Home Networking, pfSense, Motorola Cable Modems, D-Link Routers and Gigabit Switches – HT106
Summary: Jim (@jcollison) is joined this week by Paul Braren (@tinkererguy), Nathaniel Lindley (@thanlindley) and John Stutsman (@JohnStutsman) for Show 106! We were all about Home Networking in this show! How to do it, how not to and how to get it done with what you have! Hope you enjoy this episode. Part 2 will be next week. Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live Don’t forget to get registered for the Drobo Giveaway! http://theAverageGuy.tv/giveaway Here are the notes from the show. You can listen and follow along! ______________________________________________________________________________ Paul Braren, @tinkererguy TinkerTry IT @ home. Efficient virtualization, storage, backup, and more... All my network-related articles can be found at: http://tinkertry.com/network diagrams http://cdn.tinkertry.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/when-cable-is-down-cellular-workaround- List of devices WRT54G and 3-4 other Linksys routers in early 2000s, stock and tweaked firmware 1 Linksys/Vonage combination product for VOIP 2 D-Link DIR-655 Cisco/Linksys E4200 (currently) with SB6120 DOCIS 3.0 cable modem I’ll dig around the basement, and add more details, mostly focused around my current known-good, stable combination of cable modem+router. experiences I’ll be ready, here’s my references, all pretty much here (from last 2 years, the relevant stories): will discuss things I look for in a router, given I had young kids (protection) I now have gamers (low latency Justin.tv streaming, he’s broadcasting full 1080p video of StarCraft II and his webcam, while playing and talking) effective QOS tuning video: http://www.tinkertry.com/voip-tuning-101 upgrades Done many upgrades from older routers to new, at family and friends houses. Many firmware upgrades also done for various reasons over the years, with mixed success, and tales to tell. ______________________________________________________________________________ Paul Braren, continued... shownotes: forgot to mention how variable routers are when it comes to interruption of service, such as changing port forwarding, on some routers, you have to reboot for that simple change to take effect, which bumps network access for everybody in the house, not acceptable! Also forgot to mention to use Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012 Task Manager to monitor live bandwidth usage, see examples here: https://tinkertry.com/skype-v-google-hangout-testing how to do WOL for a WiFi only Yoga 13? coming soon to tinkertry.com Hardware mentions: More about John Stutsman 2001 vintage D-Link DGL-4500: http://www.dlink.com/us/en/home-solutions/connect/routers/dgl-4500-xtreme-n-gaming-router Cisco-Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G Router, also 2001: http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-WRT54G-Cisco-Linksys-Wireless-G-Router/dp/B00007KDVI popular for OpenWrt and Tomato firmware D-Link DIR-655, 2003: http://www.amazon.com/D-Link-DIR-655-Extreme-N-Gigabit-Wireless/dp/B000LIFB7S Cisco/Linksys E4200 Jan 2011: http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-Linksys-E4200-Dual-Band-Wireless-N-Router/dp/B004K1EZDS ASUS RT-N56U http://www.asus.com/Networking/RTN56U ASUS 802.11AC http://event.asus.com/2013/nw/802_11ac/edm.htm 802.11ac is the Next Big Thing in Wireless New 802.11ac is faster and better than 802.11n, paving the way for high-performance wireless HD. But how long will 5 GHz band stay uncrowded? http://www.cepro.com/article/802.11ac Stutsman Style bookmarks: http://cdn.tinkertry.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Windows-Server-2012-John-Stutsman-style.jpg from “The 2nd Annual Home Server Show Meetup” in Indianapolis Indiana October 20th 2012 good reviews of home networking equipment: http://www.smallnetbuilder.
