Interesting. In NC here. Not sure if there's a difference regionally. I was seeing that kind of RTT on ipv4, but ipv6 was slower. I'll need to give it another try. The last time I did was at my last place where I had the BGW210. I have the BGW320 now and haven't tried on that. Maybe that, or changes in their routing since then will make a difference.
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Did I read right that it doesn't use systemd?
AT&T is the same. And the last time I looked they don't give you enough address space to host your own subnet. You get a /64 instead of a /56. And it's slower than ipv4.
Every few months I try it out, complain and then switch it off.
Legrand makes a recessed keystone wall plate that may help. There are also other recessed and angled plate options that may help.
Monit works for me. Good basic monitoring solution that can also restart a service/interface.
I also use LibreNMS to do alerting for a variety of conditions (syslog events, sensor conditions, outages and services via nagios). But this is more work to get set up.
I tried draw.io, but ended up liking LibreOffice Draw better for hand-drawing.
If you want to get a live map of the connections on your network you may want to check out netdisco.org or librenms.org. Both are open source network management tools that have mapping.
Obligatory: Debian.
But I'd be tempted to put Proxmox on it and then run containers for each function. Then you get purpose-crafted solutions for each use case, but can easily plug new functions in or shut them down based on what you decide later.
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No problems here with AT&T fiber. Yes, you do need their box (the bypass isn't even possible yet on their new model that they seem to be installing everywhere now). But the IP passthrough works well enough for me so that my router gets the public IP and I can connect to it using any service I've tried to host. I make the best of it by using their wifi (which on the BGW320 is pretty decent) for untrusted devices & iot stuff.
Oh, and I use DDNS, but I have never had the public IP change on me.
If the playback device (tv in this case) doesn't support the codec used for audio or video it must be transcoded for playback to work at all. If this is the cause it could be the tv doesn't have the right codecs and a standalone device may be better. It depends on the codecs you are using.
Also, if the network connection is slow, it will transcode so that that playback is smooth but lower resolution or quality.
In either case, if the Plex server isn't strong enough it will struggle. You can investigate this on the dashboard as well, it shows a live cpu usage graph.
Exactly. I would expect a pi to struggle with transcoding. The quality of apps on a lot of smart tvs is poor (particularly older ones that aren't roku or android, and that Samsung is neither).
I bet it would work a lot better on the Samsung if you get an Android TV device (Onn 4k is a good inexpensive one) or roku, if you prefer that platform.
But first it's best to know if transcoding is the problem. It might be direct stream but having network problems.
I use LibreNMS, which is a fork of Observium. It is primarily SNMP polling, so if you haven't worked with SNMP before there can be a bit of a learning curve to get it set up. Once you get the basics working it's pretty easy to add service monitoring, syslog collection, alerting and more. And since it's SNMP you can monitor network hardware pretty easily as well as servers.
The dashboards aren't as beautiful as some other options but there is lot to work with.