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<blockquote data-quote="NightShade" data-source="post: 2872133" data-attributes="member: 29706"><p>You can generally buy from them or at the store. I know a lot of people who want to just buy it and be done.</p><p></p><p>I am in the camp of if they are one package they have a open door into your internal network and they are pretty well guaranteed to be able to access your home wifi with their equipment. Plus if you start adding stuff and need to do a port forward you have less options available. I run openvpn on a different port on my server than what it is coming into my home on. My routers have the ability to take in on a port that is generally never blocked and route to whatever I want. It's a huge advantage when you hop on a free WiFi and they have deemed a site unacceptable for viewing. Connect to my home and pass all traffic over it and ignore their limitation, plus if a place only opens internet ports to traffic and I need something else my vpn allows me full access no matter what port. I mention this because my father has a combo and it is limited to a straight port forward, have two apps on the same port you will need to make changes. Plus the security settings had to be changed to even make things work correctly.</p><p></p><p>If you want something for a simple network and you will never do anything advanced as well as feel they are trustworthy having access to everything in your home go for it. </p><p></p><p>If you EVER want to do something more advanced seperate will be better in the long run. Plus the combo devices have limitations on bandwidth and later on when you jump to a new tier that requires more channels you will have to buy a whole new combo = more money now and later. Want better wifi buy a whole new modem combo again. I have an old P4 2.8Ghz with 4GB of ram and it will easily support gigabit speeds and a ton of users all I have to do is swap the modem. Once I can get a few parts I will likely be doing a pfsense or opensense build.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NightShade, post: 2872133, member: 29706"] You can generally buy from them or at the store. I know a lot of people who want to just buy it and be done. I am in the camp of if they are one package they have a open door into your internal network and they are pretty well guaranteed to be able to access your home wifi with their equipment. Plus if you start adding stuff and need to do a port forward you have less options available. I run openvpn on a different port on my server than what it is coming into my home on. My routers have the ability to take in on a port that is generally never blocked and route to whatever I want. It's a huge advantage when you hop on a free WiFi and they have deemed a site unacceptable for viewing. Connect to my home and pass all traffic over it and ignore their limitation, plus if a place only opens internet ports to traffic and I need something else my vpn allows me full access no matter what port. I mention this because my father has a combo and it is limited to a straight port forward, have two apps on the same port you will need to make changes. Plus the security settings had to be changed to even make things work correctly. If you want something for a simple network and you will never do anything advanced as well as feel they are trustworthy having access to everything in your home go for it. If you EVER want to do something more advanced seperate will be better in the long run. Plus the combo devices have limitations on bandwidth and later on when you jump to a new tier that requires more channels you will have to buy a whole new combo = more money now and later. Want better wifi buy a whole new modem combo again. I have an old P4 2.8Ghz with 4GB of ram and it will easily support gigabit speeds and a ton of users all I have to do is swap the modem. Once I can get a few parts I will likely be doing a pfsense or opensense build. [/QUOTE]
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