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  1. Jim Salter

    WPA3 Certification Open For Business

    Nope. Am dead already. *ded* I seriously might be a little salty that a single fell swoop just rendered pretty much every single wifi device I've ever tested obsolete. Granted we'll still be using the obsolete stuff for a bit, but... How sure are you that this stuff can't ever be implemented...
  2. Jim Salter

    Is Anyone Using MU-MIMO?

    I was referring to [ uplink with MU-MIMO disabled ] vs [ uplink with MU-MIMO enabled ]. The roughly 20% improved throughput was nice, but the massive change in how fairly the airtime was divvied up was the big win. I never tried it again with any other router than that C5400 though; at the...
  3. Jim Salter

    Is Anyone Using MU-MIMO?

    Tim, you still looking for test cases? I have a couple el cheapo Dell laptops with MU-MIMO NICs; I think they're just single-channel IIRC. I did some informal testing quite a while back and saw some worthwhile differences with MU-MIMO enabled, but I didn't actually write what I found up like a...
  4. Jim Salter

    Plume is turning its mesh Wi-Fi into a subscription service

    Agree 100% - that's kinda the point; the price is perfectly fine for what you get, but the way they positioned it is clumsy and costing them IMO. Their CEO says it's part of the strategy to get people to think about everything differently and that he regrets nothing; we'll see.
  5. Jim Salter

    Plume is turning its mesh Wi-Fi into a subscription service

    Yeah, on reflection, that's EXACTLY how they should have pitched it. $460 outright with lifetime support included, or perpetual lease at $260 down and $60/yr, including permanent replacement warranty for as long as the lease is paid. I think I just made a car analogy by accident; don't hurt me.
  6. Jim Salter

    Plume is turning its mesh Wi-Fi into a subscription service

    Thanks sfx! I think they might have been better off pitching the packs as just plain costing the same as the pack + the lifetime sub, and coming with the lifetime sub for free, TBH. They are taking one heck of a roasting from pretty much all sides as it is. Maybe offer "discount with annual...
  7. Jim Salter

    Plume is turning its mesh Wi-Fi into a subscription service

    Hard agree. And yet even pro products have been going this route - Ubiquiti offers config of standalone UAPs from a mobile app but not by web UI, for example. I can't imagine being ok with the $60/yr either. The lifetime plan, I'm ok with; when product A costs $400, product B costs $460...
  8. Jim Salter

    RT-AC3200 Current Official Firmware Thread (3.0.0.4.382.50624, 180601)

    Band steering and "Smart Connect" are the same thing. Without either turned on, you have separate SSIDs for the separate radios, and of course you can join the 2.4 GHz SSID just fine. There are two behavior algorithms for the band steering, one RSSI based and one load balancing based. Neither...
  9. Jim Salter

    RT-AC3200 Current Official Firmware Thread (3.0.0.4.382.50624, 180601)

    For longer-range connections, it should be connecting STAs to 2.4 GHz rather than 5; but even when 2.4 GHz is at -75ish and 5 GHz is at -95ish it still insists on connecting the STA to 5 GHz. There's also a load-balancing option which should, but does not, utilize the 2.4 GHz radio when several...
  10. Jim Salter

    RT-AC3200 Current Official Firmware Thread (3.0.0.4.382.50624, 180601)

    Any of y'all gotten the out-of-the-box band steering to work with the 2.4 GHz radio? I tested this again recently, and no matter how much I screwed around with the behavior ruleset (let alone the out-of-the-box configs), with band steering turned on all 5 GHz capable devices connected to the 5...
  11. Jim Salter

    RT-AC3200 Current Official Firmware Thread (3.0.0.4.382.50624, 180601)

    Actually, NM, appears to be a bug in the UI auto updater. I don't see any new version listed on the support page, and when I tell the RT-AC3200 to confirm update, I get hi-bit ASCII in the "progress bar" and it fails with "unable to connect to ASUS server to check for the update" (this is after...
  12. Jim Salter

    [AC-3200] New Firmware - 5/15/2018

    Actually, NM, appears to be a bug in the UI auto updater. I don't see any new version listed on the support page, and when I tell the RT-AC3200 to confirm update, I get hi-bit ASCII in the "progress bar" and it fails with "unable to connect to ASUS server to check for the update" (this is after...
  13. Jim Salter

    [AC-3200] New Firmware - 5/15/2018

    There's a newer one that just dropped this morning, FYI. Which I know because I've run half my tests on _50470, and now I'm seeing an update notification in the GUI... sigh.
  14. Jim Salter

    RT-AC3200 Current Official Firmware Thread (3.0.0.4.382.50624, 180601)

    They just dropped a new firmware version. Annoying the heck out of me, because I'm trying to update the reviews on this thing, and I updated to 3.0.0.4.382_50470 yesterday. Well, now there's something newer, and I gotta decide whether to round-file my last tests and test THIS one, or finish what...
  15. Jim Salter

    Ubiquiti - Warranty, Support Life, OpenWRT

    Probably worth noting that pfSense can be free/community supported, or you can buy an appliance (or pay for a license on your own hardware) and get commercial support also, much like (as I said in the post above) you can get commercial support on a "do it yourself" linux option by using a...
  16. Jim Salter

    Ubiquiti - Warranty, Support Life, OpenWRT

    Well, theoretically, sure, I could. I am a mercenary sysadmin. Of course, I only scale so far... but that's not necessarily an issue; if you want commercial support, it's easily available from much bigger shops than me. If you set up a vanilla router like I did on Ubuntu, Canonical provides...
  17. Jim Salter

    2x2 AC Access Point Roundup - Part 2

    There's not really a 1:1 comparison between a single iperf run and what I'm doing; my tests hit higher in the stack than layer 1 (which is the majority of what iperf tests). You'll also end up testing your own NIC as much as you do the access point or router; if you don't have a baseline to...
  18. Jim Salter

    2x2 AC Access Point Roundup - Part 2

    I set up Omada on both a Windows laptop and an Ubuntu VM; both worked fine for me, for what that's worth.
  19. Jim Salter

    2x2 AC Access Point Roundup - Part 2

    Poke around in the controller; basically you can set up different AP groups and decide which APs go in them. I don't still have on Omada controller running, so I can't really walk you through it, but I definitely saw the options in there. With that said, are you sure you want to do that...
  20. Jim Salter

    2x2 AC Access Point Roundup - Part 2

    It's *extremely* rare for the DB to get lunched on a commodity server, because it's stored on a journaling filesystem - ext4 or NTFS. For mongo to get lunched there, it needs to be actively being written to at the very moment the system crashes - and it's not a terribly active db. The big...
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