Recent content by Pyrroc

While having smartphone control and scenes or triggered scenarios is great, I would like some sort of accessory physical switch (touch, toggle, or whatever) that I can either hard-wire (for power only, not control of the bulb) in a box or mount relatively flush to the wall to run on battery...

That's just it, CMs hand out ISP IP addresses, you have to get with the ISP to give you 2 static IPs and they don't generally do that without it being business class service. -Pyrroc

You know, you don't have to have an outdoor AP. If your dd-wrt routers support removable antennas, you can get directional antennas... even outdoor directional antennas that you could cable back into the house/business. .... and if the DD-WRT routers support an AP bridge mode with VLAN...

Do the bridging APs (SSID: Link) support VLAN tagging (802.1Q)? If not, they may strip out any VLAN tagging. If they do support VLAN tagging, you could put a small smart-switch like the NetGear GS-108T in your bosses house, set it up and connect it like so: Port: 1 - VLAN A: Cable Modem...

Not unless the Linksys, both Bridge APs and the switch all do VLANs or VLAN tagging. Also, why would you connect the bridge to your business network's internal switch rather than directly to a PFSense NIC? I'm confused as to why you're insistent on PFSense directly connecting to the CM and...

You can't set it up the way you want unless everything between the CM and PFSense supports VLANs. You have to Double NAT. CM | Linksys (has CM's public IP) | Home User's Network (192.168.42.0) | Bridge AP | Bridge AP | | (192.168.42.x) PFSense | Business Internal...

Why mess around with VLANing? Just stick another NIC in the PFSense box and hang the bridge off of it and double NAT. You can't just dump the CM onto the home user's internal network. I'm assuming you're not running a bunch of internet accessible servers on-premise. Double NATing isn't an...

Like (not-quite so) irrational John was saying, getting the AP up into the main house is important. Back-hauling via Cat5 or better would be best. If getting Cat5 up into the house is impossible, maybe something like powerline networking would also work as a back-haul. You also may need to...

Doug, Does the C2N just rely on the archive bit being set to snag a file, or does it use a more sophisticated method of determining new or changed files? Also, I assume that it only keeps the most recently backed up version of a file? Thanks -Pyrroc

Oh, FYI, NewEgg has the dual-core Atom 330 MSI Wind for $149 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856167037

Tim, How was CPU utilization on the Atom while you were testing? I'm assuming that since it was only mirroring that there weren't any issues and that the bottleneck was pretty much getting the data in and out of the round, brown, spinning stuff. ...for the mdadm questions: Yes, you can add...

You might also look at OpenFiler. It might be a little more feature rich than you need, but is based on a RedHat derivative and has a nice web GUI.

Tim, You might look at the Intel DG45FC Mini-ITX board. It's $149 from mini-box.com It's more of a HTPC board, but it is Socket 775 (looks like 65W TDP and lower CPUs), has PCIe GbE, 1 x 1xPCIe, 4 x SATA II, 1 x eSATA, RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 support and 10 USB 2.0 ports (6 back-panel and 4 via...