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7 hours ago, ENTERPRISE said:

UPNP I find to be junk personally. Always manually forward ports if you can. 

 

I assume that you have forwarded the ports in your ISP router to the IP of your Firewall box, then in the Firewall box forwarded the same ports to your PC's static IP ?

 

You essentially have to forward the port traffic to your Firewall, and then forward it again to your PC. 

 

I also assumed your PC has a static IP ? Or bonded an IP to your MAC address ?

the pc is is on a static IP, i have tried a few things including port forwarding, which got me down to moderate in some games and strict in others.

the ISP router is completely bypassed, it doesnt even see the pfsense box, as pfsense is using pppoe and connecting directly to internet service. which makes the ISP router basically a glorified conversion interface for the fiber line

i can tell you the 7800XT is great with 16GB of vram, so the 7600XT will benefit aswell as a sweeter price for alot of people

i have installed opnsense and am bridging through my ISP's provided modem for now (it does not dhcp lease or have wireless enabled)

the issue im having is ive installed the upnp plugin, rebooted it and when i run a game on my PC, it instant warns of STRICT NAT and doesnt allow me to session host.

the issues ive found are as follows :

- UPNP registers no ports when i connect to online portions of games

- setting a firewall rule to port forward through the NAT doesnt seem to function either

everything else is flawless, besides a little bit of speed loss between the modem and opnsense (like 50mbps, not much on 8gbps fiber)

im stumped and alot of games im playing im the session host for friends and have the game saves, so we're sort of SOL until i get this working.

any help is appreciated greatly. as im sure someone has knowledge i dont.

hey guys, i set up an opnsense box recently, specs as follows:

HP Elitedesk SFF (work freebie)

i5 [email protected]

8GB 2666mhz ram 

256GB generic NVME M.2 SSD

intel 10g SFP+ NIC

intel 10G RJ45 NIC (soon to be another SFP with direct fiber line if all goes well)

bumping !

On 17/01/2023 at 09:02, neurotix said:

 

 

If you happened to read my original post and what I have to go through and deal with, well, I think you have it even worse. I'm on disability and don't even work because of DDD and fibromyalgia as well as compressed discs in my neck and low back, and a hip torn labrum and cam and pincer impingement.

 

Much respect to the fact you actually hold down a job and one that involves carrying things, etc. I don't know how you force yourself through the pain. I find it difficult to force myself through the pain just walking around my house and going up and down stairs, let alone going out to appointments or shopping with the wife.

 

Any tips on how you cope with it mentally and just force yourself through would be valuable to everyone here, I think.

 

Also, is there anything doctors can do for you? Do you get pain meds or anything? Because this sounds like its much worse than anything posted so far, though I suppose it's relative and everyone feels pain differently. Personally, anything leaning over a desk like art, soldering, building keyboards, working on computers I can only do on good pain days and doing so will cause me to be in bad pain the next day. It sucks.

i've not at all really been on pain meds, every once in a while ill take an aleve, but nothing more than that.

pain comes with a quid pro quo. if you can focus yourself on something else and ignore it, it dont hurt as much i've had this pain for long enough now its just part of life. i built endurance to it over time, and have had very understanding employers along the way.

also not to bring anyone into the habit but. CBD oil and smoking decent pot numbs pain for decent amounts of time. a good smoke numbs it for about 4 hours.

i finished my first custom build today

Kaychron Q1 V2 Knob edition 75%, gateron north pole 50G linear switches, GMK awaken neotokyo keycaps

Pain you say? i can share plenty. from fingers going up on the corner of wood splitter blades and cutting to the bone all the way up to having a trailer pulled out from under me while i was loading it on a forklift.

the forklift accident destroyed my lower back, as the front wheels remained on the trailer and the back end swung down straight to the parking lot off the dock. i have never ending pain in my lower back and left knee/ankle since that day, over 10 years ago now. i still presume the knee/ankle are from stomping the brake pedal with all the force i had before the forklift fell off the dock. i disabled myself further in late 2021 around halloween. was out riding my electric scooter without a helmet (yes i know avacado will call me a moron). the wind pulled my hat off, and in that split second knee jerk reaction i reached for it while rolling at 25MPH. i of course wiped out instantly. i turned myself in the air to protect my head and landed right shoulder first. 8 stitches over my right eye, a month and a half in a sling with a radial fractured upper right arm, it was dislocated aswell when i arrived at the hospital and they put it back in place, road burned my right leg something fierce too (it scraped right through a pair of jeans).

needless to say when i sit up in the morning i want to scream in agony as my back crunches into place, laying down at night or sitting in a chair with arch support relieves my back somewhat but not completely. i can only imagine how this pain will get worse as i age.

