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- Basic home network design question: VLAN, IOT, Security System
- Switching from Wireless to Wired connections
- Looking for new futureproof router
- Need answers or help with wifi speed
- I've created a problem of my own doing (Parental Controls advice)
- TP-Link RE650 repeater only accepts 5G Wi-Fi on the highest wireless channel
- I'm looking to upgrade my old router (TP-Link Archer C2 AC750) with one from Asus. I found one and I'm looking here for advice wether this is a good one for it's price, link below. What place to ask this better than here? Thank you.
- Cheapo New Parent/WFH Upgrade?
- RJ45 cut
- Ubiquiti or PFSense/Opensense
- In moca they talk about shared bandwidth, what’s that mean?
- Is my network bad?
- Help planning network topology
- Can I trust GL.iNet?
- Need help on wifi issue
- How can I access my router from far away?
- Wireless Bridge Advice (wish to move NAS and Raspberry Pis to basement)
- Mesh vs Extender for remote building on property
- Wifi range issues - help
- Help on IPv6 offload of wired home router
- Spectrum Upstream Channels
- No VLAN settings on EAP1300
- Cat6 Repeat Failure
- Considering changing my DNS Nameserver
- Help interpreting my PingPlotter results
| Basic home network design question: VLAN, IOT, Security System Posted: 28 Feb 2021 02:43 PM PST Hi all - this is a pretty basic question, but despite doing a lot of reading and video watching, I feel like i'm missing some critical piece of information to move forward. TLDR: At a minimum, need to separate IOT and trusted network, and figure out where to put security system devices. Can I do this with my current configuration (ActionTec 3000A router and Netgear GS324TP switch?) More information: Current Hardware
Device/categories:
I basically know that VLANs will need to be involved, but not sure how to best structure the networks and how best to assign which device (or set of devices) to which VLAN. As well, it's not clear to me if this can be done with my current hardware, if the current router could be bypassed entirely by the switch and SFP fiber connection, or if I need a VLAN-capable router. As far as I understand it the Actiontec router is not VLAN capable (it can crete subnets, but not VLANS)
(I'm happy to upload a proposed network diagram, but I'm getting the error that I cannot upload images to this subreddit?) I appreciate all feedback and suggestions. Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| Switching from Wireless to Wired connections Posted: 28 Feb 2021 08:18 AM PST Hi everyone! My first time posting here. I need some advice on whether how likely my planned setup would work. Here's what I have and planned. Some background: My current setup is 100% wireless. I recently moved to a new home which has existing wiring from the fiber network point to 3 rooms. We can call these wirings as eth1, eth2 and eth3. I had my service provider put the Wifi router in the living room which uses eth1. Everything connects wirelessly on this router.With this Wifi router, I get about 300-500Mbps. I tried using the LAN port on the router and I get around 900Mbps+. So, I wanted to maximize this speeds by going wired for the non-mobile devices. I did some basic research and I came on what I think I needed (a wired router and 2 switches) to set it up.
But I've never setup a wired-network before and I have only mostly tinkered on the Wifi-router's configuration. I have a few questions before I start spending money on this?
Thanks in advance. [link] [comments]  |
| Looking for new futureproof router Posted: 28 Feb 2021 01:36 PM PST I am on the marked for at new router or network setup, since the router provided by my isp is terrible. I live in a 93 square meter (1000 square feet I think) concrete apartment) so it is not the biggest area. The budget is around 550 euro or 650 dollars. I have a fiber connection 1000/500 plan. I would really like a WiFi 6 router since all of our phones has it, also 2 of our laptops has it, even tho they are mostly cable connected. We are 3 people and has a lot of smart home devices. Is there any routers that you guys can vouch for? English isn't my strongest language so I'm sorry if there is any misspellings. Hope you have some good advices :) [link] [comments]  |
| Need answers or help with wifi speed Posted: 28 Feb 2021 06:06 PM PST okay so for the past couple of months i've been trying to to fix my wifi speeds am paying for 150 download and 10 upload am using a Cox modem that am renting from them and i have a ASUS WiFi 6 Router (RT-AX3000) am not getting the speeds am paying for the modem is only like 1 month old and the router is brand new idk what else to do to fix my speeds any help or advice would be appreciated Edit: i kinda word it wrong my router is plugged into a gateway not a modem [link] [comments]  |
