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Do any of you guys have a home network? What are its specs? Do you host lan parties?

At my last house we had a 12 port 100mbit switched network. Nothing was ever formal, but we had lots of 'game night' parties where a bunch of guys would bring their computers over.

Now I've got an 8 port Linksys router and I've run network cable through the walls and started putting in network jacks. I'm probably going to replace the router with a nice Linux router and buy a bigger switch, eventually (:

~LoudMusic
 
Originally posted by LoudMusic
Do any of you guys have a home network? What are its specs? Do you host lan parties?

At my last house we had a 12 port 100mbit switched network. Nothing was ever formal, but we had lots of 'game night' parties where a bunch of guys would bring their computers over.

Now I've got an 8 port Linksys router and I've run network cable through the walls and started putting in network jacks. I'm probably going to replace the router with a nice Linux router and buy a bigger switch, eventually (:

~LoudMusic
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Nice man, how about a little Catalyst 1600 Switch? Hummm.... I wonder how much a fully managed, 24 port 10/100 switch from Cisco would cost? :D
 
Originally posted by Pako


Nice man, how about a little Catalyst 1600 Switch? Hummm.... I wonder how much a fully managed, 24 port 10/100 switch from Cisco would cost? :D
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Dude, that would be so expensive for a home setup. I've actually gotten to tinker a little with a 192 port Extreem Networks (that the brand) switch. It was 10/100 fully managed and moved an incredible amount of packets per second. It also had a bunch of gigabit fiber uplinks, 12 I think. There was one on ever floor of every building for a corporate campus of nearly 5,000 employees. Unfortunately the associates (employees) only get 10mbit connections to the network. They fear that if they opened it up full speed, everyone would be downloading Mp3s all day over their three DS3 Internet connections. Actually, I know the network security guys. They said that nearly 50% of their Internet traffic was LimeWire, and that included their corporate -money making- internet traffic.

Scary to think that that much data is being tossed around without a care in the world ...

~LoudMusic
 
50% usage of a DS3? WHOA?!?! That's a chunk of bandwidth.... Eventually we'll need BPG (Bandwidth Protection Groups) to help educated usless and careless use of bandwidth.

Speaking of routers....over the last 1 1/2 I've had the opertunity to play with 5 Cisco3500 Routers and Fully managed switches configuring everthing from fully configuring the router's and their interfaces to ACL's (Access Control Lists) on the routers to microsegments using V-LANS with the switches...with specific port assignments. Cool stuff man! I love it... Hopefully I'll get a chance to really do some messin' around, hopefully with some gigabit blades and such! ;)

~later~
 
Originally posted by Pako
50% usage of a DS3? WHOA?!?! That's a chunk of bandwidth.... Eventually we'll need BPG (Bandwidth Protection Groups) to help educated usless and careless use of bandwidth.

Speaking of routers....over the last 1 1/2 I've had the opertunity to play with 5 Cisco3500 Routers and Fully managed switches configuring everthing from fully configuring the router's and their interfaces to ACL's (Access Control Lists) on the routers to microsegments using V-LANS with the switches...with specific port assignments. Cool stuff man! I love it... Hopefully I'll get a chance to really do some messin' around, hopefully with some gigabit blades and such! ;)

~later~
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Supposedly they're going to be moving the employees to a new internet route and devoting the entire DS3 to the customers. They've also planned to SERIOUSLY cut back on the kinds of allowed traffic through the firewalls.

Playing with Cisco stuff can be fun (: I've just got little 3Com 3300 switches, but they have a lot of the same options. Pretty cool stuff.

~LoudMusic
 

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