Anyone want to brag about their supreme LAN?

[airspirit]

Well, now I'm officially disturbed. The problem with cable broadband is that you never know what your cap is. This weekend I pulled 3.2Mbps from a tucows server ... sometimes I can barely pull 1.5Mbps. What happens when I set it at 2Mbps to spillover and I can't get that high on WAN1? Further, what happens on a good day that I can pull >3Mbps? Will that extra bandwidth just go to waste? I don't think this will be such a good idea for me. I may just have to run two subnets and have my folks log from one to the other if they are getting horrible slowdowns, and cap each router at six connections. It's a SH!T way of doing it, but I'm not in a position to shell out $400 for a router that'll do the dirty work for me. Besides, if they want broadband for $10 a month, they'll just have to deal with it ... to get it for themselves outside of my network will cost a minimum of $50 a month. Luckily, many of them are casual users who won't be downloading entire versions of Windows and Office and such on a regular basis ... not saying I do that ... much.

[sunblade]

Man, all you people have such complex networks, but I guess that comes from how many comps you guys have and dealing with the routers.

For some reason, my ADSL provider gives out modems that assign IPs with DHCP to all computers it finds, so I just have it hooked into the uplink of an 8-port switch and all the comps have net access. I'm sure it's not as elegant as other methods, but it's been working reliably for some time now. It doesn't cause many problems, except that each computer is responsible for its own firewall. My main gripe is that the print server (Compaq laptop, P133, Debian) is visible to the net, so I have to keep on top of security patches and keeping all the ports closed. I've been thinking of just buying another PCMCIA NIC for the print server and making it a router, too. Whadya guys think?

[sunblade]

Oh yeah, there is a linux router distro, where that's all it does, route route route. Supposedly it can fit on a floppy

http://www.linuxrouter.org

[imagex]

Hey all, Update on the fr-24. My sales rep finaily called me" said he was out of town" and had me give him a list of problems and he is forwarding it to R&D. I told em I won't sell'em till there right. so we'll see what they can do to fix it. I must say that the $349 for a nexland is money well spent, you have true load balancing and 56k failover, can bind any pc to any wan, make groups for security" control ports on a group of pc's"

[cmfic]

I am the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jtroutma]

WEll ImageX, I am getting really close to actually taking that 800Turbo off your hands there Just a few more days................

[airspirit]

Okay. Here is the spec to date. I have a total of thirteen computers networked through a mess of cable and wireless. I have my modem feeding into a DLink 614+. From there it feeds out to a 22Mbps WLAN ("Maverick") and an 11Mbps WLAN connection is also fed out (Port 1) through a Netgear ME102 ("Jester" ... so when it goes down I can smirk and say "Jester's dead!" ... if I added a third I'd probably name it "Iceman" just to keep with the theme). Port 2 feeds an uplink to a Linksys 4 Port DSL router which feeds ethernet to my two work boxes (and also provides a firewall between my personal network and the wireless subnetworks while still allowing me access to any shared data off of them such as IP logging). I currently have five connections through Maverick and six through Jester. A picture is shown below. Keep in mind, the "top" building is one story, the middle building is three stories, and the bottom building is a house (that houses six fine-@ss college gals). Total incoming bandwidth is currently floating at around 6-8Mbps (I don't know how my ISP is doing it, but I'm not going to complain) and upload times are pushing 500Kbps (sux, but again, I'm not going to complain ... I made it clear that nobody is hosting any data on P2P to prevent clogging of the uplink feed ... though they can download whatever they want ... one guy has downloaded over 1300 MP3 files in the last week alone). I'm tempted to bring in a second line, but so far, I don't think I need it. Anyway, here is the site map:

[airspirit]

I'd just like to add that besides myself and the MP3 junkie, nearly all of the other machines access the net for less than an hour a day, and those access times vary from early morning to late night. I have never run into a slowdown due to "line abuse".

[jtroutma]

Well, I am happy to say that I am now an owner of one of these drop-dead georgeous Nexland 800Pro Turbo routers.

It will be about a week for my ISP's to get my DSL accounts up and running so I will keep eveyone posted on how my endevor works out.

BTW if anyone is wondering, the Nexland came from Hard to Find PC and the guy operating the outfit was helpful all the way throught the buying process, answering every single question I had.

Will be in touch.

[daveosx]

Ok from the avatar you see it is all mac.

