Hi All!
Just wanted to give an update to some of the new features with IP Fire 2.25. One in particular, is “Network Zones”. I had an issue with my WAP and placement in a three bedroom home. Having upstairs and downstairs rooms and just one WAP made it hard for connections to get good bandwidth in all rooms. Now that is solved with bridging the WAP (Blue) and another NIC I wanted to use for a wired media box (Nvidia Shield with KODI). Now for a 1 GB connections I get about 780 MBs on the Nvidia Shield and the same upstairs on wifi (Using an i7 laptop) The only alteration I had to do is place two keystone 6e punch blocks one the Cat6e cable run and join them together with a Cat6e patch cable. (Livingroom to bedroom upstairs) … So far I like IPFire! It has a lot of security features I like as well, such as “Blue” accesss (Firewall), which means you have to give anything connecting to your network (WIFI) permission to join the network. Here is a screen shot:
For Blue access: https://wiki.ipfire.org/configuration/firewall/accesstoblue
Jazzie