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- How to detect hidden wifi camera?
- Cool software to have on home network?
- Trying to help my step-dad, don't know anything about networking
- New to home networks, looking for a place to get answers! :)
- This is current wire looks like. What should I do to run ethernet around the house?
- New Access Points Question
- Frontier, Gigabit, Router, MoCA, Confusion!
- Access IPMI and UPNP server on home network on different network?
- Condo provides internet, security concerns?
- What's the best option for my current situation?
- Do I have everything I need to create my home network?
- Looking for a good router (streaming, gaming, wifi security cameras)
- Need some help with iptables
- Router and Switch "storage"/ table setup ideas
- Looking for advice on what's needed for my house
- MOCA Questions
- Sonicwall TZ300
- Is there any issue with a powered switch in a media box ?
- STP on Asus RT-AC66U B1
- When I set the DNS on my router, and I have a static IP for my computer. What do I put for the computer's DNS server address?
- How to find the efficiency and overhead of a UPS
- Chromecast and Asus AiMesh
- Routing the Non-Routable Traffic
- Cat6a cable shielding for crowded apartments
- Home networking options
| How to detect hidden wifi camera? Posted: 08 Dec 2019 04:21 PM PST Going to stay in AirBnB homes. Read that in some places, owners hide cams to watch what you do. What app can I use to detect that? [link] [comments]  |
| Cool software to have on home network? Posted: 08 Dec 2019 03:25 AM PST My network compromises of;
All the above are connected via gigabit ethernet. On the Asus 86U I have both TCP and UDP VPN servers running so I can access my network remotely. My Server and Raspberry Pi are sat there literally doing nothing so wondered what else I could load onto them. Is there any software that monitors people scanning for any open ports or suchlike? I'd also like to log what websites people access even though my DNSfilter cleanbrowsing family should be preventing my kids from dodgy websites. I'm going to get CCTV installed soon and that will run to the Windows 10 machine. [link] [comments]  |
| Trying to help my step-dad, don't know anything about networking Posted: 08 Dec 2019 02:33 PM PST I want to get my step-dad wifi in his pole barn for Christmas. He's not tech savy. The pole barn has all metal walls. its about 75-90 feet away from the router in the house. Here is a diagram: https://i.imgur.com/rt0aJEv.jpg Would an extender work or an access point? He's got an average router/modem. ANY help or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| New to home networks, looking for a place to get answers! :) Posted: 08 Dec 2019 05:58 PM PST Hi, so call me a dumb but I have some questions about home networks. I watched a video by Techflow and I was super inspired by what he did to Tom Syndicates house. So, with that being said, here's my questions:
I apologize for my lack of knowledge but I feel as if that knowing this little bit of information could help me in progressing my knowledge tremendously. [link] [comments]  |
| This is current wire looks like. What should I do to run ethernet around the house? Posted: 08 Dec 2019 12:51 PM PST Link: https://imgur.com/a/7bOHAFL I'm moving into this new place and when I checked the panel in garage, it looked like this. I believe those are all connected to phone jack in house, correct? What would be my option to run ethernet around home in this case? I could not find where current owner's internet modem is, as it was a quick visit to the new place. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 08 Dec 2019 07:12 PM PST I installed 2 ap ac lites in my house. Now I see another WiFi network that is the same as my main one with a IoT after it. Do I log into that? Do I have to do anything to utilize the access points or do they just work with my current system? When I log into my unifi network and look at my devices it says everything is good, there is no data going up or down for either AP. Should there be? Sorry if these are dumb questions. This is a whole new world for me. [link] [comments]  |
| Frontier, Gigabit, Router, MoCA, Confusion! Posted: 08 Dec 2019 07:07 PM PST Asked this in /r/Fios/ and /r/frontierfios/, just looking for more opinions. I am brand new to Frontier, customer service is worthless and I'm trying to do this the right way. Any help at all would be appreciated. My current situation: - Frontier gigabit, Router NVG468MQ (un-bonded MoCA 2.0), Phone line, Fax line, Basic topset boxes. - 4000 sq ft to cover for wifi, 1 tucked away office to cover with new LAN port or bonded MoCA 2.0 adapter. - Tech told me if I replace the frontier router my TV service wont work, everything I am reading online says just DVR and Video-on-Demand won't work (I have neither), the TV Guide and cable service should still work as long as there is MoCA supporting hardware at the point of entry. I use the topset boxes in 3 other rooms, not my living room where the router is or my office. Advice I seek: - Orbi setup to completely replace my Frontier router, that can cover 2 zones, 2,000 sq ft each. Which model Orbi should I buy? - Two bonded MoCA 2.0 adapters, 