WiFi System

Get a mesh wifi system. Any will do. I use Google Nest simply because it ties in to my other Google devices and also functions as a speaker.

I'll try to explain it as simply as possible 👍 The box virgin gave you does both your internet connection (modem) and your wireless connection (router) They bog down when you start loading devices onto your network (the amount of things you have connected to the internet in your house), you would be

I just ditched my old Google wifi system for a Dream router 7, got it Wednesday and set it up last night, and so far it's great. Google wifi was far too restrictive and I needed an environment that I could learn on and break shit on with an isolated network while leaving the rest of my network worki

It's not just that you have two subnets, you have two firewalls. So, that behavior is expected, the BGW LAN can only see Google WIfi's WAN interface (the public IP). To reach a client of the Google Wifi subnet from the BGW subnet, you'd need a port forwarding rule in Google Wifi, and then access the

I don't know why availability would be an issue. All the items are in stock. This is what you would need for a "complete" setup. https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/ux7 -- That's your main unit. They are just as plug-and-play as most consumer routers these days. https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/a

My modem is wired into a smallish network box in my closet on the second floor. Is the modem a pure modem or a combination modem/router? It sounds like the latter. I could not get the wired back haul to work either, probably because all of the ethernet ports all plug in to the modem directly. Would

It is extremely easy to set up but it does not have user configurable advanced features like Asus routers. I guess that was the design goal. I do like being able to run WireGuard from my Asus router with a dynamic domain name and cert. But I don't have devices on the Google system that are only acce