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MattWeiler

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About MattWeiler

  • Birthday Nov 18, 1984

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    Ontario, Canada
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    programming, gaming, pool, movies, pc builds
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    Software Engineer

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  1. It's always good to learn new things, it keeps us busy I've played with DD-WRT and tomato ages ago, but lately modern routers have seemed to be good enough. But when I need a new router, I'll likely lol at OpnSense.
  2. I've seen those pfSense routers on ServeTheHome before. They do look like a good option, I'll have to keep those in mind for the future. Thank you
  3. I really have to learn more about networking, right now I just know enough to be dangerous It sounds like you have a good setup.
  4. Those routers look like beasts. My modem has 4 x 1Gbps RJ45 ports and 1 x 10Gbps RJ45 port. Right now, I have 1 of the 1Gbps RJ45 ports connected to my main gigabit switch and the 10Gbps RJ45 port connected to my 2.5Gbps switch. Then my 3 important devices are connected to the 2.5Gbps switch. Once the initially linked router comes in the mail, I'll just have it hooked up to the 10Gbps port of the modem and configure it to use a PPPoE connection to bypass my modems router. Then both my gigabit and 2.5Gbps switches will connect to the new 2.5Gbps router. TBH, the main reason that I changed ISPs was that my previous ISPs best plan was 1Gbps/30Mbps down/up. For sharing my Plex server with friends and family, that 30Mbps upload was terrible. Now that I have 1.5Gbps/940Mbps down/up I don't have to worry about upload speeds
  5. The ISP tech was just here and replaced the modem. The Bell modem has a single-mode fiber cable plugged into it, and I asked her about a Fiber-to-ethernet media convertor, but she didn't know what that was For now, our internet is working again, but once I get my new 2.5Gbps router, I'll setup all of the static IPs and port-forwarding rules again Thanks for the info though, a lot of stuff that I didn't know.
  6. In my case, I have 3 devices that I would like to have 2.5Gbps speeds but my main reason for wanting to put up my own router is that if this ISP modem craps out again, I don't want to be helpless to access my internal network
  7. I just started my 2.5Gbps networking adventure about 6 months ago, when I went with my new ISP. I put 2.5Gbps NICs in my main PC and my 2 servers. I bought an affordable 2.5Gbps switch which those 3 devices connect to and the other devices in our house just connect to a standard gigabit switch. It makes sense that enterprise went from 1G to 10G, since a 10x jump is what has been done historically. I guess they gave us 2.5G and 5G since they require less processing power so cheaper network gear. I know that 10Gbps is typically recommended, but I've already bought a bunch of 2.5Gbps network gear and I really don't need more than 2.5Gbps speeds right now. If all I have to do is add a new router to get my network more resilient, then I'll be happy with that That being said, I've run CAT6A ethernet cable to my important devices so if I want to upgrade to 10Gbps in the future, it should just require me upgrading the NICs and switches. I just ordered the router that was recommended above as it looks perfect for my needs. It has 2 x 2.5Gbps RJ45 ports, along with 4 x gigabit RJ45 ports and 1 x gigabit SFP port. It's just $200 CAD and is just the updated model of what I was using with my previous ISP, so I just ordered it. It's crazy that it's just coming out in a few days right as I need it You're 100% right about the price skyrocketing when you switch to 2.5Gbps. I definitely don't need the multi-gig internet speed, but if I'm paying for it, I would like to have it I'll definitely ask the ISP service person about the fiber-to-ethernet media converter.
  8. Hi, thanks for the reply. That router that you linked looks perfect for my needs. It's basically the exact same as the gigabit router that I was using before, but it's multi-gig I might just grab that one. I have 2 reasons for not wanting to use the IPSs modem/router as a router: 1) Anytime that the ISPs modem/router dies, I'll have to re-apply all of my local static IPs and port forwarding rules manually. With my previous ISP, the modem would die roughly once/twice a year so having my own router was a life saver. 2) If this happens again, I won't be able to access any of my local network devices. This is annoying as all of our smart home devices are controlled via a local installation of Home Assistant and if we can't access that, then it's useless
  9. Solution For me, the solution was a new VPN Router from TP-Link that is just coming out in a few days... Talk about good timing https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B0C238XMVV?ref=ppx_pt2_mob_b_prod_image It has 2 x 2.5Gbps RJ45 ports, 4 x 1Gbps RJ45 ports and 1 x 1Gbps SFP port. Now that the ISP tech replaced my modem, I've setup my static IPs and port-forwarding rules, but I'll have to do it again when the new router comes in. Thank you to everyone who have their suggestions, I learned a lot and feel that I've made the best decision for me right now. Original Ask I would really like to have a good 2.5Gbps router that has at least 2 x 2.5Gbps ports (1 WAN and 1 LAN). I don't need this router to have any Wi-Fi as I have my own Wi-Fi APs around our house, but I could just disable the built in Wi-Fi if needed. I don't know enough about networking and I don't want to do something stupid and have some double NAT situation if I add a router in front of the ISP modem/router. From what I've read online, I should be able to configure this new router with a PPPoE connection