Menu
What's new
By:
Filters Better Search

Recent content by abailey

  • SNBForums Code of Conduct

    SNBForums is a community for everyone, no matter what their level of experience.

    Please be tolerant and patient of others, especially newcomers. We are all here to share and learn!

    The rules are simple: Be patient, be nice, be helpful or be gone!

  1. abailey

    How bad is it to daisy chain multiple switches on a home network?

    It is not a real problem for home use unless you are exceeding the bandwidth between the switches, as you are aggregating switches onto one uplink. If your not exceeding the bandwidth of the ports between switches the only other thing that can be a problem is an outage, as there are more...
  2. abailey

    MOCA, DOCSIS, and OTA on shared COAX

    Ok I use MOCA extensively in my house but I do not have to share coax between technologies. But now I am helping a friend set up a MOCA in an older house he just purchased. In this house he will have to share the COAX. I read that MOCA2.0 and higher can share COAX with DOCSIS 3.0 and 3.1. I...
  3. abailey

    Parts for a NAS build

    I run Freenas at my home. In fact I use it to host my VMWare datastore (as well as share files). Freenas is great but it is not nearly as easy as people think to set up correctly. Sure it is easy to get working but if you don't know what your doing and don't put in the time to learn Freenas...
  4. abailey

    Raid 5 question

    If you are going to purchase a new NAS or rebuild your current one I would certainly not go with RAID 5. In fact I abandoned RAID 5 about 10 years ago as it becomes more and more dangerous to use for fault protection as hard drives get larger in capacity. You can Google Raid 5 and see many...
  5. abailey

    Modem issue or ISP issue or cable issue?

    Not sure what your problem is but with a quick glance those numbers look ok to me. See here: https://arris.secure.force.com/consumers/articles/General_FAQs/SB6183-Cable-Signal-Levels
  6. abailey

    In Steve Gibson 3 router architecture, how do I allow the office access to the IoT

    I agree with Coxhaus. One Edgerouter-x could do it all. In fact if done with one Edgerouter you would not even have to add routes, it would do it for you when you set up the interfaces. Having three routers is unnecessarily complicated (unless this is a home lab for learning). Anyway I'm...
  7. abailey

    Home Firewall: pfSense On Untangle Hardware? (u150)

    The Untangle u150 should run your PFSense fine. Not sure how fast it can run VPN's though, if your looking for that. I run Untangle at home. Why not use the U150 to run Untangle? The home version is $50 a year but you can also run the free version if you want.
  8. abailey

    Unsure best direction for better logging and securing IoT devices

    I use Untangle in my home and it can certainly do what you want, including the reporting. To separate your IOT devices you will need to use VLANs (or totally separate LANs). For VLANs you will need some managed switches and some AP's that can handle VLANs (if you want the AP's to provide...
  9. abailey

    [RESOLVED] Need basic port based vlan help

    Ok I'll give it a shot. First a few thoughts: Your setup is not ideal and is lacking in security because it appears you will be using the same subnet for all VLANs. Also I believe your router is not VLAN aware thus you will be mixing traffic from all VLAN's when you exit the Main switch...
  10. abailey

    [RESOLVED] Need basic port based vlan help

    How do you have the switches physically connected? Also, just to make sure, you are using 802.1q VLAN tagging and not port based tagging, right? They are two different things.
  11. abailey

    In Steve Gibson 3 router architecture, how do I allow the office access to the IoT

    Generally you only do NAT masquerade on your internet facing firewall and not your internal routers. I would turn off the NAT on both internal routers and use rules and ACL's to control what has access to what in your network (in conjunction with VLAN's and subnets).
  12. abailey

    Affordable 4 or 5-port 2.5 gbe switches?

    Your price point is going to be very tough to get to right now. I think we will see some in that price range in another 18 months or so. Maybe there is something out there I don't know about. The lowest I know of is kind of a hybrid. The Netgear MS510TX. It has (4) 1 Gig RJ-45 ports, (2)...
  13. abailey

    How sensitive is MoCA to cable run length, couplers, and splitters?

    I use MOCA extensively in my house. I have found it to be very durable and reliable. Most of my cables are old RG59. My max cable length is probably 120 feet or so. I see no difference (in speed) between that and shorter cable lengths. Most of my cables use straight barrel connections, but...
  14. abailey

    Suggestions for how to add more wiring in garage

    Moca 2.5 can do over 2 Gigabit (it can match a full duplex Gigabit connection). MOCA 2.0 (bonded) can do 1 Gigabit total.
  15. abailey

    Suggestions for how to add more wiring in garage

    You could do this with VLANs. It would require a layer 2 switch at each end. It would also share the total bandwidth. I use MOCA extensively in my house and am very happy with it. I have never had stability or speed issues (like you often find with powerline adapters). This is especially...
See more
Top