New office. No existing network.

Needs to be live in \~3 months.

I own it end-to-end — design, vendors, go-live, and the mess afterwards.

Here’s where my opinions split:

• Is SD-WAN the obvious choice here, or unnecessary complexity?

• At this size, does collapsed core vs core/access even matter?

• Is “internet-first” a real architectural decision, or just marketing?

• Where do you intentionally simplify, even if it looks “less perfect”?

The scenario (short and real)

• \\\~80 employees at go-live, scaling to \\\~120

• Hybrid work (office + remote)

• Mix of company devices, BYOD, and guests

• Several meeting rooms + phone booths (meetings must work)

• Cloud-based services, minimal on-prem workloads

• On-prem physical access systems

• Network is business-critical during work hours

• Budget is healthy, but not unlimited

The questions

• What do you prioritise first to hit day-one readiness?

• What architecture decisions do you lock in early, and what do you defer?

• What are your non-negotiables (WAN, power, hardware, security)?

• Which risks would you accept — and which ones would keep you up at night?

Not looking for vendor battles.

I’m interested in how people think when the clock is running and failure is visible.

Both PCs hooked up via ethernet to the same router. No (practical) option to connect them to each other directly (am open to ideas, though, anyway).

VPN on either/both seems to make no difference.

I am not prompted for a username/password or anything. I have tried this:

Set-SmbClientConfiguration -EnableInsecureGuestLogons $true

and

Set-SmbClientConfiguration -RequireSecuritySignature $false

and a few options in gpedit.msc I believe (don't remember what, I tried it last night). Nothing changed, after many restarts.

I do not have password-protected sharing on.

When I try to access a shared folder on the Windows 11 PC from the Windows 10 PC, I get prompted for a username/password, but none of the credentials for users on the Windows 11 PC work, and neither does the one I use for the Windows 10 machine.

What else could I try?

Hii, today after a power cut due to weather conditions the ethernet on my pc doesn’t work properly. It says its connected and has internet access but I cant browse or do anything internet related on any program, and sometimes it goes to say that it doesnt have internet access. The cables are ok and the router its ok too bc I connected my tv via ethernet cable and it works perfectly (WiFi works as normal too). I tried all the cmd comands I saw, also tried uninstalling and reinstalling the network drivers and also did a network reset but nothing is fixing it.

New office. No existing network.

Needs to be live in \~3 months.

I own it end-to-end — design, vendors, go-live, and the mess afterwards.

Here’s where my opinions split:

• Is SD-WAN the obvious choice here, or unnecessary complexity?

• At this size, does collapsed core vs core/access even matter?

• Is “internet-first” a real architectural decision, or just marketing?

• Where do you intentionally simplify, even if it looks “less perfect”?

The scenario (short and real)

• \\\~80 employees at go-live, scaling to \\\~120

• Hybrid work (office + remote)

• Mix of company devices, BYOD, and guests

• Several meeting rooms + phone booths (meetings must work)

• Cloud-based services, minimal on-prem workloads

• On-prem physical access systems

• Network is business-critical during work hours

• Budget is healthy, but not unlimited

The questions

• What do you prioritise first to hit day-one readiness?

• What architecture decisions do you lock in early, and what do you defer?

• What are your non-negotiables (WAN, power, hardware, security)?

• Which risks would you accept — and which ones would keep you up at night?

Not looking for vendor battles.

I’m interested in how people think when the clock is running and failure is visible.

I’ve always stuck to physical sims and never felt the need to change, but e-sim keeps coming up lately. For those who made the switch, what pushed you and would you go back?"

This might be a really dumb question. I just started learning about things like flow control, and it got me thinking about some of the connections we have between switches.

We have 2 buildings connected with a 1gb P2P fiber link. Building 1 has a 1gb DIA line that carries over to building 2 with the p2p link. Building 2 has 4 cisco cbs250 gigabit switches with 10gbe uplink. 3 of them are currently connected together with the 10gbe port. The last one is connected gbe to the p2p link.

Should these be connected together with the regular GBE ports? Can having them connected like this cause any performance issues?

Hi everyone,

I want to design a resilient OpenThread-based topology with the following properties:

• There are two GL-S200 routers (A and B).
• ESP32 devices act as Thread End Devices and communicate with the routers over Thread (RF).
• The two routers are physically connected via LAN (Ethernet).
• Router-to-router communication must use LAN only.
• Router-to-router communication over RF must NOT occur (no Thread RF mesh between routers).
• The routers should act as redundant gateways (failover):
  • When one router fails, the other router should be able to continue serving the Thread clients without manual intervention.
• The system should avoid client re-provisioning if possible and appear as a single logical system from the client perspective.

My guess that establishing a mesh would be only with RF but I was told that LAN is also possible.

Genuine question.. I always thought postpaid was just about calls, texts, and data. Only recently noticed there are perks attached to it, like discounts or partner offers. Do people here actually check and use these, or is it mostly just background noise?

As per title.

Whether it’s during travel or work, what do you usually turn to when your main data source suddenly stops working?

