I'm trying to setup ExpressVPN on my home network. I have a Fritzbox 7490 and have attached a Linksys router running DD-WRT.I have installled the VPN on the router following the instructions at ExpressVPN (with US ip) and I think it is set up correctly, however when I connect to the router I am still showing a NZ IP address. There doesn't seem to be an "on/off" switch in the router settings to turn the VPN on, the instructions basically advised to save and apply settings and it would be sorted.I realise I will have to turn off the wifi on the Fritzbox as well.Any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong?
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VPN router setup
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Free Community UniFi Cloud Controller
PLEASE NOTE! The controller URL has been moved - it is now hosted at https://gzunifi.murfy.nz I understand that for some of you getting into UniFi gear is a bit tedious because of the controller... Not anymore.The server itself is managed by yours truly, I do have a fulltime job so will manage it in my spare time. This is intended for home/small business use. It is running the latest version of the UniFi controller software behind a nginx proxy hosted in AWS. Pricing for UniFi products is available Here.Setup:You'll first need to register for the UniFi portal. Please send me a DM with the following details:Name: Your NameEmail Address: Your email address (I need to be able to send you a registration email)Once you're provisioned you'll be able to set-inform your devices, you'll be granted temporary rights with the ability to accept devices into your portal. If you have more to add at a later date just flick me a PM and I can grant access again. Remember to do a set-inform twice once more once you've hit adopt in the controller to confirm the add.UniFi Access Points:Make sure that the UniFi is not adopted to any other UniFi controller before proceeding - if it is then you'll need to factory reset it. If you're running an Edgerouter you can almost skip all these steps and look at this post.Once you've opened up your shiny new UniFi access point and got an account on the UniFi portal you'll need to inform it. Plug it into your network first off and download / install the UniFi discovery tool (Chrome Extension) - there will be instructions here to inform it (but this is not working for me - typical...) however it essentially involves clicking "Manage" beside your access point and informing it to http://gzunifi.murfy.nz:8080/inform using the default user/pass of ubnt/ubnt. You need to run the inform twice - the first time to make it show up under devices in your portal and the 2nd time to accept the inform (when you've hit adopt in the portal).The manual way when the tool doesn't work is to grab the IP address of your UniFi and SSH into it. Using Putty (Windows) or the SSH command (OSX, Linux) SSH into your access point with the username "ubnt" and password "ubnt" and run the command "set-inform http://gzunifi.murfy.nz:8080/inform" and you should get a response back. Note step 2 of the instructions that you need to do this twice when you've clicked adopt in the portal.USG:This is just like the UniFi AP however you need to ensure you've got internet connectivity to the USG first (via WAN1) - navigate to https://192.168.1.1 first to connect it to the internet then run the set-inform on it. You'll need to run this twice (when it is in the adopting stage in the portal) for it to be accepted.Note: To save you time adopt this first then simply plug in your other devices once it is adopted. Your other devices will automatically inform to the cloud controller pending adoption.It can be a tad annoying to get the USG on VLAN 10 required for most UFB providers and FibreX - if you're with Voyager you can ask them to turn off VLAN however with other ISP's I've found this to be the easiest way to get around this:1) Get your old router and set it to an IP range that is outside of the UniFi's - I use 192.168.10.0/242) Plug your USG in, set it up with DHCP in the internet options and adopt it to the controller.3) Once it is online in the controller - set your ISP settings w/ VLAN. As it is provisioning the USG will go offline, give it a good 2 minutes then plug the USG into your ONT / Cable Modem.4) Success - it should come online. If not, you'll need to factory reset and try again.Tuning:The settings I recommend for the UniFi AC access points are the following:2.4GHz - HT20 (20MHz) (unless if you live in the middle of nowhere with no other WiFi congestion)5GHz - VHT80 (80MHz) AC models only otherwise 40MHz.Channel / Transmit power on both set to Auto.Band Steering - Prefer 5G (AC / dual radio UniFi AP's only).Airtime Fairness: Turn this on.Disclaimer: this is a community project. Uptime is not at all guaranteed however in the event it does ever go down for a period of time your networks will still stay running as normal. Backups are made by the server on a daily basis off-site and community-based help is available in this thread. Approval to the UniFi controller is based on users having at-least 10 posts on Geekzone, introducing themselves in the Introductions thread, actually being a member for a period of time and on my general approval - do DM me anyway as there are some exceptions to this case.I do also monitor the uptime here: https://uptime.murfy.nz/ There is also a post on the general security of this here (or below).
