Writing tagged "networking"
A mysterious drop in Ethernet speed
At some random point in the past few weeks, Ethernet speed on my couch dropped from just under 1 Gbit/s to less than 100 Mbit/s. Besides feeling like I was back in the early 00s, this frustratingly ruined my low latency streaming performance.
Switching PoE devices attached to a Linksys switch with Home Assistant
Some recent office space restructuring enabled employees to take home certain now-unused pieces of equipment that the company would otherwise have to sell off or trash. I was lucky to get a Linksys LGS124 PoE-capable managed switch to simplify wiring in my rack at home.
Being able to power cycle devices remotely is really useful to get crashed/locked-up stuff to work again, but the switch web UI is a nightmare and borderline unusable on touch devices, which are sometimes the only available option on the go, so I looked into API options.
Putting to sleep and waking up Windows machines with Home Assistant
I begrudgingly tolerate some Windows machines on my network, because some games’ anti cheat malsoftware consider virtual environments cheating. While VMs do make it easier to manipulate the state of a video game to one’s advantage, it’s annoying.
Balancing between power saving and convenience, I want these machines up as quickly as possible when I need them, so I keep them in sleep and wake them up with Wake-on-LAN. Putting them back to sleep via remote desktop is mightily annoying, so I searched for remedies.