I got my new router working.
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I’m currently running a Deco M9 mesh network and have been thinking about switching to OpenWRT. I just get kinda overwhelmed thinking about the whole setup and config process. Anyone have any recommendations on resources to learn how to do it?
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Yes it's very powerful and a bit daunting at first. I set up multiple VLANs and it was complicated to get the firewall rules right. But for most simple setups it's not actually that complicated. One feature I like is its inbuilt Suricata intrusion detection, which is an extra level of protection not provided by the regular firewall, and can help you detect malware on the network.
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Curious that your download speed increased.
I recently upgraded my old ISP provided router to a tp-link omada router with a couple in wall access points that also serve as switches to have everything that can be hard wired, hard wired. As well as having good Wi-Fi through the house.
It's the little things in life but a nice, fast and robust home network is super satisfying
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Small note, MAC address whitelisting isn’t really a security measure. People can change MAC address quite easily to one on your whitelist.
It might stop non technical children but a teenager with google can bypass that easy.
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I was surprised by the speed increase as well. I assumed that broadband would be the bottleneck, but apparently not.
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When you install a new WiFi router, just make the SSID and password the same as the existing one. No need to update all your devices.
And you can also setup your phone hotspot the same, so if your hardline goes out, you can just light up your hotspot and keep watching Netflix or whatever.
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Four words all upper case.
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Can confirm, in my head op's post meant : "I replaced some old appliance with something quite standard that won't
bother me for years". The fizzing is just replaced with the warmth of undisturbed uptime after about 4-5 years -
You should give us a talk and slide show at the next meeting...
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One word all lower case.
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I just upgraded to openwrt on a bananapi router kit. It makes me happy every time I ssh to one of my devices by hostname instead of IP. Also set up DNS ad blocking and it's a game changer.
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Yeah, that was supposed to read preinstalled
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Yep, mostly my focus is not in state backed actors but script kiddies with limited understanding. If someone sees a WEP network down the road and my network with up to date encryption, no SSID broadcast, MAC white listing, and various other options to prevent external connections it makes the WEP network easier and a much better option.
If we are running from a bear I don't need to be faster than a bear, just faster than other people with me, lol.
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I see what you mean. But beyond modern encryption, nothing else really adds security there. A script kiddie is exactly the type that can change their MAC address or run aircrack-ng to get the hidden ssid.
I guess it’s like modern encryption is like running from a bear by flying in a high speed aircraft. The rest is like trying to add speed by blowing air out a back window through a straw. It might feel like you’re adding speed but functionality nothing is added.
Also I haven’t seen WEP encrypted networks is like 10 years. Do you see them often?
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Lol, yes, I have one down the street right now. Some people just don't ever update things that work.
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That’s crazy. Where do you live roughly? In Germany, and in the U.S. I don’t see any WEP stuff.
And like I can’t even imagine 802.11b/g even being considered to “work” with the modern internet. Like one mid bitrate 1080p stream would overwhelm it.
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Two words camelCase
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Australia, but regional, so not exactly near a capital city. People out here still use g wireless, though most are n or later, and plenty are using ac or ax. That said, we are in one of the few places that got full fibre to the home rather than fibre to the node so our internet speeds can be fairly OK, though you pay through the nose to get anything much better than adsl2 speeds. Honestly our government has been embarrassing over the last 15 years and they have done a lot of work to make us poorer and with less access to the internet.
We were going to have fibre to the home for all houses but our conservative government got in and ruined it, doing all sorts of cheaping out that made it way more expensive and less effective. We could have ditched copper lines entirely and had something future proof for at least 20 years but no, something something money, something something unlimited power.
I would love to see a turn towards future focussed governance but it seems to be unlikely right now. I mean in Germany they just voted nearly 20% for AfD and in the US they have the orange fascist and musk, so no hope there.
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Man I was glad to finally get fttp at my address, was greenlit early days then was rugpulled getting fttn.
Installers ruined a section of my inner walls (brick, mortar, plaster) which motivated me to run my own conduit to my rack. Wall is now patched.
Exterior works are trash too, speeds are great however.
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Yeah, getting closer with fibre allows better speeds. Copper is susceptible to so many issues like corrosion, interference, water inundation, and signal degradation. Lasers down a fibre are way more stable, have far less drop off, are way more resistant to water ingress, and have the benefit of future proofing. We currently use the best lasers we can but laser technology is really early in it's development. Lasers from 50 years in the future should be able to use the same fibre without issue and pack many more bits per second with different frequencies of light, overlapping signals, better processing, more coherent light with less deviation, and so on.
I think it is like rail, you spend a fair bit putting in rail and you can run trains on it for 100s of years. Roads are fragile, rails are sturdy and solid, and while trains have changed a lot over the years moving from coal to diesel to electric, but the rail system itself is something you can use with all those trains to move more and more stuff more efficiently over time. Good infrastructure leads to good outcomes.
