[PLUG] Creating a home network

[Larry Brigman]

Remember he is in outer Missouri, not Portland metro.
On May 11, 2016 10:13 AM, "Keith Lofstrom" <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 07:51:45AM -0700, Larry Brigman wrote:
> > All of 1) can be handled by a network switch.  Network switches can be
> > chained together to allow more connections.
>
> Surplus stores.  Plenty of perfectly good 10/100 8 port
> (even 24 and 32 ports) switches out there, replaced by
> gigabit switches.  There's a whole shelf of them at
> ecoBinary in Beaverton.  For my own office, I scored a
> 32 port gigabit switch with a broken power supply that
> I knew how to fix.
>
> I use the huge bandwidth for backups every night, but
> normal users less obsessive about backup can easily
> get by with 100 mbps.
>
> Keith
>
> --
> Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com
>