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SOHO is short for "small office / home office".

  • SOHO is short for "small office / home office". It typically is used for places where one needs or want semi- professional equipment, or at least one step of from typical comsumer items.
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When does ethernet cabling need to be shielded?

I run IT for a small business that does primarily office type work (no manufacturing or high levels of electrical interference), and we're looking to build additional office space onto our current building. Because there is lots of internal file…
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Warehouse/Inventory software for Home usage

I'm looking for Warehouse/Inventory software for Home usage. (not catalog software for movie collection) Is there something like that? Feature list photo/image attachments barcode support warehouse map (for better visualization, where is a…
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sharing a USB printer in SOHO environment

Here is a situation I am facing, there is USB printer which works only on a Windows XP machine, there are other devices in LAN it is a Small Office Home Office environment. How can this USB printer attached to Windows XP machine be shared so that…
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ZFS to boot ubuntu in 20.04 for SoHo server. Is this a good idea?

It seems ZFS is much more robust than ext4, specially for handling power failures or bad-blocks/media-corruption. There's old literature from 2013, 2014... here and there about ZFS as a boot filesystem... My old SoHo server is starting to give me…
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SOHO NETGEAR wireless router disconnects when downloading torrents

I have a NETGEAR WGT624 wireless router at home which dies when there is a heavy torrent load. I open up my torrent client and it downloads for about 5 to 10 minutes and it continues to increase the number of seeds (goes up to 70-80 seeds), but…
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SMB office fair share of bandwith

We're 2-3 persons working in a remote office sharing a DSL connection with around 10Mbit down and 1Mbit up speed. The problem is that if one of us starts a big download or something, the other users essentially loses access to RDP sessions and what…
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Connecting ADSL Modem cum Wi-Fi Router which is 802.11g to a Wi-Fi only Router 802.11n

I would like to upgrade my network from 802.11g to 802.11n. The current modem I have is an ADSL model with Wi-Fi router built in. I would want to use the modem but not the built-in 802.11g AP. Instead I want to connect to another router with 802.11n…
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Green or Red hard drive for a SOHO NAS running Windows 8.1 Pro Storage Space?

I have been using Green HDDs (e.g. Western Digital Green) since the Windows Home Server days without any issues. Now that I have migrated to Windows 8.1 with Storage Space, I would like to know if there are any real advantages to using a consumer…
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Examples of encrypted hot-swap RAID NAS for SOHO use?

As per title. Does an encrypted hot-swap RAID NAS even exist?
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How to make DNS record differ inside and oustide the network

I am trying to allow access to our NAS from inside and outside our SOHO network. I have setup a public IP with DDNS, setup the NAT so it let through :80 and :443, and I can access my NAS from outside the network. However, my router (a Huawei…
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Heavy Multicast Traffic

Having sniffed my SOHO network's I notice the heaviest burden from multicast addresses relating to UPNP services. There is 1 external drive on the network. Am I correct in thinking the networked drive would be using SMB2 rather than SSDP? Is it…
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Converting Multi-subnet SOHO to IPv6

I am migrating my multi-subnet ipv4 home network to ipv6. Unfortunately, I am with an Internet provider who supplies only one non-but-mostly-static GUA/64 address. With or without Internet, I want ipv6 internally including my own DNS and DHCP and…
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Solution for small router with no airflow in office

As per title it's a small office with no air circulation....the old router is dead and it's because of overheating I suspect. It was a budget router and only for one user (without a cooling fan0.....I suspect it will probably be a home/ small office…
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