Re: [tlug] J-COM cable Internet

[Matt Doughty <mdoughty@example.com>]

every chips in for an old pentium or something, and then install 
the free unix of your choice just to handle the proxying.  It
will probably never go down unless the hardware dies. You want
to take the harddrive out of the equation? Look at the linux router
project. Still to much stress? Get a cheap adsl router, and there
is nothing to maintain. Don't like to cable? thats what wireless is
for. If what I know about gaijin houses are correct all of these
solutions are better than trying to get multiple internet connections
in one of those places.  Cable and the like tend to depend on an ok
from the land lord, and for that matter so do multiple phone lines.

--Matt

On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 06:43:16PM +0800, Mancy, Raymond wrote:
> I thought of doing something like that...its hassle though. Doing all the
> cabling...everybody slowing the netwrk down. And then someone needs to be
> somesort of administrator for it...if my computer went down and I didnt have
> time to fix it, people would be screaming bloody murder at me...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Doughty [mailto:Doughty_Michael@example.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 7:23 PM
> To: tlug@example.com
> Subject: Re: [tlug] J-COM cable Internet
> 
> 
> >> Somewhere around Thu, 21 Feb 2002 16:18:41 +0800, Mancy, Raymond wrote:
> > Cheers, thanks for the link. I just called them up and enquired about
> > getting the service...the guy said that I couldnt get it in my apartment
> > (gaijin house really)...which is very odd, because at least 4 other guys
> 
> Perhaps I don't understand the whole gaijin house setup*, but wouldn't
> it be easier/cheaper to use a single account/dsl line and your choice of
> connection sharing so the whole house could use it?  
> 
> Michael
> * Actually I know I don't understand it, but that is because I find it as 
> disturbing as those T-shirts people were talking about.