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Home Network Tour Part 2, The Hardware

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Uploaded by on Aug 23, 2009

A brief tour of my network hardware and my main desktop machine as part of my home network tour.

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  • I under stand the importance of latency packet loss etc. My connection is 6.8 with the best latency i've ever seen. Completely flat line with no sudden leaps or drops. It's just that as bandwidth becomes more and more essential with things like hd streaming, I just can't see why you wouldn't of spent less on the huge server and invested in a leased line.

  • @SuperFlubble

    I didn’t spend a huge amount of money on anything. My Citrix Xenserver is an AMD quad worth about £250, an old desktop machine, my fileserver is an old Pentium 4 machine I got free.

    The rackmount ATX cases are £40 on Ebuyer. The cabinet was free, the UPS was £280, the Cisco was £30.

    In comparison, a leased line here would cost thousands per month!

    Besides, I don’t need more bandwidth anyway, don’t do much streaming and I am only hosting a small website and my own email server.

  • 3.5mb down? You spent all this money on a huge server and you can barely even access the Internet

  • @SuperFlubble

    You think that 3.5Mbit is no use?

    Yes, if I lived 3 miles from here I would get 40Mbit but would that be any better? In my experience, not much based on the fact that link speed means very little. What IS important is the quality, latency, packet loss, traffic shaping by the ISP which in the UK makes even 50Mbit connections pretty much useless with most ISP’s. I may only have 3.5Mbit but the quality of my ISP rivals the 2 x 1Gbit connections we have at work.

  • How much Internet speed?

  • @bobctx

    ADSL 3.5Mb down 1Mb up.

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  • This is the best setup vid on Youtube.

  • @BlackGoldEstates

    The Netgear DG834 is an ADSL modem / router / 4 port SWITCH, but then of course the manufacturers website could always be wrong!

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  • Nice wiring! Nothing more I hate then cables all over the place!

  • @SuperFlubble I have 0.34mb down and 0.16 up and I can access the internet perfectly, watch videos on youtube, downloads are a little slow, but I can do pretty much anything anyone else can do.

  • @seanbranagh im gonna show my GF this later....she complains with the little set up i have now just got a 4x xeon 2.8, 8gb ram hp server and a rack case. i bow to you :-)

  • That makes more sense now, cheers.

  • Where do you put your legs?

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