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To: L. Adam Latham who wrote (77865)	4/7/1999 9:51:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 186894

Adam, re "ordinary home area network" If you want to pay $189 for the connection with a speed of 1X-cdrom, be my guest. For a 1MBYTE/s connection (old 10baseB ethernet, totally transparent for home-like loads), my cost was 3x$15 for PCI cards, plus 2x$8 for two pieces of coax cable, plus 3x$2.50 for 50-ohm "terminarors" and a T-splitter. For 2 computers it would be below $50 (WINGATE 2.0 for 2 computers was free, now you can try wingate.com. The biggest challenge was to find a piece of PVC tube to make a relatively nice cable channel/holes through internal walls (the rest of the cable can be perfectly hidden under the carpet joint along the room periphery). Of course, you need to make up your local subnet/mask numbers, workgroup name, pick the right protocol in Windows network configuration, and do not forget to make passwords for users (otherwise it won't work but won't tell you why). For a person with a little brains all the HAN (Home Area Network) is not a big deal at all.