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Registered Member #30
Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Posts: 6706
A while ago I got DSL at my house. Rather than mess around with the stupid USB modem that the phone company gave me, I bought a Netgear DG834Gv2 DSL modem/router straight away.
I love this thing, because I just took it out of the box, plugged it in, and it worked. Any time I turned any of my computers on, internet access was just there, with no messing around or waiting. I wish all computer technology was as hassle-free as this. The only thing I did was to turn on encryption on the wi-fi side of it.
So I was pretty happy until it mysteriously died two weeks ago. :( After a lot of calls to tech support people in India who could barely understand my Scottish accent, I got a RMA number and was able to send it back for replacement under warranty. In the meantime, I used the crappy USB modem that disconnected me every 10 minutes for no reason that I could see.
The replacement unit was obviously someone else's warranty return unit that the guys at Netgear UK managed to repair. It looked rather beat up and had cookie crumbs stuck behind the clear acrylic front panel. But it works and once again my collection of crappy old PCs can see each others' files, print to each others' printers, and surf the net. Yay!
Does anyone else here have a home network they'd like to write about?
Registered Member #229
Joined: Tue Feb 21 2006, 07:33PM
Location: Romania
Posts: 506
I dont know much about PCs, but I dont use a modem on phone, but an optical cable conexion through a cartier network. I have it from march, when I make subscription for it (same bill per mounth independently by the hours you spend on the internet). If the payer wants, the tech boys can install DC++ on your computer to share files with the other members of the network. If you want more speed, band etc, just pay more. For me its something around 12.5 euro per mounth. The net conexion is up automatically, 30 sec after i open the computer.
Registered Member #56
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:02AM
Location: Southern Califorina, USA
Posts: 2445
My home network is quite involved... It started back in '96 when we bought a pair of nic's and a crossover cable, and the problems havn't stopped since. When we got our third computer we got a little 5 port 10mb/s hub, and ran a 100' cat5 cable to my room where we had the 3rd computer. (note that at this point we were on dailup-shared line-so it was only file/printer) Keeping that network alive was qute easy, with win98's easy to find settings...
Then we moved, and (b/c there was no reception) we got cable---and came the cable modem. So we bought a linksys barricade router + 4 port hub, and after much fiddling (the $(#@ing modem decied that it would only connect to the mac adress of the first computer we connected it to, not the router or the computer it was connected to) it worked. Most of the time.
Then we got my laptop--and needed wireles. With the laptop came a d-link wifi+router+4 port switch. So I plugged the cable from the router and my computer into the lan ports and fired up my laptop. And it worked, for ~5 minutes. Then the dhcp from the routers got pissed off at eachother and all hell broke loose. So after disabling the dhcp it seemed to work. But coverage wasn't enough, so we got a linksis barricade +wifi, and replaced the old one. But since coverage still sucked in the common room, we put back the old barricade and did the same thing to my little brother's room as mine, and all was good.
Then we had a power surge that took out all 3 routers, and 2 integrated nic's So my dad got a linksys router and an acess point... The router went next to the modem and the acess point in my room. But since we needed the extra ports from the routers we also added a few hubs arround. We also lost the printer server functionality of the barricades, so we were using a software pintserver until we got a real printer that an integrated print server. So ~$400 later all was good (the printer was a present from my grandparents)
And as I type I have beed trying to get ubuntu running as a web/file server, hopefully it wont screw up too much...
So the total network configuration is
cable modem -> router ->dad's computer
->printer
->hub on top of the tv ->brother's computer
->hub in my room ->access point -> my laptop
-> my desktop
->my linux box
Sorry if this is kind of long winded, but I am waiting for a 120gb disk to format so I can ghost over my desktops os onto it, liberating a 30gb disk that I can use with the k6/2-500 mobo I hope to use with my ubuntu box... still only 76% done :-/
Registered Member #89
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 02:40PM
Location: Zadar, Croatia
Posts: 3145
Does anyone else here have a home network they'd like to write about?
wee, my router is dead. I switched to it 3 days ago from USB modem (crappy but worked beautifully for a year, I had to wait for agreement to end so I can take new one and get router for free).
It's siemens gigaset SE555 (not a timer IC.)
It worked beautifully when I plugged it, and so this morning I turned on my PC, but it remains silent. It trained ADSL, shows LAN's connected, but shows apsolutely no response to computer. On a crappy win XP it is impossible to guess what is happening, it shows that LAN is connected but nothing more. I cant acess internet, other computer nor router itself.
Here it is, disconnected (my PC is acting as gateway again) and near is my old USB ADSL modem.
Registered Member #157
Joined: Sun Feb 12 2006, 08:00PM
Location:
Posts: 76
We have verizon DSL, Because we burried the cables up our drive to the house we had verizon lay there fios lines if and when they make the service to our place. From the DSl it goes to a WiFi router and four port hub. Most the computers work from the WiFi but me and my brother wired up the house with 100/1000 just in case.
Geometrically Frustrated Registered Member #6
Joined: Thu Feb 02 2006, 04:18AM
Location: Bowdoin, Maine
Posts: 373
My home network is pretty simple, a cable modem and Asante router (<3) live downstairs, with one computer connected. I ran a cable up to my room, and I have an 8 port hub connected to my 2 (and occasionally more) computers. It works quite well, but my ISP is terrible. Suscom is always dropping the ball, and we have an ass slow cable connection anyway.
Before I had this network, I had a nice token ring network in my room using NuBus token ring cards in several LC's. I could kick your ass in Avara or Bolo any day of the week.
Ahh, good times.
I'd like to have an FDDI network. Not because it's fast or good or anything, it's just neat.
Registered Member #51
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 04:17AM
Location:
Posts: 263
We have Bell$outh DSL here, the 3000/384 package to be exact. We just recently got VoIP from Voicepluse and the service quality has been ok. The network (all set up my me, hehe) consists of a linksys router, 2 switches, a DSL modem and a VoIP box. I also run a small server (a proxy and small file upload service for myself and friends) so I tend the use most of the bandwidth here. My network is this:
Registered Member #30
Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Posts: 6706
Jim: I'm supposed to be appearing on Subcity internet radio tonight (monday) around 10pm local time. I guess that's 9pm GMT. If you miss it, they have a "listen again" archive of their old shows :P Look for a show called "Institute".
The guys who host the show are Scottish too, so you're guaranteed not to understand a thing any of us says
Registered Member #326
Joined: Sat Mar 18 2006, 01:12PM
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Posts: 66
I used the crappy USB modem that disconnected me every 10 minutes for no reason that I could see.
Log into the management interface at 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.100.1, username/password is usually root/root or admin/admin. There should be an option to stay connected forever. If you're unlucky enough to have a USB modem turn off the power saving feature in the root hub too.
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