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Great analogy about front door lock and safe L&LD. So, in a SoHo environment, what might the setup look like?

I recently came across a poster who exhorted users to put their Synology behind a separate VPN but NOT to use the VPN on the NAS itself. Can somebody explain the difference?

Sometimes I wonder are all these speakers at conferences mere theorists. Have any of them worked on a real-life network ;)

Just an example Colin!

Thanks Colin and eibgrad. The speaker never referred to guest networks or VLANs. He was referring to separate SSIDs as some sort of holy grail of IoT networking! But here is another thing I don't understand. If I have an IoT toaster, lets say. And it's on a "Guest Network" but the network I...

At a recent tech talk I attended, the speaker strongly recommended to the audience that all IoT devices on the network must have their own SSID. Why? It can't be a security concern because devices are going to be on the same network anyway. Can anybody suggest why this recommendation was made?

Solved: The AP was in Mesh Mode instead of Access Point Mode Thanks degrub for your reply anyway!

Hoping someone can shed some light on this issue. Kit=Draytek903AP X 2 The two APs are on same network AP1 device Using a laptop, an internet speed test is run, it will report a steady 120Mbps. It will stay at this speed for the duration of the test. AP2 device Using the same laptop...