Recent content by BlueFireAngel777

General follow up question: The data enters the house at the opposite corner (of course). From the box outside, the coax runs down, gets spliced (straight union connector) to a long run across the house (roughly 50' probably) and to a three way splitter: one to modem/router, one to HD cable box...

I will definitely look at the logs. I don't know how far back they'll go because it seems I have to reset the router about 10% of the time this happens because after an hour or more and after getting rid of some of the deivices temporarily, it's still not connecting. I should have about a weeks...

So is pfsense a firewall software or a router or a system you can customize out of other parts?

I missed the printer but it's wired. The latest additions, the cameras and the alarm system are wired too, and since it's the alarm system that's let me know there's an issue (during school year, no one was home for roughly 8 hours a day, so we didn't know or care if the internet cut out), it...

"Although any computer you are willing to leave on could easily have a network share for the family to store files on with effectively only the expense of the drives. " This is more of the direction I was going. A NAS solution isn't what I was going for at the moment. I'd prefer a solution that...

I want to build a PC to serve as central file storage and server for my family. Maybe eventually I'll have time to run some games but that will likely not be a primary focus before the next major upgrade. A few years ago I would have said intel is the best bet as most of their CPUs have...