[Conet] Low tech solution to sharing broadband access

[Deborah Hart]

Thanks - every thing is on hold with the group as the refurbishing of the 
building continues to over run.

Funnily enough, when the local authority who own the building wanted to 
sell it off, and got their surveyor to value it (at some ridiculous price), 
the survey never uncovered these major structural problems ...

Still it was odd the way the LA then decided not to sell after all ...

Deborah




At 13:41 20/10/03 +0100, Arthur Kearford wrote:
>About 30 quid to set it up assuming you have an old 486 or low end Pentium
>
>Weve now done about 120 of em
>
>Regards
>
>archie
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: conet-admin@ukco.org.uk [mailto:conet-admin@ukco.org.uk] On Behalf Of
>Deborah Hart
>Sent: 12 September 2003 15:51
>To: conet@ukco.org.uk
>Subject: [Conet] Low tech solution to sharing broadband access
>
>I think I may have asked this question before, but maybe in the intervening
>period different solutions have become available.
>
>Is there another way, other than installing a networking, that would allow
>a community project to share Broadband access.
>
>Within the project they are carrying on very separate activities, so for
>instance do not have a common database or other work that they share.  The
>only thing they share or all want is (reliable) access to the internet.
>
>Can this just be done through a USB hub or ... ?
>
>Has anyone implemented a low tech solution for sharing broadband access?
>
>They have 5 (or it maybe 6) Pentium IIIs running Windows 98.  (2 of them
>are currently using the Direct Connect function for shared dial up
>connection but this doesn't seem very stable.)
>
>Deborah
>
>PS  Another problem is that there is even money in their combined budgets
>to employ someone as a network administrator, and there own work loads make
>it unrealistic to think anyone would have the time to be trained and then
>provide that function within the project.
>
>
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