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    questions about switches

    I notice that the majority of routers out there 10/100 ethernet, how should that interact with a gigabit network? If I keep all my gigabit devices on a gigabit switch which is then uplinked to a fast ethernet router, would the be any problem? I understand that dsl/cable is much slower than...
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    questions about switches

    I'll poke into this thread since it deals with some questions I have about home networking. I'm planning a whole house ethernet installation and am wondering about router and switch communication. It seems that all consumer grade routers have only 4 ports but I can expect as many as 24 ports to...
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    NAS file management Qs

    Like the user name and password of my account on windows? How safe is opening the NAS up as an FTP server? Obviously my usage is home based and I don't have any data that people would want or that is terribly valuable, but then again I don't understand why hackers target the people that they...
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    NAS file management Qs

    Thank you for the very informative post! The mounting of public and each person's private folders on their respective computers sounds like the best way to go about it! More network information: clients are 4 Windows PCs and 2 Macs. I understand that in the NAS you assign the user names and...
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    NAS file management Qs

    New to NAS, have been doing a lot of research on this page and others and I think I should be able to keep up. Since I haven't actually started to build my network yet (moving in august) I tend to have a lot of questions about the physical nuts and bolts. I know that the NAS has plenty of snazzy...
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