On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 06:20:50PM +1100, Richard Blackburn wrote:
> Thanks to George Viera for the offer of advice for a basic home network.
> Well where do we start? Someone just gave me an old 586 box. So what do
> I get next?
> 2 NIC cards, some cables and hub?
Yes, that would certainly do the trick. Depending on your budget and future
plans, you may want to look at getting NICs with BNC connectors on them (as well
- mostly already have RJ45 holes). Then you can string a bunch of computers
together without a hub -- you just have a bunch of BNC T-joins which plug the
stem into the network card and a cable (or a terminator) into each end.
I used this solution for quite a while until I could afford a hub. Just another
option. :)
> I'd like to try to document this setup for others further down the line.
Good idea!
Cheers,
Malcolm
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