Chasing Mikrotik CHR bottleneck

Chasing Mikrotik CHR bottleneck

While doing some WireGuard testing between local peers; I noticed weird performance issues on my virtual Mikrotik router. This lead me down a rabbit hole of testing the layer 3 throughput on my virtual CHR.

The bitrate started at close to 10 Gbits/s, but then dropped to 3-4 — only in one direction 🤷 Time to investigate…

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Running CAT6 to the 2nd floor den — another interior wall

Running CAT6 to the 2nd floor den — another interior wall

I first got started on the network run from the attic switch to the 2nd floor den — back in October of 2021. I finished it a year later, so it’s about time to get this blog post published 😛

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Running CAT6 to the twins’ rooms — inside interior wall

Running CAT6 to the twins' rooms — inside interior wall

We recently moved the twins into their own bedrooms, after sharing a room for nine years — it was finally time for some privacy 🙂

With their own rooms; they also got their own computers — a life long dream 😉 Those computers needs network, proper network, not Wi-Fi.

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Pulling CAT6 cable in existing conduit

Pulling CAT6 cable in existing conduit

We recently put up a wall in our previous family/play room — to make another bedroom, with a hallway outside. I might want an access point in that hallway at some point.

So I repurposed a telephone outlet and conduit, to run a CAT6 cable from the hallway down to the patch panel in the basement.

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Knot Resolver — with ad blocking

Knot Resolver — with ad blocking

I stumbled onto NextDNS recently — it’s like a cloud hosted Pi-hole. I tried it for a few days, but this post isn’t about that.

Reading about the different block lists in NextDNS, and digging deeper into DNS ad blocking gave me motivation to change my current setup — and that is what this post is about 🙂

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