Re: OT Sharing a Broadband Connection

["John Nye" <lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tracy,

I have a Vigor router that lets me seperate the bandwith into 4 chunks. I
have teenagers who would hog the whole lot if they could so I have
connected
the greedier ones into a port with limited bandwidth - this is all wired
though so its not much help if you want to connect wireless.

But I have a sister about 300m down the road who also shares our broadband
via a linksys access point our end and an Orinocco card in her Multitainer
.

Maybe with a router such as a Vigor (I'm sure there must be others) you
could connect your neighbours through wifi and connect them through a port
with limited bandwidth - you could connect via another port with access to
the full bandwidth.

The beauty of it is that you can change the bandwith available to any port
very easily should you need to - either throttle down the neighbours if
they
get too greedy or give them more if they can be trusted!

Hth's

John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tracey Gardner" <tracey.gardner@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] OT Sharing a Broadband Connection


>
>
> Hello Lee
>
> There will be one PC per household, i.e. four or possibly five max.
> The sharers are my neighbours in a small rural village, so we know
each
> other fairly well.
> There is an RAF officer, a solicitor and a barrister amongst them..
> There are no teenagers involved.
> I'd like to keep the cash expenditure to a reasonable level say
£100/120
per
> household.
>
> Regards
>
> Tracey
>
> > How well to you know/trust your sharers?
> > Are there any teenagers involved?
> > How much cash do you have to spend on hardware?
> >
> > Lee
> >   -----Original Message-----
> >   From: Jonathan Tawn [mailto:Jonathan@xxxxxxx]
> >   Sent: 31 August 2004 15:42
> >   To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> >   Subject: Re: [ukha_d] OT Sharing a Broadband Connection
> >
> >
> >   Tracey,
> >
> >   do you have a wireless router already ?
> >
> >   i assume thats 60meters .. not 60miles ?
> >
> >   you'll need a wireless router (i have a netgear dg834g at home
in my
> front
> > room, and i can walk down next to the river and use my laptop
there
which
> is
> > around 40m, but i have to walk down steps which brings me around
20m
below
> > the height of the router) anyway, you may need an extra arial
which
would
> be
> > omnidirectional.
> >
> >   as the router is the dhcp server each pc would then pickup the
relevant
> ip
> > address, set IE (or whatever browser) to auto detect
> >
> >   i've just config'd my router to only allow mac addresses thru.
> >
> >   dont know if this is of any help.
> >   Jonathan
> >
> >
> >     ----- Original Message -----
> >     From: Tracey Gardner
> >     To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> >     Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 2:27 PM
> >     Subject: [ukha_d] OT Sharing a Broadband Connection
> >
> >
> >     I want to share a 1M broadband connection between four or
five
people
> > within
> >     a 60m radius.
> >     These are all separate households so it would have to be done
> > wirelessly.
> >     I've spent some time trawling the web looking for advice on
how to
do
> it
> > but
> >     I don't seem to be able to find anything relevant to sharing
between
> >     households.
> >
> >     Can anyone give me a pointer please?
> >
> >     Tracey
> >
> >
> >
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