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Looking for Upgrade advice from R8500
Opinions matter, please share yours. I have a split level house (4 levels) 80' × 50'. I have used many wifi setups over the last 15 years and my current setup has been working, but now that the hou...
With a lot of the companies moving to their mesh routers connecting to alexa, auto updating, using some types of securitys, pretty much all of them are going to be "phoning home" quite regularly. Even some of the base models do that as they auto-check on updates, update times, etc
If it bothers you, you could use something like a pi-hole and block those requests.
Mr. Plemans
Yeah, saddly, it should not come down to having to add yet another piece to an already crazy puzzle. Not only the NG engineers, but all hardware makers should just stop all the "phone home" crap. Some reports from Orbi users place it's "phone home" checks at over 2.5GB/hr... yeah... no thanks. Even with a pi, that is still traffic on my network that is just not needed.
In the past, I have used Ubiquity stuff and yes, their interfaces can be daunting, but they work and they work very well.
As a bit of a jest, in regards to the Orbi users' im seeing 3 groups. 1. Users who have unlimited up/down who love it, 2. Power users who have limits but enough technical knowledge to make things like the Pi-hole, and 3. Users like myself who just dont like something chatting on my network like a teenager in heat that I have no control of. Lol
Still researching... ;)
Yeah, saddly, it should not come down to having to add yet another piece to an already crazy puzzle. Not only the NG engineers, but all hardware makers should just stop all the "phone home" crap. Some reports from Orbi users place it's "phone home" checks at over 2.5GB/hr... yeah... no thanks. Even with a pi, that is still traffic on my network that is just not needed.
In the past, I have used Ubiquity stuff and yes, their interfaces can be daunting, but they work and they work very well.
As a bit of a jest, in regards to the Orbi users' im seeing 3 groups. 1. Users who have unlimited up/down who love it, 2. Power users who have limits but enough technical knowledge to make things like the Pi-hole, and 3. Users like myself who just dont like something chatting on my network like a teenager in heat that I have no control of. Lol
Still researching... ;)
2.5gb per hour? Geez, thats around 1.8TB a month. Thats the equivent of an HD show running in the background continuous.
I have used the RBK40, RBK50, SXK30, and RBK750 from netgear.
I'm on a data cap so track data usage pretty closely and none that I've used came anywhere close to that.
Not calling you a liar, just saying I'd be betting on something else going on in those situations to be using that much data.
You do need to take the forums with a grain of salt as the users on here, are the ones with issues/problems. You'll find issues on all the makers forums because thats what they're for.
I'd recommend reading a few reviews/tests to see how they perform and look at the forums just for an idea of support/help that they have. Again, all you'll find is issues because thats what its for but at least you have a rough idea what they are.
I used to use smallnetbuilder for a lot of reviews that were pretty legit but they haven't been doing as many reviews as they used to.
Like shadowsports says, most of the business/prosumer devices are pretty solid in performance and stability. I haven't used many of them but I've heard great things about them.
- Lol... yeah, a solution forum like this DOES have it's inherent share of "not my mistake" individuals. And any open public forum is full of "my way is right" folks... i always do my due diligence and source info from many places. I will say i hate the fact that even the "consumer groups" have been showing their fair share of bought reviews. So much so that i really just glance at their suggestions on many items and pay them no mind in my final decisions. At least in the past, their bought reviews sounded plausible, now, not so much... lol
As for the mesh stuff, i like the idea of opposite ends, but probably will go overkill and add a 3rd. As for manufacture, i am reading up on them as time allows.