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Nah I think powerline networking works like wifi i.e. you can connect to multiple devices simultaneously.
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Then why post here with useless crap?ooold thread
It didn't fall off, it merely became insufficient at it's purpose and got a bit droopy...
mycarsavw (21-12-2009),watercooled (28-12-2009)
or ask useless stuff?
maybe admin make it not sticky anymore
So why revive it?ooold thread
If ou had read it from the start you would see why it was a sticky - it charts just how far home networking has developed in six years. However pointless posts don't really add anything to it.or ask useless stuff?
maybe admin make it not sticky anymore
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My broadband speed - 750 Meganibbles/minute
mycarsavw (05-01-2010),watercooled (20-01-2010)
this is my network
My pfSense Router / print server, it needed a little clean up to get rid of some dust so I thought I would take a few quick shots.
The Outside - Blackberry to show you scale and my feet to stand on
The Insides - 10p on photo 2 to show scale
The case has a poor setup, no matter what its not possible to fit this case with the DVD drive due to all its own power cables!
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Here is my home network, everything is wireless, nothing fancy at all.
Should be changing to O2 when I get home for summer, so will probably be changing routers and adapters, try and get my dad to invest in a new family PC. It doesn't even have an Ethernet port it is that old! Probably end up putting together a NAS as well. Didn't bother adding the TV to the list for the media PC.
Three Linksys WRT54GLs running DD-WRT providing a mesh wireless network (which gets great coverage all over my house and garden - >90% signal strength even right at the end of the garden). On the wired side, I have a 16-port Netgear gigabit switch hooked up to the main WRT54GL that networks two desktops, two servers (one file server, one general-purpose) with other Cat6 cables running to a media centre in another room and an Xbox 360 in yet another room.
I'm glad I bothered to lay Cat6 cable under the floorboards when I moved in here rather than Cat5, it's really paying off now!
why is it paying off?Three Linksys WRT54GLs running DD-WRT providing a mesh wireless network (which gets great coverage all over my house and garden - >90% signal strength even right at the end of the garden). On the wired side, I have a 16-port Netgear gigabit switch hooked up to the main WRT54GL that networks two desktops, two servers (one file server, one general-purpose) with other Cat6 cables running to a media centre in another room and an Xbox 360 in yet another room.
I'm glad I bothered to lay Cat6 cable under the floorboards when I moved in here rather than Cat5, it's really paying off now!
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Jay (12-08-2010),watercooled (12-08-2010)
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Your assuming all the switches are in the same location, if they need more ports in a given location, you either put in a switch or you put in long cables back to a different switch. Also switches can be of different speeds, I have a 10/100BT switch with a gigabit port on it and put my low speed stuff on that reserving my high speed gigabit ports for things that can use them. If bought (new) my Cisco switch would have cost 150 pounds a port to use, which is a good reason connect things that do not need it via a secondary switch.
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Err why? Cat 5e can do Gigabit just as well as Cat 6 and the rated distances for Cat 6 are infact lower than those for Cat 5e. Cat 5e is also less likely to damage, ok the rated maximum bandwidth for Cat 6 is higher allowing 2.5 Gigabits of bandwidth however no one produces any equipment that uses the extra bandwidth. Cat 6 is nothing but snake oil and a chance to charge 10% more. What you wanted was Cat 6e which would have done 10 GigaBit.I'm glad I bothered to lay Cat6 cable under the floorboards when I moved in here rather than Cat5, it's really paying off now!
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Sorry about the image quality iPhone 2G cam is a bit turd.
This place does need a bit of work but I am enjoying it, this is 2 of 5 racks.
The very old Dell servers on the far left of picture 1 are benig retired once the new stuff arives from Dell, also I will be installing Server Room Environment Monitoring next week as well.
Last edited by Jay; 25-08-2010 at 01:20 PM.
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