I just upgraded my network and installed a new Ubiquity USG-PRO-4 Router,
WiFi and CloudKey and set up all the port forwarding for the BBS Telnet/SSH
and BINKP. Wanted to make sure messages were still getting out.

I have high hopes this resolves the disconnects that some users have reported.

- Mike

Regards,
Mike Pedersen

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/10 (Linux/64)
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On 18 Aug 2021, Nazferiti said the following...

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I just upgraded my network and installed a new Ubiquity USG-PRO-4 Router, WiFi and CloudKey and set up all the port forwarding for the BBS Telnet/SSH and BINKP. Wanted to make sure messages were still getting out.

I have high hopes this resolves the disconnects that some users have reported.

- Mike

Regards,
Mike Pedersen

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/10 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Arcadia BBS | Connecticut USA | bbs.arcadiabbs.com (21:3/107)

Got you here! :)


Jay

... What do you mean? You actually read this Tagline?!?

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/08/17 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Northern Realms (21:3/110)

Hello Nazferiti!

On 18 Aug 2021, Nazferiti said the following...

Telnet/SSH and BINKP. Wanted to make sure messages were still getting out.

Seems to be working just fine! Nice with some new stuff. :)

Best regards
Zip

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/08/15 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Star Collision BBS, Uppsala, Sweden (21:1/202)

On 19 Aug 2021, Zip said the following...

Hello Nazferiti!

On 18 Aug 2021, Nazferiti said the following...

Telnet/SSH and BINKP. Wanted to make sure messages were still gettin out.

Seems to be working just fine! Nice with some new stuff. :)

Best regards
Zip

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/08/15 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Star Collision BBS, Uppsala, Sweden (21:1/202)

It's always fun getting some new "toys". Though my girlfriend dislikes how much I've been fooling with the WiFi and disconnecting her while I configure everything. Ran CAT-5e all over the house and added Ubiquity Access Points
to fix dead spots. New PoE switches and security gateway. I'm finally
pumping all the bandwidth that I am paying for to every device in the house.
I may be upgrading the BBS software to A47 next week as well.

Regards,
Mike Pedersen

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/10 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Arcadia BBS | Connecticut USA | bbs.arcadiabbs.com (21:3/107)

Hello Nazferiti!

On 21 Aug 2021, Nazferiti said the following...

It's always fun getting some new "toys". Though my girlfriend dislikes how much I've been fooling with the WiFi and disconnecting her while I configure everything.

:-D

Ran CAT-5e all over the house and added Ubiquity
Access Points to fix dead spots. New PoE switches and security gateway. I'm finally pumping all the bandwidth that I am paying for to every
device in the house.

That's good!

When my ISP-supplied router proved not to be up to the task of forwarding port 80 because "it was used by the management interface" (on the LAN side, yes, and the admin GUI was not exposed to the WAN) -- %-( -- I was in a hurry to get something that "just worked", which resulted in a cheap 100 Mbps router despite having a 250/100 service...

Although it has its limitations and some Wi-Fi interoperability quirks, it has been working rather well. But I'm planning to replace it with a Gigabit router, with AC or Wi-Fi 6, sometime.

I may be upgrading the BBS software to A47 next
week as well.

Nice! That's a rather big upgrade. Make sure to wade through whatsnew.txt and check what applies to you. =)

I've been following the A47 prealphas for a long time now, and they have generally been working very well.

...which reminds me that I should pay some attention to the file areas of my BBS -- the only local one right now is the upload area. :-O

But I've been busy going through menus, prompts and other parts of the configuration this summer.

Best regards
Zip

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/08/17 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Star Collision BBS, Uppsala, Sweden (21:1/202)

Hey Naz;

Nazferiti wrote to Zip <=-

I'm finally pumping all the bandwidth that I am paying for to
every device in the house. I may be upgrading the BBS software to A47
next week as well.

Sometimes that's not such a great idea and here's the logic behind my
alleged madness... and I may get some hate over this but:

If *all* devices try access all the bandwidth concurrently then something *must* give. Even if 2 devices are fighting for 100% of the bandwidth you're asking for some trouble - you just may not see it. You'll either be getting into some QoS rules so different services have priority to certain devices and/or other rate-shaping rules.

Ubiquity has also had it's share of what I call "Holes for Crackers" over the years. It's a shame bugtraq shut down after many years of servicing the tech community. I will say they're pretty quick to release patches once something
is discovered which is props to them.

