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@scottalanmiller said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

I've only noticed in the last few months a sudden shift in using it correctly to people thinking that random other letters could be used to mean bits or bytes. People not knowing how to use it at all I've always seen. But the K/k or M/m thing I've only noticed recently. Some new trendy misinformation I can only imagine. Like people trying to sound cool using "revert" to mean "reply".

I've seen it longer than that but never consistently. It seems to fade in and out of popularity, especially when it comes to commercials for ISPs. And I hear revert instead of reply all the time, but that's because my support team is in India.

@scottalanmiller said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@travisdh1 said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@travisdh1 said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@Dashrender said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

So update on this:

... use 2/3 of the ports for WAN connections,

Don't you mean 2/5?

and run the third port to an AP/switch I have running with dd-wrt.

Why are you using the dd-wrt? The ER-X is a firewall/router. I'd use UAPs for APs.

The one I was looking at was this one: https://smile.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeMax-EdgeRouter-ERLite-3-Ethernet/dp/B00CPRVF5K

Am I looking at the wrong one?

That would be a great one for what you need to do with it.

For almost twice the price, like @Dashrender said, is it worth the double memory for a home network? Even if my combined internet speed is 200Mb/sec, is it worth the extra upfront money?

Ah, at only 200Mb/sec, you should only NEED 400mb/s, so the ER-X and it's 500mb/s (bits, not bytes unless I've missed a huge trend in what ISPs are quoting), so yeah, stick with the ER-X.

Also, more than slightly off topic. I was always trained that a capital letter denoted bytes while a lowercase letter denoted bits. So networking was always 100mb/s and file sizes were always 100MB.

See, I always saw it was based on whether the "b" was capital or not. MB = megabyte and Mb = megabit. But I also see mbps and Mbps used in networking, so I'm not sure what the "official" standard is.

Mbps is Megabits. MBps is Megabytes. There is no lower case M. And really it should be Mb/s and MB/s.

Remember that when you are dealing with only bits and bytes it HAS to b/s and B/s. If you use any letter other than the b/B to indicate that, you lack the ability to have it work consistently.

Ok, I usually always see the M as capital but I have seen documentation, posts, and advertisements using mb, and I have usually chalked it up to either non-technical marketing people doing the typing or just laziness in typing it.

@JaredBusch said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@travisdh1 said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@Dashrender said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

So update on this:

... use 2/3 of the ports for WAN connections,

Don't you mean 2/5?

and run the third port to an AP/switch I have running with dd-wrt.

Why are you using the dd-wrt? The ER-X is a firewall/router. I'd use UAPs for APs.

The one I was looking at was this one: https://smile.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeMax-EdgeRouter-ERLite-3-Ethernet/dp/B00CPRVF5K

Am I looking at the wrong one?

That would be a great one for what you need to do with it.

For almost twice the price, like @Dashrender said, is it worth the double memory for a home network? Even if my combined internet speed is 200Mb/sec, is it worth the extra upfront money?

Just use the ER-X ($50) and the UAP-AC-LITE ($77)

That is $127 shipped with Prime.

Yeah, the ER-X will be what I go with. I'll just stick to the AP I have for now until I upgrade to the Unifi AP.

@travisdh1 said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@travisdh1 said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@Dashrender said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

So update on this:

... use 2/3 of the ports for WAN connections,

Don't you mean 2/5?

and run the third port to an AP/switch I have running with dd-wrt.

Why are you using the dd-wrt? The ER-X is a firewall/router. I'd use UAPs for APs.

The one I was looking at was this one: https://smile.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeMax-EdgeRouter-ERLite-3-Ethernet/dp/B00CPRVF5K

Am I looking at the wrong one?

That would be a great one for what you need to do with it.

For almost twice the price, like @Dashrender said, is it worth the double memory for a home network? Even if my combined internet speed is 200Mb/sec, is it worth the extra upfront money?

Ah, at only 200Mb/sec, you should only NEED 400mb/s, so the ER-X and it's 500mb/s (bits, not bytes unless I've missed a huge trend in what ISPs are quoting), so yeah, stick with the ER-X.

Also, more than slightly off topic. I was always trained that a capital letter denoted bytes while a lowercase letter denoted bits. So networking was always 100mb/s and file sizes were always 100MB.

See, I always saw it was based on whether the "b" was capital or not. MB = megabyte and Mb = megabit. But I also see mbps and Mbps used in networking, so I'm not sure what the "official" standard is.

Looking up instructions for how to setup the dual-wan load-balancing, I found this:
https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/205145990-EdgeRouter-Dual-WAN-Load-Balance-Feature

I'm assuming this would work with the ER-X?

@travisdh1 said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@Dashrender said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

So update on this:

... use 2/3 of the ports for WAN connections,

Don't you mean 2/5?

and run the third port to an AP/switch I have running with dd-wrt.

Why are you using the dd-wrt? The ER-X is a firewall/router. I'd use UAPs for APs.

The one I was looking at was this one: https://smile.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeMax-EdgeRouter-ERLite-3-Ethernet/dp/B00CPRVF5K

Am I looking at the wrong one?

That would be a great one for what you need to do with it.

For almost twice the price, like @Dashrender said, is it worth the double memory for a home network? Even if my combined internet speed is 200Mb/sec, is it worth the extra upfront money?

@Dashrender said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@Dashrender said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

So update on this:

... use 2/3 of the ports for WAN connections,

Don't you mean 2/5?

and run the third port to an AP/switch I have running with dd-wrt.

