On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 18:47, John Carter wrote: > Now I'm trying to "connect the dots"... > > Wife needs access to the 'net at home and at Canty. Needs it portable so > she can just slip in a CD and connect something to a serial port. > (Opening boxes tend to make the local BOfH's nervous...) Something like > http://www.datahunter.com/serialan.html > would do. (I wonder how much they (or equivalent) cost?)
Regardless of what you want to do - whether you're allowed to or not is the big question. Installing any unlicenced software is the block... As a network guy I actively block unauthorised executable files - and any network admin worth his salt does the same. > Trouble is she couldn't carry a whacking great dish around so there > would need to be a repeater on the Canty campus. Where do you live relative to the university? I've been playing with wlan/wireless and my best range with the standard aerial is 150 metres out across the school fields. Within buildings I've had problems getting a decent signal in the next room. How about this for an answer - get a GSM modem and get direct net access on your laptop anywhere anytime with noone to tell you what can and can't be installed on their machines. Or go without - net access is not required for study (or so they tried to tell me...)
