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Hi Chris, Does your solution offer text messaging, video conferencing, call recording, visual ivr, online presence, and fax to email or voicemail to text translation?
I used to have the GEN 1 set up and loved it but it did not support wifi calling. I am in an area with no cellular so I needed this option. I also had the Verizon network extender but it also would not work. any chance you could test these?
Is this compatible with the POE output from a Netgear switch? I have read some posts where there seems to be POE issues between Ubiqiti and other vendors. In my case, I am looking to move off the Netgear Nighthawk.
I know you are just experimenting, but by putting your dish in an "urban valley" between buildings, your line of site to either side is restricted. This means you are limiting how long you can see a given satellites. Starlink is "make before break" so it may not affect speed, but it does introduce more overhead in processing (more link negotiations), so it might have a small bump in power required.
I want to see a real world range comparison with this thing. Seems like it will will be severely limited in beamforming with only a 2x2 radio despite having the higher gain antennas. Very disappointing.
At 66, I wish I shared Brent's enthusiam for isolation. Oh well at least future visitors will be able to play Fallout 76, especially if Spacex gets Starlink up and running this summer like they are saying.
So there is a big price difference here between the wifi 7 pro and the wifi 7 pro max (about 40% more). Is it worth the extra for the spectrum analyser?
Do you happen to have any other recommendations for home routers other than the Flint 2? I wanted something with faster speeds and with wireguard enabled as well.
As a Pricipal Network & Systems Engineer... Everything you just said in this video means absolutely nothing. Especially we do not know what the end user has for a modem & ISP, "copper" or "fiber". Does the homeowner have a back end with switches & AP's? & furthermore you didn't elaborate on what any of the specs are for each router, you completely glazed over the fact that even though the cheaper one you bought has/is Wi-Fi 6 it is most likely only 1 band that is Wi-Fi 6 & the other is still Wi-Fi 5 wave 4 or 5. Each router is different & has different specs & features, example how many devices does the Wi-Fi support simultaneously? What are the streaming and throughput/bandwidth capabilities? Does it have MMO/MMIO? These are things that a normal person that doesn't have knowledge in wouldn't know to look for. you can not just go buy a router, take it out of the box, & everything "works" as intended. There are a lot of other factors involved & the uninitiated general public has no clue what to look for, do better in explaining these types of things, I would suggest to make a long form video about it.
@CrosstalkSolutions no just a very well seasoned IT professional that sees these types of videos & it completely par for the course & doesn't actually provide any value to the general public on what they should or shouldn't look for. If you actually take the time to educate yourself, you can educate your audience. 98% of home network problems are blamed on the ISP's, but it comes down to the end users' equipment & their configurations of said equipment. & to fire back, you strike me as a person who can not take constructive criticism.
I’ve had these going to an outside pool house for over a year, supporting a camera and ap, and they are fine. Not motorway fast, but do a great job for the cash.
dumb question and sorry but im not super tech savvy but I just bought a GLinet router the beryl MT3000 ax do i need to subscribe to a VPN service like NordVPN or ExpressVPN? are there any free ones or better yet does the router I bought give a free one?
I have a set of those in use so that a neighbour across the road can have a Sky Mini box on my network. As has been said several times elsewhere - mine have a 100meg network interface and are supplied pre-paired but there is a version that has gigabit networking and it looks the same so it depends on which version you have as to what you can get as the max speed. For reliability - well, apart from a brief outage in signal on the first day that I had them installed (which I’ve never been able to work out the cause of) they’ve been absolutely rock solid for the last six months - I was expecting them to be absolute garbage but they’ve actually been surprisingly good.
6ghz alone isn’t WiFi 7, it’s 6E. 320 mhz width AND mlo is WiFi 7. Companies (both ap’s and client devices) are still sorting out mlo so we don’t really know how these ap’s will do with true WiFi 7.
Howdy. I appreciate your videos. I'm late to the party. I have a Protectli with Pfsense on it. And a tplink tl-sg1024DE behind it. At this point I think I want/need 5 or 6 VLANS. Would you recommend having pfsense to control the vlans and trunk to the tp link switch OR have the switch to handle the vlans?
Overall well done, presenting information in understandable format. A good overview for introduction to series. Interspersed with a few commercials. Just some friendly advice - in the corporate world, employers require us to watch educational videos on scammers/hackers trying to infiltrate the business IT systems. The name Rogue with a logo showing a young guy in a hoodie may not be the best way to promote a service that assists in networking issues, particularly as sharing your screen/network with the consultant online may be called for when utilizing the service. Your logo is the typical picture we are shown during training videos of what scammers look like.
This is a great refresher series. I even discover several new terminologies that are certainly useful for my home network since I'm running a web server, NAS and Plex.
