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Thanks for the response. It does lead me to a few more questions though (apologies in advance). Our business has since opened, but revenue was 0 before the end of the year, so I am only thinking in terms of 2004 right now (unless I shouldn't be...). When I originally figured all of this...

Hey all, thanks for taking the time to put on this thread, this is great. Earlier last year (2004) I formed an LLC with two partners, with the goal of opening a retail store, along with some secondary goals. At the end of 2004, much of the inventory had been purchased, although the store had...

This particular office is a pretty simple setup. We formerly had a full T1 line coming into the building, plugged into a T1 WIC on the Cisco 2651. FastE 0/0 is plugged to our two stacked 24-port GigE switches, which go out to the network. The 2651 acts as the router and firewall and has...

The T1 provider we have at a location crapped out on us and it's going to be on a DSL backup line for the time being (3Mb/768Kb). Is anybody familiar with connecting a Cisco 2600-series (in this case a 2651) router with a DSL line? Is it best to just enable the second FastE interface and go...

Thanks for the help, looks like it *was* the keyboard. I had a sneaking suspicion that might have had something to do with it, but I didn't have a non-USB board here at the office on Monday. I brought a PS2 keyboard from my home office and it went straight to the BIOS. On the topic of the...

Thanks for the link, I will check it out. I did mess with EFI a bit but I'm not sure I entirely trust myself with it, yet. After reading a lot of background on it, it's certainly a good idea, and I wish somebody had come up with something like it years ago. No more DOS boot disks, and so on...

This is probably a long shot on here but I'll ask anyway. I am working on configuring a dual-Xeon system on one of the new(er) Intel SE7520AF2 motherboards and I'm having fits trying to do something really basic--get into the BIOS! My understanding of the board is that it has both the...

Thanks for the info (and I apologize for my late reply)! We are definitely looking at going the more expensive route. One of the things we are looking for is VPN functionality at the router level, so we're trying to decide between a couple of Cisco's VPN bundles (2611XM or 2651XM, each comes...

In the coming weeks I am going to be wiring up our new office prior to us moving to it. We'll need to run about 40 Cat6 connections to wall jacks, along with about 24 standard RJ45 phone jacks. I have the cables already, but I am looking for the following: - jack panels that support 6-8...

I work for a small-size publishing company (about 20 employees) and we just bought a new building that we will be moving into soon. Until now, we've had a very, very simplistic network set up that has given us more and more headaches as we've added workstations, printers, and whatnot. I'm going...

The two main computers I transfer between here have 10K WD Raptor drives, so I am hoping to see a little bit of a performance boost between them. I transfer large files rather often. It's not that I couldn't get by with 100Mbps, I just figure if I am going to buy something, it might as well be...

I should have clarified that I was looking at 5/8 port gigabit switches versus 16/24 port regular switches. And I meant that those were comparable in price with each other. :) Anyway, thanks for the advice. I ordered an 8 port switch from Newegg and I'm going to run with that for now.

Hi, I am, among other things, hosting a LAN party here at my house, and need to pick up one or more switches. Given that, I'm thinking now would be a good time to upgrade the home LAN to gigabit, since some of the larger switches (16/24 port) do not seem to be *that* much more expensive in...

I noted that some of the fancier adjustable attenuators like the one I mentioned above noted that they were bidirectional. Is it possible that the little 6 dB inline one is not? I will take a look at Home Depot today to see what I can find.

I checked at Radio Shack and all they had were 6 dB attenuators, which I tried, and it didn't do the trick. The cable modem's signal level dropped to -19 dB, where it was previously in the -13 (or so) range when it was working. The modem also gives data on a signal-to-noise ratio, but I'm not...