Amanda, I have a friend who lives in a multi floor townhouse who was faced with the same problem that you have. His solution was to follow the water lines to each middle floors, and for the top floor, he took the main feed right to the attic. Once in the attic, he when could drop line down between the walls into the desired rooms. For the middle floors, he was lucky enough to have the water lines run between the rooms that he was wanting to make his connections. Just a thought on how you may solve your routing problems. Stephen Dawes <B.A., B.Sc.> The City of Calgary Web Business Office Ph: (403) 268-5527 FX: (403) 268-6423 MailTo: stephen.dawes at gov.calgary.ab.ca > WWW: http://www.gov.calgary.ab.ca FOIPP NOTIFICATION This communication is intended ONLY for the use of the person or entity named above and may contain information that is confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient named above or a person responsible for delivering messages or communications to the intended recipient, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any use, distribution, or copying of this communication or any of the information contained in it is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by telephone and then destroy or delete this communication, or return it to us by mail if requested by us. Thank you for your attention and co-operation. -----Original Message----- From: Amanda Lee [mailto:amanda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 2001 November 13 2:43 PM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Linux and High speed accessability That's great as long as you don't need to route cable from floor to floor as I would in the three-story townhouse I own and live in! Looks like for me that outside of the initial connection, that I'll have to go wireless and that stops me almost in my tracks! it's expensive and I'm not convinced that I'll get very good speed throughout. I also am concerned about how to get it all talking to each of the boxes. I did find an interesting device which hooks into the USB port and then will talk via think it's a 2.4Ghz signal or perhaps 900MHZ/forget which and would have to look it up in the specs. Does seem simple to put together though. Still, it costs nearly $100 per PC to do this. We don'thave access to drop cable between floors through the walls. So only alternative with wired lan is to pull up carpets and string that junk everywhere or drill holes in the floor which I'm not keen on doing. If any of you have used wireless methods and have found a solution which are reliable and won't break the bank! please let me know. Thanks! - Amanda Lee On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Terry Klarich wrote: > Hello All: > These days, I would highly suggest getting one of the personal router products on the market. They have a 10 m connection to > connect to a cable modem or dsl device. On the other side, there is usually a 4 port 100m switch you can use to build a local > network. There are models with 56k modems built in as well. Got mine off ebay for $25. > > My home network is built using one of these personal routers. Although, mine has an ISDN port for the wan connection. I just have > the smtp and ssh ports opened up for external connections. This is so I can both receive mail and log into my machine via ssh > remotely. > > I wouldn't even mention I was using linux. As long as you stay away from msn, aol ... etc you should be fine. Most ISP's support > straight ppp with chap or pap. This is all you need. I would, however, try and get a static IP though > > Terry > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- > Terry Klarich (KI5ZW) > A man is not complete until he is married; then, he is finished. > On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 14:47:15 -0330you write: > > > > > >Hello list: > > > >Now that high speed internet access is available in my area, does the > >provider have to support Linux and is there away around that. > >I spoke to two providers and they're are not going to support Linux in the > >fore seeable future. > >Granted, the two people I spoke to were not and I say again, were not OS > >savvyy. LOL <grin> > >Best regards: > > > >Michael > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
