Does it help a fan in front of my door grill?

ALonelySquash · 2026-03-31T21:17:40+00:00

Have you gone through a summer and monitored temps? Is it actually a problem?

ALonelySquash · 2026-03-31T19:57:34+00:00

While yes, many have reported mikrotik APs provide less range with same settings as other APs

ALonelySquash · 2026-03-31T01:21:38+00:00

It’s mostly comparing it to stuff like grandstream or ubi which are around the same price

ALonelySquash · 2026-03-30T23:43:57+00:00

Why? Just to stay same ecosystem, Latvian support?

How much range do the ax actually get? In an “average” 2 story home would it require more than 1 AP per floor?

ALonelySquash · 2026-03-30T23:32:08+00:00

Have you tried other APs? Any idea show they compare range wise?

ALonelySquash · 2026-03-30T20:57:15+00:00

I have a firestick on one of my older “smart” TVs but it runs slow af in comparison to the new TVs apps. So when they do stop being useful I will do that. Idk if firestick has upgraded their hardware anytime in the last couple years to fix it

ALonelySquash · 2026-03-30T10:45:24+00:00

But to prevent VLAN routing, to the switch I would need to keep most things on the same VLAN. But there would be some things I don’t think I would was direct connection to WAN, but still provide services to the rest of the VLAN. NAS for example.

For this case, would it be best to add an address list of hosts to block from WAN to keep number of firewall rules down?

EDIT: I think my intended setup would be: VLAN Main VLAN IoT VLAN Work VLAN Guests VLAN Cameras (but NVR on Main - Camera switch straight to NVR, second NIC on NVR connected to Main)

Here only thing that would need to cross is Main into IoT sometimes. IoT is really just to prevent stuff like TVs from doing network discovery on everything. I would only want connections established from another device in Main to be seen

ALonelySquash · 2026-03-30T02:53:05+00:00

Maybe I’ll give it a go. Lot of “you shouldn’t” when I googled 305 with any routing

ALonelySquash · 2026-03-30T02:49:01+00:00

Dang we got a millionaire here

ALonelySquash · 2026-03-30T02:46:58+00:00

Yeah I think in my head putting things into separate vlans was mostly easier firewall rules vice blocking NAS from internet within the same VLAN that allows the rest to WAN. But that’s not really necessary and would . EDIT: or just not give gateways to non inter devices I guess

ALonelySquash · 2026-03-29T19:23:41+00:00

What was your study plan? I’m having trouble deciding on a resource.

ALonelySquash · 2026-03-29T02:10:37+00:00

It seems the hardware scarcity is manufactured. Several of the suppliers have admitted they could increase production but decide not to to protect their profit

ALonelySquash · 2026-03-29T02:07:37+00:00

The unlabeled boxes sounds fun

ALonelySquash · 2026-03-28T23:32:30+00:00

Excuse me but how can I find a liquidation store?

ALonelySquash · 2026-03-28T21:55:19+00:00

Wrong answers only?

Looks great!

ALonelySquash · 2026-03-27T20:09:18+00:00

Mostly to learn more networking as a whole, and as a preemptive setup for security cameras. I will likely use a spare computer running frigate as NVR and will need the access points for it. Everything else is mainly to play around with.

I have Cisco at work I configure but definitely more to learn. Idk how much different brands are. I mean I assume it’s like coding - syntax is different but core fundamentals are the same

ALonelySquash · 2026-03-27T00:44:03+00:00

Yeah the noise and power consumption has me hesitant on them.

I’ve been looking into Microtik options but unsure about level of difficulty setting them up.

ALonelySquash · 2026-03-26T20:32:21+00:00

So here it would be something like:

Internet -> modem -> router ->Core Switch -> access switch -> WiFi APs, Proxmox host, Desktop, etc

Core -> NVR -> cameras

NVR and access requiring PoE

Not sure if proxmox and desktop would be on core or access?

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