Why are you using the dd-wrt? The ER-X is a firewall/router. I'd use UAPs for APs.

The one I was looking at was this one: https://smile.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeMax-EdgeRouter-ERLite-3-Ethernet/dp/B00CPRVF5K

Am I looking at the wrong one?

That's an ER-L, not an ER-X. Nothing wrong with either. I suppose you could see a performance increase in the ER-L over the ER-X, but for home, this seems unlikely.

The ER-L is nearly 2x the price of the ER-X and does not have any switch ports on it, also does not use nor provide POE for an AP.

Also, don't really care about PoE in this case. I have outlets that will do the job. However, if I go with the X and by some chance get a PoE AP, then that would be handy.

@Dashrender said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@Dashrender said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

So update on this:

... use 2/3 of the ports for WAN connections,

Don't you mean 2/5?

and run the third port to an AP/switch I have running with dd-wrt.

Why are you using the dd-wrt? The ER-X is a firewall/router. I'd use UAPs for APs.

The one I was looking at was this one: https://smile.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeMax-EdgeRouter-ERLite-3-Ethernet/dp/B00CPRVF5K

Am I looking at the wrong one?

That's an ER-L, not an ER-X. Nothing wrong with either. I suppose you could see a performance increase in the ER-L over the ER-X, but for home, this seems unlikely.

The ER-L is nearly 2x the price of the ER-X and does not have any switch ports on it, also does not use nor provide POE for an AP.

https://smile.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeRouter-Advanced-Gigabit-Ethernet/dp/B00YFJT29C

So this one?

Also, the reason for using the dd-wrt router as the AP/switch is because of cost, mostly. I don't have equipment that can handle the speed and dual-wan connections I want to throw at it, which is why I was looking for a router that could handle it. But I do have APs that will work, so until I can afford to drop the $$ for new APs from Ubiquiti, then I'll just stick with what I have.

@Dashrender said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

So update on this:

... use 2/3 of the ports for WAN connections,

Don't you mean 2/5?

and run the third port to an AP/switch I have running with dd-wrt.

Why are you using the dd-wrt? The ER-X is a firewall/router. I'd use UAPs for APs.

The one I was looking at was this one: https://smile.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeMax-EdgeRouter-ERLite-3-Ethernet/dp/B00CPRVF5K

Am I looking at the wrong one?

Avatar: The Last Airbender (rewatching so I can show the missus The Legend of Korra)
Kyo Kara Mauo!
Black Butler
Ouran High School Host Club

If you liked Burn Notice, and have Hulu, I'd check out Shut Eye:
Youtube Video

So update on this:

I will be starting at Spectrum/TWC/Charter one week from today. I know people who work there and the cost of them giving you internet and tv, etc is negligible. So the plan is to keep my current 100/100Mbps FiOS and then get whatever the highest level TWC connection I can and run both, considering one will be basically free. Just to be sure, the ER-X can be setup that way, correct? The plan is to get an ER-X, if that's the case, use 2/3 of the ports for WAN connections, and run the third port to an AP/switch I have running with dd-wrt.

Thanks,
A.J.

@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Holy crap! Is it going to be a full moon tonight? I have been propositioned 2 separate places today by crazies online.

Almost a new moon from what I found

Youtube Video

Finished Naruto Shippuden recently. Re-watching Avatar: The Last Airbender with the missus so that we can move on to The Legend of Korra soon. We're also watching Kyo Kara Maoh! and Ouran High School Host Club. She's a shounen-ai fan, what can I say? Lol

@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@thanksajdotcom

Creator of Ghost in the Shell doesn't care. Said that it's not even a real human body and therefore has no race. I do still think they whitewash the hell out of everything in hollywood though

And the whitewashing of this is horrible. Although, I did hear William Dafoe is supposed to play Ryuk in a Death Note movie, and I must say that I approve. Take his face when he's crazy Green Goblin from the original Sam Reimi Spiderman movie, make it resting crazy and not active crazy, and that's the fucking face of Ryuk. It will be interesting to see how they do it. But as a casting choice, I can't argue that one.

@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

Alsways the first thing on my mind when this topic comes up..

This line from Ghost in the Shell.

when altering ones mind becomes as easy as programming a computer what does it mean to be human.

http://www.tea-after-twelve.com/fileadmin/user_upload/Issue_2/Vinicio_Films/Ghost-in-the-Shell.jpg

Still mad about them casting an American to play a central role in what is a Japanese movie. The problem is the cultural differences between the two, especially for a movie as deep as Ghost in the Shell, is going to make diehard fans upset, and misrepresent it to those that don't.

Too many people become enthralled in learning the technology they want to work with and seem to forget the purpose for the technology in the first place. Active Directory is great, and knowing how to setup, troubleshoot, and administer it is fantastic. But what's the reason for it? Centralized management, which allows for greater control and efficiency in the business. It's a problem of being taught facts without understanding the context behind those facts, and that's a problem that affects the job industry as a whole, not just IT, although IT is usually the field where it's most dramatically seen. People going for finance or business management understand that their tasks are to suit the business needs, and the skills they bring to the table are to serve that purpose. But IT seems to go down this rabbit hole that the technology is king above all else, forgetting what the purpose of the technology is in the first place.

I constantly explain this to users, helpdesk people, and people looking to get into IT. I see people going to school for CIS or CS all the time so they can "get into IT". I have actually looked at people before and said "no, don't go to school for IT" and I get confused looks like I just blew their mind, and not in a good way. Explaining that IT is a tool used to meet business needs and that the technical aspect is, to be perfectly frank, confusing to most people.