*This post was originally posted at AVNation.tv, but I felt that it belonged here, as well. As a residential integrator, you’ve spent countless hours learning the ins and outs of, say, Dolby Atmos, HDBaseT, how to dim LED fixtures, the nitty gritty of your chosen control platform and more. Commercial systems integrators invest in similar […]
Apple Airports Abhorrence Admission
This post started as a long email that I edited just a bit to make more sense here and I thought it made for a reasonable blog entry. Enjoy… [intro to email removed to protect the innocent] These devices are so dumbed down, appealing to the general consumer who has no idea how to setup […]
Update OpenDNS….with a Raspberry Pi!
I don’t know if you’re aware but, there’s porn on the Internet. Lot’s of it. I mean, like, a lot lot. As a father of three, one of whom is entering her teenage years, it was time for me to revisit some DNS filtering using OpenDNS. Sure, I could chain proxy servers on my network […]
802.11ac is not the future….Round Two
Here we go again. Another post on the benefits of the newly ratified 802.11AC standard. In my first post I explained modulation and how it applies to the .11AC user. In this post I want to focus on MU-MIMO, Multi User – Multiple Input Multiple Output, and what that brings to the table. In order […]
Enable Multicast in UniFi System
Yesterday, we discovered that Lutron is requiring multicast in order to connect to a RadioRA2 main repeater. Why? They couldn’t answer after waiting 20 minutes on hold for service. Doesn’t make sense to me since the station is attempting to connect directly to the repeater’s IP address so it should be a unicast connection. The […]
802.11ac is not the future…
802.11ac is the latest, ratified standard in wireless networking and it is not the future. It is here, now and it rocks. There are a number of improvents to the existing 802.11n standard that we have been enjoying since it’s ratification in 2009 in 802.11ac. Not the least of which are 256QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation), […]
2014 Mikrotik MUM
Having had some time to relax and reflect on the 2014 Mikrotik MUM held in Pittsburgh, PA, the following were my personal highlights… 1) Soft promise release of the new RB850Gx2 by end of this month (Sep. 2014) I want to get my hands on this board. With dual core PPC architecture, we can move encryption off […]
Your Wi-Fi Sucks…
I’ll bet you bought a single, consumer grade wireless router and plugged it in wherever your modem is with no regard for best signal distribution. I’d wager that you didn’t do any sort of scan for neighboring, contentious APs (Access Points*) and I’ll bet you wouldn’t know what to do with the results if you […]