Anxious to see how many routers have improved their algorithms to prevent Bufferfloat.
[Wayback/Archive] Bufferbloat, The Internet, And How To Fix It | Hackaday
The following YouTube videos in it are embedded below the blog signature:
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Bufferbloat, The Internet, And How To Fix It | Hackaday
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/26
Posted in Communications Development, Development, Internet protocol suite, LifeHacker, Network-and-equipment, Power User, routers, TCP, UDP | Tagged: bufferbloat, latency, jitter, WiFi, Linux, OpenWRT | Leave a Comment »
rcmcdonald91/pfSense-pkg-WireGuard: This is a port of the original WireGuard UI bits as implemented by Netgate in pfSense 2.5.0 to a package suitable for rapid iteration and more frequent updating on future releases of pfSense.
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/25
This is actually the WireGuard package you can install on pfSense CE 2.5.2 and higher: [Wayback/Archive] rcmcdonald91/pfSense-pkg-WireGuard: This is a port of the original WireGuard UI bits as implemented by Netgate in pfSense 2.5.0 to a package suitable for rapid iteration and more frequent updating on future releases of pfSense.
Note that the source code mentions a lot of web-technologies but that is because the majority of the code is the pfSense plugin. Underneath it pulls the actual build from [Wayback/Archive] git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-freebsd/snapshot which is almost exclusively C code.
Like WireGuardNT on Windows, it uses a high performance kernel mode driver.
Some more links on it:
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Some notes on getting OpenVPN LAN2LAN VPN working from a GL.iNET GL-SFT1200 AC1200 Travel Router to a pfSense that is behind a Fritz!Box 7490
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/19
TL;DR: it failed
Since GL.iNET does not support site-to-site “Peer to Peer” OpenVPN (only “Remote Access” is supported) which is needed to route to/from the networks on both sides of the connection. the below did fail.
Original idea
Below was what I hoped to function.
Some links that should get me started (though my situation is a tad more difficult, see below):
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GL.iNet GL-SFT1200 Secure Wi-Fi Router On The Go – AC1200 Dual-Band Gigabit Wireless Internet Router | IPv6 | USB 2.0 | MU-MIMO | 128MB RAM | Repeater Bridge | Access Point-M Mode: Amazon.de: Computer & Accessories
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/09
For my link archive a router I bought a few years back: [Wayback/Archive] GL-SFT1200 Secure Wi-Fi Router On The Go – AC1200 Dual-Band Gigabit Wireless Internet Router | IPv6 | USB 2.0 | MU-MIMO | 128MB RAM | Repeater Bridge | Access Point-M Mode: Amazon.de: Computer & Accessories
- It is USB-C powered (the power brick delivers 3A at 5V, but in reality it uses far less).
- Mode and reset buttons are behind the antenna (see picture below).
- It is specced as AC1200, but that’s just theoretical a number.
- It came with EU and UK plug.
I needed it because from prior experience, I knew GL.iNEt can support a special Wireless Repeater mode where it still functions as a router (hiding the LAN/WLAN behind NAT)
Two physical drawbacks likely due to the portable nature:
the plastic RJ45 ports are slightly too wide which means that these keep falling out [Wayback/Archive] Inline® Dust cover, for RJ45 socket, color: green, 100pcs. Pack: Amazon.de: Electronics & Photo- no holes in the base to hang it to a wall
One firmware drawback: it shipped with v3.212 for which I could not find release notes. Luckily the firmware v3.215 I upgraded to had: [Wayback/Archive] Firmware v3.215 is released – Technical Support – GL.iNet.
Links to product and manuals (the paper manual are just two thin sheets, but the on-line documentation is OK; I was surprised WireGuard and Tor were supported!):
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Unpatched ethernet markers for your patch panel by Marijn Pool on Twitter at @maakplek
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/08
Want: [Wayback/Archive] Marijn Pool on Twitter: “Even een paar poortjes labelen dat ze niet gebruikt kunnen worden. Overkill? Neeee, gewoon mooi 😘 Gemaakt in de @maakplek”
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Is this the ultimate XKCD “Dependency” derivative?
