Routers & Other Networking Stuff
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Ronaan
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Networking stuff.
Has anyone ever used one of these:
patchbox.com
Looks neat enough but I guess I could achieve the same with short cable and putting the switch between the patch panels. My company is completely redoing one building and I might just go ahead and want a bunch (5) of these... What am I missing?
Has anyone ever used one of these:
PATCHBOX: Simplify your IT with retractable Patch Cables
Up to 8x faster - reducing downtimes to a minimum, saving a lot of money for companies and making staff as well as customers happier.
patchbox.com
loudgas
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I recently threw together an ubuntu vm running pihole, seems to do alright for blocking adds, not sure yet if it offers any other features but if interested...
pi-hole.net
Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking
pi-hole.net
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Denaut
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If it is just for data, few users, and no streaming any media (no transcoding) then you could go with a Synology DS218j. Other people probably know more than me, but the Synology stuff generally comes well recommended. However, that is a 2018 model (the -18- part of the model #) so they will likely come out with a refresh soon so you may want to wait.
Crone
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Have to get under my house in the crawl space this weekend to check on some sub-flooring in my kitchen, so figured at the same time why not run a 100ft network cable to give the wife and I wired internet at the same time. Excite!!
Although I do admit that nearly direct line of sight 5ghz wireless has been fantastic and extremely stable, and it maxes out my connection speeds without issues. Hence why I haven't bothered to get dirty underneath my house before this, but now that I have a second reason to do so, I'll kill 2 birds...
Although I do admit that nearly direct line of sight 5ghz wireless has been fantastic and extremely stable, and it maxes out my connection speeds without issues. Hence why I haven't bothered to get dirty underneath my house before this, but now that I have a second reason to do so, I'll kill 2 birds...
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Lanx
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are you the type that watches lots of stuff in the kitchen?, i mean don't get me wrong, everyroom in my house is wired. also don't forget about insulation as a hinderance
Lanx
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is this possible?
i already have a smart garage opener, i wanted to play with a chamberlain too, to connect it, it connects itself to your phone via wifi (you install the app on phone and app makes your phone into a base station, just to talk to the device), well it didn't pair, like one of the only things that never worked.
then i noticed my phone was downloading a podcast slow and it was cuz it defaulted to 2g, for whatever reason i couldn't connect to 5g, in fact all my devices were knocked off 5g. it took a hardware reset to make my 5g network, connectable.
so, could this app have crippled my 5g network?
i already have a smart garage opener, i wanted to play with a chamberlain too, to connect it, it connects itself to your phone via wifi (you install the app on phone and app makes your phone into a base station, just to talk to the device), well it didn't pair, like one of the only things that never worked.
then i noticed my phone was downloading a podcast slow and it was cuz it defaulted to 2g, for whatever reason i couldn't connect to 5g, in fact all my devices were knocked off 5g. it took a hardware reset to make my 5g network, connectable.
so, could this app have crippled my 5g network?
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LiquidDeath
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Anyone have personal experience with TP-Link Deco M9 Plus mesh? I currently have two old AC68Us doing the ASUS mesh thing for full coverage of my house, and it doesn't seem to be working very well.
darkmiasma
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My coworker got that for his parents. Said it worked great for them and they don’t have any issue with dropout or speed.
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Should I run a single Ethernet cable to attic and leave a Gigabit switch in there to cable all upstairs rooms? Or should I run cables from patch panel to every room?
Patch panel is in basement.
For getting from the attic to the wall port location, should I buy this? Or would a fish tape be good enough?
Patch panel is in basement.
For getting from the attic to the wall port location, should I buy this? Or would a fish tape be good enough?
Nidhogg
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Parents in law want a hotel ready travel router. RAVPower FileHub AC750 seem like a good pick? Has a bunch of fancy dick stuff while still giving them the portable wifi access from a hotel ethernet or wifi.
Piggyback question, are there *any* portable travel routers that can easily bypass/autoauth against a captive portal or do they all need a smartphone/browser access before they will work?
Piggyback question, are there *any* portable travel routers that can easily bypass/autoauth against a captive portal or do they all need a smartphone/browser access before they will work?
Crone
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Side question if I may... what's the point of the travel router?
I travel every single week, and bring of course plenty of my own electronics, including a gaming laptop, and never once did I feel like I needed to get a separate router to use while in the hotel?
Kiki
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It's probably never a bad idea to put a NAT firewall between you and the rest of the hotels network in case they don't do things like microsegmentation. I could see a few other reasons for it, crappy hotel wifi (but good wired), no device setup even with multiple devices, vpn, etc. I don't do it either.
Crone
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You guys usually mess with media prioritization on your home routers much? Never really had that demanding of a network, and I don't do VOIP, so QoS seemed a little silly. But I was just downloading the new'ish Doom on Steam, and it cranked up to 20.4 MB/s down, but the kids started watching Ducktales on Disney+, on the living room TV which is wired (versus my Wireless 5ghz), and now I'm at like KB/s. Lol