Category: general

price Ubiquiti devices are so good it\’s even less than the some of the home routers.

I went with EdgeRouter Lite
and went with 1 access point for now which is Unifi-AP-AC-LR with Broadbandbuyer I got 3 year free cloud controller access for this access point.

Router is very fast and can do lot of things we can only do with more expensive router like VLANs IPSec and PPTP tunnels BGP monitoring and lots more same with access points easy to install and setup.

overall you want be disappointed

well bought mine today I needed for an office move, you would think why you want walkie talkies it\’s actually use full u dont want to keep your mobile phone near you when you fixing and moving things. this one I bought is quite rugged they thought of every thing comes with a big case rechargeable battery but the good thing is you can use normal 4 AAA too so if you forget to charge and get up and going their is that option.

I haven\’t tested it far but it works fine in normal office size places. It\’s very clear too, it has some group call functions etc but I didnt use it yet but I\’m sure it will work

I\’m lucky enough to try the Cisco meraki MX 80 and MR26 wireless access points today. wireless access point is brilliant. I know it\’s cloud based very easy to setup and use.

I can split the network with out using VLANs and get it to work and connection is solid used 3 together will be enough for a large size office.

Firewall not so much to start it\’s very expensive. setting are basic, their is a layer 7 support I can block websites and things but some of the thing I have call the support to do it. like the MTU setting on WAN

Limited ipv6 support and they only have 1 type of vpn etc amount of money we pay I would expect to see lot more

Ok if you hate banks this is the way you and get back at them, credit card companies only make money if we pay interest. which is why they give cashbacks and points etc just so that you will use their cards.

get a cards that give you points or cashbacks use them for your day to day expenses but set up a direct debit you pay the whole money off.

Only spend what you have in the bank account. you might ask why you use the credit card it\’s safer than debit card. and you get cashbacks so they are paying you and not getting any back from you. It\’s a good feeling.

When I was young I fall into their trap as a 19 years old given a credit card and they kept increasing the limit to how ever much I wanted. ended up in lot of trouble. I thought they are doing me a good thing till I calculated the interest I was paying

I learn my lesson. If I wanted to buy anything I just save up. If I can\’t then I won\’t buy it. I know it\’s not an option for everyone. some emergencies do happen but most part this will work.

I read lot from http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/ they have lot of advice on how to save money etc.

apart from three all the networks are very expensive. O2 will charge you £1.25 receive a call and £1.50 to call out. Text will cost another 40p I know O2 give the TVu GO app but data even more expensive. £6 for 100mb some thig crazy like that.

Best bet if you are traveling and needed use your O2 number. get a Three phone on a monthly or pay as you go. run the tu go app you will be able to use the data from three and phone and text from O2.

I know you can do the same thing by getting a local sim. some countries it\’s not easy getting a local sim. and with out knowing the Language we might end up with something we don\’t need or work.

Three works fine anywhere but London. in London it\’s rubbish I think mainly because lot of users are on this. My Mrs uses it when we go north. It\’s works faster than O2.

what a mess, most of my clients are getting half of what they used to get with BE/O2 and constant drop out and pings are quite high as well now.

Most of them are just leaving to another ISP. it\’s a shame BE/O2 was a very good isp.

talktalk is not a very good isp but when they buy other small ISPs they keep the small isp as it is. which means the customer experience stay the same. shame talk talk didn\’t buy O2.

whole migration process was a nightmare specially if you are business and used the own equipment. they did send a mail out but most business lost access to the mail address etc. they should have send a postal mail not an email.

I use to buy all my home IT needs from ebuyer.co.uk. now they are very expensive compare to dabs.co.uk. I know ebuyer has an amazing tracking and ordering system but with price on each item differ from £10 to £12 I will have to go with Dabs. I have placed my 1st order will let you know how things go with that so far so good. all the prices are lot lower than last I checked it.

I went with the spec below only thing I changed is the motherboard Asus H81-PLUS S1150 Intel H81 DDR3 mITX as the this motherboard is £40 cheaper and  all the limitation h81 has does not apply to mITX build as I only going to have 1 hdd and 2x 4gb ddr3 ram etc. I don\’t need fancy features offered by the pricy chipsets.

It\’s an amazing router for a price I do deal with lot of watchguards they are good and solid but for only £185 this has everything a small business need, works with BT based fibre and any type of ADSL connection,

It has ipv4 and good ipv6 support as well, latested firmware even supporting Hurricane electric type of tunnel.

It has all kind of VPN even openVPN is their.

Only downside I can think of it\’s only has wireless N protocol. not the ac standard.

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