[HCRA] Networks and oh yeah I moved

[Daniel Sullivan]

Hello all, I am alive and well in VA now. I guess for some I should let ya 
know I am moving. Hehehe. So the repaters are safe once more. I am staying 
in Falls Church and I can hit at least 1 machine the 146.91 repeater. I have 
to find out where that is.

I do have a question though. We have a DSL connection and before I had 
gotten here they had tried to figure the best way to do a network. Now they 
have an Earthlink home portal 100 router, a Dell computer which runs XP and 
is the server to be. I have 2000 on my laptop and one of the other guys has 
XP on his laptop as well. First will the OS matter when trying to set up a 
network so all three computers have internet access? Second, we have some 
Cat 5 cable but we are not sure if that is the right cabling to use to run a 
network. The Earthlink router came with some 24AWG grey cabling. I am not 
sure but I think its just another type of Ethernet cable. Also is there a 
method to which wires go to which sots in the "telephone plug" you attach to 
the cat 5 if in fact you can use it. I should have mentioned the run is 
about 20 feet tops.

Any thoughts are welcome and chat with you all laters!

73 es tnx de
Dan S.
W4/AA1TE










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