[ale] Home network with ADSL? (with a twist)

[Jim Popovitch]

I too have had good experiences with the LinkSys BB routers.  They work
like champs.

-Jim P.

--- Thompson Freeman <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:
> 
> I cann't say that I know of a networking solution for '98, but if you
> don't mind another box in the house (and the $$$$ issue), try a
> LinkSys
> Broadband Router (about $150 at CompUSA?). I set one up for my
> daughter
> and her roommate a month ago, and it's been running like a champ.
> Setup is
> with a web browser, so you can setup with almost anything. The
> package
> includes a simple packet firewall and dhcp server.  It seems to be a
> plug
> and forget system.
> 
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Jeffrey B Layton wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> >    I took the plunge (probably foolhardy) and ordered
> > Bell South ADSL (insert death-like scream). To make
> > life easier on me, and more importantly my wife, I think
> > I will install the mondem in my wife's Windows 98 box (with
> > some measure of security - at least as much as one can
> > have with Windows). Then I want to connect my Linux
> > box to the net via a home network (hub, or switch, etc). Has
> > anyone done this? If so, any helpful comments or details?
> > (Before anyone tells me to put the modem in my Linux box
> > and use Roaring Penguin to get connected, let's explore this
> > approach first).
> > 
> > TIA,
> > 
> > Jeff Layton
> > 
> > 
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>                     Lee Iacocca
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> Thompson Freeman          tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
> 
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