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I never got my test email, either, so I'm going to check settings here later today.

And trust us, Skyzoomer, when we hear about a problem, we don't get offended. We start engineering!

Looking forward to what you find about test emails not working.  Thanks!

For what it's worth I've been using keepass since 2012. If there's anything better than that then I'm all ears but I have this on my computers and my phone with the encrypted database in cloud storage. So the password must be something I can type in without it being saved in keepass (all my passwords are very long and you couldnt easily look and type it out).

My easy password is the name of my sisters friends dogs uncles fathers nieces human owners daughter.

After some Googling, I discovered that LastPass is very popular but was hacked plus requires a premium subscription of about $12/year to use its mobile app.  KeePass looks good, is open source and is totally free.

Could you explain how you keep your KeePass encrypted database in cloud storage for use on your computers and phone?

Welcome to Skyzoomer -

For problem 2 you could also use a password manager like Lastpass which will save all your passwords for you.

Thanks for your suggestion.  I'm currently saving all of my passwords in an Excel file encrypted by truecrypt.  I'll check Lastpass to see if it suits my needs better.

Best regards,
Skyzoomer

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Second problem... well, emails work fine for me. I've sent you a test email, please let me know if that arrives. If it does, there may be an issue with the code as regards the updates email. Moving the post may also have affected updates, which would be something I'd like to test, as well.

I just checked the email address in my profile on the networking-forums.  It is correct.  I checked my email but no email from you.  I have received email from other websites today on that email address, so I know that email is working.

As for the password issue, there is a link for "Forgot Password" that will allow you to enter your email address and click submit, which kicks off an automated password recovery feature. No need to contact the admins for password resets.

Yes, that is the link that I tried 3 times.  Never received any email from the networking-forums at all, at any time.

Oh, just thought of something.  As I recall, when I registered, entering my password showed dots and not the actual password.  I'm not 100% sure about this but to the best of my recollection.  If it is indeed showing dots, maybe show the actual password being entered.  In my case I would have noticed that my caps lock key was engaged when I thought I was entering lower case alphas.  Just a thought.

Thanks for you kind attention to this matter.  Hope it's not something wrong at my end, or with my gmail account.
Skyzoomer

I'm a new member and wanted to let you know of two problems that I experienced with the networking-forums.  I don't see a way to let you know privately so posting here.  This is not a complaint but just wanted to let you know for possible improvement.

After registering, I was immediately allowed to post my question.  That was fine.

Problem-1:
When I accessed the networking-forums the next day, I was not able to find my post in the security forum.  I had no clue why it disappeared.  Later, after a bit of searching, I discovered that it had been moved to the "Home and small office networking" forum.  Maybe having a post in the security forum when posts are moved would be helpful.  (I was in guest mode during this time as I was unable to login per problem-2)

Problem-2:
After registering, the first time I tried to log in the next day, I was unable to.  I kept getting a password error.  I clicked the forgotton email link, entered my email address to send my forgotton password to my email but I never received any email.  I tried that 3 times but still never received any email. ----- Then I had an idea.  Maybe my caps-lock was on when I created my password when registering.  Entering my password with all caps worked. ----- What I never was able to find was a way to contact the networking-forums admin to ask for help and why I wasn't receiving the email for a forgotten password.  If I hadn't tried the all caps password, I would still not be able to post on the networking-forums.

If it helps, I have not been receiving email notifications of responses to my thread.  I see "UNNOTIFY" at the top which I believe means that I should be notified of responses. 

Just wanted to let you know.  Feel free to remove this post if you want to.
Skyzoomer

Probably as a LAN to WAN is the best way to go, as an AP is a headless device, so you're correct with that.

I'm not familiar with the N300 itself, but my guess is that you are right in assuming the LAN to WAN mode is going to be your best chance of getting security where networks can be kept isolated from each other. There should be options to toggle for those settings. I know I had the same options on several home routers that I've used in the past.

deanwebb,

Thank you for your confirmations.  I'm going to change the son's N300 router from the current LAN to LAN connection to a LAN to WAN connection.

If anyone sees a flaw in the configuration picture that I posted that will compromise security between the parents, son and daughter, please let me know.

Thanks all,
skyzoomer

Moved to "Home and Small Office Networking"

You have three networks there... the question is, how is the router set up? If it allows routing between the networks, then they are not secured as you seem to desire.

The primary router has its normal wireless for use of the parents with their own SSID and password.  I set up a guest wireless for the daughter on both 2.4 and 5 ghz with different SSIDs and passwords.  I'm thinking that will provide the security that they want as long as they don't know each other's passwords.

I'll discuss the son's setup below.

And, yes, speed is an issue for whoever is sharing a line with the son, especially if he has a Steam account.

The son has a desktop and a laptop.  He's the only one using the N300 router.

Is it possible to use a wireless range extender? It is placed where it has a moderately strong signal from the base point, but offers an SSID that feeds into that base point's SSID at extended range.

Actually, I had setup a wireless range extender for the son as my first try.  It was working OK but the range extender died.

The family already had the N300 router, the wireless range extender, and the pair of powerline adapters when they were trying to get reliable service to everyone.  it wasn't working right so they asked me to help them.  The N300 was in the parent's home office in a back room downstairs.

I bought the Nighthawk R7000 router and relocated the cable modem to the downstairs kitchen and mounted the R7000 on a wall.  That brought it close to the daughter's upstairs bedroom so the R7000 serviced the parents and the daughter via wireless nicely with strong signals for both.

I used the wireless range extender that they already had to service the son in the far upstairs bedroom.  The range extender died a week ago so I used their existing powerline adapters and N300 to service the son.

My question is if I connect the son's N300 router as a LAN to WAN connection with DHCP enabled, will that provide the security between him and everyone else that he wants?  I think so but need confirmation from you guys.  I believe that setting up the N300 router as an access point (the way it is now) will not provide the security.  Please confirm.

Thanks!

If you care the A/C power line adapters are 1/2 duplex, so you will some some speed issues there.

So far, the son feels the speed is fast enough for what he does.  Not a gamer type.

You'll need 3 diffrent SSIDs one for each with different passwords to get in.

Yes, there are different SSIDs for everyone with unique passwords for each.

For wired you'll need 3 different vlans.

Just using what is shown in the image that I posted.

Thanks.

A friend asked me setup a network for his large 2 story home.  My proposed setup follows:



The family wants 3 separate networks where each cannot see the other networks. 

I already have the daughter's wireless as a guest network.  Will this isolate her from the others where she cannot see what the other networks are doing and vice versa?  She does get strong wireless signals from 2.4 and 5 GHz and works well with either.

Since the 2.4 wireless will not work reliably to the son's bedroom, I installed powerline adapters and a N300 router set up as an access point.  (LAN port of R7000 to LAN port of N300, turned off DHCP)  It works well this way.  But I'm thinking that will not isolate him from the networks on the primary R7000 router.  So I believe that if I connect his N300 router from the LAN port of the R7000 to  the "WAN" port of the N300 (as shown in the picture), and use the N300 as a regular router (DHCP on), that will put him on a separate network from the R7000 networks.  He won't be able to see what the others are doing and vice versa.  Is this correct?