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    Ubiquiti network or all-in-one router?

    Do you really not understand the difference here? The key point is the response. The arstechnica post you cited about Cisco 0-days says that "Cisco has released security updates that patch the vulnerabilities and is urging all ASA users to install them promptly." When have you seen ASUS...
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    1.5Gb fiber connection with 3 mesh nodes. Clients getting ~500Mbps. Setting or nature of AIMesh?

    6ms is OK for a ping from a wireless client, but that wasn't what you showed in the first screenshot. Also I think you're too quick to dismiss the numbers "during upload/download" as being OK. The version of speedtest.net that I have doesn't show those stats, but I tried to simulate it by...
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    1.5Gb fiber connection with 3 mesh nodes. Clients getting ~500Mbps. Setting or nature of AIMesh?

    Those ping numbers are crazy high (and even more so in your previous ookla screenshot). I suggest worrying less about the throughput and more about why that's happening. If you can fix the ping problem the throughput may take care of itself --- and in any case, RTT that awful will have obvious...
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    MOCA 2.5 Help Needed - Why Are my Speeds Slow in 1 Direction?

    To be clear, the mini's NIC is 10Gbps (and plugged into a 10G port on the first switch). I don't have another 2.5G machine at the moment, other than a Ugreen USB/ethernet adapter that I don't trust at all for this purpose and some APs that lack enough CPU oomph to sustain 2.5G iperf3 sessions...
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    MOCA 2.5 Help Needed - Why Are my Speeds Slow in 1 Direction?

    I can now positively confirm that. I finally sprung for another Cisco switch, and with those switches on both ends of the MoCA link I get nearly-clean 2.35Gbps iperf3 results in both directions, either single-stream or multi-stream. Performance of the ScreenBeam and ASUS MoCA adapters remains...
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    Is this a smart and reasonable layout for a home network?

    Yeah, that's what an access point is. You just have to be careful that you're buying only an access point, and not buying hardware you don't need. In particular, consumer "wireless routers" also incorporate router functionality, which is wasted hardware for you if you have a wired router at...
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    Is this a smart and reasonable layout for a home network?

    If you mean that you plan to run cables to those points and then put wireless APs there, then yeah this will probably work all right ... but that kind of setup is not what people typically call a mesh. Usually that term implies wireless backhaul, which is what I was worried about getting signal...
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    Is this a smart and reasonable layout for a home network?

    I'm not liking the look of that shot from the upper left corner of your diagram to the upper right. Not only is that a long way, but the signal would have to travel through five walls and perhaps some appliances. Is there a chance of locating the base wifi unit in the middle of the wall at...
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    Can Verizon CR1000B work with other brand MoCA adapters?

    Well, you can certainly turn off its DHCP server, but the recipe described there sounds like you end with double NAT, ie the VZ box is still going to act as a firewall (which means you'd better have an additional DHCP server downstream of it). I suspect this explains the its-not-working...
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    Can Verizon CR1000B work with other brand MoCA adapters?

    I took another look in my CR1000A's user manual, and this time I found where it says MoCA LAN: 1125 – 1675 MHz 2500 Mbps So I have to take back the claim that it's not MoCA 2.5. I'm still suspicious about interoperability, though. I also remain dubious that you can get...
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    Can Verizon CR1000B work with other brand MoCA adapters?

    Well, I may have misinterpreted what I read in the user manual for the ASUS MA-25 units, but those things have a mode switch that changes the frequency range. Re-reading it now, it looks like the mode is just a small adjustment to avoid overlapping DOCSIS signals, not a completely separate band...
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    Can Verizon CR1000B work with other brand MoCA adapters?

    MoCA is standardized, so theoretically you can mix brands, except for one thing: there are two different signalling frequencies in the spec, and a lot of gear (including Verizon's IIRC) is hard-wired to use only one of those frequencies. So in reality it's at best a 50/50 shot whether two...
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    Aruba vs Cisco vs TP Link Omada vs Unifi Access Points

    UniFi has no problem with that --- my APs are all set on different channels, but same SSIDs.
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    Aruba vs Cisco vs TP Link Omada vs Unifi Access Points

    Uh, I told you. My APs are wired through assorted switches to a Netgate (not Netgear!) router running pfSense software, which connects to a Verizon FiOS ONT. If you need wireless backhaul then the conversation is quite different, because SMB gear like UniFi (and I believe also Aruba and Cisco)...
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    Aruba vs Cisco vs TP Link Omada vs Unifi Access Points

    I've been reasonably happy with the Ubiquiti U6 Enterprise APs I bought six months ago. UniFi APs require a controller (yeah, there's a configurator phone app, but it's really bare-bones). You can run the controller software on dedicated hardware bought from Ubiquiti, or on bring-your-own gear...
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    Home Network Plan - Where and What

    Hm, the usual plan is to mount an AP above the room you want it to serve, not below. The reason is that floors, furniture, and human (or pet) bodies are all annoyingly good at blocking wifi. Maybe what you describe will work fine, but think about what you're expecting the signal to pass through.
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    Solved router connected to ISP router

    Is the ISP's router causing you identifiable problems? If not, leave the setup as-is. You've effectively got two levels of protection against intrusions into your LAN, which is not a bad thing. If the ISP's router is causing you identifiable problems ... do they require you to use their...
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    WiFi 6 GHZ only works when Legion 5 is away from Netgear RAXE500 router

    I'm guessing "cheap receiver circuitry overloads when presented with too much signal". That's only a guess, but such behaviors have been reported often before. I have no idea whether China restricts maximum Tx power more than other places. I do know that running your AP at the max allowed in...
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    WiFi 6 GHZ only works when Legion 5 is away from Netgear RAXE500 router

    Maybe you should turn down the router's Tx power a bit.
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    Troubles w/Rosewill RNX-N300RT As Wifi/Ethernet Bridge

    A quick google search turns up OpenWRT deprecating this device for having insufficient storage. I think there are at least two explanations for what you're seeing: device is running out of RAM after a few minutes' operation, or it's overheating. Either way, I doubt it's worth putting effort...
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