| I've created a problem of my own doing (Parental Controls advice) Posted: 28 Feb 2021 04:12 PM PST I'm an IT worker, and I've been fairly open with the kids just using technology. The kids do eLearning at moment, and I've kept things pretty loose. My oldest daughter has decided to sand bag it for the whole week and effectively didn't complete 20 assignments for school. A number of these things would likely be super easy to do, but she's letting games and shit get in the way. So, I have Windows 10 on all the machines, and I'm leveraging Microsoft Family Account parental control settings. I can fix the TV issues by pulling power cords. I can fix the Xbox issues by controlling it with Microsoft Family Account Screen Time settings. The issue I'm running into is that I don't know how to lock down the PC properly. I can't completely block access to the PC because they need access to the computer. I can lock down specific games, but then I run into an issue of them just changing from one game to the next. Is there a way to lock down the Windows 10 PC to only allow Edge to work? [link] [comments]  |
| TP-Link RE650 repeater only accepts 5G Wi-Fi on the highest wireless channel Posted: 28 Feb 2021 05:02 PM PST The optimal 5G Wi-Fi, while avoiding congestion with neighbors, is as follows:
However, the only 5G Wi-Fi configuration that the TP-Link RE650 repeater appears to cooperate with is as follows:
Does anyone have any ideas or advice? [link] [comments]  |
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| Cheapo New Parent/WFH Upgrade? Posted: 28 Feb 2021 04:20 PM PST I tried looking for something on my level but couldn't find any...forgive my ignorance. I was told to "buy my own gear" to save money, but I need to upgrade now. The problem is we're new parents to twin boys and I have to try and not break the bank while still making it so we can both work from home...info below. In 2016 I bought a Netgear N300 Wi-Fi DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem Router for a whopping $90. This is what we're still currently using and it's garbage. Our house is 1350 Sq Ft (although we're hoping to move to something closer to 2000 sq ft). Her work setup is right by the modem router and she uses an Ethernet. My "office" is upstairs and I have to use a TP-Link N300 extender to get a signal that won't effing drop. Even then, when our phones are connected wirelessly and her computer through Ethernet, I'm lucky to get 15 MBS download upstairs. It's closer to 10-12. We have Xfinity Performance Internet (speeds up to 100 MPS). I've never seen any device cross 25, and I think it's because of the equipment? Hence needing an upgrade. Finally, a list of all our devices. These are never all used at once, 4-5 at the same time. PS4 through Ethernet Dell PC through Ethernet The rest are Wireless Xfinity Flex Streaming Device Nintendo Switch 2 iPhone XR's iMac MacBook Pro MacBook Air We don't currently have cable but my wife wants it again, if we ever find a good deal. Obviously I'd like to avoid using Xfinity gear - we usually do the provider shuffle every 1-2 years. But as I type this, we're only using my phone and the Flex for WiFi and the Flex needs to buffer ever 2-3 minutes. It's infuriating. So, any suggestions? Is there an affordable new/future proof combo? Should I be looking for one of each? I'm pretty tech fluent so I can do some setting up as needed. Thanks in advance for your help and advice. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Feb 2021 01:54 PM PST Hi All, Was recently creating some RJ45 wall ports and noticed a small mark on the solid orange wire (https://imgur.com/gallery/81NNUqK) looks just to be a cut to the wire casing doesn't seem to have cut through the wire The mark was done by the punch down tool when cutting the other end off Port is working fine but will the small cut affect performance or get worse over time? Thanks all [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Feb 2021 06:52 PM PST Evening All! I know this has been asked a million times, but my question is a bit different and would appreciate opinions. For the life of me I cannot get my Ubiquiti gear running at full speed consistently. Normal speeds are 500Mbps hardwired and 190Mbps WiFi 10 feet from the AP. I've tested and swapped cables many times. Setup: Modem - Motorola MB8600 (1 gig in) ERX-SFP ES-8 150w (connected to ERX via fiber) Nano HD IW HD ES 24 lite (in the office feeding the homelab) I've hit my limit tinkering, HWNAT, IPSEC, QOS off, DPI off etc etc. Direct from the modem I can hit 900 meg, drop in the ERX and I top out at 500. So, two questions - Any speed tricks besides those normally suggested? Beyond that, could I get better speed out of a PFSense/OpenSense box? Related but different question: My house is wired with Cat5e terminating in a structured wiring box on the opposite side of the house from my office/homelab where PFSense would run. The office (and every room) has two LAN drops. Can I take a line direct from the modem, hit the patch panel, feed it to "Office1" and PFSense, back to the structured wiring box via "Office 2", then out to the rest of the house via the ES 8? I cant fit anything bigger than an ERX in the network box, and I don't want to spend another 2 bills on a netgate box especially when I already have hardware that can run PFSense. Seems like this should work fine, just curious if I'm missing something here. I'm paying for and my house is getting 1 gig, I want my speed Ubiquiti!! Thanks Home Networking [link] [comments]  |
