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    Are there smart home devices which use 5GHz wireless

    Just an FYI: the Caseta Wireless devices from Lutron communicate to a bridge that you hardwire to your network. They don't live on your WiFi. And they work great.
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    Are there smart home devices which use 5GHz wireless

    Nest Cam Outdoor and Rachio 3rd gen work on 5 GHz. (Also 2.4 GHz.)
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    Nest Cam Problems with Dell L2 Switch

    Followup: Found this page on the internet: https://www.thegeekpub.com/5191/use-airport-extreme-guest-network-bridge-mode/ Basically the Airport tags all guest network traffic as VLAN 1003. I had to setup that same VLAN on the Dell switch and let it pass through that traffic from the AP and the...
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    Nest Cam Problems with Dell L2 Switch

    I just got a Dell 5424 switch up and running. It’s the first L2 switch I’ve used. I have it setup with only one VLAN (the default). QoS is turned on; Flow Control is off. I’m having problems with the Nest Cam working with this switch. The Nest Cam is connected wirelessly to a flat AirPort...
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    Help revamping home network

    L&LD: This is really one of the most helpful posts I've seen on here. Thanks!
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    Third Powerline adapter causes Bonjour, Home Sharing drops

    It's been about six days since I tried bypassing the Netgear GS608 switch. Only one Apple TV is still connected to that switch; the Power Line adapters and the NAS are connected directly to the Airport Extreme's switch. And everything is working great. I did find one other mention on these...
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    Third Powerline adapter causes Bonjour, Home Sharing drops

    What are the odds that the switch is getting flooded with multicast packets? It's a consumer unmanaged gigabit switch; is that even possible? And if it is possible, does that mean I'd need either a more expensive unmanaged switch or would I need to step up to a managed switch? I'll be...
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    Third Powerline adapter causes Bonjour, Home Sharing drops

    Yep, all Power Line adapters are and have been plugged directly into the wall. Still waiting to hear back from Netgear…
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    Third Powerline adapter causes Bonjour, Home Sharing drops

    Ran 500 pings several times throughout the day including during a Time Machine backup/Home Sharing drop (though curiously Bonjour seemed to stay up this time). No packet loss. For some reason today I had a hard time killing Home Sharing; it happened on its own this evening after working...
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    Third Powerline adapter causes Bonjour, Home Sharing drops

    I don't really know what I'm talking about on this one, but: Could IPv6 have anything to do with it? If I run "netstat -n | grep 3689" to check on the Home Sharing connections I get some tcp6 entries: tcp4 0 0 192.168.100.13.3689 192.168.100.130.63143 ESTABLISHED tcp4...
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    Third Powerline adapter causes Bonjour, Home Sharing drops

    That's correct. The shares no longer show up in the "Shared" section of a Finder window. I can use "Connect to Server" with the correct afp address and it will connect though. Time Machine cannot see the NAS either. I can surf the Internet on the laptop just fine and surf/stream on the Apple TVs...
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    Third Powerline adapter causes Bonjour, Home Sharing drops

    I had two Netgear XAV5101 adapters setup for several months and they seemed to work very well. I wanted to add a third for an Apple TV to get a faster and more reliable connection. But since adding the third adapter (same model as the others) the laptop that has been connected to one of the...
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    How To Improve Network Performance Series

    Any test results available? I like the idea of splitting up the network duties, but I'm wondering what kind of speed improvements I'm likely to see? I know this can vary depending on the router/AP combination but are there any test numbers available? It would be very interesting to test a...
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