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<p>My experience with these devices is that their wifi performance i
woeful.</p>
<p>- they are cheap</p>
<p>- by design 1, as you cant 'hack' what you cant get a signal
from.</p>
<p>- by design 2, so that channel overlap is less of a problem in
MDU's etc (flats, townhouses, etc)</p>
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<p>Note; channel overlap may also be your problem. For 2.4ghz you
want to use either 1, 6 or 11. If something else is on those
channels ( or between them ) then performance may be impacted. If
possible use 5ghz, again running on a free channel<br>
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<p>If youre happy with the browsing speeds etc, and the other
problems you mentioned you can live with, just disable the wifi
and attach a stand alone wifi AP (tp-link again being a good
option, whch you can flash with opewrt or other if you like)</p>
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</p>
<p>You may also be able to get the netgear in to bridge mode, and
then use your own firewall device (potentially a bsd)</p>
<p>Its possible that the steps are similar to the Netgear CG3000's
which are a similar device - steps are at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://pfstore.com.au/blogs/guides/pfsense-on-optus-cable">https://pfstore.com.au/blogs/guides/pfsense-on-optus-cable</a></p>
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<p>Dean</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25/1/19 12:06 pm, Andrew Reilly
wrote:<br>
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<div class="">Yes, it's a Netgear. Telstra call it something like
"Gateway Max". Looks a lot like this one: </div>
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href="https://www.netgear.com/service-providers/products/cable/gateways/C6300BD-Telstra.aspx"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.netgear.com/service-providers/products/cable/gateways/C6300BD-Telstra.aspx</a> </div>
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<div class="">Performance usually seems pretty decent. Certainly
for web browsing and what-not I've not experienced much in the
way of issues.</div>
<div class=""><br class="">
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<div class="">"top" on the file server says that afpd is using
about 1% of CPU, so that probably isn't the bottleneck...</div>
<div class="">systat -vmstat says that the ZFS drives are doing
about 70tps, averaging about 2-3 MB/s, and are 25-30% busy. So
unless they're doing lots of pointless seeking, I don't think
they're the bottleneck either. I'm inclined to blame the WiFi
protocols, perhaps exacerbated by afpd.</div>
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<div class="">Cheers,</div>
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<div class="">On 25 Jan 2019, at 11:47, Dean Hamstead <<a
href="mailto:dean@fragfest.com.au" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">dean@fragfest.com.au</a>>
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<div class="">ok youre on Telstra cable. Thats good
actually.<br class="">
<br class="">
I assume that youre using the all in one cable modem +
wifi ? Is it a netgear?<br class="">
<br class="">
<br class="">
Dean<br class="">
<br class="">
On 25/1/19 10:59 am, Andrew Reilly wrote:<br class="">
<blockquote type="cite" class="">Thanks for the
comments. Just to clarify, I'm not yet on the NBN.
If they squeak my installation in before the 2020
line-in-the-sand I guess I'll be happy. I'm in the
Telstra/Foxtel HFC footprint, and so will probably be
the last connected. I'll lose a bit of download speed
(Bigpond HFC gets up to 120Mb/s on a good day) but I'm
really looking forward to the up-tick in upload speed
and reduced latency. We'll see. I'm afraid that the
fact that NBN has been "imminent" for the last five
years or so has rather held up enthusiasm for
experimenting with other configurations. I came close
to running the modem in bridge mode and using a
third-party WiFi router when I discovered the IPSec
issue, but haven't, yet. So IPv6 is something else to
look forward to? IPv4-only on Bigpond cable.<br
class="">
<br class="">
An experiment I could reasonably try, if it's still
going this evening, would be getting a USB-C ethernet
adaptor for the laptop and plugging it into the
switch.<br class="">
<br class="">
As an aside, that was some fairly spectacular breakage
of my original message by the BUGS mail forwarder!
I'm sorry for whatever it was that I did to upset it.
