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Recently I was told that I've gone overboard with the computer network at home, so I was wondering what others have in their setup.
Here's my setup:

My PC
Athlon64 AM2 3800+
2GB RAM
nVidia 7900+
1x 80GB HDD
1x 250GB HDD
17" 4ms BenQ Monitor
DVD-RW
Windows Media Centre Edition

PC for rest of family
AthlonXP 2600+
512MB RAM
nVidia 5500 128MB
1x 40GB HDD
15" CRT Monitor
Windows XP Pro

My MacBook
2Ghz Core Duo
1GB RAM
60GB HDD
DVD-RW
Mac OS X & Windows XP Pro
250GB External HDD

Media Centre
Athlon64 3500+
1GB RAM
nVidia 6600 128MB
1x 120GB HDD
2x 200GB HDD
2x TV Tuners
Windows Media Centre Edition

Server
Athlon64 3200+
1GB RAM
2x 400GB HDD
ATi X300 128MB
Windows Small Business Server & Ubuntu Linux (under VMware)

My machine and the server are wired to a router, with the other machines connecting to the network via wireless.

Now to clarify a few things, my parents bought the media centre, and the AthlonXP 2600+ machine is my old one left over from my last upgrade, which I rebuilt for the rest of my family to use. The MacBook is for work and is tax deductible. The server I bought and installed to gain experience trying different things with Windows SBS, which I don't always get to at work. Those things being considered I dont consider this going over the top.

So what do you have?

Ultra-Colossus
The main PC

Windows XP Pro

Athlon 64 3200+ (Winchester core, socket 939)
1 GB (2 x 512MB) DDR400 Geil RAM
Geforce 7800GT (card made by eVGA)
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card

300GB Seagate hard drive (SATA, system/programs drive)
120GB Western Digital hard drive (PATA, media drive)
NEC DV-5800C DVD-ROM
NEC ND-3500AG DVD-RW

21" Dell P1110 CRT monitor
Microsoft Laser Mouse 1000
Generic Black USB Keyboard WITH NO FUCKING INTERNET KEYS WOOO



Guardian
The server / mini-theater box

Windows Server 2003 (Standard)

Celeron 1.7GHz (socket 478)
1 GB (2 x 512MB) PC133 SDRAM
Onboard integrated video chipset
Onboard sound
some SATA controller card

20GB system drive
3 x 250GB Seagate SATA hard drives in software RAID-5 array
some generic DVD-ROM drive

Infocus LP1000 (go go work surplus! and yes I legally purchased it from work)
some old stereo amp that my mom's boyfriend gave to me
some old stereo speakers my dad built back in the 70's which work pretty decent
most of a whole wall which works out to something like a screen over 8' diagonal (GO GO 1024x768 WOOOO!)

some generic keyboard/mouse although I mostly RDP into the server


Deathshadow
The little laptop that could

Windows 2000 Professional

Dell Inspiron 4000
Pentium 3 900MHz
256MB SDRAM
ATI Mobility M3 video chipset
onboard 56K modem/NIC combo miniPCI card
Cisco Aironet 350 802.11b wireless network card (got it because I heard it was awesome at picking up signals which was more important to me than EXXXTREME SPEED)

20GB 5400RPM hard drive
CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive, swappable with floppy drive
S-Video out
One (1) USB 1.1 port (ZOMG)

14" XGA screen
and both a mouse nublet and a touchpad! WOW!

Personal Laptop:
IBM Thinkpad T22, 900MHz Pentium III, 256MB RAM, crappy S3 Savage graphics, hostname blackboxofdoom, running Ubuntu (never got that R50 due to the work laptop making it hard to justify getting one, got this used one for 250$ due to plans to rid myself of the awfully heavy inspiron )

Work Laptop:
Dell Inspiron 6000, 1.73GHz Pentium M, 1GB RAM, ATi X300 graphics, hostname laptop, running Ubuntu and Windows in dual boot

Server:
Dell Dimension (something or other), 400MHz Pentium II, 256MB RAM, ATi Rage Pro graphics (irrelevant, no monitor), hostname server, running Debian under Xen and another Debian VM for my mail servers (IMAP and SMTP gateway, since Cox is an ass and doesn't allow laptops to connect from outside network (ie, from laptops). Runs bittorrent and hosts files.

