Small Office / Home Office (SOHO) Network Upgrading

For this week I've been looking at our office network setup and I just want to upgrade it...

Our small office / home office (SOHO) setup:

1. Internet Connection - 1mbps pldt mydsl

2. Router - 150 mbps wifi-a/b/g/n with 1 10/100 wan and 4 10/100 lan ports, single band

3. Setup - All devices are only connected wirelessly. With 1 Lan port extending to my brother's wifi router

4. Connected Devices
>Office: 1PC and a max of 2 laptops

>Brother's router: 1PC and a laptop wirelessly connected
>Others: Probably a total of 4-7 smartphones and a NAS coming this January to serve as Samba, ftp and cloud server.
>Not Connected: CCTV and Smart TV (Ethernet Only / No Wifi)

5. Use - Email, internet browsing, light streaming and social networking. (Upon NAS inclusion, also data-linked records and reports updating and safekeeping)

6. Notables - We use printers. We also have occassional seminars in our place wherein as many as 30+ guests visit us for our company presentation. Some areas of our office not reached by wifi.

Upgrade Solution Plan
>DSL: 3mbps
>Router: 150mbps Wifi-N + Wifi-N Access Point
>Connections: Wired ethernet - Bro's Wifi Router, NAS, CCTV and an additional wifi access point
>Printers: 2 printers are shared to the network through PC USB 2.0. (Printers are shared on the PC)
*The access point will have scheduled usage only and have ethernet connections to the PC and Smart TV.

Nexus 5 seems like a good investment.

Check this article out. Bloat-free and with great hardware. The Nexus 5 seems to be a great buy.

Social Networks and Apps

With the number of social apps these days, people can surely mess up their own social network. So here are some things I know that I can recommend to remedy that.

1. Get the path app for your social network. It organizes it giving you the option of sharing content where you want it shared. This app links facebook, twitter, tumblr, instagram and foursquare.
2. For your professional or business network I would suggest linkedin. It has a simple design and layout. It was made intelligently to cater to professionals and their business or client network.
3. Collaborating or organizing a big project with other people or groups of people? Get Trello. Though their android app is still in it’s development stage, when accessed from a browser on a PC, it makes collaborating easy. Simplified to making a reminder with due dates, notes and attachments then dragging and dropping it to the corresponding team/s checklist.
4. You want a personal organizer, notetaker with some sharing features to do some collaboration or share reviews to your friends or public much like a blog writer? Springpad would be the way to go. It houses all of these features organizing everything to separate notebooks. Giving each notebook the option to be kept a private notebook for your own notes and to-do lists, be a public notebook to be viewed and commented by anyone much like an open book or blog, or selected contributors for collaboration and cooperation with people.

I’ve tried many social apps but these are the ones that stood out the most. Try them out for yourselves and see. – Read on Path.