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On Friday, October 31, 2014 03:46:50 PM Marc Joliet wrote: |
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> Am Fri, 31 Oct 2014 12:16:04 +0100 |
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> schrieb "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>: |
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> > On Friday, October 31, 2014 11:47:50 AM Marc Joliet wrote: |
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> I didn't explicitly mention this, but the problem is that the router and |
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> modem are in my brothers room (four room shared students apartment, plus |
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> bathroom and kitchen). Now, I'm not about to drag a cable out of my room, |
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> across the hall, and into my brother's room, never mind that neither of us |
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> could close our doors anymore without unplugging the cable and dragging it |
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> back. |
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I had a similar issue a long time ago. With a little remodeling of the door, |
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you can make room for the wire to pass and the door can then still close. |
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Just make sure you do it without the owner of the building seeing it. |
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(Bottom of the door on side of hinge is a common location) |
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> So the alternative would have been to teach my desktop WLAN, which would've |
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> been slower unless I could find something for PCI(e) or USB3 that works |
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> with Linux, *without* me having to check out some git repository and |
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> manually compile things in the hope that it works. The first USB3 WLAN |
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> adapter I found would've lead to that, so I made a snap decision in favour |
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> of powerline. It also didn't hurt that I was curious about it and wanted |
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> to try it out :) . |
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PowerLine is ok for this kind of use. I just have too many items on the wires |
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here that can cause interference. |
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> (I actually had to (unexpectedly) to do that with my wireless keyboard. Now |
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> there's app-misc/solaar, thankfully, although why Logitech couldn't just |
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> stick with infrared...) |
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> > (If you accept the reduction in line-speed) |
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> How long ago was this? I read that all modern devices incorporate various |
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> filters to mitigate disturbances coming from other devices and, thus, that |
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> they perform much better (or at least more robustly) than previous |
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> generations (they also *cause* less disturbances). Either way, I can |
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> saturate our 16 MiB/s internet connection with enough parallel downloads |
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> (or with a fast enough server, such as with speedtest.net), and LAN |
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> performance is satisfactory. I suspect one limiting factor is that the |
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> powerline adapters only have Fast Ethernet connections (of course, so does |
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> the router, so it doesn't matter). |
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My internet connection is 180Mbit down, 18Mbit up. |
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Without Gigabit network (including the WAN-port), I can't get use this. |
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> [...] |
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> > > > I once connected a fresh install directly to the modem. Only took 20 |
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> > > > seconds to get owned. (This was about 9 years ago and Bind was |
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> > > > running) |
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> > > Ouch. |
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> > I was, to be honest, expecting it to be owned. (Just not this quick). |
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> > It was done on purpose to see how long it would take. I pulled the network |
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> > cable when the root-kit was being installed. Was interesting to see. |
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> I bet :) ! |
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The rootkit also was installed using "make -j". Suddenly slow server is a bit |
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of a give-away. |
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Joost |