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GobiasIndustries posted:What DNS settings did your router have before you switched them to Google's DNS servers?
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Feb 11, 2016 00:50
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ufarn posted:My iOS devices and MacBook were set to 192.168.0.1, the router, and Windows was set to automatic. Seemed to have problems across all devices. It just sucks if I have to look into doing this with my PS4, Apple TV, Smart TV, etc etc etc, so I'd much rather try to find something that just works straight-up. Unfortunately, my ISP couldn't be more clueless, so I don't expect them to be able to handle the situation themselves, so I was hoping to do something on my router or ISP modem/router. Are you using DHCP on all of your devices (i.e. not entering each device's IP address manually)? If so you should only need to be updating DNS settings on your router and letting each device receive the DNS addresses automatically when they receive their IP address. Edit: so, I have the C7 too; I've got the DNS servers in the DHCP settings set to OpenDNS servers; all of my devices pick up on that automatically if they're set to receive their IP via DHCP. I don't need to manually set anything on individual devices since I've got it configured on the DHCP server (the router). Setting your Apple devices to use your router address as their DNS server was definitely causing issues because your router isn't a DNS server, it's a DHCP server that provides a DNS server address to the clients (your ISP default DNS server if you don't specify something in settings). Hope that makes sense. GobiasIndustries fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Feb 11, 2016 |
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Feb 11, 2016 02:37
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Somewhat frequently, my internet will start to drop a lot of packets and have exaggerated ping times. When this happens, I run a tracert to something benign like google.com. It looks something like this:code:
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Feb 11, 2016 03:33
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Just because it's not replying to ICMP ECHO doesn't mean its the issue,tons of stuff doesn't respond to it or deprioritizes it.
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Feb 11, 2016 03:58
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It does respond to it when my network functions normally, and stops when it starts to misbehave, which indicated to me that its the guilty party. But what is a better tool for diagnosing problems on a network if the tracert is not a reliable indicator?
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Feb 11, 2016 04:15
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Wardende posted:It does respond to it when my network functions normally, and stops when it starts to misbehave, which indicated to me that its the guilty party. But what is a better tool for diagnosing problems on a network if the tracert is not a reliable indicator? Its possible that you might be taking one path through the Comcast network most of the time, and then every once in a while you take a different path for some reason, a path that has issues of some sort. Does a trace to 216.58.217.46 when everything is working take a different path? Also are you using a Windows box or a Mac do run your traceroute? Windows uses ICMP for traceroute and Linux/Unix/BSD and OSX use UDP for traceroute by default. Sometimes ICMP, UDP, and TCP traceroutes between the same two points don't look the same because reasons. Sadly all three traceroute types are dependent on ICMP Time Exceeded messages being sent from the various hops along the path to work. And not all routers bother sending ICMP Time Exceeded messages for various reasons. In any case, if you see two totally different paths through the Comcast network when things are working vs when they are not then you need to yell at Comcast to fix their poo poo. Antillie fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Feb 11, 2016 |
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Feb 11, 2016 04:41
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Question for you guys who might know I had an unknown device on my network earlier tonight name ARCHLAP. was listed as a Windows 7 OS by Rygel Developers according to the device entry. It was listed as a Wireless connection at first, so i thought it was some leech on my wifi or something. I disabled WiFi entirely, and the connection was now listed as a LAN device that was still connected. I have 2 computers connected via hardline, mine and the general family pc. Mine is the only one thats turned on at the moment. Anyone have any idea wtf it could be? Its really throwing me through a loop here. I do remember that my Motorola Surfboard used to be listed in the devices, but that no longer shows up. It was labeled specifically as Motorola-SB. Right now, the DHCP client list only shows my PC, but the active devices is showing 2 copies of my old ipod 4th gen, my android phone, my surface pro 4 tablet, my pc, and ARCHLAP as being online. My phone and ipod cant connect to anything since WiFi is disabled. Is it possible my router is just screwed up and displaying bad info? I just cant figure out what the hell this ARCHLAP thing is considering its showing as a LAN connection now. Anyone got any ideas?
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Feb 11, 2016 07:53
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GobiasIndustries posted:Are you using DHCP on all of your devices (i.e. not entering each device's IP address manually)? If so you should only need to be updating DNS settings on your router and letting each device receive the DNS addresses automatically when they receive their IP address.
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Feb 11, 2016 11:16
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I'm in the market for a new home router for the first time in 5+ years. I've got a fairly complex and busy network...right now I've got 24 devices with DHCP leases. Looking for good WiFi coverage, good QoS, and good default firmware, but something that I can put OpenWRT or whatever third-party firmware on it in the future if I decide to. Really, though, I just don't feel like messing with the firmware, so something that works well out of the box is a big plus. My internet is 120/4 and as you can imagine I've got to micromanage applications like Crashplan to keep them from making my internet slow because it's so easy to eat up that 4 mbit upload speed. It'd be great to have QoS manage that for me. $200 or less would be good. Any recommendations?
