Hello! IDrive is horrific backup software IMO but people use it and it eats bandwidth. It’s not a preset in layer 7 rules in wireless firewall settings. Anybody know how to nerf it? ... View more

Wanting to add another MR 74 to this mount   Will have two patch antennas (2g/5g) pointing the other direction in the direction of the finger pointing  .   different channels obviously.     are they too close?       ... View more

I think this is wise for me as I have a lot of guests come and go. So I switched it on on my WLAN, both SSIDs - regular and guest. I don't want any complaints.    If somebody decides to torrent and they use a VPN, it will likely evade this rule, but then it would also evade anybody in law enforcement who would blame us, right?      Bonus points - For that matter, does VPN circumvent all Layer 7 rules?  ... View more

Hey all. I usually write about the retreat center I manage but this is about another site I help out with nearby which is a residence.   Its VERY rural. No cell signal on any carrier rural. No other wifi in the area at all. Miles off the highway.   Two buildings. First building has an MR84 with dual omnis (seen in the distance below On the front peak of that building - about 200ft) connected to an MX64 which is in turn connected to a brand new Viasat satellite modem providing 30mbit/3mbit of high latency goodness. It actually has worked very well. There is an MR52 inside that far building supplying indoor signal which is also connected to the MX64.    The second building (the one I am on top of in this picture) has an MR74 (in frame) with a set of omnis on the 2.4 connectors and a 5ghz sector on the bottom pointed directly at the MR84 as you can see. This MR74 is then connected to a PoE+ switch indoors that has a MR52 on it as well creating a "wired hop" so that the MR52 uses the 74's connection and doesn't try to get its own. It has work flawlessly. The MR74 has gotten a fairly consistent 95mbit mesh link to the M484 even though we aren't using that much bandwidth ever per our satellite max bandwidth. But its been stable and awesome.    For some reason in the last week or so the mesh speed between the 84 and the 74 has plummeted to 17mbit or so. Its meshing over 5ghz so thats not the problem. Not sure what could be going on. The only thing that changed is I did the most recent firmware update on the MX64 that came out. Not sure how that would change anything.   The MR84 has been using an 80mhz channel for 5ghz while the MR74 has been using a 20mhz wide channel.  @PhilipDAth had mentioned that the differential may be because we just aren't using much bandwidth and its tuning down for more stability. Fine. But again Ive pulled nearly 100mibt over this link as is for at least a month without hiccup.   Some more data   About 20 minutes ago I told the network to do the update auto channels from the radio settings page. All seems fine but still low link speed. Currently the 74 reports a 16mbit link speed with a 1723 "avg metric" which is damn good. It has a 51db connection to the MR84 over 5ghz with less than 4% packet loss. Thought?    from MR74 ... View more