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  1. scotty

    Adiing 10/100 Printer to Gigabit network

    No, it wont drop the speed of your whole network. Communication on a switched network is on a host to host (port to port) level, so other devices wont be affected. The printer will be the only device limited to 100Mbps; other gigabit devices will be able to talk to each other at gigabit speeds...
  2. scotty

    Small Office Network

    Managed switches tend to support more protocols (QOS, VLANing, etc) over unmanaged switches, as well as offering various management features. These may or may not come into play depending on if you need them. Keep in mind the RV042 supports many of these protocols in its switches, like QoS, port...
  3. scotty

    Small Office Network

    Pretty much the same recommendations as above. A router like a Linksys RV042 is a pretty popular small biz-grade router. Other considerations are a Sonicwall TZ180 or Watchguard X10e. They range between $300 and roughly $700 depending on some of the options you can get with them (3 year...
  4. scotty

    Running Two LANs on checkpoint safe@office500w

    Keep in mind, they aren't mutually exclusive, and you can have have a mixture of VLANs and different subnets in various networks. In the context of a small network, VLAN support is more common amongst routers (like your checkpoint), and port based VLANing can be a little simpler to impliment for...
  5. scotty

    Running Two LANs on checkpoint safe@office500w

    According to their site, the unit supports port based VLANing (with the 'powerpack'), so that would mean yes, you could split up your networks without too much hassle.
  6. scotty

    Small Office Network

    +1. That would be a pretty solid way to set up the network. My recommendations would be pretty much the same. Good biz-grade router, switch, a couple AP's. Lots of room to grow, solid components. Not very hard to set up. StoneCat's hit er on the head.
  7. scotty

    standard 1000Base-T

    No better place than to reference the IEEE itself: http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.3-2002.pdf It's all in there.
  8. scotty

    standard 1000Base-T

    What do you need a link to? Wiring specifications? Cabling types? Wikipedia is probably a good start. 100m is the standard.
  9. scotty

    HELP! How to salvage data from a failed RAID1 setup (Hammer MyShare)

    The companies that make these things ultimately aren't that concerned about your data should the device go south. You really have to think about having alternate sources of storage, even if it's just a little cheap external hard drive for the odd backup. Even big, expensive storage solutions...
  10. scotty

    Upgrading server

    According to the SNB review, that unit normally ships without drives. That would mean you're buying the unit plus a couple drives for it. I've set up tons of TZ-170's and TZ-180's and overall, they're pretty straight forward. If you're loosely familiar with routers and some basic network...
  11. scotty

    Upgrading server

    NASs aren't usually terribly difficult to impliment or maintain. Also depends on the kind of NAS it is - if it's a consumer level NAS than for the most part they're plug and play with relatively few options to have to set or be mindful of. If it's more of a storage server, like something running...
  12. scotty

    Mixing Unmanaged switches with load-balance or trunking

    Load balancing and aggregation isn't inherently supported in Windows XP or Server 2003. It's always done via. software, usually from the NIC manufacturer. In theory, it shouldn't matter what switch is being used. If the software is indeed handling things properly, you should be able to plug in...
  13. scotty

    need help with a specuial setup wifi/nas/wired

    Yep, you got it right. No particular recommendations on a bridge. Most of the offerings from DLink or Linksys should do you fine. A NAS is a little more complicated as there's lots of options out there, depending on your needs. You can buy NAS's that come with hard drives, or where you bring...
  14. scotty

    need help with a specuial setup wifi/nas/wired

    A couple things to note: First, routers that have directly attached storage capabilities are very, very slow. You won't get good file/streaming performance from any type of storage device that's connected directly to a router (even over wired LAN). You probably want to look at a completely...
  15. scotty

    DLINK DIR655 and Internet Connect

    Try doing some pinging to see if dns is getting buggered. Ping google via a wired connection, reboot, and then ping again on wireless only. See if it can resolve the address. It still might not actually ping if you're having other problems, but it's a starting point. The wireless connection...
  16. scotty

    2 Routers needed if not using a VLAN?

    Correct, everything internally will still be 100mb. The 10Mb WAN port will only affect the speeds of whatever if going through that port, which even then isn't really an issue since you're getting less than a Mbit down anyway.
  17. scotty

    How To convert a Wireless Router To an Access Point

    If you've turned off DHCP on the AP, and you try to connect to it by connecting a PC directly to it, you might have a hard time because your PC won't get an IP address (DHCP turned off). You can work around this by manually assigning your PC an IP address in the same subnet as your AP. For...
  18. scotty

    Wireless Setup at School

    My guesstimate would probably be about the same, around 2-3 AP's per 'pod'. Also, as Tim suggests, a bit of planning of 'actual' throughput required would be good to do, based on soft and hard counts. And different video conferencing applications can take different amounts of bandwidth. You...
  19. scotty

    2 Routers needed if not using a VLAN?

    There's a great article on the site here about exactly this topic. If you haven't already, give it a read. In your case, I think this 'double-NAT' approach would work fine. Otherwise, you would need to turn to VLANing or subnetting. You dont necessarily have to have a router that supports...
  20. scotty

    Wireless Setup at School

    Typically, you don't see most places impliment a single, 'big and powerful' wireless system or device - you tend to see a distribution of smaller access points across the campus. They do make some bigger systems, but they tend to be expensive and/or proprietary. You can buy better antennae for...
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