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    Wireless Security

    I'll be honest, if I'm somewhere for a while, I'll often "borrow" wide open wireless routers (Not downloading everything in sight, but bored web serfing). It always kills me how many people keep default passwords on routers/access points. That's usually where I stop, but often times I...
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    What has Draft 11n done for (to) you?

    I finally replaced my older-than-dirt 10/100 switch last week. My home network ran mostly around an Old Cisco 2924 24 port IOS switch. Last week I finally broke down and bought a 16 port D-Link gigabit unmanged switch, and an 8 port Dell PowerConnect manged switch. Such a worthwild...
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    Which NAS do you use?

    I haven't really looked at the Atom line as of yet, don't know much about it other than it's small. If I'm right I might have quite a few things to use them for (Gogo MythTV Frontend!).
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    Wireless access points

    I would say around two access points to start off. The building is fairly large (Houses ~140 workstations). As for usage, it won't be open to the public, or even to employees (For useage outside of meetings and such). So at most we're talking a few rooms covered. No more than 10 users at...
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    Wireless Security

    This is something that I've always found to be a big topic, as such I'm wondering what everyone else's thoughts are. I've had a few friends that kept the mentality "They can get in anyway, might as well leave it wide open". That's never sat well with me, I do know that nothing is unbreakable...
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    Wireless access points

    So currently I'm looking for a brand of access points to push to my bosses, currently I'm not exactly sure what to use. I have a few I'm looking into, but I want to know what people that have used them think. Currently we would like to have wireless around our Confrence rooms, walk-in and...
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    Which NAS do you use?

    That's a big box for two drives.. I have this trouble of putting to much into what I already have.. Currently I'm trying to find bigger power supplies for two PIII PC's in rackmount cases, so I can stuff more Hard Drives into them.
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    What's a good router these days?

    2wire makes awful awful products.. We currently have a DSL through AT&T that came with a modem built into a 2wire router. For DAYS I beat my head on the desk trying to figure out why it wouldn't allow connections using Citrix Metaframe. I finally set up an ad-hoc network useing a laptop and...
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    NAS backup - Terasation Pro II

    I'm the closest thing to a linux guy that we have, sadly. As for the shell access, I've been looking into that, trying to find a loophole with backup exec. I've looked into a few other options like this however I'm a bit iffy on using something like this for production though. I'm...
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    Which NAS do you use?

    When I first set up my NAS, I used an old OpenFiler. I use 2003 AD for my home network, which I was able to import, however I never made it any further than that. I really didn't mess with it for to long however, it seems a bit to complicated for what little it did.
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    What has Draft 11n done for (to) you?

    Wireless N has made me lazy. I use my laptop's (One from work, and my personal) for everything. Mine is a Dell XPS, which sadly, means I can't use a docking station. In the past, to move large (2-8GB) files, I would have to connect to the network via CAT-5. That alone made wireless...
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    Which NAS do you use?

    I've spent the past few days playing with a /real/ NAS. I think I'll be looking into other options for my FreeNAS box over the weekend. The one thing I really dislike about my FreeNAS box has always been the Laggy load/transfer times which I thought was just normal. I'm thinking about...
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    Is Powerline Networking Dead?

    Yes actually! For the first time, I have a single router that can cover my house. I live in a house with 13 rooms (including everything but the hallways) that's two stories tall. My TrendNet wireless router sits on the second floor, on the far side of the house (In my "computer" room. On the...
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    NAS backup - Terasation Pro II

    Recently, I picked out, and purchased a Buffalo TeraStation Pro II (Rackmount) with specifications decided on by me and the rest of my team. Sadly, we over looked one small detail. We currently use Symantec Backup Exec, which hits everything in our environment. This doesn’t include Linux...
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    Is Powerline Networking Dead?

    These days, everyone with a home network has a wireless access point of some sort, so we really have no point in using them. As he stated, the cost of wireless is almost even on the level of wired these days.
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    Looking for a UNIX based NAS

    I've seen one around, however haven't used it. The "Free" version doesn't give much, but if you really want a Unix backing.. It's a bit odd, it's build onto a fairly new OS called Nexenta. Nexenta is a Unix/Linux cross, taking a Solaris 10 Kernel, then building in a Debian structure...
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    Which NAS do you use?

    FreeNAS is the only NAS OS I've used without replacing. My only complaint with it, it tends to be less snappy than a Windows Server file share (Which is fairly normal for most SAMBA shares).
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    What's a good router these days?

    Good really depends on what you want. I like overkill.. so I use a Cisco ASA 5505 as my router/firewall. D-link is the brand I try to stick with, I've tried to avoid Linksys from dislike of the old WRT54's. I use a "Trendnet 300Mbps Wireless N Home Router (TEW-632BRP)". I juse recently set...
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    Networked storage - finding the right stuff

    MythTV and a little Linux understanding will do most of that for you. However some of the steps for an AppleTV Frontend sound like something not for the faint of hart..
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    Windows Home Server, Yay or nay?

    I think that Windows Home Server was rushed out before anyone really had the chance to look at it. I don't remember reading, or hearing anything about it, until it was made available to buy. I've used a lot of storage ideas, more so recently, and I would say FreeNAS is the best for something...
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