RE: Home Server recommendations ??

[Andy Laurence <andy@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Des Gibbons wrote:
> But to match your spec, I would go with:-
> 
> Via mini-itx board fanless version
> A 5400 rpm drive of whatever capacity you need
> Windows 2k
> Office 4.3 ( unless you actually need features from newer
versions)
> a pci wifi card ( Personally I would use a seperate access point)

Could use USB to free up the PCI slot.

> a USB broadband modem ( not sure if you can get USB cable modems)

All cable modems I've seen can use USB or ethernet.

> a copy of NAT32+ (www.nat32.com)

Win2k does NAT out of the box (I assume that's what this does).

> Not very upgradeable due to lack of pci slots, but I wouldn't add any
HA
> functions to a machine like this :)

Why wouldn't you add HA functions to it?

Andy
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