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IMHO, if you are running outside a building, you really can only go with fiber. Any kind of wired connection will be subject to ground issues. BTW, if done correctly, the cost of fiber will be a very small percent of the cost of everything else.

Sounds like you are volunteering to go to people's house and help run all those extra wires ... for free!!! ;-)

I'm a firm Non-Voice believer. 1. It never works well for me. (I think it's me, as others have little issue.) 2. As far as I know, it all reports to a cloud server to do the voice translation. There are HA systems that support cloud services and no internet. Off the top of my head, both Vera...

I had to turn off SAMBA 2 & 3 on my home network to get sharing to work on Windows 10. This is a known problem with Windows 10 after the 1511 (?) update. This affects Windows 10 to 7 and even Windows 10 to Windows 10 machines.

WD makes a device, but I forget the name. Live TV or TV or something like that. About the same size as the older rokus.

Quick question, with windows 8.1 pro on two workstations, do you still get full speed on 10Gb Ethernet? In other words, does the server have to be a server, or can it just run plain Jane Windows 8?

My $0.02. 1. eSATA (3Mb+) is faster than USB. (at least at USB 3.0 and older) USB 3.0 is almost there, but IMHO still looses out slightly over eSATA (even 3Mbps eSATA) Now if you have the need to hook up things other than file storage, USB rules. 2. USB 3.0 is MUCH faster than USB 2.0...

WiFi HD streaming depends on how good your wireless connection is. If you live in the middle of nowhere, have only 2 wireless devices, and no metal between them, the new AC will probability be trouble free. If you are in an apartment and every single person has WiFi devices, most likely it...

I think it depends on the devices you have. If they all handle the same SSID on different APs, then do that, if they don't, assign them different names. And as someone else said, the pass of should work, and work cleanly.

Yes, but the cat is smart enough to ignore me. :D

My only gripe with my RV180, is the LONG, LONG boot time! I've booted computers from floppy drives in less time that it takes to boot/reboot.

1. Most of my systems have 2 drives, so I just backup to the second drive, and then copy to the NAS. I also keep a 16 or 32 GB (3.0 if you can afford it!) flash drive with a copy. 2. The one machine with only 1 drive, I use the NAS, GB ethernet. I hate WiFi, and it hates me back. The only...

What I do: 1. I have a "system" drive and "data" drive on 7 of the 8 machines I maintain. If this means a single drive partitioned into 2, so be it. (I do have 1 system with just a single partition, but then I don't store any "personal" data on it, it's just a media playback device for the...

If you can, use a star style layout. If you can't, running 1 wire to a point, placing a switch/AP/router and hooking everything local there will work fine. Just remember that you now have a single wire for all those devices. Unless you are moving large files around, you'll never see any...

I replaced 1 of 10 of my red, and it had all zeros (or defaults) in the SMART data, but then I assume they can reset it if they wish. It looked unused, and had no scratches near the screw holes. I formatted it (full) and filled it 2 or 3 times, and checked all the data. All good. Of...

You are incorrect on this. I just went thru it, and when I place it in my account on WD's site, the warranty was from that day. (they removed the returned drive from the list) It only saved me a month or so, but it was from the date entered, not the old drive's date.

As "PrivateJoker" said, the first problem is price. If you know what you are doing, and don't mind buying used, you can get clear to 40Gb in the home for an OK price. If you get a good deal on Ebay, you'll only pay about $50 or $100 per card. Of course, the cable runs about $50/foot, which...

I've had issues on and off when I went over 100 feet. I know the spec says 100m, but that's my input. Personally I think it's mainly the driver/receiver chips in some products.

I'd disagree with that statement, but sure, send me a PM. Like I said in the original post, I'll look at different solutions. Heck, I'd LOVE to find a truly GOOD file sync system. The current program I'm using, is really just an automatic file copier. It servers well for most uses, but in...

You normally only need a mapped networked drive, if you have an older program that doesn't support UNC paths (network addresses). 99% of newer programs handle UNC paths as well as drive letters. Heck, with Win7, you can also just use the libraries, and forget both in some cases.