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HawkJ got a reaction from kirashi in A wired question.
Hey,
Well, there is definitely a difference. Especially when it comes to WiFi, there are many variables that make up that difference. Signal strength, 2.4/5/6, Electrical Interferences, Other APs running on the same channel etc.
It all depends. Keep in mind a repeater does help extend the signal but it also adds another hop. And moreover, the signal between the repeater and the main AP is also another thing to watch out for.
To best utilize the repeater setup, it’s best to use the below setups
1. Main AP ——5Ghz(Good/Excellent signal)—— Repeater——5Ghz—— Devices
2. Main AP ——Wired——Repeater——5Ghz——Devices
5Ghz is really sensitive to signal strength and the speed decreases drastically as you add more walls or thickness.
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HawkJ got a reaction from Krofter in A wired question.
Hey,
Well, there is definitely a difference. Especially when it comes to WiFi, there are many variables that make up that difference. Signal strength, 2.4/5/6, Electrical Interferences, Other APs running on the same channel etc.
It all depends. Keep in mind a repeater does help extend the signal but it also adds another hop. And moreover, the signal between the repeater and the main AP is also another thing to watch out for.
To best utilize the repeater setup, it’s best to use the below setups
1. Main AP ——5Ghz(Good/Excellent signal)—— Repeater——5Ghz—— Devices
2. Main AP ——Wired——Repeater——5Ghz——Devices
5Ghz is really sensitive to signal strength and the speed decreases drastically as you add more walls or thickness.
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HawkJ reacted to Falcon1986 in 2 Routers, 1 home network problems
You don't necessarily need the same brand of AP throughout, although, if supported, seemless hand-off can work like that. Most of the time, it's up to the client to switch.
Yes, this should work.
Wireless APs generally distribute their signal well in a horizontal direction. There can be vertical propagation but it's not as good.
In addition to doing what was suggested, the OP should ensure that each wireless radio is broadcasting on a non-overlapping wireless channel, whether it's on 2.4GHz or 5GHz.
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HawkJ got a reaction from Sir Asvald in Network layout showoff
Thought I would share my current setup.
Currently have four VLANS.
ISP Internet: 1Gb/s up and down
Router: pfSense on HA (Local DNS 2)
Firewall: Cisco Firepower on HA managed by Firepower Management Center(FMC) on inline mode.
Switches: There are three switches.
1. Core switch: Cisco 3750x 48T
2. Access switch 1: HPE v1910 48G
3. Access PoE switch 2: Cisco SG250 26HP (Used for APs and Home security)
WiFi: Managed by Cisco Mobility Express
1. Cisco Aironet 2800
2. Cisco Aironet 3700
Servers running:
Primary VLAN
1. Windows AD (Local DNS 1)
2. Umbrella DNS virtual appliance 1 (DNS used by all the devices. Conntected to the local DNS to retrieve local DNS calls)
3. Cisco Primary FMC (Managing the Firepower firewalls)
4. NAS running FreeNAS
5. ESXi to manage the VMs
6. Splunk monitoring
Secondary VLAN
1. Standy Windows AD (Local DNS 3)
2. Umbrella DNS virtual appliance 2 (DNS used by all the devices. Conntected to the local DNS to retrieve local DNS calls)
3. Cisco Backup FMC (Managing the Firepower firewalls)
4. ESXi to manage the VMs
Public Servers VLAN
1. Cisco Email Security Appliance (Email relay used for spam, reputation and virus email scanning)
2. cPanel running web and mail services
3. VPN server running OpenVPN server on OPNsense
Currently all the links between all the devices are 1Gb ethernet cables.
The next upgrade
1. Move FreeNAS to separate server to host ESXi VM data
2. Configure two ESXi servers on HA on two separate physcial servers managed by vCenter
3. Replace the core switch with QSFP+ compatible switch
4. Replace Access switch 1: HPE v1910 48G with Cisco 3750x 48T
5. Link FreeNAS and the two ESXi servers with QSFP+ link
6. Upgrade the link between switches to SFP+ or SFP
7. Create a backup WAN link using 5G router
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HawkJ got a reaction from jefferdog in Wireless to wired internet routers?
Hey, wouldn’t it be better to just get a router where you can pop the SIM card in and use it’s WiFi? There are many 4G routers out there. Unless there are other requirements for why you are looking for ddwrt.
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HawkJ got a reaction from Antistatic12 in Help with two networks, connect devices from one network to another.
Hi,
So as mentioned above, the reason why you can’t see those devices on Network B is because the router on Network B doesn’t know where 192.168.0.x is. Connecting it with a switch doesn’t help either. There are a few ways you can tackle this problem
1. As mentioned above, use VPN. Setup server on one router and client on the other. VPN will take care of the routes. (The easiest)
2. Connect Router A and B directly or with switch and then on both the routers, you set static route to the other one, so they know where and what port to forward the intended traffic to. (The fastest)
Ps Setting up a managed switch would complicate things a lot more with the routes. So don’t do that.
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HawkJ got a reaction from lawful73 in Packet Loss, What do they affect?
Packet losses are the worst affected when transferring audio/video call packets as it could cause a more of a disturbance on call. In regards to video or picture quality, doesn’t affect it at all as any lost packets are resent unless you are taking about very high packet loses, where you could notice decrease in speed, unresponsive uploads etc.
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HawkJ reacted to Letgomyleghoe. in Network layout showoff
Are you all proud of me?Just have to remember to download the game when i'm sleeping. Otherwise a tv some phones and a laptop all are wireless.
