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rhyds · 01-06-2014, 09:27

My setup's pretty simple, despite working in IT. When I get home I prefer not to spend my downtime "tinkering" unless its a specific project.

My ADSL router's hooked up to an extension phone socket in the spare bedroom (as my master socket was no where near a 13A socket when I moved in). From there it does WiFi for the house (with handy spillover in to the garden). I've removed the ringer wire from all my phone sockets, but as I'm barely 300yds from the telephone exchange my speeds are pretty good.

A pair of Devolo powerline adaptors and a cheapo TP-Link switch then provide ethernet to my Sony BD home cinema unit and my Humax Foxsat HDR, which is running custom firmware. The firmware means the HDR can work as a media server, and is controllable from a web page that's accessible on all my devices. The BD unit does all the "smart" work for my dumb-as-a-post TV.

Future upgrades are a new router, scuppered the other day when Amazon sent me the wrong unit (despite showing the right unit in the images), and relocate the router to the master socket now that there's a socket there.

01-06-2014, 09:27	#16
rhyds Inactive Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: North Wales Services: Plusnet Phone/BB, Freesat, VM Business BB (Cable) Posts: 821	Re: Your home network My setup's pretty simple, despite working in IT. When I get home I prefer not to spend my downtime "tinkering" unless its a specific project. My ADSL router's hooked up to an extension phone socket in the spare bedroom (as my master socket was no where near a 13A socket when I moved in). From there it does WiFi for the house (with handy spillover in to the garden). I've removed the ringer wire from all my phone sockets, but as I'm barely 300yds from the telephone exchange my speeds are pretty good. A pair of Devolo powerline adaptors and a cheapo TP-Link switch then provide ethernet to my Sony BD home cinema unit and my Humax Foxsat HDR, which is running custom firmware. The firmware means the HDR can work as a media server, and is controllable from a web page that's accessible on all my devices. The BD unit does all the "smart" work for my dumb-as-a-post TV. Future upgrades are a new router, scuppered the other day when Amazon sent me the wrong unit (despite showing the right unit in the images), and relocate the router to the master socket now that there's a socket there.