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    SNBForums is a community for everyone, no matter what their level of experience.

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    SMB Business Continuity vendor Datto released DattoDrive, based on OwnCloud

    95% of businesses.... I agree if that % is business names. I disagree in headcount. The Fortune 500 or 1000 headc0unt is a large percentage, and that includes health care with its HIPPA. The big one I worked for had their own inter-city/inter-office world-wide private leased line and VPNs, so...
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    Synology NAS not showing in Windows 10 Network File Explorer Browser

    @Taino... "Map"... For me, I don't map NAS shares as drive letters like X: or Y: . I just use the share by its name. Is that what you meant by "map"?
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    Synology NAS not showing in Windows 10 Network File Explorer Browser

    My Synology DSM5 hasn't had such problems with Win 10.
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    Need an easy to use NAS.

    3-2-1 strategy for backup. You probably know what that means. I rank drive failure low in the list of risks of how to lose data. And RAID protects only from that single risk.
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    Synology NAS not showing in Windows 10 Network File Explorer Browser

    My home LAN has Win 10, Win7, WinXP and Linux, iPAD, iPhone, Android phone, Android tablets. All use the NAS. Windows PCs are in workgroup mode. What you are seeing is often a "Master Browser" problem with Windows. This is where one computer on your LAN becomes the Master Browser, a Microsoft...
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    Need an easy to use NAS.

    Beware RAID is not a backup! Step one in NAS purchase planning is how will you back it up? I chose a 2 bay for price reasons, given drive capacities are high now. So 2 drives, 2 independent volumes (not RAID), volume 1 gets backed up to volume 2 once a day by NAS utilities. And a high capacity...
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    Redoing home network from 192 to 10

    Some routers' firmware may not work with public IP addresses on the LAN side of the NAT. Depends on how strictly they take the standards.
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    Redoing home network from 192 to 10

    network class. so, 192.168.1.x is 3 octets (bytes) of significant/fixed numbers. That's 24 bits. So the mask is 255.255.255.0 where the 0 means the bits are not fixed. Some enterprise networks use other than a multiple of 8 bits. Changing to net 10 might be more trouble that it's worth...
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    Connecting MoCA Adapter between incoming DSL connection and DSL Modem

    I've read that it doesn't work. Not sure why, but for starters, MOCA might need some layer 3 packets and the modem input is layer 2. I'm accustomed to DSL being twisted copper pair then RJ-11 phone wire to the modem, whereas coax cable is often for cable modems. But perhaps there's a medium...
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    DSM 6 -- Convert to btrfs?

    I elected to use no RAID in my 2 bay. Instead, I setup each drive as a separate volume. Volume 1 on drive 1 is the "main". All shares are on that volume, and exposed to the LAN. I use Synology's Backup utility to backup (copy) selected folders on the main volume to volume 2, on a time...
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    FCC rules impact on wifi routers

    Indeed!!
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    Looking for the strongest wifi signal. Have tried multiple AP's! Help!

    Remember that WiFi is a Two-Way system. The clients' transmitter power is often the constraint. Looking at the from-router signal strength is only half of the picture. Rule of thumb: more than 2000 sq. ft. or 2+ stories or basement or patio, you need APs,
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    Linksys Will Lock Down Firmware on most routers, but not WRTs

    That's rubbish.
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    FCC rules impact on wifi routers

    an abundance of caution ... in licensing ethical flight school operators, may well have prevented 9/11.
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    FCC rules impact on wifi routers

    we'll have to agree to disagree. FCC's enforcement division has shrunk to effectively nothing, esp. for ISM and ham bands. It isn't going to change. Despite the $B (yes, $B) taken in by the FCC in the decades going back to the first AMPS spectrum auctions.
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    FCC rules impact on wifi routers

    Imagine you are one of the tiny few FCC enforcement division employees. You don't have the staff or technical means to locate interference-producing WiFi devices. Personally, an abundance of caution in spilling RF outside the ISM band edges is what I want, rather than giving an ATC...
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    FCC rules impact on wifi routers

    I don't get why there are issues here at all. Cisco and other professional grade WiFi has long had regulatory domain controls in the firmware. So too most of the consumer gear, e.g., WiFi channel 13 not legal in the US., Japan and France have unique channel power limits; some middle eastern...
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    Synology NAS hosted website slow in loading pages

    Tracert suggests that domain name host is on Amazon Web Services via Rackspace.com, a reseller.
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    How To Buy A NAS: 2015 Edition

    Yes, Shabbir Rao asserts that claim quite often here. How many people (any?) need 3rd party backup software? Risky. QNAP/Synology work hard to provide good backup software with many target device alternatives. I don't think it's prudent to put 3rd party software on a NAS whose main duty is to be...
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    L shaped house

    http://a.b.c.d/Advanced_WAdvanced_Content.asp where a.b.c.d is LAN address of router admin access, e.g. 192.168.1.1 Wireless -> Professional tab For 2.4 and again for 5GHz, on that tab, choose "Enable Radio" = No. But I'd get an $18 gigE switch. =============== This thread has, IMO, wrong...
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