'No Stupid Questions' (NSQ) Internet & Technology Edition

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How the fuck do I download a (finished) YouTube Livestream? I have the link. It's not live. I try using YouTube DL. It doesn't fucking work. It splits it into two files. One that's audio one. That's an image. Both don't work. What do I do? I have ffml downloaded
 
YouTube DL
Youtube DL is depreciated. Use Yt-Dlp.

Don't know how up on it you are, so here is a quick and dirty guide. Assuming you are using Windows. Download yt-dlp and FFmpeg Unzip both files. There will be a folder with some exes in it called "bin" in the ffmpeg zip. Put the yt-dlp, ffmpeg, ffplay and ffprobe exes into one folder somewhere on your hard drive. Open a CMD window, navigate to the folder you put all your shit in. Type yt-dlp and then paste the video url after it.
 
Ok, so I got a weird one for you guys. I just want someone to confirm which of us was being a stupid asshole for me.

We have this LTE Internet at a remote site. It consists of a ZTE box like this:
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Going to a box like this:

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Which connects to an antenna outside. AFAIK this is just a glorified power adaptor that connects the antenna to the ZTE hub which does must of the actual work.

Follow me so far?

So when you are connected to the first box with a phone or computer, the default gateway is 192.168.XXX.1. When you connect to the wifi and you type in this ip address, you get the router login screen as one would expect.

Anyway, we have trouble with our setup this morning. We call the provider and have to do the whole song and dance where we go through their big dumb list of troubleshooting steps before they open a work order and send someone out. At one point the phone tech insisted that I enter 192.168.XXY.1 into a browser on a network connected device. I kind of say "With all due respect, I doubt that will do anything. The gateway is 192.168.XXX.1 my device ip is 192.168.XXX.68."

The phone tech was very insistent that this was for the modem, and the IP I stated was for the router/hub. So I put in 192.168.XXY.1 and predictably it doesn't work.

So here is my question for you guys. Is it even possible for what the phone tech was describing to work? When you are connected to a wifi network on a router, is it even possible to connect to a device a level above the router by entering an IP on a different gateway? Is that little black box, in fact, a modem with a little server running that you can log into via the ZTE box's wireless lan?
 
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Ok, so I got a weird one for you guys. I just want someone to confirm which of us was being a stupid asshole for me.

We have this LTE Internet at a remote site. It consists of a ZTE box like this:
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Going to a box like this:

View attachment 5894225
Which connects to an antenna outside. AFAIK this is just a glorified power adaptor that connects the antenna to the ZTE hub which does must of the actual work.

Follow me so far?

So when you are connected to the first box with a phone or computer, the default gateway is 192.168.XXX.1. When you connect to the wifi and you type in this ip address, you get the router login screen as one would expect.

Anyway, we have trouble with our setup this morning. We call the provider and have to do the whole song and dance where we go through their big dumb list of troubleshooting steps before they open a work order and send someone out. At one point the phone tech insisted that I enter 192.168.XXY.1 into a browser on a network connected device. I kind of say "With all due respect, I doubt that will do anything. The gateway is 192.168.XXX.1 my device ip is 192.168.XXX.68."

The phone tech was very insistent that this was for the modem, and the IP I stated was for the router/hub. So I put in 192.168.XXY.1 and predictably it doesn't work.

So here is my question for you guys. Is it even possible for what the phone tech was describing to work? When you are connected to a wifi network on a router, is it even possible to connect to a device a level above the router by entering an IP on a different gateway? Is that little black box, in fact, a modem with a little server running that you can log into via the ZTE box's wireless lan?
That small black box is a Power over Ethernet adapter. From what I can see the ZTE box is the LAN router, and those PoE adapters are used with terrestrial wireless a lot of the time. So if I had to guess, your connection is fed via that terrestrial wireless (commonly Ubiquiti equipment) and then the connection goes to the router.

If so, the terrestrial wireless CPE could be a router itself or just in bridge mode. Does your ZTE box have a public IP on it?

However, as you said I don't believe you could be able to access the terrestrial wireless radio through the router due to the way subnetting works. Either your CPE radio is bridged and "invisible" to the LAN as a result, or it's a second router which should be giving your ZTE router a private IP address on the WAN port.
 
Ok, so I got a weird one for you guys. I just want someone to confirm which of us was being a stupid asshole for me.

