New setup with Xfinity and Qnap NAS

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Charles Mason

• August 30, 2024 16:58

I am about to start a full network update - replace old cable modem with 2.5gig capable modem, feed into Firewalla Gold SE, that will feed an Ubiquity enterprise 8 Poe switch, from the switch will be 1 gig connections to three Poe 5 port switches, 1 gig connection to a Mac mini, 1 gig connection to an existing Asus Et8 in AP mode, 2.5 gig connection to a QNAP 421 NAS. The three smaller switches will have 1- smart LG tv, Apple TV, and xfinity cable box - 2 - Apple Mac mini, printer, Chord electronics Hugo TT2 audio setup - 3 - second xfinity cable box, second Apple TV, second smart TV, Any configuration advice for either the Firewalla or the NAS- I wish to allow remote access to the NAS.

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  Robert Strom

  • August 30, 2024 17:45

  The only way that I would ever do this myself is via using the Firewalla Wireguard or OpenVPN connections. I would highly recommend against exposing your NAS externally via any other method. The Firewalla VPN's are very easy to setup and use.

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  Charles Mason

  • August 30, 2024 17:49

  Thanks, pros and cons of openvpn versus wireguard for home small network use?

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  David Rothenberger

  • August 30, 2024 17:57

  WireGuard is faster and creates a separate "device" in Firewalla for each WG client, and these devices can be added to groups or users like any other device. However, sometimes public networks will block WireGuard access and since it uses UDP, it's sometimes difficult to get around that.

  OpenVPN is slower, and all clients show up as one "device" in Firewalla, so you can't have different behaviors for different OpenVPN clients. OpenVPN can be run on TCP; I run it on TCP port 443 as a fail-safe for public networks that do draconian blocking of outbound network connections.

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  Robert Strom

  • August 30, 2024 18:22

  Everything that I have read over the past few years leans toward Wireguard. I don't think that you could go wrong with either but I would personally lean toward Wireguard. Here is a good article that summarizes things very well. One key point: On average Wireguard is 3.2 times faster than OpenVPN.

   

  https://restoreprivacy.com/vpn/wireguard/wireguard-vs-openvpn/

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