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    Homeplug and Moca are too Mysterious

    What do you guys consider to be the best management software out there, for Qualcomm/Atheros/Intellon-based Powerline products? Over the years I've tried stuff from Netgear, Dlink, Linksys, Logitech, and Actiontec (maybe I've forgotten some others also) Currently I have Actiontec PWR500...
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    Homeplug and Moca are too Mysterious

    Hmmmm... Maybe a possibility here: http://www.asokatech.com/pluglan-page - I'm going to have to give it a try.
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    Homeplug and Moca are too Mysterious

    Hi Tim, for "Powerline switch" I'm referring to things like the little Dlink DHP-541 I have here - four ethernet ports and powerline. Also, Actiontech has the PWR514. I'm hoping I can get one of those with web management access. A WiFi Access Point is pretty much a "WiFi Switch" by the same...
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    Homeplug and Moca are too Mysterious

    Yes, All valid and accurate points, but that doesn't change anything. I don't want to have to blindly trust anything because of some design principles. I want to KNOW, because of clearly exposed data from my own testing. In my home right here, I want to KNOW how many neighbor networks are...
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    Homeplug and Moca are too Mysterious

    I've been playing around with various powerline, phone-line, and Coax networking for years. But I always give up in frustration eventually. My main concern always comes down to a basic lack of useful information about what is happening on my network. With my ethernet network, I can use a...
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    EnGenius Expands Into Smart PoE Switches

    Wow - could they LOOK any more like NetGear switches with an EnGenius logo taped over Netgear's?
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    Time for a 10GigE Test rig?

    Hi Tim, I'm seeing a lot of the newer high-end NASes on your charts are starting to crowd around the upper limit of 1Gig Ethernet. Is it time to upgrade the test right to 10G and give them room to differentiate themselves again? (especially the ones that offer a 10G Ethernet option)...
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    NETGEAR R6300 WiFi Router-802.11ac Dual Band Gigabit Reviewed

    Thanks for the early look Tim. On my last biz trip to the US, I stood in Fry's looking at both the Buffalo and the Netgear. I couldn't decide which one to grab, so after trying the dice roll app on my phone to no avail, and tossing my tea on the floor to read the leaves (just kidding) I shut...
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    New antennas installed, not much gain

    Have you done some work to position the antennas optimally? Every single antenna type has a signal "shape" where there are strong areas and weak. Even "omnidirectional antennas" (usually shaped like a vertical stick) have a strong single in a torus-shaped donut around the stick, but are very...
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    set up RT-N56U as wireless bridge w/out WDS

    Just to make sure, I also tried upgrading to the <shiver> beta firmware. No client bridge mode in that one either...
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    set up RT-N56U as wireless bridge w/out WDS

    Actually it seems there is NOT a client bridge mode on the RT-N56U. It does AP, WDS, and Hybrid AP/WDS, but doesn't do client bridge, sadly.
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    NAS With Search Function

    Ah - yes. That's at least a start, but I believe it only indexes file names. I'm looking for file contents. So far I've done it myself - I created a DIY NAS with a big RAID0 (four 2TB drives) and I synchronize my NAS over to this DIY box and then index it all with recoll. I tried beagle...
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    NAS With Search Function

    Hello all, I am looking for the best way to be able to do a full-text search on all the terabytes of stuff I have stored on my NASes. First of all, I'm wondering if there is any NAS out there that comes with this function built in. Anyone heard of anything like this? Just copy all your...
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    Building own router

    Once you get the hardware figured out, it's time to get to the software setup. I generally find when I "roll my own" router, it all starts out nice and neat, but then I end up with a whole pile of firewall rules, several VPNs, lots of static routes, some dynamic routing, and after a while it...
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    Review request: Drobo FS

    I have a DroboPro that has been running in my basement for over a year now. At the beginning I tried to push it through all kinds of hoops that it wasn't really meant for (such as connecting it from 3 different iSCSI clients simultaneously) and it didn't like that very much. However, once I...
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    Monthly Quotas?

    Hello all, Being Canadian, my family is getting hit with extra billing every now and then when we go over our 95Gig monthly limit. I'm wondering - has anyone seen a solution in a router that has a nice counter which counts up the WAN data rate over the month and then can be configured to...
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    Anyone have the Utility CD for Linksys PLEBR10v2?

    Hello all, I have had to dig out an old Linksys PLEBR10v2 for a problem I'm trying to solve (don't ask). Anyways, I can't locate the configuration software for it. I'm wondering if anyone has that program or CD lying around. If you do, and you'd be willing to share, please let me know...
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    SATA Multipliers

    Hi Jason, Port Multipliers can be a mixed bag of success and failure. One of the oldest solutions to support it is the venerable sil3132 SATA chip. It works ok under Linux and Windows (although speed is mediocre) but doesn't support Multipliers at all under Solaris (if you're itching to try...
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    Installing/updating apps on NAS boxes

    Of all the major players out there, it seems that QNAP has the most active plugin community, and the most available plugins for their NAS. Be careful though - let your NAS be a NAS - don't plug it up with so many services that it can't do what it is supposed to do. Remember - all that precious...
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    WHS or full blown NAS

    I'd strongly recommend NetGear ReadyNAS devices over WHS. ReadyNAS supports a wide variety of client types, runs very reliably, and has the best range of backup options (both push and pull) I have ever seen. I had a three-year-old ReadyNAS 1100 completely die on me. NetGear shipped a new one...
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