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Sir Asvald

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    Sir Asvald reacted to wONKEyeYEs in how do i get lower ping? what do i buy do get lower ping? do i call my isp for lower ping?   
    Ihr seid gnädigerweise frei von den Verwüstungen der Intelligenz.
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    Sir Asvald reacted to johnny668687 in how do i get lower ping? what do i buy do get lower ping? do i call my isp for lower ping?   
    will making all my devices connect to 2.4ghz but my pc is using wired connection will it make the internet faster will it lower ping?
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    Sir Asvald reacted to mike_seps in Should I just upgrade to 11 already?   
    Runs great for me. I haven't run into any issues. Photoshop was a bit weird the first day I tried to launch it, but I think that was more on Adobe's side than anything.
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    Sir Asvald reacted to Akima in Show off your latest purchases   
    So today we received:
     
    4 x SuperMicro 5039MC-H12TRF systems (12 blades per system - pretty dense, that's 48 baremetal servers in 12U rack space. This is going to be a royal PIA to cable up properly).
     
    200 x Micron 5300 PRO 480GB SSD (Only item our vendors had in local stock at this volume. Will do for now but longer term will replace with something higher volume. It's non-critical use for our R&D team so not gone OTT with the specs).


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    Sir Asvald reacted to Zalosath in Port Forwarding won't work on new Hub   
    Solution is trivial and stupid.
    Port checker was not working, I tried 3 different ones and it seems like they all look for some kind of header to pull to verify the port is open, for game servers and the like, especially for games under development (like mine), they won't have this header file and thus will fail the port check.
     
    Actually testing the connection with another device is a much more fool proof way and I will not be using a port checker again.
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    Sir Asvald reacted to TexasBulldog74 in Latest and greatest.   
    I think it would just depend on their price range and use case.  Best budget card AMD RX6600xt, Mid Range the RTX 3070 is a nice sweet spot, High end the RTX 3080 or RX 6900.  Now thats just my opinion.  
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    Sir Asvald got a reaction from Mr.Bolt in Show off your latest purchases   
    100% still amazing CPUs. 😄
     
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    Sir Asvald got a reaction from atxcyclist in Show off your latest purchases   
    100% still amazing CPUs. 😄
     
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    Sir Asvald got a reaction from soldier_ph in Show off your latest purchases   
    I replaced my Dell poweredge R210 II which was running SCCM with my old 4790K build because the Dell server was driving me insane, was too loud and causing my room to get hot. My 4790K only had 16GB and I bought 32GB.
     
     

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    Sir Asvald reacted to atxcyclist in Show off your latest purchases   
    Long live Haswell. I still have a 4790k/H97/16gb combo sitting in a case at my office, that was my old workstation setup. I only took it out of service about 6 months ago, I need to find a use for it because it shouldn't just sit there.
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    Sir Asvald got a reaction from SimplyChunk in Show off your latest purchases   
    I replaced my Dell poweredge R210 II which was running SCCM with my old 4790K build because the Dell server was driving me insane, was too loud and causing my room to get hot. My 4790K only had 16GB and I bought 32GB.
     
     

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    Sir Asvald got a reaction from atxcyclist in Show off your latest purchases   
    I replaced my Dell poweredge R210 II which was running SCCM with my old 4790K build because the Dell server was driving me insane, was too loud and causing my room to get hot. My 4790K only had 16GB and I bought 32GB.
     
     

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    Sir Asvald reacted to TomChaai in Will Fiber get me better ping for online games?   
    Fiber or not is the last mile delivery differences. Unless your current last mile is absolutely garbage, I don't think this will make too much a difference.
    Changing ISP however may improve things, for example they have a different upstream connection and their backbone has better connection to MS Azure/AWS/Google cloud PoPs.
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    Sir Asvald reacted to TomChaai in Will Fiber get me better ping for online games?   
    Unless you are a large organization or an ISP, the fiber you get is also "last mile" fiber, usually EPON or GPON which one fiber strand gets multiplexed over a dozen households or so. The physical capacity of a household fiber strand is 1.25G or 10G, depending on generation.
    Only large organization can afford native backbone level fiber connection, those often comes in dedicated pairs of fibers, no multiplexing, you always get guaranteed bandwidth and ping defined in the SLA, congestion does not exist.
    Although home fiber multiplex ratio is much better than copper DSL or cable modem, also fiber is much more tolerant to long distance/poor cable quality. On DSL/Cable those things often ruin your connection speed, on fiber this is not an issue, the only issue is your broadband plan, not even multiplex ratio is an issue most of the time unless your whole neighborhood downloads 24/7, which I believe is extremely unlikely.
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    Sir Asvald reacted to Lurick in DHCP range   
    Lol, you seem upset bro, did the naughty VLAN touch your management network? Maybe take some basic network design courses from Juniper, Arista, Broadcom, Nvidia, Extreme, Aruba, Fortinet, etc? They ALL use VLANs and just about everyone who uses VLANs does it with (V/R/P)ACLs, firewalls, and/or some other security and segmentation methods in the mix except when they're just trying to cut down on broadcast traffic or keep a network logically segmented. VLANs can serve a lot of different purposes in a network and almost nobody "throws them around left right and center" as you seem to allude to aside people who have no clue what they're doing and couldn't subnet anything smaller than a /24 and think L2 segments means secure.
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    Sir Asvald reacted to wseaton in DHCP range   
    Corporate Enterprise's *expose* their infrastructure to incompetent network admins with worthless Cisco certs who VLAN everything in sight, turn switches into swiss chees, and then get crypto'd by Russian teenagers who know that vertical network segmentation is not a proper security mitigation practice. 
     
