Recent content by funhouse69

That depends on what you trying to accomplish with the second router? There isn't anything wrong with what you are doing (the Double NAT) it can lead to some pain if / when you do things with VPNs and some services but that isn't too common. I have a similar setup at my house but I am only...

Etherchannel/Port Trunking/LACP/SMB3 Multichannel I have this implemented in my network from my various systems to my Synology NAS and all it does / will do it load balance. You will not / can not get more than a single Gig of bandwidth per TCP Connection. This is only good for multiple TCP...

I am a computer / networking guy and I would love to see 10G over Copper for the home and I am sure we will see it eventually, it is pretty common place these days in the Data Center along with 40G but it will be sometime before we see it come down in price enough to be even remotely affordable...

I highly recommend Monoprice, I have used many different wires over the years and I recently used some of their Solid Core / Plenum Rated wire and I am so impressed with the quality of it. I was able to get 1,000 feet of it for less than I paid for 500 feet of Beldin which is also a great / high...

So explain to me what you are looking to do? Typically you don't need an L3 Switch for most applications. In my house I have 3 different networks a "Private", a "Guest" and a "DMZ" each of them have their own Network address 10.x.x.x, 172.16.x.x & 192.168.x.x

I wish I would have seen this beforehand. What are you trying to do? I have the same switch and it works with different VLANs very nicely, navigating around the web browser can leave a little to be desired though. I assume you are looking to do port based but you don't have to you can use...

If you only need 8 ports check out the Netgear GS108T Switches, they have a few versions but they are all managed and all passively cooled. They will support VLANs and pretty much everything else that you would want / need a managed switch to do. I've installed a bunch of them over the years and...

Plex will only transcode if needed, most player support "Direct Play" and even the highest quality Blu Ray I've seen only takes about 30 - 40mbps of bandwidth. That said there are some Plex apps that have problems with very high bandwidth Rips, Amazon's Fire TV was one at the beginning I am...

I know this is a long shot but has anyone been able to get a VPN Connection established from your iPhone to a Zywall Firewall? I've found a few different documents online showing how to do it, each VERY different from the other but both going for an L2TP Connection and neither of them work, I...

Congrats on the new purchase, I absolutely love my DS1813 compared to the RAID Systems I've been building for a while. As for which way to go there are some differences and one VERY BIG difference to keep in mind when you make your decision on which method to go with. If you go with RAID 5...

This doesn't sound right at all, my experience with Synology NAS Units are they are insanely fast and should be able to saturate even a Gig Network Connection. How is everything connected? The only variable I can't comment on is the Mac Computer part but I can't imagine that is the problem.