Hey everyone,

I'm 24 years old, completed my BCA and MCA, and currently working as an Entry-Level Networking Technical Support Engineer with about 1 year of experience. I'm at a crossroads and genuinely confused about my next move.

Here's my dilemma:

\*\*Option 1 — Switch to Software Development\*\*

Learn Java or Python, build projects, and try to break into a developer role. I have the CS fundamentals from BCA/MCA, but I have zero professional coding experience. Is it realistic to make this switch at 24 with my background? How long would it realistically take, and what's the job market like for freshers-turned-developers in India right now?

\*\*Option 2 — Go deeper into Networking\*\*

Stay in the same domain, get certifications like CCNA, CCNP, or maybe cloud-based ones like AWS/Azure, and aim for better networking roles (Network Engineer, Cloud Networking, etc.). Is the networking field worth investing in for the long term in India? What does the salary growth look like?

I'm not just chasing money — I want a career that has good long-term prospects, growth, and where my skills are actually valued.

Would really love to hear from people who have actually been in this space — network engineers, developers, or anyone who has made a similar switch. What would YOU do in my position?

Thanks in advance 🙏

Hi everyone... looking for some advice...

For the past two years or so my partner and I have been experiencing Bluetooth disconnections across various devices (Xbox, PlayStation, Sony and Bose headphones). The issues seemed to begin after an interaction with our neighbour and have continued despite purchasing a dual-band router and connecting our controllers via wire (with no batteries either). Recently, my wired controller to my Xbox has been disconnecting mid-game and lagging as well.

Last year we emailed Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) for advice and they suggested that we operate the wi-fi in the 5GHz band, have Bluetooth devices in the 2.4GHz band, use a wired connection, and perform on/off tests with appliances (all of which we did). They also suggested inquiring with our neighbours and we've had our landlord ask if they were experiencing any similar issues and they said no.

My partner has C-PTSD and these disconnections are triggering a fight response due to unresolved trauma (lack of privacy, stalking, etc.) and is another reason why we're reaching out for advice. We're thinking of emailing ISED again for a follow-up, but are unsure about how to word things to get across the severity of the situation. Any help in regards to that or other suggestions on what to do would be appreciated. Thanks!

I've had this problem with my wifi that, well, it's bad. I realised that my PCIE wifi card was hidden in the corner and i flipped my pc on its face and it completely solved the issue, is there a non stupid looking way to achieve this same fix? Note my PC has to be in that spot since the plugs in my room are annoyingly placed

Lately Ive been using scapy to build and recieve packets, but the issue is that its not working according to the docs, basiclly we can do something like this.

ans, unans = srp(Ether(dst="ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff") / ARP(pdst=ip, op=1)) (ip is any IP or IP range i select)

and this is the same thing that shows up in the docs, but for some reason, the unpacking is flipped, so ans is the unanswered packets and the unans are the answered packets, there are other examples of this.

now i think the issue is with one of the following me using either using windows, using python 3.14 (which may not be compatible even tho the same thing happens with 3.12), or maybe even my IDE which up until now has just been PyCharm

whats your experience with datacenters, if you could please tell in detail, like is the company good paying, profitable!

your roles in the company as an engineer, how you handle data losses, architecture and design paradigms, is it difficult to maintain a datcenter etc

thanks for the help!!

i tried other browsers and this keeps happening

Hello,

So I have 2GBPS internet with WiFi 7 capabilities, I use the default Spectrum equipment.

On Lan, the test shows the following results (The graph plots are latency vs Time) with each line being a "packet." The

numbers indicated are the total packets sent over a specific period.

for the results shown below the device is the same, the network is the same, wifi is gauged close to the router and not behind any walls.

this was tested on my iPad with WiFi 6E set to automatic, switching it off doesnt do anything with the packets but reduces my download/upload speeds.

but when i move to my WiFi i get the following result

Like, I don't get how it's so periodic, the spikes. This has some real issues, especially while gaming. Now, sometimes it behaves like the following

my question is, is this fixable? or do i get me a better router?

I can't switch to LAN because I use my iPad for Fortnite, and the USB-C is occupied by a controller that runs on the iPad's power and allows for a wired connection. The controller has pass-through charging only and no data transfer, so a type C to Ethernet is not possible for my case. The following video is how the controller is attached. any suggestion apart from "switch to lan/PC" is highly appreciated.

https://reddit.com/link/1tkrqci/video/r7axojs8gq2h1/player

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I have been trying to open telegram from different devices on my local WiFi but it says I am offline. All other apps on the devices worked fine. Telegram finally worked when I turned off the router and then turned it on again. What could be the reason for this?

I recently purchased the new TP-Link M8550 . Hardware version is v1 and firmware is up to date.

On the paper this is a very good (and expensive I'd say) piece of hardware, but in the practical use I found some very bad limitations.

On wifi I started loosing packets pinging the router itself (1-2 ping drops every 10-20 seconds) on some conditions:

- this happens only on WiFi (doesn't happen with the ethernet cable)

- this happens only if used with battery or without battery and in a normal USB port (doesn't happen if I use the shipped original AC/DC transformer)

So I found this solution that seems have fixed the issue:

- set a fixed Channel and fixed Channel width for all the wifi I use (I use at the same time 2.4GHz and 5GHz)

- put the "balanced" mode energy for wifi

This is a bit limiting, but seems working.

I am a bit deceived by this router because for the price (payed 300 Euros on Amazon) I didn't expect this kind of issues, especially if used with the battery (is it not born to be used in this way?).

Also this little guy gets hot as a cooking pan, so using it with the battery makes it going in Energy Saver mode in half an hour (it means only 4G). So that's why I want to use it without the battery.

I work in a van and I don't want to keep 24/7 active my DC-AC inverter (so I could use the original transformer), so I am using it on a 18W usb 12V port. I tried also my macbook transformer and didn't work, only with the original one.

My internet home plan is unfortunately limited to 250gb monthly. And I have a local server sat up that works as an downloading hub, will downloading from it consume bandwidth?

Hey guys, I've been dealing with an incredibly frustrating issue for a couple of weeks now and I'm running out of ideas.

The Problem: Every couple of minutes while playing online games (CS2, Fortnite, Rocket League), my game completely freezes for about 5 seconds. I get teleported around, and my ingame telemetry shows massive Packet Loss and crazy Net Jitter. Ping spikes anywhere from 500ms up to 5000ms.

My Setup & What I've tried:

• I have a fiber/broadband connection from Slovak Telekom with their stock Telekom router.
• I did a completely clean reinstall of Windows.
• I replaced my old DIY ethernet cable with a brand new, factory-made Cat6 patch cable.
• Waveform Bufferbloat test gives me an A / A+ grade with great speeds (450 Mbps down / 85 Mbps up), meaning the line seems fine under normal synthetic load.

The Smoking Gun: I ran a continuous ping test to both my router and Google DNS while playing.

• Ping to my router (192.168.1.1) stays perfectly stable at 1ms, even during the lag spikes.
• Ping to 8.8.8.8 literally says "Failed" / "Request timed out" for a second right when the game freezes, and then goes back to normal.

Since my local connection to the router is flawless and the cable is brand new, it has to be an ISP/routing issue on Telekom's side, right? Has anyone experienced something similar, or is there any specific setting on these Telekom routers that causes the NAT table or WAN to drop connection under gaming UDP traffic?

Thanks for any help!

EDIT:
I tried the pingplotter and it shows a big red line that says packet loss, i am attaching it to the post 😞

What IOS app do you guys use to troubleshoot if you only have your phone?

I have this problem where for some reason, some random sites allways get a timeout when trying to access them, some of this sites are https://wordwall.net/, https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/, https://snapcraft.io/ and some others that I don't remember now.

For the most part when I'm testing they don't work, but from time to time I can access them normally, and some times it will work normally for one but not for the other, tested the route for them, some times they get in a loop of servers, some times the package is just lost and some times they work, but the site doesn't, ping for the most part allways get an answer. This happens for all computers in the network an aparently smartphones.

Anyone has any Idead why this is happening, others sites works fine with no problems.

Looking for router recommendations for unattended installs.

I need:

• Connect to existing WiFi (2.4 GHz + 5 GHz)
• Redistribute its own WiFi network
• At least 2 LAN ports
• Automatic 4G/5G failover if the WiFi internet goes down or changes password
• Stable for long-term unattended use

Basically:
Venue WiFi as primary internet, cellular backup if it fails.

I’ve used the Teltonika RUT200 before, but it is single-band only, so it can’t connect to venues using 5 GHz-only WiFi.

Any recommendations?