| 18 May 2022 |
 topranks | But they do at least have a 'bridge mode' option so it's not too bad | 14:39:53 |
 bblack | yeah I use a bridging type of option on my AT&T router too, but it's not really raw L2 or whatever, they're still interfering somewhat. | 14:41:16 |
| bblack | I think they call it "IP passthrough" | 14:41:20 |
| bblack | but it never completely disables their interference in the traffic | 14:41:37 |
| bblack | (their rationale is they also offer TV service over the same fiber, so therefore everyone must use their modem, so that they can always offer the possibility of using a MOCA coax out of it to run your TV set top boxes, which I don't :P) | 14:42:13 |
 inflatador | that reminds me, I need to kick my MOCA stuff, it randomly decided to drop below fast ethernet speeds | 14:43:45 |
| bblack | but yeah, on the inside, I have an L3 switch and my own wifi routers, and everything about their router/modem that I can disable is disabled. | 14:44:35 |
 vgutierrez | yeah.. the L3 switch is really useful to power up the APs over PoE | 14:49:43 |
| bblack | yeah that's what I do. I didn't buy the HW, it came with the house, but it's all Ruckus-branded stuff | 14:53:26 |
| bblack | a 12 port gig-E switch with L3 firmware (that I could add 2x10G SFPs to if I wanted), and a pair of their wifi APs mounted in the ceiling and PoE-powered from the switch. | 14:54:06 |
| bblack | and then formy office (the only wired-ethernet-heavy room really), I bought a little in-wall PoE-powered PoE switch, to give me 4x ports in this room from a single cable run. | 14:55:03 |
| bblack | this thing: https://www.amazon.com/PoE-Texas-GBT-4-IW-Gigabit-Extender/dp/B07Z59SG17?th=1 | 14:55:48 |
| bblack | to be clear: it's PoE-powered from the upstream switch, and offers 4x PoE ports of its own | 14:56:12 |
| inflatador | How is Ruckus' stuff? I've been playing around with Miktotik, but always fun to check out random net device vendors ;) | 14:56:58 |
| bblack | well, I've never been completely happy with *any* wifi or router vendor, ever, so let's start there :) | 14:57:17 |
| bblack | but all things considered, I've probably had less random headaches and BS with this rucks setup than with many others I've tried over the years. It works well, relatively-speaking! :) | 14:57:45 |
| bblack | s/rucks/ruckus/ | 14:57:53 |
| bblack | but there are occasionally issues. I've had a few firmware updates I had to live with for a month or two that had bugs, where the APs would crash after ~1-2 weeks uptime for unknown reasons, and I'd have to powercycle them from the poe switch to get them back. | 14:58:41 |
| inflatador | blech | 14:58:53 |
| bblack | and their wifi config is pretty complex, there's a lot of options you can easily get wrong that result in poor performance around the house, until you find the right magic setup of tunables. | 14:59:26 |
| bblack | but overall, really not bad | 15:00:02 |
| bblack | the witch I have is Ruckus ICX 7150-C12P, and the 2x APs are (now deprecated/replaced by newer models I think) the R510 models | 15:01:44 |
| bblack | *switch :) | 15:01:56 |
| bblack | the house came with it all wired up and ready, and it wasn't worth the cost to me to rip it out and try to find my own way, so I just kept it and worked with it | 15:03:34 |
| inflatador | my wifi is pretty vanilla. I used to be a small-time cable operator, still obsessed with running wires, particularly coax . One of my many unhealthy obsessions | 15:03:43 |
| bblack | it was nice that they pre-ran wiring in the walls to all the main rooms, for ports to the ethernet switch | 15:04:04 |
| bblack | one runs that wall-switch in my office, most are unused. but we have a couple TVs that I wired up as well, so that when people are streaming TV it's not chewing up wireless capacity on those bulky streams. | 15:05:00 |
| inflatador | Yeah, I wish I had that...I have a weird old house with a big extension in back. Easy to run cables in the extension, not so much in the old part | 15:08:00 |
 jynus | I am going to test database backups checks in production to make sure they keep working as expected, expect icinga IRC complains soon | 15:30:24 |
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