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Ok so me and my neighbor are trying to come up with a way we can "share" a seedbox. I have the crappy cable internet ( but with 3 kids, Im always broke) and he has pretty good DSL (thats truly unlimited, unlike my cable) What we would like to do is have one box both networks can use, sort of a...

Is it possible to have some of the pc's on my lan be set to static IP and some of them just get a IP from my router via dhcp? Right now I have my router set to hand out Ip's from 10.0.0.2 to 10.0.0.33. My Freenas Box sits on 10.0.0.34, and I set up my WHS on 10.0.0.24 both static ( I realize...

Network setup is as follows Internet--->Westell 4 port gateway /wireless acces point /router ---> internal lan Im using 3 of the ports off the Westell and the wireless access point. Using DHCP but soon to change that. Right now I am just fiddling with some stuff from outside my...

Wow, just....................wow. :confused: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/a-pound-of-flesh-how-ciscos-unmitigated-gall-derailed-one-mans-life.ars Everyone involved at Cisco and all the US officials involved should be charged.

Ok, so I went with PFSense as my poor stock wrt54g v5 couldnt handle my households demand. I want to still use the 54g as a wireless access point and a switch. I understand disabling DHCP etc, but wanted to know what was the more correct IP to set the 54g at, 192.168.1.2 or 192.168.2.1 ...

So today I got on just to do a little reading and I see I have yet ANOTHER warning in my inbox from my favorite lopsided forum mod KaosDG. I admit in the past I may have been in the wrong but this last one is utter bullshit. I posted this...

So, was wondering if one was was preferred over the other in the following picture. Or does it even matter? PFSense handles all DHCP requests.

So now that I have Pfsense installed and working, are there any special features I should learn about more? There are 2 things I am gonna self learn 1) how to port foward so I can access my WHS from the net, and 2) setup a ftp server so my Uncle can DL stuff from me. I dont torrent...

So I had 2 1.5 Tb Seagates in my backup server go bad and RMA'd then thru Seagate. They would just power cycle repeatedly ( not due to anything on my or the servers fault) RMA went easy enough, got my 2 refurbed drives in the post about 3 days later, install them, etc. 2 days into...

Hello everyone. I have a few video files laying around on a server and theyre all different sizes, formats, etc. Just wondering what is everyones favorite format for saving video and the reason why. Please dont forget to mention why you like a certain format as I think that will help me a lot...

Well, finally got tired of my crappy consumer router and installed pfsense on an old pc. Works great.no dropping etc, pretty easy to setup. Problem is I cant remote to another pc on my lan. Previously I would use Windows remote desktop to remotely control 2-3 pc's in my bedroom from my...

Well guys, as the title says I am wanting a website and have no clue where to begin. I have a program that is supposed to make webpages and am going to start trying to learn HTML so I believe I have the design part ( and if I decide on something super fancy I will always be willing to pay for...

Hi guys. I have a problem, I live in Fl and we always always have these millisecond power outages anytime it rains. When it happens it always knocks my network ( router, modem, switches) and my 2 servers offline(usually only one server is up at a time if that matters). I was wondering if this...

Hey guys, check this out. I downloaded it and played with it a bit. Unfortunately I dont really have any machines with enough spare ram to really use it. Also, I have never used a commercial grade ram disk program to compare this too, but hey, the price (free) is right :)...

Hey guys, I was thinking since we get a LOT of questions here about data storage, etc we could maybe start a thread and possibly even get it stickied for the different OS options one has when looking to set up a server/nas/san. Nothing too in depth but maybe a quick comparison??? IE , I will...

Ok, Ill try to be brief as possible. 2 WHS boxes. One with a cheap Syba 4 port Sata card flashed to the latest bios ( this is it http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124020 ) and one with a Supermicro 8 port card (...

Well, I am having a bit of trouble with my WHS box. Its using a PCI Intel Gig NIC and the transfers out are ok for me, in the 30 Mb/s range, but the transfers IN are at a painfully slow 1-2 Mb/s. Im at a loss. Its gotta be a weird software box that needs to be checked or something, but what? Any...

SO I have a Linksys WRT54G wireless router ( version 5 I believe) that I am using for wireless acces to my LAN. I had it set up to filter MAC's so that only my 3 PC's that use wireless could get on. Or so I thought. I noticed a rogue PC on my network the other day. Odd , because I only have 3...

Hey guys, I built my daughters a little net-top system for Xmas and they absolutely love it. It has an Atom dual core cpu, 2 gigs of memory, using wireless internet via usb dongle, with a nice wide flatscreen display. I am using the on board graphics right now, and to be honest for about 99% of...

