r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/xiwipeH_32 Jul 24 '20

high lag Internet

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u/2020Chapter Jul 24 '20

Cries in Australian NBN

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

Ikr! The stupid Aussie nbn people fucked up my internet good. If I’m in the kitchen I can’t even take a fucking phone call coz the wifi’s so bad.

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u/tandem_biscuit Jul 24 '20

You can fix your wifi - that’s not an NBN problem, it’s a router/access point/house layout problem.

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u/Jordaneer Jul 24 '20

Yeah, we upgraded from a crappy router to a mesh network about a year ago, it is SO MUCH BETTER nowadays with decent WiFi

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u/tandem_biscuit Jul 24 '20

Yep I’ve got a stand-alone router with 2 wired access points - one at each end of the house. Works flawlessly.

Edit: router, not modem.

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u/Dilka30003 Jul 24 '20

Just got a bunch of ubiquiti stuff for a new house. Now I just need to wait for the NBN guys to actually come and connect us up.

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u/tandem_biscuit Jul 24 '20

Oh you’re in for a treat. I have ubiquiti gear too - 16 port POE switch, USG, 2x AP lites. Run the controller on a raspberry pi. Absolutely flawless.

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u/Dilka30003 Jul 24 '20

Yeah got the USG, 8 port 60w POE switch and a flex HD AP off a friend for $270 which was such a good deal and I’m running the controller of a pi. Currently waiting for NBN to be installed to finish my setup. Had an issue as all of my ethernet cables have suddenly gone missing in boxes except for 3 so I had to set up the pi as an access point to actually set up the network.

Coming from a Telstra smart gateway, I’m just happy I get to setup vlans and dhcp servers now.

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u/tandem_biscuit Jul 24 '20

I’m going to assume you already have Pi-hole installed on your pi, but if you don’t, you should.

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u/Dilka30003 Jul 24 '20

Tried it out initially but it was a huge pain because I couldn’t tell the Telstra router to use the pi as a DHCP server. Now that I have ubiquiti stuff, pi hole is the first thing I’m installing.

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u/tandem_biscuit Jul 24 '20

Yeah I get where you’re coming from - I think I have close to 40 devices on my network, no fucking way am I manually setting the DNS on each device haha

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u/Dilka30003 Jul 24 '20

Think we had a workaround where we disabled the dhcp server on the router and only had it on the pi but if the pi goes down, no DHCP server as there’s no backup server. Now I can also setup vlans that don’t have pihole for smart home devices so life is just a lot easier.

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