Sure they have - but the haven't been available for the everyperson until about 10 years ago.... even though not really mainstream until about 5-7 years ago.

That said - because smart phones have been out since the early 2000's there is no reason someone should really consider it amazing today.....

@scottalanmiller said in Damaged/Lost Iphone in default setup - HIPAA secure?:

@Dashrender If the question is "is it secure by HIPAA standards" then yes. I know of no HIPAA requirement to go beyond encryption.

I agree on the letter of the law.

what about the password protecting said encryption? I don't recall anything stated in the law regarding that - so if your pin is say 1111, aka super easy to guess - would you still consider yourself protected under the requirements?

@scottalanmiller said in Damaged/Lost Iphone in default setup - HIPAA secure?:

If the question is "Can Israeli quasi-government hacking agencies get your data if necessary", then no. But it was never secure at all.

LOL - Not sure where the Israeli quasi thing came from - but thanks for the laugh.

The default configuration of Iphones for a while now is all data is encrypted at rest as long as a passcode is in use on the device (PIN).

Let's assume the "reset iphone after 10 bad attempts" is not enabled (which is default), would you consider the data secure in the following situations?

Lost?

Damanged/unable to be wiped - sent to manufacturer/warranty vendor?

@JaredBusch said in TP-link business switches?:

@scottalanmiller said in TP-link business switches?:

Yes, that's what I'm talking about. It's free and they host it for you. We've been using it for a few years. It's really quite nice. It's different than Unifi, which I can't explain. But it does a good job.

I've been using UNMS since it came out. They rebranded it to UISP a couple years ago. I had no idea, or forgot, that they had a free hosted version of it.

Yeah free hosted version as long as you have 5+ devices attached to it.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Coffee time, discussing new ways to distribute team pay, editing some videos.

distribute pay?

Yes, we pay across several countries so taking the payroll (the company money in hand intended for employee salaries) and putting it into their hands is a complicated and costly endeavor.

man - what a PITA - no just simple direct deposit.

How do you deal with paying country taxes, etc?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Coffee time, discussing new ways to distribute team pay, editing some videos.

distribute pay?

@scottalanmiller said in AP's geared toward home use?:

Like your food box... the subscription is mostly for the selection, prep, and delivery. But you compared the cost of buying food... which is not the service being provided. That's why people can't tell that often, there is better value in subscriptions if you need the services that come with it.

There was zero prep other than bagging the exact ingredients - which I understand isn't zero value, but it's pretty low.
If I pay myself the same likely low wage they pay their pickers in the warehouse - go shopping and bring that stuff home - it's likely I'll still save money - including mileage on the car.

The biggest value add is - what's for dinner. And the reality is - there is HUGE value in that - it's one less food discussion between my wife and I.. lol

@scottalanmiller said in AP's geared toward home use?:

Everything that people actually care about is "what comes with either." Typically subscriptions include support and updates. Typically straight purchases do not. Few people manage to evaluate how much they pay in updates, support, service, etc. and try to compare the cost of buying vs. monthly and never actually compare the same items.

Absolutely! And this is why from a business POV I think leasing/subscriptions is likely the best way - 1) as you already said subs typically include maintenance/support, but possibly more important 2) the business itself doesn't bauk at the cost of support/maintenance.

@Pete-S huh - I'm sure prices are some higher now.. but $200 for a 24 port switch seems high, not low - but JB will just tell me to shutup and go away now...

@Pete-S said in AP's geared toward home use?:

@Dashrender said in AP's geared toward home use?:

I'm looking for recommendations for APs - yes APs not routers for home use.

Something that doesn't require a remote controller - though I suppose a controller setup by the vendor would be OK - basically a solution where the user doesn't have to worry about the controller.

I agree that a controller is not needed for a few APs.

When I said - the user shouldn't have to worry about the controller, I meant they shouldn't have to setup the system that makes the controller work - I'm completely for a controller in a more than 1 AP situation, which is common in the home users I support.

It shouldn't be a problem to configure a couple of APs manually - not as long as the APs support it. If that is what you want.

We've used d-link in the past with good results. I've used tp-link media converters, poe injectors and a few of their other products so I'd look into tp-link for APs as well.

I've only used d-link's and tp-link's business products though, not their consumer products.

yeah - TP-Link is on the radar for me to look at.

@JaredBusch said in AP's geared toward home use?:

For home use, not being setup like a business, you use the mesh router setups on the market today.

From Ubiquiti, it is the AMPLIFI line

From TP-LINK it is called Deco

Home users should never have business gear setup unless they are a hobbyist or something.

I completely agree - business class stuff is way to challenging for most home users...

In Scott's listed example - those home users are personal of businesses he has relationships with... and from the sounds of it - they are offering to support, at least to a limited degree, the home users for free.

@scottalanmiller said in AP's geared toward home use?:

@Dashrender said in AP's geared toward home use?:

We are being nickeled and dimed to death with monthly fees now. Some of which I really actually don't mind - hopefully the continuous revenue stream means the vendor is working to keep things updated/secure and not leaning toward hardware obsolescence as a money making scheme.

This is an emotional reaction that is not correct. People say this all the time, like they say that "cloud is just someone else's computer", but we know that that's incorrect. Common sayings are rarely accurate.

