ElevenNotesB
Ubiquiti Building to Building, does not get easier than that. Works on 60GHz and will go to 5GHz during snow or rain. Max distance, about 500m.
If you use Outlook, selfhost Exchange and you can set all the rules on the Exchange server.
WARNING: Selfhosting Exchange is a task you should not take lightly. You need to implement a few things to make it secure by default. Exchange had several issues in the past that allowed complete control of the Exchange server, which can be easily prevent if you host Exchange in the proper way! Besides security implications, Exchange is not a trivial software and requires a degree of knowledge to setup, but once you have it, you will never want to use anything else.
I love custom HA work flows that are specific to ones needs. Great job! Show’s the beauty of HA that most people miss when all they do is the standard stuff, but you can basically do anything you can imagine. I have door sensors and instead of only relying on a baby monitor, when my toddlers open their door after 2200, the lights turn on in the hallways (so they see something) and a light in our bedroom turns on as well as a notification on the phone. Because sometimes toddlers are sneaky and you hear nothing on the baby monitor. Set this up after I heard one of them cry two floors down (he went through the entire dark house alone down two flights of stairs).
Pretty simple answer: Wireguard.
Why? It’s the fastest of them all, works on almost all devices you can imagine, does not rely on any 3rd party like Tailscale with OICD or other IdP. Tailscale has its use when you are behind CGNAT and don’t want to VPS a Wireguard server somewhere with a static IP, other than that, it has no use in my opinion. I’m fully aware that I get downvotes from people who praise the zero trust principals of Tailscale and all the rest, but they always forget that you can do zero trust since decades with any network equipment (VXLAN) and add Wireguard to the mix. You can even run Wireguard in your local network to encrypt unencryptable traffic like NFS.
Check back in a few hours /u/Silencer306, this comment will have a few if not many downvotes.
- No. you mean Wi-Fi 6E, which introduces 6GHz, which travels even less far than 5GHz does, so it would only be fast in the same room as the access point.
- No idea what an AX value is.
- No, directional systems only work with line of sight, you should not mesh Wi-Fi at all but always connect all access points via ethernet.
- Use Unifi. Get two U6 access points (doesn’t matter which ones) and connect them via ethernet.
No budget. I’m willing to spend if needed.
Then I would recommend to get all Unifi. A router, a switch and one, two or three access points.
The point of a 10G NIC is to be 10x faster than a 1G NIC. Most 10G NIC’s only work at 1G and 10G, they do not do the new 2.5G or 5G, for that you need a newer 10G NIC that will use these lower speeds which in terms makes no sense because you can just get a 2.5G or 5G NIC instead. You confuse your internet connection with your local network. Your local network can run at 10G while your internet runs perfectly fine at 1G, the other way around the same. If you have a 10G internet connection you need a 10G local network to actually make use of that 10G internet connection. If you have a 1G internet connection, the only reason to have a 10G local network, is because you have lots of data that you regularly move around, and you think 125MB/s is too slow. Other than that, there is no need for 10G in any home network.
10GbE = 10 Gigabit Ethernet, regardless of what technology you use, be it 10GBASE-T or SFP+.
Test with iperf2, not 3, 2 uses multi cores, 3 doesn’t. SFP+ is always preferred over 10GBASE-T for using less power and getting less hot, and the added benefit that SFP+ supports everything.