DIY

I finally got around to "building out" my Raspberry Pi. Building it out is a rather superfluous explanation, basically all I did was remove it from the package, open the case I bought, put them together, add the SD card, and connect a cell phone charger. For the initial run I hooked it up to our Samsung TV, stealing the HDMI and network cable from the Seagate FreeAgent Theater I used in the TVersity review. What follows is just the simple speed test I ran against it.
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If you're lucky enough to have an HWg-STE ethernet thermometer for monitoring temps in your network closet or home theater cabinet, you know how hard it is to find the 1-wire temp sensor to complete both sensor inputs if you only have one sensor. In this short article I'll show you how to make one with a few parts from Home Depot and ebay.

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Over the weekend I reorganized the HomeNetworkEnabled forums. It had been six months since inception and I had a little time to analyze what was useful and what wasn't. On the useful front, I realized benchmarks of network performance are useful. With this revelation I added two forums to the LAN Speed Test forum, one for wireless speed test results, and another for wired speed test results. As I started to delve in to it a little more however, I realized some context is definitely in order. In what I can only describe as a geeky epiphany, I ran around the house collecting performance figures on all of our devices. I decided to put this together as a 3-part series. The first will explore wired speeds, the second will explore wireless speeds, and the third will look at the effect of antivirus on performance numbers.
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