RE: [tlug] J-COM cable Internet

["Mancy, Raymond" <mancy.raymond@example.com>]

Well than maybe this isnt your typical gaijin house. Several of the
residents have Cable...me included (tv anyway) and some have ISDN. NO real
fuss at all. Of course, If I was living with a bunch of techno-geeks, we
would build a huge network ourselves. I dont want to be stuck having to do
everything to wire up somebody else's building!
You really think Wireless would be a viable option?!?

I think this started when I said that Jcom were not allowed to install in
our building...but I know full well that they are. If I rang the same
salesman that installed my TV, he would come in tomorrow and put my Internet
Cable in, hell he was desperately trying to do that when he was putting my
TV in, but I didnt have the money at the time.

Like I said, I wouldnt mind doing a project like wiring up a building...if I
was not doing it alone, and If I wasnt paying for all the parts, as I
inevitably would because no-one else would be interested. If they want the
internet, they already have it.

Ray

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Doughty [mailto:mdoughty@example.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 8:20 PM
To: tlug@example.com
Subject: Re: [tlug] J-COM cable Internet


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.