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[gr3nade]

what is each item?

I mean there are a few i am not sure about what they are ?

Sorry i should have explained better. I assume it's the top right corner you are unsure of?

The Airport Express is connected to an Elan receiver, which is wired to 6 zones throughout the home, with in-wall or in-ceiling speakers, controlled by wall panels, or the iphone remote app. Music can be streamed wirelessly from any computer on the network.

 

[thunderweb]

Wow this took FOREVER to create! Ok so I did accidentally leave out the 22" Dell Widescreen Monitor that is connected to the MacBook in the upper left corner and the 19" Dell Monitor connected to the MacBook on the upper right. there is also 3 more printers that are connecter to the various PC's but I ran out of room

 

[gr3nade]

Wow this took FOREVER to create! Ok so I did accidentally leave out the 22" Dell Widescreen Monitor that is connected to the MacBook in the upper left corner and the 19" Dell Monitor connected to the MacBook on the upper right. there is also 3 more printers that are connecter to the various PC's but I ran out of room

you have a TON of stuff!!
very nice

 

[thunderweb]

^^ Lol thanks. It's not all mine, my set up is the lower left, the MBP and all the stuff attached to it. The rest is my Mom, Dad and Sister's.

 

[waffles123]

I'm confused on all of this internet stuff. So the router or gateway or modem is connecting to the internet which then your wifi enabled devices wirelessly connect to? Is that right? Then how would I be able to add a 802.11N thingamabober to my network if I have at&t uverse and this is my router or gateway or modem. Anyone here have U-verse?

 

[j2048b]

Sorry i should have explained better. I assume it's the top right corner you are unsure of?

The Airport Express is connected to an Elan receiver, which is wired to 6 zones throughout the home, with in-wall or in-ceiling speakers, controlled by wall panels, or the iphone remote app. Music can be streamed wirelessly from any computer on the network.

Holy crap, six zones?

I got to get me that eceiver!!

thats awesome!!

your whole set upis great!!

 

[MattyK]

1TB Time Capusle > eMac > MacBook.

 

[tvp]

The Dell and the IBM are pretty much just glorified paperweights now, but they get used every so often.

 

[Nightkrawler]

the timecapsule is only in bridged mode, i just love tomato too much - made in keynote, sorry for marker felt

 

[rcarranza]

Here's mine and my girlfriends setup at home. We just have a small flat so it's pretty much all in the one room. Most of it is for entertainment purposes!

 

[j2048b]

Sorry i should have explained better. I assume it's the top right corner you are unsure of?

The Airport Express is connected to an Elan receiver, which is wired to 6 zones throughout the home, with in-wall or in-ceiling speakers, controlled by wall panels, or the iphone remote app. Music can be streamed wirelessly from any computer on the network.

where did you get the elan receiver at? I would like to find me one, if i can afford it?

 

[e²Studios]

Quick and dirty diagram of my network at home. A few things missing from the diagram as far as hosts go, but the config is the same.

 

[Zaap]

Now this is a cool thread. Very creative, and lots of interesting network setups.

Here's my network:

 

[albarran9]

I'm confused on all of this internet stuff. So the router or gateway or modem is connecting to the internet which then your wifi enabled devices wirelessly connect to? Is that right? Then how would I be able to add a 802.11N thingamabober to my network if I have at&t uverse and this is my router or gateway or modem. Anyone here have U-verse?

I also have U-Verse. I don't use the wireless feature of the Gateway at all. I have an Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station. I've got it hooked up via ethernet cable. all you have to do is shut off the wireless router portion of the Gateway and plug in whatever router you want through ethernet or any device such as a gaming console or computer.

 

[ez4u2sa67]

Very simple!

 

[j2048b]

Now this is a cool thread. Very creative, and lots of interesting network setups.

Here's my network:

http://www.wareview.com/images/network.jpg

wow so many hackintoshes, but proly pretty affordable?

how do you find time for all this htpc stuff??

would love to see it all in cali area as well, maybe you could give me some tips i am but a grasshopper!!

