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Re: computing skills/needs, etc.From: Hugo D. Ribot Jr. (hribot@mindspring.com)Sun Jul 30 20:40:44 2000
Garry: I am fortunate to have recently built a new home, and was able to get the house pre-wired with CAT5 (ethernet) cable. I have cable modem service at my house and office. I use a hardware firewall by interposing a Linksys "Etherfast Cable/DSL Router" between the cable modem and the patch panel in the basement where all the Ethernet cables terminate from the various rooms in the house. Believe me, if I can do it, you can too. The Linksys box was ~ $160, and the CAT5 cable is also cheap ($80-100 per 1000 feet). The cable modem service is $39.95/month if you already subscribe to cable. With the Linksys box, and some stackable hubs, you could theoretically have up to 254 unique users all using the same fast internet connection. Of course, getting the CAT5 cable in the walls may mean some more $$$, unless you know a retrofitting whiz and you only have to tunnel through a few walls or between floors. As far as virus protection is concerned, I've been pretty happy with MacAfee Online's $20/year subscription service. Every day it'll update your virus DAT files with the newest anti-virus stuff. If you get cable or DSL at home and the office, and have fixed IP addresses, you can access either one from anywhere with your laptop running a software called pcAnywhere version 9.0 using VPN (Virtual Private Networking).
-- Hugo D. Ribot Jr., M.D., FACOG Cartersville, GA Private Practice since 1990 2 MDs/2 CNMs
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