Think of a tropical storm or Cat 1 hurricane with fire instead of rain. Winds were up to 100MPH the other day, calmed down a little but are supposed to pick up again tonight.
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Ouch! Definitely worse than a hurricane.
Looks like our good friends have highjacked the thread and don’t mind it at all as I do it all the time.
Honestly I’m not sure which box has more horsepower, my MacPro 2008 has dual 3.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors and the Apple TV has the modern M12 Bionic. Hard to tell. I remember when Apple TV 4K second generation was introduced (that is what I have), I read somewhere that the processor was an overkill. I think Apple had something else in mind at that time as the device can be used as a hub for home automation and not just for streaming.
In any case, I will let you know once I put both through their paces. I just don’t want to jump the gun until I get close to getting back to the Cottage, sometime in April or May.
Well it is the “watercooler”, I seem to recall topics of discussion around those going all over the place. Far less aggravating than the stupid pointy cups.
x86 processors like the Xeon have hardware based AES encryption acceleration in them and can do very high encrypted throughput. I don’t know about any of the other processors there, anything that relies on the CPU for encryption will have some form of relatively low throughput limitation. May be a matter of trial and error. But 30 megs isn’t asking too much either, often it is the people trying to get hundreds of megs that wind up having to get one of those Mini PCs like I linked and running PfSense/OpnSense or similar on it.
It may also end up being a matter of placement too. The most sensible thing at the cottage would probably be to run the Nokia to the GL.INET then hang your wifi off that in access point/layer 2 mode only. But that same setup may not work out at the house with the faster internet and probably more complex stuff going on there. If the devices support L2TP then in theory they can be placed anywhere on the LAN and the Layer2/single subnet tunnel will work, but in practice it depends a lot on how each device is designed, whether they’ll forward ARP requests etc.
That’s often why people want to run the VPN in their home router, it simplifies things by keeping all the decision making and routing in a single place. Sounds like the Eero you have either doesn’t support VPN or makes you pay to access that feature?
Sort of. The hydrant isn’t dry, just low pressure. The booster pumps didn’t turn on cuz the power is off. Water being trucked up to by tanker. Now that the wind has died down below the 80~100 mph the helicopter & fixed wing are taking lead. Still no containment, 450 sq miles burnt. More fires starting, suspect arson. Some homes in Pacific Palisades are in the $20~30 mil range. Insurance heaven!
I heard a rumor some people are finding out their insurance cancelled their fire coverage at some point and they weren’t aware…
There are videos of people setting fires.
Couple more reasons I wouldn’t pick CA as a place to move to 
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The new policy didn’t include fire coverage and wasn’t disclosed, just omitted. Others exemption are mold, flood and acts of terror or riots. Have to read the doc’s each year Yes, its a mess.
I’m honestly surprised you can even get insurance in Cali or Houston at this point. They both seem to have the exact same disasters every year or two.
The best is the people stranded who can’t evacuate because their electric car is dead and Uber/Lyft are either insanely priced or plain unavailable (partially because all the electric ones are out of service).
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I don’t know. New reports show a fireman using a traffic cone to put out the fire. I saw another video where two guys were using women’s purses full of water to put on the fire (I hope this was a joke).
It is California. The Mayor cut over $20 million from the fire budget and gave away excess fire equipment to Ukraine. Bad management.
It’s getting that way in Florida, but due to hurricanes.
I was thinking more along the lines to run the Nokia to the GL.Inet and the Eero off the GL.Inet and have the Eero do WiFi and routing. You think that will work?
It doesn’t support VPN.
If you want the single subnet design it won’t work. There can’t be a router in the path between clients and VPN box in that setup.
I know you like the eeros but I wonder if at this point a good wifi router supporting VPN would be a better investment. You could use the eeros as extra APs if you need more coverage.
I was thinking double subnet, I think single will complicate things.
It’s not that I just like them, they weren’t that cheap to begin with even though I got them on sale. I hate throwing good money after bad.
In the end, I think all this is to improve my Plex experience as well as satisfy my curiosity to what I can achieve in terms of networking. As we mentioned earlier, the Plex issue could be a bandwidth issue and not throttling, as I have the free version of Plex that only uses software transcoding. That might be my issue. I can always buy couple of months worth of subscription and see if hardware transcoding will make a difference, but then it might not. Who knows 
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I still have couple of months to mull all of this over and chose a path of least resistance.
If you do the dual subnet, then that setup would work, but you’re passing through 3 routers which isn’t ideal. At the very least you’d want to disable one or two layers of NAT.
If the eeros let you set static routes, you could have it set up where the eeros send everything straight to the internet and are your primary router, and only stuff destined for the other location go through the VPN box (I believe you can have 2 devices connected to the Nokia right? even if not, may still be possible). Not sure what the setup at home is like, if you can have 2 devices off the ISP device there, but still should be workable if not.
If I go the two GL.Inet boxes I would put the Eeros in AP mode. I’ll let the GL.Inet do the routing and Eeros broadcast the WiFi.
That is correct.
I have my own Technicolor modem at home and has two ports, just like the Nokia has. One port is connected to the Eero and Eero is doing all the routing. I have switch connected to the Eero for all wired devices. It is pretty simple setup and works beautifully.