04 March 2023

Insurmountable Security!

The media server is now on a different router than the one what came from our service provider.

No, I don't really believe it's more secure than before.

The two things I get from this is:

1. Better placement of the new router means better connection in the further reaches of the house, especially the back porch.

2. Machines connected to the old router's wifi are denied access to the media server by default.

The second is the "extra" security because we honestly don't trust Harvey's IT department to not let something get onto her work computer that erases my decades of work converting Twilight: 2000 to GURPS.

PS: Thanks JT!

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1 comment:

  1. Rick T05 March, 2023 19:06

    Is the different router nested behind the original (so new IP subnet)? If so you should be pretty safe as long as any computer behind the new router aren't trying to connect to the outside world. If you turn off ICMP response and management access on the WAN port of the new router it will pretty much be a black hole.

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