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In a bid to learn a little more from home I have decided to get Smoothwall up and running on an old Pentium PC and use it to guard my ADSL connection.
Would I be right in thinking that I would then need an ADSL modem and a switch to share my connection to my 5 PC home network?
Any hardware recommendations for these? Netgear?
Thanks
Roger
Would I be right in thinking that I would then need an ADSL modem and a switch to share my connection to my 5 PC home network?
Any hardware recommendations for these? Netgear?
Thanks
Roger
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hub/switch, makes no odds - you need some LAN Hardware ![Wink](https://www.scoobynet.com/images/smilies/wink.gif)
Switches are slightly more flexible and cheap as chips (!) so no reason not to go switched really.
I use an 8 port 10/100 "Dabsvalue" switch from dabs.com (£17.50 Inc) which I'm very happy with.
Cant help on dsl as I live in the sticks - I can recommend some ISDN stuff though![Roll Eyes (Sarcastic)](https://www.scoobynet.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif)
Deano
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Switches are slightly more flexible and cheap as chips (!) so no reason not to go switched really.
I use an 8 port 10/100 "Dabsvalue" switch from dabs.com (£17.50 Inc) which I'm very happy with.
Cant help on dsl as I live in the sticks - I can recommend some ISDN stuff though
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Deano
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I set one up for a friend using the green alcatel frog modem. Connects to smoothwall by usb. Smoothwall box has lan card which connects to your lan hardware
then you need a lan card in each pc you want to attach.....
I use Smoothwall with a cable modem via ethernet and a nice Cisco switch
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I use Smoothwall with a cable modem via ethernet and a nice Cisco switch
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