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Re: TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query every 5 seconds

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Post by johnbellone »

mort96 wrote: post #91
ksec wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple Airport is probably the best router I have ever owned. Not the fastest, but extremely Stable, based on NetBSD and from a company that makes money on my hardware rather then my Data. I really hope they will have an 802.11ax version once they iron out all the crap that is going on in there.

My biggest issue with Apple routers is that you _need_ an Apple device to do anything with them. I have an AirPort Extreme, and while I'm not opposed to having Apple devices, I also don't exclusively buy from them, but rather what I deem to be the best product for my purposes at the time of purchase. That currently means an iPhone, an iPad, and a Dell laptop running Linux, but has in the past included both Apple lapt…

I can’t attest to how well it works, but the Airport Utility is available on Windows. This obviously doesn’t help you if you are looking to manage using an Android or Chrome device.

Re: TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query every 5 seconds

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Post by jsjohnst »

jlgaddis wrote: post #18
jsjohnst wrote: post #6

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> I have to say that the convenience, ease of use, and reliability of the product far outweighs any concerns I have over ~715MB over the course of a month. So your convenience trumps the impact you’re causing to global infrastructure? Yes, you’re just one among millions, but still a slippery slope.

He's actually not causing any "impact" at all. > The firmware of some TP-Link repeaters — but not routers — including all 2017 models ... --TFA

I didn’t want to assume what he had or didn’t have in hardware, I was more concerned by the attitude displayed and then later repeated.

Re: TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query every 5 seconds

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife »

megaman22 wrote: post #94
Xylakant wrote: post #92

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> Did it? It says first thing on the top that links go to amazon. There's a link at the bottom to the full discussion. What's the issue if the links to amazon are affiliate links? It's not like they're forcing you to buy or that the value you get from the site is reduced by that. They don't hype a specific device either. > Did I say anything even remotely close to that? I very much understood your complaint about "sp…

I'm of the oppinion that all links to amazon, for example, should be affiliate links. Somebody should be getting that cut.

This is a great comment. It disrupts the whole argument and turns it on its head.

Re: TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query every 5 seconds

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Post by Xylakant »

alsetmusic wrote: post #122
Xylakant wrote: post #105

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I count single digit mentions in 1669 days that procotor is registered on HN. That would be lousy self promotion. I believe that proctor genuinely believes he built something useful and wants to share it. The snark in jlgaddis post rubs me the wrong way.

> I count single digit mentions in 1669 days that procotor is registered on HN. That would be lousy self promotion. Lousy of not, it’s still self-promotion. This is true whether it occurs once or many times. > I believe that proctor genuinely believes he built something useful and wants to share it. I agree. > The snark in jlgaddis post rubs me the wrong way. Clearly. However, you aren’t defending your accusation of…

> Lousy of not, it’s still self-promotion. This is true whether it occurs once or many times.

If a few mentions of something you built counts as self promotion, then even the description and the link to the blog that jlgaddis has on his profile page is self-promotion. It promotes a blog that he writes, possibly to further his professional career.

> Clearly. However, you aren’t defending your accusation of jealousy. Jealousy was the key word that I was addressing.

Ok, let me rephrase that to be more clear: It rubs me in a way that makes me personally believe that something more than "I don't like self promotion" is at play. And I believe that it's jealousy. You obviously don't, but that's personal perception I guess.

Re: TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query every 5 seconds

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Post by tambourine_man »

ktta wrote: post #9

PSA Anyone with commodity routers, repeaters, etc. please check out LEDE project https://lede-project.org . Check if your device has support here - https://lede-project.org/toh/start LEDE firmware is amazing. You will be able to do a lot more with your router and they have quick security fixes. The recent krack vulnerability was fixed within 2 days after the announcement.

Anyone care to explain the pro/cons of DD-WRT vs Tomato vs OpenWRT vs LEDE vs etc?

Re: TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query every 5 seconds

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Post by tomfanning »

pjc50 wrote: post #108
w0utert wrote: post #93

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>> Don't bother with repeaters. Get normal access points, and install several of them if you need to disperse the range around a large area/building/complex. Or better yet, buy a bunch of Ubiqity UniFi's, which were specifically made for this purpose and should provide the most seamless and efficient way to blanket your house in Wifi (provided you already have cabling to the access points). They are not cheap, but al…

UniFi devices are a bit unusual as wireless APs: not only do they not act as a DHCP server, they require you to have one somewhere else on the network. Generally your uplink router will do this, but it surprised me when I wanted to use one as a standalone AP.

A wireless access point is a completely transparent bridge between wired and wireless networks.

If you want a DHCP server in your Wi-Fi "box", you likely want it to do NAT and DNS as well, and that is a "wireless router".

Re: TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query every 5 seconds

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Post by Xylakant »

dspillett wrote: post #123
Xylakant wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I count single digit mentions in 1669 days that procotor is registered on HN. That would be lousy self promotion. I believe that proctor genuinely believes he built something useful and wants to share it. The snark in jlgaddis post rubs me the wrong way.

> That would be lousy self promotion. But still self-promotion if people want to be dogmatic about it. Some people, and some discussion forums, have an absolutely zero tolerance attitude to self-promotion. I have no issue with it if: * It isn't almost all that the account is for (caveat: personally I don't care enough in this case to have checked the account's comment history), i.e. the person contributes usefully to…

> But still self-promotion if people want to be dogmatic about it.

If you want to be dogmatic about it, then no links to your bio, no mention of the good work you do, no link to a company that employs or employed you, no link to your blog, ...

Re: TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query every 5 seconds

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Post by robert_foss »

philjohn wrote: post #112
stordoff wrote: post #96

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FWIW, it can be worth checking beyond whether or not your device is _supported_. I had DD-WRT running on an ASUS RT-AC68U for a while, and ended up switching back to a fork of the official firmware (Asuswrt-Merlin) for better performance once I upgraded to a >100Mbps WAN connection (IIRC it was something to do with hardware-accelerated NAT).

There's a patch to enable Qualcomm FastPath in LEDE, this offloads simpler TCP and UDP traffic from the Kernel stack and gets me 960Mbps LAN to WAN on a Netgear R7800.

Why isn't the patch upstreamed?

Re: TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query every 5 seconds

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Post by JustSomeNobody »

zoe1337 wrote: post #116
herpderperator wrote: post #59

Don't bother with repeaters. Get normal access points, and install several of them if you need to disperse the range around a large area/building/complex. If the SSID and security passphrases match, clients will roam seamlessly between the different APs. I suspect the reason people buy repeaters is that they don't realise that this is possible, or they don't want additional cabling. Repeaters add latency and I can't…

Powerline Ethernet might be a solution for the cable problem. I'm thinking of connecting the extra AP(s) through Powerline Ethernet to the router if there is no copper Ethernet available.

Powerline Ethernet is not really a good solution either. If you don't use your phone jacks, take the cover off one and check if it's actually using Cat5 or greater. You can then use those for network if you replace the connectors.
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