Within your household, how many computers?

[lxskllr]

1 desktop
1 netbook
1 tablet
1 router
Enough parts to build 3 or 4 reasonable computers, and an extra router. No phones.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

6 desktops
2 laptops
2 routers
1 server
1 printer
1 SNES

 

[Kaido]

No, I am married and she is a great cook so no vacancy. Honestly a lot of my media setup is for her.

Oh, and my desktop Hackintosh is based on one of your designs. So thanks!

Haha right on, glad you got some use out of it! :thumbsup:

 

[Kaido]

1 SNES

http://forums.anandtech.com/customavatars/avatar132008_1.gif

 

[Kaido]

Well, each TV in the house has a HTPC. I can't consolidate those as I want it so that they can each play something different simultaneously. MySQL manages them all so I get synergy (like stop a movie in one room, finish it in another).

Another issue is that I throw different levels of power at different TVs. My 65 inch plasma? Gets the Micro ATX i3 GT430 HTPC that can do Aeon Nox at 60fps. The kitchen TV? Small fusion Micro ATX rig that can just barely play everything and run a basic skin but you can't see it on my fridge.

In regards to my servers, well one is for TV and one is for movies with my critical files on both. I really don't want to consolidate those because when I have downtime on a server my wife still has something to watch. Plus that would be a crazy rig that I can't afford. The media servers were built up over time via Unraid expansion, one Newegg hard drive deal after another over years.

That's really it, every application has different requirements. I'd really like to put a Roku 3 in my home theater (projector) and be done, but I also miss playing arcade & old console games, so I want another HTPC. So my first thought was a tiny NUC, which I love, but then I'm like well, if I'm going to play games, I'd probably want to play Steam games too, so I can fire up Half-Life, Portal, etc. for chill time. And then throw Plex on it for playing movies.

I'd really like to do this in the living room too, but the Roku wins for family usability, and it'd be kind of redundant to have 2 devices that do almost exactly the same thing, outside of games, on one TV. So I dunno. Need to think about it more :\

 

[Kaido]

I'm actually kind of amazed reading through this thread, and even my own post. I currently have one running computer - my wife's Hackintosh, in the kitchen for general use. But then we each have an iPhone, a couple of Roku's, etc. And that's a pretty light setup! We really are a first-world, well-blessed country for everyone to have mobile devices, laptops, desktops, TV players, etc. Amazing as you read through the inventory lists haha!

 

[HamburgerBoy]

http://forums.anandtech.com/customavatars/avatar132008_1.gif

Mario Paint makes it a full studio.

 

[Anubis]

3 desktops
1 laptop
1 printer (on network)
2 routers
1 8 port hub
2 smartphones
1 tablet
2 TVs
1 AVR
1 Slingbox
2 PS3s
1 PS4
1 Xbox 360

 

[Kaido]

Mario Paint makes it a full studio.

I took the avatar's expression as "ahh jes, very nice"

 

[Imp]

1 Suxbox One
2 Desktops
3 Laptops
1 iPad Mini
1 iPad 2

And a bunch of other pseudo-computers.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I took the avatar's expression as "ahh jes, very nice"

Ah, OK. In the context of the show it's more of an incredulous sneer, a Nazi's "o rly?".

 

[Kaido]

Ah, OK. In the context of the show it's more of an incredulous sneer, a Nazi's "o rly?".

I thought he was a real-life version of the Burgermeister Meisterburger:

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_meubpeXgTj1qjudon.jpg

 

[velillen]

1 desktop
1 laptop
1 unraid server (mostly for media)
2 HTPC's


Honestly if it wasnt for livetv and streaming sports from espn/nbc sports i would try something more like a roku for least 1 of the HTPC's

 

[Childs]

8, but 5 are work related. I'm just counting actual personal computers. Adding consoles, iphones, routers, managed switches, NAS, etc, would at least double it.

 

[ultimatebob]

Here is the stuff that my family (2 adults and a baby) actually use:

2 Wireless routers
3 Laptops (mine, my wife's, and my work laptop)
1 Desktop
1 Printer
A Wii
2 Tablets (The baby loves her iPad )
3 Smartphones (2 Android phones and an iPhone that acts as an iPod now)
And a Roku

I also have an old netbook, 2 old desktops, and another Smartphone in storage.

