What is your home network?

Presently it is difficult to surprise someone at home internet, or the presence of multiple computers. I think we all, set out to give access to the network to multiple devices, the question arises about how to install the router and set up a home network.The network usually starts with some sort of minimum unpretentious router models D-Link and successfully deal with the provision of access to home network devices. However, not all rest on our laurels network uptime and many are trying to bring their "Network" to some personal ideal. This is ideally what I want to talk about today.

I think we all have friends or acquaintances who are not even thinking about the safety of their Wi-Fi, and configure the same routers exactly to the moment when they access to the Internet. 

Once I had the need to share internet with friends who live in the same entryway. However, the option to let him into my Network does not suit me fundamentally. Since then we started thinking about upgrading the network equipment and the search options available routers with support for multiple independent networks.



 My choice fell on the company's products MikroTik. At first it was, like many, a broken version  on the computer, and then was purchased by the "iron" the router of the same manufacturer. Apart from trouble-free routing multiple subnets with customized filters and queues I configured it OpenVPN server to access your home network through the Internet, put NAS. This configuration gave more network usage scenarios and more than the average user's home network. 

The next step was the installation of similar routers in apartments with relatives or in the country, linking into a network via VPN tunnels and dynamic routing within them. This configuration allowed to spread geographically networked storage and configure backups, which increased the reliability of information storage (did not want to lose 400GB archive family photos and some other data), and made ​​it possible to introduce services like remote viewing ip camera in your secure network. Suddenly I found the ability to configure IPTV transport from one point of presence to another, where a local provider of such a service does not matter.