Re: Slug (was: Do we all use more electricity?)

[mark <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just an update on this thread.
Regarding the Linksys NSLU-2 "SLUG" units - I have posted some
pictures
of NODE-0 with them installed.

http://www.markryder.me.uk/gallery/displayimage.php?album=90&pos=0

Please excuse the messy patch cable wiring!

My NODE-0 is installed in the loft.
Everything is powered by UPS.
All the rooms are wired with CAT-5 and COAX back to this point.
Most rooms I have installed four CAT-5 points (this was definitely worth
the effort).

I have an SLX8L 8-Way RF Distribution Unit mounted outside the rack.
This distributes SKY, Terrestrial and FM round the house and can also
take inputs from CCTV.

I have a telephone exchange/switch mounted outside the rack.  All it's
ports are connected to a CAT-5 Patch Panel in the rack.

I have a 54G Wireless Ethernet adapter outside the rack.

In the rack I have a patch-panel for all the room Cat-5 ports.
+ 16-Port 10/100MB Ethernet Switch
+ ADSL Modem
+ 3 x NSLU-2 Network Attached Storage Link
+ 6 x 250GB External Hard Drives

This arrangement allows me to connect (by patch cable) any room Cat-5
outlet to either phone service or network.   It's been a very flexible
solution that has worked really well.

Thanks to all the support and advice from this group!

Cheers,
Mark




mark wrote:

> The NSLU-2 was ?46 +VAT.
> The DS-101 difference is that it has an internal IDE connector for one
> hard
> drive.
> The Slug only supports external USB Hard-Drives.
>
> You do get external USB ports on the DS-101 for external hard drives
too.
> Plus you can also attach a USB printer.
>
> Most other features are the same.
> Unless the print-server feature is important, I'd still stick with the
> Slug.
> Also, the fact there is a hacker-community for the Slug means that
> there are
> many other things that the Slug can now do.  The media-server concept
> was a
> great bonus.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Alex Clark [mailto:alex@xxxxxxx]
>   Sent: 19 February 2005 22:49
>   To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>   Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Slug (was: Do we all use more electricity?)
>
>
>   There's also the Synology Disk Station DS-101
>
> (http://www.synology.com/enu/products/diskstation/index.php?page=ds-101&co
> <http://www.synology.com/enu/products/diskstation/index.php?page=ds-101&co>
> nt
>   ent=overview&current_sub_link=1), but it seems twice the price. 
Is it
>   identical?
>
>
>
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: mark [mailto:mark@xxxxxxx]
>   Sent: 19 February 2005 18:40
>   To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>   Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Do we all use more electricity ?
>
>   ... The Linksys NSLU-2 (or slug, as most people call it) is a tiny
linux
>   machine the size of a DAT tape that connects
>   two USB2 external hard disks to your ethernet network.   I have now
> bought
>   three of them, and connected 6 x 200GB external drives to them.   I
> already
>   had some of the hard drives and the external enclosures are only ?18
> from
>   ebuyer.
>
>
>
>
>
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