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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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    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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    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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    Goodbye Proxim, Hello NetGear

    For the longest time I ran my home wireless network on a NetGear WAG302 access point. It wasn't particularly fast, but it did A/B/G and had nice antennas that reached most points in my house, and (most importantly) the back yard patio. But there was one dead spot in a bedroom over the...
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    Cisco Gets Serious About Small Biz Storage

    Hmmmmm, Ok, I just read and re-read the article a couple times, and I'm quite sure I didn't miss anything. You actually managed to announce this new Cisco line without a single mention of QNAP. What - did Cisco just put their own logo on a sticky label and plop it right over the QNAP logo?
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    G.hn on SNB's Radar?

    Hi Tim, As I've for many years been one of those who needed to use alternative networking technologies (Coax, Powerline, Phoneline, etc) to reach various parts of my rental home, I have kept up to date on all of this. Currently my leading favourite is Coax, where the new MoCA devices really...
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    Pay attention to Drive/Status LEDs

    Hey jt201, Just a word of caution - make sure you have good status and activity LEDs on each of your 8 drives in your D.I.Y. server. It will save you when problems happen. I had a nice 8 drive hand-built server, which ran like a banshee until one drive went bad, and I simply couldn't tell...
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    Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440 Reviewed

    I have just one small question: Why did Seagate call this device BlackArmor? I have one of their small encrypted USB external drives - also called BlackArmor. But the main idea behind the "BlackArmor" name is the military grade encryption with which they protect your data. Unless I missed...
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    Surprisingly Great iSCSI Performance from QNAP TS-639Pro

    Hello all, This was so nice it seemed to be too good to be true, so I double-checked a few times, but here is what I'm finding with my testing of iSCSI: I'm comparing both Windows Vista SP1 iSCSI client (NTFS filesystem) and Linux open-iSCSI client (ext3 filesystem) Win Write Win Read Lin...
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    Vista Backup and Imaging Confusion

    Hello all, I'm just wondering - how do you backup and/or image your Windows Vista PC's? 0 Have you ever had to recover from a lost system drive? How did that go for you? Did you know that Microsoft has 4 different backup solutions for Vista that create 3 different types of backup files and...
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    ZFS Testing

    I keep reading everywhere that ZFS is the up-and-coming panacea of storage that will totally "change the game" and that we'll all switch to it and wonder how we ever lived without it. Sounds nice, right? So I'm thinking about doing some torture testing on ZFS to see how well it stands up...
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    Ethernet from your TV Outlet: NETGEAR MoCA Coax-Ethernet Adapter Kit Reviewed

    Tim, You're not the only one waiting for simple consumer-purchasable MoCA. I have been using Motorola NIM-100 devices from eBay for years, and have found exactly the same thing you have with the Netgears - MoCA "just works". It's something of a relief to see that the Netgears seem to work...
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    Favorite: Netgear ReadyNAS Product Line

    Hello all, Well, I thought I would start the recommendation list with a ReadyNAS plug. I have in the past used NASes from Netgear (Infrant), Thecus, QNAP, Buffalo, Sans Digital, Data Robotics, Linksys, HP, Dlink, and Norco; as well as quite a few D.I.Y. solutions. By far, the two companies...
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    Thecus M3800 Stream Box

    Whoa! Tim! So glad you got this baby in and put it on the chart! Remember way back when we had this thread: http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=404 The expectation was that this NAS would perform unremarkably, similar to the N3200. You can imagine it's quite a major...
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    Ever Consider Reviewing WiebeTech Hardware

    Hi Tim, Do you deal with Wiebetech at all? They seem to have som interesting stuff - not sure if it is robust or not. i.e. for data recovery, this: http://www.wiebetech.com/products/Forensic_RTX.php Regards,
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    VIA Announces 8 Bay Barebones NAS

    Has Anyone done any testing of this VIA C7-D CPU? The machine otherwise seems similar to the QNAP 509 (Celeron) and new QNAP 639 (Atom) with a couple extra drives, which is nice. I wonder how that VIA CPU and associated I/O infrastructure stacks up against the QNAP?
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    NETGEAR, Entropic announce MoCA to Ethernet bridge for consumer purchase

    This is really great news. I've been experimenting for a couple years now with alternative network technologies, to get around a "major modifications ban" on my rented townhouse. I've tried nearly every major powerline option, as well as wireless, phoneline, and coax networking methods. The...
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