Recent content by abailey

Usually your Native VLAN is only associated with trunk ports and your Untagged VLAN (or PVID) is only associated with access ports. I noticed your switch looks like it removed the Native VLAN setting from your access ports, as that makes sense. It did not remove the Untagged VLAN from the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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).

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)...

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...

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.