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  1. memilanuk

    Powerline works fine in house, but not in detached shop

    Fortunately, there probably wouldn't be much of a problem there... I'm thinking under the roof line at the peak on the two-story house, to the same point on the shop, which would easily go over the top of the RV. But I'd rather keep it simple with the powerline networking. I've read that...
  2. memilanuk

    Powerline works fine in house, but not in detached shop

    Yep, the panel is *in* the shop itself. I'm probably more likely to go the wifi repeater route, even if it is over kill, than I am to go adding additional outlets or circuits. Thanks, Monte
  3. memilanuk

    Powerline works fine in house, but not in detached shop

    So, a number of years ago when we moved into this house I looked at the options for getting network connectivity where I wanted it. Settled on a combination of wifi and powerline networking to get to some spots that were on the wrong side of an HVAC duct, or that just needed a more stable...
  4. memilanuk

    Articles hang waiting on ib.adnxs.com

    I'm *trying* to look up some older material from the site, but every page I'm going to (maybe I'm just lucky?) ends up hung with just the headers and 'Waiting for ib.adnxs.com...' in the status bar. If I go back or change to another link, of course 90% of what I want/need suddenly pops up for...
  5. memilanuk

    WAN port seems to be the choke point...

    Ended up going with a Netgear WNDR 3800 'N600'. Based on the reviews here and customer feedback elsewhere, it seemed like a good blend of the stuff I 'need' combined with stuff I 'want', and the price wasn't bad either. Picked it up at the local Staples this morning... now I'm getting 22-23+...
  6. memilanuk

    WAN port seems to be the choke point...

    Hello Tim, I'm kind of reaching that conclusion as well. I stumbled upon some of the threads/reviews for the Asus RT-66u on this site not long after posting previously... definitely overkill (and a half!) for my current needs, although it does have some interesting features (usb ports, file...
  7. memilanuk

    WAN port seems to be the choke point...

    So... we've got a Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 Air Station serving as wifi AP, router, firewall, etc. The local provider connection is billed as 25Mb/s down, 2Mb/s up. The best I'd been able to get out (using their local speedtest page) of it was ~11 down, 1.3 up, and that was using an Ethernet cable...
  8. memilanuk

    Homeplug: mix-n-match?

    US of A Most of my network gets by just fine (for now) on the AV200 stuff. I do have 2Mbps up/ 10Mbps down on my fiber Internet account, and I recently discovered SABnzbd and Sick Beard so my link between the upstairs computer (with the large screen, good speakers and big HDD) and the router...
  9. memilanuk

    Homeplug: mix-n-match?

    So... I've got 4 Netgear AV200 adapters - one connected to the router on the main floor, one connected to a switch upstairs, and another connected to a switch downstairs. Everything is working great - faster than wifi in the house, no wiring hassles, etc. I'm interested in adding some more...
  10. memilanuk

    New DIY NAS Build advice (OS) and opinion

    If you find a mobo with on-board RAID that is actually supported by Linux or BSD... let me know! My understanding has been that short of dedicated and expensive hardware RAID cards, all of the mobo RAID and 'cheap' RAID cards are still software controlled and not recognized by Linux/BSD. Given...
  11. memilanuk

    New DIY NAS Build advice (OS) and opinion

    FreeNAS seems to run okay from a USB stick... it's one of the supported boot/install modes. You still need a keyboard/monitor for about five minutes during initial install, though.
  12. memilanuk

    HP Proliant MicroServer

    I'm operating under the assumption that it doesn't really have hardware RAID, but fakeRAID. Since it supports RedHat Linux, I would most likely be putting CentOS 5.5 on there and using software RAID (mdadm) which means I shouldn't be limited to the fakeRAID options. If I can fill the removable...
  13. memilanuk

    HP Proliant MicroServer

    One of the things that I'm curious about is... it looks like the optical disk drive (ODD) cable is a simple SATA cable... which makes me wonder if it would be possible to mount the stock 160GB SATA HDD up in the 5.25" bay for the optional optical drive (assuming one could find a suitable drive...
  14. memilanuk

    Home setup question, range extension etc

    I have a similar situation, in that some of my stuff is downstairs in the basement where the ducting makes wifi weak at best. I picked up a set of Netgear HomePlugAV adapters from the local Staples, and use them to connect upstairs to downstairs. They aren't super fast compared to gigabit or...
  15. memilanuk

    HP Proliant MicroServer

    Saw a link to this on another forum and thought it was pretty neat. Hopefully its of interest to some other people here... HP Proliant MicroServer Looks like its ready to stuff full of drives, install a Linux distro on it and start serving files to a small LAN... Thoughts?
  16. memilanuk

    Slow Homeplug - Five Ways To Boost Powerline Network Speed

    Part of what concerns me, I guess, is the variability in real-world transfers day to day. Uploading one iTunes library the other day from the Macbook (ethernet) through HomeplugAV via sftp I got 4.0-4.2 MB/s, for the last two days doing the same thing (with a much larger library) from the...
  17. memilanuk

    Can you add more drives using standard RAID?

    Are DVDs really feasible for backup with individual HDD capacity many times the size of an individual disc? If critical backup only constitutes <20GB, would the same amount of money spent on media be better put towards an online storage plan (at far less time and hassle than shuffling discs)...
  18. memilanuk

    Can you add more drives using standard RAID?

    That... is a very good question, one that has been on my mind quite a bit as of late ;) Shortly after I started backing up things to my FreeNAS box (three 500GB drives in a ZFS RAIDZ-1 (aka RAID 5) pool, I realized that I seriously underestimated the size/scope of my storage space needs and...
  19. memilanuk

    Slow Homeplug - Five Ways To Boost Powerline Network Speed

    Well... here's what I've found. Not sure it all makes sense, but this is what I got. For reference, just machine to machine, no HomePlug in between: Transferring a dvd iso image of CentOS 5.5 from my Macbook to the desktop PC via cat5 ethernet (10/100 port on the Mac end, gigabit ethernet...
  20. memilanuk

    Slow Homeplug - Five Ways To Boost Powerline Network Speed

    I have no gigabit ethernet... if I did, the house would be wired for it and I wouldn't be messing around with HomePlug AV ;) I think one of the computers has a gigabit port... but it's upstairs with a dual-channel 802.11g/n wifi adapter. I could move one of the homeplug adapters up there, but...
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