Subscription services don't cost more, they change how we pay. Humans have an emotional attachment to objects and see paying for an object differently than they see paying for a service. But a service often has higher value at equal or lower cost. If we let computers decide what's best financially for us, they'd normally pick subscription models - because over the long haul they cost less in most cases (if they don't, that vendor's products stop being competitive.)

And some services, like Unifi, have NO monthly costs if you have any existing infrastructure. If anything, they've outright lowered costs compared to traditional solutions.

20 years ago my router didn't cost me anything after the inital purpose. But if you're a vendor like Netgear - you're not going to offer cloud controller to home users at no extra fees - you're either going to raise the cost for hardware to offset the cost of the cloud service or your going to charge end users a monthly fee for it.

It's like cameras you can buy - included in the prices is live streaming - but if you want to store that video for later viewing, that's an extra fee - that's the nickel and diming I'm talking about.

Now - I realize that 20 years ago (for many) that wasn't really an option, so this new charge is a whole new feature - aka value - they didn't have before. But it's just one more thing we get to spend money on.

I'm trying to think of a subscription service I pay for where I save money compared to what that service replaced - that it itself wasn't already a subscription service.

Cable is easy for me to look at. My cable bill was around $130+ (internet was another $100 - yah no competition).
My new streaming servers:
Hulu - $13.90
Netflix - $15.49 (my actual cost is $6.50 because subsidized by T-mo)
Disney+ - $4.42 (purchased 36 months upfront for $159)
AmazonPrime - $11.58/m - paid yearly $139

Total monthly - $36.40 Savings over over $90/m compared to what I paid for cable. Now that said - I did increase my internet to $150 vs $100, so new actual costs are more like $86.40, savings of $43/m compared to cable days - and a hell of a lot more value, as Scott said because I can use these services anywhere I can get internet (or nearly so).

But again - I'm trying to think of another thing I subscribe to today where I save money compared to the other way.

Well - now that I think about it - my wife has subscribed to food boxes over the past 5 years - we've gone through at least 4 companies, normally keeping them for 4-8 months, then stopping for whatever reason. But I can tell you, the cost of those boxes is way more the cost of the food in them if I just go to the store and buy it - plus the portions don't leave any left overs. sooo cost savings - pretty sure that's a negative.

@gjacobse said in AP's geared toward home use?:

I run UBNT here at the house - before the newer AP I have now I had two APs (Model UAP).

The controller was - of course easy to setup. But honestly doesn't have to run 24/7 - only when you need to make changes. It will run on Windows 10, right along side your day to day software. And push come to shove - you can still recover a lost controller password from the db just as you can in Linux.

You can run the UBNT controller from a Raspberry Pi - if you could afford one (practically) right now. My controller currently runs on an old Dell 5440 Laptop that also runs the SDR radio server.

Currently - I'm running three SSIDs,.. but looking to decrease and finally add the IoT partition.

May not help,.. but also may. It was nice when one of the UAP failed I ordered a new one and didn't have to do any provisioning - adopt and done.

The controller based solution is what makes that awesome... but having to run something on your computer or in a cloud service like Vultr, etc - no consumer is going to do that.

We are being nickeled and dimed to death with monthly fees now. Some of which I really actually don't mind - hopefully the continuous revenue stream means the vendor is working to keep things updated/secure and not leaning toward hardware obsolescence as a money making scheme.

That said, I feel we're reaching a breaking point.

@jt1001001 said in Grandstream GWN7660/GWN7664:

@Dashrender I've only done simple config so far of a couple demo units using the built in controller. Grandstream's interface; while intuitive; is very slow. Firmware updates are known to have issues with Grandstream devices in general; no exceptions with the AP's. Many times you have to do leap frog updates if you don't keep up to date (not to mention Grandstream changes their auto update website occasionally without telling anyone!).
Why so many SSID's? I usually try to keep at as few SSID's as possible to avoid airtime congestion.

Interesting you mention changing the GS firmware site. That's just a crazy issue for them to introduce!
Maybe it's a way to get away from older non supported devices - in which case they should just have a different firmware site for each device...

@jt1001001 said in Grandstream GWN7660/GWN7664:

@Dashrender I haven't tried Master/Slave failover on the built in controller yet, I'm supposed to get a new demo unit to play with hopefully in the next week or so; then I will have 3 to test with and can report on what I find.

I'm not sure how important this is - as long as all the additional APs will stay running while the master if offline, it's less important - hopefully you've backed up the config from the master - then you just create a new master and restore - again hopefully it's that easy.

Thanks.
Odd that it's called an access point - but has a WAN port on it.

@jt1001001 said in Grandstream GWN7660/GWN7664:

@Dashrender We resell the product and as others here have stated they are OK. I'd probably stick with Ubiquiti.

Why though?

I watched a walkthrough of the GWN and they support 32 SSIDs. Unifi only support 4. Anymore, 4 is simply not enough in my opinion, 32 is likely overkill.
I also love the fact that one of the units can be the controller, and a second one can be a slave controller/promoted to master if the master dies, AND it supports GS's cloud controller.

I'm looking for recommendations for APs - yes APs not routers for home use.

Something that doesn't require a remote controller - though I suppose a controller setup by the vendor would be OK - basically a solution where the user doesn't have to worry about the controller.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

That said; it’ll be 90 today with a heat index of 100-105.

My whole weekend was 94 with 104HI. Pretty toasty.

The whole week here in NE is about the same - Saturday 100+ HI likely 110