Tax Time Soon
July 9th, 2008 Posted in Techy Stuff | No Comments »As some may or may not know, my computer met a bitter sweet end prematurely this week when one of the hard disks died taking un-backed up raid 0 array with it. This was about a day or two out from me setting up my Windows Home Server to act as a redundancy machine. Ahh well. Anyway I used the days downtime to set up the server and it’s running now as well as purchasing three Western Digital 640GB drives to rebuild a new faster and larger array.
With Windows Home Server having the ability to allow remote connections via a URL to access data I’ve been trying to get that going but unfortunatly regardless of what guide I follow I can not get the netgear to port forward propperly and this has been an ongoing issue. That and the fact it seems to be pretty unstable and needs alot of hard resets. I’m also finding wireless G to be more inadequate since for the first time with the WHS I need to push large amounts of data over the network (in the order of gigs) which is painfully slow on wireless G. With that in mind I’m again looking to upgrade my network to something faster, more easily configured and hopefully more reliable. As before, at least one device needs to support Wireless Bridging (and ideally both do). Here is the two devices I’m thinking of getting.
Both seem good, especially feature wise and Billion seems pretty well reviewed all round. I’ll consider two of the 7402NX’s as it has a gigabyte switch which could come in handy at some point. That’ll depend on how much I want to spend.
Ohh and I have to order the new pack of five Penny Arcade Books and perhaps a poster for good measures.
