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    Wi-Fi System Roundup

    Thank you for these. The lay out of the house will result in the AP's and router not being optimally placed if they are wired together which was why I was looking to a meshnod solution Large open areas on 2 of the floors, all finished so no fishing wires, but a closet/staircase stack 30%...
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    Wi-Fi System Roundup

    I'll be moving into a new home in September 3 stories, 2500sqft or so, I was very much thinking I'd go Mesh, but after reading this "show down" and the response to Brossyg I'm thinking I need to run ethernet and just get myself a good router and get some ap's for it.
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    Looking for MUST Read intro to NAS recommendations

    For the mos part I am sold on going QNAP or Synology, (flirting with FreeNAS and a Dell Cloud server so I can VMware ESXi as well but its less likely ) but QNAP's model numbering scheme makes it very difficult to figure out which models to compare and what features are present where.
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    Looking for Home cloud/ NAS

    Writing is always done wired. Reading is 80% wifi (4 of 5 steamers connect via wifi 1 connects hardwired)
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    Review: 24 TB add-on to your router for $99.78 (+disks)

    Remember when people couldn't imagine needing a 1TB of storage? or why any consume would need 64bit to address 4GB of RAM+? with 4K video and Silly products like GoPro people will be amassing HUGE amounts of video data.
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    Looking for Home cloud/ NAS

    @usman3206 I'm back in the forums today because my current set up is a Seagate 3TB GoFlex Home Asus N66U Router WD Elements 1TB Portable hard drive plugged into router via USB which connects to 4 TV's wirelessly to steam from my approx 2TB of video files and I have to say while it...
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    Looking for MUST Read intro to NAS recommendations

    Hello all. I'm looking for the must read information pages about setting up a NAS. I have a 3TB Seagate GoFlex Home ( which I hate) attached to a Asus N66U router (Which I like) I have about 2TB of video content that I stream to any of the 4 TV's in the house and right now it's a mess. I...
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    Can I set it up like this?

    @devnull Many ISP's no longer offer standalone Modems but instead insist upon giving you a modem/router combo, one can disable the router component in the settings as for the fear of getting hacked by having more devices connected to the network ignore that fear. your ISP if they...
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    ReBuilding my Home network - assistance please

    @tipstir Thank you for asking those question. I am in Canada. 2200 square feet appox 2 floors, including "basement" I have 3 Windows 7 Based laptop, ( 1 MAY be moving to Windows 8) 1 Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 3TB, ( USB Plugged into the Router idealy) 1 Cisco Valet Plus router, ( no...
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    ReBuilding my Home network - assistance please

    Hello All What I'm looking to do is actually build my home network with some sense, it's been a bit and piece network for the last 5 years with no actual plan. I'm willing to spend some money to replace equipment and buy some things. Things I wont be replacing are my notebooks...
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