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24.1 Legacy Series / Re: Packet Loss and Stability help

« on: June 26, 2024, 02:57:32 am »

also if helps from today:


No one was home using heavy bandwidth at 0730
The losses between 1900-2030 correlate exactly with the last post errors that I was describing from tonight

Press On,
BryBro

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24.1 Legacy Series / Re: Packet Loss and Stability help

« on: June 26, 2024, 02:42:46 am »

If you have a Windows PC at home, here are some more useful troubleshooting tools:

Thank you for the suggestion, I will read up

Following up after a few days of using pinginfoview: (hours of data over multiple days)
- not too many failures overall which is a good thing for connectivity
- I added my router address to see if I was loosing connection there and that has had 0 failed requests
- I have had no more than 1-2% at most failed in any data collection session (typical % failed is much lower over this last weekend closer to 0.5% or less)
-- When I do have a failure both my local ISP GW and dns.google fail at the same time

Two thoughts:

1) If I was not an online gamer this probably would not matter, but all the failures seem to happen when gaming (both PC and PS5 independently tested) -  or at least that's when it bothers me 

2) Tonight I noticed that my connection was really "bad" (still only 1.2% failure) but it was while I was gaming and my wife was upstairs streaming netflix. (The dropped connection "kicks" me from a game)
Stats: 6 "request timeout" on both 8.8.8.8 and my GW all at the identical time stamp over 1 hour of gaming on PS5 plugged in and streaming netflix over wifi
- ?? Bufferbloat ?? --> I am running a shaper (Flowqueue-codel with bandwidth set to about 85% my normal up/down) setup based on here: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=7423.0

I am going to try throttling the wifi bandwith next I think

Pressing On,
BryBro

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24.1 Legacy Series / Re: Packet Loss and Stability help

« on: June 22, 2024, 06:39:46 pm »

Thank you both for the great info and help.

Ok, I have PingInfoView downloaded and 1st run going now
- I have the gateway address from what OPNsense told me it was in the system>gateway>config area (looks like the gateway is correct on PingInfoView as atlanticbb.net)
- I am comparing that to dns.google 8.8.8.8
-- currently 0% failed on both (76 and counting attempts set every 10 seconds)

I will monitor and see what happens there.

For clarity in my head, what I am understanding from your replies:
- I seem to have a functional setup of router / OPNsense
- upstream means in this case before we get to my router, in other words maybe an ISP issue

I'm researching the term L3 HOP now to make sure I understand that terminology but thus far I think it means the very next site my home setup connects to on the ISP side (?).

- Just a little confused on the word "Behind" in this phrase: " looks like upstream connectivity issue e.g, behind your OPNsense."

already thankful for both of you,
BryBro

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24.1 Legacy Series / Re: Packet Loss and Stability help

« on: June 22, 2024, 05:47:07 pm »

Also if helpful I saw in another post to check gateway monitoring I am not sure what to make of this, if anything, yet, but this is a first screening snapshot:



BryBro

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24.1 Legacy Series / Packet Loss and Stability help

« on: June 22, 2024, 05:40:52 pm »

Hell All,

Preface: Please forgive my vocabulary and correct me as necessary, I am open to feedback in every capacity
- I am willing to restart from scratch
- I am willing to read / test / learn
- I will always assume you have best intentions for me
- I want to stick with OPNsense and get good at using it (not just copy others), but it is a hobby level lifestyle for me

Novice here, spent 10s-50s of hours over the last year reading/watching videos/playing with OPNsense on a fresh install box inspired by Network Chuck and Home Network Guy at first and now enjoying the rabbit hole fun. (Mainly setup like Home Network Guy guided network. (I would love to get a full VLAN and LAGG setup going but right now I have not accomplished that yet: https://homenetworkguy.com/how-to/set-up-a-fully-functioning-home-network-using-opnsense/)

Running:
OPNsense 24.1.9_3-amd64
FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE-p11
OpenSSL 3.0.14


Network architecture:
ARRIS SURFboard SB8200 Modem - OPNsense Router (Fanless Desktop Computer Mini PC Intel Core i7 7500U 16GB RAM 128GH SSD) - Smart Unmanaged Switch (TL-SG108E) - hardwired to devices right now

ISP: Breezeline broadband 1000 Mbps

I have been working through trying to solve connection drops what I would describe as stability problems.

I will post anything that may be helpful but really I am at a loss on where to start with this forum post.

Situation:
- Basic operations install and updates on router all functional
- Everything connects to WAN and "internet" for all things as desired (all greens in the services dashboard)
- Everything runs except seems to be unstable for example a couple of scenarios:
-- 1) start netflix it loads perfect/quickly, but will buffer often
-- 2) loaded into Playstation 5 (NAT 2 on my static IP address), play a game of call of duty no problem sometimes but stutter lag and drop connection often
-- 3) PC (Static IP) playing game on Steam load and play fine then all of sudden drop server connection error message

I used Vsee Network test reading other posts to try and explain my situation:


The drops above happened when I loaded netflix and then when I pressed play on a show to stream.
(FYI See similar graphs when gaming too)

Appreciate any help to further evaluate and try to solve

Sincerely,
Brybro

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General Discussion / Re: how to clear geoIP settings under aliases

« on: January 14, 2024, 07:47:11 pm »

Probably by deleting /usr/local/share/GeoIP, ussure about the purpose of doing this.

I was wondering the same thing here for different reason. I loaded "country" csv and want to switch to "city" csv. I do not want to railroad this topic so I will post separately too on this topic.

But... how do you delete the "/usr/local/share/GeoIP" if you wanted to?

Thanks for considering my questions, admittedly a noob trying to learn as much as I can for a passion project