BUT! i am STILL dumb enough to pick up a 35-40lb watercooled rig and cart it out of my office to the kitchen for maintenance. and i work in IT for a living doing hardware installs for law offices. we all know hardware installs lead to carrying around relatively heavy equipment (servers, workstations, printers etc). ill pay for it as i get older im sure.

my condolences to anyone who lives in daily pain as i do, i'm sure many of you are much worse off than i am.

i guess its time i stick my nose in here for a little advice, im intending on building my first keyboard. i've bought many that are prebuilt over the years. the most recent being the GMMK 2.

im over here debating if a GMMK pro is a good way to go. or of i should just start looking elsewhere. the GMMK pro has the form factor appeal (75% and i intend to take the GMMK2 to the office once i build a new board for home)

i do like the fox switches on this board, and ive read and heard from a few people that Glorious' lynx switches are functionally identical to foxes, but with a blue top instead of clear.

3 hours ago, N2 Gaming said:

I see the game at $40.00 and additional $$ for DLC.  Is DLC required to play on the server map you set up and if not is it suggested so players are not at a disadvantage?

DLC is completely optional for this game, not a requirement at all

2 minutes ago, N2 Gaming said:

This is the first time hearing about this game.  I know I live under a rock.  Any way I watched this video about the game play and it reminded me of a lot of games over the years going as far back as Delta Force Black Hawk down, BF2, Far Cry 1 and others, Crysis etc.  The scenes is what reminds me of those other games.  I'll have to look into this a bit more to see if I would enjoy playing it and if it's worth cost of entry for me.  I'm super cheap when it comes to games.

i suggest if youd like gameplay videos of rust. Frost is great at showing progression and adding a storyline to it, look him up on youtube

bump for update of OP above

1 hour ago, The Pook said:

niche = $$$. buget? Silverstone is the cheapest you're gonna get though afaik 

 

why not just get an ATX case and lay it on its side? 

height issues sadly, id like to keep it around 200 and below, but probably not possible

is there anything someone makes that isnt $300 and will fit a 2 Socket ATX server board with 92MM noctua coolers. cause silverstones HTPC cases are rediculous in price.

im going to be asked why not use a tower, simply because it is to go on a shelf under my corner end table in the living room, and needs to lay flat.

2 hours ago, iamjanco said:

So I was interested in knowing which version of GeekBench (Geekbench 5 for Win vs. Geekbench 5 Pro) I should buy to fulfill the Primate Labs link requirement and searched Google for hwbot geekbench which version should I buy, and came up with a few interesting results and some additional questions. One of the top returns was a link to a thread in the Hwbot forum about the subject at hand, which was tossed around during the 2019-2020 time frame:

 

Geekbench 5

 

It's a short two-page thread, so I read through and if I understood what was discussed in it correctly, there were issues using Geekbench 5 with HWBOT competitions; hence, I've got the following few questions I'm hoping you guys can answer:

1. uh, naturally, which version should I buy? if the non Pro version suffices, I'd prefer that.
    
2. because of apparent issues with Geekbench 5 when used with Win 10 (see that thread) there's talk of a different validation utility called Benchmate in that forum thread that appears to be about a replacement for Geekbench. I'm guessing though that they're still working on getting HWBOT to recognize it as an alternative to Primal Labs' Geekbench, so I need to ask should I use an earlier version of Geekbench?  Please note I'm using WIN 10 Pro 64 bit on my bench. 

 

Anyway, looking forward to what you guys know about what I asked/proffered above, and TIA!

 

 

 

 

benchmate does not replace geekbench, but locks down your system so you cannot "edit" benchmark results after runs. it can also submit results directly to HWBOT from inside the program after you save, just login to your hwbot account via the program. it also takes screenshots for you.

1 hour ago, pioneerisloud said:

Want me to run my ASRock 990FX Extreme 3?  I can.......

