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Poll: share your home network setup?

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jimmyhaha

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just curious if anyone here hard wire their home/apt ?

btw, what networking option u are using ?

for those using router with 2 storey home or large apt, how do u run and hide the ugly cat5 cable ?

btw, I heard that cat5 has limit of 100m (330ft) and if u reach the limit.. does it mean that u need a repeater, switch, hub or whatever ?

 
I hard-wired my Apt. right when I moved in and have four PC's hooked up as of now.
Hiding the ugly cables isn't all that easy, since I'm renting, I wasn't gonna go through the walls, so I just got cable runners and nailed the cable into the floor board and painted over it. BTW, I painted the Apt after moving in, I didn't just paint all the wiring. Cheap fix but hey, it helped a ton.
 
1 eight port router, 4 people, 5 computers, 8 places to plug in scattered throughout the house.


Ahh, the wonderful world of pulling cable....romex, telephone, cable tv, cat5.
 
You can fish the wires through the walls, believe me, there is always a way to get them through. I recently did mine through an attic down to the first floor so I could have cable internet in my room🙂 It was a big job but with some patience and a little time drilling experimental holes and some yarn with a bolt on the end, it can be done!
 
I've got a basic router setup with one network connection into my room and two into our garage (it's better for gaming in there).
 
I have a 5 person network shared over a router in a 2-story home. We eneded up running the lines through the wall and down through a wall at the end of the attick (it's a garage). I used a white conduit where I needed the cable shown outside (only place that needed to be outside the wall was the garage). I was lazy and didn't get "real" jacks for the wall, just a wire sticking out of a coaxile cable tv plate.

We will probably be going wireless since we need to move a computer to a room where we don't have access to through the attic.
 
We have a router, 3 switches, 2 wireless hubs, 2 files servers a domain server, a vpn/radius server, and a web/ftp server
 
-Cable Internet
-24 port patch panel
-486 50 running Freesco
-8 port DLink Switch
-P150 running Debian (SAMBA,DNSCACHE,PURE-FTP)
-Celeron II 700 work station
-PIII 450 work station
-8 port 3com hub
-P200 BeOS box for TV viewing
-P60 running tcpdump to a 14" monitor 24/7 🙂
-P1050 FreeBSD workstation

All wire through into wall plates from drops I've done from the attic.
 
Ok...I've got a linksys router (4 port, non ethernet) acting as a gateway to my cable modem. From there, all of the computer except for the ones in my room have a direct connecton to the router. The ones in my room are going through a 5 port workgroup switch, also a linksys.
 
Cable Modem
Silent(no moving parts)180Mhz computer running Linux Router Project as a router
2 - 5 port Linksys Switches
Server 1 - web/mail/DNS/file server also running RIMPS to serve MP3s
Server 2 - file/LTSP/mp3 server

All of above is in closet of computer room.

2 - workstations
2 - LTSP development machines
1 - Iopener for mp3s and surfing / car use as mp3/GPS system

All above in upstairs computer room

1 - workstation downstairs

All wiring is currently run under carpet between the wall and the tack strip. I've had too many other things to do to get it in wall.

I was going to pick number 3, but I didn't want to insult my router by calling it "similar" to ICS. It's been running non-stop for 2 years, with one week downtime for moving to new house.
 
Wireless 1st generation Intel Anypoint, only 1.6MPS xfer but I'm not crunching & transferring corporate spreadsheets either, mostly for printer/internet sharing...
 
I've got a 4-port hardware router (er, NAT box) to which 3 pc's are connected: My AthlonXP Win2K box, my PII Linux box, and my g/f's Win98 PII. Occasionally, we'll connect her laptop.. This allows us to access the DSL connection in our home office.
 
Cable Internet
Linksys Cable/DSL router
2 - 8 port Linksys switches
Intel Pro 5000 Wireless AP 802.11a 54Mbit
8 desktop PCs and 1 Notebook

All desktops are on the wired network, Laptop uses the Wireless.
 


<< I have about 5,000 computers hooked up to my small home network and 1 linksys dsl router >>



uh..huh.. right 😉
 
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