I have a network here in Maine with a half dozen repeaters with a mix of analog and digital repeaters. I mostly hang a router at the site, set the port forwards and I'm off an running. Since I plan on expanding my network if it would make more sense to use VPN routers and put all of my equipment/sites on the same subnet. Although I don't know all of the ins and outs of this. Such as one site in particular I was given my own static IP on a fiber connection and I supplied a router. Other sites I am plugged into the same router as other equipment that does not belong to me. Security is something I need to get better at such using things like fail2ban which I haven't sat down to figured out yet. I've even wondered if anyone would be willing to do a "talk" on this. I would be interested in other people's opinions. N1XBM Apparare Scientor Paratus Communicare Allstar Node # 27086, 41540, 41812, 42086, 42658, 42657 www.radioguysrepeaternetwork.com