Your home (or work) network

Seamus

The pubs in Ireland close on Good Friday which leaves me with a lot of time on my hands

This is my home network:

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I'm curious to see what networks others have on the forum?

Andy

I'm working

so I'll just say:

cablevision docsis internet in (100mbps); apple airport extreme, hardwired to my Mac Pro and over-the-air wireless to 5 iPhones (me, wife, 3 kids) and to three Macbook Pros and Macbooks.

Rhuarc

Andy wrote:

I'm working

so I'll just say:

cablevision docsis internet in (100mbps); apple airport extreme, hardwired to my Mac Pro and over-the-air wireless to 5 iPhones (me, wife, 3 kids) and to three Macbook Pros and Macbooks.

Where does the paycheck from Apple go? j/k of course!

Mine is simply regular cable coming in and hardwired to a wireless router. Main computer system, media center, and X-Box hardwired, with a laptop, netbook, ipod touch, Nintendo DS, and PSP all wireless...

gecko0

my home network is pretty basic...

DSL-->ISP provided modem (bridge mode)-->Linksys WRT54G (for wireless)

three desktops, two laptops, one iPhone, and sometimes an xbox 360


my work network...well...it would probably take me a week to list that one out. lol

BradfordBenn

talk about comingled
Wonder what I do for work.....

Here is the home networks

chrisjohnson

Airport extreme wired to cable modem (60mbps download and 6 mbps upload) and old pc body with legacy files.
Wifi connections to Acer Desktop, Toshiba portege, Macbook pro, ipod touch, hp all-in-one.
Visitors using x-box, macbooks, pcs.
2 external HDs, shared when connected.
Next stop Ipad.

Sounds prosaic but barely imagineable 10 years ago. Wonder what the next 10 years will bring?

Rocketman766

Really simple here, basic home network. I guess since my office is in my home, it all counts as one network...

cable modem (unsure of speeds, but signed up for the fastest available from our cable company) wired to an Apple Airport extreme. 500gig hard drive plugged into that to run backups for my wife's and daughter's PC laptops. One Linksys 8 port gigabit switch wired to one port which connects 3 PCs in the office. These are a just a few of the computers I take on location for events. One Macbook Pro in the office (mine) and they all print wirelessly to a Kodak ESP 5250 printer. All backup hard drives connected to the Macbook Pro and office PCs weekly as needed.
One Nintendo Wii in there too.

Seamus

goldenballs wrote:

Sounds prosaic but barely imagineable 10 years ago. Wonder what the next 10 years will bring?

I started with a spectrum 48k in 1984 and a tape recorder for loading and saving programs. I used to spend hours typing in lines of basic from a magazine.



Now I'm running 4 macs, filesharing and, for the minis, screensharing !! I still find stuff like this absolutely magical.

chrisjohnson

Seamus wrote:

I started with a spectrum 48k in 1984 and a tape recorder for loading and saving programs. I used to spend hours typing in lines of basic from a magazine.



Now I'm running 4 macs, filesharing and, for the minis, screensharing !! I still find stuff like this absolutely magical.

Know how you feel. I used a ZX in the early days and got my first paid programming job on an Apple II - another magical device at the time. Started working seriously with internet on a 9.6kbps modem - can you imagine - it was considered fast at the time. Now we have Ipad - it is truly a wonderful world.

Pixoul

I just pared down and consolidated my home network. This is the simple version after retiring a bunch of hardware!

The cablemodem dumps into a Supermicro SYS-5015A-H Atom 330 Dual-Core 1.6 1U firewall running Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx with a Squid transparent caching proxy server intercepting all outbound requests. This is also the NTP/DHCP/DNS server. All additional non-essential services have been disabled.

Hanging off of that is a 48-port Cisco SRW2048 48-port GigE switch with an Airport Extreme and a Time Capsule splattering the property with bridge roaming 802.11n Wi-Fi so you seamlessly jump from one access point to the other when depending on which signal is stronger.

The internal application server is a Dell PowerEdge T105 Dual Opteron running Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx to handle development, databases, and general geekery. The two external colocated Web servers hosting all Web services with VPN back to the home office are a Dell PowerEdge 440 Dual Xeon and a Dell PowerEdge 430.

Internal photo and Web development workstations include the 8-core Mac Pro and MacBook Pro with Cinema Displays on GigE for me, the MacBook for the wife, a Mac mini running Mac OS 9 for dedicated scanning and EOS-1v ES-E1 connectivity, a couple HP mini 1120 netbooks running Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04 Lucid Lynx for couch surfing and of course the Wii and PS2.

Everything except the notebooks have dedicated UPS units to protect against our nightly brownouts. Details of the security system will not be discussed.