We have this LTE Internet at a remote site. It consists of a ZTE box like this:
View attachment 5894226
Going to a box like this:

View attachment 5894225
Which connects to an antenna outside. AFAIK this is just a glorified power adaptor that connects the antenna to the ZTE hub which does must of the actual work.

Follow me so far?

So when you are connected to the first box with a phone or computer, the default gateway is 192.168.XXX.1. When you connect to the wifi and you type in this ip address, you get the router login screen as one would expect.

Anyway, we have trouble with our setup this morning. We call the provider and have to do the whole song and dance where we go through their big dumb list of troubleshooting steps before they open a work order and send someone out. At one point the phone tech insisted that I enter 192.168.XXY.1 into a browser on a network connected device. I kind of say "With all due respect, I doubt that will do anything. The gateway is 192.168.XXX.1 my device ip is 192.168.XXX.68."

The phone tech was very insistent that this was for the modem, and the IP I stated was for the router/hub. So I put in 192.168.XXY.1 and predictably it doesn't work.

So here is my question for you guys. Is it even possible for what the phone tech was describing to work? When you are connected to a wifi network on a router, is it even possible to connect to a device a level above the router by entering an IP on a different gateway? Is that little black box, in fact, a modem with a little server running that you can log into via the ZTE box's wireless lan?
The little black box is just power.
BUT.
The antenna is actually a network device and has an IP address, and presumably that is what the tech wanted you to login to. Which, presumably is why it needs a power supply as that black box feeds power to the antenna via the ethernet cable. So your ZTE box is a normal wifi router on one IP, that translates your traffic to another IP, which then the antenna passes off. But since the antenna is an actual network device you can connect to it for diagnostics, if it weren't dead, which sounds like it might be the problem. (You did check the power supply right?)

Either your CPE radio is bridged and "invisible"
You can make the CPE both bridged and listening on a specific IP. Then when it sees traffic to its IP it will respond. In my case my Cable modem always responds to 192.168.100.1. When upstream is down it gives out DHCP. But even when the upstream is up it "steals" packets to that IP and gives its UI.

Which I had to tell my firewall to allow as it usually doesn't send RFC1918 to the WAN.
 
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The little black box is just power.
BUT.
The antenna is actually a network device and has an IP address, and presumably that is what the tech wanted you to login to. Which, presumably is why it needs a power supply as that black box feeds power to the antenna via the ethernet cable. So your ZTE box is a normal wifi router on one IP, that translates your traffic to another IP, which then the antenna passes off. But since the antenna is an actual network device you can connect to it for diagnostics, if it weren't dead, which sounds like it might be the problem. (You did check the power supply right?)
Yes, all the gear inside is working fine. The issue seems to be the result of severe weather. I was just curious if what the phone tech was saying was even possible, because I had my doubts. I just assumes the ZTE box was working as a modem/router combo and was questioning if any external modem would even be on the ZTE hub's wireless network to allow a connection. We also have a bunch of these, also made by ZTE, and also using LTE:

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Where you just pop a sim card in and it functions as both modem and router. I thought the one I posted earlier one worked similarly, but with a big assed powered antenna for remote locations.
 
Yes, all the gear inside is working fine. The issue seems to be the result of severe weather. I was just curious if what the phone tech was saying was even possible, because I had my doubts. I just assumes the ZTE box was working as a modem/router combo and was questioning if any external modem would even be on the ZTE hub's wireless network to allow a connection. We also have a bunch of these, also made by ZTE, and also using LTE:


Where you just pop a sim card in and it functions as both modem and router. I thought the one I posted earlier one worked similarly, but with a big assed powered antenna for remote locations.
You are correct, it's not in the wireless network, it's on the "Internet" side of your router which technically right now is just an "internet" since the big-I part isn't working. The difference in the first part of the IP address gives it away that it's a different network. Since it's not responding it may have lost a cable or simply gone missing, did someone check the roof?

What you probably have outside is almost identical internally to that round box, just outside and powered by the POE adapter with an internal directional antenna. And based on how ugly the POE adapter is, it's almost certainly not Ubiquiti equipment since they love their branding, it's probably made by/for ZTE as well.
 
You are correct, it's not in the wireless network, it's on the "Internet" side of your router which technically right now is just an "internet" since the big-I part isn't working. The difference in the first part of the IP address gives it away that it's a different network. Since it's not responding it may have lost a cable or simply gone missing, did someone check the roof?
The ISP is sending a tech for that. That's not our job. I was just scratching my head a bit because I was wondering how I could get to 192.168.XXY.1 when I'm connected to 192.168.XXX.1.
 
