home | list info | list archive | date index | thread index

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Challenge - Who can sell my wife a set-up Running Linux System?

  • Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Challenge - Who can sell my wife a set-up Running Linux System?
  • From: "Emil Mitev" <quanttrom [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com>
  • Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 15:13:31 -0400
Currently at shoprbc.com you can get a Belkin Wi-Fi PCI card for $27, and a
Belkin wireless router for $36. You can probably find the package cheaper if
you look around but it is even less then $80 which means that this will pay
itself off reasonably fast.

On 8/2/06, Bill Strosberg <oclug_mail [ at ] strosberg [ dot ] com> wrote:

Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> Any reason why you can't run some cat5 cable and share your high-speed
> connection?
>
Or WiFi if Cat5 is an issue?

If you use a cheapo WiFi router (Linksys, DLink etc.) you do not have to
have either computer on for this to work.  A wireless router and one PCI
WiFi card can be had for about $80 new and much less used.

Unless you _really_ don't like your wife and you are torturing her via
dial up Internet access for some reason.

For about $80 you can have everyone happy and at high speed with a
degree of reasonable protection via the router's firewall capabilities.
No running cables, no muss no fuss.

--
Bill Strosberg


_______________________________________________
Linux mailing list
Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca
http://www.oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux