That's what I'm planning on starting on this evening. I have FIVE bits of networking hardware sitting around the house (one four port hub, one eight port hub and one 12 port hub, all at 10Mbs, and one four port cable router and one four port wireless router both of which should work at 100Mbps, though obviously the cable feed is only going to be 1.5Mbps ...
... and the wireless part is *only* 802.11b (so 11Mbps) but that will be fine) ...
... the laptop situation here is ZERO with working batteries ... but a p150, a p233 and a p500 with various amounts of memory and disk (and varying OSs) ... the idea is to get the p500 up and useable with the wireless card so that I can surf the web, LJ and check my CiX email from downstairs (using www.mail2web.com!) ... use another machine to do the MailWashing and p2p downloading/uploading ... have my main machine for doing graphics and music on, and have a spare port for alexmc to do whatever he needs to.
Tonight though will be just putting in the cable router and seeing if I can get my machine online and provide somewhere for Alex to plug into. Then I might see if the P233 laptop (which has a network card in it with a pop out "standard" network cable connector) can see the internet ...
... if you like, I'll keep an eye out for Psion 3s at the boot sales (I got a Psion 5 with leather case for 25 quid last weekend, another stall had a 5 with no case for 50 quid, so I think I did well!)
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Networking etc.
(one four port hub, one eight port hub and one 12 port hub, all at 10Mbs, and one four port cable router and one four port wireless router both of which should work at 100Mbps, though obviously the cable feed is only going to be 1.5Mbps ...
... and the wireless part is *only* 802.11b (so 11Mbps) but that will be fine) ...
... the laptop situation here is ZERO with working batteries ... but a p150, a p233 and a p500 with various amounts of memory and disk (and varying OSs) ... the idea is to get the p500 up and useable with the wireless card so that I can surf the web, LJ and check my CiX email from downstairs (using www.mail2web.com!) ... use another machine to do the MailWashing and p2p downloading/uploading ... have my main machine for doing graphics and music on, and have a spare port for
Tonight though will be just putting in the cable router and seeing if I can get my machine online and provide somewhere for Alex to plug into. Then I might see if the P233 laptop (which has a network card in it with a pop out "standard" network cable connector) can see the internet ...
... if you like, I'll keep an eye out for Psion 3s at the boot sales (I got a Psion 5 with leather case for 25 quid last weekend, another stall had a 5 with no case for 50 quid, so I think I did well!)