1 for main router POE to keep my tv services running and TV guide info, etc, and 1 for my office to achieve close to gigabit speeds via coax (office has no LAN port). Should I buy adapters from Motorola, or Actionteq? - Phone and Fax must still work without the frontier router. There are no telephone wires going to the back of my frontier router. Does replacing the frontier router affect phone/fax lines at all? - Alternatively, rather than replacing my frontier router and buying two bonded MoCA 2.0 adapters, I can bridge the NVG468MQ and just setup an Orbi for my wifi zone needs, and just get Frontier techs to go under my crawlspace and run me a new LAN port to my office. In 5+ hours of phone talks, they would not tell me how much this costs or if they can even do it. Any opinions on which of these 2 options is better, or maybe a 3rd option I'm not seeing? [link] [comments]  |
| Access IPMI and UPNP server on home network on different network? Posted: 08 Dec 2019 04:35 PM PST Hello Is there a way access a UPNP server with IPMI on my home network from my friends house? Thanks [link] [comments]  |
| Condo provides internet, security concerns? Posted: 08 Dec 2019 06:25 PM PST Hey everyone, So I recently found out that the condo I'm going to move into provides internet through the HOA fees. When I visited the place, I noticed a MicroTik RouterBOARD (hAP ac lite) with an Internet line plugged in, 3 CAT5E wires plugged in, and an empty PoE Out. Three rooms have a ethernet port that says CAT5E as well. My questions are the following:
Originally, before I found this out, I was going to get Xfinity internet (with my own modem and router). But if the speeds are good enough, I wanted to know the security risks if there are any. I will be using a VPN on both my laptop as well as PC for an extra layer. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| What's the best option for my current situation? Posted: 08 Dec 2019 03:44 PM PST I have a router/modem from at&t installed in a bedroom that is next to a living room. I have two other bedrooms on the opposite side of the room. Those two rooms aren't getting great WiFi and wanted Ethernet connection without running a long wire. I am using their fiber optic gigabit plan. The technician gave me an option before saying that he could install the router next to the wiring panel such that all the Ethernet ports in each room would be accessible, but I'm assuming the wifi would be terrible. The apartment building is fairly new, as in first resident in this apartment. I want to go with the option that the technician gave me, but want to have good wifi also for phones and non Ethernet devices. [link] [comments]  |
| Do I have everything I need to create my home network? Posted: 08 Dec 2019 05:11 PM PST To start, I've never done anything like this before and my experience has just been setting up a wifi router. I'm in the process of redoing my basement and I want to add network connections with possible expansion into the main floor later. Right now I have a modem/router combo from my ISP which is connected to the phone line. After some research I think I'll need the following parts:
This is my understanding of the connections I need to make. Wall plates -> patch panel -> switch -> router -> modem -> isp. Am I missing anything? Any equipment suggestions? [link] [comments]  |
| Looking for a good router (streaming, gaming, wifi security cameras) Posted: 08 Dec 2019 02:55 PM PST Hello :) I'm looking for a good router to support a good amount of streaming, gaming, smart home components and wifi cameras. I'm willing to spend around 200$ CAD for something that can last a long time. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 08 Dec 2019 02:40 PM PST Hello, I've had a number of issues after upgrading to a better internet package/Cable Modem. This has encouraged me to try and tighten my home network's security. I used the ArchWiki to set up my iptables (Simple Stateful Firewall) as well as logging. Over the course of a few days there have been well over 1000 entries of dropped IP addresses in my journal. I will be the first to admit I really don't know much about networking, so bear with me if you could: It seems that most of these are router advertisements, every 10 minutes or so, from This leads me to believe that I did not correctly set up iptables. But I am also to understand that the multicast address should be The rest seem to be HTTPS ( However there are a few interesting entries:
There's also these from me to google, though I do not think I have set iptables to drop output:
And finally I have some weird ones from a public school system in the US (I'm in Canada). These have happened 10 or so times while no applications are running:
I cannot explain these ones at all, really. Unless I broke iptables. They also appear to be router advertisements, which seems a little weird to me especially given their origin. As I said though, I really don't know what I'm talking about, so please correct me where I'm wrong. Here are my iptables:
