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    Fr3dr1k got a reaction from Needfuldoer in Will a 50 mbps wifi network feel better on a 5 ghz router instead of 2.4? and also mumimo?   
    2.4GHz can deliver upto 300mbps bitrate. So unless you are in a very 2.4GHz dense area, you won't feel any difference except as @blue4130 mentions, 5GHz can't go through walls as easily
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    Fr3dr1k got a reaction from Blue4130 in Will a 50 mbps wifi network feel better on a 5 ghz router instead of 2.4? and also mumimo?   
    Yea, If it's not to much overlapp then you are good. If the router is just above your PC, why not just use a wired ethernet connection?
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    Fr3dr1k got a reaction from 220VoltsallCore in Will a 50 mbps wifi network feel better on a 5 ghz router instead of 2.4? and also mumimo?   
    2.4GHz can deliver upto 300mbps bitrate. So unless you are in a very 2.4GHz dense area, you won't feel any difference except as @blue4130 mentions, 5GHz can't go through walls as easily
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    Fr3dr1k reacted to v1sualart in Whole Home Audio & Access Points   
    Checked on the UniFi controller, there was a secondary LAN created. Everything works through the system now. 
     
    Thanks for the reply.
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    Fr3dr1k got a reaction from Lurick in Whole Home Audio & Access Points   
    Not familiar with the Ubiquity gear and how it operates. But to me it sounds like you created a separate LAN for the Mesh Network. And this is the problem. Most network enabled gadgets for home use is limited to one LAN, since one LAN is a "Broadcast domain" meaning, that's how you can discover the network devices automatically. 
     
    Which means, if you have another subnet on your Ubiquity Mesh network (ie. Network from ISP router is 192.168.1.0/24 and Ubiquity side is 10.0.0.0/24) you can't connect to the home audio without manually adding the IP addresses. So check if that is the problem, and would recomend to just set it to be a pure AP, so everything is on the same network.
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    Fr3dr1k got a reaction from cytricks in Wifi as WAN - I have no idea what I am doing...sort of   
    The WiFi as WAN is the frankenstein solution.
     
    Just get a travel router, and take the ethernet from the travelrouter to the old router.
    A few steps that has to be done for it to work though.
    1. Get a travel router with a LAN port (Not all travel routers have those)
    2. Plug the ethernet into the LAN port of both routers (or disable WAN on the old router, this usualy turns the WAN port into a LAN port)
    3. Turn off DHCP on the old router 
     
  7. Agree
    Fr3dr1k reacted to knightslugger in Very powerful router with huge signal coverage under $250   
    i'm thinking you should just use APs...
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    Fr3dr1k got a reaction from Dujith in How to LAN with just a switch   
    You still need a switch for connecting more than 2 clients... Also APIPA isn't a good way of assigning IPs, especially if you wanna have a server on the network. And IP conflicts is easy to have with APIPA since the clients does not communicate about which IP to set within the class B subnet that APIPA uses.
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    Fr3dr1k got a reaction from The Benjamins in How to LAN with just a switch   
    You still need a switch for connecting more than 2 clients... Also APIPA isn't a good way of assigning IPs, especially if you wanna have a server on the network. And IP conflicts is easy to have with APIPA since the clients does not communicate about which IP to set within the class B subnet that APIPA uses.
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    Fr3dr1k got a reaction from The Benjamins in How to LAN with just a switch   
    You don't need a router to direct traffic on a LAN, that is all layer 2 and is handeled by the switch.
    The "hard way" is to just manualy sett all clients to the same IP range. eg 10.0.0.[1-254] with subnet 255.255.255.0 with the server on .1 or .254 and plug em all to a switch.
     
    You could also use VM to set up a DHCP server so they can just plug and play instead of manually setting up the IPs. But unless it's alot of people attending it will be more of a hassel than just telling people to set their IPs
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    Fr3dr1k got a reaction from The Benjamins in Crazy Slow lan speeds or my stupidity?   
    I think you got your units mixed up. Network speeds are usualy told by using megabits (Mb) and not megabytes (MB), also a MiB is 1024 bytes and a MB is 1000 bytes, so 12,8MiB/s is not 1,6MB/s: convertion, although many uses just MB for MiB...
     
    And you can't get the full 100mbps (12.5MB/s) anyways. but to maximize your upload speed: Disconnect any other device than the on you want to upload from, and stop any programs on that device that may use any network at all.
  12. Funny
    Fr3dr1k got a reaction from Avex in Slash after IP addresses   
    Yeah, hoped none noticed buuut your quotes are snitching on me <.<
  13. Funny
    Fr3dr1k got a reaction from The Benjamins in Slash after IP addresses   
    Yeah, hoped none noticed buuut your quotes are snitching on me <.<
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    Fr3dr1k got a reaction from Kingen34 in How to block someone from my home wifi (Impossible need help asap)   
    1. Go to the devices list of your router and get the MAC of the device you want to block
    2. Go to mac filtering
    3. Set mode to bridge+route
    4. Set protocoll to all
    5. Set source address to the MAC you found in the device list.
    6. Leave destination to blank
     
    Hard part is getting the right MAC address.
     