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How do I get a local LLM running on a AMD graphics card? Am I just screwed and are these graphics cards good for gaming only?
 
I'm currently running windows. I've installed LM studio and it gets the job done, just insanely slow about it. Is it worth going through and installing linux and changing everything around on my computer?
Is it the latest version and you're sure it's using the GPU?
Is the GPU even beefy enough for the LLMs you're trying to use? You might try and find others using the same models and see what speeds they are reporting for the same card.

Supposedly Windows can now use ROCM for AMD, have you tried the preview if your card is supported? https://lmstudio.ai/rocm
Speed should be similar between that and Linux.
 
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The ISP is sending a tech for that. That's not our job. I was just scratching my head a bit because I was wondering how I could get to 192.168.XXY.1 when I'm connected to 192.168.XXX.1.
The most likely explanation of this is that whoever set up your local network set up the router to use a different network from whatever is standard for your ISP's shitty network boxes and the script that the tech support Indian reads from. Reason- if you're an IT admin within a company, or at a MSP, you don't want to have problems when connecting to one or more of them via a VPN if they happen to have the same private network range as your local network, or have to fiddle with the network configurations again if there should be traffic routed between them. So instead all three sites using 192.168.1.x as the range you make them 192.168.69.x, 192.168.88.x,192.168.148.x etc, or use subnets on another of the private network ranges like 10.x.x.x.

That being said- it is certainly 100% possible to have your external router be on one private network range like 192.168.1.x, and then have another router-type device (like one of those wifi mesh network things) plugged into it serving up its own network range like 192.168.68.x, and depending on the configuration, the devices on the second router might (usually) or might not (perhaps for security) be able access devices besides the router on the 192.168.1.x network. Fundamentally, this is no different from the external router being able to connect to devices on your ISP's network, and also on devices connected to peers of your ISP, and also on devices connected to peers of peers of your ISP.
 
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So, i got my router replaced, same look and specs, only difference is that it has wifi 6 which i couldnt care less.

it basically gives me the same trouble but less frequent. so i either give up (multi)streaming or make a new contract with another router. other than that i still can turn off the other platforms or keep fiddling around with the kbps.

also i got a new condensator microphone, because a dynamic mic in my price range wasnt available outside of chinesium. at least people can hear me properly without complaining again.

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The ISP is sending a tech for that. That's not our job. I was just scratching my head a bit because I was wondering how I could get to 192.168.XXY.1 when I'm connected to 192.168.XXX.1.
Wait, what you're saying is that for your LTE router to work it needs to connect to both the black box AND some sort of rig mounted on the outside of your building?

How ZTE usually works things is that the black box is basically a power source for the white one, which is your router. (They're usually not even that complicated, I have a dead 8 year old ZTE router lying around which worked using an adapter[transformer + diode arrangement on a plug which converted 240VAC to 12VDC, which then came out of a long cable] and a big white box. You plugged the 12V cable into the socket on the router, put a SD card in and that was it, provided you had a network connection.)

192.168.0.1 is the address ZTE uses for their routers. If you type that into your browser you will see the router setup screen.

Who were you getting instructions from, the ZTE agents for your country or your ISP? ISP employees often have a nasty habit of only learning to configure the most common routers in use by their customers (in my ISPs case Huawei) and giving that out whenever someone has router trouble - this can lead to incomprehensible nonsense being relayed over the phone.

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Update on Newpipe Sponsorblock. I suggested people use this to watch YouTube earlier on in this thread.

The project name was recently changed to Tubular, I think because Newpipe was giving them flak about the similar names. Newpipe Sponsorblock is no longer being worked on.

In any case, the latest version of Tubular (APK here) works better than its predecessor - dislike ratio works again, and there are new features, eg. submission of missed sponsorships to Sponsorblock.

You can save your old Newpipe/NewpipeSB configuration and import it to Tubular, but I suggest going over the settings manually as there are quite a few more.
 
Wait, what you're saying is that for your LTE router to work it needs to connect to both the black box AND some sort of rig mounted on the outside of your building?
It's a setup for a remote location. The antenna is on a 20 foot pole and the signal in the building/on the ground is very weak. Then an ethernet cable runs down from that to the black box which is also connected to power. Finally, another ethernet cable connects to the actual router. Turned out the power adaptor, the black box, was burned out and the isp replaced it. I tried recreating the phone techs instructions and determined that they were mistaken and the instructions they were trying to give us were wrong.
 
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