I got 99 problems but my WiFi ain't one

nginx on a Raspberry PI

Why do you hate him so much?

Spent hours and hours this weekend fixing a problem of my own making - I moved a network cable, and ended up having to completely redo my network from scratch.

The icing was trying to understand why my port forwarding wasn't working, and I couldn't access a server from outside my network.

After too many hours, i discovered that it was because my WAN IP address had changed for the first time ever.

And some weird caching on my VPS DNS was making that difficult to spot.

I just had a read through Three's statement of facts for their all you can eat tarrifs. They claim, quite clearly, to not throttle traffic at all. They also hint, but not quite state, that 1,000 GB is the point they start viewing usage as suspicious.

Clearly you are experiencing differently!

They throttle.

Which I can trivially prove, because my Three mobile on a different contract easily gets to 40-50Mbps when the Three card in the router was topping out at 0.5Mbps.

Speaking to their customer care team, their response was "But the unlimited data only applies to a mobile phone and not a Home-Fi solution".

Surely you could use nginx on a Raspberry PI to do that kind of load balancing?

I would not get the throughput I would want and wouldn't want to be mucking with my routing table manually and so dramatically.

Wankers. I'm going to pop a three sim in and see if I can replicate.

Is EE not workable for you?

EE sounds expensive.

I'm a £20 per month unlimited data 3 SIM :)

It is expensive. £100 per month for 500GB.

I've put a three payg sim in my LTE modem to see if I hit any throttling. I'll let you know. Getting 25Mbps down and 25Mbps up from it.

They definitely throttle, despite what they say and 50GB seems to be the roof. Happened to me, has happened to my dad. The speed very clearly drops and goes back at the end of the billing period.

Exactly.

A few days after 50 GB it was throttled.
At 70 GB it was effectively crippled.
I got to 80 GB before I gave up.

I'm still using it bit as an open guest network now.

£100 per month for 500GB

How on earth does it cost that much?

Edit: been a long day, confusing my GB and MB. Which I'm supposed to know a bit about.

In Ireland 3s "unlimited" mobile sim "fair usage" limit is 60gb. Sounds like it might be the same for you guys

I'm sure you're right but I think it's pretty shitty that EE state that they don't throttle and hint that 1TB is the point they start to have a problem.

Problem #199 with my wifi

I have a unifi controller (running on a pi) that had been working fine until mid-morning, when I had to shut down all of the power sockets downstairs.

When I brought the power backup, the controller is running on a totally random IP, on a completely different address block 169.244.0.0/16

My router is set up with:
eth0 - WAN - cable modem
eth1 - LAN1 - 192.168.1.1/24

• Switches & APs are connected here
  eth2 - LAN2 - 192.168.2.1/24
  
• Unifi controller is connected here
  
  

I did have to have the controller on LAN1 to adopt the APs, and change the inform address manually, but the worked fine when I moved it back onto LAN2

Even if I switch the pi back onto LAN1, it is taking an IP on 169.244.0.0/16

I have the Pi's MAC set up in the router to have a static IP on LAN1 / 2

Any ideas about what I'm doing wrong?

the controller is running on a totally random IP

The Pi is running on a random IP, meaning that it receives it's IP via DHCP.

You should login to the Pi and configure a static IP for it. Then once it's stable, login to whatever your Ubiquiti DHCP server is and configure a static IP map for the Pi that matches what you've just done.

After that... you're good to go.

The Pi is running on a random IP, meaning that it receives it's IP via DHCP.

DHCP is set up on 192.168.1.0/24 to have a range from 192.168.1.38 to 192.168.1.243

Looking a bit further, I think it might be because the pi is not able to get an address from DHCP, and is giving itself an address. Which I never knew was a thing.

You should login to the Pi and configure a static IP for it. Then once it's stable, login to whatever your Ubiquiti DHCP server is and configure a static IP map for the Pi that matches what you've just done.

I'm trying that now - but even with the IP known, I can't ssh into the Pi. And I have no idea where my bluetooth keyboard went...

I'll try mount the Pi SD card somewhere else & mangle a few conf files.

After that... you're good to go.

Good to find another way to stop things from working, you mean.

And to think, all I was trying to do was replace a wall power socket.

Looking a bit further, I think it might be because the pi is not able to get an address from DHCP, and is giving itself an address. Which I never knew was a thing.

Happens if network is down in some way that prevents DHCP. Can either be total network failure, or some soft thing like the network not permitting the DHCP request even though connected.

My in laws are in type process of getting this - isn’t it 750gb?

I think having the controller on a different subnet was making things go a bit off.

I seem to be back up and running. i've given the pi a static IP and put it on the same subnet, but DHCP seems to work for most other things now.

Although, for some reason, I had to configure the controller from scratch - I think that touching a file on the boot partition of the sd card must wipe out something on the rootfs

Must learn to backup more...

I think their broadband SIM plans are, but it sounds like velocio is using a mobile SIM. They throttle those after 60 GB to try stop people from using them in a router

sounds like velocio is using a mobile SIM

I am.

It was a total screw up.

I asked for a Home-Fi in-store, they didn't have a Home-Fi unit, so I tried to order online, saw the SIM deal (£20 for unlimited data), ordered it... but no Home-Fi so ordered that, put the SIM in and up and running.

However... it's not classed as a Home-Fi contract, so it's a mobile contract, and unlimited does not mean that because the throttling kicked in earlier than I expected.

I spoke to their phone support, and no way out of the contract (ordered online but only noticed throttling on day 15) and they don't count it as mis-sold even though I was led down the path I followed by their shop and online.

I just didn't pay enough attention and only discovered it later.

Now it's just an open Wi-Fi route, I'll pay the contract and cancel ASAP and just let the students next door view their porn through it. I've configured it to be an open Wi-Fi point and anything that gets me kicked off the contract is good.

I'm still confused by Three's position on this.

Why are they concerned about use in a router when they allow you to tether using their mobile contracts? Bugs the hell out of me.

When you look at the cost of data bolt ones for Three Homefi, it makes EE Home 4G service look cheap. I think Three want £20 for 5GB!

Here is Three's trafficsense statement btw.

http://support.three.co.uk/mobiledocs/Support/Signal_and_coverage/our_network/TrafficSense_facts_document.pdf

Considering buying into the Unifi system. Are there any other manufacturers I should be looking at who do an integrated system of:

1. Modems
   
2. Routers
   
3. Switches
   
4. Access points
   
5. Security Cameras
   
   

I don't mind integration between these devices i.e. a decent modem/router/AP plus peripherals, but a decent UI is a big plus as I can't code for shit.

Ubiquiti are the nuts but Draytek are also worth a look if you want to go s little less spendy on the first four items.