The *Official* Post Pics Of Your Network Thread

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FLECOM said:
im a licenced amateur radio operator so i can do 1000 watts on anything within 2300-2310Mhz and 2390-2450 MHz... which includes some 802.11 channels

then again, 1000watts at those frequencies would basically be a microwave oven/death ray :eek:
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"Hello from Sweden, SM0YPJ here!" ;) 73 mate... :D
 
this is my server/bedside media player. i bet im the first to think of this. I brainstormed that i wanted to put my email/weather/server stats at my bed and i just started watching futurama on it when i go to bed. PIII with about 128 mb or ram. nothing special but it does every job i need and i thought it was a sweet idea with the wireless keyb/mouse.

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front of the case and printer (wireless printer server too)
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with the mattress lifted up you can see how it all works together.
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Well, I guess that's one way to do it....:D . I hope you don't have an electrical short or anything one night.....:confused:
 
Great idea, man, but what if you roll over in the night or have a nightmare and drive your elbow or fist through your LCD?

Perhaps a meter or two suspended above the bed, so you could lie flat on the bed and look up at it...
 
I think that is a fire hazard to be honest. Just get a longer cable to the monitor then you can have the PC in the open.
 
Being a firefighter....yeah I can see it as a fire hazard. Mattresses can go up in flames VERY fast (60-120 seconds). That's not what I see as a big problem though. Fires don't kill most people, smoke does. The chemicals that are used to produce mattresses give off a ton of toxic fumes (a lot of smoke).

I'll get off my soapbox now.
 
Not really my network, but my high school just got new routers for the CCNA class. Sorry for crappy camera phone pics.

Old: 5 2500 series and 1 2600 series
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New: 13 2811s
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we have a ccna class in our high school aswell. We use 1721 routers. we just started CCNA2
 
We need a "Post pics of your Login/Password list" too and of your open ports and IP address... ;)

BTW: When I was in highschool, we had IBM 80286 desktops and we had to provide our own floppy disk to keep our work on. Our teacher had a Soundblaster on her computer, so getting to use that was a real treat. We learned amazing things like BASIC and primary Dos commands. Our network was a basic 4meg token ring. Wanna have fun? Unplug your machine's network line and watch the whole room drop off.

10 INPUT "How old am I?"; U$
20 PRINT "You think I'm "; U$ "?!?!?!"
30 REM
40 INPUT "Are you retarded?"; Y$
50 PRINT "I'm surprised that a little tard like you can spell "; Y$
60 REM
70 PRINT "Ok, I'm done with you. Please turn me off."
 
we didn't have a network at high school!

i'm only 25 as well so its not that long ago.
 
Agreed, I'm 27 and the computers we had were crap. I graduated in 1997. If I recall correctly, we used MS Works and that was only for typing class. All of our print jobs came out on a line matrix printer. We had to save our jobs to floppy, take the floppy out, walk over to the computer that had the printer attached locally and print there.

CRAZY!!

My dad bought the family our first computer in 1997 and used dial up service. Crazy!!!
 
JayAre said:
Agreed, I'm 27 and the computers we had were crap. I graduated in 1997. If I recall correctly, we used MS Works and that was only for typing class. All of our print jobs came out on a line matrix printer. We had to save our jobs to floppy, take the floppy out, walk over to the computer that had the printer attached locally and print there.

CRAZY!!

My dad bought the family our first computer in 1997 and used dial up service. Crazy!!!
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It is strange how quickly things turned around... We got our first family PC in 1985, first dialup service (CompuServe and also access to the Cleveland Freenet) in 1991... and I'm 31.

In 15 years a PC went from being "something nerds and rich kids have" to being something "you can't succeed without." Internet access will be as vital as electricity or gas very soon, and many people think it is already. :)
 
our printers where a bit more high tech. We also had dot matrix printers but a printer share box that we connected all the PCs to via the printer cables. When you printed the box would auto select your connection and forward it on to the printer!

it was good unless two people tried to print then it would just get all confused and crash

we also used works.
 
Details of all machines and rack components

I included a link to specs of all the equipment in the rack, but the here is the summary the setup. The cabinet is 42U and it currently houses 4 machines. The development server, and router are currently connected to the KVM which is connected to a USB keyboard and a PS2 mouse. I plan on replacing the development server with a E6300 C2D 4GB machine with 2x 80gb SATA II drives in RAID 1 so that I can take advantage of hardware virtualization. I may use the P4 1.4 as the router when I do that. The boat anchor I have no idea what I am going to do with. It was given to me by a friend and I don't know that I want to put it in the rack as it might end up taking up the space of something else. I am considering replacing the KVM with a rackmount 8-port so I can connect the 2nd port on the C2D, the 2.6HT when I replace that card, and the 2nd video port on the C2D server I will be adding. I have also found some cheap refurbished 15" LCD monitors I would like to build a custom hinge for so I can store things on the top shelf and just lift the monitor up when I need to get to them. The door still has some tape on it and there are some scratches, but MSRP on all the cabinet stuff is about $4000 and I got it all for $350 so I am not going to complain. The cabinet had never had anything installed in it.

Remaining Items/Tasks
  • Middle Atlantic 4U Drawer (2x) (1 with media partitions)
  • Move KVM and Linksys router to 1U 19" x 10" shelf mounted on the back rails
  • 1U Keyboard tray with keyboard/touchpad combo
  • Norco 4U Chassis (2x)
  • Router and P4 1.4 will be put in a 1U chassis
  • Brother 10/100 network printer
  • 16 or 24 port patch panel
  • 16 or 24 port rackmount gigabit switch
  • 1ft CAT6 cables panel to switch
  • 7ft/10ft cables panel to machines
  • Rackmount 4-port KVM (Maybe)
  • 15" LCD with Custom rackmount hindge (Maybe)

I actually only have one 22" monitor, the 2nd in the photos is when I had the replacement and the original. I will be replacing the Dell 22" for the HP w2207. It at least shows you what dual 22s and a 19 look like in a row.

