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Paula,
I have been running a single Bellsouth DSL here in Atlanta with 5 machines
on a home LAN for the past year with great performance and reliability. The
speed is excellent, indeed better than the T1 supported LAN at the office.
Bellsouth sells only DHCP, that is the IP address changes at their whim, and
you only get one address. This is easily solved by getting an old machine to
use as a firewall, even a Pentium 100, and running Windows NT with a proxy
server such as Wingate or my preference, Sygate, ( available for ~ $40 at
www.sysgen.com) that will allow you to run multiple machines on the single
IP address.
Works like a charm.
A more elegant solution that I installed last month is to use a Windows 2000
server as the firewall with NAT (network address translation) that allows
you to do a few more cute things on the network. I doubt you would need the
extra expense or functionality of a full Win2k server, though.
I used the Sygate firewall/proxy server for over a year with near perfect
reliability and functionality for what you want to do.
Hope this helps.
William M. McClatchey, MD
2724 Peachtree Road
Apt 1002
Atlanta, Georgia 30305
billmccl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
404-313-1100
404-233-6941 home
404-233-6944 Fax
-----Original Message-----
From: Paula [mailto:hotair003@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 11:19 AM
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: DSL questions for users of 2 or more computers
Hi:
I am going to get DSL for my 4 networked computers as my ISP can no
longer keep up with the information flow.
I am curious if anyone is running several computers simultaneously
off 1 DSL address.If so how is the speed and reliability? The DSL company
obviously pushes addresses for each unit ,which I'm willing to do if it
enhances performance of the DSL service.
Any response is appreciated.
Paula
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