Post Your Network! (56K = Possibly)

[Jay]

My home network. Its not all running at the moment due to having to mess some rooms around but this is as it was a few weeks ago.

[Lord Midas]

Sky 16MB
Too far from exchange so only get 768kb
Netgear router, PC and Xbox 360 all connected via ZyXEL AV Homeplug 200Mb.

Homeplugs is awesome. Plug and play, baby!

[Ben Rogers]

Pipex 8Mbit (8128 / 448 sync)
Netgear DG834GT WiFi router w/ 4 port switch
Linked to 8 port switch
Linked to
PC1: E2200 Intel, 2GB etc (RJ45 wired to switch)
PC2: A64 3000+, 512MB etc (WiFI to kitchen + wired incase WiFI signal is too weak, but wired disabled in LAN connections)
Laptop: Turion x2 TL52, 1GB etc (WiFI to living room)

[Jay]

Thats a bit of a mess when you think how little is involved in your setup.

[Ben Rogers]

yeah it is, only just moved here.

used to have 17 PC's at home running SETI@Home, that was a REAL mess when I had three switches, router, domain controller etc all running on 512kbit broadband!

[Jay]

wow what was your electricty bill like?

[Ben Rogers]

I think it was about £2500 a year or just over usually, but I only ran that amount of PC's for just over two years (most of the rigs were Socket A consisting of Athlon XPs, both Tbred Bs and Bartons) some were single P3s, others dual P3s, one P4 2.8c @ 3.5 and my main PC, a 3500+ Venice @ 2.907GHz (at the time) I have pictures of some of the PCs but not all, unfortunately. They all ran 24/7, apart from the two laptops which were off except for when I was awake...off the top of my head I try to list them.

AMD Athlon T-Bird 1400 (Asus A7A266-E)
AMD Athlon XP1600+ @ 1800MHz (Abit NF7-S 2.0)
Dual Intel PIII-866 (DC, webserver) (Compaq AP550)
Dual Intel PIII-1000 (Compaq AP550)
Dual Intel PIII-667 (Hewlett Packard XM600)



AMD Duron 1600 Applebred @ 2300 (Level 2 Cache re-enabled) (Abit NF7-S 2.0)
AMD Athlon XP1700+ @ 2300 (Epox 8rda)
AMD Athlon XP1700+ @ 2300 (Epox 8rda3+)
AMD Athlon 1800+ @ 2100 (Gigabyte GA7ZXE 2.1 (KT133A)
AMD XP2500+ @ 2200 (ECS K7S5A, modded CPU, hacked BIOS)
AMD 2500+ Mobile @ 2400 (ECS L7S7A2)
Intel P4 2.8C @ 3500 (Abit IC7-Max3)



Intel PIII-733 (Dell Optiplex GX110)
Intel PIII-450 @ 600 (Gigabyte GA6BXC)
AMD Sempron 2500+ @ 2000 (PC Chips M810LMR 7.1a)
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ @ 2907 (EpOX 9nda3i)



Not pictured: Dell Latitude C840 (Intel P4 1.8) + Dell Inspiron 1501 (Turion x2)

I think it was actually 16 PC's and two laptops not 17 PC's, sorry and a few of them were caseless in my bedroom saving money on cases but I had parts to build at least another two caseless rigs I just didnt want to take the mick, electric wise anymore than I did.

Now though there are only two PCs in this house and one laptop, but 3 Compaq AP550s in the garage with no use as theyre so old. 22 processors not including hyperthreaded P4.

[DaveDodd]

[unrealrocks]

Just cleaned up our network All streamlined into three cleaned out servers!

