Ubiquiti

{Wire}guard from your ISP

April 11, 2018
Internet, Security, Networking, Providers
Ubiquiti, Wireguard, Depricated, Mullvad

WireGuard aims to be as easy to configure and deploy as SSH. You establish a VPN connection by simply exchanging public keys, and the rest is transparently handled by WireGuard. There are many other technologies, however wireguard is uniquley interesting for: cryptokey routing: the first principles simply mapping public keys and sets of allowed addreses, making wireguard easier to grok for deployments. endpoints and roaming: also initial principles that facilitate NAT traversal and utilization of dynamic addressing through keepalives. ...

Dynamic DNS via EdgeOS and Cloudflare

May 16, 2017
Networking
Depricated, Ubiquiti, Cloudflare

Dynamic DNS is an essential tool if you’re your provider is unwilling to provide you with a static address. On almost all residential connections with the large providers you’re not going to be able to obtain a static address unless you convert over to one of their business accounts, then pay some hefty amount like 15USD monthly. I’ve used several DNS providers and have been with Cloudflare for a good while now due to their literal speed. ...

Home Network, a novice Design

May 16, 2017
Networking
Depricated, Ubiquiti

I’ve written before about network hardware selection, where I surmise that Ubiquiti’s EdgeMax products are what I typically rely on when building out a network. Here I’ll lay out what I think is a good design for a home network using some of the inexpensive EdgeMax and Unifi products. It might seem silly that I would include Unifi in a discussion of implementation with EdgeMax, but really you don’t have a better choice for wireless access point than what Unifi offers. ...

Network Hardware Selection

February 6, 2017
Providers
Mikrotik, Ubiquiti

After several deployments of varying size and complexity, an offered opinion on the advantages and disadvantages of choosing Ubiquiti hardware for your next project. Originally written in early 2017, there are some updates from early 2018 relating to technical/ideological facets that have come up in the last couple years of operating Ubiquiti equipment. The article makes some assumptions: You’re growing tired of that ddwrt or tomato router you’ve felt so cool operating for the last several years. ...