Post Add4jfTvW9WTa9lMeW by cablespaghetti@blahaj.social
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 (DIR) Post #AdcKdJ8T5iWWeEksBE by cablespaghetti@blahaj.social
       2024-01-07T22:06:02Z
       
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       So as part of moving off BT to Zen, I’ve upgraded my connection from 300/50Mb to 500/70Mb. This unfortunately has highlighted that my little MikroTik router running OpenWrt was only just barely keeping up and now I can’t max out my new shiny line.I’m going to try some tweaks I’ve found in the #OpenWrt forums to eke out a bit of extra performance, but the temptation to go router shopping is ever present. 😆
       
 (DIR) Post #AdcKdKTm5zA2objP1s by cablespaghetti@blahaj.social
       2024-01-07T22:10:36Z
       
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       The silly thing is that I did spend a couple of hundred quid on a very overpowered fanless x86 box from AliExpress a while ago and was running OpnSense in a VM on it, but I had stability issues so ultimately went back to #OpenWrt.I’m not sure I can bring myself to use that quad core, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD monster. It’s currently running a single web server VM though (which is also crashy every few weeks, I hope it’s Proxmox and not the hardware), so wasting it as a firewall isn’t any worse…
       
 (DIR) Post #AdcKdLcJrhaeLOjjzE by penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
       2024-01-07T23:04:46Z
       
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       @cablespaghetti Use an old laptop?
       
 (DIR) Post #Add4jfTvW9WTa9lMeW by cablespaghetti@blahaj.social
       2024-01-08T07:41:26Z
       
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       @penguin42 I did do that for a while with OpnSense and had issues related to the USB network adapter drivers. I do really like the neat little dedicated box approach.I’ll try and few more things to get OpenWrt to behave and then flash MikroTik’s RouterOS back on it if I have to I suppose.