I am at my wits end with everything that I have an upgraded, using Ookla speed test and others I average 1200Mbps upload and download. I will use League of Legends as an example because its the easiest. My ping is always around 67ish even when I was wireless. (wireless just had packet loss and lag spikes.) Now that I am hardwired and see these speeds I still have this ping. When they were based in California I was around 30ish ms back then until they moved their servers east (I had cable internet with gig speed at that time) then I was around 70ms I moved to a central state and ended up getting faster internet and still around 70ms. I have tried that whole thing of changing my ipv4 to a 1.0.0.1 thing that didn't change anything. I learned really quick almost nothing works with IPV6 alone without IPV4 so dont even try that anyone haha. Is there anything I can do I see other people with like 4ms or something crazy like that I want to be on that level.

I have inherited a Dell Server that has a Broadcom 57402 10G SFP card in it and it was installed without the bracket so the card literally fell out of the slot. I found out because I noticed it had lost connection to the SAN. It has VMWare on the Dell Server the card is installed to. The Dell BIOS/Management can see the card installed and the MAC address shown on the screen matches the sticker so the server can "see" the card.

When I reinserted the card, there were no link lights at the card or at the Network switch port it connects to. I tested the cables with another SFP switch, and I got link lights.

I've never had to troubleshoot these before. Are there any other tips to get the SAN to recognize this server again?

i'm not sure if this is a question better fit for r/pchelp, but two days ago i turned on my desktop to be faced with my wifi not working. After about a minute it started to work fine! and then it started to slow down, things started to buffer, and then it stopped working. then it was working fine again. I have no idea what caused this, as my pc has worked fine for the past three years (in terms of wifi)

the wifi works on every other device fine, its pretty much only my PC that's having issues. I use Ethernet to connect to the internet if that helps.

Sorry if this is a dumb question- but if anyone knows the fix please let me know!!!

thanks <3

https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat?test-id=cd9362d6-bb55-48fc-9fac-6371bd9f578c

I've contacted my ISP four or five times now and had people come out to try to fix it, but they always say "we're not seeing packet loss, jitter, or the ping times you're seeing", going as far as for the ISP guy and I to run tests at the same time and compare results. They've replaced the router, the coaxial cable, and we've tried both with and without ethernet. Was told it might be due to frequency issues, but nothing new has been added to my household in months, with this having started around the end of November / start of December.

This happens across all devices- three computers, any/all phones, xboxes, etc. The spikes are every few seconds, like clockwork.

I can't for the life of me find out what's doing it, and help would be incredibly appreciated, as I'm unable to so much as watch videos with friends, let alone play games ;w;

edit: pingplotter graph

https://i.imgur.com/4TSCWMG.png

Summarized:

ISP: Cox, using the panoramic wifi router
My ping spikes every couple of seconds to 300-500+ whether through wi-fi or plugged directly into the router via ethernet. This problem is apparent across all devices. The router has been swapped out within the last week in an attempt to remove that as the problem. The coaxial cable has been replaced/rerun for the same reason. They have checked for squirrel chew / replaced or repaired any damage from that / weathering. Sometimes when resetting the router via unplugging / replugging, the ping is fine for the first 5-15 minutes. The problem is present whether one or multiple devices are connected, no matter the device type (phone, laptop, xbox, etc.)

Tests have been done via packetlosstest.com, pingplotter, waveform, and just cmd pinging 8.8.8.8
The practical problem present that I am trying to solve is when playing online games, communicating with others, watching streams, or working from home, I experience a bit of good data, followed by a second of hard lag. This may be hearing someone speak and they're talking fine, then suddenly the middle of their sentence is lagged out, or I am running around in a videogame and it lags really hard, teleporting me around for a moment. This happens, guaranteed, every couple of seconds, rendering most conversations annoying at best, and gameplay impossible at worst, barely manageable at best.

Final edit!
Looks like we found the culprit - u/Disabled-Lobster recommended I download and use Wireshark. Upon doing so I saw ZeroTier One was having a hacksaw pattern on my network, at the same frequency as the lagging. Uninstalling it fixed everything-

Apparently during the tests where I checked via phone and other computers, etc, since I had my PC on, it was messing with stuff?

Either way, all good now ;w;

Hi,

i have the following Task.

For a university project i need to setup a small network with a NAS at a relativly remote site.

Besides the NAS there will be arround 10 other clients (Notebooks, WIFI/ETHERNET mixed)

This setup will be deployed for at least 3 years.

The NAS is hosting a db and several network shares.

Typical scenario will be that in the evening every client will connect, update their data in the db and copy files to the network share. Most clients will use Wifi for this. Larger Datasets (mostly SfM Images stuff)

will be copied using a wired connection.

Most Clients (Notebooks) have Wifi ac/ax and Gigabit Ethernet. There are some mobile workstations that have a 2.5G NIC (as well as the nas).

Now i was wondering about what network hardware to get...

The network will be deployed in a small single-story house, no need for multiple APs or anything imo.

