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    Marvell Yukon 88E8056 >>Dlink DGL-4300>>DNS-323

    I have the same 88E8056 onboard NIC as well as the DNS-323. For the NIC, what did you have to do to enable jumbo frames other than changing the "jumbo packet" property to 9014, if I remember correctly? I'm not seeing any significant improvement after I did that.
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    Remote access to NAS

    I use a WRT54GL with a Tamato firmware mod that supports OpenVPN. I use that to get access to my DNS-323 at home. Works flawlessly. Another option is that the DNS-323 actually has an open-source community itself. I am pretty sure somebody actually had an OpenVPN package for it, so you can use...
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    Intel Atom vs. VIA C7: Which Makes a Faster, Cheaper NAS?

    Thanks. I'm not sure what chipset the VIA uses, but at least for the MSI, the ancient 945GC chipset is probably dragging it down unnecessarily in terms of power consumption. It'd be interesting to see whether one of the mobile chipset-equipped boards can fare significantly better. For now, the...
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    Intel Atom vs. VIA C7: Which Makes a Faster, Cheaper NAS?

    How about power consumption?
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    MY DIY Home NAS/BT/Emule/Treadmill Media PC

    The biggest issue I had with the DNS-323 is that it formatted the wrong drive when I added a second drive. Before that happened, I had been a staunch DNS-323 supporter.
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    Windows 2008 box as home router?

    Hmm. Top reveals that the CPU load is never above 15%... That's interesting. Maybe a faster, dedicated solution doesn't necessarily help.
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    Windows 2008 box as home router?

    That's a good idea. I guess I could at least SSH into the router and do "top"...
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    Windows 2008 box as home router?

    Thanks for the suggestion. I'll play with the settings when I have some time. My current set up is as follows: eMule upload limit: 10KB/s ~ 80kbps uTorrent upload limit: 10KB/s ~ 80kbps I can't really go any lower with eMule (not sure about uTorrent) without being penalized severely in...
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    Windows 2008 box as home router?

    I'll have to check how many concurrent connections my eMule+BT downloads are using. Bandwidth-wise, I have a 6M/512K DSL connection and typically use about 80% of the downstream bandwidth and 75% of upstream when doing nothing but p2p. In my Tomato (WRT54GL) router, I have set the following...
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    Windows 2008 box as home router?

    I already have a dedicated PC for downloading eMule and BT. The problem I'm currently having is that my web browsing slows down considerably when doing eMule and BT at the same time. I already have the WRT54GL router and very reasonable QoS settings in the Tomato firmware. Therefore, I'm...
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    Windows 2008 box as home router?

    Thanks for the responses. I'm just testing waters here; it's more like a proof-of-concept little project. All my current setup is Windows, and I'm really more familiar with Windows in general versus Linux. I'm thinking about using the same box for eMule/uTorrent/OpenVPN, etc. I'm sure the Linux...
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    Windows 2008 box as home router?

    I'm toying with the idea of using a low-power, dual-NIC Windows 2008 box as my home router, which will connect to my DSL modem directly and replace the off-the-shelf router. I've studied how to replace most of the current router's functionality (DHCP, DNS, NAT, VPN, etc) with the Windows 2008...
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    Marvell Yukon 88E8056 >>Dlink DGL-4300>>DNS-323

    Hell, yeah! why did you choose to embed the most relevant information last in your post? :)
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    Marvell Yukon 88E8056 >>Dlink DGL-4300>>DNS-323

    I have the exact same Marvell Yukon 88E8056 onboard NIC. I could set jumbo frames, but they actually reduce my transfer speeds. Since both the DNS-323 and the DGS-2205 switch I'm using are well-known to support jumbo frames, I tend to think that this NIC has some issues.
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    MY DIY Home NAS/BT/Emule/Treadmill Media PC

    I have a DNS-323 but have been investigating a DIY NAS solution for a while because of its limitations. Then it occurred to me that I could repurpose the same Shuttle KPC K45 box that I built just a couple of months ago as a BT/eMule client. It turns out that the KPC NAS was not an original...
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    Some Help Choosing a NAS

    I used to pull all my hair out trying to figure out how these media extenders worked with these ready-made NAS solutions in terms of media streaming, UPnP, ITunes, etc. Waiting for and applying firmware upgrades that promised to be more compatible with one another became a daily routine. Until...
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    yep noob wants to do imaging on home nas

    Also, Windows Vista Business/Enterprise/Ultimate has its own drive imaging program. You access it via Control Panel/Backup and Restore Center. I used it just last week to migrate my system to a larger hard drive. It worked flawlessly. I'm not sure it can save to a NAS directly, but it supports...
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    DIY NAS board better than the Intel D945GCLF2?

    That server board looks like a killer! I guess I need to qualify the "better" part before I instigate a flame war. :-) I would like a board that matches or surpasses the performance of the current off-the-shelf home NAS solutions while keeping the power consumption as low as possible. Since...
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    DIY NAS board better than the Intel D945GCLF2?

    To answer my own question, this new board from MSI could be interesting. It uses the Atom N270 1.6GHz processor and the (mobile) 945GSE chipset. The former has a TDP of 2W, and the latter 6W! http://news.softpedia.com/news/MSI-Intros-the-Atom-N270-Based-IM-945GSE-Mobo-94333.shtml Of course...
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    DIY NAS board better than the Intel D945GCLF2?

    The D945GCLF2 board seems to have solved one large problem of the original board reviewed on this site--the lack of onboard gigabit Ethernet. However, it seems that it still uses the power-hungry 945GC chipset that can consume up to 25W alone in power usage. Any better integrated boards out...
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