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What Does Your Network Look Like?

What Does Your Network Look Like?

Since we should hopefully be into our new house around June, I thought it was time to start planning out my new home office.  With this new house, I had to give up a dedicated room for an office so the kids can all have their own room.  No big deal though, as I have taken a part of the formal living room and made that the space for my new area.

I was wondering how my network was actually setup, and if there was anything I could do to consolidate some things, or if there was anything additional I might need. 

Home network

One item that I need to address is the printer.  It’s very difficult to print from various machines around the house, so a wireless printer might be the way to go.  My router is old, and that is something that might need to be upgraded as well.  If the internet coming in works as I instructed them to wire it, I will most likely be able to remove some items like the Xbox off wireless, and just plug them in to their own Cat-5.    But until we actually get in it’s still a bit hard to tell exactly how I’m going to get this all setup.

So, what does your home network look like?

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Reply #26 Top

Quoting Shirley, reply 7


This is my office @ home.  Yeah...
End of Shirley's quote

Shirley's House: 

Reply #27 Top

*durned double post!

Reply #28 Top

Making this was a pain! I figured 20-30 minutes and it took 3 times that.........

Forgot my phone....activesync's to the ASUS laptop via bluetooth

Reply #29 Top

my little network is

internet>billion 4 port router>torrenting comp
                                         > caching proxy firewall w antivirus scanning all traffic>wireless n router>8port gblan switch
                                                                                                                                                 >16 port 100mb lan swtitch

from the gb lan switch >2tb files server,1 more 8port gb switch,5 comps various specs

from the 100mb swtich the printer server & 13 more comps of older specs

from the wireless there are 3 comps routinely connected in other parts of the house with wpa2 security on N

most of this is in ONE ROOM & needed for my business

harpo

 

Reply #30 Top

The home network.