I know for the host my board lives on, it could do just fine on a 156K IDSL line. I don't need to feed it the full 600Mbs that we're getting nor would
I want it to. If by chance it was broken into and a DoS attack launched,
I could still find it and the rest of the house would not be affected especially
my FireTV (Since Comcast boxes literally blow up on me annualy - probably from the RF they let in from my amateur radio gear). Having a 30 year domain and email address, I see *continuous* attempts to get in or relay spam.

Good luck with Henri - so misnamed! It's not a "frozen" hurricane, and it's
not playing hockey <G>

... Old chemists never die, they just fail to react.
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Nazferiti wrote to Zip <=-

how much I've been fooling with the WiFi and disconnecting her while I configure everything.

"Honey, the internet is down *AGAIN* and I have a zoom call in 10 minutes!

<clicks the reboot button and quickly closes the router admin page>

"Damn Comcast!"

Ran CAT-5e all over the house and added Ubiquity

Access Points to fix dead spots. New PoE switches and security
gateway. I'm finally pumping all the bandwidth that I am paying for to every device in the house.

I just called my local cable/AV guy to pull some Cat6, finally. I found a great little container script called internet pi that combines pihole, an internet speed test and grafana dashboard in a container, and found out I'm getting 470 Mb/s down, 11 Mb/s up. At my upstairs office, that drops to
around 40 Mb/s over powerline.

... State the problem as clearly as possible
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I just called my local cable/AV guy to pull some Cat6, finally. I found a great little container script called internet pi that combines pihole, an internet speed test and grafana dashboard in a container, and found out I'm getting 470 Mb/s down, 11 Mb/s up. At my upstairs office, that drops to around 40 Mb/s over powerline.

You're going to love that CAT6 upstairs in the office. Nice low latency and jitter. I ended up pulling 12 runs and it was a game changer. Add a Fire Stick 4K and a nice TV and you are set.

Pat
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"Honey, the internet is down *AGAIN* and I have a zoom call in 10
minutes!
<clicks the reboot button and quickly closes the router admin page>
"Damn Comcast!"

haha i have done that before lol.

Thanks
- Gamecube Buddy

telnet --<{bbs.hive32.com:23333}>--

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Hive32 (21:4/129)

Pat Jensen wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

You're going to love that CAT6 upstairs in the office. Nice low latency and jitter. I ended up pulling 12 runs and it was a game changer. Add a Fire Stick 4K and a nice TV and you are set.

I'm swearing at the current situation enough to love it. My powerline
adapters are only getting 30mbps, wireless clients about the same, and wired to the modem is getting 470mbps.

Not sure what's going on with my router, but it might be time for an
upgrade. One I got for free from a Linksys beta program a couple of years back, the AP was $5 at a Goodwill. :)

They've been rock-solid until now, but I'm running Entware-NG on them, with nginx running as a proxy on it. I'd think it has enough horsepower to manage that, but they are quite old. I should look at some of the newer MIMO
routers and see what's out there.

Mesh wireless might be nice, but I still need ethernet ports on the router end, and a lot of the ones I see have only one LAN port. gig ethernet
switches are getting cheaper, but that's just One More Thing.

Or, I could just get the Cat6, toss the powerline adapters and manage each floor on one of my (existing) routers.





... (Organic) machinery
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On 24 Aug 2021 at 10:57a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...

Mesh wireless might be nice, but I still need ethernet ports on the
router end, and a lot of the ones I see have only one LAN port. gig ethernet switches are getting cheaper, but that's just One More Thing.

I'm using a Edge router and a wired Cat5e network running gig speeds. Fibre comes into the router from the ONT and I have a number of rules etc. set up
on the router.

For home wifi I have a google nest setup with several access point extenders around the home creating a mesh. The only downside with the nest is it wants
to be your router as well so in my case the nest is plugged in to a switch
fed from the router and then takes it's own subnet (so double natting) and assigns all the wireless devices on a different subnet.

For me it's been working fine. I have no issues with the wireless devices working on the home wifi and no major gotchas with wireless needing to talk
to wired devices.

All of which is to say I have found the mesh system of google nest gear to be good here at home :)

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

Those USG-PRO-4's, although feature limited, are pretty robust! As long as
they continue to see the controller for anything you may have turned on that requires controller access, you'll be sweet.

The key missing feature in the USG line in my mind is a decent DNS server / service...

Otherwise, enjoy!!!

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|07All your base are belong to us!

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Retro16 BBS (21:1/226)