What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
Yes, but I doubt you had that volume of traffic going through your router from your home network on a daily basis. Like I said, usually around 150GB per day between up and down. I've seen Verizon routers run fine for months for people who just stream Netflix, browse the web and do the basics. But high levels of intensive use, and they just crack.
What is more intensive than several Netflix streams at once?
It's not how much bandwidth you pull. Several Netflix streams will use some bandwidth, but I'd bet you were still using under 10GB combined between up and down in a day. Multiple that more than tenfold and factor in that it's running 24/7. You might stream some Netflix, then stop and browse the web, etc. I was at your house for awhile and got a good idea of how you guys use your network. You're nowhere near how much bandwidth I consume. You probably took half a month to use what I use in a day.
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
What is more intensive than several Netflix streams at once?
Torrents
Does that often actually pull more than several Netflix streams?
Torrents will quickly saturate a connection if you aren't limiting them.
Not only will they saturate the link, but it can easily reach thousands of connections also. That is actually what kills most routers. The simultaneous connections.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
What is more intensive than several Netflix streams at once?
Torrents
Does that often actually pull more than several Netflix streams?
When I've got several downloads going, combined with uploads, I'm using a combined over 5MB/sec of bandwidth. Granted, once my downloads finish, many times it's under 1MB/sec for most of the day, but still, the router never really gets a break. The reboot just helps "flush the system" as it were.
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@JaredBusch said:
@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
What is more intensive than several Netflix streams at once?
Torrents
Does that often actually pull more than several Netflix streams?
Torrents will quickly saturate a connection if you aren't limiting them.
Not only will they saturate the link, but it can easily reach thousands of connections also. That is actually what kills most routers. The simultaneous connections.
The ones I run generally don't have more than 20 or 30 connections per torrent, and I usually don't have more than 5 or 6 torrents running simultaneously. Still, several hundred connections at any given point is not at all unlikely.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
Yes, but I doubt you had that volume of traffic going through your router from your home network on a daily basis. Like I said, usually around 150GB per day between up and down. I've seen Verizon routers run fine for months for people who just stream Netflix, browse the web and do the basics. But high levels of intensive use, and they just crack.
What is more intensive than several Netflix streams at once?
It's not how much bandwidth you pull. Several Netflix streams will use some bandwidth, but I'd bet you were still using under 10GB combined between up and down in a day. Multiple that more than tenfold and factor in that it's running 24/7. You might stream some Netflix, then stop and browse the web, etc. I was at your house for awhile and got a good idea of how you guys use your network. You're nowhere near how much bandwidth I consume. You probably took half a month to use what I use in a day.
We often have 2-3 HD streams all day because the kids just constantly leave it on.
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@JaredBusch said:
Not only will they saturate the link, but it can easily reach thousands of connections also. That is actually what kills most routers. The simultaneous connections.
Ah, that makes more sense. The bandwidth of Netflix HD is pretty high.
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Jitter graph for the past two hours:
Ping graph over the last two hours.
Short downtime was when I moved my cable back to the switch.
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@coliver said:
Jitter graph for the past two hours:
Ping graph over the last two hours.
Short downtime was when I moved my cable back to the switch.
Seems to me the best thing to do would be reboot the firewall and see if that fixes it.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
@coliver said:
Jitter graph for the past two hours:
Ping graph over the last two hours.
Short downtime was when I moved my cable back to the switch.
Seems to me the best thing to do would be reboot the firewall and see if that fixes it.
I'll have to try that. Can't do it right now though.
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@coliver said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@coliver said:
Jitter graph for the past two hours:
Ping graph over the last two hours.
Short downtime was when I moved my cable back to the switch.
Seems to me the best thing to do would be reboot the firewall and see if that fixes it.
I'll have to try that. Can't do it right now though.
Yeah, I understand. If you guys have a time when most people go to lunch, just tell everyone you're gonna bring the network down for 10 minutes and to grab some coffee and food in the meantime.
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Grab a Ubiquiti Edge Router and throw that in there and see if everything clears up
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Posting on Spiceworks today. Haven't really posted on more than a single thread or two for months now in any given day, but I'm hitting the Printers group pretty hard today.
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That is one thing I wish ML had, and I know we're working on getting is more questions. However, I like answering printer questions, and we don't get too many of those.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Grab a Ubiquiti Edge Router and throw that in there and see if everything clears up
I was thinking about that. Would be quick and easy to transfer it out... except our ISP has to be involved since they reject anything not coming from a specific MAC address.... and they take a silly amount of time for that type of thing.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
@coliver said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@coliver said:
Jitter graph for the past two hours:
Ping graph over the last two hours.
Short downtime was when I moved my cable back to the switch.
Seems to me the best thing to do would be reboot the firewall and see if that fixes it.
I'll have to try that. Can't do it right now though.
Yeah, I understand. If you guys have a time when most people go to lunch, just tell everyone you're gonna bring the network down for 10 minutes and to grab some coffee and food in the meantime.
I was just going to send out an email telling everyone this.
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@coliver said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@coliver said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@coliver said:
Jitter graph for the past two hours:
Ping graph over the last two hours.
Short downtime was when I moved my cable back to the switch.
Seems to me the best thing to do would be reboot the firewall and see if that fixes it.
I'll have to try that. Can't do it right now though.
Yeah, I understand. If you guys have a time when most people go to lunch, just tell everyone you're gonna bring the network down for 10 minutes and to grab some coffee and food in the meantime.
I was just going to send out an email telling everyone this.
Great minds think alike. 
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Feeling like I need an intern today, desk is piling up.
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Looking at the openNMS project.
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@g.jacobse After you get done with that one, check out Zabbix! (http://www.zabbix.com)
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Shaking my head at CloudatCost and their SELinux snafu. What were they thinking!??!
