Question about .deb and Windows

Ed Fletcher ed at fletcher.ca
Tue May 31 18:56:16 UTC 2005


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Alex Ferguson wrote:
| First of all, thank you for all the replies.
| I had thought of the LAN way of doing things quite
| some time ago.But, it means I have to drill a hole in
| the wall.Either that, or using a 10 meter cable.
| Is the 10m cable a problem? I've heard that, if you
| use more than 10m for LAN (Without a router), it
| doesn't work.I'll try.I'll also try the apt-doc
| package.

You can run a cat5 cable up to 100 meters.  (Either 10Base-T or
100Base-T.)  So you may be able to temporarily run a cable through a
hallway.  Not a great solution, but you won't have to do any drilling.
And it's cheaper than buying wireless gear.  You will, of course, need a
second nic in the computer that has the internet connection.  But you
can get a used one for less than ten bucks.

If you are running the cable directly from the nic in one computer to
the nic in the other (not through a hub or a switch), you'll need to
make a crossover cable.

For length:
http://www.homenethelp.com/web/explain/maximum-cable-length.asp

Crossover cable:
http://www.duxcw.com/digest/Howto/network/cable/cable5.htm

For all sorts of info on ethernet cables, including how to make them:
http://www.duxcw.com/digest/Howto/network/cable/index.htm

HTH,
Ed
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Ed Fletcher
ed at fletcher.ca

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?  -  Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

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