You Think Your Wi-Fi is SLOW?!?

[Chris Savage]

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[JKnightandKARR]

Oh soo remember...

[zappman]

[granz]

Yep, I remember.

When we started our kids on a cyber school, they gave us six PCs (for six of our kids who were going - three were too young.) They were going to try to set up six incoming phone lines (plus our primary home phone line) for us.

Rather than that, I told them to let me network the computers (they all came with ethernet cards built-in.) Then I set up a small 486 system as a Linux router, and had it use a 28.8K dial-up modem. It worked pretty well.

Now that I think about it, this was actually a recreation of a project that I had done for one of my clients when a major broadband provider in Pittsburgh shutdown one weekend. It was going to be many weeks before my client could get broadband again. My client was able to get dial-up to hold them over, but no one at the dial-up service had any idea how to let a network use their service. They were going to just set up a single computer with dial-up Internet, and have people go to that computer to check their e-mail, and do browsing. Linux saved the day again! 

[Chris Savage]

Linux saved the day again! 

Good ol' Linux!

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