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Teabiscuit posted:I'm just gonna get the N66 and hope it works. Works like a charm in our three floor house, no repeaters. The N66 is absurdly overspec for home use but I still enjoy the hell out of it running TomatoUSB.
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# ¿ Dec 24, 2012 20:34 |
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 20:21 |
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dox posted:I just bought one and somehow the flashing process was interrupted midway... I've been unable to get it to be detected by the utility at all and now 192.168.1.1 doesn't load anything. Really hope I didn't brick it Err ouch yeah that sucks man, I even plug mine into a UPS before flashing new firmware. Did you try putting it into recovery by holding the reset button for awhile and power cycling? You might have to manually set your IP to 192.168.1.2 and change the subnet mask. That should load up the barebones recovery mode.
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# ¿ Dec 24, 2012 21:46 |
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e.pilot posted:So something killed the LAN ports on my pfSense box and took one of the ports on my switch with it. Just offhand but I had a similar problem when a clients place got hit by lightning. The router and lan ports on all of the machines got fried, everything else was bizarrely fine.
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2014 16:32 |
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My girlfriend and I are moving in together, we have a rental home which is nice but has no real cat5 wiring. The only cable drop is in the living room, the office will be upstairs one floor and will probably house my NAS and gaming PC. In the past I've always hardwired our NAS but I'm thinking about trying wireless this time since there will be minimal interference. I would normally just wire this up but its a rental and the landlord is anal retentive so we're worried about losing our security deposit. I have an Asus rt-n66u at the moment, is this a horrible idea without moving to one of the newer AC routers? I don't often transfer anything to/from the NAS, it basically just streams moderate bitrate stuff. I can't seem to find any decent desktop PCIE wireless network cards that aren't $100 either.
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# ¿ Oct 14, 2015 23:41 |
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Hmm ok. I'm pretty weary of powerline network stuff after the first generation issues but I guess its been awhile. I was looking at some benchmarks and it appears that the latency is much lower overall even if it can't hit the same bandwidth maximums as wireless-AC. Does the Netgear Powerline 1200 pass muster?
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# ¿ Oct 15, 2015 02:53 |
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Ok thanks guys, I will do some more research and make sure I get it from a place with a good return policy. The D-Link AV2 unit looks good but only has one ethernet port, the TP-Link one has 3 so I could hook up both machines easily. The house is only 15-20 years old so hopefully the wiring is in good shape. I guess if all else fails I will just try to slip the cable guy a bit of cash to run another coax line. I wish the landlord would just let me do a Cat6 run, would take all of 30 minutes but oh well.
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# ¿ Oct 15, 2015 13:46 |
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Yeah I tried no go. Landlord had a prior tenant make confetti out of the drywall. I was just going to go ahead and do it but my girlfriend thinks we'll lose the security deposit and :compromise:
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# ¿ Oct 15, 2015 14:21 |
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Smoke posted:Speaking from a fairly massive amount of experience with Devolo powerline adapters(The ISP I work for uses them as one option for hooking up IPTV STBs if no wired connection is available, the alternative is WiFi bridges), any kind of extension cord can screw up connection quality. Can I plug in a small UPS to the other receptacle on the same wall socket where I've got the PL adapter plugged in or will that cause problems too? I only have one set of plugs in my office upstairs.
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# ¿ Oct 21, 2015 15:42 |
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Finally got my QOS sorted out properly in Tomato-Shibby and drat its nice when everything works. A lot of initial work doing the port crap and classifications but it was worth it. My girlfriend was downloading some huge update, hitting Netflix, I was grabbing something from Usenet and playing an FPS without any issues.
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# ¿ Dec 19, 2015 01:05 |
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What he said, get a new router. I got one of those Netgear R7000s on sale and its pretty nice. Great OS options, very fast and we have no problems getting solid 5ghz everywhere despite this being a pretty big home. TP-Link makes cheaper stuff if you're budget is constrained. My old WRT54G topped out at like 12megabit on wireless and the signal was pretty weak. They were awesome routers for the time but man, adding a range extender to one of those things is kinda nuts. They were tanks though, poo poo I think I still have one acting as a switch at my parents place.
