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Daily discussion thread: Sunday 7 April 2024. Where did the time go? ⌚ (aussie.zone)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I love playing network engineer. Really all I did was unplug some cables then plug some different cables in, but it was still so much fun. I also made our internet not be as shit as I thought it was. Went from 200-500ms latency at 20mbps to 50-150 latency at 50-60mbps

I'm not sure how well the new router will handle multiple devices and concurrent transfers though. It's pretty much just a test and a way to make the internet usable for now. The old router sucked, but it could handle 20 devices just fine. The new ones for all these features but it's on the cheaper side, so I have my doubts

Edit: and changing the DNS server to 1.1.1.1 has removed the last bit of slowdown I was noticing. Telstra's DNS is kinda shit ngl. For the last 6 months I've had to use CloudFlare warp or my mobile data to access aussie.zone because it never worked otherwise. I ended up narrowing it down to Telstra's DNS acting like it's never heard of an Aussie zone in its entire life, which is how I learnt what DNS even is and how it works

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

ISPs often choose not to obey TTL on dns records too, because they don’t want to waste the bandwidth refreshing the records. Can be problematic. I usually use 8.8.8.8 (Google)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

That'd probably explain why it was always giving me issues. CloudFlare has a form that I can fill out to purge the record cache for certain websites if need be. I set Google's DNS as secondary, but I like and trust CloudFlare more than I do google, so I've always just used them