Re: Creating a home network
Which hardware do you want to use?
On 05/11/2016 04:32 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Underlying question: What should I be reading?
>
> I wish a blackbox which:
>
> 1. Connects 4 local machines via Ethernet [WiFi shall *NOT* be considered]
> A. A desktop with WinXP and multiple versions of Debian
> B. A laptop with WinXP Pro SP3 whose reason for existence is running
> SeaMonkey.
> Historically it is/was my primary machine. Its future is as a
> portable.
> C. A laptop dedicated to Linux experiments. I have erased the HDD as
> many as
> ten times in one week ;/
> D. Misc temporarily connected laptops.
> 2. It shall provide multiple USB ports in order that a selection of
> flash dives
> and a 1 TB HDD can be accessed by any machine.
> 3. It *SHALL* connect to the internet via a T-Mobile 4G Hotspot Z915
> connected
> via USB. The WiFi features have been disabled. I really wanted a USB
> cell network
> modem. The local T-Mobile outlet was only vendor that didn't try
> assaulting me with
> their 'smartphone-du-jour' with an atrociously large data plan. this
> connection
> shall be protected by a firewall.
>
> How broke will I be?
> TIA
>
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