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submitted 1 year ago by krash@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

I have solid experience configuring and maintaining Linux, but my knowledge in networking is quite basic. What should my first configurations and preparations should I do before flashing Openwrt and setting it up for my home network?

PS. If I can use the switch as a NAS, I'd be delighted.

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[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe run a bandwidth speed test, and enable/set qos to 95% of that value... I found that's an easy way to kill the buffer bloat (way better latency).

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