Go wireless, less stress, no cabling works, and... MOBILITY!!! Get a wireless accesspoint that also does routing. Then get PCMCIA wireless adapters for the laptops as well as PCI wireless adapters for the PC's (you can also get USB ones). Some useful makes are linksys, dlink and cisco.
AFAIK cisco does not provide 802.11g devices whereas linksys does, I dunno for dlink. 802.11g is better than traditional 802.11b since it runs at 54mbps instead of 11mbps. You can also get 802.11a which runs at 54mbps but uses a different frequency that's less congested. Try to get a device that does access point AS WELL AS router, this will avoid additional costs. HTH Paul | -----Original Message----- | From: Yumin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 8:36 AM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: [wdvltalk] Suggestion needed. | | | Hello: | | My family has 4 PCs, two laptop(winXP) and two | desk-top(win2K) and two of them are in the 2nd floor and | others in the 1st floor. We have one account of cable-modem | connecting to Internet. Now the 4-computer only can connect | to Internet in turn. | | We are going to connect the 4-computer as a home network | to share files and printers and Internet. What is the best | way to do? Buying hub or router or ... | | Could any friend give us suggestion. Thanks! | | Yumin | | | ____ . The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM . ____ | To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Send Your Posts | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To set a personal password send an email to | [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK | pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change | subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: | http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub | | ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ | | You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to | %%email.unsub%% | | ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
