ip address

  1. AveryFreeman

    What would you recommend I do about a congested network segment?

    Hey, I manage a network at an outdoor restaurant we have a single subnet with a ton of devices. We have occasional gremlins and I am trying to figure out why. It's not terrible, but there's issues with reliability now and then - mostly latency issues (I think) which usually get noticed when...
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    Altice Fiber With Own (PFSense) Router (Idea)

    Hi All, Altice just rolled out fiber in my area (NJ) and I have been searching for a way around using their crap ONT/Gateway AIO. From what i've read, you need to keep the provided hardware and double NAT the network.. This isn't an optimum *pun intended* solution for me. So here is what I am...
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    Subnetting, Subnet Masks & vLans

    I've always just run everything in my 192.168.x.xxx network, all unmanaged switches, just everything, everywhere. I wanna learn more about selecting subnet masks, IP addresses (10.12.43.114 vs 192.168.1.114 for example), I wanna learn the difference between a subnet and a VLAN, and how traffic...
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    Help me understand IP addressing please

    Disclaimer: I am not an IT professional but I like messing/learning/building and making my wife mad as I spend $$$ on our home network. She thinks that having a huge rack server with tons of stuff is only for bussines environment. Well, not for me. So I will keep spending :) Currently, my...