What's on your home network?

nsafreak

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Nov 7, 2004
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Just a curious question since a lot of folks go all out on their home entertainment systems (I'm not alone in that, at least to a degree). I was just kindof wondering what folks have on their home networks. I might as well start off with mine:

Clients:

Windows 7 Ultimate PC (Custom built, i5 2500K, Radeon 7950 3GB, etc.)
Windows 7 Pro laptop
Windows 7 Pro HTPC
Playstation 3
XBox 360
Nexus 7 (2012 edition currently)
Samsung S3
Hopper & Joey (Joey through bridging)

Server:

Windows 2008 R2 Server (Dell PowerEdge 1950 with a 3Ware 9550SX-8LP RAID card running five 500GB HDDs in RAID 5)

Networking equipment:

D-Link DIR-615 802.11 a/b/g/n router
Dell PowerConnect 5324 managed gigabit switch

CCNA rack:

2x Cisco 1841 routers
1x Cisco 1721 router
3 x Cisco 2950 switches
1 x Cisco 3550 switch
 
I'm running an AirPort Extreme and trendnet 8 port gigabit switch with a charter 30Mb internet connection. My network is more for home theater equipment and less for computers. I live alone now. There used to be several more PCs, tablets, and smartphones connected before I left the apartment/roommates and bought my own house in May.

Wired:
Custom built gaming PC (Radeon HD 7850 and AMD FX6300)
Onkyo TX NR609
Apple TV(3rd Gen)
PS3
Xbox 360
Hopper/Joey
Toshiba smart TV

Wireless:
Samsung i5 laptop
Roku 2XS
iPad 4
iPhone 5
Kindle Fire HD
PS Vita

Edit: the small business that I run with my mom has a more impressive network Including a linksys wireless guest network and Cisco 24 port switch full of computers, a server, network printers and lots of clients accessing the guest network.

This is still nothing compared to what people around here are running but it's more impressive than my home network.

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Just got a WD mynet 750 dual band router to try out with my Cox 25/2 internet.

Personal Wired
Windows 8 Desktop
WDTV Live Hub
Netgear 4bay 8TB ReadyNAS
Dish 722
LG 60in LED
LG Bluray
2 4 port 10/100 switches

Personal Wireless
Win7 Pro Laptop
Toshiba Thrive 10in tablet
2 WDTV Live Streaming boxes
2nd gen ipod touch for the truck
Samsung Galaxy S3
Samsung Galaxy Note 2

I own my own business and work from home so I have Windstream business DSL 6/6

Business Wired
Windows 8 desktop

Business Wireless
Windows 7 Pro laptop
Brother MFC laser printer,fax,copier
 
3 PC's
Surface Pro
2 ipads
Home theater with AVR, Dish VIP722k PS3 XBOX360
iMAC
VIP 722
iphone and Thunderbolt
2 IP connected security PTZ cameras
DVR with 9 security video cameras

Ink jet Printer
Laser Printer
 
I have a custom built i5-2500k with 8 GB Ram and GTX 460 SEv2 with 3TB of storage space (along with a SSD for the OS and games.) This acts as my entertainment hub, as it is hooked up to a Plex server that broadcasts to basically everything in and outside the house via my Airport Extreme. It's also attached to a 50" Plasma and uses an Avertv TV Tuner kit for tv viewing and PVR, which also works with Plex so basically I have a remote DVR system.

Devices:
2 iPads (2 and 3)
2 Laptops (HP and Macbook Classic)
PS3
Xbox 360
Roku XS
Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Nexus (Mine and wife's, respectively)
?
 
I'm not going to get too specific.
Networked AVP
Google TV
Dune Smart B1 (x3)
BluRay player
Hopper (x2)
Joey (x3)
Network Attached Storage (x2)
Mac Mini
Work PC
Macbook Air
4 smartphones
2 tablets

Each room has a 1Gbit switch, and there's a central 24-port Gbit switch to connect that all together.

Each NAS is homerun to the central switch.

Upgrading to a 802.11AC Wireless in the near future, don't know which one.
 
John Reminded me that I also have:
a Network storage drive 4TB for backups and some universal files.

Not sure this applies, but I use a privately owned off site server to store private, and public files for distribution. This is also used to store my security camera video so this can't be deleted locally.
 
50 MB Fiber connection serving:

27" iMac
Mac Mini
Apple TV (x2)
iPhone 4 (x2)
iPhone 3Gs (connected to alarm clock for iTunes and time sync)
iPad
iPad 2
iPad 4
AT&T Digital Life
Sony Blu-Ray Player (x2)
48" Vizio LED TV
55" LG LED TV
Windows Laptop (x2)
 
Linksys Modem
Ooma Telo VOIP phone system
Belkin Router
Homebuilt desktop PC
Three Toshiba Laptops
Epson InkJet printer
Xbox
Two Samsung HDTVs
Two Dish Hoppers
Two Dish Joeys
Two Sony Blu-Ray players
There may be more but I can't think of anything else now.
What's really amazing is that it all works as it's supposed to.
 
U-Verse 18/1.5 Mb connection serving:

D-Link DIR-655 router connected to
2 D-Link 8-port 10/100/1000 switches

Wired clients
1 Windows 7 PC
1 D-Link DNS-321 NAS
1 Synology DS211J SAN
1 Epson printer
1 Hopper
2 Joeys
2 Blu-Ray players

Wireless Clients
3 Windows laptops
1HP laser printer
2 iPads
2 iPhones
1 iPod touch
1 Chromecast

Soon to be added:
1 windows PC
1 Surface Pro
 
well it varies......
since I either tap into the free wifi here at the apartment or my neighbor it varies on what or who is on it :)
 
upstairs data center:

Core i7-950 with 32GB, 6TB of mirrored storage and Intel VT quad gigabit running Win Server 2012 Hyper-V
several virtual machines including 2 domain controllers, exchange 2010, sql 2012+wsus, app server and other stuff

Q6600 with 8GB, domain controller with Hyper-V for testing

pfsense router machine load balancing Mediacom cable and att dsl2 [uverse]

24 port Netgear gigabit managed switch

wireless router converted to an access point

rest of the house:

1 desktop win 8.1 pro rtm
2 laptops win 8 pro, about to upgrade to win8.1
2 ipads
2 iphones
vip622, 3d-bluray, appletv2 and gigabit switch in entertainment center

probably i forgot something...
 

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