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Unifi USG on Spark Fibre terrible speeds
Hello all,I have a Unifi Security Gateway running on Vodafone Fibre here and am very happy with it and recommended it to a mate.He is on Spark Fibre and I set it up and it is unusable. Extremely slow internet with connection drops. I am using DHCP with Vodafone but I set up PPPoE on Spark as per their instructions.From a bit of Googling it appears that the MTU settings may be causing the issues and MSS Clamping may need to be set to 1448.Am I on the right track here? Can anyone confirm this setting will fix the problems? I will have to do this remotely via the old modem so it will be a bit of an exercise to set this so am wanting to confirm it before we spend some time on the phone resetting his connection.Cheers, Matt
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HG659 Issue
Have a HG659, running the latest firmware supplied by BigPipe ~12 months old.Have an interesting intermittment issue with what seems to be DHCP leases. Occurred in the last 15mins with my iphone 8 being unable to access the internet via wifi (4G Spark fine). At the same time my iphone 7 and ipad could still access the internet. All three devices running 12.1.2.I looked at the wifi information in iOS for the iphone 8 and all the dhcp information was missing, the iphone was showing as connected to the wifi router, (status bar), but wouldnt look up the router address. I then logged in to the router on the ipad, the DHCP lease was -190 hours.Turned the guest network feature off and the iphone is now working. Interestingly the ipad then forgot the network key. Have checked the logs and can't see anything...Couple of thoughts: could it be the number of reserved devices (28), lease duration is one week not sure if this influences the situation, uptime currently is 7 days.Two screenshots below (didnt think to grab one of the router).Any ideas welcome
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Instagram/Facebook photos won't load at all (2Degrees Fibre)
Hi Everyone,I used to have this problem here: https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumId=66&topicId=241075 where it would take AGES to load apps and websites such as Facebook (photos only) and Instagram.I tried the IPV6 disable suggestion in the above post - which seemed to do the trick after a while. However, this morning I noticed that any photos on Facebook or Instagram, and any Instagram stories won't load AT ALL.I have the default Fritzbox modem. I do not think it is an issue with my phone or computer, as when I use these apps at work everything loads much quicker and there are no issues! Same with using the same phone and same apps when on public WiFi. Anyone have any suggestions? Many thanks!
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Wifi network not showing
So I'm connected to my Vodafone access point which is connected to my Vodafone router. I'm online via this on my phone.My laptop does not show my access point while sitting in the same spot.So phone is okay laptop not.Any ideas why?
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Question reg. PoE switch for Access Point (PoE budget)
I'm planning on buying a small cheap PoE gigabit switch.Really don't need more than 5 ports, where 2 of them have to be PoE.The PoE ports have to power 2 Access Points (Cambium E410).I've looked at the Netgear GS105PE.NETGEAR ProSAFE GS105PE 5-Port Gigabit Web Managed PoE Passthrough Switch with 2 x PoE (Max 19W/7.9W) Switch powered by PoE only I can easily get hold of a PoE injector to power this switch. My question is:The Cambium E410 states: Power Consumed 13W (max)Does this mean that two access points require 26W and the Netgear GS105PE won't work (as it states max 19W)? Or would a better choice be theTP-Link TL-SG1005P 5-Port Gigabit Desktop Switch With 4-Port PoE?Supports PoE Power up to 15.4W for each PoE port
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replace damage usb stick in Edgerouter Lite
im not too sure what value this would bring but thought i could make down the step just in case anyone needs to do the same but with really limited knowledge to CLI like mine. there is other place on internet has something like this, but might not be baby step as this one.some background:my ERL started having Error 500 after login, after asking abit of question here on GZ forum, I found out that the usb stick was dead and i could not reset the router, while im saving up for a Edgerouter 4, i have to fix it as the short term fix.To complete the replacement, you need the following.1.PuTTY - this is used for monitor what is going on inside the router.2.console cable - mine is RJ45 to usb, and it for the connect router to your PC so you could use PuTTY. console cable plug in console port in router and the other end goes to my PC3.Tftpd64 - this software would make up a place so the router could boot without the firmware.4.a ftp server - this is to let the router to download EdgeOS, in my case I use the Synology NAS. but you should be able to find tones of software so you could use your PC to host one.5.emrk-0.9c.bin - this is used for boot the router, download from http://0.uk.mirrors.vyos.net/tools/emrk/6.EdgeOS.tar - download from the ubnt.com, in my case i downloaded and renamed as ERL.tar, put in my NAS, you might need to download them and place it in the FTP server.6.a working router (optional) - i need to use NAS as FTP server so i set up my old router. PC, ERL (eth0) both conect to router, 7.a usb that is small enough to fit in ERL, plug it in the ERL, i use Kingston SE9 16g (cost my 8 dollors, online review said it should work, and it is cheap) do NOT connect power to ERL just yet. -----I learned it only by googleing, some terminology might not be accurate.