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[quote=PLUCKYHD]As long as you put it on a breaker plug or whatever they call those things you are within code.[/quote]

GFCI Outlet 🙂

 

Hi Plucky

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lol, I’m glad I’m not the only one who wasted their time and had to look it up. 

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Definitely post a guest review of the waterproof equipment you get!

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This honestly makes me want to get an ATV just to try it out and review.

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Very cool, nice job.  I definitely won’t be showing my wife this!  

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Whatever Jersey guy–we know all of you are the same!

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Down to ….

(Not something I’m proud of knowing)

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I guess I should be happy you put GTL instead of DTF.  I’m embarrased to now know what both of thoes mean.  And it was only 1 episode!

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I was going to make a smart remark and make fun of you all for admitting to watching this show.  But then I remembered that I watched Jersey Shore for the first time this week and actually want to see what drama happens next so I have no room to talk….

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Like Andrew said, keep us in the loop.  I’ll post my two Sandy Bridge builds today–both very stable.

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For the shares not being visible.  Can you confirm you’ve set the network card firewall profile to PrivateHome?

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Try removing the ATI Theater Pro 650.  I’ve had conflicts with that card in the past, especially on 64-bit

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[quote=jrandeck]

Does anyone know how well pfSense or something similar would work running as a virtual machine?   I thought about doing that but as I don’t have dedicated server hardware, I would need to share a NIC between the host OS and the VM (I suppose I could get another NIC if needed) and I didn’t know how well that would work. 

I know there are preconfigured VMs available for some of the products out there, though.

If you leave your PC on 24/7 like I generally do anyway, then that would save the extra cost of running another server PC.

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You will need a minimal of two NICs.  You could technically do it with one if you have everything on a static IP address aside from 1 virtual NIC for the WAN but the performance would suck and be more trouble than it is worth.

I had pfSense running under Hyper-V for ~1 year before setting up my initial Atom D510 1U system (now an Intel D525).  Since Hyper-V doesn’t officially support *BSD I had to run the virtual network cards in legacy mode but the performance was still better than a Apple Airport Extreme I tested against. I went with Hyper-V since I had a server setup already.  If you are setting up a hypervisor environement just for this use I would suggest VMWare ESX/ESXi.

I don’t think I would ever use a desktop though.  I wouldn’t want the performance hit of running virtuals on my primary desktop or worry about rebooting and dropping the network connection.  But that really depends on your home setup and if your work or family requires a steady connection.

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[quote=flips]

What is the adavantage of using a server grad NIC?  Your LAN traffic doesn’t go through the router, right? so your only perfomance boost would be to the internet.  Would you really notice a performance difference on a 6 mbit internet connection?

flips

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The advantage is with stability.  On many *BSD and *nix platforms lower grade NICs are not very well supported or developed.  For instance, 3-4 years ago I had an older firewall running m0n0wall and switching from an on-board Realtek to a dedicated Intel PCI-E NIC (workstation grade, you can find them for $29 on Newegg) increased my speed test by 4 Mbps and lead to a much more stable connection.

If you can find a good price on an Intel PRO/1000 MT Dual Port get it, that cards rock.  My router, Motorola 6120, has a gigabit port and with Comcast rolling out their 5010 (and 10050 in some markets) plan I don’t want my hardware to be the limiting factor 🙂

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I use pfSense 2.0-BETA5 x86-64 at home on an Intel Atom D525 and am extremely happy with it.  It handles everything I want and more.

Definitely go with an Intel dual NIC if you end up with a *BSD platform.  For WiFi if you have a Marvell PCImini-PCI card the mwl(4) drivers in FreeBSD allow for up to 32 access points and wireless client at the same time.  Works very well.  I wish it was updated to use some of the newer mini-PCI-E cards but that is still a little far off.

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