Hi, Can anyone help me setup my modem to use VPN purchased from NewsHosting? Thanks, Goshawk
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Nelp needed to setup VPN on NetComm nf4v using Orcon NZ
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Help set up home wireless distribution system (WDS)
HiI would really appreciate it if someone can help me with my setup. I have a fibre connection at home that is connected to a Spark wifi router (Huawei HG630b). I get a signal downstairs and want to connect a desktop computer and a LAN printer to my network. The printer doesn't have Wifi only Ethernet connection. I have a spare TP-Link TD-W8968 router that I would like to use. My idea is that I would connect the TP-Link wirelessly to my Huawei router and then plug an Ethernet cable from the TP-Link to the desktop and another Ethernet cable to the printer. I tried using WDS and read about it online however I am struggling to get it to work. These are the steps that I followed:Huawei Config:Set the DHCP range to start at 192.168.1.100 (I read that you need to make sure that there is available range so I removed any IP addresses below the .100 so that they are not available to be assigned by DHCP)Turn on WDS on Huawei and enter the MAC Address of the TP-linkSet the wifi channel to 1Restarted the deviceTP-link ConfigTurn off DHCP on the TP-LinkSet it up in Bridge modeSet up wifi channel to 1Scan wifi signal to select the wireless network that is being broadcasted by HuaweiEnter the Huawei MAC Address in TP-LinkEnter the wireless network password Set up a new wireless network on TP-Link to have the a different name as the one currently being broadcasted by Huawei and assign a password for testing purposesRestarted the deviceI tried to connect the desktop to the TP-Link router by Ethernet cable however there is no internet connection on the desktop. I am not really sure what I am doing wrong. I would appreciate it if someone can help please trouble shoot this as I have spent hours on it and I just can't figure out why it is not working so any help would be greatly appreciated.
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BlueBorne Vulnerability
Looks like a major vulnerability has been revealed in Bluetoothhttps://www.armis.com/blueborne/Synopsis:BlueBorne is an attack vector by which hackers can leverage Bluetooth connections to penetrate and take complete control over targeted devices. BlueBorne affects ordinary computers, mobile phones, and the expanding realm of IoT devices. The attack does not require the targeted device to be paired to the attacker's device, or even to be set on discoverable mode. Armis Labs has identified eight zero-day vulnerabilities so far, which indicate the existence and potential of the attack vector. It appears only our iFriends are safe(ish).
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HG659b Restrict Inbound Connections?
Does the Spark HG659b have the ability within its firewall to restrict inbound connections to certain IP addresses or ranges? So, for example, if I open an external port, to restrict inbound connections to that port to certain IP ranges?This appears possible with other routers (eg http://www.draytekusa.com/restricting-open-ports-access-specific-source-ip-addresses), and I assume it's not possible with the HG659b, but I don't know my way around it's firewall, so thought I'd ask.
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Sonnet advanced mesh network communications
Has anyone had any experience with this real geeky product?? https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sonnet-world-s-most-advanced-mobile-mesh-network-communication#/ Peter
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Is no-ip OK with HG659b?
I'm going to be losing my windows live domain which currently provides ddns type access to my windows home server and the various applications I run on it.I'm losing it (pun intended) because my server is failing.I'm transferring the various apps on to other devices in my network.I've bought a Drobo NAS (I like that you can mix and match drives, the decision is made, please dont discuss other NASes ) but it looks like I cant use their me.MyDrobo.com for anything other than remote file access to the Drobo. So I need something else for website type access.I believe, and I may be wrong, that the HG659b router supplied by VF can only service DDNS addresses from DynDNS or No-IP.Only No-IP is free.Is this a bad solution or is there a better way?
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TP-Link TL-WDR3600 compatibility with Vodafone Fibre
Having 2 HG659 home gateways recently die on me, I'm looking to utilise a TPLink TL-WDR3600.The setup for the TP-Link WAN doesn't include anything specific for the Vodafone settings required, VLAN tagging ?Am I missing something, or is there a workaround by reflashing to a DD-WRT image ? Cheers
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Trouble shooting forwarding/ddns issues...
I would really appreciate some help getting my head around port forwarding and ddns and how to tell if its working or not, or if I've not done something right. I have a WHS2011 server with a Microsoft live domain (myname.homeserver.com). Its part of the WHS setup, not something that runs anywhere else.I have a website on that server which I can access remotely via myname.homeserver.com:port1.When I was using Unotelly I used the same domain name to keep my IP updated with them and that worked, so I dont think the Live domain is WHS specific.Now I have replicated the website on a NAS which I can access internally. I have put a new forwarding rule in my HG659b.So I have two forwarding rules now, two ports, two different internal devices, both with static IPs.Rule 1 : WHSWEB : PORT1 : WHSIP10Rule 2 : NASWEB : PORT2 : NASIP11(in the HG659b the devices dont appear as IP addresess but as MAC addresses)But I cant the NAS website remotely using myname.homeserver.com:port2. I'll need to get an alternative DDNS service at some point as the WHS server is being retired, but not until I can get remote access to the NAS working.I have tried substituting myname.homeserver.com with my.external.IP:port2 but still no joy, so that removes the Live domain from the equation right? The web response is "This site can't be reached. my.external.IP took too long to respond."I dont know if this means the site just could not be found, or it was found but was too slow.Is there anything I have overlooked?
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How to offer guest wifi access with a changing network key?
I have a couple of hobbies that lead to various groups of people gathering at my house on a regular basis. Our groups have had many people come and go over the years, some people only come for 2-3 weeks.The problem I've always had is ensuring that with a lot of people using my wifi on and off over the years I want to make sure I update the network keys regularly. I enable and disable the guest network before and after each session. Until now I have been changing my guest wifi network keys on a weekly basis and re-printing the QR codes (2.4GHz and 5GHz) each week. The printed codes I can then pin on my wall and people can scan and join as they walk in the door.I am getting sick of printing out QR codes and using oodles of paper though.So I thought, what if I update QR codes each week, save them digitally and then dump them into a public folder. I could have a single static link that would display the network QR. I could then single print the website URL QR and have that permanently on the wall. They walk in the door and scan the same QR code but it displays a new image each week.The problem is, the person can scan the QR code off the wall, be directed to a QR image ... and then what? They can't scan it because it's on their phone. How do I make it easy for them to join my guest network?
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Asus - Alternative firmware options
Thought I would start this thread so as to keep questions together and avoid side-tracking/hijacking other posts.As a starter.......My own preference is for Asuswrt-Merlin which is commonly referred to as merlin's firmware.Its basically the stock Asus firmware but has been tweaked to fix issues and improve it. The person that makes it has a good relationship with Asus and many of his tweaks get based back to Asus to use in their own updates. The benefits of using this alternative firmware is that it keeps the same look and feel as the original firmware.[about quote] "its primary goals are to enhance the existing firmware without bringing any radical changes, and to fix some of the known issues and limitations, while maintaining the same level of performance as the original firmware.It is also well documented on his own website but there is also a lot of support available from the user community and by merlin.I have two Asus routers. one as my main network (Asus firmware) and another for testing/projects/vpn, etc. (merlins firmware). For this reason I use merlins firmware as it looks close to the stock firmware and is easier to manage the two routers. There are other firmware options available and are possibly better but I have found I need to do a lot more reading to get things to work. eg with merlin's software its like a Toyota Corolla. Its familiar to drive and just works. The alternatives are more often like a Tesla where I have to do a lot more reading to get things to work. It might be better/faster and have a "ludicrous" mode but sometimes there's way too much involved in getting it to work. In other posts @michaelmurfy has mentioned advanced tomato. I do not have any experience with this so can't comment but it does look really good based on screenshots. A quick look shows that it is based off Tomato by Shibby which is another personal favourite but can be a bit too "Tesla" at times. LinksAsuswrt-Merlin (merlins website and downloads)Small Net Builder user community and support from merlinmerlin on GitHubAdvanced TomatoTomato by Shibby
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Fibre cables and SFPs
Where can you buy fibre cables and SFPs (10Gbit) in Auckland?Russells said it would take a couple weeks to get orders and the prices were quite high.
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Automated internet failover?
I know enough about networking to be dangerous (did my CCNA R&S a few years ago) but I'm kind of out of my depth on this one.First scenario:If I have two home internet connections, say UFB and Cable or UFB and Skinny 4g, each connected via a standard ISP supplied router. I want devices on the network to switch to the secondary connection when the primary connection is down? Assume that for <reasons> I can't remove or replace the existing routers. I could conceivably put additional hardware between the network and those two routers, if I did so, what if anything could I put in to automatically route traffic down the primary connection when it's up, detect when it can't reach the internet through that connection and failover to the secondary connection, and flip back when required all automatically.Second scenario:Two business grade UFB connections, each a UFB ONT connected to Cisco ASA, Fortigate, Sonicwall or similar device. Probably each going to a seperate ISP. How do I have fully automated failover like above? Brain says VRRP or similar between the devices, but because they are connected to the ONT via ethernet, I think that as long as that ethernet connection is up, the failover wouldn't kick in? I'm thinking that if we had our own AS and were running BGP we could achieve this, but not 100% sure if that would and would prefer a cheaper option than buying IP's and paying money to APNIC every year anyways :-) The ideal solution should allow for connection A to be the primary connection B for local subnet X and Connection B to the primary connection for local subnet Y, and allow failover either way.Is any of this possible? If so, how :-)
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Free Community UniFi Cloud Controller
I understand that for some of you getting into UniFi gear is a bit tedious because of the controller... Not anymore.Thanks to the kind folks at NexLevel Business Solutions (and @chevrolux) for donating a virtual machine I've now fired up a free UniFi controller for the Geekzone community to use.The server itself is managed by yours truly, I do have a fulltime job so will manage it in my spare time. This is intended for home/small business use. It is running the latest version of the UniFi controller software behind a nginx proxy hosted in AWS. Pricing for UniFi products is available Here.Setup:You'll first need to register for the UniFi portal and know the mac addresses of the devices you're wanting to add. You can find the mac addresses on the back of your UniFi device. Please send me a DM with the following details:Name: Your NameEmail Address: Your email address (I need to be able to send you a registration email)MAC Addresses of your UniFi Products: Please put in the format 0a:de:ad:be:ef:4a (lowercase).Once you're provisioned you'll be able to set-inform your devices. I have a script that checks the log files and will automatically inform into your site - you'll need to set-inform again once you see your device adopting in the portal.UniFi Access Points:Make sure that the UniFi is not adopted to any other UniFi controller before proceeding - if it is then you'll need to factory reset it. Please also ensure you've sent me through the MAC addresses of the device(s) you're wanting to add. If you're running an Edgerouter you can almost skip all these steps and look at this post.Once you've opened up your shiny new UniFi access point and got an account on the UniFi portal you'll need to inform it. Plug it into your network first off and download / install the UniFi discovery tool (Chrome Extension) - there will be instructions here to inform it (but this is not working for me - typical...) however it essentially involves clicking "Manage" beside your access point and informing it to http://gzunifi.nlb.nz:8080/inform using the default user/pass of ubnt/ubnt. You need to run the inform twice - the first time to make it show up under devices in your portal and the 2nd time to accept the inform (when it is seen adopting under the portal).The manual way when the tool doesn't work is to grab the IP address of your UniFi and SSH into it. Using Putty (Windows) or the SSH command (OSX, Linux) SSH into your access point with the username "ubnt" and password "ubnt" and run the command "set-inform http://gzunifi.nlb.nz:8080/inform" and you should get a response back. Note step 2 of the instructions that you need to do this twice when you've clicked adopt in the portal.USG:This is just like the UniFi AP however you need to ensure you've got internet connectivity to the USG first (via WAN1) - navigate to https://192.168.1.1 first to connect it to the internet then run the set-inform on it. You'll need to run this twice (when it is in the adopting stage in the portal) for it to be accepted.Tuning:The settings I recommend for the UniFi AC access points are the following:2.4GHz - HT20 (20MHz) (unless if you live in the middle of nowhere with no other WiFi congestion)5GHz - VHT80 (80MHz) AC models only otherwise 40MHz.Channel / Transmit power on both set to Auto.Band Steering - Prefer 5G (AC / dual radio UniFi AP's only).Airtime Fairness: Turn this on.Disclaimer: this is a community project. Uptime is not at all guaranteed however in the event it does ever go down for a period of time your networks will still stay running as normal. Backups are made by the server on a daily basis off-site and community-based help is available in this thread. Approval to the UniFi controller is based on users having at-least 10 posts on Geekzone, introducing themselves in the Introductions thread, actually being a member for a period of time and on my general approval - do DM me anyway as there are some exceptions to this case.There is also a post on the general security of this here (or below).
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How to setup a netgear router as a repeater with Spark
Hi there,I'm a spark fiber user, using the HG659 as a Base station. And i would like to have a descent speed/range in my house. I got heaps of ethernet wall socket so i was thinking to use my old NetGear D6220 as a repeater/extender. I got internet but I would like to keep the same network name than my base station, how can i do that ??? Any idea where i could find a step by step guide to configure it properly ? Cheers :-)
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New Networking Setup
This weekend I assisted @asmallchild with installing a rack under the stairs in his house and making everything look glorious. His setup is almost an exact clone of mine with the following:- Ubiquiti Edgerouter Lite on BigPipe 1000/500Mbit UFB- TP-Link 16pt Websmart Gigabit Switch- Ubiquiti UniFi AC-Pro (talking to the cloud controller)- A few Odroids + a Raspberry Pi:-- Odroid C2 as an Apache web server / proxy + GIT server.-- Odroid XU-4 running Ubuntu 16.04 used to download Linux ISO's.-- Raspberry Pi 3 running PiHole on Debian.- Synology DS416play with 4x 4TiB WD Red drives in Raid 5.Here is a photo of me installing it (didn't know I had my photo taken - complete with IPv6 HE shirt):Here is a picture taken with my phone of the AP on the wall:I think the end result came out looking pretty good:Home Network by Simeon W, on FlickrAlso, for good measure here is a Speedtest done on his network:
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Cabling distances
Can any tell me the distance that cat 6/rg6 cable should be spaced away from the main lead in power cable, the half inch black power cable, not sure what it's actually called.