--------1. plug console cable into your PC and found out which COM your console cable is, to do this you need to go to devices manager, it is under [COM and LPT]2.set up Fftp64, current Directory should be the place you save ermk-0.9c.bin, server interfaces should be my PC's IP, because in my case i need to use the NAS.3. set up PuTTY, you need to change connection type to [Serial], serial line should be match COM of the console cable, mine is COM5, speed should be set as 115200. then hit open. 4, connect power to ERL, keep press keyboard on PuTTY, not too sure the theoy behind it, but once the router is ready you will see the stuff you enter, simply just delete all the entery. Then you will have the screen below5. set all the configure to boot from tftp64.set ipaddr x.x.x.x (in my case i set 192.168.178.40, this is going back to using NAS so i have to set it like this so my router will recongise it later on. )set netmask 255.255.255.0 (or whatever mask you want)set serverip y.y.y.y (this is the ip address on tftp, in my case it would be 192.168.178.20)set bootfile emrk-0.9c.binset gatewayip z.z.z.z (my default gateway is 192.168.178.1)tftpboot (once hit Enter, the window will run)when it stop running, enter bootoctlinux $loadaddr . it will run again.it will ask you whether you know what you are doing and whether you want to procee, key in yes, then hit enter (even i dont know what im doing :P)it then asks you about DHCP, cos my ERL is connected to the working router as a device, so i need to do this in order to let ERL access my NAS.once it is all done, you should see [Emrk>] in the window,6.install edgeOS, enter emrk-reinstall (like second line from Pic below), once hit Enter, it will ask you for the url of edgerOS tar. you should enter the ftp address of the tar file you download, i could not figure how to download from the interent directly, hence the dummy way.7.once download completed, it will install, once finish installing, it will ask you the reboot, you should have a workable ERL once reboot.then you could go the Michael turorial and follow the step to set it up.DONE:) just a update, I have done this 3 times already, the last usb i put in die 2 days later. when I found it out, the ERL still works just could not login (error 500) maybe it has something to do with system setting on usb reset time or something like it. hope this SE would last longer, if anyone know what is casuing the dying usb, please teach me how to fix..... hope this small tutorial can help someone :) S.
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Netgear Orbi vs Google Wifi vs Ubiquiti AmpliFi HD?
Further to my recent thread about improving wifi in my house, I took the advice of the crowd and decided to go for Mesh wifi as opposed to extending by powerline adaptors and extenders. However, the $500-$600 for Ubiquiti and Google Wifi are out of my price range for now.I noticed that the Netgear Orbi 3-pack is in the PBTech Cyber Monday sale - what are peoples' thoughts about this option compared tyo the Google & Ubiquiti options? The Netgear units look a bit big, but the specs sound good.Cheers,Martin
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New home comms cabinet, tidy install
Just took a photo of my new comms cabinet, new build,I think they have left it in a pretty tidy state, I havent filled it up with gear yethas anyone seen such a long comms cabinet, i thought they were a bit shorter. click image to make it larger.
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Ookla error
I have started getting page errors on Ookla. Anyone know why?
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New network solution for new house
Hi everyone! im about to move house and get gigabit internet at new place. The place we cant run cables through the walls etc and I am looking for a solution. I have a budget of $1000 for the wifi upgrade and I am wanting to get fast speeds no problems throughout the house. The house is small only 120 square metres
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Arduino Networking Issue, Help?
Hi allNot sure where I'd put arduino related threads on this forum, but because its networking related, this seems the best place.Im having a odd problem with my NodeMCU'sI recently updated my firewall and my script stopped working, I found that I had accidentally turned off ping between vlans. I allowed ICMP which is usually what ping runs over, but it still appears to be blocked.So posting on another forum we got to the point where we know its the arduino having issues and not the firewall its self.Turned on logging on firewall and noticed the following actions:Ping router from Arduino - See the requests in firewall & arduino gets response. (Red line)Send external web request from arduino - See requests in firewall & arduino gets response. (Orange Line)Send web request to internal server - Arduino queries internal DNS and gets IP of web server, but no request send (Nothing in firewall logs) (Yellow and Blue)Send ping to internal server - Arduino queries same dns server, gets ip, but no request sent (Firewall logs again) (Yellow and Green)however, sending the ping and web request from desktop, shows both the firewall log blocking the ping request, and the rule allowing the web request.(Brown Purple Pink)Have attached diagram again to help visualize whats going onAnd can attach router logs or rules if requiredhttps://imgur.com/a/g4TipmZAlso have set a windows PC with the same IP address, and can ping the web server, so I know it's something wrong with the arduino's requests to the web server in particular, and not the firewall?So for some reason, when doing any network traffic to that particular vlan / subnet from the arduino it wont send the requests.Other devices with the same IP work fine, and other subnets / vlans work fine, just that particular range?Things I am going to try tonight after work are- Try a different IP on that subnet to see if its the IP or the range thats having issues.- Try a wireshark capture to see if I can see the traffic on the LAN, then see if I can see any issues with the packets.
