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  1. scotty

    Patch Panel: Should I Use One?

    As Tim says, purely preference (and convenience). If you have everything in a relatively central place, I think it just makes sense and cleans everything up.
  2. scotty

    Laptop Sync / offline-file sync Alternatives?

    I'm not inherently opposed to manual syncing tools themselves, the issue is like anything else in larger networks - automation. I can't go around to 50-some laptops and another 80-some desktops installing and tweaking software. It has to be automated pretty much 100% to the point where users log...
  3. scotty

    Laptop Sync / offline-file sync Alternatives?

    Thanks for the tip. I have actually considered using synctoy - I actually use synctoy at home for syncing to a NAS/server. Overall, I have no complaints. My only issue with it comes with scalability, deploying it and maintaining it on 2 dozen laptops is not pretty. I tried to do this and fiddled...
  4. scotty

    Laptop Sync / offline-file sync Alternatives?

    Hi everyone, Just want to pick your guys' brains, anyone here who's worked in a SMB / Windows server environment. I'm currently working with a company of about 120 users in a fairly straight forward Windows Server / AD environment. The environment is primarily desktops, but we do have...
  5. scotty

    Vista Backup and Imaging Confusion

    Yep, restored several Vista based images without issue, both on hardware and to VMs. But this has been with the latest version (9). I could appreciate earlier versions having problems, as it seemed that a lot of imaging programs seemed to have troubles with Vista originally. The whole reason why...
  6. scotty

    Vista Backup and Imaging Confusion

    I've tried ImageX, but it seemed a little clumsy and at times difficult to get working properly. It definitely seems intended as a tool to create custom install DVD's for corporate deployments versus day to day imaging tasks. I've played with the 'complete PC backup' a few times on Ultimate and...
  7. scotty

    Attached Storage Testing

    I think this would be interesting to see... Don't suppose you could test devices that are 'attached' via. Fibre Channel? j/k Honestly though there's a huge lack in higher end storage benchmarks online in general. Probably because most sites can't afford to be throwing SANs around... Sounds...
  8. scotty

    Limiting speed factor?

    N seems to get about 35Mbit/s, or about 4MB/s in real-world speed. A decent improvement over G, but still relatively slow compared to wired speeds. To get 20MB/s (160Mbit/s), you'll need to step up to Gigabit Ethernet, as even 100Mbit (12.5MB/s) ethernet isn't theoretically capable of those...
  9. scotty

    Limiting speed factor?

    As slow at that seems, you'll only over get about 25Mbit/s real-world throughput over Wireless-G, so 3MB/s is about right (assuming we're not confusing megabyte with megabit). You would have to go hard-wired or Wireless-N to see any big performance boost. Even temporarily, try testing the speed...
  10. scotty

    Dell Powervault NF100 or Computer with a few HD on it

    That unit basically is just a PC with an OS loaded on it. The only limitation with Storage Server Express is you're limited to 2 drives. But if you're happy with 2 big drives in a RAID 1 configuration, it could work for you. Features and performance wise, a box like this would be roughly...
  11. scotty

    Microsoft Exchange Antivirus

    Usually you need something exchange-specific if you want real time mail scanning. Regular anti-virus won't usually scan the mail engines. That said, I usually just run regular AV in conjunction with MX Logic. They scan the email first, and then deliver it to your server. It's nice in that...
  12. scotty

    Laptop as NAS?

    Sure you could, nothing stopping you. NAS's are a little cheaper and more purpose-built though. Just about any modern OS would work fine. I use XP, but it does have a 10 user connection limit. Ubuntu's a popular choice as it's free.
  13. scotty

    Small Business Network headache help

    That setup will work fine. You don't need a managed switch, and a procurve wont really give you any tangible benefits over the switch you have now. That being said, in business environments, I always like to put in beefy switches like procurves (or Ciscos 2900's, but they're pricey) simply...
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    How to interconnect wireless routers

    You basically just turn one of the two wireless routers into an access point. To do this, just disable DHCP on it and give it a different address than the other one.
  15. scotty

    How to fix the Trendnet TEW-652BRP Heat Problem

    In the future, you might want to check out Arctic Silver Thermal Adhesive. It's specifically made for this very purpose (bonding heatsinks and other temperature-sensitive applications). Arctic silver is the gold standard in thermal paste, so this stuff is available virtually anywhere that...
  16. scotty

    Joining two networks togeather..help!

    Well then, based on your physical setup, everything should work as mentioned and all the machines that need to talk to each other should be able to. Without any routers involved, devices connected together with a switch can talk to each other, as long as they are in the same subnet / broadcast...
  17. scotty

    Joining two networks togeather..help!

    It's a little hard to answer your question, because your subnetting is a little confusing. And a lot of this depends on your physical setup. By using that mask (255.255.0.0), those two 'networks' are already members of the same subnet. I don't know how well you know your subnetting, but based...
  18. scotty

    Import DVD Library to computer

    I actually just started getting into a bit of a/v and encoding about a year ago, it can be confusing to start. That resolution you mention is actually pretty common, it means that whatever encoded it automatically removed the black bars, using various anamorphic settings. It's very common to...
  19. scotty

    Import DVD Library to computer

    Here goes... Before we go further, a quick note about formats and terminology because you seem to be confusing the two. Encoding methods (codecs) and containers are two different things. "AVI" is a container, it can have many different types of video inside of it, like Mpeg, Divx, etc. You...
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    VLAN How To: Segmenting a small LAN

    Thanks for the answer Doug! So it sounds like this quasi-general mode is more a function of switch's own logic, rather than any particular standard? Unless I have my fundamentals wrong, non-1Q aware devices can't read 1Q tagged frames, so the 'general' mode keeps things untagged, but the...
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