| In moca they talk about shared bandwidth, what’s that mean? Posted: 28 Feb 2021 11:17 AM PST I pay for 1gbs. Let's say I connect moca to an AP. that ap is connected to 10 WiFi (iPads) each iPad can only do 100 mbps [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Feb 2021 02:35 PM PST I moved recently and I feel like a lot of the games I'm playing are having network problems. I know there is something wrong but I don't really know enough about networking to figure it out. The traceroute looks okay (I think) but I was wondering if anyone could look at it and tell me if anything looks weird. I also tried using Haste which seemed to make it slightly better. Haste often tells me I was getting 1% - 10% packet loss after I exit the game. ISP: Spectrum ~230 down / ~7.5 up Traceroute: https://imgur.com/a/s6sOqKm Router: R6900v2 Modem: Spectrum PC20 [link] [comments]  |
| Help planning network topology Posted: 28 Feb 2021 04:07 PM PST Ok, so just moving home and new place has cat5e throughout terminating in a central location with patch panel. (no plans to upgrade this). Previously I have had a standard flat network, but have now accrued a large number of iot devices and want to create a more secure network. I plan to use the ISP supplied modem, and will likely get the Unifi UDM as I am keen on the reporting aspect and already have a Unifi AP-AC-Pro, which I will continue to use. I'm thinking of creating 5 vlans along the lines of the below to isolate various devices along the lines of the below: VLAN Description IP Range 10 home 10.0.10.0/24 20 iot 10.0.20.0/24 30 dmz 10.0.30.0/24 40 guest 10.0.40.0/24 50 admin 10.0.50.0/24 This is my proposed design. I'm not a network engineer, so need some help \ guidance around this proposed design. Any comments / feedback appreciated. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Feb 2021 11:29 AM PST I've heard of them before, but I don't know the full picture. I am looking at their brume device which uses openwrt, but I don't know how they altered it to work with their products. Not sure if you can just grab an image from openwrt and flash it yourself. Their support site only provides their own images. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Feb 2021 05:25 PM PST Hi All, New here. So I have an office/gaming space in my basement that I use that has been receiving poor wifi connection. My wife and I work from home and she and I are in calls constantly and both use our fair share of bandwidth. Her office is upstairs, closer to the router, and she has no connection issues once so ever. My desktop, on the other hand, seems to have it's fair share of issues. I constantly have outages from my router. My wifi card seems fine, but my speed tests show that I am only receiving one fifth of our internet. By that I mean that we pay for 150Mb down and 20up. Her download speed upstairs is about 70Mb and her upload is around 6Mb. In the basement my download is about 20Mb and my upload is barely 1Mb. We just recently replaced our router with a Netgear AC1200 because I thought it may have been a router issue. Now I'm pretty sure it's just the boundaries that are in place, the floor, that are preventing me from actually achieving a decent connection. So I am looking for what might be the best solutions possible for me. I would love to just drill into my floor and run a hardliners, but we live in an apartment, so I am unable to do so. Some options I've seen are 1: Second wireless router used as an extender 2: Just buy and extender 3 :Buy a repeater If anyone has any tips on this I'd love to know. Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| How can I access my router from far away? Posted: 28 Feb 2021 05:13 PM PST I have a big property with a house and a barn about 400 feet apart. I got two seperate internet plans (identical plans but made seperate accounts) from AT&T, (very slow 5mbps, only option available) so one router at the barn and one in the house. I have to have signal at the barn since a few customers need it (they barely use it and never download anything), but can I somehow let the people in my house use the barn wifi? The purpose of this is so I can have one router to myself since I use a lot of net, and everyone else in my house would be fine sharing bandwith with the barn. Currently, the AT&T box on the side of my house runs one cord into my house router, and the other ethernet is ran through an underground conduict made for cables, all the way to my barn. So could I purchase another router to split one of the palns in two, so it can be accessed through the barn and the house? If so, is there any special equipment needed, or just buy a router, two way splitter, and run another cable from either the box or the barn router back to my house? Thanks and please let me know how you would go about this [link] [comments]  |