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HawkJ got a reaction from Windows7ge in vCenter ESXi to FreeNAS 40Gb link
Thanks. I’ll definitely have a look into it and post the results I get. Should get the setup up and running for testing, in a week.
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HawkJ got a reaction from leadeater in RAID Question
Thanks a lot for that very informative reply. Helped me solve all the questions I had on it.
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HawkJ reacted to Quindor in RAID Question
Ah yes, that explains a lot more.
When using RAID, all the disks that are part of the RAID sort of become one. After that 1 (or more depending on type of RAID level) disks can fail and the volume as a whole (the RAID) will remain active like nothing happened. You replace the disk, it rebuilds (or resilvers in the case of ZFS) and you are back to your original redundancy! From a usage standpoint, you don't notice anything, at most you will take a temporary performance hit (With RAIDz1/z2, with mirrors only during resilvering).
When looking to build something for 50 to 70 users you need to take a lot of things into account. For instance, is 1Gbps enough? It will depend on what they will do with it. Word/Excel usage, sure, no problem. But if they are working with bigger image or video files sometimes, you need to start thinking about 10Gbps connections (for the server).
Then also the hardware becomes more important. For that amount of users you either need a bunch of 7200rpm disks and a decent cache or you need to think about 10K/15K disks (although I would just skip those now-a-days and directly go to SSD's). It all depends on budget. As a general rule of thumb, think about having 10% of your total volume size in SSD cache size when using cheaper 7200rpm disks.
Also, depending on chassis, it's better (when using RAID1/mirrors) to have 16x1TB (8TB effectively) then 4x4TB (8TB effectively). Although you would have the same amount of space, 16x1TB will give you much more I/O then 4x4TB would. Cache and such is great but it can never make up for actual disk I/O in the end.
What kind of hardware are you looking at and what is your budget? For this, something like a SuperMicro server would be perfectly suited. They also have the correct type of LSI HBA's, etc.
For ZFS CPU is somewhat important (Again depending on RAID level, compression (LZ4 highly recommended!, deduplication (NOT recommended), etc.) but memory is the most important (get lots of it!). A remote box to do replication is a great idea, that one can be a bit less in specifications.
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HawkJ got a reaction from wraptor in Windows sudden shutdowns (have memory dump)
Hey. Try downloading and running this app called whocrashed. This app analyses the memory dump and gives you a detailed report of what caused the problem.
Link: http://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed
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HawkJ got a reaction from Kidsnd274 in Windows sudden shutdowns (have memory dump)
Hey. Try downloading and running this app called whocrashed. This app analyses the memory dump and gives you a detailed report of what caused the problem.
Link: http://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed
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HawkJ got a reaction from SparkySamZa in Z97 Processor Updgrade
Yeah. Or according to what others are saying. Might need to update grade to the enthusiast platform.
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HawkJ reacted to Fetzie in Z97 Processor Updgrade
Yeah, I'd sit it out until Broadwell-E comes out.
I mean, do you need the extra power right now, or are you just looking to upgrade in the near future?
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HawkJ got a reaction from G9x001 in Huge stain under the EK waterblock
Oops. Lol. My bad. True. It won't affect the performance but Its a new block and this shouldn't happen. That's the reason I was worried. And the only thing in contact between the processor and the block with the thermal paste. So either it's the problem with the paste or it's the problem of the block.
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HawkJ reacted to Arkhen in Huge stain under the EK waterblock
Sure it happens, but it doesn't really affect anything important so I'm not too bothered about it. Again, I'm not sure if my example is the same as yours, with a watery path escaping the middle section.
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HawkJ got a reaction from G9x001 in Huge stain under the EK waterblock
I contacted them and they said they will show the pictures to the R&D team and update me on what they think about it.
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HawkJ got a reaction from 1Scotty1 in Need help with water cooling my Titan X
Oh well. That sucks. I guess U've to play the waiting game then. They should release it sooner or later.
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HawkJ reacted to Sam Z Man in Is my GPU and CPU good enough for oculus rift?
They meet the recommendations but then again recommendations are usually lower then what you need to use it comfortably.
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HawkJ got a reaction from Tedster in SSD Benchmark with write cache and RAM cache
True. The worst. Im upgrading to the 850 though. And Thanks.
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HawkJ reacted to cooperred in Help with EK Pump Top
If you have a D5 pump, any D5 top will work. Pick whichever looks nicest or fits in your budget.
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HawkJ reacted to Nakuna in Help with EK Pump Top
If I have got it right there should be no problems whit any top that is compatible whit D5 pump, not 100% sure since i'm just building my rig, but at least i under stood it that way..
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HawkJ reacted to Shaqo_Wyn in Help with EK Pump Top
Another great option would be a Bitspower pump top and those require you to spend just as much getting the upgrade kit if you want a pump/res combo.
Here are a few:
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/17572/ex-pmp-216/EK_D5_X-RES_Top_140_-_Acetal_-_Laing_D5_Swiftech_MCP655-B655655-PWM.html
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/17626/ex-pmp-217/Alphacool_HF_D5_Top_-_Laing_D5_MCP655_-_Black_Acetal_V2.html#blank
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/14208/ex-pmp-167/Bitspower_D5_MCP655_Pump_Mod_Top_V2_-_Acetal_G14_VersionBP-D5TOPP2-BK.html#blank