Somewhat unrelated but if you are looking for a rock-solid router, check out Microtik. I've been through half a dozen routers over the years, with and without custom firmware, and having owned a Mikrotik Routerboard for the last year, it's the first one that just works 100% and never drops connections. Easy to set up if you know what you are doing and customizable if you want to dig in.
PSA Anyone with commodity routers, repeaters, etc. please check out LEDE project https://lede-project.org . Check if your device has support here - https://lede-project.org/toh/start LEDE firmware is amazing. You will be able to do a lot more with your router and they have quick security fixes. The recent krack vulnerability was fixed within 2 days after the announcement.
Thanks! I have been running DD-WRT for a while and was displeased that their updates were unofficial builds served over HTTP, ugh. LEDE looked right up my alley and this evening I went ahead and installed it from the SSH window of my DD-WRT install. After a few hours I had the OpenVPN server in "road-warrior" mode with all firewall rules functioning and now I just finished up getting my USB drive mounted on it. It's really slick, thanks a ton for the suggestion!!
> Lousy of not, it’s still self-promotion. This is true whether it occurs once or many times. If a few mentions of something you built counts as self promotion, then even the description and the link to the blog that jlgaddis has on his profile page is self-promotion. It promotes a blog that he writes, possibly to further his professional career. > Clearly. However, you aren’t defending your accusation of jealousy. J…
It's really not "jealousy" but you're free to believe that if you'd like. Would you feel better if I removed the info in my HN profile? Note also that blog has been mostly neglected for the last ~5 years.
I don't mind the info in your profile nor the affiliate links on your blog. Quite to the contrary, keep them, keep adding content that's useful for others. Promote it, make money off it - everyone wins in that case. Useful content for me, money for you, I'm absolutely in favor of that. All I'd expect in that case is to be a little liberal when others do.
> That would be lousy self promotion. But still self-promotion if people want to be dogmatic about it. Some people, and some discussion forums, have an absolutely zero tolerance attitude to self-promotion. I have no issue with it if: * It isn't almost all that the account is for (caveat: personally I don't care enough in this case to have checked the account's comment history), i.e. the person contributes usefully to…
I shared a link to my blog the other day, we had a discussion on p2p internet and I recalled Opera Unite and linked a page I wrote about it some time ago. That page has affiliate links, IIRC, which you probably block with ublock/adaware, should I not have shared it?
If it was relevant to the discussion, and you actually included some of the content in the discussion (i.e. quoted the relevant parts with a link to the fuller article for people who want to check greater detail, rather than just a link) so people didn't have to jump off-site to read your contribution, then I don't see a problem with that.
>> Don't bother with repeaters. Get normal access points, and install several of them if you need to disperse the range around a large area/building/complex. Or better yet, buy a bunch of Ubiqity UniFi's, which were specifically made for this purpose and should provide the most seamless and efficient way to blanket your house in Wifi (provided you already have cabling to the access points). They are not cheap, but al…
>Or better yet, buy a bunch of Ubiqity UniFi's Warning: do not follow this advice; Ubuiqiti products are like potato chips in that you can never eat just one. Oh I'll get the AC PRO access point, you think. Five minutes later you've set it via quick QR code scan and the UniFi app. That was painless! No wonder people recommend these things. Oh wait I need to make some more device tweaks but UniFi won't do it.. better…
Basically all your objections boil down to the fact that the UniFi's are not very easy to manage.
I'd say none of this matters if you just want to have a few access points around the house for a WiFi network that currently runs on a single standalone router. Nobody said configuring the UniFi's is easy or convenient, but the premise is that you only do it once, using whatever computer you have that you can install the cloud controller on. You don't absolutely need to buy anything besides the AP's, it's only for convenience if your network changes a lot.
I shared a link to my blog the other day, we had a discussion on p2p internet and I recalled Opera Unite and linked a page I wrote about it some time ago. That page has affiliate links, IIRC, which you probably block with ublock/adaware, should I not have shared it?
If it was relevant to the discussion, and you actually included some of the content in the discussion (i.e. quoted the relevant parts with a link to the fuller article for people who want to check greater detail, rather than just a link) so people didn't have to jump off-site to read your contribution, then I don't see a problem with that.
It was more a mention, then a link to a page I knew had more info for the curious ... seems silly, to me, to try and find some other page with that info just in case someone sees an affiliate link.
In part the page is about my reaction, which is inter alia what was pertinent, that info definitely isn't elsewhere.
FWIW, it can be worth checking beyond whether or not your device is _supported_. I had DD-WRT running on an ASUS RT-AC68U for a while, and ended up switching back to a fork of the official firmware (Asuswrt-Merlin) for better performance once I upgraded to a >100Mbps WAN connection (IIRC it was something to do with hardware-accelerated NAT).
There's a patch to enable Qualcomm FastPath in LEDE, this offloads simpler TCP and UDP traffic from the Kernel stack and gets me 960Mbps LAN to WAN on a Netgear R7800.
Unfortunately FastPath and SQM (traffic shaping) are mutually exclusive.
Especially as the majority of homes date back more than 25 years, and retrofitted cabling is very expensive. And if you rent rather than own, you likely can’t add cabling at all under the terms of your lease.
>And if you rent rather than own, you likely can’t add cabling at all under the terms of your lease. A POTS phonejack can use pair(s) in CAT 5 (or 5e, 6), and newish buildings often already run it to the wall jacks rather than CAT 3. Depending on access to the other end of the lines, and appetite for DIY upgrading a landlord's building, it's quite possible to temporarily swap the RJ11 hardware for some RJ45 and have…
No building or home 25 years old has even Cat-3 in the walls. It’s all “uncategorized” cheap ass aluminum or maybe copper unshielded twisted pair.
If you don't want to pay $80 for the cloud key and don't want to run the controller on one of your machines, the unifi service can also be set up on a raspberry pi pretty easily.
Is the performance ok? I'd imagine it would be slow as heck
The Unifi controller is a configuration front end for Unifi devices -- data on the network shouldn't be going through it. It might be a little slower to use, though I've never compared it with the cloud key, but for a home setup, that won't matter too much.