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    MOCA 2.5 - Asymmetrical speed

    There are similar reports in other threads, eg here
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    MOCA 2.5 Help Needed - Why Are my Speeds Slow in 1 Direction?

    FWIW, I've done more testing since my last post. Some notes: It's not a Windows issue for me: there is no Windows in this house. Swapping the two adapters doesn't change anything: the slow direction remains the same. Replacing the ScreenBeam adapters with ASUS MA-25 adapters doesn't change...
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    Home Network Plan - Where and What

    Ha! There is one of those in the power closet of the condo I moved into recently. What it is is an amplifier/splitter that installers will put in when they discover that there is not enough signal power for all the coax drops that the homeowner insisted on having. It's not that surprising...
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    Home / small biz wireless network advice

    If you don't already know this site: Evan McCann has a lot of great reviews and info about Omada, UniFi, and other SMB-grade network gear. I went through his reviews last year and eventually opted for UniFi, although it was a close call over Omada. I'm happy with the APs I got from UniFi (U6...
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    Home / small biz wireless network advice

    +1 This is well outside my personal experience, but Apple devices can be locked down with "management profiles" a/k/a "configuration profiles", see this Apple help page for starters. Presumably you could use that to force use of a particular DNS server whether it's on your wifi or on mobile...
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    Home / small biz wireless network advice

    If you are used to pfsense and like it, do not move off that. Nothing you can find in the consumer space is anywhere near as good, or as stable, for router and firewall functionality (I've been through Orbi, AIMesh, UniFi, and more). However, replacing your wireless APs behind the router could...
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    Single unused cable as MOCA point-point entry from fiber

    Yeah. I've mentioned this before in other threads, but what I find is that connecting devices with 2.5G ethernet ports will let me get throughput (as measured by iperf3 single-stream) of 2.33Gbps in one direction but very much less in the other direction, if the receiving device is one of the...
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    Single unused cable as MOCA point-point entry from fiber

    Is that actually a distinct thing from MoCA? I googled the phrase just now and what I found was MoCA adapters ... well, also a few sub-Gbps solutions that might or might not be MoCA-compatible, but surely aren't competitive anyway. I am using MoCA 2.5 in one place in my house, and it works...
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    Dual-Band Router with Tri-Band Nodes

    You're apparently assuming that there are zero clients connected directly to the parent. Otherwise, the node backhaul traffic is competing with them for the parent's airtime. Now, to the extent that your available bandwidth-out-to-the-internet is limiting how much two or more clients can do...
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    Orbi RBR50 Upgrade?

    I quite agree, but it sounded like the OP no longer finds his current gear "good enough". Limping along for another year in hopes of paying a-bit-less-than-top-dollar for WiFi 7 gear wouldn't be my recommendation if he's got pain today, especially if he has no WiFi 7 clients nor any near-term...
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    Orbi RBR50 Upgrade?

    Meh ... there's certainly a conversation to be had here about how long the OP wants to be using any gear he might buy today. But he's only now starting to be dissatisfied with his AC-class router, so he's not somebody who's chasing the latest shininess. So far nobody has even suggested he buy...
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    Dual-Band Router with Tri-Band Nodes

    Yeah, AIMesh is known to have issues controlling nodes that have radios that don't also exist on the parent router. To me, "dedicated backhaul" means that both the node and the parent have radios doing only backhaul. That's not possible given the hardware you have, unless you disallow clients...
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    Orbi RBR50 Upgrade?

    Yeah, you're generally stuck with putting the main router at the ISP entry point, or at least within convenient ethernet-cable run of there. Is there any chance of running a cable from the entry point to your "somewhat middle" location? If so, it's plausible that you could get away with a...
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    Orbi RBR50 Upgrade?

    OK, drywall is pretty wifi-transparent. Metal studs not so much, but at typical spacing they won't pose much of a problem for signal passing through perpendicular to the wall. (A signal coming in at a low angle might not get through too well, though.) Not sure about marble. You might be OK...
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    router upgrade (Mesh?) for plaster/lathe multistory house

    If you need wireless mesh, it's probably best to go with equipment that's primarily intended to be used in a mesh (ASUS, Netgear, etc). The radios are designed to be used in that configuration, the software is hopefully well-debugged in that usage, etc. Business-oriented gear may nominally...
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    Solved avoid wireless interference between 2 routers

    Hm, foot-n-a-half is probably enough --- I was mainly worried about the idea that you might have them jammed up right next to each other. You could try temporarily separating them more to see if that helps. But that just begs the question: are you actually observing any problems?
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    router upgrade (Mesh?) for plaster/lathe multistory house

    Avoid wireless backhaul if you possibly can. Thick walls already mean a challenging wifi environment; you don't need to double the challenges by having signal propagate through that twice. Not sure what to tell you about the XT8s as opposed to something else. I had a pair of them for awhile...
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    Solved avoid wireless interference between 2 routers

    Not a comparable situation, because there the manufacturer is in full control of the relative positioning of the antennas and has presumably tested that they play nice together.
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    Solved avoid wireless interference between 2 routers

    How close is "close"? These channel settings are OK, but it's widely considered a bad idea to put wifi transmitters within a foot or two of each other, regardless of their channel settings.
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    Logging inbound connections on Edgerouter X

    That's certainly not the default behavior, IME. If you poke around you might find a way to enable such logging. There is a per-rule counter as to how many packets get dropped by a particular rule --- you might want to watch that for awhile before deciding if you really want to see details of...
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