[dundee] ADSL set up advice.

[Keir Lawson]

On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 03:18, tom stott wrote:
> 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 =A31000 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 -
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> - 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.
the phone lines go skirting boards walls etc so i dont want to have to
take them up.
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> tom
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> 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.
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> > > On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 19:30, Keir Lawson wrote:
> > > > > Maybe this is a silly question, but why couldn't you just move th=
e
> > > > > 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 ea=
rth
> > > > 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 o=
f
> > > these on all your phone sockets (well ones where you are connecting a=
ny
> > > 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 =A3100 for the A=
P and
> > > $50-60 for wifi cards.
seems more expensive than 2 modems to me
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> > Dabs do PCI cards from approx =A340 to =A350 and bigpockets.co.uk do a =
wireless
> > access point for =A372, but  I dont know how compatible with linux they=
 are.
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> > You could however get a PCI / PCICMA adaptor card for each computer - a=
pprox
> > =A320 each and share a PC card wireless adaptor between them, theres al=
so usb
> > adaptors but  Ive only seen windows based drivers quoted.
keir