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Multihoming of multiple unencrypted wireless broadband connections available?

Your solution won't even work... There are only 2 possible approaches : either you use the additional bandwidth by evenly distributing your pc's among the different networks so that each of your appartment's users never have more than 1 pc connected to the same WLAN. You don't need to buy...
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- Post #4
- Dec 10, 2003
- Forum: Networking
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can anyone tell me why i have to enter a password when i didn't set it .......

Check if you have not accidentally switched off "Simple File Sharing" : open explorer, under the Tools menu select "Folder Options" and then the "View" tab. Scroll all the way to the bottom and make sure that the checkbox next to "Use simple file sharing (Recommended)" is checked. If it is not...
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- Post #2
- Jul 6, 2003
- Forum: Networking
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getting ready to chuck it out the window

On one occasion (and only one) I had similar problems with a US Robotics 8000a router & a cable modem. In that case for some reason the USR constantly tried switching to 100Mb/s on the uplink port even though the Motorola Cable modem only supports 10Mb. We fixed it by putting a 10Mb hub between...
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- Post #4
- Jul 3, 2003
- Forum: Networking
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External USB 2.0 shared drive

I agree, the throughput capacity of USB2 is higher than what your hard drive is likely to deliver. Only one thing to watch out for : don't mix USB2 and USB1.1 devices. That is supposed to be possible without performance impact but I have seen significant drops in HD performance occur...
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- Post #3
- Jul 3, 2003
- Forum: Networking
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How do i configure my router to work with PPPoE?

Unless you have the Netgear model & URL wrong, you do NOT have a router but only a network switch installed. That box does not have any intelligence, does not support NAT does not have a "WAN" port to connect your DSL modem to and it also does not have any PPPOE functionality that would let you...
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- Post #3
- Jul 2, 2003
- Forum: Networking
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Best Firewall cum Proxy Software???

Not free but with a very good price vs functionality ratio is KERIO's Firewall version 5. This is a full-blown firewall with an interface to create rules that is similar to Checkpoint's. IF you want/can spend the extra money then the version with built-in McAfee Virus scanner and COBION content...
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- Post #6
- Jul 2, 2003
- Forum: Networking
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lock please

I would not be to sure about the working of products like drive image... these tools may expect to "find" things on each drive that they now won't because of the raid setup and therefore refuse to work. If your RAID controller can "hide" it's existence from the imaging software so that the...
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- Post #3
- Mar 21, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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Win98: how can I have a dial up connection to a server, and have my internet connection through the LAN?

I found the responses above a bit confusing, so I'll try to clarify things a bit. When you start your pc it either get's an ip address, default gateway, DNS and other info from a DHCP server or because you manually entered those somewhere in the network properties (different name & location...
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- Post #5
- Mar 21, 2003
- Forum: Networking
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Dell 2650 Suspend mode blues

The difference is nothing (hibernate) compared to something (suspend)... Hibernate means that the laptop writes a file as big as the amount of RAM to the hard drive which contains the exact contents of your RAM. When you restart (open the lid) that file is read & written to RAM. The end-result...
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- Post #9
- Mar 20, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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Router and Windows Mapped Network Drive

The local host address is the so-called IP loopback address. If you ping or use any other IP related command to address 127.0.0.1 then it will always try to communicate with the machine you issue the command on. This is nice to know, because now you can already check if a machine has a working...
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- Post #8
- Mar 19, 2003
- Forum: Networking
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Assigning printers

2 answers : 1) if all your workstations are Win2K or XP then yes you can push the printer settings through Group Policy Objects. Find any type of courseware on AD of buy any random Win2k book and this will be explained in sufficient detail. On NT4 boxes you can still do this, but it'll be a...
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- Post #4
- Mar 18, 2003
- Forum: Networking
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Browsing through VPN....How?

What have you done on either side to enable name resolution to the other side ? Are both WINS servers replicating with each other ? If not do you have static entries on both to point to the other side ? Same for both DNS boxes, are they root & forwarder in the same DNS structure or completely...
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- Post #2
- Mar 18, 2003
- Forum: Networking
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Router and Windows Mapped Network Drive

How many pc's on the "new" network (= the other side of the router) ? If there are only a couple, and their number won't be growing any time soon, then your best bet is to just create some lmhosts files on those pc's. First thing you need to do is figure out the ip address of the \\hall...
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- Post #6
- Mar 18, 2003
- Forum: Networking
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Assigning printers

I think the situation is a bit more complex than that. Yes there are ways to assign printers to workstations through Active Directory GPO's but that won't stop your students from bypassing the entire AD and printing directly to the IP address off the printer (using LPR). Probably the easiest...
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- Post #2
- Mar 18, 2003
- Forum: Networking
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VERY SLOW LAN - HELP

A bit more info on your setup would be helpfull : - Are you using a cross cable between both pc's or is there a hub/switch ? - What protocol are you using ? TCP-IP or ... ? - If TCP-IP, are you using manual addresses (and if so, what are they) or is the desktop pc acting as DHCP server for the...
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- Post #2
- Mar 17, 2003
- Forum: Networking

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