Tag: pfSense

The Home Server Show 170

The Home Server Show 170

Slow news week for Windows Home Server enthusiasts but there is plenty of talk about Synology and Windows 8 Storage Spaces.  Greg Welch, aka @WelchWerks, joins us to talk about his atypical “Home” server and it’s role in his household.  @Dieharder takes a week off and @jcollison needs a tissue.  All this pfSense, Untangle, a [...]

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The Home Server Show 158

The Home Server Show 158

It’s been a while since we have had a marathon podcast so I’ve got 1:45:00 for you this week!  Ray Newberry from http://theosquest.com joins John, Jim, and myself to talk about servers, CrashPlan, pfSense, unTangle, drive extender, HP Microservers, and lots more.  We also go over some bandwidth issues when restoring files from backups on [...]

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The Home Server Show 152 Windows 8 Edition

The Home Server Show 152 Windows 8 Edition

The Windows 8 preview is available and it’s an exciting time for Microsoft so we go hands on with it and see how well it plays with Windows Home Server.  We discuss the product as well as the newly announced Windows Server 8 and it’s ability to pool drives.  John is out so Mike Howard [...]

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Building your own Super Router with pfSense and Untangle

Building your own Super Router with pfSense and Untangle

Super Router, the foundation INTRODUCTION Over the years I have used many different routers, Belkin, Linksys, Netgear, D-Link and others. I have even “hacked” one of them with a different firmware like Tomato, but all of them seemed lacking in some way or another. The problem really hit home when the kids started using the [...]

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BYOB Episode 34

BYOB Episode 34

Live Mesh, new SSD drives, Sandy Bridge and guest Mike H. aka Geek-Accountant talks about his super router. This episode we spend cover a bit of news on some new hardware and get some insight from Tim on Live Mesh. We go in depth with Mike H on his super router and discuss Untangle and [...]

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