I suppose I don't have enough experience or interest in the Shield as a server, so I'll take your word on that part. I don't disagree that purely as a client, it's overpriced today, although I've always been satisfied with mine. It's always outperformed most other clients I've ever tried. What would you suggest as an alternative now, just a mini pc or something?
How does that make them useless? They may not work for a use case where you're mounting network drives, but still work perfectly fine if you're using them to connect to a media server.
We're in an online echo chamber, we don't need to look at reality. Just find the opinions that we agree with, and agree with us, and put 'em at the top!
Very uncommon to refer to NCOs or SNCOs as officers in branches of the US military that I have experience with. Interesting about Canada though, I wonder what other countries do
It's not, everyone just loves to use the funny swearing buzzword
Sounds like we have similar experiences, I'm definitely looking at mesh. I'm tired of having multiple networks across the house! I'm definitely looking at separating IoT and guests to their own VLAN, which I understand Ubiquiti devices are really good at facilitating. Having notifications for new devices is a really nice feature that I never really thought about. Would definitely be nice to have tracking for that
Oh, very interesting. Yeah, I hate this AT&T ONT - I hate the idea of my ISP owning or providing any equipment. I was under the assumption that there weren't good alternatives for the ONT, and that I was stuck with the AT&T-provided one, since fiber is relatively newer. Seems much easier for them to lock you into using their device. Thanks for the link!
Good points. It's strange to me to think of routers and APs as just computers, or things that can be run off of a mini-PC or some kind of raspberry pi, but it seems like it's entirely feasible to build up your network with those.
That's seems to be what I keep coming back to over the past few days. The UCG Ultra looks perfect for what I need - I don't want a router and AP in one device, nor do I need any of the security software that other Unifi devices seem to have - I run those separately. I think the UI and dashboards are what are really pushing me towards Ubiquiti, they look really great for displaying the info I want to see
Oh, that's really nice. The more I hear about OpenWRT and OPNsense being so well supported, the more I lean towards those as my solution
Yeah, I definitely agree with splitting it up. Until lately, I haven't been able to justify the cost of replacing my whole setup. But at the rate that my routers/routers-as-APs seem to die (maybe one every 18 months), it's enough of a nuisance that I'll just spend some money and do it the "right" way
Thanks for the link, I'll have to look into running OPNsense on my Proxmox cluster. I've been holding off on buying a new server, having a server just for my networking VMs might be a good solution, thanks!
I have a pretty decent background in networking - I spent a few years in a network technician position and finished up my CCNA training while I was doing that work. I'll have to look into Mikrotik, I've never actually heard of that brand, thanks for the recommendation
I'm not very experienced with OpenWRT - how sensitive is it to device changes? If your Barracuda dies tomorrow, do you have to purchase the same brand / model, or could you slap your saved config onto a similar device? Is there some sort of device compatibility to consider?
No issues or anything so far with the Unifi devices? That's good to hear. Do you have any third-party integrations with your Unifi devices, or is it as locked of an ecosystem as I've read others say? I don't think I'd mind taking the plunge, as long as it has good customer service and support.
My Linksys router died this morning - fortunately, I had a spare Netgear one laying around, but manually replacing all DHCP reservations (security cameras, user devices, network devices, specific IoT devices) and port forwarding options was a tedious pain. I needed a quick solution; my job is remote, so I factory reset the Netgear (I wasn't sure what settings were already on it) and applied the most important settings to get the job done.
I'm looking for recommendations for either a more mature setup, backup solution, or another solution. Currently, my internet is provided from an AT&T ONT, which has almost everything disabled (DHCP included), and was passing through to my Linksys router. This acted as the router and DHCP server, and provided a direct connection to an 8-port switch, which split off into devices, 2 more routers acting as access points (one for the other side of the house, one for the separated garage, DHCP disabled on both).
If going the route of a backup solution, is it feasible to install OpenWRT on all of my devices, with the expectation that I can do some sort of automated backups of all settings and configurations, and restore in case of a router dying?
If going the route of a smarter solution, I'm not sure what to consider, so I'd love to hear some input. I think having so many devices using DHCP reservations might not be the way to go, but it's the best way I've been able to provide organization and structure to my growing collection of network devices.
If going with a more mature setup, I'm not sure what to consider for a fair ballpark budget / group of devices for a home network. I've been eyeing the Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway + 3 APs for a while (to replace my current 1 router / 2 routers-in-AP-mode setup), but am wondering if the selfhosted community has any better recommendations.
I'm happy to provide more information - I understand that selfhosting / home network setup is not a one-size-fits-all.
Edit: Forgot to mention! Another minor gripe I have is that my current 1 router / 2 routers-as-AP solution isn't meshed, so my devices have to be aware of all 3 networks as I walk across my property. It's a pain that I know can be solved with buying dedicated access points (...right?), but I'd like to know other's experiences with this, either with OpenWRT, or other network solutions!
Edit 2: Thanks for the suggestions and discussion everybody, I appreciate hearing everybody's recommendations and different approaches. I think I'm leaning towards the Ubiquiti UCG Ultra and a few Ubiquiti APs, they seem to cover my needs well. If in a few years that bites me in the ass, I think my next choices will be Mikrotik, OPNsense, or OpenWRT.
I’ve had issues with .local on my Android device. Straight up doesn’t work. I had to change to .lan
I've had issues with .local on my Android device. Straight up doesn't work. I had to change to .lan
In the whole EldenKingsSekiroSoulsBorne catalog? Or are we including similar games and expanding to EldenKingsSekiNiohLiesOfSoulsBorne catalog of games?
Seriously, I don't understand why we don't just refer to this genre similarly to games spawned by Rogue
The music isn't tagged in Lidarr with Musicbrainz or whatever? Does Picard do more than that?
I feel like I'm losing my mind. A few days ago, all of my containers running on Docker Desktop on my Windows Server host were working nicely. I had NFS volumes set up on a few of them to reach my synology NAS on my local network, and things were working fine. I've done so much digging and tweaking over the last few days, so I can't be certain where all I've broken this connection further, but I woke up one morning and the containers that all had connections to my NAS via NFS volumes were no longer working. I hadn't restarted my host, I don't know what changed. Containers like NPM that I had set up for my internal DNS would no longer redirect to any IP that wasn't within my docker network (for example, I run Plex NOT in a container on my host PC). I had all of my containers on the default bridge network, and now nothing on this docker network can connect to anything on my local network.
I've tried setting static routes in my router, changed a lot of configurations, dug through tutorials, guides, and posts all weekend, but I couldn't make any progress in figuring things out. I'd really appreciate some help on this one, and can provide more details, logs, compose files, when needed. Just don't want to dump everything at once