Looks as though it re-assembled Apple's soft-wrap
text into long lines, and then broke those at non-word
boundaries with explanation marks. I've not seen that
happen before.<br class="">
<br class="">
Cheers,<br class="">
<br class="">
Andrew Reilly<br class="">
E: <a href="mailto:areilly@bigpond.net.au" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">areilly@bigpond.net.au</a><br
class="">
M: +61-409-824-272<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">On 25 Jan 2019, at
10:31, Dean Hamstead <<a
href="mailto:dean@fragfest.com.au" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">dean@fragfest.com.au</a>>
wrote:<br class="">
<br class="">
Friends dont let friends run the ISP modem :)<br
class="">
<br class="">
Also, realistically WiFi will run at about 50% of
its theoretical max speed.<br class="">
<br class="">
Telstra's modems are notoriously terrible (as are
most big name ISP's who customize the firmware), but
on the plus side Telstra is now perhaps the only ISP
that does IPv6 on NBN and ADSL products (Internode
doesnt do it on products they are selling through
AAPT wholesale, like NBN-HFC and NBN-FTTC)<br
class="">
<br class="">
If you don't use a phone service which Telstra
insists on providing via their crappy modem - you
can just replace it with something like a cheap
TP-Link. Which you can likely reload with OpenWRT or
similar. If youre using fttn then youll need to get
a vdsl modem (even just a 1 port dm200 from netgear,
in bridge mode).<br class="">
<br class="">
Or you could run a pfsense/opnsense appliance, or
roll your own via and bsd you like. For<br class="">
<br class="">
I've not yet had the chance to get Telstra IPv6
running on a non-Telstra device though. Assuming
they are just using DHCPv6 (they just use DHCP for
ipv4) then it should just be a matter of providing
settings they will accept.<br class="">
<br class="">
<br class="">
<br class="">
Dean<br class="">
<br class="">
On 25/1/19 10:18 am, Harry Woodward-Clarke wrote:<br
class="">
<blockquote type="cite" class="">yeah - I would be
suspicious of the Telstra device. I should have
thought at least 20MB/s, and up to about 30MB/s
without too much effort.<br class="">
<br class="">
Of course, to get the super-duper speeds, both the
Tx and Rx need to use multiple antennas (MIMO) -
hence why some of the fancy-schmancy Access Points
have all those antennas pointing every which way
:)<br class="">
<br class="">
The may be some tweaks you can do in the T-device
(channel width, Tx power) but I suspect you are
stuck unless you put a "real" Wireless Access
Point in the mix.<br class="">
<br class="">
.h<br class="">
<br class="">
On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 09:49, Andrew Reilly <<a
href="mailto:areilly@bigpond.net.au" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">areilly@bigpond.net.au</a>>
wrote:<br class="">
Here's a group that just might have a few clues
for me. Any suggestions gratefully accepted.<br
class="">
<br class="">
I run a FreeBSD system at home as a file server.
Have done since maybe '92 or so, but of course
all of the moving parts and bits have changed over
time. Today's version has a new-ish version-1
Ryzen motherboard with 32G RAM (which I've managed
to stop spontaneously freezing a couple of times a
week, over the break, by locking _all_ P-states
off except 0, in BIOS). That is host to an NVME
SSD that holds root, /usr, /var, etc, and four 4T
Hitachi drives in RaidZ form for user data. There
are two quota-limited ZFS volumes on there that I
use to TimeMachine backup the house's two macOS
systems. Main network file service to the macs is
over the latest Samba, with all of the Unix and
Mac-friendly tweaks enabled, and that doesn't seem
to work too badly. Not totally fluid (SMB
restrictions on file name characters bight every
so often, as do slightly weird file permissions)
but tolerable, and seemingly the only option
really supported by macOS these days. TimeMachine
still!<br class="">
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!<br class="">
<blockquote type="cite" class=""> run!<br class="">
<blockquote type="cite" class="">
<blockquote type="cite" class=""> s over AFP, so
NetAtalk is on there too. That box is connected
to a switch over gigabit ethernet, as is my mac
desktop and a Telstra Netcomm
cable-modem-cum-wifi-router. Hanging off the 5GHz
Wifi band at the moment is a brand new MacBook
Air, a replacement for my wife's dying old
MacBook. It's on it's first boot, and is
attempting to restore from the last backup of the
MacBook, some 280G. It claims that it will take
another 36 hours, at the current average pace of
2MB/s. That seems low to me, by perhaps as much
as a factor of 60. I've read that 5GHz WiFi is
supposed to manage 1300 Mb/s under good
conditions, and in this case the new laptop is
about eight feet from the WiFi router, in line of
sight. Doesn't get much better than that. Not
that there's much I can do about it now, but does
anyone have any thoughts about why the restore
performance should be so awful? Could it be
bottlenecking on the laptop's APFS write speed?
Something pessimal about NetAtalk ove!<br
class="">
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r !<br class="">
<blockquote type="cite" class=""> WiF!<br class="">
<blockquote type="cite" class="">
<blockquote type="cite" class=""> i? A rubbish
network stack in the Telstra modem? (Heaven knows
the user-interface and the firewall are rubbish.
The device drops all IPSec packets silently on
the ground.)<br class="">
<br class="">
Cheers,<br class="">
<br class="">
Andrew Reilly<br class="">
E: <a href="mailto:areilly@bigpond.net.au"
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