Theres a wireless access point that isn't in there, or the receiver for the security cameras (three IP based cameras) Horrible router, doing as little as possible - DHCP on the bottom box, wireless disabled, lol. Would love to replace it - wonderful Sky

Cheers to Howard off Hexus for bringing plenty of QTec powersupplies for me to blow up, oh and a load of new network gear

[Jay]

is that business?

also I think you may be pushing your APC ups a little hard

[unrealrocks]

Yeah, I have given the APC a little break as its now running about half the load it was

The bottom server does do some stuff for my work (mainly just FTP dumping for files and web serving for when I'm away), the rest of it is just my house, lol

[Dano]

NETWORK

There are 4computers in use and on the network.

SPECS:
Buffalo Wireless-G MIMO performance Broadband Router.
+ standard USB ADSL morden

MAIN RIG
IBM Thinkcentre M52 type8215
P4 630 3G
1.5G DDR2 533MHz
WD 80G 7200rpm SATA 3.0G/ps 8MB Cache
16x DVD ROM

GAMING RIG
Intel C2D E6300
Kingston 2GB DDR2 677MHz
WD 80G 7200rpm SATA 3.0G/ps 8MB Cache
Maxtor 350GB 7200rpm SATA 3.0G/ps 8MB Cache
Sony W170A DVD/RW combo
Asaka AK 965 CPU Fan
Philips 20.1” Brilliance 200WP7ES
XFX 8500GT fatal1ty
Asus P5N32-e

SPARE RIG
Apple PowerMac G4
450Mhz Processer
820MB PC133 RAM
40G Ultra160 SCSI HDD
ATI RAGE 128 PCI card

PORTABLE RIG
HP compaq nx9010
P4 2.53 Ghz
512MB DDR2 266MHz
80G 4200rpm HDD

[Jay]

This server is worth about £20 but these things still have a good use!!

Compaq DL360
768MB RAM
2 x 9.1GB 10K ULTA3 SCSI Hard Drives
2 x PIII 1.13 GHz CPUs

Wow real high spec

Ubuntu Server 7.04 at the moment.
Squid Proxy
Dansguardian
Webmin < - God like
SARG

How can they get all that in to a 1U case??



PIII - really cool running, hence Core2 having more in common with the PIII than the P4



Just incase you where not 100&#37; sure who produced it.



Doubt I will be running 3D Mark any time soon.



Fiber FTW



1 x 256MB and 1 x 512MB Compaq 133 SDRAM (ECC)



64MB Ram (SCSI Controller)



1 of the 9.1gig 10K SCSI Drives



In the botom of rack 1 (The space below is a for a 2 x Quad Core Terminal Server with 2008 Server 64 bit. I haven't got round to fitting it yet!)



Now when they try to get to porn they get



These bit of software brings more complaints than any other from the users, why? Because it stops them doing what ever the hell they feel like and facebook / myspace etc is blocked.

Its a shame that Ubuntu doesn't have the Compaq / HP "health" drivers to control the fan speeds and doesn't support the SCSI controller "out of the box" (its a bit of a pain as you have to add the drivers to the distro before you can install it)

[Jay]

no pictures of the server this time but...

2 x Quad Core Xeon E5405 (2.0GHz, 2x6MB, 1333MHz FSB)
4GB Ram
4 x 146GB SAS 10k 2.5" HD RAID 5
Redundant PSUs
Windows Server 2008, Standard x64 Edition
25 x WIN TERMINAL SVCS CAL 2008
and all the other usual stuff write back battery backup raid card etc etc

look at task manager... lol

[DataMatrix]

I hope you're going to run a distributed computing client on those servers!

[will101]

I'm curious. I'm no networking guru, in fact I've never installed a switch in my life so my question is; why do people daisy chain routers & switches when there are already enough sockets? Is it a functionality thing?

So far a cable modem & wireless router or an ADSL modem/wireless router have been sufficient for my home networking needs servicing up to 4 PCs. What would adding a switch give me if I still have unused ports on the modem/router & haven't maxed out my limit of allowed wireless connections?

Jay, how do you find HomePlug? Do you have any connection issues and does having multiple HomePlug connections effect the connection quality/speed?