to the modem which should avoid the double NAT situation, but TBH I don't fully understand that. The router that I was using with my previous ISPs modem (in bridge mode) is just a gigabit router and I really don't want to miss out on 1.5Gbps download speeds that I currently have. That's why I'm adamant on getting a 2.5Gbps router. I know that I could build a pfSense/openSense router, but I really would like to stick to an off the shelf unit just for the super low power usage. Back Story About 6 months ago I switched my ISP from a cable provider (Rogers) to a fiber provider (Bell) and so far it's been amazing, until last night My service was upgraded from 1Gbps/30Mbps to 1.5Gbps/940Mbps Last night, our internet just died out of the blue. I did the normal things, rebooted the modem as well as my switches, but nothing worked. The modems web UI was no longer accessible either. I called my ISPs tech support and their guy wasn't able to do anything aside from book a service appointment for today (currently waiting for them to arrive). It's been rough since we had to tether our work laptops to our phones and since the modem/router is down, I can't access any of our local devices. This defeats the purpose of having a Plex server and Home Assistant running locally if I can't access them locally if the modem is down My problem is that the modem/router provided by my new ISP doesn't have a bridge mode I have disabled the built in Wi-Fi, but I can't disable the routing logic. With my old ISP, I had the modem set into bridge mode and my own router handled all of the routing logic. This was ideal since I was able to setup all of my port forwarding and static internal IPs in my router so that when the ISPs modem died and had to be replaced, I was up and running in minutes.
  10. Sorry, I didn't get a notification about your reply. I ended up building a new server which is running Unraid. https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/MattWeiler/saved/gPrV4D It's totally overkill, but I had my annual bonus to use The main reason that I went with Unraid is the simplicity of adding more drives to the array. Right now I have 6 x 20TB WD gold drives in my array, 2 of which are parity drives. This gives me 80TB of effective storage with 23TB free right now. Then I have 1 x 20TB WD gold drive on a shelf acting as a cold-spare. My case has 12 x hot swap 3.5" bays so I can fit 6 more HDDs and if I only add 20TB drives, then I can have a total of 200TB of effective storage. I don't see myself needing more storage than that I'm using 2 x 1TB Samsung 970 evo M.2 SSDs in a redundant RAID to store all of my application meta-data (includes my Home Assistant VM image, Plex and all of the other Docker containers that I've installed). I migrated my Home Assistant VM from VirtualBox to Unraid using the below thread: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/52357-import-from-virtualbox/#comment-514994 I really didn't want to have to start my Home Assistant VM from scratch, so this was perfect. So far I have copied all of my media to my new Unraid array and right now I have 23TB free But I haven't gotten around to migrating my Plex meta-data over to Unraid, that'll just take a long time and I haven't had the time. For now, I'm happy that my media is backed-up. I looked at some alternatives to BlueIris and for me at least, none of them have been acceptable. The camera feed kept dying or they couldn't even get the camera feed in the first place So for now, I still have my old server, running Windows 10, which run my BlueIris installation and my Plex server. But the Plex server will get migrated to the Unraid server soon. I might look at creating a Windows VM that I'll run on Unraid which will only run BlueIris, but for now I just don't have the time to invest in that.
  11. I received my new U6-Pro APs so I was comfortable factory resetting my existing U5-LR AP. Everything worked perfectly as you guys said it would Now I have adopted my existing U5-LR AP and my 3 new U6-Pro APs and they're all working perfectly.
  12. Thank you @Falcon1986. But from what I've read online, it sounds like if the AP has been previously adopted and has had it's password changed, that it can't be adopted again without knowing it's password. I didn't want to try this incase my existing AP was then a paperweight and our Wi-Fi was down. The wife would not appreciate that Maybe I'll just bite the bullet and buy a 2nd AP now. Then if my existing AP is bricked, I can at least get us up-and-running again.
  13. I have a Ubiquiti AP-AC Long Range AP (UAP-AC-LR-US) that I bought back in 2018. When I originally configured this AP, I installed the Ubiquiti software on my main PC, adopted the AP and configured my network settings. Since then, I've built a new PC and my old main PC has been formatted and the Ubiquiti installation has been lost. Now I have an instance of Home Assistance running with the UniFi Network Application addon running within it. I want to adopt my existing Ubiquiti AP into UniFi Network Application running under Home Assistant and buy a few more APs to expand my Wi-Fi range. The problem is that I have forgotten the password that I setup on my existing AP so I'm now unable to adopt my existing AP into my new UniFi Network. I normally put all passwords into a password manager, but for some reason I forgot to do this back in 2018 Is there a way to force the device back into factory mode where it can be adopted as if it was a fresh/new device? I'm guessing that the answer might be no, since the implication could be that someone could just steal a Ubiquiti AP from somewhere, bring it home, reset it and then adopt it into their UniFi network. But I'm hoping that there is a way so that I can include my existing AP into my new mesh network as it still runs perfectly fine.
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