Desktop:
550 MHz, 512MB RAM, nVidia TNT2 graphics, hostname bigbox, running Windows.

Router: WRT54Gv4 running OpenWRT to enable QoS, administration via SSH, and static DHCP, hostnamed router

My brother-in-law also thinks I'm going overboard.

My PC:
Athlon 64 X2 4400+ S939
Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro-SLI Mobo
2 GB Corsair DDR400 RAM
2 x 160GB Seagate SATA Hard Drives in RAID0 array
BFG Tech GeForce 7800GT OC
SoundBlaster X-Fi XTreme Music
Logitech Z3 2.1 Speakers
17" Samsung SyncMaster 730B Monitor (flat panel)
Plextor PX-712SA Sata DVD Burner
Plextor PX-716SA Sata DVD Burner
3 120mm blue LED fans in a Thermaltake Tsunami Dream case
Antec TruePower Trio 650W PSU
1 Gigabyte G-Power CPU Cooler with 110mm blue LED fan
Logitech MX-1000 cordless laser mouse
Saitek Eclipse Keyboard (blue)
Logitech Attack3 Joystick
Logitech Dual-action gamepad

My roomates have a Dell desktop(Pentium 4 2.53 GHz) and a Dell Inspiron 1000 Laptop(Celeron), all tied together on a LinkSys WRT54G router.

No one has yet commented on overboard networks, but on large amounts of PCs.

Main box, connected directly to modem

Athlon 3800+ X2 at 2.1GHZ(still feels weird saying that)
ASUS AN8SLI Deluxe
1024MB of DDR RAM
6800GT
Creative audigy 2
374GB in a Raptor and a 300GB

Other box, wired to this box

Athlon 2400+ XP
1024MB of RAM
9600Pro
80GB hard drive

Also in the house.

Intel 1.6GHZ with intergrated graphics and 380MB of RAM, probebly getting thrown away.

P3 600MHZ with 512MB of RAM and a GF2 Ultra. Also needs to be thrown away.

No one has yet commented on overboard networks, but on large amounts of PCs.

That's is exactly what I'm talking about. I was told I'd gone overboard but I of course denied it.

Though running a Windows active directory domain for a network of 5 machines with only four users (the user for the Media Centre stays the same for all and the other three users apart from myself use the same PC most of the time) could be considered a bit overboard/excessive.

atg wrote:

No one has yet commented on overboard networks, but on large amounts of PCs.

That's is exactly what I'm talking about. I was told I'd gone overboard but I of course denied it.

Though running a Windows active directory domain for a network of 5 machines with only four users (the user for the Media Centre stays the same for all and the other three users apart from myself use the same PC most of the time) could be considered a bit overboard/excessive.

If I had an actual house, and not a tiny apartment, it'd be easier to justify all this, but right now, I'll end up dumping a fair amount of crap.

My PC (WinXP / Vista / SuSE / Fedora, depending on time & mood):
Althlon 3500+ x64
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium
Radeon x800GTO
2GB RAM
2x 120GB SATAII

Brothers PC (WinXP):
Althlon 2500+
512mb RAM
Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
20GB HDD
5GB HDD (this one must be about 6-9 years old now)
Radeon 9700 Pro

Other Brothers PC (WinXP):
Althlon 2500+
512mb RAM
Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
120GB HDD
Radeon 9800 Pro

Parents PC (WinXP):
Althlon 1900+
1GB RAM
Radeon 8500 AIW
Misc ASUS board

Server (Fedora Core 4):
PIII 450
'Microstar' motherboard
784MB RAM
250GB HDD

My Craptop (WinXP):
Sony Viao somthingorother (12.1")
PIII 750
256MB RAM
15GB HDD

Dad's Work Laptop (WinXP):
Sony Viao somthingorother (~9")

Dad's Home Laptop (WinXP):
Sony Viao somthingorother (~17")

I never realisd how much we'd spent on Windows licences before

We have one router, connected to the internet. To this, is connected a printer, my Dad's PC, a Buffalo Airstation, and a switch. The Airstation has my brothers PC's, and any laptops connected to it. The switch has my PC and the Fileserver on it.

