Recent content by corndog

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Wow - could they LOOK any more like NetGear switches with an EnGenius logo taped over Netgear's?

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)...

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...

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...

Just to make sure, I also tried upgrading to the <shiver> beta firmware. No client bridge mode in that one either...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...