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Feb 11, 2016 22:06
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ufarn posted:iOS and OS X go with my C7 IP by default for DNS setting, so I should just leave that there, right? I'll set up the DNS on the C7 and try to roll back the manual setup on my other devices and go back to automatic/192.168.0.1 as the DNS. Default gateway is still 192.168.0.1 on the C7. If you manually input DNS servers on the DHCP settings on your router, it will tell any device that uses it for DHCP to use those servers unless you manually override it in the OS X settings. Here is what my settings look like: 
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Feb 11, 2016 22:15
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Thermopyle posted:I'm in the market for a new home router for the first time in 5+ years. I'm a big fan of an EdgeRouter Lite for routing paired with a UAP-AC-Lite for WiFi. If you can find an EdgeRouterX for significantly less than a Lite you could go that route too but recently they've been marking up the X to almost the same price as the Lite. This gives you a great router and WiFi AP that should be able to handle any residential situation for under $200. You should update the firmware on the Lite when you first get it but after that they have nice guided setup to get online and a lot of QoS and traffic shaping options.
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Feb 12, 2016 00:56
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Krailor posted:I'm a big fan of an EdgeRouter Lite for routing paired with a UAP-AC-Lite for WiFi. How timely. I've got an EdgeRouter LIte arriving tomorrow and was about to post asking if there was anything special I need to know, but it looks like you've covered it.  We're demoing some Meraki stuff at work, so I sat through the switch and AP webinars to get the promo items, so I have those for the rest of my network, at least in the short term. Once I get bored with the cutesy cloud control stuff, I'll probably look into the UAP-AC-Lite (and maybe one of the ToughSwitch models) for a permanent solution.
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Feb 12, 2016 01:50
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Eero is finally shipping,  
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Feb 12, 2016 01:55
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chizad posted:How timely. I've got an EdgeRouter LIte arriving tomorrow and was about to post asking if there was anything special I need to know, but it looks like you've covered it. Yeah, I did the AP demo for Meraki and got one MR18 out of it, but ended up friending that one away because a single AP isn't enough to distribute throughout my whole house. Went with 3x UAP-AC-Pro + 1 UAP-Pro that I had from the Ubiquiti cert class. I've got no wifi coverage issues now
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Feb 12, 2016 06:09
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Guys I have a problem on my home network that I'm having a hard time finding the source of. This is how my network is setup:  The netgear is my old router that was replaced by the Nighthawk and does the same thing (DHCP and router), but I set it to bridge mode. I'm thinking about buying a switch to replace it cause it's been doing weird stuff lately. My nighthawk provides two wifi network a 5Ghz and a 2.4Ghz On the 2.4Ghz there is my chromecast and the two sonos. Everything else that is not wired is on the 5Ghz. Now, I regularly have problem with the devices on the 2.4Ghz cannot access internet somehow. Chromecast will complain that it is properly connected to the network but cannot access internet, the Sonos are also very finicky but I don't think they access internet, only my NAS where my music is stored. I never have this type of problems on the 5Ghz network. Yesterday my Chromecast was complaining about not being able to access internet, so I rebooted my nighthawk and then it worked  Could anyone suggest how to trouble shoot this issue? I've tried looking on my router page when I have the problem but I cannot really see anything out of the ordinary.
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Feb 12, 2016 11:57
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What's it called when you use a wireless router to connect to and extend another wifi network, and / or connect wired devices to the router to connect to that other wifi network? (I have my cable modem downstairs, providing a wifi network, I have a (Linksys EA2700) router upstairs that I want to connect to that wifi and have the desktop computer hardwired to it connect.)
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Feb 12, 2016 16:47
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Feb 12, 2016 18:22
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Le0 posted:Guys I have a problem on my home network that I'm having a hard time finding the source of. My best guess is either the 2.4ghz band is just clogged up with other people's networks or something else (baby monitor, cordless phone, ect...) is occasionally making GBS threads on the 2.4ghz band. Either that or your old netgear router is still broadcasting its own 2.4ghz network with the same SSID and isn't relaying DHCP broadcasts properly from the wifi to the wired.
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Feb 12, 2016 18:29
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Krakkles posted:What's it called when you use a wireless router to connect to and extend another wifi network, This can mean either: 1. A second AP. 2. A wifi repeater. 3. A wifi range extender. Each of these things are very very different from each other. A second AP is by far the best option as the other two options each suck in their own unique way. Krakkles posted:or connect wired devices to the router to connect to that other wifi network? You are describing a wifi bridge. While certainly possible it usually requires 3rd party firmware such as DD-WRT. Antillie fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Feb 12, 2016 |
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Feb 12, 2016 18:30
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Antillie posted:You are describing a wifi bridge. While certainly possible it usually requires 3rd party firmware such as DD-WRT. Is there a better way (other than hardwiring) to connect a desktop, a NAS, and an IP phone upstairs to a modem / router downstairs? The desktop I could just get a wifi card for, but the IP phone and the NAS probably not.
