On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Scott Corley wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a good, basic (beginners) book on networking?
> ADSL has become available in my area and I'd like be able to get it.
> I have several computers, 3 PC's and my Amiga so I guess I'd need
> some sort of LAN to be able to use them with the ADSL. Could some
> kind person tell me what hardware & software & cabling, etc I'll
> need to setup the LAN?
>
> The 3 PCs are running Win 95b. My Amiga is a A3000/25 with 12 megs
> ram on the motherboard, a 50 mhz Cyberstorm MK2 060 board with 64
You'll probably want to use 10BaseT, the twisted-pair version of Ethernet.
You'll need a hub with enough ports (these can be had for about 30$ these
days), an Ethernet card for each machine, and some cables. Depending on
the particulars of the DSL setup, you may need dual Ethernets on the
machine that acts as as the gateway to the net. It's better from a
security and flexibility point of view to use the Amiga for this, but dual
Ethernets on an A3000 is rather expensive in both cost and slots.
> megs of ram running AmigaDos 3.1. I'm using MiamiDX 0.9d.
You have something against updates? :-)
Fred Wright
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