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/29
Besides the August 2025 XKCD infrastructure dependency inspired cartoon on the right, the more recent and great [Wayback/Archive] XCKD: Dependency derivative below is a monumental piece as it combines the recent:
- fiber outage of the Internet Archive
- DoS of Cloudflare by itself
- AWS us-east-1 dependencies outage
- Crowdstrike DoS of Windows machines
- framework-du-jour mentality in the JavaScript world
- many more¹
Image [Wayback/Archive] 36247840bf294a9d.png (1080×1389) from [Wayback/Archive] xyla 🐀🪇: “someone pls alt text this shit…” – buy shitpost cheap:
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Interesting; Meshtastic
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/27
An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices
Via [Wayback/Archive] @jilles_com@infosec.exchange on Twitter: “Will be taking to meshtastic.org Lora 433MHz modules to @hotelhacker. Might be cool if more people could bring some to setup a larger mesh and play with them. amzn.eu/d/aCgULy4“
Products:
- 433Mhz: [Wayback/Archive] LILYGO LORA32 T-Beam ESP32 Development Board WiFi BLE CH9102F Chip TTGO OLED Module Meshtastic Motherboards: Amazon.de: Computer & Accessories
- 866/915 Mhz: [Wayback/Archive] LILYGO T-Beam LORA32 ESP32 Development Board WiFi BLE CH9102F Chip Meshtastic TTGO Mainboards Soldered OLED Module: Amazon.de: Computer & Accessories
For both boards, this holds:
1. The Meshtastic program is not pre-installed on this product. If you need to install, please check the steps:
github.com/geeksville/Meshtastic-Android/blob/master/README.md
github.com/meshtastic/meshtastic-device/releases
2. If GPS does not work, the following situations may occur:
Install the Meshtastic firmware before and now reset the GPS when you switch to another firmware.
Reset steps: github.com/Xinyuan-LilyGO/LilyGo-LoRa-Series/tree/master/firmware/GPS_%20reset_test
3. If GPS is weak indoors, it can be used outdoors
4. The GPS antenna is not installed stably, you can check if the interface is attached to the GPS antenna
Related:
- [Wayback/Archive] Meshtastic (@TheMeshtastic)
- [Wayback/Archive] LILYGO (@lilygo9)
- [Wayback/Archive] @jilles_com@infosec.exchange on Twitter: “Boot button for
flasher.Meshtastic.orgweb flasher.”
- [Wayback/Archive] @jilles_com@infosec.exchange on Twitter: “Received @TheMeshtastic module by @lilygo9 I ordered yesterday for @HotelHacker on Friday.”
–jeroen
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My geigercounter (thanks Dinsdale for doing almost all the work!)
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/31
- LoRa communication via [Wayback/Archive] eu1.cloud.thethings.network
- Data storage at [Wayback/Archive] devices.sensor.community | user configuration
- Data display at [Wayback/Archive] Geiger-Map with these underlying URLs having the sensor ID
78166(and once nameRadiation SBM-19) filled:- [Wayback/Archive] multigeiger.citysensor.de/78166
- [Wayback/Archive] multigeiger.citysensor.de/api/getprops?sensorid=78166
- [Wayback/Archive] multigeiger.citysensor.de/fsdata/getfs/korr?sensorid=78166
- [Wayback/Archive] multigeiger.citysensor.de/fsdata/getfs/oneday?start=2023-01-29T16:45:15%2B01:00&sensorid=78166&sensorname=Radiation%20SBM-19&avgTime=1&live=true&moving=true&longAVG=48&os=Windows
Thanks [Wayback/Archive] Dinsdale. – D💉ane ديانا дiане Blijf thuis ⭕️🇺🇦 (@Dinsdal85174312) / Twitter for all the effort (solder, 3D-print, assemble) to get it to work!
Documentation links:
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Domotica/IoT: Smarthometweaks uit de community – Tweakers
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/13
Interesting ideas about home automation, domotics and IoT:
- [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Tweakers
- [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Verlichting – Tweakers
- [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Huishoudelijke taken – Tweakers
- [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Huisgenoten en -dieren – Tweakers
- [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Verwarming, klimaat en energiegebruik – Tweakers
- [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Multimedia – Tweakers
- [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Platform en automatiseringsfilosofie – Tweakers
- [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Platform en automatiseringsfilosofie – Tweakers
–jeroen
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Rudimentary DaynaPORT packet driver to use WiFi from DOS using BlueSCSI: GitHub – cml37/daynaport-dos-packet-driver
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/08
Despite beta or early alpha quality [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – cml37/daynaport-dos-packet-driver by by [Wayback/Archive] RetroTech Chris – YouTube is very cool.
Main source: [Wayback/Archive] daynaport-dos-packet-driver/src/dayna.c at main · cml37/daynaport-dos-packet-driver · GitHub
Related:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 