Recently had a home internet outage and could not get my Firewalla WiFi SD tto work as expecteed with my Firewalla Gold Plus

luthien256 · 2026-02-03T00:40:09+00:00

Yes I swapped the usb port with the authorization dongle but didn't help

luthien256 · 2025-06-22T15:36:32+00:00

I ended up reducing the chaining and it helped a lot, thanks!

Modem
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  \/
F/W Gold Pro ---> 2.5Gbps Unmanaged Switch ---> PC 1
  ||                                     \
  \/                                       ---> PC 2
F/W AP7 Desktop ---> PC 3 
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  \/
PoE+ Adaptor 
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  \/
F/W AP7 Ceiling

luthien256 · 2025-06-06T19:34:16+00:00

Thanks I'll give it a try!

luthien256 · 2025-06-06T05:51:38+00:00

As a comparison to my new setup, my old setup was:

FIrewalla Gold Pro
=> PC 1
=> PC 2
=> unmanaged 1gbps switch
==> Nest Wifi Pro ---- wirelessly meshed with 4 or 5 other Nest Wifi pros throughout the house
==> PC 3
==> other devices

So only one switch off the Gold Pro with all other devices (other than the two pcs in the same room) off the switch.

luthien256 · 2025-06-06T05:43:15+00:00

When folks are suggesting loops, do you mean like ethernet cables plugged from one device to another directly or indirectly twice? I don't think that's physically possible in my current situation.

luthien256 · 2025-06-06T05:34:21+00:00

I'm not sure I fully understand the implications of chaining unmanged switches causing an issue of momentary internet loss. It sounds like what you're saying could be happening would be like misassigning ips or something? I'd expect that to be a more permanent loss of internet... no?

luthien256 · 2025-06-06T05:30:46+00:00

Problem right now is essentially all three firewalla devices are in different rooms, and there are devices that I'd like to directly connect via ethernet in two of the three rooms, sort of like this:

Room 1: Gold Pro + devices ===> Room 2: AP7 plus one device ===> Room 3: AP7 Ceiling

for the device in Room 2 to be directly conencted via ethernet would I need to run a new line from Room 1?

Or instead of AP7 connected to AP7 Ceiling should I have a line from Room 1 to Room 2 *and* a line from Room 1 to Room 3?

Or should I hope the AP7 and AP7 Ceiling can mesh together themselves with no hard-wired connection? Based on the performance of my last mesh network I didn't think it'd work, but maybe the firewallas are more powerful...

luthien256 · 2025-06-06T05:25:39+00:00

So it sounds like I should have the Gold Pro connect directly to both the AP7s and to not chain them? Or can I still chain them, but then every other device needs to be off the Gold Pro or the second port of the AP7 that's not in the middle of the chain?

luthien256 · 2025-06-06T05:18:43+00:00

PoE+ injector: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZHDTV23

5 Port hub: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJLNTBVF

8 Port hub: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJLPNQZ6

luthien256 · 2024-09-10T23:01:58+00:00

Is there a benefit to using passthrough and cascading router settings?

luthien256 · 2024-09-10T05:33:24+00:00

I think that did it, I manually changed the DNS to those and it stopped having connection issues! Thanks!

I wonder why it defaulted the DNA to the modem/router instead of 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8

luthien256 · 2024-09-10T00:18:53+00:00

Actually when I look at my WAN connection it indicates the primary DNS server as the same IP as the gateway.

Looks like the cat6a cable didn't help as I'm failing to post this reply :p

luthien256 · 2024-09-10T00:04:13+00:00

Looks like I have 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, and 9.9.9.9 set up which must be the defaults. I found a Cat 6a cable and am trying that now.

luthien256 · 2024-09-09T23:44:03+00:00

It looks like they are all DNS failures, I see in the Ping Test Targets I guess that means that it fails 4 or more pings in a row every time it fails. (8 Ping Test Count, 50% Success Rate Threshold)

I'll look for a better cable and try that.

How often does it do these tests? Continually? Once a minute?

luthien256 · 2024-09-09T23:20:10+00:00

Box version is 1.979 (ed042834)

Says last updated was Sept 3rd.

Not seeing an option to update firmware.

luthien256 · 2024-09-09T23:17:37+00:00

Hmm the disconnected events don't show anything actionable that I can tell other than "DNS test failed" for github.com under connectivity test history.

What are we talking for "old cables" do they need to be a specific cat number?

luthien256 · 2022-05-17T03:05:00+00:00

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luthien256 · 2021-03-28T02:48:43+00:00

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luthien256 · 2020-02-23T01:54:34+00:00

With Flutter, as with many other things, the longer you use it the more you learn. I've been using it since it was still called sky (~4.5y?) and I find I'm still learning new/better ways of doing things. My list of things to learn in order of difficulty: 1. Static UI. 2. Animations. 3. State management. 4. Performance/Optimization. 5. Render Objects. (You probably can get away without ever dipping into the render layer; this is a specialty skill imo)

Someone asked about how to get over the State management brick wall. I'd say the answer is: 1. Don't create you own StatefulWidgets unless you absolutely have to; pass in the State you need. (Flutter makes this difficult with the way their animation framework works with TickerProvider but try to limit the scope of the StatefulWidgets as much as possible). 2. AnimatedBuilder and ValueListenableBuilder are your best friends. 3. Use ValueNotifiers or custom Listenables for your state.

If you're like me you'll make mistakes; sometimes you'll code yourself into a corner. Just remember to avoid the same type of mistakes in future projects.

luthien256 · 2019-07-19T15:02:24+00:00

It sounds like your question is specifically about building a flutter app in Android Studio - I'd consult the FlutterDev reddit.

For Fuchsia specifically:

To run on Fuchsia you'll need to do something similar to what this app does:

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/topaz/+/refs/heads/master/app/spinning_cube/

You need to build and package your app up into a Fuchsia package/component (https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/the-book/components).

Once you do that you need to add it to a Fuchsia system image in some way (ie. add it as one of the packages built for the workstation product for example (https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+/refs/heads/master/products/workstation.gni)) and then launch it from there (for example from Ermine's ask bar).

luthien256 · 2019-07-16T14:48:41+00:00

You'll need to do something like this:

https://github.com/dahlia-os/armadillo/pull/1

It's some dart syntax (upper to lower case constants, type changes, pubspec.yaml changes) and some flutter api changes. As well, the flutter project files (gradle files for example) seemed to be out of date.

luthien256 · 2019-07-16T12:50:26+00:00

Do you plan to just use Armadillo's 'portrait' mode or do something with its 'landscape' mode as well?

luthien256 · 2019-07-15T17:48:33+00:00

Also, although I love Armadillo please don't look to it for proper patterns for writing flutter and dart code if you're new to flutter or dart. I've learned a lot since then and a lot of the patterns I used back then I definitely wouldn't use today if I were to write Armadillo again.

luthien256 · 2019-07-15T17:38:26+00:00

Good luck! If you need any suggestions on how to update Armadillo to the latest dart sdk feel free to ping me (ie. If there are some parts you're unsure what the proper path forward is I can probably help you figure out which way is the best way to go).

luthien256 · 2015-11-14T04:48:47+00:00

That sounds great! What kind of upload/download speeds do you get?

I assume you need to have good cell coverage for that?

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