Recent content by Kris404

Holy crap! That's a deal killer right there. There are many times I had to live with a TWC outage for a couple of hours in my area.

They also make APC UPSes, reliable company.

Received my modem this evening, swapped my 6141 with it on TWC just now. Fastest activation I ever did on TWC SoCal. So far, so good :)

Ensure you're using WPA2 with AES only (and not WPA+TKIP).

You should put the router Mac address in 'DMZ Plus' mode if you want to avoid double-NAT issues. 'DMZ Plus' mode allows you to configure one device on the network share the public IP.

Synology is my personal preference. But 'Virtualization Station' may make me go QNAP next.

It's better to get a smart switch than finding a router that does 802.3ad LAG/LACP. I run LACP on my Netgear GS108T "Smart" switch for both my Synology NAS & the Mac.

Damn.. Tried the basic $69 UAP which I really liked and was set to get AP-AC before finding about no ZH :( Now the choices are: - Airport Extreme Base Station - Asus RT-AC87U - Netgear R8000 X6

Do you guys know if the AP-AC firmware now has Zero-Handoff (ZH) capability?

I pre-ordered the 6183 on Amazon since I fall under Time Warner Cable's 'Maxx' area. Currently using a BYOD 6141 (an 8x4 channel modem)

Vendor encryption claims (software or hardware) are usually for volume encryption (data-at-rest). They usually don't benchmark data-in-flight secure connections because of possible network congestion factors.

Try Redhat Storage Server (GlusterFS AMIs) across two AZs. This might be easier to manage (though I never tried it): SoftNAS VSA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17lc7Qw4BgQ

So, we'd need three SSIDs then? ugh..

LOL.. reminds me of the TheOnion's Gillette Five Blades Plus the NetGear one looks like a turtle on it's back :p

Done. $50.