This afternoon I have been replacing my house network.<\/p>\n
The original was a thin ethernet (coax) backbone with a single 3Com mini-hub acting as a media converter sitting in my front room with a couple of long cat 5 drop cables trailing around the edge of the room to get to my big machine and the place I usually use my laptop.<\/p>\n
The new network is based upon a Netlink WiFi Router\/Switch sitting in my spare room connected directly to my two SPARCstations and my main machine with a long cable trailing downstairs to the big machine in the living room. My laptop now has a Belkin WiFi PCMCIA card.<\/p>\n
As for the WiFi card and Linux is concerned.. I plugged in the card, switched on the machine, it booted, if configured and it worked.. I was dead impressed with Mandrake 9.0’s support.. Though it does seem to be using the old Wavelan driver rather than the newer one.<\/p>\n
The total cost of the hardware, including the cables was \u00a3222. The prices at PC World (other than for the cables) were surprisingly as good as I could get on the net.<\/p>\n
All I need now is ADSL and an ADSL ethernet modem. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This afternoon I have been replacing my house network. The original was a thin ethernet (coax) backbone with a single 3Com mini-hub acting as a media converter sitting in my front room with a couple of long cat 5 drop … Continue reading