Re: House wireless/wired router: choices? Plus wireless neophyte questions.

[Rob McBroom <debian@skurfer.com>]

On 2008-Oct-3, at 10:10 AM, Celejar wrote:

> There are advantages to setting static IPs - you can set up host files
> and refer to the hosts by name, and I think that bringing up  
> interfaces
> is a good few seconds quicker with static IPs than with DHCP.

True, but the OP will have a laptop that probably needs to use many  
different networks. Manually switching the laptop back to a static  
config every time you come home will probably take longer than waiting  
on DHCP (and is a pain in the ass). ;)

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Rob McBroom
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