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When you log into a user on a Windows Server 2012 R2 machine, upon closing the RDP window the user remains logged in, with applications continuing to run, while the display on the machine's monitor shows the lock screen. What I would like to happen: When the machine boots, user X is...

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The first 1Gbps internet connections are finally becoming available in my area, and I am wondering if my gigabit routers and switches might become bottlenecks? I've always assumed routers had some overhead when it came to transmitting data, however, with the previous highest available connection...

I ran out of drive bays, so I simply put a drive I just installed on the floor of my case. Might this cause any problems?

I have several internet connections and and want to get the most out of my bandwidth. Are there any good torrent clients that can utilize multiple connections?

Do I need to add a dedicated hardware firewall for our network? Or will software firewalls, the router firewall, and double NAT suffice? The network is a small home office for a business, set up like this: ISP1 modem/router combo >> |XXXXXXXXXXXXX|.........../-->> wifi router with DHCP enabled...

What I have is this: A physical LAN in my office Several machines in different locations Some VPS's What I need is a way to connect them to a VPN so I can share folders just like on a regular LAN, but for all other purposes the machines would access the internet using their own regular...

My home office has outgrown one of the machines it uses for a server, so thinking of building a new one. Roles the machine would fill are: *Fileserver/Media server (no transcoding, just straight up playing the files on other machines) *Seedbox *Hypervisor (nothing heavy just tiny VMs that run...

UPDATE: I went out and bought a TPLink TL-R470T+. It works perfectly, with practically zero configuration required, balancing three different WANs on my network (it can support up to four different WANs). For the price (around 50 USD) it has a TON of features and is pound for pound the best...

If I have three Wifi Modem/Routers (the ones provided by my ISPs) all connected to a multi-WAN router (which will be handling DHCP), how can I get WiFi if the multi-WAN router is not wireless? Will I still be able to connect to the three routers if they no longer assign IP addresses? I don't...