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Page Revision: 2011-12-04 18:51
This is going to be an attempt at documenting the main aspects of my home (and, by extension, office) networking and computing setup, so that I have my thoughts in one place, and have an easier time of figuring out what's missing, and what to change, when another machine or technology enters the fray.
There's a very faint chance that something here might be useful to someone or that they get sent here by some confused search engine algorithm - if so, don't hesitate to contact me with any questions.
Network
I'm a big fan of technologies that make me the "owner" of my hardware, and as such DD-WRT (and others in the family, such as Tomato firmware) strike me as the coolest thing ever. Consequently, I try to buy devices that can are supported by open firmware (as far as I know DD-WRT has the broadest support).
I recently purchased what appears to be the best of both worlds - the "TP-Link TL-WR841ND v7", an absolutely dirt-cheap router (less than 30 EUR) that happens to be supported by DD-WRT, and here's the high-level setup: