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    Using a tethered mobile phone as an Access Point

    Yeah, I got it backwards. Sorry.
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    American made routers and access points

    I doubt you will find any actually made in the US - most are offshored because labor is so much cheaper. Heck, Seagate designs their hard drive production lines in Longmont, CO, and as soon as they have fixed any possible problems, takes it down and ships it overseas to be put back together and...
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    Using a tethered mobile phone as an Access Point

    Some routers allow you to tether your cell phone to them directly - Asus and Synology are 2 that I know of that have that capability. They DO have requirements on the age of the cell phone though. I would go to their websites and look up cell phone tethering to their routers. I used my...
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    Fixing another person's setup

    A client of mine referred another customer to me and I am looking for some guidance on what to do. Client has a large property (1 acre) in size. It has approximately 6 buildings on it. The current infrastructure is a wired-backbone of Synology routers in a mesh. This covers the insides of...
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    Mesh routers with dual wan?

    Besides Asus and Synology, can you name any other mesh routers that support dual WAN?
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    Advice needed - significant decrease in speed with mesh network

    About 5 years ago, I deployed a Netgear Orbi mesh to my house. It wasn't the greatest solution but it worked for my needs. I have thick concrete walls and have a larger property. To give you an idea, it would drop from 300 mbps download speed to 100 mbps once I left my room where the main...
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    What is the cost of 1gb plans in your country

    Mexico - Fiber to the premises. 1000/300 for about $80 a month.
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    Zenwifi UT9 Dual WAN questions

    Have any of you tried to implement the Dual WAN feature of the routers for failover or load balancing? Are you able to connect the ISP on different endpoints or does it have to be on a single endpoint? I asked Asus and they said that they cannot find it anywhere in the literature if it can be...
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    Wireless mesh network system for LARGE home?

    I need to build up a wireless network for a very large home - 16k sq ft if not a bit more. I know I can use Asus routers and AiMesh to cover the entire property like the owner wants, TP-Link and just put the endpoints everywhere, and so many others. The property is single story, with...
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    Voxel Voxel Firmware Status

    Thinking of you and your family. Would love to get an update on you sometime.
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    Need help with figuring out how to increase speed on Orbi satellite setup

    I have a friend that has an Orbi RBK50 with a RBK40 satellite added to the system. She had her nephew install 2 Amplifi Meshpoint HDs to the network. Over time, her Internet speeds have deteriorated from being able to stream media in her terrace to it freezing all the time. She has asked me...
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    Synology drives only (DS1522+) - OUCH!

    You can modify a file on the Synology to add your drives to it. Did it on a DS3622xs+ this last summer.
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    Synology drives only (DS1522+) - OUCH!

    I haven't read the entire thread yet but you can modify a file to get it to WD Gold, WD Red and IronWolf drives to work with it. A friend of mine loaded his DS3622xs+ with IronWolf Pro drives.
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    Suggestions on how to better setup this network?

    I have the following hardware on my network: Fiber modem Arris Surfboard mAX Pro 802.11ax mesh router and 1 satellite Linksys Velop mesh router with one satellite Apple Airport Extreme The current layout is this: Modem - LAN1 - Velop Main Modem - LAN4 - Arris Main Arris Surfboard satellite -...
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    Options, options and options...

    Due to the Pandemic and general boredom, my wife and I have switched to 4k TV and a few other things that have been eating away at my current storage capacity. This is what I have: Synology DS1819+ 8x 10 TB Helium drives 5x 8TB WD Red drives in an old system that I do not use anymore and will...
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    WiFi 6 Mesh questions

    A friend of mine decided to buy me the Arris Surfboard mAX Plus Mesh aX7800 system. It arrives on Monday. I will let you know how it turns out. :)
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    WiFi 6 Mesh questions

    All walls are concrete.
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    WiFi 6 Mesh questions

    I am considering replacing my Linksys Velop mesh system with a new WiFi6 system. In your opinion, which system do you think gives you the best bang for the buck? Next question - do you think WiFi 6 is worth the premium over AC at present? Again, 2 opinions desired. My house is a 2200 sq...
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    Custom firmware build for Orbi RBK50/RBK53 (RBR50, RBS50) v. 9.2.5.1.17SF-HW

    TLDR Does this firmware support USB hard drive sharing? I have seen limited success on other forums about people getting USB drives to be shared over the Orbi instead of just printers. Does this firmware support this operation?
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    A few issues...

    1 - I had my DS1819+ working on the satellite of a Velop mesh network. All of the sudden, I couldn't access it. I called into Synology and we found that it just couldn't use the satellite at all - even though it previously did. As soon as I plugged it into the main router, it worked fine...
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