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timill ([personal profile] timill) wrote2004-12-17 09:35 am
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We Shall See...

Marcia has just placed an order for broadband with NTL Freedom. I wonder if it will work...

Now to sort out networking our various machines. Looks like that'll be our Christmas present to ourselves, then.
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ADSL wireless router

[identity profile] the-magician.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 10:49 am (UTC)(link)
99 quid from the local computer shop, may look around dabs.com for something cheaper ...

... should work as a wireless networking hub even without the ADSL set up, so might be worth buying sooner and then connecting to the broadband in 20 days or so when it is activated.
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Re: ADSL wireless router

[personal profile] timill 2004-12-17 11:25 am (UTC)(link)
YHM (at work) re options.

Tim

[identity profile] armb.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 12:05 pm (UTC)(link)
You could have a Hotspot Poof (http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000257023967/) to monitor the network. (Wearable flower (http://www.hotspotbloom.com/) looks better and more useful.)
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[personal profile] timill 2004-12-17 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmmm....

[identity profile] pickledginger.livejournal.com 2004-12-20 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, the HotSpot Bloom is an adorable idea!

[identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 01:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Provided you don't use Zone Alarm as firewall it ought to work pretty well. Zone Alarm has a nasty habit of messing up local networking including broadband installation.

But aren't most of your machines DOS / 486 anyway?
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[personal profile] timill 2004-12-17 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
We both have WinXP machines these days, and I've almost finished moving functions off my 486 - I set up Free Agent as a newsreader yesterday, which only leaves the autoposting to deal with.

Guess what free firewall I run...

[identity profile] technoir.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
hope it comes through. What ever you do dont get a software firewall. Go with the ones come in most routers these days. Hell a NAT will block 90% of intrusions by it'self. Tell mom if you guys get broadband she needs to get on aim and send me a tell.

Though phone call would be nice as well seeing as how I am now with job I thought she might like to hear about it.
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