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Routers & Other Networking Stuff
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Couple of concrete walls, but nothing major. Internet comes into the basement.
Today was the first day of distance learning, and the wife HAD it once all 3 kids couldn't video-chat at the same time. I like my school district, but the idea that every class of every grade needs to video chat at the same time in the morning was not run past any type of technology person...
So we went from 150mb service to 1000mb and now I have an amplifi setup being delivered tomorrow.
This I'm ok with.
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I hope so, though I'm really doubting I'll be stressing the line to that much of a degree that I'll notice a diff between 300Mbps vs 1000Mbps
kegkilla
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Ameraves
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Figured I would try posting this here.
With all the home schooling shit going on, we've recently run into an issue with our 3 kids screwing around during school time. They all have school issued Chrome books which have some restrictions placed on them by the school, but not nearly enough to keep them from getting distracted, mostly with Youtube.
What I would like to do, if possible, is just completely block Youtube from their Chrome books. I have an Orbi at home, and was wondering if there was a way to restrict specific devices from accessing certain websites. I know I can just block Youtbue across the board in the house, but I watch videos throughout the day and would prefer to just block it on those devices if possible.
So before I went in there and started fucking around with any settings, I wanted to see if anyone here had done anything like that, or would know of an easy way to do it through the Orbi itself.
With all the home schooling shit going on, we've recently run into an issue with our 3 kids screwing around during school time. They all have school issued Chrome books which have some restrictions placed on them by the school, but not nearly enough to keep them from getting distracted, mostly with Youtube.
What I would like to do, if possible, is just completely block Youtube from their Chrome books. I have an Orbi at home, and was wondering if there was a way to restrict specific devices from accessing certain websites. I know I can just block Youtbue across the board in the house, but I watch videos throughout the day and would prefer to just block it on those devices if possible.
So before I went in there and started fucking around with any settings, I wanted to see if anyone here had done anything like that, or would know of an easy way to do it through the Orbi itself.
Crone
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I have this same exact fucking problem. My 5yo spent 30 minutes watching someone else open Pokemon TCG booster packs instead of his art class.
The Amplifi doesn't make it easy (or even possible?)... and honestly given some of their classes use youtube I can't figure out a way to block some of the content but not others.
I would guess you make a device group of some sort, and you should be able to block YouTube from those devices. I could do it on the velop but not so much on the Amplifi.
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Saw a Reddit post saying you block the site, then whitelist IPs that are allowed to bypass the block.
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Burns
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Making firewall rules sounds fairly easy if you just want to block a handful of sites, and doesn't take all that long to learn.
If you want a more robust system, with updated (usualy) blocklists for a slew of sites that should be off limit for kids, you could look into DNS sinkholes like Pi-Hole. It is cheap, and been around for ~15 years, but that also means there could be an easier alternative. People still seem to keep the lists updated though.
It also requires attention, as "innocent" sites will get caught in the middle, and need to be whitelisted. You will need to tell your children that if something the teacher sent out, isn't loading, to check with you. It comes with a web interface where you can see what has been blocked in the last 30 min (among other things).
Nothing is perfect, but at the very least, it adds another layer of parental protection.
If you want a more robust system, with updated (usualy) blocklists for a slew of sites that should be off limit for kids, you could look into DNS sinkholes like Pi-Hole. It is cheap, and been around for ~15 years, but that also means there could be an easier alternative. People still seem to keep the lists updated though.
It also requires attention, as "innocent" sites will get caught in the middle, and need to be whitelisted. You will need to tell your children that if something the teacher sent out, isn't loading, to check with you. It comes with a web interface where you can see what has been blocked in the last 30 min (among other things).
Nothing is perfect, but at the very least, it adds another layer of parental protection.
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Difference was negligible performance wise, cat5e was cheaper and was able to source some high quality cat5e in stock.
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Denamian
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So due to having extra stuff at home in order to be able to work from home (despite not being allowed to work from home for 90% of my shifts), I need to get a switch to add more ports for my router. I don't need anything fancy and would like to keep it fairly cheap, but I'd like to avoid getting something that's garbage.
Any suggestions or would any unmanaged switch from the usual brands with 5-10 ports likely get the job done?
Any suggestions or would any unmanaged switch from the usual brands with 5-10 ports likely get the job done?
jooka
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Looking for a router I could use as a bridge but has to have a usb port since unifi doesn't do that. Any suggestions? Or a different solution to getting a external 8tb drive plugged in and working
Maybe this?:
www.netgear.com
Maybe this?:
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i use the trendnet greennet switches cuz i guess they only power on when a signal is sent. i have two swtiches a 8port and a 24port, i have the 8port plugged into the basement and i had it on a kilowwat for a week and didn't turn on the htpc down there 0watts used, if that matters.
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Well, the Amplifi HD is fucking up... it won't daisy-chain properly anymore, not mater what order I reboot shit. So I had to change the frequency for the far-node to 2.4GHz :|
Bunch of support posts about them fixing it eventually, but it's dumb that they use some algorithim to try and get the "best speeds" but it makes the far node unusable in my house.
Bunch of support posts about them fixing it eventually, but it's dumb that they use some algorithim to try and get the "best speeds" but it makes the far node unusable in my house.