Re: OT: Router behaviour

2021-02-20 Thread David Wright
On Sat 20 Feb 2021 at 12:36:24 (+), Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 08:23:39PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > I powered the router down again, plugged its WAN port into one of the > > > LAN ports of the ISP-supplied router, and brought it back up. > > > > I you sure you

Re: OT: Router behaviour

2021-02-20 Thread deloptes
Mark Fletcher wrote: > There is a switch on the back of the old router, with 2 settings, "AP" > and "WB". "AP" is obviously "Access Point". Not sure yet what "WB" > stands for but I suspect some of the links you guys supplied will help > me figure that out. The router is set to "AP" -- I _think_

Re: OT: Router behaviour

2021-02-20 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 08:23:39PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I powered the router down again, plugged its WAN port into one of the > > LAN ports of the ISP-supplied router, and brought it back up. > > I you sure you plugged your ISP-router into the WAN port of your > (Buffalo) router and

Re: OT: Router behaviour

2021-02-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021, at 4:26 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > First apologies for the off-topic post, but I know this community is > > full of experts on this topic and my ask in the end is a simple one: > > (and you can use Debian to achieve your ends) > > > Can anyone point

Re: OT: Router behaviour

2021-02-05 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 11:03:17PM +, Mark Fletcher wrote: > My kids have been complaining recently about the quality of the WiFi I suggest to investigate whether the problem lies with WiFi or elsewhere. There are multiple tools available for measuring throughput and latency. I use flent

Re: OT: Router behaviour

2021-02-05 Thread Dan Ritter
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, February 04, 2021 11:13:09 PM David Wright wrote: > > > A while ago I moved house (and countries) and since arriving in the new > > > house I have been using a WiFi router provided by my broadband provider, > > > somewhat reluctantly, but without a really

Re: OT: Router behaviour

2021-02-05 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, February 04, 2021 11:13:09 PM David Wright wrote: > > A while ago I moved house (and countries) and since arriving in the new > > house I have been using a WiFi router provided by my broadband provider, > > somewhat reluctantly, but without a really serious alternative since the > >

Re: OT: Router behaviour

2021-02-04 Thread steve
Hi Mark, Le 04-02-2021, à 23:03:17 +, Mark Fletcher a écrit : [...] My kids have been complaining recently about the quality of the WiFi Same thing here. The solution was to change my wifi network to wifi 6, either by changing the modem/router to a wifi 6 one or by creating a wifi 6

Re: OT: Router behaviour

2021-02-04 Thread David Wright
On Thu 04 Feb 2021 at 23:03:17 (+), Mark Fletcher wrote: > First apologies for the off-topic post, but I know this community is > full of experts on this topic and my ask in the end is a simple one: Disclaimer: I'm no expert. > Can anyone point me at a reasonably accessible guide to the

Re: OT: Router behaviour

2021-02-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I powered the router down again, plugged its WAN port into one of the > LAN ports of the ISP-supplied router, and brought it back up. I you sure you plugged your ISP-router into the WAN port of your (Buffalo) router and not into one of the LAN ports? The behavior you describe would be easy to

Re: OT: Router behaviour

2021-02-04 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-02-04 15:03, Mark Fletcher wrote: Can anyone point me at a reasonably accessible guide to the details of how IP networks work, in particular the communications that occur between router devices that are designed to support home networks? Lucas writes very good books, including

Re: OT: Router behaviour

2021-02-04 Thread Dan Ritter
Mark Fletcher wrote: > First apologies for the off-topic post, but I know this community is > full of experts on this topic and my ask in the end is a simple one: (and you can use Debian to achieve your ends) > Can anyone point me at a reasonably accessible guide to the details of > how IP

OT: Router behaviour

2021-02-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
First apologies for the off-topic post, but I know this community is full of experts on this topic and my ask in the end is a simple one: Can anyone point me at a reasonably accessible guide to the details of how IP networks work, in particular the communications that occur between router