I don't have a 960T though, and I definitely tapped out my 965BE, so kinda pointless anyway.   

 

We've got to work on your Socket 754 run too.  I'll bug you on discord about it, but I'm sure we can get you to squeeze out a little more MHz out of it.  It's a K8, so in theory it should tap out around 2.5GHz-3GHz+ depending on the chip.  It should do really well with RAM too assuming the IMC's not damaged already.  NF motherboard so you've got a good board to start with at least.

 

Could be worse, you could be like @PCSarge who swore up and down he could beat @Bastiaan_NL with his 5700XT, and then never ran it again.  C'mon PCSarge, this isn't StockclockedHardware.net! 

Yeah yeah yeah, shots fired.....   I'd like to see us break into 4th place though.  We were knocked back down to 6th though right now.

i actually went through some other hardware with bastian last night that he signed me up for, only to figure out i had the wrong motherboards/chipsets for the comp

server was map wiped and went live today at 2:30pm right after update release.

bump for all those new and old, i have also added things to the list of whats in the server.

21 hours ago, schuck6566 said:

Since you know your card works in your brothers pc, try putting it back in there, and hooking it up to YOUR monitor with YOUR DP cable and see if it works. If it does, then we've narrowed the issue down to somewhere on your board or your PSU. It will save guessing if a cable,monitor,card or some combo is bad if those 3 work elsewhere.If not,maybe try a different cable while the setup is like that to just make sure and then after putting his card back,if the monitor still had no image,try on his rig with his card. You say U know the monitor's good because the ps4 still works on it,but I've had hdmi ports go out and the vga still work on older flat screens. maybe the DP port's gone flakey?

ive seen this be a bios related issue with asrock boards before, if he can flash from within his bios with s usb key, i suggest updating his bios aswell.

On 19/07/2022 at 08:41, Avacado said:

Thank you!

 

I look forward to working with our partners and trying to procure as many goodies as I can. If anyone has interest in doing reviews or certain components, let me know. 

 

Calling: 

@Bastiaan_NL

@Mr. Fox

@PCSarge

@Sir Beregond

@The Pook

@damric

@pioneerisloud

@J7SC_Orion

ill be fanning a way to a review soon i hope

1 hour ago, Andrew said:

The in-house Honda tuner probably would have been Spoon if it weren't for nepotism. Mugen weren't that good in the 70s and they aren't that good now.

mugen works better on some models than others, i know a guy with a CRX thats complete eurospec mugen and its pretty clean

6 hours ago, Alex said:

I mean obviously Spoon

i mean your car is sunrise yellow....so it would make sense to spoon

On 03/07/2022 at 22:40, Alex said:

Gave the car a big wash today, started off with some CarPro lift foam to remove as much gunk (and old wax) as possible. Then moved onto using IronX to remove iron fallout (considering the brake failure that just happened) and cleaned the wheels too. Moved onto a wash with CarPro Reset with some lovely 350gsm plush microfibre towels. Once done I used an ultra fine claybar and some claybar lube to get rid of the fine contamants in the paint. Lastly once all dry I applied a nice layer of Collinite 845. I love this wax, gives a super great depth and shine albeit it doesn't last very long at all. I am seriously considering getting my car ceramic coated and just topping that up myself with something like CarPro Reload... it'll probably be quicker and more durable. Heck, if I still want I can put the wax on top of that even.

 

 

Pictures of the washing process:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After Pictures

 

 

 

 

 

I also tried polishing the glass but it wasn't very successful, I think I might try again with more time or just give up and replace the glass (it's like $1200 though...)

 

 

 

Pics of the thousands of tiny chips in the glass

 

 

 

 

I also replaced the valve cover, spark plug cover and coolant resevoir bottle! I think the refreshed valve cover definitely looks a lot better than the old one. I didn't realise how bad of a condition it was in until I got it out of the car and put it side by side.

 

Before

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After

 

 

 

 

 

Side by side

 

immo need you to do one thing.......you must choose but choose wisely.

SPOON or MUGEN 

On 01/07/2022 at 16:40, Andrew said:

It's just going to be Linux with a skin.

they will call it.....skinux!

18 minutes ago, pioneerisloud said:

I too would volunteer as a moderator as well.

 

At least that'd be something I can help out with on the fly, as I'm sitting here browsing the site.  

its alive! im joking