Network changes at home —
Not sure how to say this but… Apple sucks sometimes!
I, being the dutiful Applite that i am, purchased the Airport Extreme for my home. I bought it so that I get the most out of my 802.11 N experience. Being this is acting as my home router i have found some weird anomalies with its routing table. Sometimes it will “forget” the routing table. At these times, I am able to communicate to the internet via the default gateway, but am unable to communicate to other systems on my network. This greatly disturbs me as there is much that I am running on my home network.
In my glee brought upon by the hope of a brighter future without my Airport serving as the router, I purchased a Cisco 2611 with a few ADSL & T1 WICs. This handy device will give me the ability to vlan, single point of NATing (Double Natting errors suck…). Presently i am programming it to authenticate my DSL account then I can setup my network. Properly.
Another interesting thing I found. When running the Airport extreme with a Mixed environment (my wife’s laptop and my iphone are not N-capable), network efficiency is greatly reduced. My task after moving everything over to the Cisco is to configure two wifi networks one for N, other for G.
Categorised as: Network Administration