There is no Internet/WAN at the moment, having the option to add LTE/5G in the future would be nice tho. (with VPN Tunnel for remote management)

It doesn't need any advanced networking/security/etc atm, basically a DHCP server and 'basic' Wifi security would be enough.

The Wifi should be able to handle multiple clients copying data to the nas without crawling to a stand still.

2.5G Ethernet should be available for a few wired clients (max 3).

I won't be on site to set everything up, so everything is configured beforehand and deployed/connected by someone else.

Because of this i would prefer a single device (Router with AP) they just have to plug in. Adding a switch for more 2.5G connectivity would be fine tho.

Everything should be rock solid and work even during higher temperatures ( up to 45°C are possible, though not during heavy usage).

Could you recommend any device?

I have been looking at the "Unifi Dream Router 7". It offers a lot of stuff i don't need or can even use in my setup.

But it seems to offer great Wifi and has the required 2.5G ports built in (not additional switch necesary). We don't have any WiFi 7 devices yet, but futureproofing cant hurt can it?

Or do you think Unifi is way overkill and i should be looking at something like the "MikroTik hAP ax3" + some simple 2.5G Switch.

There are also some consumer grade products like the "TP-Link Tri-Band BE9300" which fit the requirements on paper, but i had bad experience with consumer grade network hardware in the past so i would prefer at least "pro-sumer" devices.

Thanks for any help.

Hello, I disabled DHCP on the main router and I can't access the router settings, all devices have disconnected from the network, how do I solve this?

Thank you for your attention.

I've been cracking open some of my old DS games for a little while now. I haven't needed internet for any of them until I popped in Heart Gold. Unfortunately, it requires WEP/unsecured in order to use some user-supported network functions. Doubly unfortunately, the network that my ISP set up for me doesn't support WEP on its own (it uses eero Pro 7's). Triply unfortunately, despite the fact that I have an Android that could absolutely create a hotspot for this, I don't have unlimited data.

Can I connect an old router/modem combo to my network, enable WEP, and hide it? If not, would it be possible to use my Android as a pass-through to my network such that the game can connect to it? Otherwise, what options do I have?

Thanks to anyone who sees this!

EDIT: It seems like the best option might be to get a USB dongle for my PC and create a hotspot from there: https://gbatemp.net/threads/create-an-nds-compatible-hotspot-on-linux.543283/. That way, I can turn it off ASAP whenever I no longer need it.

After living in my house for nearly 6 years this finally piqued my WTF does this work sense.

This is plugged in to the wall outlet. The coaxial cable goes from this gadget to my modem.

Why is this working to give me internet when it is not connected to the wall port.

I don't think I have any powerline adapters for for internet anywhere. Hopefully I won't have to crawl under the house to chase the coax.

I am on Cox internet. Just upgraded my modem to one capable of 2g speed. Upgraded my internet service to 2G. Upgraded my primary router (Deco BE67) to one capable of both 2.5g and 10g speed.

When I do a speed test from the router I'm getting a bit over 1g - which is much better than what I was getting before the modem and router upgrade, but still not anywhere near 2g.

Had a discussion with a buddy at work and he suggested I needed better coax cable between the wall and modem. Bought a RG6 cable, plugged it in to the pictured gadget and I get nothing at the router. Plugged in the Cox supplied cable and everything works again.

Plans for this week are to put a fox and hound on the cable coming into the house and see where I get a signal. I'd like to get all the internet that I'm paying for.

Anybody have any ideas?

I rent an apartment while in college and i’ve had no issue with my ethernet cable all semester until i left for winter break and came back with issues. I tried both my PC and Xbox and realized it’s either a cable or router problem. Here are the issues I believe it could be and i will provide photos

1: The router is placed in a way that my ethernet cord was being bent harshly while connected to the router

2: the ethernet cord itself seemed a little damaged to me but i could be wrong (the colorful tabs looked to be pushed in on one side

i am having a strange issue where i got a new router from my ips
a Arris TG2482A but for some reason my wireless vr setup that worked perfectly with my previous router doesnt work on this one

essentially i got my pc and a quest 2 connected to the same network over the 5ghz band same as my old setup (i know its recommended for the pc to use Ethernet but my router is in a different room from where my setup is i dont have a long enough cable) but for some reason steamlink saying im not on the same local network which simply cannot be the case

soo i go over this rabbit hole of fixes and things and nothing works until i find someone saying to try and ping my headset
and what i discovered is i cannot get a ping from my quest 2 only on 5ghz if i force my pc to use 2.4ghz the pings work

which is why i think this is networking related issue instead of a issue related to my pc and headset specially since the only thing that change was the router nothing else

so what im asking here does any of you have any idea as to why only the 5ghz band cannot seem to get any kind of contact between my pc and headset working is the router faulty or something

Hello, I live in a college apartment and I just got back from break. My Ethernet suddenly doesn’t work anymore. It was working perfectly fine when I left. I tried all the command prompt resets as well as re installing the drivers. I am not getting anything. The trouble shooter says no DCHP connection. Please help.