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    MIMO Sharing Question

    Does anyone have any pointers to intro level information on how spacial stream works at the RF level? I have figured out how beam forming working by timing the signals from different radios to create constructive and destructive interference patterns But, for some reason I have not found a good...
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    Quarantine IoT on their own AP and VLAN?

    Thanks, I'll start with that.
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    Quarantine IoT on their own AP and VLAN?

    As part of my new wifi set up, I have been testing the effect of Iot devices on the network. I am a bit of a nerd so, as of last count I had about 20 DIY IoT devices on the network. Many of them are dirt cheap devices with sketchy chipsets. Has anyone seen any value in quarantining these...
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    eero Lays Off Staff

    Another issues that looms strongly is standardization. While imperfect, the IEEE standards have held the Wi-Fi industry together for 20 years. It will be interesting to see it see what happens to these companies if the standards extend to interoperability between nodes of a Wi-Fi system. First...
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    How To Fix Wi-Fi Roaming

    There are some fascinating videos provided by WirelessLAN Professionals at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIzBSS46vcqhwmBZ7ZpY-yg They have the videos arranged by conference and year. It was very interesting to pick a topic such as roaming and then watch a video from each year from...
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    Interesting video on the challanges associated with roaming.

    I was trying to get a better grasp on the challenges associated with roaming and came across this video. More good stuff from Aruba but thankful most of the information is not Aruba specific.
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    Mesh VS APs

    You can test signal strength with any router you have lying around.
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    Mesh VS APs

    I am also new to this.... The most important thing would be to check the signal strength. Without that, you or anyone else will just be guessing. To test, you can just put an existing router somewhere on each floor and turn it on. Then install a signal strength analyzer on your phone or laptop...
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    Some experiences which challange convential wisdom.

    Thanks that helps alot. Qnap has packaged the Ubiquity controller for their Intel based NAS's. I was hoping that would work reasonably well.
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    Some experiences which challange convential wisdom.

    Did you go with standard consumer grade APs or with something like ubiquity with central management? Most of the pieces of kit being sold as 'Wi-Fi Systems' seem to have some degree of cloud based central management. I am not ready to hand that much control to a company or be locked into their...
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    Some experiences which challange convential wisdom.

    Interesting, I have not seen many small/home network articles discussing the value of site and user analysis when setting up home networks.
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    Some experiences which challange convential wisdom.

    Last week my long suffering wrt1900ac died leaving me in a bit a lurch. Around our house, Wi-Fi is totally taken for granted. It just needs to work... well enough. While I get this sorted out, I am lucky enough to have a family that is willing to live with a few network cables running down...
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    Anatomy of an AP

    I came across this last night while doing some research on APs. While it was produce by Aruba, I found the method he used for describing and thinking about the AP applies well to other brands as well.
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    DIRECTV Broadband DECA Ethernet to Coax Adapter - Third Generation

    This was one of the pre-release models they were sending to open source developers at the time. The fan had been running full speed all the time for the last couple of months. Too much traffic would cause it to shut down and require a reset. This was happening every couple of day. When if...
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    Anybody using a cloud service to backup their QNAP NAS?

    I am not sure I this is being overly simplistic and naive.... When I upgraded my NAS, my old NAS moved to an out of town relative's house where it serves as my off site backup. It was a bit fiddly for an amateur like me to set up. It turns on once a week preforms a sync of my "valuable" data...
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    Insight from Google Fiber - WiFi Performance

    Absolutely fascinating section on airtime fairness and latency control. I always wondered why even a moderately small upload would cause a significant reduction in network performance while the network could smoothly handle multiple gigabyte downloads gracefully. Another bit that gets the...
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    In situ testing

    First off a great big thanks to everyone who makes this site so good. I just realized that this is my goto source for home networking. I don't stop by every day, rather I just stop by every year or so when I need a new piece of kit for my home network. I don't have the time or the interest to...
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    2x2 AC Access Point Roundup

    Agreed, that is why I am particularly interested in how the UniFi system handles things. The control software will either run on my NAS or a cloud key to provide the necessary compute power. Even if the clients are unruly, enterprise level systems have been dealing with these situation for...
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    2x2 AC Access Point Roundup

    Thanks for all the great information on the site. I am not a network nerd. I tend to do my research, buy a piece of kit, and then forget about it until it fails. Much has changed since my last network upgrade to a wrt1900ac router in 2014. In my case, raw throughput is less important than the...
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    NAS Recommendation for streaming - Qnap / Synology

    Be prepared to upgrade. I started with a Qnap 131 for serving media. After about a year that little NAS became the most important device on the network; media server, storage server, backup server, torrent server.... If your needs grow, the QNAP 251+ with a DIY 16G memory upgrade is a workhorse.
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