Recent content by kanewolf

Mikrotik routers have a very large temperature tolerance and they make outdoor rated hardware. You could use a Mikrotik to load balance in the attic or outside, then go into powerline network for distribution.

Good to know that it lives on.

My cameras are all wired. You have to get power to them somehow, usually getting POE to them is the same difficulty.

I have been a Padavan user for quite a while. Does anyone know what the plans are for continuation when the Google Code change happens later this month? I haven't seen anything on the welcome page of the project and a quick search of this thread didn't pull up anything obvious.

Belden is always safe if you are buying bulk cable.

My house has 6 IP cameras. I only record based on motion detection. I can access all 6 cameras from my phone or tablet. The cameras also e-mail a dozen or so JPEGs to my ISP so that there is an offsite copy of motion detection. Even if the local storage is stolen there is still a set of...

I just replaced a DS409+ with a DS415+. I took the 4 drives out of the 409, put then in the 415 in the same relative positions and powered it up. It took a while to get the latest DSM installed on the applications updated, but I had no problems in migrating 6 generations of Synology devices.

Is your thought to have a NAS at each business and have software on each PC create an image file to the local NAS? Then have the distributed NAS boxes upload their images to somewhere? I guess you could avoid the local NAS units if you partitioned the PCs into C: and D: Create the backup...

Quite possible your laptop isn't a dual band WIFI ...

To do fiber at 1000 feet, you will want 50 micron. That is good for 750m at gigabit rates. 62.5 micron is good for 300m at gigabit.

There is a $60 premium for the DS415play version. I am just glad I haven't purchased the DS414 yet.

This thread is disappointing to me. I was just thinking of upgrading my DS409+ to a DS414. I guess I will monitor the Synology forum before pulling THAT trigger. The DS415play may be the choice even though the transcoding isn't a feature I care about....

The Synology forums have a thread about this problem -- http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=85544 My quick read of it makes it sound like RMA time....

The DS409+ will only have VERY limited firmware and applications updates. The 5.x firmware baseline is not available for the 2009 era units. I have a DS409+ and am thinking about replacing it with a newer unit.

You might throw in a Kill-A-Watt meter in with the rest of the care package. That is a simple way to see what the voltage fluctuation is over time. If there is a voltage problem (too high) then the power company will change the transformer feeding that area and lower the voltage.