Howdy all! Just wanted to get some information from those of you out there that might have some...
I recently purchased a house, and I would like to get some sort of internet hookup that my friends and I could use. There are 5 computers, each either running Linux or Win95 all connected to a common "fileserver" (saves diskspace) What I'd like to do is have the server on-line 24/7. Other machines would drop off and on as they were being used. The other machines could be accessing WWW, email/news (from server), playing internet games (like using battle.net), or using a communications program like speakfreely. I've been told that by using the miracles of IP masquerading, I can do this by purchasing a single connection for the server, and letting the remainder of the machines "leach" off it in some way. Finally, one of the methods of connecting that looked interesting was something called "WantWEB". The idea is that the downloads are VIA satellite, and very fast, but uploads had to go through a normal phone line and were limited to the 56K modems. Has anyone tried using this on a Linux box? if so, how successful were you? was the "cable-modem" device difficult to find drivers for? Thanks, Mike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .