PC Tech Thread

Cheers, I've deleted all my cookies so will see if that remedies it.

Anywhere in The London that actually sells PC parts? I would like to go view potential cases with fellow neck beard virgins.

Try a few addins such as Ghostery and UblockOrigin in Chrome and see if they stop it.

Personally I don't bother with additional virus software like AVG, the built-in Windows one seems perfectly fine. I'll occasionally run Malwarebytes or Spybot Search & Destroy but that's mainly removing tracking cookies and the like.

the built-in Windows one seems perfectly fine.

Is that Windows Defender?

Get spybot search and destroy

Tottenham court....oh.

Actually, there's still a couple.
One called Epsilon looks alright.

The free one do?

Yes, I think that's what it's called now.

@M_V Might be worth a try of Firefox see if you get the same results.

Yeah, it's really good.

Question:

I currently have two Airport Extremes and one Airport Express (all wireless n standard) covering three main areas of my house:

1. Airport Extreme - TV / Sky / Xbox (#1) / Apple TV / Hue Hub - Main router / hub, connected to Virgin modem in modem only mode and wired to three of the items listed
   
2. Airport Extreme - Mac Mini / PC / Xbox (#2) / Femtocell - Main spoke, wirelessly connected to main router and wired to three of the items listed
   
3. Garden office / shed - Another spoke, wired to the main router (via a cable through the garden) and just used for wireless connection
   
   

I want to upgrade to AC standard for more throughput as I have 200Mbps fibre which the which is being limited by the wireless connection. I don't have any issues with signal dropout between the units.

What are my options? Ideally, i want all the listed items to be wired to the main hub or the upstairs spoke.

Should I just buy two of the latest Airport extremes and a couple of switches?

@Velocio: I seem to remember you offering advice recently but can't find it.

My advice was in the Mac/Apple thread, and was effectively: Throw away everything and go buy all Ubiquiti equipment.

Which is rock solid advice, except for the bit that involves spending lots of money.

I had a quick look at those.

What would i need? Three of the UAP-AC-LITE stations? They look like the only have one port....

Does that mean i would just go Virgin Modem > Switch > Wired stuff + Ubiquiti thing?

Would a switch power it?

I imagine he'd recommend one of these https://linitx.com/product/ubiquiti-edgemax-edgerouter-x-uk-psu/14588
and however many of these you require for coverage https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ac/

I think Ubiquiti switches were also recommended but I found those to be a bit of overkill when I looked. You'll probably need some sort of switch.

Not sure if the wired connections are necessary in number 2 given the connection is wireless.

I must have missed that... any chance of a link to the comment?

With Apple dropping Airport etc I am getting quite worried about my mono brand eco system... I can't face mixing brands, but, but, I might have to?!

Would a switch power it?

It's PoE (Power over Ethernet).

If you have a switch capable of this then it's just a single ethernet cable.

If your switch does not support PoE, then they supply an adaptor to add the power to the ethernet (eth + power in = eth PoE out).

I must have missed that... any chance of a link to the comment?

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/156865/?offset=10200#comment13297893

Cheers Boss!
Tempted to get the router and link it to my Airports... my Talk Talk POS can't be delivering the best speeds...

So... I could get three of these: http://www.4gon.co.uk/ubiquiti-unifi-ac-lite-p-6643.html

And two of these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-LINK-TL-SG1008P-Unmanaged-Configuration-Required/dp/B00BP0SSAS/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1479829574&sr=8-4&keywords=poe%2Bswitch&th=1

And be sorted?
Over what distance does PoE work?

The key thing...

The EdgeMax Router... every ethernet port is a physically distinct network.

Meaning a distinct IP range on each port.

i.e.

Eth1 = 192.168.1.1-192.168.1.255
Eth2 = 192.168.2.1-192.168.2.255

Typically, you want a switch after the EdgeMax so that you run a single network if you expect devices attached to different WiFi access points to talk to each other.

If you are all Mac, and that is using Bonjour or other auto-discovery stuff... then you do want everything on the same network.

Yes.

PoE goes 50m using 24v passive (which is typically the default).

Got ya, I think, just, maybe... close to over my head but i'll read up a bit.. cheers!

Great. PoE doesn't require a special cable, right?

It's really simple.

1. ISP Modem goes into modem mode.
   
2. ISP Modem connects to EdgeMax and the EdgeMax takes over router jobs
   
3. EdgeMax runs your DHCP, Firewall, inbound VPN, networks, DNS proxy
   
4. EdgeMax connects to a single Switch
   
5. Connect everything to your Switch
   
   

:)

The EdgeMax does allow you to go nuts... complex configs, like multiple networks in a building, but for a home system you only want to use 1 port on the EdgeMax.

PoE doesn't require a special cable, right?

Nope.

Bog standard ethernet cable.

I've tended to get Cat6 everywhere, but Cat5 works too.