Recent content by CrimpOn

Thanks for the information about cmdftp. Indeed, it is there in Voxel for Orbi /sbin. Appears to be enabled from the command line rather than started automatically at boot. Appreciate the help.

Thanks for the link to the sample config file. I had made a (much shorter) conf that contained only: ServerType standalone DefaultAddress eth0 Got no error message, but also could not connect to a server. No response. Just timed out after 20 seconds. Was concerned that I had missed the...

It appears that Proftpd is included in Voxel firmware, but I have not found where it is enabled. Had thought it would be in the init.d/rc.d files, but....?

Netgear says that Access Control is one of the features not present when the router is in Access Point (AP) mode. https://kb.netgear.com/000061277/Disabled-Features-on-the-Orbi-when-set-to-AP-Mode

It appears I know even less about VPN than I realized. One of the issues that came up the Netgear forum regarded someone who wanted to VPN from one Orbi LAN to another Orbi LAN. He ran into trouble because the LAN subnet IP was fixed on both systems. (I don't remember which model it was. My...

Thanks for taking the time to research this question. I agree. Once those changes are made to configuration files and ip6tables, OpenVPN should function with IPv6. I am also not in a position to validate this and my ISP (Spectrum) does not deliver this Dual Stack - Lite version of IPv6. My...

Saw a post on the Netgear forum from a user in Germany who does not have a public IPv4 address. His ISP uses Dual Stack - Lite, which results in customers being assigned private IPs so there is no IPv4 address that cannot be connected to remotely. He wants to set up a VPN host using the Orbi...

The key part of the Original Poster (OP) statement was "2 Wired RBS50". On this product, 1000Mbps/Full (gigabit) Ethernet backhaul is faster then WiFi backhaul, even when the WiFi backhaul is running "full speed". (There is so much overhead in WiFi. Radio time is shared by three access points...

Appreciate you taking the time to read through this. My opinion remains that he should focus on what is happening on the two PC's. I cannot imagine "heavy financial sites" requiring more bandwidth than 4K video streaming. Thank You.

Thanks for the response. The context of the question regards a concern over whether the ISP bandwidth is adequate for working from home. My contribution was a sense that no tool reporting "peak usage" would be useful because there are often apps that will suck up the maximum bandwidth...

Over in the Netgear Orbi forum a user asked about how to measure peak network load on the Orbi, something which I believe other router manufacturers may provide but which the stock Netgear firmware definitely does not. Total usage, as in Netgear's Traffic Meter feature, is not the goal. Is...

One of the functions not provided with Netgear's orbi firmware is any kind of usage reporting by device. OpenWRT itself appears to have several tools that can be used: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/network_monitoring/bwmon There have been numerous posts on the Netgear Orbi...

Orbi's hardware is not powerful enough to support VPN Client mode with the compiler options that Netgear used. With Voxel's version, it is capable of aggregating all devices into a single VPN tunnel (Client mode) provided that the load is not too great. Wireguard is less resource intensive and...

There are several uses for the USB drive. The main one is to preserve changes users have made to the Orbi over reboots. When the Orbi reboots, EVERYTHING in memory gets wiped out. Voxel's firmware reloads things from the USB stick after bootup. There are users who want to define custom...

Yes, this is definitely a problem. The instructions are very clear (In README1st): Manually download firmware v2.5.2.4 from Netgear, unzip, and Manually load the img file on router and satellites. Orbi will complain, "this is older". Just ignore it. Not loading v2.5.2.4 will doom the Voxel...