Recent content by flyboynm

Yeah, I got it backwards. Sorry.

I doubt you will find any actually made in the US - most are offshored because labor is so much cheaper. Heck, Seagate designs their hard drive production lines in Longmont, CO, and as soon as they have fixed any possible problems, takes it down and ships it overseas to be put back together and...

Some routers allow you to tether your cell phone to them directly - Asus and Synology are 2 that I know of that have that capability. They DO have requirements on the age of the cell phone though. I would go to their websites and look up cell phone tethering to their routers. I used my...

A client of mine referred another customer to me and I am looking for some guidance on what to do. Client has a large property (1 acre) in size. It has approximately 6 buildings on it. The current infrastructure is a wired-backbone of Synology routers in a mesh. This covers the insides of...

Besides Asus and Synology, can you name any other mesh routers that support dual WAN?

About 5 years ago, I deployed a Netgear Orbi mesh to my house. It wasn't the greatest solution but it worked for my needs. I have thick concrete walls and have a larger property. To give you an idea, it would drop from 300 mbps download speed to 100 mbps once I left my room where the main...

Mexico - Fiber to the premises. 1000/300 for about $80 a month.

Have any of you tried to implement the Dual WAN feature of the routers for failover or load balancing? Are you able to connect the ISP on different endpoints or does it have to be on a single endpoint? I asked Asus and they said that they cannot find it anywhere in the literature if it can be...

I need to build up a wireless network for a very large home - 16k sq ft if not a bit more. I know I can use Asus routers and AiMesh to cover the entire property like the owner wants, TP-Link and just put the endpoints everywhere, and so many others. The property is single story, with...

Thinking of you and your family. Would love to get an update on you sometime.

I have a friend that has an Orbi RBK50 with a RBK40 satellite added to the system. She had her nephew install 2 Amplifi Meshpoint HDs to the network. Over time, her Internet speeds have deteriorated from being able to stream media in her terrace to it freezing all the time. She has asked me...

You can modify a file on the Synology to add your drives to it. Did it on a DS3622xs+ this last summer.

I haven't read the entire thread yet but you can modify a file to get it to WD Gold, WD Red and IronWolf drives to work with it. A friend of mine loaded his DS3622xs+ with IronWolf Pro drives.

I have the following hardware on my network: Fiber modem Arris Surfboard mAX Pro 802.11ax mesh router and 1 satellite Linksys Velop mesh router with one satellite Apple Airport Extreme The current layout is this: Modem - LAN1 - Velop Main Modem - LAN4 - Arris Main Arris Surfboard satellite -...

Due to the Pandemic and general boredom, my wife and I have switched to 4k TV and a few other things that have been eating away at my current storage capacity. This is what I have: Synology DS1819+ 8x 10 TB Helium drives 5x 8TB WD Red drives in an old system that I do not use anymore and will...