[dundee] ADSL set up advice.

[tom stott]

the one company i have always used is www.ebuyer.co.uk, thse guys are
superb  - nice and cheap and good gear - hence the fact they have had
over £1000 off me in the last month - wireless can be cheap or pricey
depending on what u want - i went down the route of Netgear DG824M
wireless access point/modem/router/4-port switch/firewall all in one box
and then desktop machine thro' cat5 10/100, girlfriends machine on wifi
and server on wifi. apart from stupid mod problems with the pci cards it
all rocks -

- why not just buy a router/adsl modem and hub them all together, i know
its cat5 but if these pc's need to be next to BT line anyhoo then the
cat5 is not really a prob.

tom


On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 01:38, Paul Lancaster wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Clayton" <andrew@digital-domain.net>
> To: <dundee@mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 8:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [dundee] ADSL set up advice.
> 
> 
> > On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 19:30, Keir Lawson wrote:
> > > > Maybe this is a silly question, but why couldn't you just move the
> > > > adsl/modem to which ever pc needs it at the time?
> > >
> > > no, my mum would get really annoyed.  from what you said a wireless
> > > thing seems feasible... but i have no idea of the cost or how on earth
> > > to set stuff up.
> > >
> >
> > An ASDL mdoem is fairly self contained. You have a cable which plugs
> > into the telephone socket via a microfilter/spliter, you'd have one of
> > these on all your phone sockets (well ones where you are connecting any
> > to) anyways.  Then either an USB or Ethernet (preferred) cable
> > connecting to the pc or switch or whatever and of course power supply.
> >
> > My ASDL modem/router isn't much bigger than my analogue modem.
> >
> >
> > As for wireless costs, off the top of my head, about £100 for the AP and
> > $50-60 for wifi cards.
> 
> Dabs do PCI cards from approx £40 to £50 and bigpockets.co.uk do a wireless
> access point for £72, but  I dont know how compatible with linux they are.
> 
> You could however get a PCI / PCICMA adaptor card for each computer - approx
> £20 each and share a PC card wireless adaptor between them, theres also usb
> adaptors but  Ive only seen windows based drivers quoted.
> 
> >
> > Others should be able to give better details.. ;)
> >
> >
> > > keir
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Andrew
> >
> 
> Paul
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