Now I know everyone here is going to be very very very jealous, as my internet connection is pretty amazing. All of this equipment is connected by 56Krap. That's right I am so rural my only options are dialup and satellite and the satellite TOS is crap. So I have more machines in my house than kb/sec I can transfer. I do have access to a 10mbit about 10 miles away so it isn't soooo bad, but I cry daily.

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My linksys stack, so cute! Also a prosafe in there.

Top to bottom:
netgear prosafe fvs114 (for hw firewall)
linksys WRT54g (for wifi g)
linksys BEFSsomething (for wifi b)
linksys Eg005W for gigabit hotness


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I had thought about doing that as well. GlobalFear; I can only assume (and we all know what that does :p ) that he did it so that a B connection does not drag down anything he has connected via G.

I was curious if you have any sort of signal issues with the antenna being so close together like that Dillusion.
 
GlobalFear said:
Why run a seperate AP for B?
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I had that setup originally so my laptop can run on the G network along with my HTPC for zap2it updates (tvguide) every week, and the B network would have ran my new 8125 smartphone. But i ended up getting the blackjack w/ no wifi, so the B isnt being used right now, but I'm thinking of using it either as a guest access point when friends come over to do homework and shit, or as my HTPC update signal, and keep my laptop on the G.

When i move out of this college apartment into a house in a few months, the HTPC will be on the gigabit switch with my main rig so there will be no need for the spair wifi, but i'll keep it around just in case for friends again...

EDIT: and no I dont have any signal problems..should i? they're on different channels...
 
Dillusion said:
EDIT: and no I dont have any signal problems..should i? they're on different channels...
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Not sure, I just kept seeing that old RKO footage of the radio waves going out of the tower in my head. That got me to wondering if them being close together like that would cause problems.

Sometimes weird things like that pop into my head and I have to ask, even though I have no idea what I am talking about. :p
 
Dillusion said:
I had that setup originally so my laptop can run on the G network along with my HTPC for zap2it updates (tvguide) every week, and the B network would have ran my new 8125 smartphone. But i ended up getting the blackjack w/ no wifi, so the B isnt being used right now, but I'm thinking of using it either as a guest access point when friends come over to do homework and shit, or as my HTPC update signal, and keep my laptop on the G.

When i move out of this college apartment into a house in a few months, the HTPC will be on the gigabit switch with my main rig so there will be no need for the spair wifi, but i'll keep it around just in case for friends again...

EDIT: and no I dont have any signal problems..should i? they're on different channels...
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but 1 wi-fi router should be able to support B and G
 
Jay_oasis said:
but 1 wi-fi router should be able to support B and G
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One router will support both, but as soon as a single client connects at B-speed, everyone drops to B-speed. There are a couple of more expensive models that will allow you do do dual-speed on one access point, but it's not the norm. If you want to get high speed, most people these days disable B-clients from connecting to their G-routers.
 
Just did a new install at work. Still have to get the rest of the cable management in place so excuse the messy cable job.

Servers from top left:
1: Old FTP/Web server. This is getting retired soon. Just a basic P4 2.4ghz.
2: Voicemail. Running DOS 5.0 on a Pentium 90.
3: Certance LTO2 tape drive
4: Dell PowerEdge 850. Runs our CRM, TimeClock, and Production Scheduling software
5: Dell PowerEdge 1950. Server one of a two node Exchange/AD cluster
6: Dell PowerEdge 1950. Second server in cluster.
7: IBM e325 dual opteron. Old data storage server. Will be replacing #1 soon as web server.
8: Dell MD1000. 6 TB of storage in a 3u format.
9: Dell MD1000. 6 more TB of storage. This drive array is a continuously replicating #8 via replistor. Failure of 8 will automtically switch to 9.
10: Old drive enclosure. 9 76gb SCSI drives with one acting as hotspare.
11: Cyberpower UPS
12: Cyberpower UPS

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Not bad...though I am a stickler for good cable management. As far as voicemails go, DOS 5.0 is pretty new compared to a lot of the stuff. I do some work at the telecom company my dad works at, and spent some time taking apart old/broken voicemail PCs. Many of them had less than 1 gig drives and run OS/2!
 
Alright, I've gotten a little further with my rack. My sister is using it as a "shelf" of some kind until I get it out of the living room... who can blame her its been there for months. I've been in the hospital for a long time so things had to go on hold. I should be getting 2 sets of rails sometimes next week and 2 4U cases on friday for my desktop and my file/newsgroup leech/video converting/dev machine. :)

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I forgot to mention, the open case in my rack. i had this case from a local seller on craigslist who claimed an ATX board could go in it, but no dice. I hacked it up and hacked up an old enlight case and put the guts inside to make an ATX board work. The purpose of hacking the front off besides the handles was so that I can use it as a test bench type of machine. I've been in need of a test machine for a while. People always bring me computer parts that I have to then take my computer apart to see if they work. I am a little disappointed that the front sags or bends in a bit since the bar across the top has been removed, but oh well. Its not that noticable.
 
bert@loner said:
this is my server/bedside media player. i bet im the first to think of this. I brainstormed that i wanted to put my email/weather/server stats at my bed and i just started watching futurama on it when i go to bed. PIII with about 128 mb or ram. nothing special but it does every job i need and i thought it was a sweet idea with the wireless keyb/mouse.

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front of the case and printer (wireless printer server too)
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with the mattress lifted up you can see how it all works together.
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Haha, a poor mans Faraday cage :D
 
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