 

[Zaap]

wow so many hackintoshes, but proly pretty affordable?

how do you find time for all this htpc stuff??

would love to see it all in cali area as well, maybe you could give me some tips i am but a grasshopper!!

A love of building computers + love of Mac OSX= of course I'd have too many Hackintoshes!

A HTPC is just about the perfect use for one. Not much point in spending more than $400 or so for a purpose-built computer just for entertainment on a TV screen. That one can use OSX rather than Windows is just icing on the cake.

I get the feeling all of these diagrams don't show the true scale of the wiring involved. My AV closet has a web of cat-6 branching out all around the house. The office run goes up through the attic and down into the closets; the kitchen and nook run travels under a hall carpet (thank goodness for SuperFlat Cat 6!) under a baseboard, and through two walls. The bedroom and den both go through walls. Tons-o'-wiring, yet none of it is visible. (I'll go to just about any length to hide wiring!)

 

[j2048b]

A love of building computers + love of Mac OSX= of course I'd have too many Hackintoshes!

A HTPC is just about the perfect use for one. Not much point in spending more than $400 or so for a purpose-built computer just for entertainment on a TV screen. That one can use OSX rather than Windows is just icing on the cake.

I get the feeling all of these diagrams don't show the true scale of the wiring involved. My AV closet has a web of cat-6 branching out all around the house. The office run goes up through the attic and down into the closets; the kitchen and nook run travels under a hall carpet (thank goodness for SuperFlat Cat 6!) under a baseboard, and through two walls. The bedroom and den both go through walls. Tons-o'-wiring, yet none of it is visible. (I'll go to just about any length to hide wiring!)

WOW thats pretty cool, i do not know enough to set stuff up like the servers and everything like that, plus i do not have the funds to build all the things i would if i knew what i was doing!

hiding wireing would be awesome! I almost got a stackable system off of ebay with a 16 drive array, which would have been awesome, but i would have thrown UNRaid onto it, not sure if your familiar with that or not? by lime-technologies.

Do you deal with technologie on an everyday basis?

great setup!!

 

[jamin100]

I cant believe how much kit some of you have!!!

I'll post my very mediocre setup later

 

[Zaap]

hiding wireing would be awesome! I almost got a stackable system off of ebay with a 16 drive array, which would have been awesome, but i would have thrown UNRaid onto it, not sure if your familiar with that or not? by lime-technologies.

Just looked at the UNRaid site- very interesting! Thanks for mentioning it, I always like to know about things to try out.

I really like their focus on digital media playback and storage, since that's primarily what the NAS/media servers in my house are for. Currently I'm using ClarkConnect Linux, which is amazingly easy to set up. Takes literally about three minutes to be up and running. UNRaid looks to be the same, heck, even easier since it installs to a USB flash drive. I don't think CC does that.

I'm curious if it uses a browser based interface like most of these NAS OS's do? I'll have to look into their wiki.


I'm impressed that you didn't say FreeNAS! So many people seem to think that's the only easy NAS option. I tried it and found it so pathetically slow compared to Linux, I simply couldn't stand it. I even tried it on four different machines to be certain it wasn't just a fluke. A standard speed test for me is transferring a 4GB DVD rip off a server to my desktop or vica versa. With FreeNAS I couldn't believe how slow it was. ClarkConnect was blazing fast in comparison.

C.C. was actually easier that FreeNAS to set up, (not that FreeNAS is hard) but the performance and features blow it out of the water. Yet invariably whenever the subject of a DIY NAS comes up anywhere around the internet, all you hear is "FreeNAS! FreeNAS! FreeNAS!" Go figure!

Definitely, Linux rules for this sort of thing, I think it just gets a bad rep for being too difficult to set up.

Now I want to mess with unRAID and see how it compares. Might try it out this weekend.

Why didn't you get the stackable system? If you do get a machine for NAS duties, you should give that unRAID a spin.

Do you deal with technologie on an everyday basis?

great setup!!