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Feb 12, 2016 18:34
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Krakkles posted:drat. Ok, off to find out if I can install that on my router. You can try powerline adapters. However the type and age of the wiring in your house makes a huge difference in how they will perform. Using powerline adapters to hook up a second AP is a common way to extend wifi coverage.
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Feb 12, 2016 18:37
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Krakkles posted:drat. Ok, off to find out if I can install that on my router. Powerline networking.
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Feb 12, 2016 18:37
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MrMoo posted:Eero is finally shipping, What's the difference between this and Open Mesh? I haven't paid attention to home networking products in a while so I hadn't heard of this device, but looking over the web page it seems pretty similar to the cheaper (or maybe not, I can't tell how many AP's come with the eero), Open Mesh devices.
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Feb 12, 2016 18:50
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bvoid posted:So I just got this card for my desktop, and I'm noticing some discrepancies between sending and receiving data wirelessly. What router are you using? Is it 3x3 MIMO? Not all wireless chipsets are created equal or work well with each other. You've eliminated the environmental factors, leaving just a few things which you may have no control over. 1) Hardware configuration (i.e. cheap chipset versus quality Apple chipset - there's a reason why Apple wireless products have been recommended so often over the years). Mediatek, Broadcom, Realtek, and Qualcom have a number of chipsets, each with dozens and dozens different factors made during design and production which effect speed. Unfortunately there's so much voodoo in wireless, that even selecting the same chipsets for all your wireless devices may not offer the best speeds as some wireless chipset vendors just have plain better implementations. 2) Software configuration (Windows vs. OSX) - you might find driver settings you can tweak to ensure that you're really getting MIMO out of your card. Apple has fewer chipsets they need to optimize for. 3) Router configuration. You might be running mixed bandwidth settings 20/40/80 Mhz, and your wireless card or router has negotiated a lower speed. Try manually enforcing a higher bandwidth settings and running your test again. Again, there are a bunch of things you might not be able to adjust like QAM. Regardless, you're running Wireless N on 5 Ghz, which is a waste! Disable N on 5 Ghz and let the better AC technology have exclusive reign. That TP-Link card says it can do AC1900, so you might be able to get 3-4 times or more performance. It's time to leave the 2.4 GHz spectrum to legacy A/B/G/N devices and 5 GHz to AC.
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Feb 12, 2016 18:51
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Krakkles posted:drat. Ok, off to find out if I can install that on my router. Before you put to much effort into this, know that wireless bridging/extension will pretty much never work as well as you want.
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Feb 12, 2016 18:59
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Thermopyle posted:What's the difference between this and Open Mesh? I haven't paid attention to home networking products in a while so I hadn't heard of this device, but looking over the web page it seems pretty similar to the cheaper (or maybe not, I can't tell how many AP's come with the eero), Open Mesh devices. The ycombinator page probably has your answers, one of them states: bgix posted:I have been peppering eero's "Questions" link for the past few days, and have gotten a lot of information, and have been suitably impressed enough to pre-order. Hopefully more details will follow when it gets into more peoples hands.
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Feb 12, 2016 19:44
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Is there anywhere I can see a demo of the edgerouter web ui? Googlin' doesn't turn up anything...
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Feb 12, 2016 20:26
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Inspector_666 posted:Before you put to much effort into this, know that wireless bridging/extension will pretty much never work as well as you want.
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Feb 12, 2016 21:10
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Krailor posted:I'm a big fan of an EdgeRouter Lite for routing paired with a UAP-AC-Lite for WiFi. I went with this after doing a bunch of reading. Thanks for the nudge in the right direction!
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Feb 12, 2016 21:38
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Does anyone have experience with small business-ish managed switches? I need more ports than I have, and since I'm planning to upgrade to an EdgeRouter anyway I'd like to have something that I can use to get hands-on with vlans, qos, etc. I was thinking about a TP-Link product: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005KQ5FSG but don't know if it'd be easier/better to stick to an EdgeSwitch product
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Feb 13, 2016 01:24
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Thermopyle posted:Is there anywhere I can see a demo of the edgerouter web ui? Googlin' doesn't turn up anything... oh poop. I if I were at my office today I would have tossed something up for you.
