Alx9r: New page: Category:Alx9r's Sample Setup {{Alx9rInfobox}} There are some decisions that I made when designing my system whose importance might not be obvious just by reading about how I set the s...

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New page: Category:Alx9r's Sample Setup {{Alx9rInfobox}} There are some decisions that I made when designing my system whose importance might not be obvious just by reading about how I set the s...

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There are some decisions that I made when designing my system whose importance might not be obvious just by reading about how I set the system up. I have tried to describe the motivation behind those decisions here.

===Network Topology===
If you have looked at [[media:System diagram.png|my system diagram]] you might have noticed that I use a dedicated wireless router to connect my home to the internet. As far as I know, a LinuxMCE core is quite a capable router (surely more capable than my WRT54GL) and I would guess other LinuxMCE users are using their cores as their main router to the outside world.

I chose not to use my LinuxMCE core as my main router to the outside world for this reason: My core spends a lot of time in the down state, mostly because I end up tinkering with it to get it running just right. Whenever my core is down (i.e. when rebooting, installing LinuxMCE fresh) it will not operate as a router, and no one in the house can use the internet. It was simply impractical to go without internet whenever my core was down.

===Hard Drive Configuration===
Look [[Alx9r's Hybrid Core Media Drive Setup#Rationale|here]] for the rationale behind my hard drive configuration.

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Alx9r: New page: Category:Alx9r's Sample Setup {{Alx9rInfobox}} There are some decisions that I made when designing my system whose importance might not be obvious just by reading about how I set the s...