I’ve been silently moaning about the transfer speeds to my storage devices.

Only today did I think to plug the network cable directly into the mesh satellite and not into a switch and over Powerline. 10x speed boost.

I’m an idiot and I’m posting here so I don’t get too cocky next time.

Feel free to laugh.

(“Advice” flair just on the tiny chance that someone else could be helped. )

  • fallsdarknessBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I spent hours diagnosing my network over inconsistent speeds. I was stumped, then I finally checked the syslog and found the machine was running out of RAM. Got a bit too liberal with dockers on a 8GB machine. Ordered a 32GB kit immediately while cursing under my breath lol.

  • joetaxpayerBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hardly. There are infinite stories of mistakes we’ve all made. Kind of you to share the warning.

    Well over a decade ago, some complained about their speed, thinking they should see closer to 1Gb/s with their set up. I asked them to look at their ethernet connectors, 4 conductor or 8? These were 10/100, just 4 copper wires, as that was enough to get 100Mb/s.

    They replied “I am a moron.” No they weren’t either. Easy to miss something when there are so many bits of stuff going on.

  • No_Dragonfruit_5882BEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Powerline is the last resort in Networking.

    Cable > WiFi > Powerline.

    In some cases it works (new cables and within 1 circiut) but usually its more headache than anything else.

    But dont worrys we all did shit and wonder why it didnt work.

    Just be glad you were not called to a datacenter and started tracing all fibers just to realize that a single stupid uplink is 1 gbit instead of 40 gbit

    • 3-2-1-backupBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’m going to disagree with you there, it’s completely situationally dependent. I tried running a wifi point-to-point link from my house to my detached garage, ran like hot garbage. Replaced the link with powerline, was much more stable and faster.

      Right tool for the right job. Well really the right tool is to bury something (preferably fiber) between the buildings, but I’m not made out of money and the power line was already buried!