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    Att 2wire and Gaming

    Try eliminating the wireless first by running long cables if necessary temporarily to the stationary devices. Do a test with that, and if the performance is adequate, choose between looking at improving the wireless or sticking with wired. Personally, I'd go wired as it's much more stable /...
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    New To The Charts: Cached Performance Filters

    There are many potential alternatives. I think the Vista file transfer is in itself a great advance, as there's really no arguing that it gives a meaningful result -- file transfer is really a standard, and very large file transfer not only solves cache size questions, but is increasingly...
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    Why leaving ASUS routers untested

    While Buffalo was on a forced hiatus in North America, the Asus WL-520gU was a very popular, affordable choice / alternative to the standard WRT54GL as a DD-WRT compatible standard-g router. Their "premium" router also filled the bill for those looking for more RAM for heavier loads while...
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    WNHDE111 vs. DAP-1522

    I'm in a crowded wireless area, and there's no contest between 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz, at least at this time. 2.4 GHz is very crowded, and I'm the only one I can see on 5 GHz. But even with more crowding on 5 GHz, there are more channels to choose, so from this perspective alone, 5 GHz is much...
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    why there are so many negative comments about WRT310N?

    There have been some problems with wireless stability in some of the new Linksys routers. I haven't seen any myself, but for the WRT610N at least, Linksys has explicitly acknowledged this by releasing new firmware with such fixes: It takes some time for such fixes to be released, and even...
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    Linksys WRT 610N Status Report

    Are you running DD-WRT on a WRT610N Tipster? If you are, then what are your results with it? What exactly do you see working better than the current Linksys firmware for a normal user? AFAIK, DD-WRT on the WRT610N is still very much a work in progress, and is only suitable for knowledgeable...
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    New To The Charts: Cached Performance Filters

    I appreciate the effort, but don't think much of it as it stands. To me, it's a gory hack which merely cuts out the most obviously objectionable part of cached measurements, while still leaving in all the rest and even hiding it better from those who would at least notice the absurdity of...
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    Network advice

    You have several performance bottlenecks in your network -- wireless, wireless-g, 100 Mb/s wired, NAS, and powerline. In general going to gigabit is a straightforward step towards improving performance, but in your case you would still be hampered by the NAS and wireless, etc. Draft-n...
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    Building my own NAS

    Spend some time deciding on the OS and the motherboard. Check that the OS has support for the motherboard and chipset. For Intel-specific builds, I suggest Q-series chipsets. E.g. the Q45 Asus P5Q-EM DO. Note that for *nix builds, the on-board RAID is not important -- it's generally...
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    LAN speeds

    E.g. iperf version 1.7. server: iperf -s client: iperf -c server -l 64k -t 15 -i 3 -r Where server is the name or IP of the remote computer running iperf -s. http://www.noc.ucf.edu/Tools/Iperf/
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    Yet another Network/NAS speed question

    Check the lights on the GS608 -- I think they're yellow when linked at 100 Mb/s, and green when linked at 1000 Mb/s. If you're getting a yellow link on a gigabit NIC, try pushing in the connector a bit harder / using a new cable / or even just power cycling the switch. If that gets you...
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    Adding a wired switch to a wireless router

    Yes, that'd be just fine, and you wouldn't have to do any more configuration. The link between the router and the gigabit switch would become a minor bottleneck, so I'd avoid for example having a bunch of 10/100 computers on the router and a file server on the gigabit switch, as they'd all go...
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    Is it possible to setup more than one bridge using WNHDE111?

    Of course adding multiple bridges or clients can affect overall throughput, as wireless bandwidth is a limited shared resource. If you have a lot of concurrent traffic in mind to two or more destinations and need high bandwidth for all of them, your best bet might be multiple 5 GHz AP-bridge...
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    Is it possible to setup more than one bridge using WNHDE111?

    I haven't tried the WNHDE111's, but it seems to me that one's running as a standard AP and the other's running as a client bridge. In this case, it should be possible to add another client bridge, as it's just like adding another client. It should similarly be possible to use the two of them...
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    high CPU usage on gigabit ethernet

    Check the NIC's advanced properties, and ensure that interrupt moderation is enabled, as are offload options, and enable jumbo frames if it's supported by your switch and NAS (and enabled there). I believe it's a Marvell-based NIC. You can also try downloading and installing the latest drivers...
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    DIY NAS: Looking for advice

    Really cheap case -> really cheap power supply, which is not recommended for a storage server. You'd want your storage server to be stable, and not be stressed if you add a number of hard drives. Hard drives aren't high-end 3D video cards, but they still have significant power requirements on...
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    DIY NAS: Looking for advice

    You're doing fine. However, I'd probably want a slightly bigger box and power supply for growth options. Here are a couple of similar devices for example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129045 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121323
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    Using a Netgear GS608 v2 gigabit switch.

    The cosmetics on those switches sometimes interferes with cables with large connectors. Try different cables.
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    About Choosing Wireless AP Keys

    I don't think so, as the vast majority of WPA2 keys are not going to be hard random. If WPA2 was weak enough to require hard random keys, then it would be effectively broken and we'd be looking for something better. Of course hard random is theoretically better, and if an attacker has a good...
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    Whazzup with DAP-1555? Has DLINK dropped it?

    There's a problem with 5 GHz itself -- if you really need reach, try 2.4 GHz, powerline, MoCA, or something else -- maybe even consider running a long network cable -- if you can do that, it's the best. If you want to try another dual-band bridge, try locating a Linksys WRT600N, flashing it...
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