Menu
What's new
By:
Filters Better Search

Search results

  • SNBForums Code of Conduct

    SNBForums is a community for everyone, no matter what their level of experience.

    Please be tolerant and patient of others, especially newcomers. We are all here to share and learn!

    The rules are simple: Be patient, be nice, be helpful or be gone!

  1. Y

    [Sponsored] Is Cloud-Based Network Management Right for You?

    Zyxel's quality used to be very good back in the early days...Windows NT 4/95 days. They actually were the OEM for many of Netgears biz level products, back when Bay Networks owned Netgear. Popular products in the small business networks in the very early days of broadband..such as the Netgear...
  2. Y

    [Sponsored] Is Cloud-Based Network Management Right for You?

    For us MSPs...(IT guys that take care of SMBs)...centralizing management of our clients is a very important and valuable feature for us. For pretty much ANY of our services. It's important to keep things as centralized as possible for us, have a portal for key important services we manage...
  3. Y

    SoHo/SMB Hardware Firewall (Seeking Recommendations - Accountant)

    Strongly recommend you seek an IT firm to help you set this up, there's a LOT more to look at and consider since you have a business network, especially a high target such as an accounting firm. We have quite a few accounting clients and there's a LOT of regular monthly work we do with them...
  4. Y

    UTM device for home network security

    Untangle and Sophos are two very good UTMs including for home users....both have free versions and paid versions. And Untangle has a very affordable home package which gives you just about all their features for a very low price. With so many web based services going to httpS....you really...
  5. Y

    2x2 AC Access Point Roundup - Part 2

    Not "extremely rare". I've been building them since Ubiquiti first made the Unifi controller multi-tenant..thus made cloud hosted Unifi controllers common place. That was before Ubiquiti became the trendy network hardware brand they are today. The database is pretty busy on cloud hosted...
  6. Y

    Sponsored: How Is A Gaming Router Different?

    Back in my youth, I was heavy into online gaming and building/running public game servers. Going back to the dial up days, where yes some of us learned to tweak COM ports and dial up modems, and knew which models of modems performed better than others. Then came the broadband days...usually...
  7. Y

    2x2 AC Access Point Roundup - Part 2

    Just a quick note to the editor regarding Ubiquitis Cloud Keys. As much of a Ubiquiti fan that I am, yes the MongoDB is sensitive to rude shutdowns and easily corrupts. So the Cloud Keys themselves often have power cut to them, and it tanks the DB. So what we do when prepping networks at our...
  8. Y

    Open Mesh A40 & A60 Access Points Reviewed

    Not to start a pissing contest...but might as well be factual..there's enough misinformation about Ubiquiti's support out there. And to be fair...we used Open Mesh a lot....well before we got big into Ubiquiti..so I'm not biased against Open Mesh....especially since we're Datto Elite partners...
  9. Y

    Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite Revisited

    Agreed....as much as I love (and sell/install)lots of Ubiquitis hardware, I don't consider their EdgeMax products to be "for the masses". I do recall reading that sales pitch somewhere...but I can't find it now. Their Unifi series is a little more user friendly...and for "residential/laymen"...
  10. Y

    Multiple APs, multiple ssids, segregated private ip ranges: Possible???

    Well..technically...you can have a single DHCP server with multiple IP ranges. Gets outside the scope of this thread, and the OPs equipment...but, for quite a few past versions, Windows Server allows a single server with a single DHCP service....to run multiple IP ranges. Key is....multiple...
  11. Y

    A new round of router tests by Ars Technica

    Yeah I read the article..the firmware "out of the box" ran at 200 megs....the updated firmware ran at 800 megs but flakey. But...note the date of the article, it's before the newer firmware I'm talking about was released. Add to that...the actual testing by the author was likely mid summer...
  12. Y

    A new round of router tests by Ars Technica

    Love the Pro...run the back end of our server room on one, have quite a few at clients. He missed a major firmware released by mere weeks...ver 1.9.0 Added a lot of new QoS features and performance improvements. They even have a new "basic" section in the GUI now for QoS. The USG just got...
  13. Y

    Network Traffic Monitoring for Intrusion Detection

    Just hang on a bit...won't be long, Ubiquiti is looking to introduce an IPS/IDS feature. Will show up in an update.
  14. Y

    Cloud backup

    I understand the "warm 'n fuzzy" about being able to "see/touch" your server, or NAS, or whatever for storage. However, on the flip side, many people, residential users, especially even more..small to medium business owners, mistakenly assume that they have "control" of their network. Just...
  15. Y

    Cloud backup

    Stick with a tier-1 vendor. Do you think top names like Microsoft, Google, Rackspace, and other tier-1 hosting companies are going to pack their bags and slip out the back door one evening? Your e-mail host can close their doors one night....leaving you stranded with no e-mail. (for the 99.9%...
  16. Y

    Does router TX power affect Nanostation compatibility and how does it impact range?

    Nano's are focused, narrow beam, they're meant to create point to point bridges for a good distance. Example...connect a building to another building 3 miles away, via a wireless bridge. You put one at each end. It's not omnidirectional. Or...as in the bunch I've been installing this past...
  17. Y

    Do you consider cloud storage like Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, etc a backup solution.

    Read up on the history of Baidu and Qihoo...the tactics in their global expansion...and the "real" driving force behind them.....there is much..MUCH more to their software than just what appears on the surface. If you can get going on the thought process...I'll give a hint...look at the...
  18. Y

    Why Surround Wi-Fi Is Better

    It's a solid concept...those of us that do networks for a living, know that having several lower powered APs sprinkled around the area to be covered, is much better than trying to put 1x big honking AP in the middle. We have already seen various "kits" come out...utilizing different...
  19. Y

    Ubiquiti EdgeRouter POE QOS Settings

    Multiple networks on the same interface has worked for us, did you check the user manual (not that you have to, someone familiar with networking should be able to figure it out visually in the web management). MTGanzer did say his QoS is enabled "on the upstream"...why are you trying to correct...
  20. Y

    How to isolate AP clients/guests from rest of network?

    With business grade hardware, we do this with VLANs...often tagging an SSID to a special VLAN which we sent to a different interface on the edge router, different DHCP service...thus different subnet. As well as have a "guest isolation" mode enabled on that guest wireless SSID. With...
Top