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I have my 2nd unraid licence here. might look into that provided I can pass through my card. its 10+ yo hardware.

Will consider that. Got to get use to pfsense first. Nice thing is I have 2 static ip addresses so I can actually with a little work get the network up and going while not affecting my main one.

its sort of future proofing myself. rather spend the extra money now then down the road. I am hopping sometime in the future were I can somehow drop my isp (sasktel) equipment and go straight fiber to pfsense. the other shaw as well. I do realize they will not support it but it is less equipment to fail. I am doing that now with the ont connected directly to my unifi usg device. Not supported but not frowned upon by my isp now.

but can it do an x8 gen 3 pcie card? part of what might be happening is using a sfp gpon adaptor. Drop the isp ont. Been finding some success with both bell and telus.

Finally this weekend installing pfsense on some hardware I have kicking around. This is not a production server yet just playing with it. now I do want to go fully in with pfsense. I have a few requirements to future proof what I hope to do First is the options to use 2 isp accounts at the same time. Not looking at combining them into 1 connection. more like isp1 vlan 100 and isp 2 vlan 200 setup. then configure my switches after that. Also have a fail over if one isp goes down. Because of this potential 2gbps or more in the future I want the output to handle 10gbps. an x8 slot is needed for sfp+ ports. ipmi is also nice. 2u or smaller case low power yet room to expand. I will be using an ssd as the main drive. Now I haven't dug to much into the advanced setup of pfsense or even my unifi equipment I have in use.

multiple AP units. like unifi. Is the best option. are you mostly wifi(see above) or wired?

I would just likt to here is a jack, we run our speedtest and then have a nice day

this isn't me. This is the people I have to deal with doing my job

nope, all they say is wifi is included. people are like I pay for wifi (never say internet) and I pay for 100mbps and I only get coverage here and speeds of 95mbps. I sound like a broken record times. You pay for internet not wifi. we advertise upto 300 for example. Via cat5e or better and when you do a speed test and get 295 its close enough. To do a true speed test you need have 1 device connected. not the 40+ when you add up everything. We don't own the frequency. Control what our competitors do, what your next door people do and so on. its rediculus what people expect from us. My computer takes 20 min to start up and up to an hour to get the printer to print something. Must be something with your equipment I am running a windows xp machine and can't get the 300 I pay for (100mbps card installed) Why can't I use the flat line tel cord to get ethernet to my house https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/10m-30ft-RJ11-6P4C-Cable-new_60397529085.html what do you mean I wired it wrong, your network should be able to do it this way. I don't want all this wires, I want everything to be wireless and I am not paying out of my own pocket to get what I wan't I want cat6a everywhere, over 100 runs. cisco equipment and AP units I should not have to pay to get this installed.

People expect the isp to have 100% coverage in there house and Full speed 24/7. regardless if they are in an apartment or large house. If the isp can deliver on this coverage then it is up to the isp to fix. They the customer shouldn't have to pay to get something that works. this includs 40-50 wireless devices if not more. It comes down to people always treating internet as wifi. People don't understand you pay for internet that comes trough ethernet and wifi is just a bonus. When the area I work in upgrade to fiber over half of the people thought this would fix there wifi issue, It has actually made it worse now that we are offering such speeds. Including playstation servers that max them out at ~50mbps when they pay for 100+mbps. Something on our end they say.

Been doing this for years. even my small house needs min 2 AP to cover the entire house.

couple of isp's in the area have had enough with slow wii speed/coverage. They are installing the isp gateway and that is it. You have 2 options, deal with it yourself like I did or pay to get some equipment. There is already some people threatening to switch, take them to court. I pay for it I should get it. It says you pay for internet and wifi is included. had a few troubles this week myself. Ran things wrong, nothing ran at all "everything is wireless these days you know". One wanted the gateway in the middle of the house, fine makes sense. Want's a few things hardwired but does not want to have all them go to the gateway. This is new 2-3 year old houses.

I believe the problem is I am transferring files from the cache to disk 9 for example (managed by unraid and the shares). At the same time data is being read off the same drive to go to various clients. When I first got unraid there was no such thing as dockers and it was just myself. Now I have roomates, family and friends using plex and 4k content. There was a plugin that scatters the data across multiple drives. Will give that a shot for now. can't remember the name. I know about the have all the disks first before you setup the new system.

in the 12+ years I have used unraid it has been solid. I am running into some bottlenecks lately causing me to look at an alternative option. It's all to do with the unraid ecosystem. like transferring files to a share that is also requesting data. I transfer 2-3tb in one shot. I have known about freenas for some time, I did some reading and others are starting to complain some. I am generally only going to use it for storage as I have other plans for VM and dockers. any nas software I should look at?

I was giving it some thought. I might look at the HDMI cable path. I do phow when it comes to gaming there is a noticeable delay using catX extenders like hdbaset. Maybe linus could do a video about cable lengths and delay.

wondering if a really long hdmi cable and or hdmi over catX can provide full video? stuff like blu-ray hits the audio receiver first then to the tv.

try a different ethernet cable? make sure there are 8 conductors what is your test computer connected to? the switch that is 100mbps then that is your limitation. you also need to disable wifi and only have 1 device connected.

could you try another speed test server/program. unifi gives me bad results while speedtest.net gives me good ones.

We don’t as there are so many versions and models out there. Plus if they need to forward a port it is up to them as they usually forget there password.

yes and no. most isp's have no issue with using your own equipment. But they will not provide any support with it. Get them or yourself to put there equipment in bridge mode then configure yours and away you go. I did one on there new xb6 or whatever there current one is, was easy to do. all I had to configure was the dns server on the 3rfd party router. used google 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. There is 1.1.1.1 and others

thinking of trying someone else as well. Not that I am complaining to much about PIA just willing to try someone else out.

unless you are willing to run a lan cable. use moca, powerline or invest in your own gear to get the 5ghz that may or may not work you are SOL. BTW some isp's and others are going to follow that if you want good wifi and speed in your house you will have to invest the time and money to do it. I my self who has 2 places on the go need multiple AP units to get good coverage from my isp. I would gladly take just an Ethernet port and that is it from my isp. instead of there combo gateway unit.

this is what my isp does.

it takes an extra 3-5 min. our competitors get paid by the job and not by the hour like I do. ont does not get bridged. The gateway that provides the internet from the ont is the one that gets bridged. gateway=isp modem/router/switch/wifi

Wow as an isp tech I always setup our equipment in bridgemode. Do a short walkthrew on setting up there router and that is it. There is a understanding that the isp will not support this and I am only doing this in good fath.