Thaed's Home Network Upgrade Adventure.

Having a RAID 5 file server on a gigabit network for all the computers in my house has been a dream of mine for a long time. In this video, I show you what I'm switching too and some of the issues that I ran into as I completed the upgrade.

The video is sadly dark and practically unwatchable. This does not prevent me from putting it on YouTube. The fact of the matter is that if you want to shoot good video (you know, with lighting) then you have to plan and prepare for that. It means work. It also helps to write what you're going to say instead of pointing a camera and just talking. I did not put any work into this and, well, it shows. Nonetheless, I suspect that computer geeks like me might enjoy it for what it is.

Finally, I learned something from this that's not in the video. Plugging in gigabit switches and routers doesn't give you gigabit transfer speeds out of the box. Windows, Linux and FreeNAS require substantial tweaking before you notice any improvements. Sadly, this tweaking is not trivial and I'm still working on it.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• FreeNAS
• netgear
• gigabit
• upgrade
• network
• infrastructure
• file
• server
• switch
• cat5
• FreeBSD

[Thaed]

Yeah, if I said that I should have said FreeNAS is based on BSD. BSD is an operating system, not a language. So if I said "written in BSD" my bad.

[salat]

mh.. "written in BSD"?

yeah, my friend, you may be are a "hardware-guy"..

(there are many other geek-levels as well - "metal-guy", "wood-guy" and "don't touch anything that could break-guy" for example)

[minizfreak]

why 24 ports? XD do you have 24 computers or do you have LAN partys every friday night? :P

[KCNTV]

@jiewokmdloqkrnfkfnwe Um no it's not, Thaed -> deaht.

[jiewokmdloqkrnfkfnwe]

his name is death spelled backwards

[ThisMakesMeThink]

@iLearnTech mac addresses

[GoldenDaffsterDuck]

has it gone up in smoke yet?

[SirCrest]

Something about giant switches is so cool and pretty.

[joekuta]

u should edit your description of boring excuses to include INFORMATION

[iLearnTech]

How does Network switch work?

[XtR0pX]

@Thaed People have to be so damn picky on youtube don't they? Some make an effin' career out of pointing out idiosyncrasies. Pretty silly, IMO.

[ChockFullOfWin]

Would've been nice to see a before and after speed test.

[saulisrztk]

you can just un-block certain features by configuring Norton.