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To: Timelord who wrote (19108)	3/10/2003 8:58:59 PM
From: kodiak_bull	Respond to of 23153

Gentlemen, Yes, I confess I've been dial-up, trailer-park trash all these years, but it wasn't my fault. I live a little further out than some people and my neighborhood was only wired for cable within the last coupla weeks. It still isn't wired for DSL, so Comcast will be first with market share. My home network is Netgear Cable Modem C212 ($88), and a Netgear Router RP614 ($50). Staples was giving away the PCI Adaptors a couple of weeks ago; $15 with a $15 rebate!! My ethernet cables cost about 50 cents a foot, total about $60, so for about $200 I have a home LAN. I also have a hub from an earlier experiment with LAN, so theoretically I can hook up about 8 computers. When I priced out the wireless LAN stuff it came out a lot more expensive, but I had most of the PCI adaptors already and some of the ethernet cable. One of the computers I have running, and it works perfectly on the Internet, is a Pentium 90 from 1995 with Windows 98. It is nice to be on the real internet, and not parked in some trailer park in Go-%$#$, Iowa. Kb

To: Timelord who wrote (19108)	3/10/2003 10:11:21 PM
From: Warpfactor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23153

Thanks for the info on the wireless home LAN's guys. I experimented with a wireless network that Dell sold about 3 or 4 years ago - it was awful. Had to set up one computer as a host and the other as a remote. To use the remote you had to go and set up the host. My wife never bothered and it grew tiresome for me to the point that neither of us ever used the remote. Sounds like todays LANs are much more friendly since you set up the router as the gateway and firewall. Surprised that Netgear is your choice. When I was employed at 3Com, we of course considered this company persona non grata. But as the years progress I suppose, even the low end vendors begin to deliver higher quality service. Warp