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    Should I get a Gigabit smart switch?

    I'm not aiming for a CCNA or any other technician certificates, but I appreciate that VLANs are a little overkill for a home network. My planned career path is more on the CompSci end of the sector, but what I do here cannot hurt. Originally, I was going to get both an unmanaged Gigabit and...
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    Should I get a Gigabit smart switch?

    I'm aquiring things for the network rack that will be at the centre of our home network, and I've already purchased the first device: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270728863573&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT It's a Netgear FS750T 48+2G smart switch, which is ideal since I...
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    Why so few Wireless N Dual Band adapter PCI cards, only USB adapters instead?

    Can't remember the exact name, but Linksys do/did a USB a/b/g/n MIMO USB stick and we have one connected to a desktop in our home. EDIT: Here it is: http://www.linksysbycisco.com/UK/en/products/WUSB600N
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    Building my own router?

    Are you absolutely sure you need to use Linux? There are a simply enormous number of FreeBSD-based router/firewall distributions, such as pfSense or m0n0wall (which is the one on which most are based). However, the problem with this is you need to be extremely careful about the wireless cards...
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    Basic question about switches

    The router's QoS would work if you used the router to connect the switch to the Internet, but I think it would only apply for WAN-LAN traffic, not LAN-LAN. As the switch is Gigabit, it is unlikely that there would be any issues with a LAN party, so long as all the traffic goes between the...
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    Basic question about switches

    1. Yes, if the switch is full-duplex. Otherwise, you are talking about 500Mbit/s both ways when both are being used. Obviously, if the traffic is more in one way, you will get closer to 1000Mbit/s speed on that. 2. Yes, it doesn't matter whatsoever what port you use. IIRC, even specialist...
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    Thoughts on yet another network upgrade?

    We got both the WRT320N and the WRT160N that I mentioned a month or two back, but now we want to wire the house with Gigabit ethernet. We have a garage extension running the entire length of one side of the house, and we are going to be ripping up the walls in several places due to renovation...
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    Using router as access point AND switch, connected to other router

    I'm not blaming anyone, but I was waiting for someone to confirm that this would work, before I would buy the router/usb adapter deal. The deal is gone now :@
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    Using router as access point AND switch, connected to other router

    So, just to clarify: I would connect out cable modem via ethernet to the WAN port of the WRT320N, and then connect the two PCs and a NAS to three of the Gigabit LAN ports. Then, an ethernet cable would connect the final Gigabit LAN port to a LAN port on the WRT160N. The WRT160N would act as an...
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    How to verify what you paid for is what you get.

    Find the torrent with the biggest number of seeders, and download. Means that you don't have to worry about the download server being capped. Try downloading something like the five gigabytes that make up a complete Debian install, for example.
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    Using router as access point AND switch, connected to other router

    I previously said in another post here that I was getting a Linksys WRT320N, and I still am. However, I have come across a really good deal on a WRT160N and a dual-band N USB adapter and was wondering if I could use the WRT160N as an access point, like how the tutorials on this site say, and...
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    Home Network Question/ Confirmation

    I don't see the point of a gigabit switch connected to a gigabit router, as having a 10/100 router only restricts you if the wireless will go faster than 100Mbits or if you ever got a 100Mbit internet connection. If you are going to have a gigabit switch, then why not just have an access point...
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    Best MicroATX home server case?

    Noise is actually the most important aspect, with HDD capacity the next. I might not actually need a new case since I'm going to use the one I currently use for my main computer. I just thought about getting a new one because the cases are all very cheap & sorta-nasty (horrible shiny unpainted...
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    Best MicroATX home server case?

    Thanks again for looking for things, but I don't think that buying a new case just for it to be another cheap one. I came across something else that interested me, though: SilverStone CFP51 I was thinking about one of these 4-HDD-in-3-DVD bay devices, but all I have seen apart from this one...
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    Best MicroATX home server case?

    Problem with that one is that it only has two 3.5" bays. Also, it seems that there will be a lot of wasted space since it is designed to hold large graphics cards, and the server has none (the card in the photos was because the original motherboard had no onboard graphics so we had to buy an...
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