All seems to work pretty well.

Windows Box - spartan
Win XP Pro SP2
Athlon 64 3500+ Socket 939
2 GB PC3200
200 GB SATA 150 HDD
GeForce 6800 GT

I use this only for gaming. And I really only play R:TR, so it's only on maybe an hour a day.

The Wife's Box (not like that, fuckers!) - fartfactory
XP Home
P4 2.0 Ghz
512 MB PC2700
80 GB IDE HDD
Onboard Gateway shit video

My wife's computer, she uses this for usual desktop applications: photos, web surfing, office. She has the printer connected to her machine; I print everything at work.

Ubuntu Box - auxilia
Ubuntu Linux 6.06 - Dapper Drake
AMD Sempron 64 2600+
512MB PC2100
GeForce 3
80 GB IDE HDD

This one stays on all the time. I have Samba shares configured for the Windows machines, as well as the ssh daemon running, of course. I do all my web browsing, music stuff, and IMing from this box.

Ubuntu Laptop - cataphract
Ubuntu Linux 6.06 - Dapper Drake
Toshiba Satellite Pro
Pentium Mobile 1.4 Ghz
512 MB PC2700
40 GB HDD
Some shitty nVidia graphics card

This is my laptop I and Ubuntu Linux rescued from the scrap pile. My wife and I share this, and she actually likes using Linux! I know, it's stunning.

All of you make me cry
This when I'm at home, not at uni

My Desktop
WinXP
Athlon XP 2000+ @ 1.67 GHz
768 MB DDR1
GeForce4Ti 4200 128MB
40 + 80 GB HDD
12x DVDRW, 52x CDRW

Main box, gaming, surfing, leeching, so on so forth. if it's not off, it's on standby

Father's Desktop
WinXP
Pentium 4 3.0 GHz
1 GB ram
128MB budget GPU of some sort
160 GB HDD
52xCDRW

He uses it for work and DVDs.

Sister's Desktop
WinXP
Pentium 4 2.0GHz
512 MB ram
intergrated GPU
80 GB HDD
CDROM

surfing, the sims, IM, yadda yadda

Old old...junker.
Win98SE
K6-2 400MHz
128MB ram
integrated GPU (SiS)
6 GB HDD
52xCDROM

Barely does anything.


And the notebooks. I've got a Dell Inspiron6400, sis has a Dell Inspiron640M and dad has some oldish ECS desknote

All connected on a DSL line with a artnet router and switch.

Currently at home there's my dad's/the family machine which I've no idea on the spec of, I've managed to avoid touching it save for setting up the anti-virus and anti-spyware on it.

I meanwhile have a broken 800mhz duron (though it may just be the PSU that's gone, I ought to get around to looking at it really) and my R50e IBM Thinkpad which serves as my main computer these days. Though that's here in Edinburgh with me now.

Here is my embryonic and utterly unsophisticated home 'network.'

Main Box
Athlon XP 2400+ processor overclocked to XP 2700+ performance. Runs an overclocked, though still dinky, GeForce 5600XT bargain-dungeon card with improvised active cooling (the card came only with an entirely inadequate passive heatsink. Scavenging the heat-sink fan fron an old 486 solved all my problems...) 1 GB RAM / 135 GB storage space (1 x 120 and 1 x 15 GB) Running Windows 2000. Maintains a single shared folder for access by other machines on the network.

This is connected directly to one of the four Ethernet ports on my U.S. Robotics router. The router is also a WPA-enabled wireless access point. The router ties all other machines on the network together, and is connected to the DSL modem. This router, incidentally, has lasted over four times longer than the Linksys which preceded it.

Laptops
Old: Thinkpad 600 w/ Pentium-II 300 MHz processor, 288 MB of RAM and a 30 GB hard drive. Running Windows 2000. Connected to the network using a wireless card.

New: Thinkpad T43 w/ Pentium M 740 processor, 512 MB RAM and a 60 GB hard drive. Running Windows XP Professional. Connects to the network either by direct Ethernet connection or wireless (pending driver update to solve a random disconnect bug.) Useful for bitching about/praising the latest SG-1/nBSG episode while watching it on TV, since I have one TV in my home, and it's nowhere near my main box.

Other Devices
Hewlett-Packard Jornada 720 handheld PC (overgrown PDA,) which connects to the network via a wireless card, or a wired card.

Destructionator XIII wrote:*snip*

The king has been found.

Holy overblown network!

My Box: OCPMAIN
Aspire X-Pider aluminum case w/500W PSU
Athlon 64 3200+ (939)
ABit AV8 mobo
2x512MB Corsair XMS DDR400, in dual-channel mode
BFG 6800GT AGP
SB Audigy2
120GB 7200RPM Seagate Barracuda w/ 8MB cache
60GB 7200RPM WD Caviar
Lite-On Dual-layer DVD-RW drive
Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard
Razer Copperhead Tempest Blue mouse
XB360 gamepad
Shitty Compaq Presario MV500 monitor (temporary, until I get my LCD)
Gateway-branded Altec Lansing ACS41 2.1 speakers
XAct XVP620 Skype phone

My Roommate's Box: FUCKME247
DynaPower Black Widow case w/450W PSU, with the punched-metal side panel replaced with a Plexiglass window
3.2GHz Pentium 4
Whatever mobo was in his Dell before the upgrade, only has 3 PCI and no AGP or PCI-E slots
2x512MB Samsung DDR333, in dual-channel mode
ATi Radeon 9200 PCI
SB Audigy
3 40GB hard drives
Lite-On DVD/CD-RW combo drive
Logitech Corded Elite keyboard
Logitech iFeel mouse
Saitek P2500 gamepad
Dell 17" CRT monitor
Logitech Z-560 4.1 speakers

Other: My Roommate's DS

These are all connected to a D-Link DI-524 wireless router, but only the DS is connected wirelessly. Also, both PCs are running XP Pro SP2.

What my apartment will have ...

Desktops
Opteron 165 @ 2x2.4GHz, 2GB RAM (my desktop)
Pentium 4 @ 2.4GHz, 512MB RAM (sister's desktop)

Laptops
IBM ThinkPad T22 - M-P3 900MHz, 512MB RAM (my laptop)
Compaq Armada M700 - P3M 650MHz, 320MB RAM (sister's laptop)

Network stuff
Linksys WRT54G w/ HyperWRT + Thibor 15c firmware
Netgear PS110 print server (two parallel ports
HP LaserJet 6MP laser printer

Possible stuff
Possibly a color inket printer

Possibly a GigE switch (but I may simply go entirely wireless)

I am eyeing a new Lenovo/IBM ThinkPad T60 (2x1.83GHz, 512MB) (go go brother's academic discount!)

Pentium 4 @ 1.8GHz, 1GB (test server, probably running Virtual Server 2005 w/ CentOS + W2K3 R2)

Misc Notes
I'm seriously considering running WPA Enterprise w/ a RADIUS server at my house. I might also install StrongSwan, OpenVPN or Windows' IPSec for VPN goodness.

One computer, staitc ip

Laptop using wlan, dhcp adress

Xbox, whatever it gets from the DHCP

The DHCP has the range of 192.168.0.x /28

A linksys wrt54g as dhcp / wlan

A Cisco Pix 501 as a firewall

Faram wrote:A Cisco Pix 501 as a firewall

I hate you. I'm currently wanting an ASA 5505 (PIX 501/506E replacement)

phongn wrote:

Faram wrote:A Cisco Pix 501 as a firewall

I hate you. I'm currently wanting an ASA 5505 (PIX 501/506E replacement)

Do not hate, buy one they are cheap for the lovest license mode

Faram wrote:Do not hate, buy one they are cheap for the lovest license mode

But the ASA 5505 will do QoS ... and the PIX 501/506e won't. That said, I'd be expecting to see quite a few of the older PIX boxes on eBay since they're getting EOL'ed and raplced by the 5505.

