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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NightShade" data-source="post: 3300944" data-attributes="member: 29706">Not quite that much but the cable room wasn't far off from that.  It was in the floor above me.  I know I posted it at one point a few years ago on here.  When I left I think it was up to about 56 channels, each one had a directv receiver or a digital OTA receiver with a modulator and then one was a computer where I plumbed in Titantv.com page that would auto scroll with all the channels setup.The basement had a lot more as I inherited and in house HPNA network that was used to provide internet to those who paid extra.  At one point in time we had 4 internet connections coming in, one cable, two DSL and one fixed wireless ran through the router and then some HPNA switches dropped over to 66 blocks and ran up to the floors where more 66 blocks were located.  Lets just say that 50 year old phone lines have noise on them so it kinda sucked dealing with.  Kept trying to talk them into running gigabit switches with cat 5 to each floor and then just limit each port to 1Mbps on the floors so that no one could pull more than that.  Then drop a cat 5 to an apartment and use the same system of just hooking the cable up but instead doing it in the closet on each floor instead of the basement with all the crappy wiring.  They had an old laundry chute that was a perfect run form the basement to each floor but didn't want to do it.  Last I saw the place was all shut down anyway.My desk when I was down there though had 2 monitors on it, one was a gateway destination monitor, the great big huge thing that was supposed to replace a tv.  Also had 5 computers on it, four hooked to one monitor with a KVM and one just running the destination.  Add to that my desktop and my wife's computer in the living room and all the stuff to connect it all and the computer I used as a media player for my tv in there.  I had a DSL line as well as a line into the buildings network so I could check on it from time to time ran into two separate routers one that handed out DHCP and the other that didn't so I would set a static IP on the computer I wanted to use to access the in building network.  But a lot more hardware running then than I do now even though now I have a lot more things going on.  Technically I have 4 computers running right now, one is my router Dual L5630's, one is my server Dual E5640's, my desktop Ryzen 1600, and the miner that is 3 GPU's with a PentiumG 4560 and some ram.  The server has 7 Jails along with a virtual machine with Docker running in it.</blockquote>

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