For me, 'dealing with technology' hopefully means kicking back and being entertained by technology, not having to pull my hair out fixing something that needs to be 'dealt' with. Luckily, for the most part, to the first: yes.

Heck, as for the NAS itself, it's been set-it-and-forget-it for over 3 years now. Looking at the current log- it's been running straight for 2 months, and some odd days and hours of the last reboot to add another HD. Without an UPS, that might have changed with a power 'blink off' a few weeks ago.

And thanks!

 

[j2048b]

Just looked at the UNRaid site- very interesting! Thanks for mentioning it, I always like to know about things to try out.

I really like their focus on digital media playback and storage, since that's primarily what the NAS/media servers in my house are for. Currently I'm using ClarkConnect Linux, which is amazingly easy to set up. Takes literally about three minutes to be up and running. UNRaid looks to be the same, heck, even easier since it installs to a USB flash drive. I don't think CC does that.

I'm curious if it uses a browser based interface like most of these NAS OS's do? I'll have to look into their wiki.


I'm impressed that you didn't say FreeNAS! So many people seem to think that's the only easy NAS option. I tried it and found it so pathetically slow compared to Linux, I simply couldn't stand it. I even tried it on four different machines to be certain it wasn't just a fluke. A standard speed test for me is transferring a 4GB DVD rip off a server to my desktop or vica versa. With FreeNAS I couldn't believe how slow it was. ClarkConnect was blazing fast in comparison.

C.C. was actually easier that FreeNAS to set up, (not that FreeNAS is hard) but the performance and features blow it out of the water. Yet invariably whenever the subject of a DIY NAS comes up anywhere around the internet, all you hear is "FreeNAS! FreeNAS! FreeNAS!" Go figure!

Definitely, Linux rules for this sort of thing, I think it just gets a bad rep for being too difficult to set up.

Now I want to mess with unRAID and see how it compares. Might try it out this weekend.

Why didn't you get the stackable system? If you do get a machine for NAS duties, you should give that unRAID a spin.


For me, 'dealing with technology' hopefully means kicking back and being entertained by technology, not having to pull my hair out fixing something that needs to be 'dealt' with. Luckily, for the most part, to the first: yes.

Heck, as for the NAS itself, it's been set-it-and-forget-it for over 3 years now. Looking at the current log- it's been running straight for 2 months, and some odd days and hours of the last reboot to add another HD. Without an UPS, that might have changed with a power 'blink off' a few weeks ago.

And thanks!

been running everything for a long time i see!! yeah with the unraid you have to remember that the parity drive is the largest out of the whole lot of drives, so if the largest in the bunch is 1 tb, then it would be the parity, i myself want to get either a 1.5 or a 2 terrabyte to use for the parity then if i go with a 2tb then everything else will be either 1 or 1.5 tb, but with unraid, you can have any size of discs. I believe unraid was compared to raid 5??? i think but dont quote me on that one!

i talked to a few others here that have run it, prostuff1 comes to mind (name of current mac rumors member) very knowledgeable!!

let me know how it goes!!

dont mean to hj the thread!

awesome set ups people!!

 

[msheldrick]

this is my lovely setup

 

[MattZani]

Just did one of my Current Network.

As you can see, most of its in my room The Wireless devices can travel anywhere (Obviously) But everything except the Acer Laptop are usually in my Room. The Acer Laptop is my Dads, the Wireless has pretty much died (He gets about 10% off the TC, where im getting 80%) so he has the APE to give him N Speed.

Havent got into all the IP Address's and such, as i dont care at this moment , and not sure if my NetGear supports it, couldnt work out how to set it up. Also didnt bother showing screens and such, as theyre not part of the NETWORK

 

[designgeek]

Here's mine, seems more complicated than it really is. Sometimes I have my MBP hard wired to my network so I can wake it up from my iPod. Also sometimes my roommate's POS Dell will join the network which is why the dual band Time Capsule is necessary. My dream is to have a 27 inch iMac to throw in the mix but we'll see.

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]