Recent content by YeOldeStonecat

Zyxel's quality used to be very good back in the early days...Windows NT 4/95 days. They actually were the OEM for many of Netgears biz level products, back when Bay Networks owned Netgear. Popular products in the small business networks in the very early days of broadband..such as the Netgear...

For us MSPs...(IT guys that take care of SMBs)...centralizing management of our clients is a very important and valuable feature for us. For pretty much ANY of our services. It's important to keep things as centralized as possible for us, have a portal for key important services we manage...

Strongly recommend you seek an IT firm to help you set this up, there's a LOT more to look at and consider since you have a business network, especially a high target such as an accounting firm. We have quite a few accounting clients and there's a LOT of regular monthly work we do with them...

Untangle and Sophos are two very good UTMs including for home users....both have free versions and paid versions. And Untangle has a very affordable home package which gives you just about all their features for a very low price. With so many web based services going to httpS....you really...

Not "extremely rare". I've been building them since Ubiquiti first made the Unifi controller multi-tenant..thus made cloud hosted Unifi controllers common place. That was before Ubiquiti became the trendy network hardware brand they are today. The database is pretty busy on cloud hosted...

Back in my youth, I was heavy into online gaming and building/running public game servers. Going back to the dial up days, where yes some of us learned to tweak COM ports and dial up modems, and knew which models of modems performed better than others. Then came the broadband days...usually...

Just a quick note to the editor regarding Ubiquitis Cloud Keys. As much of a Ubiquiti fan that I am, yes the MongoDB is sensitive to rude shutdowns and easily corrupts. So the Cloud Keys themselves often have power cut to them, and it tanks the DB. So what we do when prepping networks at our...

Not to start a pissing contest...but might as well be factual..there's enough misinformation about Ubiquiti's support out there. And to be fair...we used Open Mesh a lot....well before we got big into Ubiquiti..so I'm not biased against Open Mesh....especially since we're Datto Elite partners...

Agreed....as much as I love (and sell/install)lots of Ubiquitis hardware, I don't consider their EdgeMax products to be "for the masses". I do recall reading that sales pitch somewhere...but I can't find it now. Their Unifi series is a little more user friendly...and for "residential/laymen"...

Well..technically...you can have a single DHCP server with multiple IP ranges. Gets outside the scope of this thread, and the OPs equipment...but, for quite a few past versions, Windows Server allows a single server with a single DHCP service....to run multiple IP ranges. Key is....multiple...

Yeah I read the article..the firmware "out of the box" ran at 200 megs....the updated firmware ran at 800 megs but flakey. But...note the date of the article, it's before the newer firmware I'm talking about was released. Add to that...the actual testing by the author was likely mid summer...

Love the Pro...run the back end of our server room on one, have quite a few at clients. He missed a major firmware released by mere weeks...ver 1.9.0 Added a lot of new QoS features and performance improvements. They even have a new "basic" section in the GUI now for QoS. The USG just got...

Just hang on a bit...won't be long, Ubiquiti is looking to introduce an IPS/IDS feature. Will show up in an update.

I understand the "warm 'n fuzzy" about being able to "see/touch" your server, or NAS, or whatever for storage. However, on the flip side, many people, residential users, especially even more..small to medium business owners, mistakenly assume that they have "control" of their network. Just...

Stick with a tier-1 vendor. Do you think top names like Microsoft, Google, Rackspace, and other tier-1 hosting companies are going to pack their bags and slip out the back door one evening? Your e-mail host can close their doors one night....leaving you stranded with no e-mail. (for the 99.9%...