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    Do you consider cloud storage like Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, etc a backup solution.

    Adrive.com is my choice at 100GB for $25/yr. Enough for non-private info I upload. iDrive is having a short sale, 1 year discount. Used to cost more than Adrive. OpenDrive.. I used them for years but now not value priced.
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    Thoughts on Wide Channels

    Those WiFi analyzers are not very useful unless they dwell and measure percent channel utilization. That is, how busy each channel is. Of course, this is time of day dependent and varies with users' activities. A 2 hour streaming 1080P video on WiFi at 40MHz is not so nice. But fleeting.
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    New Router Test Processes Are Coming

    Started hearing that from DoD and others some 15 years ago. Will the barrage of IoT thingies all be NATed too? I think so.
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    Battery Backup or Surge Protector?

    Surge protection marketing gives the impression that it will protect from a short "glitch", where a "surge" is likely visible in the lights in your house, as a fraction of a section outage, like 1/10 of a second or so. Well a surge protector attempts to attenuate a high voltage, not a short...
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    NAS recommendation

    Being conservative, I'd back off from 6TB to 4 or so. Too new, maybe risky at that density. I've used desktop PC grade (WD, Seagate) and WD Red. Can't say Red is better other than maybe warranty. Some say these have "better" firmware. I recall that WD bought HGST. #1 issue: backup plan for NAS?
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    Article Discussion: How Many SSIDs Is Too Many?

    Yes, good idea. See if your client devices du jour will have sticky APs (client doesn't change because the one now far away is sort of working, albeit slow speeds due to weak signal. As compared to the better AP that's now 8 ft. away!)
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    Very confused-- please help

    I use/recommend the modest cost dual band non-AC WiFi routers... because things that use WiFi are mostly handhelds not high-demand desktops. Example: I've been using an ASUS RT-N56U. A year younger dual band is what I'd buy now. The ASUS just runs. Never needs a reboot. It's 1+ years old, dual...
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    Article Discussion: How Many SSIDs Is Too Many?

    That's right. Consumer grade WiFi doesn't have infrastructure-directed handoff commands - because manufacturers choose not to incorporate IEEE 802.11 standards for doing so in the consumer market. So, usually, a unique SSID per AP is the best choice, unless your clients are atypically smart.
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    Thecus’ Latest Windows Storage Server Adds Intel Quad-Core CPU

    Windows based NAS. Thecus? From Thecus' web site Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Essentials is the latest version of Windows Storage "latest"? But like old wine...
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    is Synology right for my needs (vs DUI)? Network/NAS update

    Yeah, I know. But fast enough, RAM enough for serious transcoding, even hardware-offloaded, and VM loading, really makes for an expensive NAS in the family/SOHO/SMB context of this forum.
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    Wireless Channels (80MHz and Channel Selection)

    Sounds like Belkin is hands-off on Linksys.
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    is Synology right for my needs (vs DUI)? Network/NAS update

    Transcoding and VM need to be on a hot server, not a NAS>
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    NAS Advice for MSAccess DB Backend

    I've owned a DS212 for several years. About 2 times I called (Calif. office) for help and spoke to an engineer rather than a level 1 dolt). But I'm tech-savvy and haven't needed help in 2 years or so. The user forum is good, if you filter out the B.S. A recommendation made here is to choose...
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    Substituting an AP for router's radio

    Wireless engineering term for the diagram on channel use is called "Frequency Reuse". It's done in cellular phone systems among cell sites, since the carriers always have too little spectrum. It's also one reason it's bad to put a cell site on a hilltop - screws up the reuse plan. In the real...
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    Linksys Access Point Clustering Reviewed

    Several years ago, the industry coined the term "skinny AP" and "Fat AP". The latter is the traditional router. The former is a dumbed down AP that relies on a controller. Impetus was not cost, but easier centralized management. ASUS and other routers have an explicit AP mode. Some are $75 or so.
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    Wireless Channels (80MHz and Channel Selection)

    80MHz will cost you some range / coverage. A phone doesn't need more than 20MHz 11n speeds, as a rule. And 80MHz is in the 5GHz band and that higher freq. costs range.
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    Qnap TS-253a vs Synology DS-216+

    My 2 bay uses two volumes, independent file systems. #1 backs up to #2 and only #1 has shares. USB3 backup. 64GB SD card for VVIP folders. Cloud (Adrive.com due to low cost) for family photos and non-sensitive files, in addition to others. No RAID in small NAS.
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    Need advice on my NAS storage - the wires everywhere bit

    Backup. PC, NAS, phone 3-2-1 strategy no matter what USB3 drives or cloud (the latter is not recommended by me). RAID is not a backup. Have at least three copies of your data. Store the copies on two different media. Keep one backup copy offsite.
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    is Synology right for my needs (vs DUI)? Network/NAS update

    DIY - I didn't find any freeeware for DIY that was easy to admin but moreover, had the features I wanted. NAS vendors for the SOHO/Consumer market don't sell their software unbundled. If you can't afford a $200-300 NAS box plus drives (reused if need be), reset expectations! VM belongs on a...
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    is Synology right for my needs (vs DUI)? Network/NAS update

    Not the NAS CPU speed, it's the LAN speed (or WiFi to client), and the overhead of dissimilar file systems among Mac, Windows, Linux, mitigated by SMB. Don't run VM applications on a NAS unless you have a super top end NAS. Use an applications server.
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