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    Ubiquiti UniFi AP-AC Reviewed

    I frequently read that warning all around....have read/heard it since the early days of MIMO wireless back in the "G" days. And I understand the implied logic. Yet...my experience is that..."it works". Areas that did not have coverage before...now work. I get the concept that the AP "may...
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    Anyone tried out any Open-Mesh equipment or services? Any good?

    I started using their products about 2 months ago, for some "difficult" deployments. I didn't need high power, just quick and easy deployment....and remote management. So their "cloud trax" portal is what caught me. Price point...very low. Performance....OK...distance is decent, we use...
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    Ubiquiti UniFi AP-AC Reviewed

    We've done a TON of the Unifi "LR" models for our biz client networks, and we've had a good experience with them. They have given us (well..our SMB clients) the performance of higher end biz grade APs like HP Procurves at over 400 bucks a pop, for the price of 85 bucks a pop for the Unifi LR...
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    Cisco ISA550W Reviewed

    I'm looking forward to getting one of these in and spending some "hands on" time with it. Years ago, the "RV0 series" had been our standard "go to" edge appliance for our small business clients. Since the first Linksys Small Business series RV042, RV082, and RV016 models rolled off the...
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    Advice on hack attempts

    Yes, certainly they vary, dynamic IPs will get poked less than static blocks. But then again....just sit back and let your NAT router do its job. And if you have services exposed via port forwarding...ensure those services have been hardened/secured. Years ago as I was learning my Microsoft...
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    Advice on hack attempts

    Stick any device on the internet, and it gets grinding attempts within minutes. This is normal. If home users with basic linksys or netgear routers had detailed logging for its firewall features, you'd unplug it because you'd see so much activity and would get scared. Any devices you make...
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    Small Business Router

    It's not "silly" for a salon to do this, dunno if you take care of SMB networks at all....I do, have for the past 20 years. A lot of their (salon) scheduling software allows booking of appointments by their customers. This isn't some web server like a 1U rackmount server in a 42U cabinet with...
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    How To Build A Cheap Petabyte Server: Take Three

    Oh I know they're not storing their clients stuff on a single giant RAID 1 NAS unit....I know they have farms and farms of huge arrays. It's the concept of..seeing them go for big cost savings...where else do they skimp? And after 3-5 years...where did that cost savings go? Slap in a ton...
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    How To Build A Cheap Petabyte Server: Take Three

    Well I'll be sure not to sign up as a reseller of BackBlaze...seeing they push (and use themselves) consumer grade HDDs. WD "Blue" drives....I swear sometimes it seems like 50% failure rate. I won't use them for our clients anymore. I've had to replace far too many of them. I've yet to...
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    Does alternative firmware break your router?

    Interesting article.... Gotta read it a second and possibly third time to digest it a bit more, or look at the tests thrown at it. But gotta head out for some onsites and go expand a network... Years ago....in the old "early" days of home routers....the Linksys befsr and the wrt54...
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    Product-review: Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite

    Looking forward to getting some in for testing. Hopefully it'll prove to be a good stable unit. We've been enjoying the Ubiquiti Unifi APs for our clients.
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    Yes, Routers do die

    I'll tell ya what I've noticed Tim..... Plug routers (and broadband modems...and network equip such as switches) into regular surge protectors (or worse..just outlets)....and you will probably notice a short life. Premature death. Odd quirks. However...get one of the small battery backup...
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    Windows Server Alternatives for small business

    Adding other member servers to an SBS domain is just as wonderfully easy as adding them to vanilla/standard AD...there is no difference just because it's SBS. You can even have additional DC's in an SBS DC. I've done it for many many clients, over many years, across different versions of SBS...
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    Map Network Drive via VPN IPSec

    Access the share using the IP address...not the host name. \\ipaddress\sharename You'll want to set your "server" to have a static LAN IP, so it doesn't change IP addresses on you. Basically, it boils down to netbios traffic and name resolution not working through VPN tunnels....it...
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    Yet Another VPN Post

    IMO, looking for Ferrari performance...on a Ford or Fiat price tag...you'll be looking for a long time. Over 30 meg VPN tunnel throughput...you're going to be looking at true business grade hardware, and that comes with a price tag. Consider some hardware that runs PFSense...such as some...
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    Which router can support 300 computers and offers few features mentioned:

    Seems like duplicate post...to this one, which has answers http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=7301&page=2
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    do small businesses require multiple routers?

    Without knowing budget of the client, there's a lot more questions that need to be answered...but initially: HP ProCurve switches... I'd be doing Untangle on the edge ....for 300 users, on a 1U server with a pair of drives RAID 1. Just an i3 or i5 box with 4 gigs-o-rammage..and Intel or...
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    do small businesses require multiple routers?

    Hi! SMB networks is what I do for a living. I put in business grade routers....I will never do home grade sub 100 dollar routers for a small business. Typically I used to do a lot of Linksys/Cisco "RV" series routers for clients. RV042, RV082, RV016, and lately....some of the RV220 and...
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    ubiquiti unifi

    They are fast growing in the SMB market also....which is what I do for a living every day....myself, and lots of colleagues in my field (SMB IT support/consulting) have been using Ubiquiti Unifi APs more and more, and I'm REALLY liking them and having a great experience with them. Right now...
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    Choosing a suitable Firewall

    I would still want the network protected by a UTM appliance. IMO...plain NAT routers are extinct...or should be, for business networks. UTM appliances (Unified Threat Management) utilized additional antivirus and antimwalware engineS (yes that's plural) to scan all traffic going in and out...
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