Recent content by jlficken

Change the Bridge Priority to something low like 1024 so that it is lower than any other device on your network and that should do it.

@ddaenen1 That's a Netgear switch correct? You have to set the priority of the switch. Let me go plug one of mine in and I'll get you some pictures.

No I didn't. I'm still using a UniFi AP's at home. The fact that I couldn't combine models from the same series into a single Cluster was a deal breaker for me. I wanted the WAP581 for my main AP, a WAP571 as the secondary for the house, and then a WAP371 for the shop and the old garage but I...

Thanks for that info. I didn't think about them be different. I may just give up on the POE option and just go with one of these.

Thanks for the suggestion and warnings. There was a bit of a learning curve at first but I have it all working between my Cisco, Netgear, and EdgeSwitch currently. I took it as a challenge to get them all working :) The Netgear is nice except the interface is from 1995 and working VLAN's in...

The title basically says it all. I'm looking to add another VLAN to my network but I need another switch to do this under my TV since I have a Roku there as well that will need to be moved to another VLAN and I currently only have a dumb switch there. I need a switch with the ports on the rear...

What exactly does the "Support" mean? The Downloads page for it shows the latest firmware release is from 2015/01/23 from what I'm seeing https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/routers/rv180-vpn-router/model.html#~tab-downloads Haven't there been numerous things in the past 4 years that should...

I know a business that still uses a RV180 and they even bought a spare "just in case". I told them it was a bad idea but they don't care.

I liked the Cisco RV325 when I used that but I have moved on to greener pastures. I now run Untangle on pretty nice hardware (Supermicro 5018D-FN8T) and it will do everything that you want it to do. The reporting is actually very good. Here's a sample for the month of February at my house...

I'm a tinkerer and decided to build a router so I no longer need this. It has been great and I will miss it. I have been running it for about a year now with no issues. It has the latest version of EdgeOS installed and I will reset it back to factory defaults prior to shipping. If someone...

There's no reason to except for commercial settings. Most people are lucky to have DSL anyway much less gigabit fiber. We are just getting fiber service next year here actually but not gigabit yet. Most WiFi devices don't have more than a 2X2 antenna either. The laptop I'm typing on now has...

I haven't used them but have read times on respected sites about potential issues which was enough for me to avoid them. I've only crimped a couple hundred regular connectors though so far I guess at home and at work. Terminating cables with normal connectors isn't hard and the tools are...

I admit I wan to do it at home but I just don't see a point to it at this time. Good switches are too expensive to be practical imo but you are right that with multiple drives in RAID it could happen. Writes though no RAID 5 even with 6 drives couldn't max out a 10Gb/s connection could it?

If it works well for you then that's great I just want to avoid any possibility of issues on my home network since a piece of dead equipment comes out of my own pocket and it doesn't take that much longer to use standard connectors. It's just too much of a risk versus little reward for me.

I haven't tried it but I will say that having media on both ends of the connection (ie HDD's) that can actually fully saturate a 10Gbe connection isn't likely unless they are NVMe drives.