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Show us your Comms Cupboard
Hey all,I'm after ideas and inspiration for a Comms Cupboard.So I'd love to see photos of your setup - from your in-wall cabinets, to dedicated rooms/cupboards or under your desk setups. This will be a judgement free zone. :-)I'd also love to hear your do's, do nots and regrets.Thanks heaps!Phil.
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pfsense router config for 2D fibre
hi everyone,I made a dumb move AGAIN, i decided to try turned a pc to a router as my ERL usb dead again.i managed to config the pppoe and vlan tagging to get internet access, but it was having hard time getting full speed.ERL has 800/400, pfsense only has 300/400, i did try switching them and do the speed test, so dont think it is driver related.anyone could help me on where i should start looking to change config to get full speed? beside pfsense, is there any os I should try? im wanting something reliable and can do full speed. mostly download and steaming online. thanks advance :) Sam
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Downsides of hiding SSID
TLDR: Is there a downside to hiding the SSID of a network encrypted with WPA2 and a strong key?Background:I use a a UniFi AP that has the 2.4GHz and 5Ghz networks using the same SSID, band steering generally works well to ensure insure 5G capable devices onto 5G. However it doesn't always work.I have two TVs that need to be connected via 5G as I stream full UHD blu-ray remuxes, and 2.4G isn't fast enough.My current solution is having a second SSID which is 5G only, and I have the TVs connected to that. These are the only devices that will ever connect to that SSID.So what's the problem?The OCD in me doesn't like this network name showing up when devices scan for networks, as it will never be used for connecting any devices other than these two TVs - so I'd like to hide the SSID (not for security reasons, just because it seems tidier to not have it show up in the list).I know that hiding the SSID provides zero security benefits but, as long as the network is protected with WPA2 and a strong key, is there a downside to hiding it?
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Modem recommendation for Vodafone fibre and pfsense
Hi - I'm trying to set up pfsense on a spare PC with internet access through a Vodafone Ultra Hub. The install goes fine, and I can assign interfaces and access the web configurator from a LAN PC, but I can't access the Vodafone Ultra Hub or the internet. Googling tells me that I need a fibre capable modem that can be bridged. Any recommendations gratefully received
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I'm looking for something faster than WinSCP
Long long story, much much shorter...I am using WinSCP to copy files from a Drobo NAS to a Windows Home Server 2011.(The why, is the long long story)These 2 devices are both connected to the same Gigabit switch, and both have Gigabit ethernet connections.Before the long long story, when I was able to map directly to the Drobo from Windows, I would see transfer speeds vary from 50MB/s upwards.But with WinSCP I am getting only 10-12MB/s, and it's going to take a considerable number of days to copy 15TB at that rate.Is this a limitation of WinSCP or are there faster options??Drobo support have recommended WinSCP, to use SCP connection type, and disable "optimise connection buffer size".Thank you.
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Help with Advanced settings, DLink 890L, Spark Fibre Max Plan
Hey guys Ive been a long time reader and not much of a contributor due to most of the question I have ever had been awnsered by a simple google search, However I am struggling to get any more then 500mbs up and down on Ethernet out of my current set up. with the HG659b I got around 950 down and 750 up over Ethernet. Is there anyone that can help with advanced settings? My Current Settings Device Mode: Router Internet Connection: PPPOEusername: user@spark.co.nzpassword: passwordAddress mode: Dynamic IPprimary DNS: 122.56.237.1Secondary DNS: 210.55.111.1MTU: AutoVLAN: EnabledVLAN ID: 10IPTV: 823VOIP: 400 I want to get the best out of this router and the only other settings I have changed is opened up the 20 ports to the server I have on this network. Is there any suggestions on advanced settings I can alter etc? I appreciate you taking the time to read this and look forward to your responses.
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Powerline Networking Issue
So we finally got fibre in our suburb, and we install it ASAP. So now the LAN/wifi speed becomes the bottleneck rather than the pipe to internet. So I use speedtest.net to do a lot of testing. I use TP-Link AV1200 for LAN networking from the wifi router/modem to my PC. The TP-Link utility tells me the link isn't a gigabit network, but ~300mbps, even though in theory AV1200 can do gigabit.The problem I have is that the powerline network speed according to speedtest is consistently lower than my 5ghz wireless AC speed. The ping time of the powerline network is better (by 10 ms), but it never consistently goes up to 100 mbps, which is our theoretical fibre speed cap at the moment. But the 5ghz wifi consistent goes up to (and sometimes above) the fibre speed cap.So my question is, is it normal? Short of getting another powerline adapter, I have no idea whether it is the adapter that is faulty, or if the electrical network in our house can only handle ~300mbps and that is limiting the speed (if I had known our house can only do ~300mbps powerline network, I would have bought the cheaper AV600 plug, which would be more than enough). In real world usage, ping is more important, so I'm sticking with the powerline network at the moment but in general, 5ghz wireless AC seems to be good enough.
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