Recent content by rifken

Any word if this works well with ZFS such as FreeNAS? I would love to build something like this in to my setup but saw someone mention that ZFS and expanders don't work well... Any truth to that?

That is what I was looking at, moving the router to my home office. I have three drops there and I could use two of the three to move the router and then use a switch on the remaining drop to put my desktop and printer back on the network. Now if only I could find a good router for my...

I have thought about moving the router inside for that very reason. However, because my cat5 is terminated in the garage my options for moving the switch are limited to ain't going to happen! That said, are there any switches out there that might deal with the conditions better?

I want to beef up my home network backend. About three months ago my wife gave me the go ahead to cut the cable and we use a freenas box to serve up local HD content, as well as stream a lot of video from the internet, to 4 XBMC boxes in the house. I have killed quite a bit of equipment...