Now you say it, 5 miles means you will need to spend some
money and should get some professional network help.
Ethernet with the best cable (fiber optics) has a range of
less than 1/2 the distance you want.
If you have a clear line of sight, you can get advance
antennas, amplifiers and repeaters to make your own LAN.
But it would be cheaper to call the local ISP and get cable
or DSL and have them set-up a VPN for your "office."
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message | Thanks Paul,
|
| We have 3 PCs: one running XP Home Edition, one running
| WIN98 and one running WIN95. They are in a sort of
| triangle, roughly 5 miles apart from each other. I want to
| somehow connect them, so that Bill, Jim, & Doris can all
| interact as they would in a professional multi-storey
| office building. Networking for Dummies says that Wireless
| PCI cards have a range of about 500 metres. I've heard
| differing views about Symantec's PCAnywhere as well. I was
| hoping to use Network Neighbourhood to link the 3 PCs, but
| the Entire Network window is empty; Network Properties are
| not available; and I don't know how to add PCs to the
| Network window in NN. I want to see Bill, Jim, and Doris'
| PC icons as well as a shared printer icon in the Network
| window of NN. The purpose of this is to replicate an
| office environment in a decentralised setup. If I know
| anything abpout this, it is that at least one computer has
| to act as a server, hence the reference to Dell, and
| Windows Server 2003 or the Small Business Server Premium
| Edition 2003. At the moment, we are trying dial-up
| networking, as the only solution we've found. Where do we
| go from here, I wonder. Thanks again. frangepan.
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >All you need for a 9x machine is a network card
| >ethernet cable, and a crossover cable (for 2 PC's), or
| >a hub if you have more than 2 PC's in your house.
| >
| >Or wireless PCI card, depending on whether you
| >want ethernet, or wireless networking.
| >
| >If you want to use ICS (let the networked PC onto
| >the Internet) on a 9x machine, you need 98 SE. (If
| >this is the main PC). 95 and 98 don't have this option.
| >
| >NO you don't need a server just to use Network
| Neighbourhood. Just enable
| >file/printer sharing on each machine, to share a printer
| or folder.
| >
| >And for each PC (the main one would be something
| >like 192.168.0.1), the connected PC 192.168.0.2 etc.
| >
| >What version of Windows have you got on both
| >Frangepan?? 9x?? XP? on one 9x on the other?
| >
| >You may need a router, if you have something like DSL
| >or some form of high speed net access.
| >
| >
| >
| in message
| >| >> Hi,
| >>
| >> For example, to get network neighbourhood to work, you
| >> need a server. Does that mean you need to buy a server
| >> machine eg from Dell, or get Windows Server 2003
| >> (software, I know)? Without recabling (a DSL cable is
| very
| >> expensive!) is there anymore hardware that is
necessary,
| >> other than two or more normal home PCs? If someone had
a
| >> fund limited to a few $1000, what would you recommend,
| if
| >> anything, to do the whole Network neighbourhood thing
| >> properly? Thanks in advance. frangepan.
| >
| >
| >.
| >
