Greetings CLUGgers, In our community there is a retired, and therefore somewhat impecunious, member who has just recently connected to broadband. He owns two machines, a recently ex-lease laptop and a tower machine of indeterminate vintage. After expending much time fiddling about trying to use both the USB and Ethernet connections to the cable modem at the same time, I think, i.e. hope, that he has realized that the best way to connect more than one machine to the Internet is to bite the bullet and set up a router-cum-firewall using the likes of pfSense, IPCop or similar and a network switch.
I am wondering whether anybody has a suitable, and physically small, machine hiding in a cupboard which my friend could purchase economically. An elderly P/II or P/III low profile desktop machine would be ideal. Alternatively does anybody know of suitable stock held by a dealer? Ditto for a ~4 line switch. Many thanks. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
