Recent content by diehardbattery

We will be moving into a new (to us) home in a couple months. The house is 3800sq ft, is 10 yrs old and has had some work done already. There is an outdoor security camera system (Swann I think, with NVR) installed with PoE which is staying. The "media room" also has 1 ethernet jack installed...

When I first got this combo 5 months ago, everything seemed to be working fine. I had white lights on the XD4, indicating good signal. Something must have changed but I don't know what. I placed the nodes properly, but for a while now, all the nodes lights show yellow indicating weak signal...

I'm relatively new to how a VPN works in terms of performance. Your speeds on your routers seem like a huge waste? Is that because most home setups aren't adequately equipped to handle it? This is why I am thinking of going the pfSense route. It also does not look like the EA9500 will...

My research showed that NordVPN is one of the best. There are servers that are only a couple hundred miles away (in the US) and they seem to have worked work well thus far. But I've been experiencing that when a server is about beyond 85% load, it will slow down. Connecting to a server with a...

Okay.. so what am I looking at for a setup? I currently have a Lenovo Ideacentre K410 that I could possibly repurpose... it's my current desktop, but if building a pfsense box is cheaper I might lean towards that. Also, how would the EA9500 be used? To put it in AP only mode seems a bit...

So in light of the stuff going on in the US, I decided that now is the time to get a VPN service. I've settled on Nord VPN. The problem though is that it has a 6 device connection limit. Also the software doesn't seem to automatically start when booting (be it Windows, Android, or iOS). At any...