Hi guys, I just starte dplaying with Freenas. I have a really old pc with an 80 gig and a 40 gig HD. I am trying to set this up for my little girls to have some place for their stuff. I want 3 folders of 40 gig size ( well, not exactly but yo uknow what I mean) The problem is when I set up a...

SO I have 4 Tb of stuff, all duplicated. Earlier I power cycled my machine and was cleaning the dust off, etc and must have bumped a drive that was spinning or I dont know what. Anyway on restart I get a message before WHS fully boots that drive such-and-such has errors, run chkdsk etc, so I let...

Wow, I was playing with some alternate OSes and whatnot as I came across 2 more working PC's in the 600 Mhz range. ( I cant bear to toss a working PC with a good looking case no matter how useles it is, lol) Well I have and probably always will be a hardcore Windows user, but man, this Freenas...

Just curious whos running this combo. I would like any feedback you have on it. I am thinking of trying this myself, because the Athlon 64 I am using now (on a mobo with a dedicated vid card, no onboard, was an old gaming pc) is killing me in electricity. I was thinking an intel atom...

Hi guys, Im pretty sheltered when it comes to networking stuff so I appeal to you here. I am wanting to upgrade my wired connection to gigabit speeds. Rather, part of the network anyway. I have a main PC and a WHS server, and a few other random PC's on the network. I want the transfers to the...

Hi guys, Im trying to consolidate some of my junk to one central case, and I have a few HD I am gonna have to build a mini-rack for inside the case. I am thinking of getting some L channel from Home Depot and making a simple HD cage for about 4 HD. Any suggestions for keeping the dives safe and...

Hi guys, since I have a lot of , um, "movies" ~.^ I hang here in the Storage section quite often. Anyway, you guys are great and I just wanted to take a second to say thanks to all the knowledgeable people here on [H]ardforum, this section in particular, as this is where I get my info and...

Just curious, as I have NO experience with either of these. I was wondering if I was to want to use something for a "scratch drive" of sorts ( editing video, joining DL'ed movie clips, etc) what would be the better route, and why? Maybe some pros and cons of each. Would only need to be...

Long story short, my rapidshare account got hacked. They had control of it for about a total of 6 hours, didnt mess anything up or put me over the DL limit, etc. Well, if you're not familiar, Rapidshare assigns you a username and password. Their both utter nonsense, so a lot of people have a...

Ok guys, seems like theres a lot of mis-information out there as far as how to properly use a new drive, so maybe we can have some of the experienced guys give their expertise and maybe make something worthy of a sticky. 1) New hard drive DONT - Dont transfer 800 gigd of irreplaceable...

Hi guys, I just wanna pass along some info that may be helpful to those of you that are using an internal drive in an external enclosure. I bought 2 500 gig WD drives for backups and 2 Thermaltake enclosures. The enclosures will do E-SATA or USB. At the time I didnt have the back panel to run...

Hi guys, I have the weirdest problem. I have a 9600gt (EVGA manufactured) in a Nforce 750i mobo. The card works great about 50% of the time. Then every once in a while it goes nuts, I get crazy artifacts, and it crashes my PC. I mean, crashes hard, no BSOD most of the time, usually just a loud...

..the hard drive manufacturers started labeling drives as actual capacity. I was sitting on my porch the other day thinking about buying a 1.5 Tb drive to use as a backup and it dawned on me that I would have an actual 1.4 Tb usable. 100 gigs lost, or not, depending on which side of the...

Ok guys I have a weird situation. I have an E8400 overclocked to 3500 or so. I just overclocked it yesterday and since I was overclocking I downloaded some utilities to monitor it and to stress it to make sure it was stable. When I opened CPU-Z I noticed it only showed one core. Weird, so I...

Ok, so I got bored and had an old 7 inch TFT display from some el cheapo car dvd kit we bought. I hacked into it and its now AC powered and I can get video into it. The only thing is, I am using a 9600gt to drive it and my main display, and I can either 1) Clone the desktop over to the small...

So I was looking around Newegg for some sort of backup solution as I have gotten paranoid lately and I ran across this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817145026 What sold me was the IDE capabilities, I have a few oddball drives laying around here and there and it would be...

Hello, I have a problem, that I think I know the answer to but would like some of the more seasoned persons here opinions also. I have a 9600 gt vid card in a Nforce 750i chipset mobo. I was getting the problem that my screen would freeze, etc. It appeared my vid card was getting hot and...

Hi guys, Im looking for a card something like this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816103058 I just want to add some sata drives to an existing system with a free pcie slot. I dont even care if it does any sort of raid, etc. I had one in an older system that I bought...