    If you have a friend pop over with something on his smartphone so dangerous it can bust SMB shares by simply being on the same SSID you need to hire your friends as security consultants.😃  I'm WAY more concerned about the reclusive teen next door who dresses in black and carries a camo spray painted laptop with "Jacking Tool"  stenciled in the front. He's your real threat.
     
    I'm all for being cautious, but with android devices now being nailed by malware that walks through 2FA like it was peanut butter we really, really, really need to get out of 2006, layer 3 and focus on layer 7., IMO of course.
     
    Use firewall groups to block off gadgets that don't need to be on the internet. The rest is PEBKAC....
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    Sir Asvald reacted to Lurick in Understanding VLANs   
    LOL, that's about the dumbest thing I've ever heard. EVERYONE (Juniper, Cisco, Arista, Broadcom, Nvidia, etc.) uses VLANs to more easily segment the network and reduce broadcast domains and they are just one of many tools as a means to an end. If you think for a second VLANs are dumb I've got a bridge to nowhere to sell you. A single flat network is the stupid thing to push and there is a reason no SMB, enterprise, or hyperscaler does it.
    Are VLANs dumb in most home environments? Sure
    Beyond that? Hell no.
     
    Edit:
    To further clarify, VLANs shouldn't be used to segment traffic types, they are used to segment devices based on what they need access to. If OP is doing it just to segment traffic types, that's not the right approach.
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    Sir Asvald reacted to wseaton in Understanding VLANs   
    Why? Do H265 packets not get along with SMB packets or something?  🙂
     
    I'm just curious as somebody who's found 99.99% of VLANs to be utter pointless and offer no security benefit...vertical network segmentation doesn't do that. So, please explain technically why H265 traffic might interfere with a file server. 
     
    If the goal here is security you need to focus on locking those devices off the internet, which is most easily accomplished with a firewall. Creating VLANs and then creating ACL lists to allow devices to talk to your PC defeats the purpose, right? It's like installing a steel security door on your house and putting a 2foot hole in the middle of it.
     
    Using a VLAN to segregate types of network traffic went out in 1998 along with NetBEUI. There's no need to do this, but it's still pushed by CISCO heads who need to justify over priced switches and their CCNA. Segmenting devices into traffic types doesn't decrease traffic. It doesn't make NIC cards work better. 
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    Sir Asvald reacted to AlexTheGreatish in The 6.9GHz CPU   
    To celebrate the nicest day of the year, 6/9, we recruited overclocker Splave to help us get a CPU up to 6.9GHz.
     
    Make Splave famous:
    https://twitter.com/SplaveOC
    https://www.instagram.com/splaveoc/?hl=en
     
    Buy an Intel i9-12900KS: https://geni.us/5ZuT
    Buy an ASROCK Z690 Taichi: https://geni.us/elor8b
    Buy a kit of G.Skill TridentZ DDR5: https://geni.us/cr59
    Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group.
     
     
     
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    Sir Asvald reacted to Mnky313 in Fibre channel vs Ethernet, Will this work?   
    finally got it working.

     
    for anyone else who happens to stumble upon thing somehow you need to add:
    if_qlnxe_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf (use 'ee /boot/loader.conf') and reboot.
    you also need pfSense 2.6.0 or above.

    (and they don't show up on the console, only the web GUI!) 
    I may have wasted too much time thinking it wasn't working and trying different things before thinking maybe I should check the web thing...
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    Sir Asvald reacted to LinusTech in Difference in brands for SFP+ to RJ45 10Gb Modules   
    FS.com king tier.
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    Sir Asvald got a reaction from wseaton in Wireless is much slower than wired   
    That would explain your slow speeds. Wi-Fi uses half-duplex which cuts your speeds in half. Better to get an AP connect to your network. That is what I'm running.
     
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    Sir Asvald got a reaction from Lurick in Trouble getting S2S-VPN working.   
    I have found another solution. I am using OpenVPN peer to peer. Everything is working. 🙂
     
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