My Computer Room

Lately there seems to be an increase in curiosity about what exactly I have going on here in my computer room. What I do is collect people's old computers, connect them to my network and then experiment with them to learn more about how they work. I took several pictures and will try to use them to explain everything, or most of it, that I have.

Computers

Left Wall	Center	Right Wall
Top shelf - Speaker - Printer - Extra towers - All three of them work, but I just don't have space to have them hooked up. Second Shelf - Small Speaker - Scanner - Network componets - see below Third Shelf - 2 workstations for fixing computers - Blank CD's/DVD's and cases Bottom - Computer to be fixed - Extra keyboards - More towers that work, but not enough space	2 Main Computers Computer on left - Windows XP Home - 1.3 GHz - 768mb Ram - 80 and 120gb hard drive - CD-Burner - Double headed video card for 2 screens In the Middle - Small amp and radio for stereo Computer on right - Windows XP Home - 3.3 GHz - 2gb Ram - 100, 250, 200, and 200gb hard drives - CD/DVD Burner - Double headed video card - ATI 9600 256mb memory *Battery Backup underneath table	Everything else - old computers running windows 98 - extra parts on the top shelf - monitors underneath the table - everything else I forgot to mention

 

 

The Network

These are the things that keep everything connected together. It handles file sharing, the shared printer, all internet traffic, and any other communications that the computers need.

How it all works:
- The start of the network is the cable modem. If you have a cable modem at your house, most likely your computer plugs directly into that and there's nothing else in the middle. Here however, it's different.
- From the cable modem, the signal goes to a vonage phone adapter. We have vonage phones and I set it up this way so that the phones get the best connection to the internet.
- After it goes through there, it goes to the Netgear RP614 router. This router is what assigns IP addresses to all the computers.
- From there it goes to the Netgear JFS516 Switch. This switch is what splits the signal to all the different devices.

Connected Devices:
- 2 Linksys WRT54G's for the wireless connections
- Netgear SC101 Network Storage (400gb)
- Netgear FS605 v2
- Netgear FS605 v3
- 8 Computers