Oh man there’s nothing disappointing about the iPhone 7+. I have one and it’s a great phone, the new Intel modem is fantastic, I can pull over 400 megabits from T-Mobile reliably and the loss of the headphone jack is absolutely the best thing to happen in a while. The improved audio quality is ver noticeable and there’s a better amplifier circuit included in the adapter so I can power my high end headphones a lot better with less clipping and definitely more output. The phone smokes anything Samsung created in terms of performance and actually has the same bench mark performance of the MacBook 2013 pro which in a phone ain’t half bad. And it doesn’t burst in to flames which is an even better option. Besides, the next years phones from Samsung are already announced to not have a phone jack as well. It’s time for that 100 year old phone technology to die already. I can put 3 billion transistors in the place of a phone jack and do a lot more useful things with that space than provide an outdated analog port. I’m not sure on your VPN question. I use either a Juniper SRX 550 or Palo Alto PA-5020 for my VPN testing / experimentation. That is absolute total over kill though for what you want to do. I use a gigabit circuit for internet at home though so I need a bit more horsepower on the forwarding side than the average and can justify it for work / take it as a business expense. You don’t need anywhere near that level of hardware for what you’re doing. I do the same thing and use airport extremes as access points which have done well but I’m thinking of upgrading these. I was thinking about some aerohive gear or maybe Aruba but again this seems like excess other than it’s nice to be able to test things in the home lab on service provider and large enterprise level gear.
On Sep 27, 2016, at 11:07 AM, Katherine Moss <Katherine.Moss@gordon.edu> wrote:
Hi all, Thanks for the support. I'm using Ubiquiti because it's the only thing that works seemingly with my friend's site-to-site VPN. I tried PFSense ... couldn't get it to work at all. I've not tried anything else, but I only know EdgeOS to connect with its kind. If you can think of something else, then by all means, but I will not, cannot, have a router that also does wireless support, so I don't care about that considering the wireless AP will be a separate device anyway. That's what my friend has and he loves it. You're probably wondering, then, why I'm so interested in matching networks with somebody else. It's because if I have an issue with something, he can assist with it easier and we all have the same hardware ... sort of like supported devices, you know? In terms of phones, since the iPhone 7's are so disappointing, and they do not have a headphone jack, any other suggestions? Another reason for Android is because I want to take more responsibility for my own device's security, patching, modding, and so on. I'm sick of the restrictive environment provided by Apple. ________________________________________ From: Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] on behalf of Scott Granados [scott@granados-llc.net] Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 9:58 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] possibly off topic: network configs and TVs
So a few things, the ubiquity routers aren’t that great, they do not have a very good forwarding rate so depending on your cable speed it might e a waste of money because you won’t be able to take advantage of the bandwidth. There gear is good for what it does especially for the money but some products are better than others, their routers are sketchy but their access points are quite good and so forth.
As for Android, I personally wouldn’t waste your time unless you have an employment reason to use it. Especially depending on the brand of phone you use the security support and timely patching is nonexistent.
For your TV, Apple TV is quite good and there’s the Amazon FireTV option as well. Where you will have access to the applications better on Apple TV the Amazon FireTV has good accessible support for the native apps and prime has a lot of content. Netflix is a very good option on Apple TV or I’ve heard if you remove the custom version of Netflix for some of the android based tv boxes and install the regular phone version it can also work quite well.
If you’re looking for a low cost router with a better forwarding rate Mikrotik can do the job if you can stand the interface. It’s accessible but sort of oddly constructed. You can get a wireless router that supports MIMO as well if you need WiFi support.
Xbox isn’t a bad option but I know next to nothing about it’s accessibility options or even if they exist. I have an Xbox 1 but I’m not the one who uses it, I didn’t even know it was possible. If you can though that’s a nice platform especially in terms of output options and quality of output. Oh if it’s important to you, the Fire TV from Amazon does support 4K.
Just some random thoughts that may or may not help.
On Sep 26, 2016, at 9:24 PM, Katherine Moss <Katherine.Moss@gordon.edu> wrote:
Hi all, I'm preparing to move and I want my network to be as configured to my standards as possible; none of that ISP provides the router configuration stuff. My thoughts are as follows: put my ISP modem into bridged mode and have a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter acting as primary router/vpn/firewall; DNS and DHCP would be running as Windows servers (please don't ask, but I don't know why I'm so picky about that). That's all well and good, but since I've heard that EdgeOS plays havoc with ISP-provided cable boxes (running ethernet's not an option seeing that my future apartment is an edition onto the existing house and the only connectivity available is Coaxial (there's not an RJ45 jack to be found!)), I'm looking for a solution where I can still watch a movie or watch Fox without having to pay for cable and introduce a device over which I've got no access or control. I've thought of the following possibilities so far: Xbox running the latest OS (since the gaming side of me's still there, so wouldn't be a waste of money connect to Netflix, Fox, NESN,, whatever with that in addition to music and what not), a chromecast, though not sure how accessible they are,, Apple TV, though not sure how well that would work considering I'm switching to Android on the phone eventually, and finally, my most basic but least-preferred option, get a basic TV with an HdMI output and connect my Laptop whenever I want to watch something, which, isn't often, really. Any other suggestions would be great. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
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