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Feb 13, 2016 05:07
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GobiasIndustries posted:Does anyone have experience with small business-ish managed switches? I need more ports than I have, and since I'm planning to upgrade to an EdgeRouter anyway I'd like to have something that I can use to get hands-on with vlans, qos, etc. I was thinking about a TP-Link product: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005KQ5FSG but don't know if it'd be easier/better to stick to an EdgeSwitch product That should be fine, and you'll be able to apply the concepts of VLANs but don't expect it to directly translate over to something like Cisco IOS command-line syntax since every vendor has their own dumb quirks.
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Feb 13, 2016 05:11
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CrazyLittle posted:That should be fine, and you'll be able to apply the concepts of VLANs but don't expect it to directly translate over to something like Cisco IOS command-line syntax since every vendor has their own dumb quirks. Oh yeah no, I'm not expecting the syntax to convert over 100% or anything like that, I'm looking for something a bit more advanced than what I have and that I can use to apply some of what I'm studying to in the real world. If it's a managed switch and I've got the general concept of what I want to do down I'd expect it to be similar to learning how to use a new OS: same concept different execution.
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Feb 13, 2016 05:26
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CrazyLittle posted:oh poop. I if I were at my office today I would have tossed something up for you. That's cool, but I found enough youtube videos to get a good idea of how it's set up.
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Feb 13, 2016 06:14
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So, I finally decided to order an ERL the other day and it was delivered today. I get home, check my mail on the way to my apartment, and what do I see on the bulletin board? A notice that Google Fiber installs will be starting on Wednesday in my apartment complex. Looks like I won't be using this ERL for very long. Oh well, still gave me an excuse to tidy up the area behind my entertainment center where my network gear lives. Setup for basic SOHO functions was a breeze, aside from a couple quirks. 1) Using the 1WAN+2LAN2 wizard, it kept defaulting to a 192.168.1.0/24 network on LAN1/eth1, even though I told it I wanted it to be 192.168.42.0/24. I was leaving the LAN2/eth2 section unconfigured, assuming that there was a sane default configuration it would use if I didn't change anything. When I finally expanded that section and changed it's IP range as well, the config was actually applied and I had the network I wanted on LAN1. 2) The other thing that tripped me up was the auto firewall stuff for port forwarding. I assumed it would automatically create the appropriate FW rules based on the port forwards you had set up and create a new ruleset for them, but no matter what I just had the default rulesets in the web UI so I assumed something wasn't working right. After a bit of testing I determined that everything was working as intended and the ports were open and going to the proper destinations. Need to take a deeper look at it over the weekend to try and get a better understanding of what the auto firewall stuff is actually doing.
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Feb 13, 2016 07:45
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knox_harrington posted:BT have had pretty big problems countrywide with their service the past few days. Not sure whether that's been resolved everywhere - the place I'm staying at has got back to normal. Thanks for the info, is there somewhere I can find out more about Bt's problems. I have tried both the bt home hub and a cisco linksys router with equal results. An engineer came round a few days ago and replaced the outside connection and fitted a new phone socket inside, on the old phone socket he was getting a lot of errors but with the new one he was getting 6.4Mbs to the exchange on my 8Mbs service. Unfortunately the routers are still only getting 0.12 of the bandwidth. I tried tracert and there are a number of timeouts between bt and bbc.co.uk/amazon.co.uk but I'm a bit stumped about what to try next other than call support. Any suggestions? Update For anyone struggling with BT broadband at the moment. I just tried to get BT support to do a hard reset on my account and when they quoted 2-3 days to do it I mentioned complaining to the telecomunications ombudsman. It was fixed within an hour and I'm now getting over 7Mbs. It's been suggested on various broadband forums that BT's network is particularly susceptible to heavy rains like the ones that caused the recent floods and that this screws up everything. JamesieAB fucked around with this message at 18:18 on Feb 13, 2016 |
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Feb 13, 2016 12:40
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chizad posted:Google Fiber installs will be starting on Wednesday in my apartment complex. Looks like I won't be using this ERL for very long. chizad posted:Need to take a deeper look at it over the weekend to try and get a better understanding of what the auto firewall stuff is actually doing. show configuration commands
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Feb 13, 2016 18:08
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Google fiber provides a router box that does some really odd stuff with vlans and QoS. Its possible to replicate its behavior with a managed switch and a pfSense router but its a pain in the rear end. Unless you really like messing around with technical stuff its easier to just use their router box.
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Feb 13, 2016 21:27
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Krakkles posted:Thank you. Based on this, I'm taking the suggestion above for powerline networking. Thanks all! Thanks again, everybody.
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I'm looking to pick up a new cable modem since my new ISP provides much faster speeds The following 3 cable modems have high ratings, but seemingly identical features. Which should I choose? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00R92CEVU?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=ox_sc_act_title_1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER http://www.amazon.com/ARRIS-SURFboard-SB6183-DOCSIS-Cable/dp/B00MA5U1FW/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1455472593&sr=1-1&keywords=SB6183 http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-Cert...keywords=MB7420
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