I moved my cell service to Verizon and was able to add a “connected device” for $10/mo that has 16GB of LTE speeds then unlimited 600kbps afterwards, so I picked up the USB730L to go in my work backpack in place of the USB800, which now lives in the Pelican case and will be used ... Read More

After much brooding on all of this and realizing that I was running in circles as mentioned in the last post, I’ve decided to stick to the FortiWiFi as the portable setup. It integrates well with the other 2 FortiGates I have, and the advanced hardware support contract isn’t that expensive, so I’ll keep it ... Read More

So, I’m starting to think maybe I’m barking up the proverbial wrong tree with the setup. Sure, pfSense is awesome and having a proper managed switch will be nice and an actual AP vs. built-in radios is the better solution, but what am I doing except running myself in circles trying to figure out how ... Read More

Hi friends! I figured out the IPsec issue: I changed the IP the dial-up VPN the datacenter FortiGate listens on and the tunnel came right up when plugged into the public VLAN. Therefore, I don’t feel too bad about not swapping that firewall out for the SG-3100 eventually. Anyway, I had a little bit of ... Read More

I keep going back to pfSense it seems. Background info: my company has been doing a company-wide infrastructure refresh, and one of the “victims” was an old Alcatel-Lucent (Aruba) AP-115, which I took home with me. Therefore, it needs a project. What better than to modify Internet-in-a-Box further? Sounds like a plan to me! The ... Read More

I had today off for an appointment this morning, so I spent the afternoon getting WireGuard configured on the USG in place of an IPsec tunnel. It took be a little while and some futzing with the JSON, but I have it online and that network is reachable from both the DC and my home ... Read More

As people keep talking about WireGuard support in pfSense once it hits the FreeBSD kernel, I decided to do a quick Google at work to see if the USG-3 can do it: turns out the answer is yes, which solves the VPN issue. It should be speedier than IPsec anyway, so it’ll allow access to ... Read More

Writing this tonight to say that yes, we have a functional UniFi stack! I’d picked up a US-8-60W from Staples’ online store the other day as it was on sale, and it came in yesterday. I had some time tonight, so I reset the USG-3, dug out an old UAP-AC-LR which I reset, and set ... Read More

I had a thought the other day. I have a Ubiquiti UniFi Security Gateway that is not being used, as well as a UniFi AP: why not get a slightly larger Pelican case, that will still fit in my larger suitcase, and set that up, with one of their switches to power the AP and ... Read More

I hooked the hAP ac Lite back up today to work on getting it set up with the IPsec tunnel again. However, so far it’s giving me a little bit of trouble. I almost want to see if I can get back into the data center so I can put the SG-3100 in in place ... Read More