There are some ip6tables reports, but not nearly as many. Can post those rules if necessary. There are frequent connection issues with all devices on the network, however this had started after the new CM, and before I set up iptables. I might also note that my CM firewall logs show thousands of forward and input drops daily. I am understanding that this could be normal, but the ISP seemed it was worth having the device replaced. In any case, this is definitely a new learning experience for me, I am very much a noob, so any help is welcomed and appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Router and Switch "storage"/ table setup ideas Posted: 08 Dec 2019 04:42 PM PST Not sure if this is an appropriate place to ask, but I figured for other network people I'd love to pick your brains. I have a standard router and switch that just sort of sit on my desk. I want to create some sort of setup/storage or side table for the router and the switch, to raise them off the floor and to integrate cable management into. I don't want to wall mount the devices, but does anyone have a good product or picture of their setup to give me some ideas?Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Looking for advice on what's needed for my house Posted: 08 Dec 2019 02:19 PM PST 1500 Sq foot, but with home layout I'm definitely going to need two APs. I have basically zero home networking experience above troubleshooting my router, but I would love to really dig into it. We also just got Food Gigabit, and I really want to use every ounce of juice available. My big issues is finding exactly what I need for a full setup. Ubiquity AP lite x2 Cloud key running controller 8 port gigabit Cat 6 cable POE injector for the AP lites Some router Is that literally everything I would need to get my house up a running? I would have the port and injector in the basement, with cat6 running up a floor to my office for hardline into the PC, another cat6 running to the first floor kitchen for an AP lite, then a third cat 6 running into the attic, and dropping down to the ceiling of the second floor for the second AP. Not sure where the cloud key goes but I'm guessing the basement on the switch, and then finally I'll throw a raspberry pi on the switch for a PiHole if I can figure out how to set it up. Any suggestions on what router to use? Lastly, is the Dream Machine as good as it looks, and I can literally Chuck all this and just get two of them? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 08 Dec 2019 12:36 PM PST Hi. I having trouble finding a decent answer to this question in plain English. I have U-verse with AT&T and I want to run signal through my cable to our living room and potentially basement. Is the setup this easy? MOCA Adapter to router via eithernet, attach adapter via coax to cable running to my whole house splitter. Attach second adapter to the cable wall outlet near where I want to have internet access, then that ethernet cable to the adapter and whatever I want to attach to the internet. Secondly, is it possible to add a third adapter in another location from a separate cable running from the splitter? The coax setup is left over from when I had U-verse TV and worked fine for that signal. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 08 Dec 2019 07:31 PM PST Would a Sonicwall TZ300 without all of the subscription services still serve as a decent home firewall? I've got one given to me by my employer with current firmware but they didn't renew any of the subscription services. It's biggest draw to me is that it's VPN throughput is supposedly 300Mbs. I have an Edgerouter Lite currently which works great as a basic firewall but not so well as a site-to-site VPN client. The TZ300 seems to match the basic firewall capabilities of the Edgerouter but also gives me the VPN throughput. Am I wrong? [link] [comments]  |
| Is there any issue with a powered switch in a media box ? Posted: 08 Dec 2019 07:27 PM PST I have a media box where the service comes in to the box. There are the cat 5 cables for all the rooms in the media box. My idea would be to put the modem on a bracket outside the media box and then run the cat5 cable out of the modem into the media box with a 5 port powered switch. Is there any issue doing this? Thanks [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 08 Dec 2019 01:29 PM PST Can those running the latest firmware please verify, if the following option is present in the firmware? LAN>Switch Control>Spanning-Tree Protocol (STP) [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 08 Dec 2019 06:50 PM PST My router is a home-built pfSense box. I have my chosen DNS (cloudfare) set in the router, and it seems to be working. In my computer's IPV4 properties, I set it up with my chosen private static IP, set the subnet mask, gateway etc. In the section where it says "Use the following DNS server addresses"... what do I put here? Do I put my server's IP address? I don't want to put the cloudflare DNS addresses because my router is supposed to take care of that, right? It seems that there are two places to put DNS settings. In the router, and in the computer's network adapter settings. [link] [comments]  |
