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Security and Networking / Suggestions For Broadband Networking At Home.

« on: September 25, 2007, 07:05:10 am »

Thanks for the replies folks. Very informative indeed.

I did manage to locate two devices that have the ability to accommodate two (Dual) ISP broadband connections for load balancing and failover protection. Both devices have the provision to distribute the broadband connection to 8 locations. However I am still undecided which would be best for me. The devices are:

1) Linksys RV082 router

2) NetGear FVX538

Both devices have firewall with filtering capabilities, but no parental controls.

Any suggestions on the above would be helpful.

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Security and Networking / Suggestions For Broadband Networking At Home.

« on: September 24, 2007, 06:32:34 am »

not sure what you mean by distributing the two lines, do you mean bond the lines together for high avalability and or more bandwidth, if so some of the zytel modes support this (i have one here) you basically hook one up to each line then designate one as a secondary link and set it up on the primarys web based setup page, this gets you high availability but not load balancing

as for cabeling, cat5 is the way to go, if you want gigabit and you have long runs then you may need cat 6 but most of the time cat5 is pasable (you can test it by laying it down before hand

so to sum up you need:
Cabel (cat5)
wall jacks for said cabel
a switch
a router
a modem (or two)

note that the switch, modem and router can be combined into the one item (like the linksys boxes), the plus with these is that they have basic filtering, if you need something better then you could replace the router with a linux boxes and one of the security distros, they are point and click these days (over a web interface) but its a good idea to have a firm understanding in networking and linux beforehand

anyway to answer the originol question about distributing the 2 broadband connections, once you have them sorted out about how they will talk to eachother and do what you want (HA or load balence) then thats it, you iwll only need the one jack to each room and the switch/router will take care of all the multiplexing of the data to the right line

btw, do you need 2 lines? if so of what type are they
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Thanks for replying.

Sir, I earlier used only one ISP for my browsing purpose. But faced frequent outages due to some problem from them. I hence use two ISPs now so that in case one is down, the other would be accessible for uninterrupted browsing & downloads.

The broadband lines that I mentioned above are a 2Mbps line (primary) & a 512Kbps line (secondary). Both services would be from two different ISPs, but the connection shall be provided by a common cable operator. The ISPs shall be providing their respective static IP settings that shall be used to access their services individually.

In my existing home I am using the [a href=\"http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1175236661542&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper&lid=6154239789B01]Linksys WRT300N[/url] for Wifi & desktop use. I however have the additional secondary ISP connection hooked to my desktop incase the line connected to the Linksys goes down.

Thanks for the tips about the cables. I need a secure router that can handle two connections & enables switching between the two & distributes them effectively to the desired locations as explained in my first post.

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Security and Networking / Suggestions For Broadband Networking At Home.

« on: September 24, 2007, 06:24:28 am »

Hi,
So that means 1 plug in each room; and 2 in living room (wifi AP + ethernet). You may find an AP that does switching as well, so you would need only one.

for the cable : it's a matter of distance. If you keep it short (the theory says 100 meters, in practice, you shouldn't try more than 50m), then standard cat5 ethernet cable, shielded, (UTP) would be OK.

Merci beaucoup Monsieur. Thanks for your suggestions. Very informative & I really appreciate them.

For distribution of the two broadband computers, you should find SOHO routers able to handle 2 connections, and minimal switching, with filtering ability. You may want to add an ethernet  switch for distributing the network properly across all the rooms.

I did scour the net & found something that would meet my requirements partially:

The Linksys BEFSR81

This Ethernet router does have most have the features I am looking for.  However, I need a similar gadget that would support two broadband connections instead of a mere one connection as in here. Could you suggest a model that would have these features?

Site filtering and so on should be provided by the router. I'm not very well versed in the SOHO hardware router stuff (I tend to use software routers, firewall and proxy on a standard machine with a linux or a freebsd installed), so I'm not sure here.

Anyway, my network knowledge is rather enterprise oriented so YMMV
Have fun.

Merci again.

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Security and Networking / Suggestions For Broadband Networking At Home.

« on: September 21, 2007, 07:38:26 am »

Hi folks. Howdy.

I've just finished with the purchase of my new apartment. I have started with the flooring & interior civil work for now.

I need to plan the electrical wiring of my new house. The house includes four bedrooms & two living rooms. I need all rooms to have a broadband connection that can used for accessing by plugging a laptop. One bedroom would have a desktop. There shall be two broadband connections provided by the local cable operator. I need these connections to be accessible in all 4 bedrooms by means of an ethernet cable & in the 2 living rooms (one above the other, separated by a floor) by  Wi-Fi. I plan to keep two Wi-Fi routers respectively in the living rooms for wireless access.

To begin with, what sort of cables should be used to distribute the broadbands to all rooms? Secondly what hardware would be best for me wherein the two broadband connections (from the cable operator) would be plugged in, which in turn would be distributed to all rooms? By saying hardware, I mean a gadget similar in lines of an EPABX system that distributes one or more telephone lines to multiple locations. Here instead of  telephone its broadband.

I also wish to have site filters, parental controls & the provision to block internet access to any room at anytime.

Please guide me here. Thanks.

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Archos forum / Archos Av500 Synchronisation Problem.

« on: February 17, 2006, 12:23:09 pm »

I use the Hard Drive mode, the Windows Mode seemed like hard work to me.

You can get the Album Picture by using the advanced tag editor in Windows Media Player 10 and adding the JPEG in the 'Pictures' section.

Hope this helps....
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Dude... that was very useful....Thanks a bunch.  

Man I never used this advanced tag editor in Windows Media Player 10.

I'll now switch the AV500 setting to "the hard drive mode" & then copy & paste the albums from the PC onto the AV500. Then add the image using the advanced tag editor.

Will post the outcome.

Thanks again...  

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Archos forum / Archos Av500 Synchronisation Problem.

« on: February 16, 2006, 09:31:11 am »

Hi folks… This is my first post here.

I purchased the Archos AV500 two months ago. The device is in the default “Windows device” mode.

I rip my Audio Cds using Windows Media player 10 & DVDs using Xilisoft DVD ripper.

I synchronise both MP3 files & MP4 files onto the AV500 using Windows Media player 10. When synchronising MP3 audio files, the synchronising often gets stalled & after a long duration, I get an annoying message "The I/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an application request."  

This message appears & it holds up the entire synchronisation process for a long time before exiting the process finally. This happens only when uploading MP3 files ripped from CDs. & not when synchronising Mpeg4 files.

I sent an email to Archos Technical support seeking help and got the following reply:

Dear Customer,

Connect your device to the PC, and then defragment its hard drive.
After that run a scandisk on the hard drive of the device, and also perform
a "chkdsk" on it from the PC command box. You can have more informations
about this on the device's manual.

Kind Regards,
Archos Technical Support

I did the above but to no avail. I even formatted my player using the format option within the player & again tried resynchronising all the data. The problem still perisits. If I switch the device to “Hard Drive” mode, the synchronisation takes place smoothly, but I don’t get the Album picture displayed on the LCD screen during playback.  

Please help me with a suitable solution.

Thanks in advance.

Below: The AV500 during MP3 playback. (Synchronised in the “Windows device” mode).
The album cover on the right doesn't appear when the device is synchronised using the "Hard Drive" mode.