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Log onto the routers (normally 192.168.1.1 and I guess 192.168.1.2 for the second but I imagine it is just an access point so you should only have to edit one) and look at the DNS settings. Set it to 8.8.8.8 which is Googles DNS severs.

Nice info. Thanks for sharing Might try this.

Oh right. I am not too sure about Youtube ads. Like I said before, I still use adblock. I just did it for fun/experience I might pick it back up soon and have a go at trying it.

Depends on the amount of users and the diversity of sites they visit. I have a 120GB SSD in mine and has barley use any. See the image of my usage:

To many other services who have the money to bulk buy popular components, meaning they can get them for much cheaper. In turn, this means that you will be getting almost little to no profit trying to compete with their prices. Don't forget partnerships they may have with delivery companies getting a small amount off delivered goods. Oh, and the advertising budgets they have. I have seen PC Specialist advertised in strange places... By all means go ahead. Not saying it won't work. It will just be difficult to start with.

Only a medium fail. Not a big fail Remove the CMOS battery (just in case, you never know), get some tweezers and pick it out. Then if you have a lint-free cloth and some rubbing alcohol then use that to gently clean the area (obviously not rubbing the top of the pins. Just get in between them).

You can still use Windows Server 2012 or something. But you have to buy a license. I would try and learn CentOS. It would be a good learning curve, plus it's free!

See the updated post. I used the free ones from that and just the odd one or two custom for ads. I use ad-blocker, but only set it up for fun as there are only 2 users in my house lol.

Take a look at this: http://benoliver999.com/technology/2016/02/27/howtoblockadswithpfblocker/ I have done this and it works a dream. As they say in the tutorial, you can use https://www.iblocklist.com for a filter list to start with.

Yes, I believe you need to install it and allow it through the firewall both on CentOS and on the host you are with. You will have to ask them about allowing incoming SSH connection through their firewall.

lol yeh

Yes, you will use PuTTY to SSH into the server, gaining remote access to the command line that CentOS presents. You can then use the commands such as I said earlier (/gmodserver console) to look at the Gmod console. Also, why CentOS?

Think of PuTTY as a remote way of managing. You can download it from here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html Think of it as using CMD but for a server over the internet. You would type in the servers IP, and login over a secure connection. You can then send it commands and it will return things. Basically sending it commands from your PC. There are lots of great videos about using PuTTY. What hardware are you putting this on? Or are you getting someone else to host it?

It depends on the amount of players, what game mode and how many entities etc. Not sure what you mean about it working as a console thought? Yeah it is all command line if that's what you mean? You would most likely use PuTTY for managing it via the command line. EDIT: According to them, you can do the follow to access the live in game server console: ./gmodserver console

This is cool. I wonder what the security is like?! I am very sceptical about crowd-funding however

Try installing older versions of your GPU drivers. Try updating the BIOS or even downgrading the BIOS Look in resource monitor and task manager at large spikes when the freezing events occur.

Done that before, hahah. I have not attached storage devices, CPU fans and about 2 hours ago I recently wiped a 1TB external hard drive by accident trying to install VMWare ESXi... hahaha.

Haha no problem. For a home network, the different hardware types do not matter at all. Apart from the chip of the network card - like I said before about the drivers. If it is for an enterprise application, then I would be more conscious of what hardware I use, for example dedicated chips for handing encryption on certain motherboards. If you have 100 users or so, it would be good to offload that encryption/decryption onto the chip instead of the CPU. That is mainly for VPN applications however. NAS and printer wise, it is fine. You can do all the usual good stuff like setting static IP's to them. Giving them aliases etc. So overall for a home network, all you need to do is build a functioning PC with a network card.

What do you mean sorry?

I don't have a parts list sorry. I cannot check right now as I am at work however I just bought the cheapest AMD processor + CPU, 4GB memory and a 120GB SSD (because I had it lying around). You can get away with 32GB. However, I got my Gigabit (mine was 2 port, not 4 port like yours would be) network card from eBay. They are cheap and work brilliant. Just make sure it is the right chip, e.g Intel, Realtek as pfSense only supports some. There is a page on there website that says what is supported for network cards.

Ah, fair enough. I managed to make a really small ITX (size of 2 PS4 slims on top of each other) build for £150. You could do it for £100 with second hand parts. But if that is too much, then yeah fair enough. You can always install it as a VM on your computer if it is powerful enough to have a go at it - but obviously not possible for the real thing, just for testing. It is great to learn with.

Have a look at pfSense. It is an open source router/firewall software. The only thing you have to do is supply the hardware - any x86/x64 processor based system! You do not need a lot, for example 4GB of memory, 1GHz CPU. The only expensive part is the network card. In your case you would need a 4-port Gigabit PCI-e network card. Because 1 port is the WAN (Outside connection), other is LAN and the other is the WLAN (Wireless LAN separate to the normal LAN). I find it really fun trying to deploy it. And the learning curve and knowledge you gain is great. It has so many different features that you can try and learn about.

Trading 212? I remember them being the craze, then everyone realized they where basically crooks.

There are places online who collect and re-sell schematics. I saw it when looking for a certain laptop schematic about 6 months back. Cant remember the name, but might point you in the right direction.

That is true. And if it is both cards with the problem it looks suspicious. Just try one card maybe? Depends on how far the damage is like scratches. If they say no then they will just return it to you.