Your Home Setup

Here's mine:

The router upstairs is connected to a switch downstairs via powerline networking as a wireless bridge didn't quite cut the mustard.

Conencted upstairs directly to the router are:

General Desktop PC
Running Vista and used rarely these days for the odd gaming session. It also takes care of most printing, photo editing, downloading, DVD burning duties etc.

NAS box
Used for shared storage, secondary backup etc.

Print server
Laser printer connected to it for shared printing duties

Hooked up donwstairs to the switch are:

HTPC
Hooked up to the hi-fi to take care mainly of my music collection

Tivo
A modified Tivo box that has a network card in it and running a web server so I can set stuff to record from anywhere on the network (including from the internet via VPN)

PS2 and PS3
Gaming duties naturally. PS2 will go soon once a work around for Guitar Hero on the PS3 is found

Then there are four laptops that connect wirelessly. Two each for me and my wife, one each for business and personal use.

The router is a Draytek Vigor which has a handy VPN server built in. It never ceases to amaze colleagues when I can connect to my home network and set my video (TiVo) or pull a vital file off the NAS!
 
PC's
Office PC
Brothers PC
Sisters PC
64bit Rig
SFF
My Laptop
2nd Machine
3rd Machine

Servers
1 HP ML110 - Active directory server
1 HP ML110 - Exchange server
1 x LP2000r - File server
1 x LP2000r - File server
1 x LP2000r - File server
1 x LP2000r - File server
1 x IBM Xseries 306 - Backup server
1 x Compaq DL360 - Webserver

Routers/Switches
2 x WRT54G
1 x fone AP
7 x Cisco 2600 routers
 
Boycie said:
PC's
Office PC
Brothers PC
Sisters PC
64bit Rig
SFF
My Laptop
2nd Machine
3rd Machine

Servers
1 HP ML110 - Active directory server
1 HP ML110 - Exchange server
1 x LP2000r - File server
1 x LP2000r - File server
1 x LP2000r - File server
1 x LP2000r - File server
1 x IBM Xseries 306 - Backup server
1 x Compaq DL360 - Webserver

Routers/Switches
2 x WRT54G
1 x fone AP
7 x Cisco 2600 routers
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That surely qualifies you as mentally ill
 
Desktop 1:
quad core + quadro, mainly for rendering work and games

Desktop 2:
Athlon x2 + x1900xtx, lans, bumming about and testing

Laptop:
xps m1710, school work, light rendering work + games on the go

server:
pentium d with 2.1TB storage, printer server, backup + game server

server2:
pentium 4, currently a testbed soon to be a LAMP server

router:
celeron 900 running m0n0wall + 3 waps

'rents have a laptop each and my brothers have an a64 machine

lots of machines all get a fair amount of usage
 
Main PC which is on 24/7.
Two PC's upstairs which can access certain directories.
A laptop which can be added.
Two XBOXES which access certain directories.
A satellite Dreambox so that I can stream the channels back to my PC is I wish.
Everything is cabled through an old Linksys.
 
My pc:

Games, inet, msn, pron, series, films, work, music, storage, and all entertainement possible.
pD 4ghz, 4gb ram, 6800gs, 1.26 Tb storage

Mums pc: Skype, internet, email. - p4 1.5 ghz, 512 mb, fx 5700 256mb, 40gb
Dad's pc: Work, internet, pron, email. - a64 4000+, 512 mb, ati 9200, 40gb
Lappy: old games n stuff, holiday stuff, internet. - p3 600 mhz, 192mb ram, 8mb ATI rage, 12 gb hdd

All pc's&lappy: xp sp2
 
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This is my home setup:

My Room (Leeds):

Main Computer - (Soon to be upgraded)

Processor: Pentium 4 3.0GHz
RAM: 1024Mb
Hard Drive: (Generic) 200Gb, and another 75Gb one
Monitors: One BenQ T903 19" Monitor (1280*1024), Two Fujitsu Siemens B15-1 15" Monitors (1024*768)
Graphics Cards: One ATi Radeon 9800 Pro, One ATi Radeon 9250 (PCI)

This computer is used for most things, (so for me that is basically using the Internet, word processing, and some programming work). It runs Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2, and has an installation of Ubuntu 7.04.

Study (Leeds):

Family Computer

Processor: Pentium 4 2.8GHz
RAM: 512Mb
Hard Drive: (Generic) 40Gb
Monitors: One 15" Monitor (1024*768)
Graphics Cards: Onboard

This is used by the rest of the family for browsing the Internet, and doing other basic tasks.

Lounge (Leeds):

Laptop

Processor: Pentium 4 1.6GHz
RAM: 512Mb
Hard Drive: (Generic) 20Gb
Monitors: One 15" Monitor (1024*768)
Graphics Cards: Onboard

My Room (Northumberland):

Old Computer

Processor: Pentium 3 1GHz
RAM: 256Mb
Hard Drive: (Generic) 20Gb
Monitors: Two 15" Monitors (1024*768) (Although I can only use both if I bring my main computer, from Leeds)
Graphics Cards: Onboard

This is used for browsing the Internet while I am on holiday, it runs Ubuntu 7.04.