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# ¿ Dec 20, 2015 22:50 |
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havenwaters posted:Great the wireless repeater router for the guest house died. I need a proper solution that's not "shove an old router into the non insulated toolshed part of the guest house" Can't put it in the guest house proper since it's concrete block and can't find the signal from the other router. I guess my only good options are run a line (it's under 200 feet away) or mount some point to point thing right? I'll need to get a switch though since the main router is already out of ports. Yeah that should be fine. I do this at my Dads office, hes got some ancient beast that was out of ports so I just tossed a switch onto one and put other clients onto that.
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# ¿ Dec 21, 2015 21:13 |
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Has anyone played around with wireless AC yet? I installed Tomato-Shibby on a Netgear R7000 and got our first AC client device last night. Tinkering around with the router I see a section in the 5ghz network setup that says "Mode" A or N. I assume A is AC? Is there an easy way to tell if AC is working properly, like does AC use a specific channel width or something? I'm a bit confused since they're both in the 5ghz band. Signal is fantastic throughout but I haven't had time to do throughput speed tests yet and whatnot.
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# ¿ Dec 23, 2015 15:16 |
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Paul MaudDib posted:I use powerline ethernet. It's nice because it's lower-latency than wifi, but it's not super fast. Yeah that was pretty much my experience with it. I would get 10MB/s speed which is very solid but nowhere near what they advertise. The main improvement was the latency and consistency. It had to be rebooted a few times which was annoying and it wasn't inexpensive, I just put the extra money into doing a cable drop. After upgrading our router to a Netgear R7000 I was getting 12-15MB/s on wifi anyway so I returned the powerline kit.
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# ¿ Jan 11, 2016 15:53 |
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MeKeV posted:The Setting "Speed & Duplex" under the Adapter properties? I already tried changing it on the server and disabling and re-enabling the connection but it didn't make any difference. What driver is installed for that motherboard NIC? Go to the Gigabyte site and download the latest.
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# ¿ Jan 18, 2016 17:09 |
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MeKeV posted:I already had the latest from Gigabyte, so just tried the latest direct from Realtek too. Still 100mbps. What are the drops? walljacks or direct? You said you tried different cables. Did you try swapping the cable on the laptop with the one from the file server? We need to rule some stuff out there. Grab some random Linux Live USB image and run it, see if you can get gigabit with that.
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# ¿ Jan 18, 2016 18:43 |
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Cat5 only does 10/100mbps so yeah that would do it. You need cat5e for gigabit.
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# ¿ Jan 18, 2016 21:52 |
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I put Tomato-Shibby on the Nighthawk and haven't had any issues. Great router for the house if you can get it on sale. I nabbed mine for $135 which felt like a steal for the performance. My only beef is the absurd look of the thing but whatever, you don't buy routers for aesthetics.
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# ¿ Jan 25, 2016 22:12 |
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Any recommendations for a small business router? Can't find any thread for small business networking. Just bought a new building. We only have 6 workstations and a bunch of drops for printers and whatnot. I've got a 24port rackmount switch for that and just need something to tie it all together. Security features would be nice, with all of the crypto malware out there these days I worry quite a bit about our DBs. The EdgeRouter I'm a bit weary of because I'm not familiar with Unifi stuff at all and the lack of integrated AP, is it easy to get up and running?
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# ¿ May 18, 2016 15:11 |
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Yeah sorry I couldn't find a business networking thread, I seem to remember we had one but I must be blind or it got archived. Ok I guess I'll drop the security stuff and just do it manually through firewall rules as much as possible and GPO for the rest. I'll take a look at the Edge Router Lite unless anyone has other ideas.
