So, once again I have been informed that our home network needs to be redone to meet new demands. To those that don't know our network is fairly substantial, for a private home network that is. Of course the most critical aspect of a network is the connection. Ours being a Comcast high speed line. Although to be honest, if the network grows much more, I'll be looking at a faster line. Here's the current connection.

The backbone of the network is a slightly dated Linksys WRT54GL, running DD-WRT. Down the road I will probably upgrade to a new wireless N, gigabit router, but thats a bit down the list of to dos.

The router connects to 3 D-Link switches. 2 are gigabit, and the other is 100meg. All three are 5 port. One of the gigabit switches runs a wireless N access point.

In its current state the network will connect to 8 computers, and have the capacity to handle many more.

Tomorrow I'm doing three cable runs in the craw-space in order to complete the setup.

Future plans-

NAS

New router

I'm going to try and get pictures tomorrow.

Hope this makes all you geeks happy.

Better than mine... Well, the one I'm stealing. haha

Eh, you'd be surprised how badly ours can get saturated at peak use. Not to mention if I have an FTP server running.

mines 14.05 down and 4.5 up on wifi with 3 bars lol. just basic comcast with an oldy but goody linksys.

I win!

FML

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

It's the price I pay for being awesome I suppose!

I win!

FML

Wow, the city where I live provides free Wifi, and I'm pretty sure its faster than that.

Better than I thought it was going to be at work... Then again it's lunch time and everyone else is probably off their computers

Better than I thought it was going to be at work... Then again it's lunch time and everyone else is probably off their computers

Can I have half your upload? Please?

Can I have half your upload? Please?

Don't worry it's a lie, it's never actually that fast... I just got lucky and did a test when the bandwidth was low. I upload videos via an FTP client and 500mb video takes like 30 min , ok maybe not 30 min but it's ridiculous for what speeds we have. I'm scared with what the IT people do at my company because our Exchange Servers have been down all day today and yesterday and there is always some network issue.

Now my weakness that I deal with at the home:

Better than my cellphone modum was but still would like a bit better speed.

Just priced Comcast's 50/10 line. For the first 6 months its only $20 more, but after that it jumps to $40 more. I don't see it happening right now, sadly.

Well, my cousin came over today, and ran some cable that I am simply to fat to run. I can't fit in the far craw space. So in honor of almost being done.....

Yay!

^^Bad photo shop.

So here's some geek porn. this is one of the gigabit switches and the wireless N AP.

The cables were getting damaged because of the vent, so I wrapped them in electrical tape to help. I know this isn't the best solution, but it works in a pinch. Sadly I couldn't find my heat shrink, that would have been better.

Sorry for the crap camera photo pictures.

Nice! I'm waiting to buy my own house so I can setup some crazy network down the road

Faster than 85% US haha.

And I love how LN7 Photoshopped it but left this grade at "F" hahaha

Nice! I'm waiting to buy my own house so I can setup some crazy network down the road

This is my parents house, I still live with them. This honestly isn't to insane. Like I told my dad though, when he was asking questions that he shouldn't, he (my dad) now owns one of the top 25 most complex private residential networks in the state. I obviously can't verify that, but it was effective for getting him off of my back. There's close to $200 in hardware alone, not counting cable. Plus if I setup a NAS server now, that will only add to it.

Nice speed there Havoc, we probably have the same Comcast package.

Faster than 85% US haha.

And I love how LN7 Photoshopped it but left this grade at "F" hahaha

I almost changed it, but liked it better as a fail!

i get similar speeds they really need to do something with these upload speeds.

picking the server closer to me and i get this. the one above is where it apparently chooses the server for you.

That's not unusual. Generally your upload speeds are a lot lower than you download, since consumers use the download a tone more.

Upload speeds are good for things like gaming. For example a First Person Shooter. Your computer has to upload your movement data to the server and then bounce it back to other players. This is why dedicated server for PC are the best platforms for online multiplayer. They have a business connection vs a residential (Hosting on Xbox/PS3) connection. It also eliminates host advantage because the "host" is not a player but the server itself