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Billion 8800 NL or AXL.
24-08-2015 12:46 PM
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I have read reports that the GUI isn't too user friendly but I can always use the Billion tech. support to help me there.
All advice will be most welcome & many thanks in advance.
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24-08-2015 2:07 PM
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Only you can decide whether you want the extra bits with the AXL - mainly the dual wifi bands and the gigabit LAN
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24-08-2015 2:50 PM
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Quote mainly the dual wifi bands and the gigabit LAN
Thanks Jim. I understand the dual wifi bands but what is the advantage of the gigabit LAN?
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24-08-2015 3:19 PM
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24-08-2015 4:15 PM
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Quote If your other computers etc. have gigabit LAN cards
I guess that NL will do fine!! Thanks Jim, is the wireless range OK?
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24-08-2015 4:16 PM
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24-08-2015 4:57 PM
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Quote from: Oldjim (unless your hard drives limit you)
And although slightly off-topic, a SSD (solid state drive) is a great investment to speed up your system. Hard drives are often the slowest link in your system, and a SSD is blazing fast. I bought one for my laptop and the difference was amazing. I got rid of that laptop to buy a better one and whilst I wait for it, I put the SSD in an older laptop that I had previously written off because it was slow. The old laptop is actually performing great with the SSD, and if nothing else it proves that the original hard drive was the weakest link in the system.
Apologies for changing the topic, but thought it worth a mention.
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24-08-2015 4:59 PM
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24-08-2015 8:00 PM
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If you set up the guest under it's own group and activate isolation, it will work fine unless you disable the guest wireless.
When you re-enable it, it puts the guest part of the network back into the main network group and things get a bit confusing as IP address conflicts can occur if you're using a separate DHCP server. You also lost all the isolation between the networks.
Not sure if this is fixed in the latest firmware but I've asked the question on their support forums and been promptly ignored
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24-08-2015 10:18 PM
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24-08-2015 10:47 PM
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I.e. main router will hand out (via DHCP) an IP address from 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.253 while the guest network will be from 192.168.2.2 to 192.168.2.253 etc.
If you have a separate machine on the network which is acting as a DHCP server then strange things happen when the guest network is turned off and on again as the router will also try to hand out an IP address to a guest machine while the machine is actually connected to the main network which is also handing out IP addresses. The router also starts filling up its log with error messages.
The only way to move the guest network back to how it should be is to delete it and create a new guest group.
I only found this out after my Stepson had misbehaved, I removed his internet privileges (he uses a guest network on a timer) then reinstated them the next week - he then had full access to my main network even though previously the guest network had been isolated.
Quite a major bug really but as long as you remember this happens you can keep an eye on it.
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