[Smith6612]

Hey guys, just curious to what your home network looks like (for those of you who have one. If not, just do a PC and a modem :P). try to draw up a picture of it as possible, in any program you like, but if you don't have time, just do text. Here's my network. Each numbered thing is listed below.

1: The internet and my ISP's backbone

2: Westell 6100 ADSL2+ modem synced at 7.1Mbps/1.5Mbps, running FastPath and ADSL2+ (soon to be replaced by FiOS).

3: Linux system acting as a router, web server, and managing the network. This system acts as a firewall to my network, only allowing and forwarding ports to computers that request it via uPnP, such as when I'm hosting game servers. It allows ping to through only when it is requested as well by game servers, apps, etc. This system also acts as a web server, and a gateay for me into the network in case if I ever need to retreive something while I'm on vacation or do work. This system also manages the PPPoE on my DSL as well, and it alerts me via e-mail when my connection starts to get marginal (if my line ever gets close to 6dB, which is very, very rare as my line sits at 28dB+ on the downstream), or if the sync is lost or dropped on the speed. I'm working on setting up a system app that will allow me to run automated speed tests from this system as well. Is also a DHCP server, and will allow me to boot people from the network, QoS people, etc. It also currently filters out ads from pages and P2P apps from connecting to anything (don't ask how long this took to set up, it took ages and many reinstalls of the OS). This is also a file server for me as well.

4: A Linksys WRT54GX simply acting as a gateway. No firewall, DHCP, NAT, anything is on on this router right now. It's just acting as a wireless access point and a network switch.

5: My gamng computer

6: A slow computer in the basement's rec room

7: A PS2

8: My guest port for people who bring their comps over and don't have Wi-Fi, or for LAN parties.

9 and 10: Laptops, one is 9 years old, one is a year old

11: My old gaming computer now retired as a gaming system and acting as a family computer

12: My PSP

13 and above are all other devices I may connect in the future, such as a DVR, some neighbors asking me if they can use my net because Roadrunner is having problems, friends over, etc.

Not too big of a set-up, but it's pretty big.


My gaming computer is a system running a 2.4GHz Intel Q6600 Quad Core 8MB L2 cache, 166MHz, 3GB of RAM, 1.5TB hard drive, dual 8800GTs.

The computer on ethernet is running Windows 2000 off of an old AMD K6 Processorith 192MB of RAM, and a RIVA 8MB card.

The two laptops, the 9 year old runs an ATi 8MB card, the newer one runs an ATi Radeon. Tjhe older one has a Pentium III with 128Mb of System RAM and Windows 2000. The new one has an AMD Athlon Dual Core 64-bit CPU, running 512MB of RAM.

My old gaming computer is a 2.4GHz Celeron system with 256MB of RAM, and an nVidia GeForce 4 MX 64MB of RAM.

My Linux system is running Fedora Linux, with some modifications I compiled into it to do what I want it to do. It's running a Pentium 4 HyperThreading processor with 256MB of RAM. It has an onboard graphics card (as this system is just supposed to be something that uses very little power, to manage the network and do things for me that a Pentium I can do.)

My PS2 is the fat kind that I had to get a network adapter for. That actually came with my PS2 when I got it, and when I got it, I used to have dial-up, so it had a built-in modem as well.

[HomerJ]

Here is my network in glorious ASCII: (lol)

                                                         _______
                                      ________     |desktop|
    _____                         |__ server|   | _#2___|
   /         \                _______         |    ____|_           _________
 /             \             |            |        '--|          |          |              |
|  Internet |---------|cable     |--------|router  |-------|desktop  |
 \             /             |modem  |           |______|          |   #1       |
   \_____/               |_______|                   |              |________|
                                   _________         __|_____
                                   |desktop   |        | 10Mbit  |
                                   |       #3   |------|   hub    | -------[   laptop    ]
                                   |________|        |_______|           [sometimes]

The desktops aren't all mine, only one is.

The server is rarely used. It is a Pentium2-350MHz with 320MB of RAM and 4 harddrives (30GB, 40GB, 40GB, 80GB). The case is also very mutated to accommodate all of these hard drives. It runs Gentoo Linux, Apache, some kind of mailserver, vsftpd (Very Secure FTP Daemon), sshd, and probably a few other services I have forgotten.

Desktop #1 is my computer. Gentoo Linux with some standard desktop software. Pentium D - 2.8GHz, 4GB RAM (only 3200MB addressable due to chipset limitations).

Desktop #2 is a Windows 2000 PC with an old P4 processor and 512MB RDRAM.

Desktop #3 is another Gentoo Linux powered computer. P4 1.8GHz and 1GB SDRAM.

Router is an older linksys WRT54G. It runs DD-WRT.

The laptop is an old Pentium2-233MHz laptop with 64MB RAM. Runs a slackware-based linux distribution. Wired connections only, always plugged into the wall. I don't even know if the battery works.

Wow, I went into way too much detail. Sorry.

EDIT: ASCII picture looked fine in the preview.

[cstamper]

I have dumb old dialup cause it's all i can get here. Besides costly satellite. So:

This PC with a modem, wifi, and etherent.

One seperated wired LAN, with it's own DCHP server, +web, email, ftp, etc. Isolated from the internet... :-) Maybe about 4-5 computers + a printer and scanner, with an embeedded web server.

A wifi network, consisting of 3 computers, that can access the internet through this windoze box+modem.. :-0 Isolated from the wired, though nearly all the wireless pcs are also connected to the wired network. just no bridge.

The reason for this mess is, I don't want my windoze pc doing dhcpd for the wired & wireless. And ICS doesn't work without dhcpd. And I don't need internet access on the wired network.

Confused? It would be different if it wasn't dialup. Ever shared a 5.6k connection? You'd soon understand.

[chewett]

mine looks a bit like this

---------------------<==Router==>--|-----------------Computor
                                                    |
                                                    |-------------------computor

i use the lan

[alexandgruntz]

I have a 4-port ADSL/Ethernet router, linked to two desktops, a tablet (yes, wired!) and a 5-port Ethernet hub. That is linked to my desktop and 'ancient' laptop.