Finally, Home Media Service the way it should be!

It took a bit of work but I got things running pretty sweet.


Serviio is installed on one of my Windows 2008r2 Standad reads the videos from the USB3 RAID 10 Encolsure.
The dual network is great. I can transfer large movies to the disc array while streaming to 3 devices and not have any stutter in the movies playing.

Serviio is also serving my photo colection as well. Roughly 200gb.
I still need to setup the 300gb+ of music. Thats gonna tkae for ever so may just leave it in iTunes.

[Cerberus]

now thats what i like to see a proper laid out network weldone bro.

EDIT: here is mine, keeping it simple ( used your design so others can compare a complex and simple layout )

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Nice layout/diagram..

Are the DNS Assigned IP's simply static IP's ? Which device serves as the DHCP box ? I am assuming at tleast 2 subnets here

[Cerberus]

Nice layout/diagram..

Are the DNS Assigned IP's simply static IP's ? Which device serves as the DHCP box ? I am assuming at tleast 2 subnets here

the device next to the description does that job

hi-

sorry - was referring to the first diagram...and I see the router is the dhcp, but it looks like servers get their addrewss via dhcp ??

[Cerberus]

hi-

sorry - was referring to the first diagram...and I see the router is the dhcp, but it looks like servers get their addrewss via dhcp ??

they do he has a complex dual lan setup each computer has 2 connections. one form DNS and other from DHCP.

hi-

sorry - was referring to the first diagram...and I see the router is the dhcp, but it looks like servers get their address via dhcp ??

A little more detail on my setup.

The cable modem 4 port router is actually a 8 port router, 4 Gb wired and 4 wireless ports. I don't show the wireless connections in the above diagram.
The DHCP server on the router is configured to assign IP's
- in the range of 192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.50 for the hardwired ports
- in the range of 192.168.0.51 to 192.168.0.100 for the wireless ports
The DNS server assigns IP's in the range from 192.168.0.101 to 192.168.0.254

I'm not doing any fancy subnet stuff nor bridging. I basically run to separate LAN's on the same machines.
I set the order of preference of which network interface to use for different services. Or like Serviio bind the service to a specific interface.

So I copy large files between machines on the DHCP side of the network and stream with Serviio on the DNS side of the network.
There is probably so much more I could be doing but I'm the Network Admin and I have no one but myself and the Internet to help me.

Self taught, computer hobbyist since the days of DOS 4 and the 286 CPU's. 20+ yrs now LOL

[moltra]

Self taught, computer hobbyist since the days of DOS 4 and the 286 CPU's. 20+ yrs now LOL

I still catch myself going back to a dos screen to do some things. lol

[Cerberus]

Self taught, computer hobbyist since the days of DOS 4 and the 286 CPU's. 20+ yrs now LOL

I still catch myself going back to a dos screen to do some things. lol

cant beat good old command prompt