Best to use www.priceguideuk.com
Reviews here but this place may not be the cheepest http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Shop/ShopSearch.asp?CategoryID=1&ShopGroupID=12&SupplierID=1 and http://www.adslguide.org.uk/hardware/reviews/2002/q4/netgear-dg814.asp have a look arround for good deals
If you go for the bundle you'll just need to buy 2 cards and 2 cat5 cables. If you find the modem/router at a cheeper price get 4 network cards and calbes.
Oh yes and you may need to purchase extra splitters for each phone in your house (you can find them for as little as 99p (again look arround)
You'll find that most pci network cards work in linux "out the box"
Mike
Netgear also have very good UK customer service
John Richard Smith wrote:
Michael Lothian wrote:
Ok if you were to get ADSL ou wouldn't get a modem each.So your modem and LAN kit all works well in Linux,
You would get one modem (for as little as £30) for the computer that is most likely to be on for most of the time
You buy 1 network card for each computer (as cheep as £10 each) making sure it works in Linux first
And a cheap hub.
Use the internet conection sharing wizard to tel linux yiu want to share the conection
Then everyone in your house can share the ADSL conection.
You can get ADSL for less than £20 per month.
This is the setup I'm using here I got a "Network Startup Kit" for £30 which was a hub and 2 network cards.
I assure it is worth it and makes life a lot easier (it also works with windows if anyone's actually silly enough to use it)
I'm also sure if you search arround on ebay.co.uk you;ll find an even cheeper solution.
Mike
John Richard Smith wrote:
Michael Lothian wrote:
I have 3 computer, and my wife has hers and several of my daughters each have computers that float in and out according to presence in the family.I don't propose upgrading them, but the 4 that sit at home will all need one ADSL each. I have concidered building a serverbox to link via lans to each but right now that is beyond my ability, though I don't rule it out for the future, but bear in mind I didn't even own a computer 3 years ago. I would like a server box though, would be fun to muck around with.
So right now we wait until the price of these high speed internet connections are ready for the mass market. Which incidentally will be one of the key spurs to a meaningful economic recovery around the world.It's one of the key drivers that is holding the world back.
John
Could you list the make and models etc.
Or could anyone else list examples of known to work well IDSL modem, hub and satelite kits .
Also, it gets a bit hot up here in summer. It must work in hostile environments , this week I had 106F to contend with though that is the exception not the rule, it's just an odd day or two in the year.
John
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