Windows 8.1 haswell pc for bedroom under £350

Antec ISK 110 Mini ITX Case
Intel Core i3-4130 S1150 3.40GHz 3MB
Asus H87I-PLUS S1150 Intel H87 DDR3 mITX
Kingston HyperX Plug n Play 8GB (2 x 4GB) 1600MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL9 DIMM (Kit of 2)
Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 SATA 6Gb/s 2.5\” 7mm Solid State Drive

it\’s not a gaming pc but for what I was planning this is fine going to mount the pc case back of the monitor so it will save space.

Vigor 2860N Series VDSL/ADSL Router Firewall

It\’s an amazing router for a price I do deal with lot of watchguards they are good and solid but for only £185 this has everything a small business need, works with BT based fibre and any type of ADSL connection,

It has ipv4 and good ipv6 support as well, latested firmware even supporting Hurricane electric type of tunnel.

It has all kind of VPN even openVPN is their.

Only downside I can think of it\’s only has wireless N protocol. not the ac standard.

Intel haswell pc with blu-ray for under £700 (Nov 2013)

For Friend of mine

Microsoft Windows 8 64-bit DVD – OEM 407517
Seagate 2TB BARRACUDA 3.5\” SATA-III Hard Drive – 7200RPM 64MB Cache 319641
Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 SSD SATA Rev. 3.0 / 2.5 411692
Kingston 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz HyperX Blu Memory Kit CL9 1.65V 272176
Coolermaster K280 & Elite 500w PSU Bundle 442233
LiteOn DH-4O3S-04-B 4x Internal BD-ROM Blu-ray – Bare 579036
Intel Core i5 4440 3.10GHz Socket 1150 6MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor
Asus Z87-K Socket 1150 HDMI DVI D-Sub 8-Channel HD Audio ATX Motherboard 507966
ASUS DRW-24F1ST Internal DVD±ReWriter 24X – OEM 567530
DYNAMODE SATA 150 data cable (50cm) 208981

Pfsence is an amazing firewall

OK been using the self build pfsence 2.1 for few days.  It\’s amazing it does moas of the things I do on watchgurard.

This has a amazing ipv6 support.  My isp zen still don\’t do native ipv6  so I have to use a tunnel from Hurricane Electric which works amazing fast.

Now ipv4 internat and ipv6 Internet can access my home server.
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physical server to virtual hyper-v (p2v) with out using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager

download the app from here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx and create a VHD on your existing server. then on hyper-V create a server with that VHD, make sure you stop all the sql services before the move.

Next Best thing IPv6 ?

I know IPv6 is the future. at home I made sure all my equipment is ready for it including the server,routers etc. getting the UK isp is a massive issue most charges average around £60/month. which is for a home use a lot.

Other issue is getting ipv4 and ipv6 working together will be interesting challenge. lot of people wrote lot of things but will see