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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (1605)	6/29/1998 2:32:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Clarence, a dedicated router is defintely more reliable and robust than wingate, etc but your paying for it. Its all in whats important to you.... NT Server versus workstation: 1. Cost (big difference) 2. Capacity. NT workstation won't serve files to more than 10 clients 3. features/function. domain controller, mac and netware services etc.... If you didn't have the mac WKSTA is the obvious answer. If you want to share files between the two without FTP or NFS then SERVER may be a valid choice for you. Sean

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (1605)	6/30/1998 1:58:00 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

>> My only concern, so far, about this solution is the absence of a router, presumably replaced by WinProxy or Nevod, (is my structural understanding of this network correct?), which the Webramp solution would provide. Should I be concerned? << Two comments Dirk Hente has had a lot of experience with WinGate and using software instead of hardware to share a modem. Please see post 1570 Message 5032908 Keep your system as simple as possible to start with. You can start with a 2 computer network and easily expand it to a 4 to 6 computer network. All of the hardware, except maybe a crossover cable, you buy for a 2 computer network will be useable with 4 or 6 computer network. One of the ways you can keep it simple is to is to go WebrampM3i even though it costs more.