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I recently got Google fiber (woohoo) and have an AC68 running Merlin 374.43. I've successfully gotten rid of the Google network box and have the public IP at the AC68. When I do speed tests I consistently get 350mbps down and 950mbps up. If I connect a PC directly to the WAN connection it gets...

I didn't even know that there was a Storage Server 2012 Essentials... But it looks like its only available pre-installed on hardware with not much available. Maybe that was Microsoft taking a swing at the NAS market? Based on the lack of availability, I'd say it was a swing and a miss.

Thanks for the tips. I don't plan to try and run any VMs on the QNAP. It works great as a file server but the number of features they keep trying to add on to that thing is frightening! I'm planning on using a thinkserver ts140, which at $285 with a Xeon 1225 v3 & 4GB ECC RAM is a crazy good...

I've been managing the IT for my wife's small (but growing) architecture firm and am thinking of adding a domain server. Currently they are just in a workgroup, there are less than 20 users and all are on Win 7 or 8.1 and connected to a QNAP TS-469 which serves their file sharing needs just...

It's architecture and they use autodesk products. Revit mostly. The PCs aren't HP but they are "real" workstations with supported graphics cards (but that's a whole other can of worms). Ive build them all myself so far. Ive ever heard of RGS but it seems like everyone has their own versions of...

Thanks. I use splashtop and love it for remote support or light use but all of those services have to route the traffic to their servers. The difference in responsiveness is huge if you spend 8-10 hours a day zooming in and out of drawings. For drafting it has to be direct to be useful. They...

Thanks. The ATT router has a DMZplus mode that is as close to bridge mode as it will get. What exactly it does isn't documented but it does still block some ports. I was able to get port forwarding to work. The problem was that during all of the changes the PCs had changed the network type from...

This is becoming very annoying! I decided to just try forwarding ports but it's not working as expected. I'm starting to think the ATT Uverse 5031, which showed up in the middle of this process, is the problem. I put the ATT router in "DMZplus" mode and turn off the firewall settings. That...

Throughput to or from the WAN is far, far less than 100 Mbps with or without VPN. More like 20. Would there be an appreciable speed difference between a VPN run on a dual core ARM or the cpu used in the older N66U?

Ive been managing a small but growing network for my wife's company and need to set up a Remote Desktop option. Their network consists of a QNAP TS509, N66 router and 4-5 PCs running windows 7 or 8.1. The software they use (Revit) really needs files to be on a LAN to work correctly so I'm...

Both ATT and Google have local speed test servers but I've tried lots of different ones and it doesn't matter. I either get slower results or I get 900/300. I think att has just gimped the upload speed but I'm not complaining! After years of suffering with TWC its pretty awesome to have a...

I am calling the NVG589 a residential gateway (RG). Sorry if that's not the proper term. I've moved cables around a lot and it's always the same. That's an Interesting link re IPv6. I currently have ipv6 disabled which was part of the steps I took to get it into IP Passthrough mode which, as...

I saw the link, thanks. But when I connect a laptop directly to the RG (still in pass through mode) bypassing all apple networking gear it still doesn't change. I think the bottleneck must be upstream.

Thanks for the reply. I'll have to replace the one doing DHCP. The ATT gigapower is supposed to be 1000 Mbps symmetrical to compete with Google. I'm not so concerned with wireless speeds. All 3 computers are wired to gigabit and mobile devices all get >100mbps all over the house on 5ghz (and...

I have att's gigapower internet service and am wondering if it's worth changing any of my hardware. It's hard to complain about the speed but I should be getting close to 1000 Mbps up but have never seen more than 300. Here is my current set up NVG589 gateway in passthrough mode Apple 6th gen...