Lets start with the internet IO
2 DSL 1.5/384 static bridged
1 SAT 485/128 static bridged
8 56k Remote access server

My network Hardware starts with

Siemans dual Broadband router with two
DirectTV DSL accounts the lan side connects to a second
Siemans daul Broadband router along with the
Starband SAT broadband connection.
The output of those is run into netgear MR314 wireless Broadband router.
From the WLAN card I have a home made Antenna whip connected to a 25what bilinear amplifier and an SMC 13db omni polar antenna.
The output is run into an OVISLINK FH16T 100baseT switch
to bring the network to 10baseT I have 3 linksys 10/100 switchs.
From one port I have a linksys 5 port hub with BNC to bridge to old style ethernet
The oldstyle ethernet connects to a Cayman Mac/IP router.
The Cayman router provides TCP/IP over appletalk localtalk.
I have a Quadra 950 with the Apple Remote access 8 port card connected to 8 56k modems on an adapt 100baset nubus card.

Follow the hack 2 DSLs, one SAT, 8 modems,100 base t, 10 base t, Ethernet ,localtalk and 802.11b with a twelve mile range.


The Hardware connected and networked is:
1. Apple B&W G3 ziffed to a G4 800 with a 120gig ATA133 and 1gig of ram dual monitor one 19" one 14" 24x10x40xCDRW MacOSX 10.2.
2. Apple B&W G3 ziffed to a G4 400 with 480gig Tempo raid and two 120gig ATA66, 24x10x40xCDRW, and three 17" monitors on radeon 32meg cards MacOSX 10.2.
3. Apple biege G3 overclocked to 434mhz 768meg ram 60gig drive MacOS 9.2.2
4. Apple Imac rev A with Harmoni G3 500 60gig internal and 60 gig firewire and 8xCDR burner The Imac motherboard is a Rev C with radeon 6meg graphics and 100 base T MacOSX 10.2
5. Umax 600vpc/240 with 280mhz NewerTech G3 card 60gig HD 256meg Ram 8xSCSI CDR Adaptec 100 base T CommSlot Card, Ixmicro TV tuner,Soundblaster 17" monitor MacOS 9.1
6. Apple 7600/132 with Dual 604 200mhz 512meg ram 2 ATA66 30gig 100 base t MacOS 9.1
7. Apple 6100AV with Newertech 240mhz G3 72meg ram 2gig scsi 10 base t
8. Apple Quadra 950 with 50mhz 68040R 128meg ram 10gig 10,000 rpm av drive Apple Remote Access 8port server card MacOS 7.5
9. Apple Quadra650 with Sonnet Quad doubler 80 mhz 4gig scsi Digidesign sound accelerator 256meg ram MacOS 8.1
10. 11. 12. Apple SE/30 30mhz 2gig 128meg Ram 10 base t ethernet MacOS 7.5.5
13. 14. 15. Apple MacPlus with brainstorm 16mhz 4meg ram 80gigHD Asante EN SCSI/SC ethernet MacOS 7.5.5
16. Ibook 700 12.1 30gig 640meg Combo drive WLAN MacOSX 10.2
17. Apple Quadra 700 36meg ram 160 gig HD asante 10base t MacOS 8.1
18. Apple Quadra 650 36 meg Ram 2gig HD asante 10base t MacOS 7.5
19. Apple Powerbook 180cs 14meg ram 500meg HD MacOS 7.6 Asante EN/SC
20. 21. 22. Apple laserwriter N/R
23. EPSON Color 1520
24. EPSON color 800
25. EPSON C60
26. HP 946
27. 28. 29. HP deskwriter 500
30. 31. Apple Imagewriter 1500
32. Apple Imagewriter LQ
33. Apple stylewriter 4100
34. Apple stylewriter 1200
35. Apple stylewriter 2500

You can see my office with QUICKTIME V6 at http://www.iggly.com

You might say I hack
I choose Apple because everything works the first time and every time.
By the way since this is ProCooling I will also tell you that I have two TravelAir 6 ton Ac units cooling about 1000 square feet of office space. I should have a posting about it up on my site soon.

[airspirit]

Jesus. You have more apples than Washington State.

[phreenet]

Dude all those macs are disgusting, save some power, help save the world, convert them into historical based abstract art, like coffee tables or something, well wait a minute, that would still be nasty, just throw them away.

[Joe]

BTW my lans been updated... It now runs 3 subnets, with 2 full active directory scheme's, Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2K server, NT4 and W2K servers. All in seperate test subnets and servers off of my main ones. Oh and my main server is running 4 VMWARE servers.

This is all because one of the projects for my job are to convert the states DA network to Active Directory and Exchange 2K... about a 2 year project for the size and criticality of the network.