 

[XavierMace]

1 Router
3 Gigabit Switches
3 Desktops
3 Tablets
1 Playstation
1 Xbox
1 Smartphone
4 Servers
1 iSCSI NAS

 

[RossMAN]

2 Rokus (living room & exercise machine)

I knew I forgot something.

Roku HD - dead, power supply probably but I'm too tired/lazy/cheap/ok lazy to buy a $10 replacement.

Roku 3 - still in the box, too lazy to open it and enter the long ass Wifi password.

Several wireless routers, my wife buys shoes I buy wifi routers ... is that normal?

 

[Nohr]

ATX gaming desktop
MicroATX desktop for wife
11.6" laptop for me
Netbook for wife
ATX HTPC (spare parts)
ATX server
MiniITX router box
WAP
Gigabit switch
2 smartphones

It's enough to get us by day to day.

 

[boomhower]

Housesold is two adults and two kids.

Four notebooks, one for each.
One all-in-one desktop my wife uses.
Four iPads, one for each.
One printer
one router
one switch
three smartphones
two iPad touches
one file server that occasionally works.
two PS3's
one xbox with a second coming at Christmas
One Apple TV
One WD Media Hub
I think that more or less covers it

 

[Kroze]

1 Desktop
2 Laptops
2 Servers

Closet:

Then other non computers:
2 Smart phones
1 laser printer
2 TiVo Premiere units
3 Rokus
Xbox
Xbox360
PS3
Monowall firewall
3 unifi access points

Wow that's nice. What's the server for and how loud are those rackmount servers?

 

[Kroze]

3 desktops: main, spare/misc, and htpc
3 servers: main, environmental control, and storage (not turned up yet)
1 firewall running pfsense: guess this is borderline to being a server
1 24 port gigabit managed switch
1 smart phone
1 tablet that I never use (it's a Playbook, basically a paperweight, wifi on that thing sucks and there's not much apps for it)
1 Unifi Access point

Also got an Actiontec router connected to my fibre ONT, if that counts, it's CPE stuff. Apparantly there are ways to get rid of the Actiontec and plug the ONT straight to pfsense though. I still have to look into it.

My server room: (currently doing work on it)

Wow that's serious. What do you do for a living ()

 

[ch33zw1z]

still haven't got rid of that old school dasd, eh?

 

[Kroze]

I'm actually kind of amazed reading through this thread, and even my own post. I currently have one running computer - my wife's Hackintosh, in the kitchen for general use. But then we each have an iPhone, a couple of Roku's, etc. And that's a pretty light setup! We really are a first-world, well-blessed country for everyone to have mobile devices, laptops, desktops, TV players, etc. Amazing as you read through the inventory lists haha!

We currently have 5 desktops (1 HTPC, 2 gaming PC, 1 PC for my niece, and 1 PC for the guest room) and each of us have individual laptops, iphones, and ipads. 3 routers because we want 100% wifi signal throught the house no matter what floor we're on. I was thinking about building a separate PC for the sole purpose of learning/trying out windows server (hence the original topic question.) Part of me say that I should try to have my HTPC serving 2 purpose (HTPC and server) but I'm worry that would introduce all kind of security risks using your server as a HTPC.

Yes I know we are really blessed as a country considering people in other part of the world would dream of having a single PC in their household.

 

[OVerLoRDI]

3 desktops
2 laptops

 

[TwiceOver]

Wow that's nice. What's the server for and how loud are those rackmount servers?

One is a windows server mostly for plex channels that aren't supported under the plex Linux server. The other is my Ubuntu server which is for Plex and storage space. Both are short depth 2u racks and are pretty quiet. Both are quad amd with 4gb of ram. The 1u is my mono wall firewall which is a via CPU with pico PSU so no sound there. The 1u switch is a managed 16 port. Any higher had fans which were loud and unneeded for my setup.

The 3 unifi points allow me to roam around my house, entire property, and detached garage without losing a single ping walking between sectors.