your router should not be the "core" to your network. Routers are usually edge devices.
My advice:
Get a central switch 24 port, a good one (Cisco, 3Com, HP) as this will be the lynch pin to your network. Connect everything to that as your central point. resist the temptation to...
list price is ~$25K, it is slated to go bye-bye shortly.
in essence what is does is assign users to a specific VLAN and then maintains that assignment regardless of where on the network that user plugs. This rather than assigning a specific port to a specific VLAN. It is useful if you have...
Comcast may be proxying your IP address. You get 1 IP address from the ISP which is, in reality, an address on ISP's private network, which is then NAT'd and shot out onto the Web. Too many users and not enough public IP addresses to go around.
it depends....
if you are doing a router to router VPN: yes
if the VPN router is 100% IPSec complaint and you have a Mac VPN client: yes
(http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/windows/)
If none of the above: good luck
wireless might work, but for it to be effective you need a clear line of sight. if there is a stand of trees in the way and you can not clearly see the house in the summer, then wireless will more than likely not work.
At 500 yards (and ever 500 feet) you are beyond the range of standard...
a few reasons:
because the owner of a private network is responsible for the material on it and if you merrily download or distribute copyrighted material, the network owner is liable. If the BSA shows up and your company owned machine has 27 copyright protected (but with no licenses) items...
it sounds like you want to set up what is called a "private VLAN"...where every port (save one) is completely isolated from the others and all traffic from one port can only be sent out to and received from the common promiscous port. This is quite common when you set up a multiple dwelling...
one other thing: think about the "average" user...most of their upstream requests are small and are for more bandwidth intensive content coming back so it makes sense to limit the uploadspeed to benefit the download speeds. it just more efficient use of bandwidth.
yes, it comes in a 10, 50 and unlimited user flavors...as to the thru put, for most applications you will probably run out of WAN bandwidth before you'll overrun a PIX 501 (up to 60mbps cleartext thruput and 3mbps for 3DES encrypted traffic thruput)
tagging and untagging is used to determine the priority of traffic.
Hypothetical: 2 (VLAN #1 and VLAN #2) network streams arrive at 1 port simultaneously, which one goes 1st? with tagging, the IT folks can say that VLAN #2 traffic is more latency sensitive and should go 1st to avoid...
a VLAN is a virtual LAN. It allows multiple users to be grouped together in a common IP subnet without worrying about physical location.
For example: we have Bob, Sally, Manny and CHuck on the 1st floor; Connie, Mel, Sam and Mike on the 3rd. All of them are connected to different...
It could be it was a warranty replacement that, for whatever reason, did not make it to its original intended destination.
call the reseller and put the screws to them
the part number ends in RF generally not the serial number.
but in this case, I might be concerned, based on the serial number it appears that this was built in mid to late 2003...
if it is that old there are a couple of reasons: 1) the reseller bought it and it got hung in their inventory...
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