I second that. Just rewiring the house with cat5e will be the cheapest solution... I do this weekly on a proffesional basis, and I often did this the other way around (send video over cat5e) But for a descent network connection, pulling new networkcables trough is the way to go.
O yeah, one piece of advice, use detergent for dishes as lube! (I don't leave to a job without havin' a bottle with me).
To quote myself in a discussion I had on Ubuntuforums....
I use/sold a lot of linux home servers
The hardware is a shuttle k45 barebone with 1 Gb ram and a low power intel cpu and 2 identical disks ( from 500Gb to 2Tb each).
I run hardy 8.04 on them. I set up software raid 1 (/ and swap part). -ssh shell and webmin for administration -samba for file sharing -mediatomb/ampache for music streaming to pc/console -imap mail server with postfix/dovecot to make mail accesible evrywhere -with cronjobs I handle automatic backups & auto shutdown from 23:55 to 7:30 (powersave) -I'm in the middle of trying to get funambol running for phone/calendar/mai syncing
There's a steep learning curve if you're only used to windows systems, but these systems out perform windows by price (licensing costs), flexibility (wat can't be achieved?) and stability (viruses? crashes?)
I access the severs features from the outside via my dd-wrt enabled router that runs dns and a vpn server.
If you want to know more I'd be glad to go more into specifics. This servers uses at minimum 35 watt (according to shuttle). But a average server with 2x 1Tb and celeron processor uses 55 watts in my experience.
This setup did the trick multiple times for me... Yearly usage of 330kWh, due to auto shutdown/restart at night and "green" components.... and no hard hacking exotic HW
Indeed boo-hoo, in a ________* country like Belgium, a 12 whopping Gb's per month up _and_ downstream is considered normal. Perspective please....
(*:insert sarcasm here)
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I second that. Just rewiring the house with cat5e will be the cheapest solution... I do this weekly on a proffesional basis, and I often did this the other way around (send video over cat5e) But for a descent network connection, pulling new networkcables trough is the way to go.
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O yeah, one piece of advice, use detergent for dishes as lube! (I don't leave to a job without havin' a bottle with me)
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I second that. All those special requests gives one a edge when handling special requests...
To quote myself in a discussion I had on Ubuntuforums....
I use/sold a lot of linux home servers
The hardware is a shuttle k45 barebone with 1 Gb ram and a low power intel cpu and 2 identical disks ( from 500Gb to 2Tb each).
I run hardy 8.04 on them. I set up software raid 1 (/ and swap part). /mai syncing
-ssh shell and webmin for administration
-samba for file sharing
-mediatomb/ampache for music streaming to pc/console
-imap mail server with postfix/dovecot to make mail accesible evrywhere
-with cronjobs I handle automatic backups & auto shutdown from 23:55 to 7:30 (powersave)
-I'm in the middle of trying to get funambol running for phone/calendar
There's a steep learning curve if you're only used to windows systems, but these systems out perform windows by price (licensing costs), flexibility (wat can't be achieved?) and stability (viruses? crashes?)
I access the severs features from the outside via my dd-wrt enabled router that runs dns and a vpn server.
If you want to know more I'd be glad to go more into specifics.
This servers uses at minimum 35 watt (according to shuttle). But a average server with 2x 1Tb and celeron processor uses 55 watts in my experience.
This setup did the trick multiple times for me... Yearly usage of 330kWh, due to auto shutdown/restart at night and "green" components.... and no hard hacking exotic HW
Indeed boo-hoo, in a ________* country like Belgium, a 12 whopping Gb's per month up _and_ downstream is considered normal. Perspective please.... (*:insert sarcasm here)
What 'll be next? A MS sales rep with a paper cup on the sidewalk of a computer store?