5G 5G21-12W-A Gateway "Trashcan" Bridge Mode
I have purchased the 5G home internet and off the bat have issues with the “barebones” firmware on the Nokia 5G21-12W-A Gateway. No ability to dictate port forwarding, enable UPNP, but more specifically turn it into a “dumb modem”. My home network needs the ability to put my Ubiquiti Edge Router in the DMZ(modem in bridge mode) so my OpenVPN server and Plex server can have public access. For the first couple weeks I kept my Ubiquity Router connected to fu*king ATT DSL and only put a few devices on the T-MOB GW. It was pretty unpredictable and unstable. The last 3 days its been stable with 300Mbps down, and 20+Mbps up and below 50ms ping times. So on a Sunday with everyone home, I did it. Plugged it in and changed the DNS servers on my Ubiquity DHCP. It couldn’t handle the throughput. From my desktop I was running continuous pings to my pubic web server and google.com. Separately they would become unreachable or timeout, not in succession but at different times. I’ve got 2 separate tickets open with them now for these issues. What I am really posting for here is I would like to know if anyone else has similar issues, with 40+ devices on their LAN in a mildly similar configuration?
Twelve (!) SSIDs. Why?
I understand why one might elect to enable either 2.4 or 5 ghz, or both. And I assume a third 5GHz would be enabled for mesh WiFi, if/when it becomes available. But why would I elect to enable/disable up to twelve different SSIDs? If its just my home LAN, and I basically just want traffic routed to the most efficient bandwidth for the device, is there a reason to disable all but two? Currently, I’ve enabled them all, but only 1 and 5 are broadcasting, both with the same name and password. The rest are hidden and have a different password. That would allow me to connect to any one of them if I had a reason. Aside from creating a guest network, what are the reasons for enabling extra SSIDs? Are there reasons not to enable ones that are not in use?