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    Fr3dr1k reacted to Lurick in Home network   
    Not really, you'll have to go in and disable a lot of the functions on the router so they don't conflict with one another, unless you know how to configure multiple DHCP scopes and routing, and you'll basically be making the router a switch/AP in the process but with more overhead if you disable those features.
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    Fr3dr1k reacted to Lurick in Home network   
    Better solution would be to replace the switch with a gigabit switch which will allow full utilization of the 200Mbps and then add an Access Point off the switch as well which will solve the wireless signal problem.
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    Fr3dr1k reacted to Mira Yurizaki in Wii U DNS questions   
    The only security hazard using another DNS is that you need to trust the DNS service. For example, if you use a malicious DNS service, typing in www.google.com may take you to something that looks like Google's home page, but is not actually from Google themselves. And you won't know, because as far as the computer is concerned, it connected to www.google.com.
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    Fr3dr1k reacted to Shammikit in Am i configuring the routers and interfaces the right way?   
    do u mean something like ospf routing?
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    Fr3dr1k got a reaction from Shammikit in Have i calculated the subnet mask correctly?   
    Luckily for Shammikit he is using CISCO enterprise grade routers emulated in packet tracer
     
    This is very correct!
    Good job!
  20. Informative
    Fr3dr1k got a reaction from Shammikit in Have i calculated the subnet mask correctly?   
    Beause 3 is 11 in bits, and is the broadcast address for the subnet /30 
    Also, after reading more, i guess you are supposed to have a router between all the subnets. The router also needs an IP address of it's own, so 2 computers + 1 router interface = 3 hosts. Now each subnet only has room for either two computers, or one computer and one router. 
     
    if you need a router included to do networking between the departments, you need 3 adresses. log2(3) rounded up is 3 bits, so the subnet schould be /29
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    Fr3dr1k got a reaction from Shammikit in Have i calculated the subnet mask correctly?   
    If you look at it in the bit level it's easier to see what the CIDR means (/x)
    1111 1111.1111 1111.1111 1111.1111 1111 is a 255.255.255.255 address in bits or /32 CIDR subnet mask, if you need two bits for a subnet you set the two least valuable bits to 0, so the new subnet mask is:
    1111 1111.1111 1111.1111  1111.1111 1100
    Now translate back to normal 10-based numbers and you get
    255.255.255.252.
     
    This is the tidious process of subnetting, but it's good practice for understanding what goes on when you do subnetting.
     
    For the IP ranges, you lack 1 address per range, it's:
    0-3
    4-7
    8-11
    12-15
    16-19
    20-23
     
    Again, looking at the bit level might help.
    if you start with the last octet of 0 (x.x.x.0) you have the bits:
    0000 0000
    the subnet tell you what bits is contained to one subnet, where 00 is network id and 11 is broadcast.
     
    subnet: 1111 1100
    ips:       0000 0000
                0000 0001
                0000 0010
                0000 0011
    next subnet starts at:
                0000 00100
    and so on
     
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    Fr3dr1k reacted to Oshino Shinobu in "Ethernet" doesn't have a valid IP configuration   
    Okay, the issue is that your ethernet connection doesn't have a default gateway (the router's IP address, basically) or a valid IP address for your subnet.
     
    To set it manually, go to the network connections panel in control panel and right click on the ethernet connection and select properites. Then look down the list and highlight the IPv4 option and click properties. You can set it manually to something like 192.168.1.100 and set the default gateway to 192.168.1.254.
     
    EDIT: You can also try the commands:
    net stop dhcp net start dhcp  
    This may allow the ethernet NIC to pick up the right address if you don't want a static IP. 
  23. Agree
    Fr3dr1k reacted to LAwLz in Is there some formula to create IP addresses when designing a network?   
    10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255
    172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255
    192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255
     
    Feel free to use any address inside these ranges.
     
    There is no "formula" for creating IP addresses. You just pick a range that won't conflict with anything else (which is what the ranges above are specifically reserved to not do). If you're designing a brand new network then just use whichever you want from the above ranges.
    If you are expanding an already existing network then you need to make sure that you do not pick a range that is already in use. For example 192.168.1.0 might seem like a good idea to pick, but something might already use that in the network you are working on.
     
    The formula you're thinking of was probably this:
    2n-2
     
    That's how many hosts you can have on a subnet, and n is the number of zeroes in the subnet mask.
    For example if we have a /24 address we have 8 zeroes (because we have 24 ones, and 8 zeroes for a total of 32 bits, which is an IPv4 address).
    28-2 = 254
     
    So a /24 network (aka subnet mask 255.255.255.0) can have 254 hosts.
  24. Informative
    Fr3dr1k got a reaction from Shammikit in Is there some formula to create IP addresses when designing a network?   
    You can also flip the formula to log2(hosts+2) to see what size subnet you need. Round up answere to closest whole number.
    For instance, 6 hosts will give you log2(6+2) = 3bit so you need a /29 subnet for 6 hosts (32-3). And always start with giving out the largest subnets first if you have a limit of addresses, which you don't in this case.
     
    EDIT: Hosts are any entity on the network that requires an IP adress, including routers.
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