Network pics thread

Lightworker said:
I have one at home, posted a pic a few pages back--that's why I commented. No hating here.
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The fact you have a WLAN controller at the house is freakin sweet. Wish we had the ability without paying an arm and foot for D3 speeds..lol how are your speeds on that controller?
 
Never benched it, I live in a pretty lousy RF environment so I wouldn't have high expectations. Best results will probably be in the 5GHz band, don't know how many channels will be open--so speeds could vary.

BTW, I hate that Netgear switch, the interface is totally garbage. I only have it because there was a promo a while back where I bought it for just over $100 and got a free iPod Nano. As long as I don't have to mess with it, I guess its ok. Fanless = good.
 
NTAuthourity said:
Looks way better than before :) Nice work, say is that an old Bay Networks switch at the bottom in the after?
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Nope its a Bloomberg device of some sort. Not really sure what it does or why it needs to be there, but we were told it needed to stay.
 
dashpuppy - SRX 100 there? how are you liking them, I've deployed about a dozen this year, 6 of which are in actrive/standby clusters, runing into any VPN troubles?
 
NTAuthourity said:
The fact you have a WLAN controller at the house is freakin sweet. Wish we had the ability without paying an arm and foot for D3 speeds..lol how are your speeds on that controller?
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Ive had one for about 3 years :p. Not the 44xx though.... but the difference is that mine is mine and lennys is his companies :eek:;)

dashpuppy said:
srx100 ? what ?
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The firewall you have sitting in the rack, its a juniper SRX100.

netgear blows btw, worst crap ever... Im hating
 
xphil3 said:
Ive had one for about 3 years :p. Not the 44xx though.... but the difference is that mine is mine and lennys is his companies :eek:;)

Owned in the highest respect :p if only he could pay them a lump sum to keep it..hmm. 3 years, that proves it is worth the money, but i would get owned by the parents if i bought one..as much as i want one, to study it and just to fiddle with it a bit. Lowest price i've found 1,500 ebay.
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xphil3 said:
Ive had one for about 3 years :p. Not the 44xx though.... but the difference is that mine is mine and lennys is his companies :eek:;)


The firewall you have sitting in the rack, its a juniper SRX100.

netgear blows btw, worst crap ever... Im hating
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Yeah I could see the asset tags on it in the pic but I wasn't gonna hate :D:p
 
dashpuppy said:
Some pics of a install i did today, a roll out for a system. Some nice stuff :)


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The firewall in that picture you posted looks like an SRX100, maybe not?
 
It would be nice to see a WAP mount that someone pulled off that you literally have to look for the device "Where's Waldo" style, but you still get awesome range :)
 
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Just got a new router, the Asus RT-N16

I have it running @ 500MHz (its a 533MHz CPU that is down clocked to 480 at the factory) and running Tomato-USB 1.28 Beta. I didn't clock it all the way to 533, as people have complained of it overheating... :(

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320038&Tpk=rt-n16

its a pretty decent consumer router
32MB Flash
128MB RAM
MIMO 2.4GHz 802.11n
Gigabit Wan
Gigabit 4 port Router
2x USB 2.0 ports for an external Hard Drive AND a print server.

Performs much better than the Asus WL-520Gu I had that is based around the same basic chip as teh wrt54g!!
 
Dashpuppy: How much is Untangle paying you? I've got absolutely nothing against high end network gear at home (I am running a Cisco 3745 as my home router, and I am preparing to deploy a 6509 SUP1A/MSFC2 for a small computer club), and frankly, I think that linksys/dlink/netgear stuff is crap. However, I would like to point out that there is a very large difference between a. suggesting why a product like Untangle or pfSense would be better for a given application, and b. being an asshole. (I learned this the hard way). Talking about how easy it is to deploy Untangle on a spare PC, how the security and QoS features are better, how stable it is, those are all effective ways of winning the converts. Posting in every thread about how much everyone else's network is utter shite (due to the lack of Untangle) is not an effective way to gain converts. That is a really great strategy for making people think that Untangle users are elitist assholes.

The same thing comes up with militant anti-Windows activists, who end up making perfectly rational F/OSS users look like morons, because the Jacobin-like linux users who are busy screaming about how microsoft solutions are completely worthless and how every IT guy is stupid and Fortune 500 countries with user counts that makes the US national debt look small should all just take the advice of THIS GUY HERE because he is typing in LARGE LETTERS.
 
cymon said:
Dashpuppy: How much is Untangle paying you? I've got absolutely nothing against high end network gear at home (I am running a Cisco 3745 as my home router, and I am preparing to deploy a 6509 SUP1A/MSFC2 for a small computer club), and frankly, I think that linksys/dlink/netgear stuff is crap. However, I would like to point out that there is a very large difference between a. suggesting why a product like Untangle or pfSense would be better for a given application, and b. being an asshole. (I learned this the hard way). Talking about how easy it is to deploy Untangle on a spare PC, how the security and QoS features are better, how stable it is, those are all effective ways of winning the converts. Posting in every thread about how much everyone else's network is utter shite (due to the lack of Untangle) is not an effective way to gain converts. That is a really great strategy for making people think that Untangle users are elitist assholes.