| Wireless Bridge Advice (wish to move NAS and Raspberry Pis to basement) Posted: 28 Feb 2021 10:12 AM PST Hello. I am looking for a device, or pair of devices, that I can use to move my NAS and two other hardlined devices to a different room away from my wireless router (currently they are plugged into the ethernet ports of my wireless router). I think that, therefore, I am looking for a bridge then with either many ports or a bridge + unmanaged switch - something like a Netgear ex2700 and Netgear gs308. The thing is, I do not wish to have an extended WiFi network (netgear ex2700 is a wifi extender not truly a bridge). I haven't been able to find a multi-port bridge - maybe I don't know what keywords to use in my searching? All advice welcome. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Mesh vs Extender for remote building on property Posted: 28 Feb 2021 12:01 PM PST Context: the house where the ethernet port is is 125' away from a separate building (shop/garage) that needs connectivity (TV, Laptop, general wifi). I have not had much success with extenders, so looking for bundled systems that work well. Choices: 1) Mesh 2) Mesh + Beacon (thinking eero 6 + beacon) 3) Dig a trench, pvc pipe with ethernet + wifi point Would love to hear some ideas here and if #2 is the best (current front runner) Thanks in advance! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Feb 2021 01:00 PM PST Hi, I have a bit of a problem with my internet. My router is pretty good, and in close proximity I get a good connection, however, in some of my rooms (most importantly the one where my pc is) the speeds are not so good. On the 2.4Ghz band I get around 5-20Mbps and on my 5Ghz around 80-120Mbps. 120 would be good if it was reliable. Because it goes through two walls the connection drops out kind of frequently. I wanted to run an ethernet cable, however, that is not possible because of the room layout. Now for the question, what would you recommend buying? A powerline adapter, a wifi range extender, an external usb wifi adapter, or something completely different? I am looking for the option that provides the best speed with the lowest ping of course. PS. if you have time for it, you can write a recommendation for an exact product [link] [comments]  |
| Help on IPv6 offload of wired home router Posted: 28 Feb 2021 04:43 PM PST Hello, I'm planning buying a wired home router (Mikrotik or Ubiquitito). Since I want to setup IPv6 firewall for Pi-hole and security, It seems like Mikrotik doesn't support IPv6 offload so its performance may be degraded: https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=159400 https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=138946 Then I find Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X, it has IPv6 offload, but there is still a post complaining its IPv6 performance. I'd like to know if anyone has troubles on EdgeRouter X IPv6, or it runs smoothly? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Feb 2021 08:13 PM PST Hi all! Networking noob here and just swapped out my Spectrum modem for the SB6183. Internet seems to be working fine, but I noticed on the modem page that there are only 2 upstream channels being used. My current plan is 200 Down / 10 Up. Does this seem normal to only have 2 bonded channels for 10 mbps upload? I was under the impression that I would be able to get 4 channels for upload since all 16 for downstream are filled. (Screenshot below!) Thanks in advance! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Feb 2021 07:39 PM PST Hello, Does anyone know why I do not have settings for VLAN on the engenius EAP1300? This is a standalone unit. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Feb 2021 07:11 PM PST I have a cat6 eithernet cable that goes from my modem, through my roof and terminates at a wall plate. From the wall plate an ethernet cable goes to a 6 switch which goes to my devices in my office. I went to start work today and the internet wasn't working and there was a flashing orange light on my modem. After trouble shooting all points I figured out that the 20m cat6 cable was faulty so I replaced it. I terminated the new cable at the wall plate and plugged in my laptop - it worked. I then plugged in the switch and all networking lights came back on and there was internet again. In the space it took to screw the wall plates back in (5-10 minutes) it had stopped working again, the switch wont connect and either will my laptop when it is connected directly to the wall plate and the blinking orange light is back on the modem. Specs Modem; Netgear Nighthawk D7000v2 Switch; Netgear FS108 4/6 ports used Cabling; 10m from the modem to a connector, 20m from the connector to the wall plate, 3m from the wall plate to the switch. FWIW; this setup has been working well for over 6 months. I just cant seem to diagnose the issue [link] [comments]  |
| Considering changing my DNS Nameserver Posted: 28 Feb 2021 12:56 PM PST My ISP is Comcast and I've experienced regular and intermittent internet outages over the past 6 months that cannot be remedied by Comcast tech support nor by swapping out their Xfinity Arris branded modems. As a result, I'm considering changing DNS servers away from Comcast to see if that won't resolve the problems. I cannot change the DNS on the existing modem as the DNS is hard-coded on the modem so, in order to do this, I would change the existing Xfinity modem to Bridge Mode and then add my own Xfinity compatible router on top of that so that I could change the DNS on my router. Is it really as simple as this? What am I missing or not considering? [link] [comments]  |
| Help interpreting my PingPlotter results Posted: 28 Feb 2021 03:07 PM PST Basically I have been experiencing slow internet and am trying to diagnose where the problem might be. This is me pinging google dot com. Any thoughts? [link] [comments]  |
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