[SWLUG] Advice please: broadband + laptop

[Dave Cridland]

On Tue May 16 18:53:32 2006, peter wrote:
> * Get hold of some standard cable with those rj telephone type 
> thingies at both ends (the big ones, not the little ones)

That's RJ45 connectors. Or CAT5e cabling. If anyone wants some, let 
me know.


> * With the power off both on your machine and the router, plug one 
> end of the cable into your box's ethernet card and the other into 
> one of the holes in the router

Ethernet can be plugged in with the power live. About the only thing 
that's not safe with now is PS/2 keyboards and mice, which can cause 
actual fires with some motherboards.

> The only thing I had to do was disable IPv6, because things were 
> really slow with it enabled.  I don't know if that's changed now.
> 
> 
Not changed, as such. The problem there is that for IPv6 aware 
applications, if you have IPv6 available, they'll try to use it, and 
you have to wait for a timeout before they fallback to IPv4.

If you have routable IPv6 addresses, this isn't a problem.

Dave.
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