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# ¿ May 18, 2016 18:07 |
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Even an unmanaged d-link or something would be fine for your purposes. I got a 24port unmanaged d-link for like $150 Canadian. You can find used Cisco switches on ebay and craigslist too.
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# ¿ Jun 22, 2016 16:34 |
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Thermopyle posted:Yeah, as long as your wiring works out, powerline is fast and good. I actually found a decent one of these finally - the Extollo Lansocket 1500. It managed triple the speeds of any other adapter in my place and includes a passthru port. I had tried the D-Link high end one, the TP-Link 8010 and etc, most were just barely getting 100Mbps. With the Extollo I am getting 300-400Mbps consistently which is more than enough for my purposes. Plugged a switch into one in the basement and now I don't have to hardwire cat5 down there which is great. Could not find the damned thing on any online merchant in Canada but I ordered one right from their website and it shipped from Vancouver. The Gunslinger fucked around with this message at 14:40 on Oct 24, 2016 |
# ¿ Oct 24, 2016 14:38 |
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I just finished doing several cat5 runs at my new house. I had an electrician do them at my old place but for some dumb reason decided to do it myself this time. If anyone is ever thinking of doing this as a little project at home just take my advice and pay someone else to do it. My place is 20 years old, no centralized runs, decent conduit or etc. I had to drill through some of the studs, read up on fire code about 20 times then finally do the fish/pulls. I ran out of time last night so I still have to go home later, do the terminations, install the wallplates and test everything. The end result will be worth it or so I keep telling myself. I do a lot of gaming and wireless loving sucks for it. I really wanted my NAS hardwired too and powerline stuff is just super disappointing when it comes to transfer speeds. I basically put a cat5 run in each major room except for the bathroom/kitchen. I left some spare stuff in the walls too, just in case. I'll post some pics later of the before/after when it's all finally done. Doing a little ghetto IKEA server setup in the basement.
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# ¿ Aug 11, 2017 14:23 |
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Yeah I wish I had just paid someone to do it, my back is killing me. At least the hard part is over. I just need to do the punchdowns and cobble together a setup in the basement. I really hate making cables and doing punchdowns, its not difficult at all its just very tedious. quote:I paid an electrical firm £1300 for 4 drops in 4 rooms and terminating them at a patch panel in my office. Worth every penny. I don't have a patch panel handy, I think I tossed it in the move by accident. I think I'll just do the basement ends with RJ45 and toss them directly into the switch. I can always order a patch panel later and then redo it but I'm sure this will be fine. I left a lot of slack on the cables for future revision or if I gently caress up my terminations.
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# ¿ Aug 11, 2017 16:24 |
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tangy yet delightful posted:Also no patch panel looks terrible. Please spend the $3 incl shipping on monoprice and do it right. Ok point taken, I stopped by CanadaComputers after work and grabbed a patch panel along with some small patch cables for the switch. Next weekend is wiring the home theater!
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# ¿ Aug 12, 2017 03:09 |
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Volguus posted:Question: How many switches are too many? No that's totally fine to daisy chain a few switches at home. Once you get beyond 2-3 it's time for a new drop though.
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# ¿ Aug 17, 2017 21:18 |
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 20:21 |
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Rexxed posted:I've got to make recommendations for a small office that's getting moved in the next few months and I'm debating just telling them to get Ubiquiti stuff. Even with like five machines they're planning to have a small rack so I figure having some rackmount options is good, although I was planning to get them set up with better than a gigabit for the LAN since they use a NAS. Not sure if it'll work for that. The account breaches are the main thing I'm concerned about, the hardware I expect to setup and just have work. You don't have to use the cloud functionality, I don't use my SSO account with them anymore since their last breach. I really like the UDM Pro for small business stuff and their APs have been great in my experience. They get a lot of poo poo from the Cisco certified crowd but they fill a niche at the SB/homelab level and some of their deployment/management tools are really slick. They need better firmware and security practices.
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# ¿ Feb 13, 2024 15:52 |