My main comp goes like this...

Motherboard: Asus A78NE-Deluxe
RAM: 1GB
Graphics Card: Radeon All-In-Wonder 9800 128mb OR GeForce 4 MX 440
DVD drive, CD drive
120Gb HD
Wireless 108mbps running 2mb intarweb
17" LCD screen
Sub woofer and a pair of speakers from about 1995 that still work great

Nothing special really, but gets the job done as far as gaming is concerned. 8mb internet is available, however we can't use it because the telephone exchange nearby only goes up to 2mb. Unfortunately, the Radeon graphics card is pretty much dead from random screen crashes, and I can't fix it, so I'm stuck with the GeForce 4. Beyond annoying.

I also have a resurrected computer constructed from parts accumulated in my cupboard, most of which I scrounged from school, my dad got from work, I saw in computer fairs and car boot sales or are left over from dead and gone computers. I almost had it working at one point, internet was online for about 10 seconds before it started crashing randomly, now attempts to reinstall windows meet with hanging. For the moment, its once again dead, but I'm sure it will rise again some day...

Main System:

ASUS P5B Mobo, 965P chipset
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 CPU 2.4Ghz, 4mb cache, 1066mhz FSB
2GB DDR2 667mhz RAM
Seagate SATA 160GB primary HD
Seagate SATA 200GB secondary HD
ATI Radeon X700 Pro PCI Express graphics card
Onboard 8 channel HD audio connected to Logitech Z-2300 2.1 Speaker set
Onboard gigabit LAN
Two LG 16x DVD RW drives
17" Samsung 710n LCD Monitor, 12ms response time.


Secondary System:

MSI K7N2 Delta mobo
Athlon XP 3200+ 2.2Ghz CPU, 512k cache, 400Mhz FSB
1GB DDR 400mhz RAM
Seagate SATA 80GB Primary HD
Maxtor IDE 120GB Secondary HD
MSI NX 7600GS Graphics card AGP 8x
LG 8x DVD RW drive
LG 52x32x52x CDRW drive
Onboard audio connected to crappy little stereo speakers
Onboard 10/100 LAN
19" Samsung 950b CRT monitor.


Sister's Computer

Intel D865GLC mobo
Celeron D 2.66Ghz CPU 533Mhz FSB
1GB DDR 400mhz RAM
40GB Maxtor IDE Hard Drive
LG 16x DVD RW
LG 52x32x52x CDRW
MSI GeForce 4 Ti4200 AGP 8x Graphics card
BenQ FP71G+ 17" LCD Monitor, 8ms response time
Onboard 6 channel audio feeding a Logitech X-230 2.1 speaker system
Dlink Airplus Xtreme G 108Mbps PCI Wireless adaptor


Brother's New Laptop:

Averatec 1100 series
10.6" Widescreen 1280x768 display.
Intel Pentium M CPU 1.1Ghz 400mhz FSB 2mb cache
1GB RAM (upgradable to 2GB)
80GB Hard Drive
Intel Extreme Graphics 2 - 128mb shared memory
Intel Pro Wireless G and Ethernet
Weight is only 3.6 lbs.


Brothers's Old Laptop:

Dell Latitude C600 series
14.1" Display
Pentium 3 CPU 866mhz
256MB RAM
20GB Hard Drive
8xDVD-ROM/24x CD-ROM
ATI Rage mobility graphics
10/100 onboard Ethernet
PCMCIA Linksys Wireless G adaptor


Networking:

Rogers Highspeed Extreme, 6mbit connection.

Dlink DI 624 Extreme G Wireless 108mbps Router


All Systems run Windows XP Pro SP2 and use Nod32 Antivirus