Oh and I removed the Linksys POS router... what a crappy peice of shit. I now run a Netopia R9100 for the internet connection firewall and router.

[melvyn]

Just finished expanding my network...

Still got the same Roadrunner cable connection and Netgear 4 port router, but now I have two Zonene (el cheapo!) 8 port switches connected via 100mbps uplinks to the Netgear. The router now has it's DHCP server enabled.

One switch is in my sons room, where it's got his Celeron, a couple of Linux systems and spare ports for when his friends bring their computers over for a frag-fest.

The second switch is under my desk. Connected to it are my 1.53GHz t-bird system, my wifes work system (PIII 800), my wifes personal system (Athlon XP1600), our laptop (Toshiba Tecra 730CDT- old, slow, but works for us), and two dedicated Seti crunchers (K6-3 400 and PII 333).

The server is connected directly to the router. It's a Duron 750 with 256Mb ram and 64Gb hard drive for file and MP3 storage, Seti queue server and print server.

More Seti systems are on the way, so another switch will be hooked in soon.

[The Spyder]

Thought i would throw this into the mix.....
I run:
2x Netgear 24port 10/100 switches
2x Netgear 16 port Switches
1x Linksys Router
1x Speedstream DSL 1.5/1.5 dsl connection

Each room in the main house has 1x network port. ( approx 24 ports total)
My house has 40 ports for lans (2 story, and basement)
All in house ran to a 20 space rack, with 48 port patch pannels.
Same in my house~

Computers on the network as followed:
Intel P$ 2.26@2.8- WC- 2x80gig seagate~ ATI radeon 9700-
Amd Xp 1600@ 1909- WC- 1x 60gig seagate~ GF4 4600
Amd Xp 1600@ stock- Air- 40gig maxtor- GF4 4400
Amd XP 1800@ 1853 Air~ 20gig IBM~ GF4 4400
AMD XP 1800@1853 Air~ 20gig~ GF3
AMD T-bird 1.2~ AIR~ 40gig~ GF2 TI 450
Dual MP 1200@ stock~ 18gig SCSI IBM~ GF2 ti 450~
Dual PIII 1 gig@ stock~ 36gig Segate SCSI~ GF2 mx 200
Amd T-bird 1gig@1200~ 20gig FUGI~ 32mg built in s3~
Amd Duron 800@1gig~ 20gig FUGI~ 8mg Visiontek
Intel PIII 800@900~ 20gig FUGI~ 32mg TNT 2
Intel PIII 733~ 10gig max.~ 32mg TNT2
Amd Duron 700@900~ 6gig ~ 8mg ATI
Intel PIII 550~ 12gig Max.~ 16mg voodoo
Intel PIII 450~ 12gig MAX~ 8mg ATI
Laptops:
PIII 1gig~ 30gig~ 32mg GO
P166~ HP~ 10gig~ 2mg video
P200~ Toshiba~ 6gig~ 4mg video

And thats about it......
I run Win 2000 server......
CS server....
UT server
UT2003 server (soon)

Theres atleast 4000ft cat 5 cable in the houses...... I did all of it.... what a bitch.....

Thats my humble little lan......
Spyder

[daveosx]

Let's see the pictures.


Some people are disgusted by Apple computers but I find that they had a difficult time buying their PC and don't like it when some thing better is made evident to them after they wasted their money. The truth is from the first MAC I bought to the latest one I have been making money from them. I work at home, commute 56 feet a day get comped meals, magazines and trips around the country. I work when I choose, smoke cuban cigars (also comped) and earn a 7 figure income. I have walked with rulers and kings, played with stars, have a drop dead stunning wife.
I count myself fortunate and realized that when something works as well as the Mac.

Why change to be like everyone else?

Is your life working for you?

[daveosx]

I just got the amps for my 802.11b WLAN segment testing yesterday I ranged the connection 22 miles. Now my laptop has access over most of my city. I will be installing more repeater nodes to cover the shielded areas soon. I am offering access to airport travelers as soon as I get it to 30 miles. More money from Mac.

[The Spyder]

sure~ i gotta get batteries for my stupid camera!!!!!
Lets see some of yours.......

[daveosx]

Here are some of my pictures,

The first one is a QTVR so you'll need to have QuickTime 6 installed to view it properly.

DAVE'S OFFICE

The second is the cooling system I have for the Macs

6 ton state change cooling system

Lets see everyone else's

[The Spyder]

mAN! NIce cooling system~ whats your job again

[jtroutma]

I am sorry but that setup is just SICK!!!! (I like the screen setup though )

You have too much money to play with !!!