It’s been three years (give or take a couple of weeks) since Netgear released a firmware update for my network switches.
The S8000 (GS808E) was meant to usher in a flagship low latency and gamer friendly switch. Can’t help but feel Netgear abandoned it shortly after it shipped.
Wondering if it’s time to replace the four 8 port switches I have dotted around our home. But with what? I use a #Firewalla Gold in router mode, and eeros for Wi-Fi (they replaced #Netgear#Orbi units that were also poorly supported).
@bazurk Sorry for the late reply. Was travelling and on a social media break whilst doing so.
I hope your FWG has arrived and you’ve got set up? Hopefully in router mode too?
I have one FWG at home, then a Purple I take travelling with me.
The purple has been connected to our Airbnb internet via Ethernet, and I’ve put a GL-Net Beryl travel wifi box on the other side of it. Fabulous for routing internet via home (site to site Wireguard VPN) or just general protection of family internet from any potential sniffing locally.
The FWG at home works brilliantly. Haven’t gone full VLAN network segmentation yet but we do have group of devices with different rules. Am using DoH with my NextDNS premium as the upstream resolver.
I have another FWG at my Dad’s. We have a site to site VPN in place that works well for our Synology NAS boxes to talk to one another and do backups. Also have Plex servers in both locations.
I then manage two charity installs. One for Scouts and another for a community radio station that my Dad is the Technical Lead for.
Dad has a Purple that he uses for outside broadcast connections back to the station, again via site to site vpn.
@bazurk It’s all very easy and simple to manage. That’s what I like about them. As I’ve got older I want to spend less time maintaining and experimenting, and more time on functional usage or just other stuff. Firewalla give me this.
I did look at their MSP function but I found it prohibitively expensive to manage the boxes I do, so rely on the app on iOS, iPadOS or macOS.
How are you getting on and did you have any questions?
The Gold SE is not technically out yet but they are sending me a beta unit (final hardware beta software) in the next couple weeks. Very much looking forward to it.
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