I also have a server in my room (running Ubuntu 6.06 LTS) but I don't use that much. I am planning on installing Ubuntu 7.04 on it in the summer and configuring a wiki (it is a web server on the LAN) for my notes (not that it will get used :p). There is a server in the Study (Leeds) that has Windows NT 4.0 Server Edition installed; my Dad uses it to store the family photos, and some music he has; this is basically an external hard-drive, although more cumbersome, and it rarely gets used.

I spend a lot of time using computers though, and I am expecting to upgrade my main computer soon, and also I am expecting to take on an old computer in the coming weeks for an Xubuntu install.

Angus Higgins
 
3 PCs. One for Video editing, 3d Modelling. One for gaming, bit of a waste at the moment as I rarely have time to game. One for folding.

Really need to build a webserver box, not wholly sure of the best setup though.
 
Desktops

Hyperstation:- desktop - 1 2x 2.4 Xeon GF7600 2Gb DDR - winXP pro

Junkie:- desktop - 1.6 Xeon 1gb ddr - Ubuntu

two desktops share 3 screen linked via synergy

Kinetik:- Laptop - 1.4 centrino - Fedora


Servers

BlueSun:- Server - 2x PIII 1ghz 1Gb ram 2.4TB HDD - Debian

server runs VMware and hosts;

BlackSun:- Server - Windows Server 2003


media centres

Xbox - gentoox media centre

RedSun:- AthlonXP1800 - yet to be installed

Comms

Switch1 - HP Procurve 24 port managed

switch2 - Netgear 5 port 1GB

Linksys AP

Soekris - Monowall
 
1 - Mac Mini for media centre, file server, downloader etc. Also running a virtual version of XP and Vista

1 - IBM T42 for web browsing

1 - IBM T30 used as a door stop as it's only 256mb and i sispect the HD is on the way out....oh and i's also missing the D key ;)
 
PC upstairs in home cinema. Does downloading and other tasks as well as HTPC and gaming duties.

Laptop downstairs or wherever really for internet mainly.
 
oxygene said:
Well I was just feeling proud after making my network just right, and I wondered "what do other people have and what do they use it for?". So basically thats what I am after. The computers yuo have on your netwrok, what you use them for and what you would like to add. (With ofcourse no reference to what certain media might be)

My Layout:

Main pc:
For games, work, general use.
Laptop:
For work away from home, or watching films while gaming on main :p
File server:
Obviously for storing all media on it and streaming to other computers.
Cache:
Leaving on 24/7 so anything anyone wants to send to me can be stored while the fileserver is off, also a nice buffer so I can check stuff before moving it somewhere else.

I can VNC or FTP between file and cache pcs and the others.
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VNC ??
you do know there are programs out there just dedicated to breaking VNC servers! it's not the most secure thing in the world!

why not just use remote desktop?
 
Main pc (in sig): XP Pro, used for games, office, email etc...

Laptop: XP Home, used for office, email, etc...

Netgear DG834GT router.

Whole house is kitted out with a wired network (installed when renovating it last year,) LAN points in every rooms :D

Soon to join the list (If I can be bothered or find the time!):

old-ish Athlon system (made out of parts of my last system and my parents last one) - either just a Linux box for playing with or to turn into a media centre/server.

really old K6-2 system (original spec was 400Mhz cpu, Voodoo3 2000 graphics, Soundblaster PCI16, 6.4Gb ATA66 drive, AT not even ATX! :p ) to make into a NAS.


Got loads of spares lying around.....
Networking kit left over after installing it, various drive and power cables, fans and fan adaptors, ZIP drives, trillions of spare screws, hard drives, network adaptors, RAID cards,
 
Main Pc - Keith1 - Vista Business
Used for gaming, Uni work, web stuff and music.
General usage

Secondary PC - Keith2 - Windows Server 2008 Beta
Used for self teaching, in a Server environment.
 
Main PC
P4 2.8 used for everything inc TV, Music. Runs Vista Ultimate.

Laptop
IBM T43 WinXP used mainly by girlfriend for web browsing. I also use this to dial into work using thin client when I can't be bothered to go into the office.

Forgot, also have an IBM X31 which is perfectly acceptable but rarely used.
 
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Main PC: General bits and bobs, used to be a gaming monster but it's 3 years old and only had a few upgrades.

Laptop: Again used to be a pretty good machine for gaming but its 2.5yrs old and only does web / email now

ibook: Use it when away, 12" so its light good battery life and very tough. Wanted to replace this and above with macbook but quality seems to be much worse :( Going to get an IBM Tseries instead i think

Used to have some servers in the garage but after work now i cba so they are to be skipped in the near future.
 
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