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  1. scotty

    Vlans on microsoft windows machine?

    You want to 'create' vlans? You normally can't create VLAN's from a windows machine, that's done at the switch or router level. You can assign the NIC to a VLAN (in the NIC's advanced properties in the device manager), but otherwise creation and maintenance of VLAN's is not done at the client OS...
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    Calling all SOHO Network Designers

    Forgot to mention, physical security. Not sure what your situation looks like at your home office, but physical access to devices is a trump card that can negate most of what you do to secure your network. And of course, encrypt your laptop's hard drives if you have sensitive data on them, or...
  3. scotty

    router upgrade advice

    A Linksys RV042 or Sonicwall TZ-180 would be a nice upgrade to a more business-class'y device. Some more features, a little sturdier, slightly easier to manage firewall rules depending on model.
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    Calling all SOHO Network Designers

    If you desire a 'start from scratch' approach - wire all your [important] rooms. Pulling a couple wires typically isn't terribly hard, and usually isn't horridly expensive even if you pay an electrician or cabling guy to do it. Wiring is always the ideal. Ideally, for a highly connected...
  5. scotty

    Ofice setup

    At a basic level, any PC's that are plugged into any consumer router are on the same network. Given that these routers (the cheap $30 or $40 ones you buy in stores) only usually have about 4 ports, you would need to 'add ports' by adding a bigger switch (8 or 16 ports) and have it plugged into...
  6. scotty

    help...............

    You can get a pretty nicely loaded server (HP, Dell), with tape backup, software licenses, and all for well under $10K. I usually quote something like an ML350 w/ Windows Server / SBS, A/V, Ultrium2/3/4 Tape Backup, BackupExec 11/12, for around $7500 ($CAD, about $6K USD). Add on that perhaps a...
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    help...............

    What exactly are the problems you're having currently? Network slow? Not doing what you need? Unreliable? What solutions could you take to improve your business? The first thing that comes to mind is your backups. It's probably worthwhile to looking into getting a NAS or simple file server to...
  8. scotty

    Router with tcp connection limiting QOS features?

    PFSense is known to have really good QoS capabilities. Might be worth a look. It's an open-sourced based router that's super easy to set up, and offers a really powerful feature set, for free. You dont need much horesepower behind it so just about any old machine with a spare NIC or two could...
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    Info on WPA2, compatibile APs and DIR-655

    A DIR-655 is a pretty solid home unit. I've been running a couple for a while now with no complaints (albeit only in small home environments). It sounds like all of this is for a home office / small business scenario. A DIR-655 could certainly handle most of your situation, but for more than...
  10. scotty

    I need a NAS and don't know which one to get

    None of your requirements are particularly special, so just about any unit should do the trick for you. As far as 'being able to access the data from anywhere in the world' - that's typically referring to FTP ability, so you can use the NAS as a little FTP server, hence you can get at your files...
  11. scotty

    Nice Robust Network Scanning

    I did some research for a client about about a year ago for about the same product (relatively inexpensive network scanner). Mostly what I found was a couple HP scanners for around $800 - $1200. Wasn't really able to find anything much cheaper that ran off the network entirely. Most HP...
  12. scotty

    Gigabit Network Help!

    Hmm, not sure what else to suggest. In times like these, I often find it useful to try a bootable Linux CD, just to try and help rule out whether or not it's something in windows. Perhaps try and download ubuntu, which will give you a fully working desktop from the CD (doesn't touch any windows...
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    Captive portal for security

    This is pretty simple with pfsense. Easiest would probably just wiring a traditional access point into one of pfsense's interfaces that you specify as a captive portal. From there, you can set up username and passwords via. a local database on the router, or have it dial home to a radius server...
  14. scotty

    Gigabit Network Help!

    Your GigE network cards 'should' be connecting to the GigE switch at 1000Mbit speeds. I would double check the NIC settings and make sure it's set to auto-negotiate, or even trying forcing 1000mbps. Otherwise, I dont see why it's not negotiating a 1000Mbit connection. Head over to the NAS...
  15. scotty

    Home network connections are very slow. Please help

    Keep in mind the bit vs. byte thing (8 bits to 1 byte). Network speeds are indicated in Megabits per second (i.e. 100Mbit/s, 1000Mbit/s, Gigabit ethernet. Thus, Gigabit ethernet has a limit of 125 megabytes per second. You'll never get 100.0% speed out of virtually any connection for a variety...
  16. scotty

    Internet through switch, but not through wall port where switch is connected...

    Also, if you happen to have a Asus or Gigabyte motherboard in your machine[s], they often have LAN cabling diagnostic programs in the BIOS which can tell you if there's shorts amongst the pairs or other issues. Might not be the case here, but if you just happen to have an Asus board, it's an...
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    NAS with AD integration

    Replace the chirping drives. Funny sounds are usually a big warning sign. As others have pointed out, you likely wont find a consumer NAS that will offer as good performance as a regular server, albeit several years old. Given that the box is a few years old and serves a 'medium sized'...
  18. scotty

    Trojan In Firmware?

    I would wonder what traffic is being grabbed by that lanspy program? You say you're 'scanning your router' - but what are you scanning - all traffic going to your router? I would highly doubt the router itself is infected with something. Perhaps it's picking up something from within your...
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    Small Office Network

    I agree with Stonecat completely. I think we share some common experiences when it comes it IT support. Making your own cables is one thing, but when it comes to wiring a new office I leave it to the pros. They test and certify the cables properly, not to mention they're way better and way...
  20. scotty

    Adiing 10/100 Printer to Gigabit network

    Out of random curiousity, why would you need/want to segregate the 100Mbit hosts on the network [asides from purely logistical or physical limitations]?
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