RE: Home Network

["Roger" <roger@xxxxxxx>]

Look at the Draytek 2200w at www.seg.co.uk <http://www.seg.co.uk>  about
220GBP does wireless, 4-port 100MBps switch, firewall, NAT, port
forwarding
and DMZ, which should cover most eventualities. Also can handle dynamic
IP
addresses. Seg run a good support discussion group and do frequent SW
upgrades based on what people ask for.

Roger Shingler

Roger Shingler

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 30 August 2002 12:37
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Home Network


A mate of mine has NTL broadband, which he loves.

This goes into a single PC (of PII spec), running Windows ME.

He also has a couple of laptops (his and hers from work) and an iPaq.

The question is "how does he share that internet connection?"

As I see it, there are two parts to the problem:

1: Turning on some "connection sharing" software.
2: Installing some network components

The connection sharing would be easy, if this were a modem. However, I
don't
know what the NTL Broadband thingy looks like to windows. As far as my
mate's concerned, it's just a bit of install software that he ran. (He's
too
far away for me to pop over and look.)

I guess the options are:

1a: Run ICS (if it works with NTL Broadband - does anyone know?)
1b: Run some other gateway sofrware

The "installing some network components" gives two options:

2a: A PCI 802.11b connection for the PC, three 802.11b PCMCIA cards for
the
lappies and the iPaq (and a jacket for the iPaq)
2b: A wired ethernet card for the PC, a cross-over cable, and a
WAP11...
then the mobile things...

Comments? Suggestions?

Regards,

Mark