber box that acts as a router and WIFI endpoint and a separate #opnsense machine I'd like to continue using as my #router/#firewall/#DHCP server. It was previously configured for a cable modem so I'd plug the modem into the port I'd designated as WAN and everything would route properly.

I would like a similar setup: the ISP box handles the fiber (and maybe the WiFi if it can be done, but I do have a separate wifi AP) and the opnsense box handles everything else. I can disable DHCP on the ISP box no problem and enable it on my opnsense box and plug it into the WAN port, but then I'm totally unsure of what I'm even trying to do, routing/iptables/LAN wise in order to route traffic appropriately to the LAN portion of the network.

I suspect I absolutely cannot use the WIFI on the ISP box, which, again, is fine; it'd be nice but I imagine that would introduce a level of complexity no one is here for (clients would be connecting to what is currently designated as the WAN? I'd probably need some VLAN stuff maybe if it's even doable?)

Anyone have any idea what the appropriate terms are to even search for?

#opnsense #routing #homeNetworking #homeNetwork #LAN #WAN #fiberInternet #internet #networking #firewall #firewalls #pfsense #iptables #wifi

After big drop in ISP competition, Canada mandates fiber-network sharing - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino)

In an attempt ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1982034 #fiberinternet #policy

Ars Technica: After big drop in ISP competition, Canada mandates fiber-network sharing https://arstechnica.com/?p=1982034 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #fiberinternet #Policy

At home I have a 1/0.2G FTTH fiber Internet connection by Vodafone Italy.

I replaced the old Vodafone Station Revolution router with a Vodafone Wi-Fi 6 Station and this is the performance I get over Wi-Fi on my Pixel 7 Pro phone (Google speed test), and my i7 ASUS Chromebox 3 wired to the router via Ethernet (Ookla test).

The old router yelded up to 2-300Mdown on the phone and 30-50Mdown lower than the test on the Chromebox.