Home Vs Away: Network differences

There are key differences between home and enterprise networks.

This article offers a description of the differences between home and enterprise Wi-Fi. When deploying a Wi-Fi network, enterprises can benefit from carefully considering the choice of devices and cloud management network platforms that can deliver the features and reliable service needed for stable wireless networks. Enterprises can discover new business opportunities by exploring data value from wireless networks.

With the popularity of smartphones, everyone has become used to accessing Wi-Fi networks anytime, anywhere. Because Wireless LAN (WLAN) access is easy and transparent, Wi-Fi devices for a company, shopping mall, or hotel seem to work the same as home Wi-Fi. These Wi-Fi devices differ in significant ways, however, and the differences are important to understand when setting up enterprise Wi-Fi networks. This article looks at the differences between home and commercial Wi-Fi

Price is another difference. A home Wi-Fi router costs tens to hundreds of dollars, while a commercial AP costs hundreds or thousands of dollars. The reason for the price difference lies in the AP’s many advanced features, beginning with the interface ports.

Security is important in a business setting.

Needs Firewall & antivirus software: The data is transferred on the internet which can be changed or hacked by the hackers, so the firewall needs to be used. Some people can inject the virus in our system so antivirus is needed to protect from such a virus.

Whenever possible, you should connect to a security-enabled wireless network. If you do connect to a network that's not secure, someone with the right tools can see everything that you do, including the websites you visit, the documents you work on, and the user names and passwords that you use.

Sometimes (to tell the truth, very often) it is necessary to make it look like both the client and the server are in one private network. For example, when all the company services are in private network, which is accessible only from the office, but you need to give a remote access to the company workers. Or when a company has several offices or data centres, which need to be connected with each other in such a way that all the network still would not be accessible to all Internet.

Businesses should consider open source and closed source software options.

Additionally, your choice will also depend on the needs and requirements of your business. Does the usefulness of a system which is completely free of cost, outweigh the running costs, security risks and lack of support that comes with it? If so, then it would be in your interest to join the growing trend of open-source software.

Looking for software for their companies business owners often face a difficult choice between closed source and open source software. The thing is that the choice is not always obvious, as each of the software has its particularities with a mix of advantages and disadvantages.

– Service: Closed source software is the winner here, as there are usually dedicated service teams that can help you when things go wrong. If you’re using open source software though, you’ll be at the mercy of the online community, who may not be incentivised to help you.

DHCP, wi-fi, and cables are important in an enterprise setting.

Ethernet router (only needed if you want to connect more than two devices that share an Internet connection)A router helps you share a single Internet connection among several devices. You don't require a router to set up a wired network, but you should use one if you want multiple devices to share an Internet connection.

To make your machine communicate with other machines and other networks, routing information must be given to make network traffic take the correct path. If DHCP is used, this information is automatically provided. If a static setup is used, this data must be added manually.

Wireless devices should connect to the network infrastructure securely where possible. In an enterprise environment, secure the WLANs by configuring at least WPA2 with AES-CCMP encryption, and 802.1x authentication of devices. This is sometimes referred to as WPA Enterprise on wireless devices. Most modern wireless devices support WPA2. You should consider migrating to the newer WPA3 standard, which is supported by Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series wireless controllers.

Screen vs tmux

...Yet Another Comparison guide

Recently, at work this subject came up again... Whether or not I was fanning the flame war is another matter. Hilariously, much like an old article I had written before and again recently found (recorded below) "the war" had begun the same, an engineer had just discovered Screen...

I always love causing joining in a good flame war, regardless of the technology. I am a proud member of the church of Vi! For Example.. The reason being as it helps us to learn and challenge the way that we do things, I have learnt more about technology from heated discussions with passionate people that I have ever learned from a README.md file! In many ways I believe these discussions are necessary for a healthy development environment!

Opinions from the past

In terms of functionality not much has actually changed under the hood for both of these candidates, they both essentially do the same thing they have done for years. In many ways, they shouldn't change as testament to what was created.

Here is the post I wrote oh so many, many years ago when I was younger and more naive, or was I?

GNU Screen and tmux are terminal multiplexers designed for Unix-like platforms. They are basically window managers for text consoles instead of the X Window System. Screen is the more heard-of terminal multiplexer.

tmux-only features include:

• Client/server system - a server instance is started automatically when a session runs as a client for that server, which leaves less of a footprint.
• Synchronize-panes - duplicate input from any pane to all other panes in the same window. A bit like a clusterssh function to simultaneous input to all of the terms all at the same time.
  ctrl+b :set-window-option synchronize-panes [on|off]

Screen only features include:

• Zmodem transfers - the abilty to transfer files when all you have is a serial connection available. Although this sysadmin does not need to use this feature.
• Attaching to a serial tty - such as screen -r /dev/ttyS0 115200 in case you lose a session.
• Naming of invidual panes - you can name each pane in case you loose track of things! TMUX wins for me

I first started using Screen, but I quickly found tmux to be the better option. With less of a footprint to deal with, I could have many hands on one server with out the need to keep spawning servers. I also found tmux had a better mastery of panes (as a terminator user very important!) and the conversion from Screen was simple after getting used to using ctrl+b instead of ctrl+a.

 

Back to the present war

This would continue as (regardless of the multiplexer they mentioned... I would have probably picked the opposite side) I would begin to argue a lot of the above points about TMUX over screen. There would be some back and forth banter about Key Bindings, much like the above article, finally a few days later the OP would return to the thread and agree...

In my humble opinion this just cements that TMUX is still the better option!!

Verdict!

It would appear that nearly a decade later, I am still correct in my promotion of the far superior TMUX. Out of the box it is noticeably more colourful, despite the key bindings being different to Screen that for some reason newbies find easier to pick up, most are willing to make the jump for the extra screen bling.

Of course if screen bling is you goal might I suggest:

$ fortune | cowsay | lolcat # add to a while loop for some pretty and informational graphics!