| How to find the efficiency and overhead of a UPS Posted: 08 Dec 2019 07:29 AM PST Hi all – How can I find the efficiency and overhead of a UPS? I assume that UPSes consume some overhead. I'm interested in the "online" types especially, which use double conversion. When looking at the specs for this Tripp Lite UPS, for example, I don't see anything other than for its Economy Mode. Do UPSes not have something like the Bronze, Silver, Gold, etc. ratings that PC power supplies do? For overhead, I'm looking for simple watts consumed. Thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 08 Dec 2019 02:49 PM PST I have a Chromecast connected to the TV and for some reason the device I'm using to stream media to it needs to be connected to the same AiMesh device as it. I have one router and one node and their vicinity is such that the Chromecast and my phone keep switching back and forth between router and node, but in order to cover the whole house they're optimally spaced. Any ideas on how to keep the Chromecast and my phone connected to the same Asus device? Or is there a way to set up the Chromecast so that it doesn't matter if the data is going through multiple Asus devices? [link] [comments]  |
| Routing the Non-Routable Traffic Posted: 08 Dec 2019 12:35 PM PST One of the many joys of living out in the country far from civilization is the vast void of Internet options. I have a WISP (Wireless ISP) that actually does a good job providing my house with 20/10 (Mbps down/up) but due to their small size they do not have access public IPs for the customers; we are given RFC 1918 addresses in the 192.168.x.x range. Natively this limits my ability to host Emby, OctoPrint, Security Cameras, and various other hosted services at my house. I am using pfSense as a router. Should I not be able to configure an OpenVPN client in the pfsense router and have it connect to one of the myriad of commercial VPN services? Won't this give me a public IP and tunnel into my router where I can configure rules to pass the data accordingly locally? I have a dynamic DNS entry configured with my own domain so I can easily reach my network. Shouldn't a OpenVPN client connection at the router work? Is there another solution I'm overlooking, such as the old Hamachi networking stack? Thanks in advance for any advise. [link] [comments]  |
| Cat6a cable shielding for crowded apartments Posted: 08 Dec 2019 06:28 PM PST Hey everyone been having some issues with my internet lately. A few months ago my internet was perfect I'm currently on att fiber and my speed is 300mps and the past month gaming has been a nightmare along with talking with friends some of the worst internet I have ever played through. After fighting to get a technician out to fix the problem because customer service believes my internet is fixed after they do a "line reset" I am told that it really can't be fixed and the problem is that the area is to crowded mind you my ps4 is hardwired by a cat6 cable. Any way I seen that cat6a cables have shielding would it help prevent this so called unstoppable interference or am I screwed with this internet until either I move out or a few other people do? Also issue seems to only happen a night. Also let me know if you have any other recomendations or can help me diagnose this issue cant believe that this issue is unfixable knowing that my internet was perfect here only a month ago and my used to envy me for my internet and now they feel bad for me and have never seen such terrible internet lol we've been gaming together for almost 10 plus years on and off [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 08 Dec 2019 06:24 PM PST Can I ask a really newb question. Long story short, I need to improve WiFi in dead spots. Now I have two scenarios and have whittled my options down to 1. Ubiquiti unifi AP lite 2. TP link deco m5 mesh 3. Google WiFi or nest mesh Whatever I buy, I need it to work in both these scenarios because I will be moving soon. What I need now: I have a long house with the router at one end of the house and I have a baby WiFi camera at the opposite end where there is no WiFi. I need the camera and the viewing device to be on the same network to work so need to improve the WiFi. Future proof: If the above was all I needed, I'd probably go down the mesh router, however, I am moving soon and in my new home I have some hard wiring which is why the access point is on the list. In this home I need the same things, however, the difference is, I have Ethernet cabling between where the router will be located and the living room. I would assume the ubiquiti AP would be preffered however I'm not sure if any of these would create an issue. 1. In my current home, I have no hard-wiring so the AP would need to be linked via powerline. Is this possible? 2. The Ethernet in the new home is behind the tv unit, so the AP would be located here and not in the ceiling like a smoke detector. Would this hamper the signal? 3. I also have a WiFi security Camera outside in the new home, so not sure which is the best option to provide a good signal to this camera. I guess the mesh point could be placed really close to the camera, whereas the AP is limited by where the Ethernet is(behind the TV). If I went with the mesh, it would probably be the the TP link because of lower cost compared with the Google WiFi or nest. Would love some assistance [link] [comments]  |
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