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    Best MicroATX home server case?

    Have a look at this one, it is also available in black and the price is nice. ________ Subaru Legacy Specifications
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    Router + USB HDD or Dedicated NAS for smooth video streaming

    if you want to BT with more than a 1MByte/sec - use a PC ________ Free Wordpress Themes
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    Pluscom NAS-STR8132 Help Needed

    Last year I bought the same garbage under a different name, NS-347S. It died the same way during firmware update - it hanged and wound not finish. Now it only usable as an external USB disk, so I use it this way. I did not bother with the warranty, as when it worked it was so slow it was not...
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    HELP - Disappearing Computers

    Check if the firewalls on the windows computers are on, and if yes - allow exception for file sharing. Are all the computers in the same windows workgroup? ________ Vapir no2 vaporizer
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    Outdoor Marina Wireless Access

    If possible, use a cable and place second access point/router down the hill. I read not so good reviews about Belkin routers, I would buy different brand. ________ Vaporizer Reviews
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    Laptop as NAS?

    The USB speed is practically limited to ~25-30 MB/sec. When I download torrents using my laptop (3 yr old, Sempron 3100+, 4000 rpm drive), the laptop drive gets overloaded with about 2 MB/sec. So, you would be either limited by the laptop drive (if it is older generation), or by the...
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    Attached Storage Testing

    OK, so I see it would very much depend on the CPU itself :) Still it is important information. May be to test with somewhat powerful, any dual-core, and with an Atom or Nano. Otherwise we would not know if the low-power processors can handle that load, I think they would not. ________...
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    Attached Storage Testing

    1 I think that if the CPU is loaded 100% then it is limiting the transfer speed 2 If I use a low-powered laptop as a torrent client via attached USB drive I would like to know if the laptop would be usable for anything else. ________ MFLB
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    Attached Storage Testing

    CPU usage % would be good too. ________ Easy Vape Vaporizer
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    A wireless router with more than 4 giga-bit LAN ports?

    No, it does not. Add a switch after the router to get more ports. ________ COSTA
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    Yet another Network/NAS speed question

    You may also try a different set of network cables - it might be that you are using 4-wire cables, good for 100MBit connection, but not for gigabit ________ NX250
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    Laptop as NAS?

    You could attach an external USB drive and use the laptop drive only for the operating system. ________ CHRYSLER PACIFICA SPECIFICATIONS
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    Single versus 2 drive NAS - performance

    In general, you should not. Actually RAID sometimes makes the NAS run slower - depends on the RAID mode. RAID0 would make it faster, RAID1 slower. But the difference in both cases is not much. It depends more on the hardware used inside - CPU and RAM. I think the best guide here on the site is...
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    how fast should wireless networking be?

    External hard drives on USB do 25-30 MBytes / sec = 240 MBits /sec (again much less than the advertised USB speed of 480 MBit/sec). So you get about 20x the speed of wireless. If you use Firewire, you will get up to 40 MBytes /sec, and on ESATA - up to the drive speed, i.e. with a new drive up...
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    how fast should wireless networking be?

    700MBytes = 700 * 8 = 5600 Mbits 7 min = 7 * 60 = 420 sec 5600 MBits / 420 sec = 13.33 Mbit / sec This is normal speed for 11g connection. The advertised 54 MBit / sec for 11g connection has been never achieved. The reality was at most half of the advertised speed. Higher speeds possible...
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    LAN Problem

    You need also to set the security on the shared folders. In order to allow access to a shared folder you need to do two steps: 1 To share the folder, so that it becomes visible from other computers 2 To allow at least read access for the users to actually use the files If you use...
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    Windows 2008 box as home router?

    Let's say you you are downloading with the max possible speed, i.e. using the full line capacity. Now you cannot expect to not slow down the other connections? No router is going to help you, unless it slows down the downloads. But I have never used QoS and do not know how well it works...
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    Windows 2008 box as home router?

    Yes, you can add torrent client to many routers, and there are routers and NASes that have factory set torrent clients. But you if you have fast internet connection, you would rather use a separate PC for that. I tried several torrent apps on Buffalo Linkstation Live. Working only on slow...
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    Windows 2008 box as home router?

    My post would not be helpful to you, but why would you want to use Windows PC for the tasks that are so well handled by any cheap small router? Is it just for fun? Or to learn something? Or there is some practical purpose? ________ Buy vaporizer
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    yep noob wants to do imaging on home nas

    Have a look at Clonezilla, http://clonezilla.org/ seems very good, full featured, open-source, freeware, well documented. I personally do not use imaging software, as I reinstall OS at home usually once in a year, or even less. During that time some of my favorite applications change, or...
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