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Spare TG582n modem\router as a repeater?
I have two of these Technicolor TG582n units. Could I set one up to act as a repeater?I have a workshop computer in an 50m=distant outlying tin shed. It can almost pick up the house TG582n signal, but not quite. A laptop outside the shed picks up the signal OK.So I wondered if I could mount the spare modem on the outside of the shed, in a wooden or plastic box, and configure it as a repeater?I'd cable it into the shed from the outside wall - about a 2m run to the computer.Possible?
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Mimosa PTP Link Tunning
Hi I have been running a Mimosa B5 Lite Link for about a year now been rock solid no problems with it at all. Link is 2.1Km and provides me with a VDSL connection to my rural house. I have a Draytek VDSL at the far end with the AP plugged into it. Near end is the Client which then connects into my home network. I am really wanting to know if the link is optimized, as mentioned I have not had any issues and can speed test between the two and get in excess of 750Mb when running at 80Mhz width, full Power, however given the VDSL is only 65Mb/20Mb I have it back at 20Mhz and 20dBm which provides a Link of around 100Mb which is fine. In regards to the aiming I have not spent to much time on this as it requires two people and a fair bit of fiddling given the distance. The far end AP sits on a roof on top of a 1.5M pole the near end is on a 9ft Steel Pole, it has good line of site between the two units. Attached some screen shots of the units and performance, really not sure how to interpret the data, I know the key is to have low Signal to Noise and do find if I wind it up this increases so feel the current configuration is about right given it is around 32dB.So really just looking for comments and if there is anything that could be changed to improve it.Cheers Stephen
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really bad lag streaming upstairs.... FritzBox 7490 down stairs... New wifi modem? What about Asus RT-AC88U
AllWe have UFB atr home, Fritz Box 7490, all firmware up to date etc..The UFB box and Fritz box are down stairs and in a office but the smart 4K TV and all other wifi devices suffer lag around the house especially upstairs.So what shall we do? I am really not wanting to run LAN cables all over the house (that what my kids are say) but must be a better way.Looking at purchasing Asus RT-AC88U? Or extender / boosters, but i think this may suffer as well?We really need to boost the wifi strength around the house and remove the streaming lag as much as possible..CheersStephen
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TP Link Archer C7 & firmware 160712 & Vodafone FibreX
Hello,I got Vodafone FibreX put on and initially had trouble accessing overseas content via my Samsung SmartTV (BBC iplayer, ITV) after swapping over to my TP-Link Archer C7 router. It would usually take several attempts to successfully launch video via the iPlayer. When I swapped back to the Vodafone HG659 router the BBC iplayer worked well.When I set up the Archer C7 router I downloaded a BETA firmware that would enable VLAN tagging ID values of 10. Without this the Archer C7 would not work with FibreX as the VLAN tagging ID values of the former firmware had a minimum of 16.It seemed to me that this BETA firmware may have been the problem with poor perfomance. Some weeks went by and TP-Link released a new firmware for Australia & New Zealand.My Archer C7 is hardware Version 2, and I tried the new firmware Archer C7_V2_160712_AU&NZ (Firmware Version 3.15.1 Build 16712 Rel.57168n)Although I was successful in connecting the Archer C7 with The BETA firmware to Vodafone FibreX, I have not been able to connect to FibreX using Firmware 160712 (which is supposedly optimized for Fibre Optic and FibreX).I have talked to Vodafone Tech support and my settings sound correct to them.As my FibreX account has a static ip, I have the following settings:WAN Connection Type: Static IPIP Address: 203.XXX.XXX.1 (Confirmed Correct by Vodafone)Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0Default Gateway: same as IP AddressMTU Size (in bytes): 1500Primary DNS: 203.109.191.1Secondary DNS: 203.118.191.1VLAN pageIGMP Proxy: EnableMode: NZ UFBVLAN TAG for Internet Service: EnableInternet VLAN ID: 10Internet VLAN Pri: 0 I tried enabling and disabling IPv6 Support, but that made no difference: 0 packets received.I'm hoping somebody out there has the Archer C7 on firmware 160712 working happily with Vodafone FibreX and tell me where I am going wrong.Many thanks,Tim
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