Smart home devices not working
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I won't argue against using a separate AP because that is better in almost every way. But what exactly is the Asus WIFI device you were trying? How was it configured? Did you see any errors in the wireless logs when the IoT devices tried to connect?
I use a wifi interface directly in pfSense for IoT devices. It's even a USB adapter.
Those devices need almost no bandwidth so it's not really a problem in my particular situation.Steve
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@rebekahcraig said in Smart home devices not working:
Though I’m quite an old person (I’m 63
Not old my friend.. 57 here.. your not that far ahead of me ;)
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And I'm 69.
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@jknott well that is old ;) hehehe
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But I also have a half century of experience in telecom, computers and networks. My first LAN experience was in early 1978, before IP or Ethernet, and first Ethernet in the mid 80s.
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@jknott Remember Banyon Vines by any chance?
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@jarhead I remember it, but never worked with it. My first LAN experience was on the Air Canada reservation system, which had a proprietary LAN from Rockwell Collins. It used time division multiplexing in a ring. It ran at 8 Mb over triaxial cable and 2 Mb over coax. Each device had a time slot in which it could transmit and the destination device would listen in that time slot. I also remember ARCnet. It was covered in a course I took, but I never worked with it either. On the other hand, I did work with token ring, when I worked at IBM in the late 90s. One other thing I've done, which I doubt anyone else here has, is hand wire an Ethernet controller. I did this on a prototyping board for a Data General Eclipse computer, in 1989. My first Ethernet experience was with 10base5 connecting VAX 11/780 computers, in the mid 80s.
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We may have strayed off-topic.
But my first experience with any sort of computer network was Econet. -
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