Which is why I said "switch". It would be turning off connectivity to the firewall, not the firewall itself.spencerto wrote:As far as trying to prevent the "neighbors" from hi-jacking, I wouldn't suggest turning your firewall off at certain times. As we are monitoring your firewalls from HQ and may need to apply patches or updates to them (usually during off-peak times) it is helpful that they remain on and accessible.
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I'm curious how you would achieve that, without disconnecting the firewall from the Internet?russellhltn wrote:Which is why I said "switch". It would be turning off connectivity to the firewall, not the firewall itself.spencerto wrote:As far as trying to prevent the "neighbors" from hi-jacking, I wouldn't suggest turning your firewall off at certain times. As we are monitoring your firewalls from HQ and may need to apply patches or updates to them (usually during off-peak times) it is helpful that they remain on and accessible.
Unless a feature is made available in TM, to do this remotely. Is this what you envisage?
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I suspect he plans to cycle off the 16 (or 24) port network switch that's sitting on the LAN side, but not touch the WAN side of the firewall, or the firewall itself. This will allow CHQ to always see it as "up" and not panic that it keeps turning itself off.Biggles wrote:I'm curious how you would achieve that, without disconnecting the firewall from the Internet?
If I might make a suggestion to Russell...
If you have 2 switches available, put all your AP's on one and wired connections on the other. That way you could cycle off the WiFi, but not disturb the admin PC's.
I mention this because during my tenure as a finance clerk, I sometimes came in at odd hours as it better fit my schedule and I could also work undisturbed while processing the more confidential stuff, like FO checks.
Great work Tony (and the rest of the team)!spencerto wrote:Glad to see people are enjoying some of the new features including the graph.
If it's possible, it sure would be nice to have a button to force another firewall-to-CHQ update without having to wait the required 10 minutes. (OK I admit, in this instant world of ours, I'm guilty of getting impatient sometimes. :rolleyes: )spencerto wrote:One thing I noticed which we will be addressing in the next update is that the countdown timer for usage statistics is a little too strict. As soon as it hits the 10 minute mark it expects the new data to be available. We need to add a bit of "slush" in there before it checks again....like 30 seconds.
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You would still have to consider that the 881W is also a WAP. The only way that I'm aware of at the moment to limit the WiFi output of the 881W, is to remove the aerials.
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Yes, you're right. I overlooked that part. OK, so it will reduce the WiFi signal, but not kill it completely.Biggles wrote:You would still have to consider that the 881W is also a WAP. The only way that I'm aware of at the moment to limit the WiFi output of the 881W, is to remove the aerials.
(For the record, I'm more of a fan of addressing neighborhood issues, rather than avoiding them.)
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Considering that our 881W as now twice turned off the WiFi on it's own, that may not be a problem.Biggles wrote:You would still have to consider that the 881W is also a WAP. The only way that I'm aware of at the moment to limit the WiFi output of the 881W, is to remove the aerials.
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BTW... As a note, the new 881W are NOT shipping with external antenna - I just received an RMA device and NO external Antenna... so there goes that nice feature... hopefully we'll have the app available to use to shut it off from tm.
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Does it have an internal antenna or no wireless at all?JohnShaw wrote:BTW... As a note, the new 881W are NOT shipping with external antenna - I just received an RMA device and NO external Antenna... so there goes that nice feature... hopefully we'll have the app available to use to shut it off from tm.
Frankly, I'd rather not have the wireless in the unit. The best location for the firewall is seldom the best location for wireless.
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It has the wireless integrated, just not the external antenna's..... I agree with you about the access points however. Every installation my FM group did with the firewall made the wireless coverage worse in the building... wait... check that 8 out of 9, the last one the coverage was the same (the building is very small).
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Well, there's always aluminum foil....
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