- May 17, 2000
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Hey All,
I am writing this to look for advice and critiquing of my ideas for my proposed plan to provide an internet connection to all of the people living in my Fraternity house. We already have the entire house properly wired for about 50 people. There is a 100Mbs switch at the backbone of everything, and then 2 48 port 100Mbs hubs that go to most of the users. I am planning on buying or building a server. Either way, this is my plan: To get 4 network cards in the thing, connect 3 DSL lines to it, use Win2K Server and share the 3 DSL conections (that step is easy as pie) and then conect the 4th network card to the switch. I think that our network should be perfectly fine for all of this, Internet useage should be pretty low traffic. THe main dilema now is wether this will work or not. I am looking for someone who may have done somthing like this before, someone that may know the ins and outs of doing somthing like this.
Also, I am being pushed to buy a 'server' from Dell or Gateway, I feel that this is highly unnecessary, becuase unless you spend a fortune you are basicly getting a normal PC with a different OS. I want to save money and build it myself, it would be cheaper and I wont have to deal with all of these dang unknown componenets that companies put in their computers.
I am just looking for ANY general advice and suggestions,
Thank you so much for the help,
Paul Hilgeman
I am writing this to look for advice and critiquing of my ideas for my proposed plan to provide an internet connection to all of the people living in my Fraternity house. We already have the entire house properly wired for about 50 people. There is a 100Mbs switch at the backbone of everything, and then 2 48 port 100Mbs hubs that go to most of the users. I am planning on buying or building a server. Either way, this is my plan: To get 4 network cards in the thing, connect 3 DSL lines to it, use Win2K Server and share the 3 DSL conections (that step is easy as pie) and then conect the 4th network card to the switch. I think that our network should be perfectly fine for all of this, Internet useage should be pretty low traffic. THe main dilema now is wether this will work or not. I am looking for someone who may have done somthing like this before, someone that may know the ins and outs of doing somthing like this.
Also, I am being pushed to buy a 'server' from Dell or Gateway, I feel that this is highly unnecessary, becuase unless you spend a fortune you are basicly getting a normal PC with a different OS. I want to save money and build it myself, it would be cheaper and I wont have to deal with all of these dang unknown componenets that companies put in their computers.
I am just looking for ANY general advice and suggestions,
Thank you so much for the help,
Paul Hilgeman