The same thing comes up with militant anti-Windows activists, who end up making perfectly rational F/OSS users look like morons, because the Jacobin-like linux users who are busy screaming about how microsoft solutions are completely worthless and how every IT guy is stupid and Fortune 500 countries with user counts that makes the US national debt look small should all just take the advice of THIS GUY HERE because he is typing in LARGE LETTERS.
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:eek: :D
 
lol, the worst part about untangle, is it's fanbase. I thought it was okay, a little bloated for my taste and not really "open", but more like a demo. But I'm so sick of reading about how wonderful it is from 90% of the users in this forum.
 
It doesn't matter whether it's the Mac kids, FOSS fanboys, homebrew router software junkies or otherwise doing it, nobody likes being preached to.

They can have their cool gizmos or gadgets and that's great, but they need to learn that not everybody gives a fuck.
 
aaronearles said:
lol, the worst part about untangle, is it's fanbase. <omitted for relevance to my quote> But I'm so sick of reading about how wonderful it is from 90% of the users in this forum.
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Well I use and like it. It just seems to work best for keeping my brother off of the porn. Out of what ive tried so far anyway. Although I do have to admit ive been too lazy to really put too much effort into testing anything head to head.

I generally don't like "fanboys" of any kind. I own an iPhone (3G) because I like the apps and the tactile feel. But I wouldn't use an iPad to save my life. I own an old Mac Mini for Torrents but wouldn't use one as a daily gaming machine.

I think by 90% you're mainly looking at DashPuppy and YeOldStonecat's posts. Dashpuppy seems to strike me FAR more as a fanboy than YeOld does. But both post a lot in this forum though. Dash starts a new thread every other second about how great Untangle is and "OMG look at this new thingie from untangle!" and i think that is somewhat overloading the perception. Otherwise I think your argument quoted above is rather baseless.
 
aaronearles said:
lol, the worst part about untangle, is it's fanbase. I thought it was okay, a little bloated for my taste and not really "open", but more like a demo. But I'm so sick of reading about how wonderful it is from 90% of the users in this forum.
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+1 for this. The "free" version is OK, but any time you try to get into any of the advanced features that pfSense, or m0n0wall, or IPCop would let you have for free just by installing a package untangle makes you pay for. Which is fine, they have a product and are out to make money. We built an untangle box for a client who needed firewall, gateway AV, VPN, and proxy but didn't want to pay for Tier 1 solutions. The paid version (we got them the education build as they are part of a school) is great and I personally think is a wonderful alternative to Sonicwalls or the like. But at home I would stick to pfSense.
 
This is what's left after my boss realized how loud some servers can be. I warned him ahead of time and he didn't listen to me. Crappy pic from cell phone. I think an acer WHS is left along with a d-link 16 port gigabit switch and the patch panel

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I don't get it. You had servers, but they were loud so you don't anymore?

Where did they go? :)
 
cymon said:
Dashpuppy: How much is Untangle paying you? I've got absolutely nothing against high end network gear at home (I am running a Cisco 3745 as my home router, and I am preparing to deploy a 6509 SUP1A/MSFC2 for a small computer club), and frankly, I think that linksys/dlink/netgear stuff is crap. However, I would like to point out that there is a very large difference between a. suggesting why a product like Untangle or pfSense would be better for a given application, and b. being an asshole. (I learned this the hard way). Talking about how easy it is to deploy Untangle on a spare PC, how the security and QoS features are better, how stable it is, those are all effective ways of winning the converts. Posting in every thread about how much everyone else's network is utter shite (due to the lack of Untangle) is not an effective way to gain converts. That is a really great strategy for making people think that Untangle users are elitist assholes.

The same thing comes up with militant anti-Windows activists, who end up making perfectly rational F/OSS users look like morons, because the Jacobin-like linux users who are busy screaming about how microsoft solutions are completely worthless and how every IT guy is stupid and Fortune 500 countries with user counts that makes the US national debt look small should all just take the advice of THIS GUY HERE because he is typing in LARGE LETTERS.
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I wish i untangle was paying me ? But they are not, i guess i just rave about it because it's the next best thing, it helps stop viruses spyware etc etc, and with in 1.2 years something like it will be cloned and installed into the average home router's mark my words trust me it will happen, my guess is that Norton will do it first!


iGamer said:
your unnecessary hostility has been reported. Have a good day. :)
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Enjoy clicking the button ?


Hallis said:
Well I use and like it. It just seems to work best for keeping my brother off of the porn. Out of what ive tried so far anyway. Although I do have to admit ive been too lazy to really put too much effort into testing anything head to head.

I generally don't like "fanboys" of any kind. I own an iPhone (3G) because I like the apps and the tactile feel. But I wouldn't use an iPad to save my life. I own an old Mac Mini for Torrents but wouldn't use one as a daily gaming machine.

I think by 90% you're mainly looking at DashPuppy and YeOldStonecat's posts. Dashpuppy seems to strike me FAR more as a fanboy than YeOld does. But both post a lot in this forum though. Dash starts a new thread every other second about how great Untangle is and "OMG look at this new thingie from untangle!" and i think that is somewhat overloading the perception. Otherwise I think your argument quoted above is rather baseless.
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I am sorry for talking about it lots, i just like the software, it does a great job, and it's free, of course the whole thing is not free, but using it at home for people it works great.

Can't really say i'm a fan boy, i don't even use it at home any more, i use Astaro & one of their 220 units.

I used to preach mac's because well they don't get infections like pc's do, however i stopped because every one has their own opinion and ways for things. " sorry if i come off as a fanboy "
 
I would really hope this doesn't turn into an argument over nothing. We don't need a "Cisco vs Nortel vs Shoretel" or "Untangle vs PFSense" battle...lol...
 
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