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annoyingrob @ 7th Jul 05:47AM:
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Do you know how much that fiber line would normally run per month to lease?
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mike12806 @ 7th Jul 03:42PM:
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Haha, one of the fiber runs coming out of that splice says "Comcast Fiber" on it! Are you a beta Comcast FTTH customer??!?!? ;)
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scrummie02 @ 8th Jul 08:01AM:
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virtual servers my man. Buy a beefy box with a quad core and some disk space and RAM...your set. I run dev web servers, icecast for a personal radio me and my family listen to, test XP client and so on...with one server.

VMWare is the way to go.
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Mike_343 @ 8th Jul 05:15PM:
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ya it does say comcast on it? is the op pulling a fast one on us?
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Silentwolf @ 8th Jul 08:36PM:
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The Comcast fiber could just be extra that a contractor or such had left over that they used.
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anon @ 9th Jul 10:51PM:
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The fiber is indeed from comcast, i got it from a dumpster by one of there headends. I attached a pic of me in the same dumpster i got the fiber from.

pulling out a fiber node
The roll of fiber

jwersan @ 9th Jul 10:53PM:
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Dumpster diving at its best!!! :D
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anon @ 9th Jul 10:59PM:
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Oh and, i just got this yesterday, from a comcast hub site, about 7 miles from my place. there were 3 of them, but i only had room for one of them at the time.

mike12806 @ 11th Jul 11:14PM:
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Never knew Comcast had so much equipment lying around in rural areas??
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anon @ 11th Jul 11:29PM:
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Yeah it is kinda weird, the amount of stuff they just chuck away, and you wonder why our cable bills are high...
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mike12806 @ 11th Jul 11:33PM:
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Why do you have a comcast residential conneciton if you have fiber anyways?
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anon @ 12th Jul 12:58AM:
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It comes with the comcast triple play, so i think to get that deal we need to hold on to it, ether way it helps, i have the three internet connections load balanced, via an F5 Big-IP Appliance. The fiber connection handels all the web servers, and the dsl connection does game servers + sql servers + vpn + ftp etc. and the comcast connection isent set to allow or deny any traffic.
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erikthebean @ 12th Jul 11:29PM:
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Dude i love the setup its nice to know im not the only one tinkering around my servers....im only 22 and at 15 i wish i had a fiber line running into my home...dam i wish i had one now
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paulmataruso @ 13th Jul 09:53PM:
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Thanks, i dont know to many other people at my school at least, that are into networking and what not. i am 16 now actully, did i put 15?
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erikthebean @ 13th Jul 10:07PM:
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I gota ask ya i actually used to work for comcast ..... not the greatest time of my life but what did you do with that fiber node??? i know it uses squarewave power but u should convert some of that extra fiber into coax lol theirs a weekend project right there
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paulmataruso @ 13th Jul 10:32PM:
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i have the power supply for the node(big black thing, 90volt output? really heavy, looks like it goes in a rack or box or something), it is sitting on my work bench right now, and i have some of those fiber modulator things(big Grey, rack mountable), that convert the video/audio into the fiber optic signal(i think it uses some type of DWDM to encode the signal). Then from the node, i have some of that hard line stuff, that goes to a line extender, which is like a big silver thing just like the node, forcept smaller. then from there more hard line, then to an 8 port Motorola tap, then on the tap there is a terminator thing on the output side. and connected to the tap, i have a tv, set to channel 10, and i am not sure how to get the audio/video thing to come up on the tv, and i am pretty sure the node works. BTW, the input for the fiber modulator thing is an xbox, lol.
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erikthebean @ 14th Jul 06:26PM:
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well ..humm ....all you can really do with the node is convert the fiber to coax....btw did NHVT run the fiber from the street for you if so thats cool
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paulmataruso @ 15th Jul 11:19PM:
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nah, it is running out behind my house then over along the stone wall, they are like right next to me, so it is just running thought some of that Orange fiber protector tube, the fiber is pretty tough, so i am not really worryed about anything happeing to it, it is udnerground like 7 inches up until the stone wall, then it surfaces, for a couple yards, then goes back under to there place, then surfaces then thougth a little hold in the cement on the side of the house.
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paulmataruso @ 27th Aug 05:57PM:
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Got some new stuff,

Compaq ML370 1U server
Cisco IAD 2400
and Some other cisco stuff on the relay rack

anon @ 4th Sep 03:16AM:
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Want to colocate a box for me? :)
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SlickEnW @ 7th Sep 06:34PM:
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But yea, virtualize :)

Just get a nice HP with 8 cores and max ram (72 gb), fibre chan storage , and vm ware's ESX + an additional server box for virtual center and physical to virtual tasks (so you don't have to reconfigure everything).

Heck you can do it in one rack :)
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cypherstream @ 16th Sep 11:28PM:
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What brand node and line extender did you get? Does it say the model number and/or bandwidth? 750 MHz, 870 MHz, etc..?
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paulmataruso @ 24th Sep 07:37PM:
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Yeah its made by c-core, uhm i think is 850 Mhz, im not sure tho, It has 8 ports, four on each side, 7 RF outputs, and 1 fiber input.
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cypherstream @ 24th Sep 10:24PM:
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Wow, good find! Wish my local Comcast had cool stuff like that sitting around for me to play with. Only thing I saw there was a bent up antenna!

Cool setup, dumpster diving FTW!
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phantasm11b @ 3rd Oct 12:33PM:
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Nice job man. I used to be a tech for Comcast and the crap we threw out almost amazed me. For your age your doing pretty damn good. I've wanted to get into this kind of stuff but ditching the day job for this is kind of tough. The wife would murder me. At least you started before there is a wife. lol.
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paulmataruso @ 16th Dec 07:19PM:
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Got a video of my setup, its about 2 minutes long, WMV format

»dothackinc.com/tour.wmv
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JoeG4 @ 18th Dec 06:00AM:
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Pretty awesome :D Wish i had room for something like that, but I have no basement and certainly no room! :(
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PhoenixAZ @ 20th Dec 08:37AM:
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I don't like the permanent marker used to write all over stuff.
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paulmataruso @ 26th Dec 02:54PM:
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Yeah, idk I don't really mind the sharpie, i dont have a label maker, so I just did with what I had around.
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wolfman2g1 @ 29th Dec 01:10AM:
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what do you use to monitor your servers?
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paulmataruso @ 30th Dec 03:34PM:
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I use NetXMS and Look@LAN.
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bilbusb @ 7th Jan 02:41AM:
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where did you get the F5 Big-IP Appliance? Those arent cheap .. and i don't see it in your pic.
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paulmataruso @ 7th Jan 02:56PM:
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the f5 box is on the first floor located where the DSL modem is, the comcast modem and the fiber optic connection come in at the basement, but then are routed up to the first floor to the f5 box, then it comes back down stairs to the router then is ether routed to the DMZ or the LAN, i got it off ebay, for $300 + Shipping.
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