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To: alydar who wrote (48314)	8/2/2000 5:11:36 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 74651

Au Contraire, Comrade blisenko: I cannot really understand your posts regarding this concept because of all the complexity it would take to set up such a system. To First of all you are talking to people that have MORE THAN ONE COMPUTER in their home. Casual Empiricism would indicate that they are some degree more literate than your impression of the Great Unwashed. Second, it costs $10 bucks each for the nic cards, which just snap in. $32 bucks for a Hub, and since the protocols are built into BOTH win98 and wk2 AND either ms will help you for free or you can read the help screen to make one computer a "server", then Bada Bing, you have a network, and with the nic card for dsl, which you get as part of the package from the phone company, just plug it into your "server", you pick the built in tcpip protocols and after that, win automatically detects some of the network settings. When you say, wait for aol, I will tell you that AOL in its efforts to be simple, coupled with its efforts to lock you into aol forever, is a nightmare to configure, compared to this. Most ISP give you about 5 email names for free. or maybe $10 bucks extra a month. Just configure each machine email to read just that machine's email name, "works like 60" Everybody on the net at the same time does not even begin to tax the DSL. Bada Boom. BTW, CPQ filed its 10Q today and blamed component shortages and product transition for delayed GS sales. I would just cut and paste it but its from Reuters, which is in Java, and you cant just cut and Paste in Java, and I don't have the time to learn the "Glerk" and "Glub" Commands necessary to do it. But the full filing should be available from the Edgar database. Duke

To: alydar who wrote (48314)	8/2/2000 6:18:13 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 74651

Bob - in today's world, this is easier than hooking up a DVD to your TV. Let me add a little to Duke's post. Most products come with a NIC - at least a quick scan of the DELL and CPQ sites shows that. All f CPQ's consumer machines have come that way for more than a year. But what about wiring? Well, you can avoid that all together with a wireless rig - available in 2 flavors at OfficeMax. Or you can go with a hub that uses your existing phone lines. Or your power lines. Or you can go for the gold and run some CAT5 around - no harder than running lines for cable TV, which most home users manage. ALL of those choices auto-configure in just a few minutes on either Win9X or Win2K or NT. I know a number of not very computer savvy people who have set up home networks with no trouble and little cost.