So who has the most sophisticated home network?

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: blemoine

assumed nerdiness

you say that like its a bad thing. BTW most of the people who post here are nerds. thats not a bad thing.

It's the way that it was implied.. "imaginary girlfriend" and all that. It was the derogatory form of "nerd".

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I wish I had the time, money and (most importantly) space to setup everything I've got. The computer room is already noticably hotter than the rest of the apartment.

During the Fall bestbuy and other appliance stores throw the window AC units on discount. I picked up one with a remote for like $129 a few years ago.

The new house doesn't need it but at my old one being upstairs with a room full of machines got unbearable without it.

 

[nageov3t]

my network setup is pretty basic...

dsl modem -> dlink router -> 3 computers directly behind the router (my computer, my roommate's computer, and our htpc) and 1 cable running to a cheapo 4-port hub that we use for xbox, playstation, and short-term uplink when we need to use our laptop on the living room. I also have gigabit nics on my computer and the HTPC with a direct connect running between the two for file transfers (my computer has a dvd burner... the htcp does not)

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Smilin

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I wish I had the time, money and (most importantly) space to setup everything I've got. The computer room is already noticably hotter than the rest of the apartment.

During the Fall bestbuy and other appliance stores throw the window AC units on discount. I picked up one with a remote for like $129 a few years ago.

The new house doesn't need it but at my old one being upstairs with a room full of machines got unbearable without it.

I'll keep that in mind. But with that and a few older Sun machine I'd be worried about the electric bill.

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I'll keep that in mind. But with that and a few older Sun machine I'd be worried about the electric bill.

I keep thinking I'll be able to use some older, lower power consumption, PCs for things like firewalls, routers, etc. But every time I try it, there's always some dumb thing that stops me. Like, "You must have a Math CoProcessor to run xxxxx". Or, "You must have xxxx memory to run this application". So I end up using "modern" PCs, with heatsinks the size of a small milk carton and power consumption to match.