Hi Guys,
Hope everyone had a good christmas,
Ok, story so far, in my original post i was trying to find out about port forwarding and DDNS to try to access my home network remotely with my iPhone 5.
The only remote app i've got working ok is the Synology native app into my DS212j NAS box, n that's not brilliant, compared to a Cloud app like Dropbox which connects nearly instantly on a good 3G signal.
Put the shub back into router this morning to get Virgin to check out the speed we are getting, if your using another router, they will not help untill the shub is modem, we use most stuff on wireless, three laptops & four iPhones, not been showing good speeds on the speedtest app on my iPhone, Virgin said, try the laptop wired, 62mbps !
So that's sorted, left shub in router, and switched EA6500 back on, also still in router, works OK, trying on both laptop and iPhone,
Next trusty old Cisco E4200 V1 in wired bridge mode back, tested, OK,
one little prob there, connects ok on 2.4ghz but not 5GHZ, is 5ghz disabled in bridge mode ?
Next, Edimax repeater in wired bridge mode, fine.
It all seems stable at mo, will give it time n see how it goes, then prob start switching stuff off on shub n see how that goes.
What i'm thinking now is, Cisco EA6500 is a new router, with not the usual local accessed router page, but it uses CiscoCloudConnect which you need a working internet connection, with no local backup option, which is abit bad really if your internet connection goes down,
People have had a few probs with this service, usually after firmware updates, which have been about two or three, check out this post -
http://homecommunity.cisco.com/t5/Wi...542800/page/29
If my system maintains stability, i may put the E4200 back into router, put the EA6500 into bridge whilst Cisco are maturing the firmware, to use for a good wifi signal in the lounge where we access the internet alot, it'll look ok next to the Tv because of its low, no external aerial design, we already have a ethernet cable into the TiVo box, so i'll plug the EA6500 into that, shorter cable into TiVo, so it'll give two ethernet ports plus two USB ports easily accessible.
I don't desperately need the shub's LAN ports, but if the shub can be used like this to an advantage, thats ok with me,
hope you guys stick around on this, just in case something goes wrong ?
Whilst on the chat to Virgin, they tried to sell me their Security Software n tech help service for £10 a month, is it any good ?