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  1. drinkingbird

    These types of Apple devices/services should be outlawed. No security fix is available at all

    Honestly my biggest peeve with the theory of airtags is basically that if you own an apple device that has bluetooth, you're pretty much forced to participate in their "tracking network" even if you have no airtags and don't use them. I'm not sure what the current evolution is, at one point you...
  2. drinkingbird

    These types of Apple devices/services should be outlawed. No security fix is available at all

    Just outlaw murder and it will all be solved.
  3. drinkingbird

    N/AC/AX Mixed Wireless Mode, “Maximizes performance”?

    Yes but instead of just cutting in line it in theory will wait its turn. Noise vs. negotiation. However I don't know if that applies to this discussion at all. Unfortunately the Asus doesn't give you any way in the GUI to disable rates on 5ghz (other than multicast), but using a script you...
  4. drinkingbird

    N/AC/AX Mixed Wireless Mode, “Maximizes performance”?

    I just went and opened the closet of forgotten technology (inside the spare bedroom of "obsolete but potentially usable for something obscure" technology) to pull out the old 2wire/Orinoco setup. Then I saw just how horrific the closet of forgotten technology is and slowly closed the door...
  5. drinkingbird

    N/AC/AX Mixed Wireless Mode, “Maximizes performance”?

    I'm by no means an expert on the depths of wifi technology but my understanding has always been anything an AP or client can't "understand" will get interpreted as noise, and airtime sharing won't happen, etc. So I guess being neighborly would mean similar to not enabling 40mhz on 2.4ghz, as...
  6. drinkingbird

    N/AC/AX Mixed Wireless Mode, “Maximizes performance”?

    Yeah we used the Aironet APs, even had one at home for a while, but not the client cards. The Orinocos were the standard issue for B and the IBM (since that was our laptop supplier) for the A/B then A/B/G ones. My first wireless setup was in my college apartment on campus in either 99 or 2000...
  7. drinkingbird

    VLAN Config Query using pfSense and Unifi

    Depends, if you need good throughput between VLANs, the L3 switch will definitely help (depending on the pfsense, some can handle multiple gigs but keeping it local is more efficient regardless). However now you need to run a DHCP server that can understand redirected DHCP requests and map them...
  8. drinkingbird

    Trying to monitor websites visited but VPN being used.

    I didn't even notice that part of the OP. Unfortunately TROs can be difficult to get (and somewhat useless too), depending on the juristiction. @Yafandas Rather than trying to monitor internet, I'd be putting GPS trackers on the cars, airtags or other trackers in the child's backpacks or...
  9. drinkingbird

    N/AC/AX Mixed Wireless Mode, “Maximizes performance”?

    We did roll it out where I worked back in the early 2000s. It was short lived and expensive. I still have my A/B and A/B/G cards, not entirely sure why. I think both are IBM. I actually have a few of the original Lucent Orinoco cards with the external antenna. And an old 2Wire router/DSL...
  10. drinkingbird

    N/AC/AX Mixed Wireless Mode, “Maximizes performance”?

    Well in theory your neighbor's device will detect that as noise rather than being able to negotiate and share, however negotiating and sharing with A and G weren't that great anyway. It isn't really the minimum/supported rates advertised (since they're the same for all 5Ghz technologies) but...
  11. drinkingbird

    VLAN Config Query using pfSense and Unifi

    It can be any port, you go into the GUI of the switch and tell it what ports to have tagged (trunk) or untagged (access) for each VLAN. Higher end switches support various types of VLAN auto configuration so it will detect your trunk ports and allow the VLANs, but on standard smart switches...
  12. drinkingbird

    N/AC/AX Mixed Wireless Mode, “Maximizes performance”?

    In theory to coexist better with those devices (rather than just seeing them as noise) but my understanding was that it could still see and coexist fine, just won't let them join (or attempt to join) your SSID.
  13. drinkingbird

    Ethernet Cable Questions - Jitter / Ping - Professional opinion needed please.

    Totally unrelated to your Ethernet cables. That just compensates for low signal from the street and can actually make your internet worse, especially upload, in order to make your TV better. When an amp is used it is best to bypass it for the modem. If you see latency and jitter during peak...
  14. drinkingbird

    VLAN Config Query using pfSense and Unifi

    It can be done but it is a hack and will not be reliable, and will defeat the purpose of splitting out VLANs, since they would all end up seeing broadcasts from each other. Basically you'd either strip the VLAN tags off the trunk port going to the switch and rely on ARP to hopefully get traffic...
  15. drinkingbird

    N/AC/AX Mixed Wireless Mode, “Maximizes performance”?

    Personally I still like to disable the lower rates (6, and even 12 in some cases) on 5ghz but not sure if there is any combination in the Asus GUI that allows that, probably not. For most users, not necessary, and probably not even necessary in my case since 5ghz is only connecting indoors...
  16. drinkingbird

    Looking for help buying an sqm Router with performance to almost 500mbit connection

    Yeah I mean on their connection, you're not going to do much better, and a speed upgrade or QOS isn't going to do anything for something several hops away on the internet. Could be where they live is just not all that close to a Google DNS server, not really anything that can be done about that...
  17. drinkingbird

    N/AC/AX Mixed Wireless Mode, “Maximizes performance”?

    So what rates does it advertise on auto, with and without legacy devices present?
  18. drinkingbird

    RT-AC66W block IPs outbound

    Both seem excessive to block an IP which can be done in the GUI on stock firmware.
  19. drinkingbird

    Looking for help buying an sqm Router with performance to almost 500mbit connection

    Set your torrent client to 50% of your connection, get some uploads and downloads going, then ping your ISP's gateway or google or whatever. Ping before and after and compare. I'm assuming they probably make some speed test clients for PC where you can set the speed, or maybe there is a remote...
  20. drinkingbird

    N/AC/AX Mixed Wireless Mode, “Maximizes performance”?

    I saw significant improvement on 2.4 on my Ubiquiti APs when I upped the basic rate/beacon to 6 or 12 vs 1. There are no B devices anywhere here but I had neighbors using my guest wifi on N. I never bothered to run the Asus at 1 but I suspect it would have been similar. It depends on the...
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