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    Hardware Sophos Home Firewall or pfsense

    Sophos and PFSense are two very different firewalls...with different purposes. PFSense is like a "Ferrari"....(assuming it's on good hardware)....it's lean, mean, very fast, excellent traffic shaping and quality of service features, good VPN performance, overall simply a very fast and (assuming...
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    Ubiquiti Announces $89 AC1200 Access Point

    Much like OpenMESH.....it's a product that is aimed at the VAR/reseller market, for consultants to install. Not aimed at the residential market. The support is through the wholesale channels....which of course depends which whoelsaler you purchase them through. We had used OpenMESH products...
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    Looking for a good Access Point

    Hard to answer without a "site survey".....as from all the way over here...we can't tell what your physical environment is like. Some walls can be penetrated, others can't. Hard to tell without doing a proper site survey. While I can cover my 3 story 3,600 sq ft home with some brick walls...
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    Confused DNS

    If you're running active directory...you NEED TO have your domain controller(s) be the only DNS servers for themselves..and for all client workstations. It is better to run DHCP from the server also...as it allows better registration and updates within active directory, basically keeps active...
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    How to build remote access from one laptop to other laptop over GSM

    Yup...any number of the many 3rd party web based remote desktop access programs....ScreenConnect, LogMeIn, TeamViewer, BeAnywhere, SplashTop, the list goes on and on. They'll be easier than doing the old school remote access like RDP or some VNC flavor...where you need to know the public IP...
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    Battery Backup or Surge Protector?

    What the heck relevance is a hardware engineer to sensitive electronics? Versus someone who is immersed in sensitive electronics 24x7x365? "defective hardware was selected"? I don't deal with motherboard of the month club home built cloners, we do nothing but higher end tier-1 brand business...
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    Battery Backup or Surge Protector?

    It is not comparing apples to buffalo wings (although I'd eat all the buffalo wings..huge fan of super hot ones). Ever notice that slight dips in power on a computer can cause it to hang, hard lock, blue screen? It's not very different with network gear. They have a CPU, they have RAM, they...
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    Battery Backup or Surge Protector?

    I agree with this. And supporting SMB networks for almost 20 years, I can look back..and think of hundreds...no..likely over a thousand..examples illustrating how network equipment plugged into good battery up units don't have nearly the problems and failure rates of those plugged into just...
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    DMZ host for Xbox One because of NAT problems.

    I haven't played with XBox and NAT in a while, but a few years ago, our son was big into it....and originally when I was dating his mom they had a Netgear router at their house. I did some research on the strict NAT issues and XBox live.....and came up with the following. (I had to go find a...
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    SSID - Do you use separate for both 2.4 and 5.0?

    I use separate. I'll name them, for example, SSID and SSID5. I put devices that have a 5.0 radio (such as iphones, ipads)..on the 5 radio, leaving the 2.4 radio for older clients that only support that. Improves wireless performance, since less client devices per radio. I'll do same password...
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    Router reliability

    Never saw a server blow a power supply, motherboard, or RAID controller huh? Even with redundant hot swap power supplies...seen the backplane blow. Just this summer had a 1U server that ran a linux firewall blow a motherboard at a clients. I prefer *nix firewalls...full UTMs...which is what...
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    Router reliability

    I think those of us that work in the industry every day for a living...know that you get calls for tons of things. Especially from the residential market. Tons of little things. Members of this forum would not be a typical slice of residential users, people that join and participate in this...
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    Router reliability

    Yup. I think Ubiquiti has found, without intention, that they're being picked up occasionally for the residential market...because of their unusually low price point. They are in the "affordable" price point for residential setups...versus the price points of their competition in the...
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    Router reliability

    Good answer....common, retail, "out of the box" residential grade stuff...all fairly equal. Some...barely better than others...but can generally lump them all together. That said...I run an old Cisco e3000 at home with Tomato firmware..rock solid. I'll disagree about "NO support" for Ubiquiti...
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    CISCO Brand Routers

    10 and 15 years ago we did lots of Cisco hardware for our medium to larger business clients. The PIX firewalls were common, then later some of the ASA models. We also used their Catalyst switches a lot for larger clients back then. Also did quite a few Juniper units...I actually liked them...
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    Modem + Router DHCP Questions

    On many..if not most...of the ISP supplied combo modem/routers, typically when you flip them to bridged mode, it kills DHCP on them...so you need to assign your computer a static IP if you ever want to connect and log into the GUI again. There are a few models which do the public IP passthrough...
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    Networking Newbie Need Enlightenment

    To be honest with you..step back and rethink this. A common broadband router running in gateway mode (which is what you usually have for residential)..runs NAT, and takes a single public IP address (typically from your ISP) and shares it to up to 253 devices inside. So you can have 253 devices...
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    Router that has many options for "family rules"

    Less likely to find in residential grade routers, but it's more common in business grade firewalls. What you're looking to do, I frequently do for my business clients where I have an Untangle firewall protecting their network. Using "Policy Manager"...I can create several "virtual racks"...and...
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    Gotchas to watch out for....AP installation

    Multiple APs in the same building....would benefit from running off of a controller....you're planning on using the setup that includes the controller, right?
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    Are there AP's that will function with 100+ clients?

    Engenious should handle this. We use Ubiquiti....typically want to cap it out around 50 clients per AP....we've also used higher end HP ProCurve APs. I still like to cap it around 50 users max per AP. So take your total amount of expected clients....divide by 50..and there's the minimum...
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