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"Networking Genuis/Pro/Knowledable person needed! Please help!"

I am thinking about adding a network into my dads office, and i also need to persuade him to do it.
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There will be 10 PCs, and they all need to be networked together, with a fileserverd, a printer server and an internet server (1 of the 10 PCs could do all three couldnt it?)..

Could someone answer these questions for me?


1) The advantages and disadvantages of introducing a network
2) A technical description of how the network will "hopefully" work.
3) Wireless and Wired options
4) Costings of the networking parts + links to places to buy them on a budget of £1000 (Just for networking parts and installation). All 10 PCs are home build AMD Athlon 2600XP's on an ASUSTeK 87VX-X (someit like that mobo), with 512mb of Crucial pc2700 RAM. One PC will have 4x 250gig HDD should one PC be able to be used to be the central server.
5) Any other relevant info.



Thanks for your Help


Andy, on Daniel Done's account.



PS. If you cant write all of the info I need here, please send an email to [email protected].

hmmm banned.

o well... last time I let him use my account.

anyway thanks for everyones help, and sorry I let andy use my account SR.

And don't forget luke's warstumbling...

:D

Interesting note on wireless for business:

A competitor to our shop in town set upa wireless network for a business who ignored our recommendation of using wires. We were very pleased to hear that now, whenever someone turns on a hairdrier downstairs in the building, the whole network fails. So yeah, not to be relied on..

Isn't technology wonderful? =)

Indeed, constructive criticism is the way forwards.

1) You can get more computers online, you can share printers, you can share files, you can take control of other computers without having to get up, the list goes on. All the advantaged of more than one computer but without the hassle of, say, moving.

2) You plug in the wires and some things will light up.

3) Wireless is expensive at half the speed. Wired is damn fast at twice the speed. Basically you want to wire in your desktops and maybe have a wireless access point for your laptop or whatever.

4) Yeah I'm not going to answer this. May I have one of your computers?

5) Do you know what a cluster is? They rock quite a lot. I'd love your setup to run a Lightnet cluster. That's basically network rendering. Mmmmm... I reckon I could get a node for as little as £200 each, and especially considering the new lightwave 7.5b includes a linux binary.

Sorry :O/

I'm just sick of the muppets on here who couldn't find their a®se with a roadmap, haven't even tried and expect us to come round and wipe it for them. If you're going to ask a question, please ensure you've at least attempted to answer it yourself first. At the very least ask google (i.e. no more "WOT IZ AN IP ADRESS????")

danieldone wrote:
> Just answer the question ;). This is sposed to be a nice community of
> people who HELP, not CRITICISE.

It's really more the case of 'help AND criticise', especially with Rob about :)

sorry guys, please forgive andy, hes an arsehol.

shame he didnt just ask me.

thanks anyway lads and laddesses. sorry whoever it was he was insulting.

Of course, any chance of anyone ever helping him has now gone.

That's a bit harsh.