Ozark-Connect/NetworkOptimizer v1.21.3 on GitHub

More ISP Health depth and upstream-discovery accuracy. See the v1.21.0 release notes for what's new in v1.21.0+.

Monitoring

ISP Health

Fairer scoring for large access networks - ISP access hops are now graded against where the internet actually sits, not just the nearest hop, so a regional ISP whose network spans a whole state no longer gets dinged for normal in-region distance.
Jitter graded by connection type - jitter is measured against a per-technology baseline (cable runs a few ms by nature, fiber sub-ms, Starlink a bit more), so DOCSIS and LEO connections stop being penalized for jitter that's normal for the medium.
Flaky target detection - when a monitored hop shows packet loss well above its peers (usually a router deprioritizing ICMP), ISP Health surfaces it in a panel above your Latency Targets and lets you disable it in one click so it stops skewing your score. A Live View banner points you to it.

Upstream Discovery

Smarter first-hop detection - 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 (UniFi's WAN SLA ping targets) are no longer mistaken for your ISP's first hop; discovery prefers the actual on-link WAN gateway, and any saved by mistake get cleaned up automatically.
Stricter target selection - a target must answer a full quick ping burst before it's auto-selected (relaxed for fixed-wireless and cellular), keeping flaky routers out of your monitoring set.
Level 3 transit visibility - when your path crosses Level 3 (Lumen) but none of its routers answer, 4.2.2.2 is monitored as a stand-in so you still get transit health for that hop.
Cleaner discovery list - transit hops group by network (nearest first), and renaming a target during review no longer occasionally loses the edit.

Dashboard

Security Findings - renamed the "Active Alerts" stat and "Recent Audit Issues" panel to "Security Findings" to better reflect what they show.

Fixes

Realtek ONT login - fixed sign-in on Realtek-based ONT sticks that use different login field names across firmware variants.

Installation

Windows: Download the MSI installer below

Docker:

docker compose pull && docker compose up -d

macOS (native, recommended for accurate speed tests vs Docker Desktop):

git clone https://github.com/Ozark-Connect/NetworkOptimizer.git && cd NetworkOptimizer && ./scripts/install-macos-native.sh
# or if you already have it cloned
cd NetworkOptimizer && git pull && ./scripts/install-macos-native.sh

Proxmox:

bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ozark-Connect/NetworkOptimizer/main/scripts/proxmox/install.sh)"
# or if you just need to update
pct exec <CT_ID> -- bash -c "cd /opt/network-optimizer && docker compose pull && docker compose up -d"

For other platforms (Synology, QNAP, Unraid, native Linux), see the Deployment Guide.