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    Need help: lightning damage?

    Correct. Only 1 ground per circuit. There is however the option of installing a Lightning rod to a dedicated ground not touching anything else in your house.
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    Looking for router recommendation

    I don't like all in one devices. I prefer having a dedicated router, switch, access point, NAS etc. In the short run I get better performance, reliability, and ease of configuration/troubleshooting. In the long run it becomes cheaper and simpler to make upgrades. The detraction is wires and...
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    Need help: lightning damage?

    You could install a lightning rod as well to a dedicated ground.
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    Professional Advice on Best Performance Network Switch/Power Line Adapter for purchase

    You are talking about 2 different technologies here. Powerline is where you modulate data along a 120/240v AC power circuit POE Active (also known as 802.3af/at) is the ability for a device to request 48v power from a switch POE Passive (usually used with ubiquiti and mikrotik hardware) sends...
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    Vlan Switch Advice

    IDK what you guys are complaining about. I have an HP 2824 sitting below my desk and my desktop has two 80mm deltas. The white noise of the fans are soothing. Kind of like putting a baby to sleep with the noise of a vacuum cleaner . . . :D
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    Looking for router recommendation

    For switches I personally prefer HP Specifically models 1620-8G and 1920-8G I do like the Linksys LRT214 myself. Decent little router. Easy to configure but you must update the firmware before you do anything else. Initial release was very buggy for me. At home I have a Ubiquiti Edgerouter. A...
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    Advice needed on how to go about cheap home 10GBE

    Well, to add to that, Thecus does sell NAS like devices running windows storage server 2012 http://wss.thecus.com/product_W5000.php So if you do have that series of NAS, then SMB3 Multichannel will work to speed up transfers.
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    Looking for router recommendation

    A few things. 1. Do NOT get the Ubiquiti edge router pro and use all 8 ports. It is an 8 port router, there is no switching chip built in. 2. What does the ISP give you off the main feed at your demarc? Is it a public IP address or does the building do something strange and host their own...
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    New Office Cabling Questions

    If you have a drop ceiling that is where you want to run your lines. If not, one of the cheaper solutions is to use a wall mounted cable tray. http://www.cableorganizer.com/snake-tray/ That is a brand name version, there are less expensive ways to get the same result. Last option is to mount...
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    Advice needed on how to go about cheap home 10GBE

    Correct, best you can get is 1gb/s per device. Eg. 4gbe ports on a NAS means 4 clients can connect at 1gbe each.
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    Need help: lightning damage?

    There are surge protectors for ethernet. Install as such; Cable line-----Cable modem-----Surge protector-----Router Worst case scenario the cable modem and surge protector are fried instead of the rest of your network. A few options that exist on the market...
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    Need for whole home Ethernet?

    Think of it this way, If you want to run the cable now it will cost you roughly the same to wire the entire house vs adding in 1 or 2 runs later on. You can use the lines for pretty much anything. I have a few HDBaseT converters in my parents house. It allows placing all the cable boxes in a...
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    Advice needed on how to go about cheap home 10GBE

    Honestly I see the fractional implementation of 10Gbe getting traction in the home before 10Gbe itself. IE. 2.5 and 5Gbe. There are four reasons they are going to be pushed as "needed" instead of 10gbe First off is the Wave II AC devices will be pumping more data than a 1gbe line can feed but...
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    2 layer or 3 layer???

    A layer 3 switch will only help if you are trying to cross subnets/vlans at wirespeed. Unless you plan on doing this, you won't get any benefit from a layer 3 switch. I personally use a layer 3 fully managed switch at home just because I like being able to practice for work. The HP 19xx...
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    getting gig symmetrical WAN connection and need to upgrade router.

    I would not say it is difficult at all to get hardware NAT working with Ubiquiti. As of v1.6.0 EdgeOS now supports hw offload for: IPv4 forwarding IPv4 vlan IPv4 PPPoE IPv6 forwarding IPv6 vlan IPv6 PPPoE As for mikrotik, I have not used their routers in situations where I could enable...
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    getting gig symmetrical WAN connection and need to upgrade router.

    @System Error Message The OP never stated that software routing was a requirement. Nothing they stated would require the power of a CCR1009 or better. As long as something does DHCP, DNS, Firewall rules, and the Hardware NAT offload is not disabled from those things . . . it is perfectly fine...
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    need help choosing AC router

    The Linksys WRT-1900AC is a very respectable performer. Personally I prefer a router + switch + access point as totally discrete devices, but that's just me. If you like Linksys and wish to stick with them but are on a budget take a look at the WRT-1200AC. The routing and wired performance is...
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    Is there at least one good router out there?

    With Merlin's you give up nothing. It's the same code as stock asus but modified slightly for bug fixes and extra options. The credo of the firmware is stability over features.
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    Router to switch massive speed drop off

    What is your router? Can you attach a rough drawing of how things are wired between the ISP demarc and your test computer?
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    Too hot for a switch in the attic?

    I sometimes use in industrial settings switches designed for harsh environments. They are usually rated for 70/75c depending on the model. The only drawback is price. For example, an 8 port gigabit unmanaged non POE unit costs about $175-$200 If you are dead-set on getting an industrial unit...
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