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Date:	Sun, 8 Jan 2006 19:19:31 PST8
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Live Help Desk

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J R FOX wrote:
> --- Ray Davison wrote:
>
>>>that you dig out a router that actually works,
>
>>Router, as in plug in several PC to form a P-P?
>
> No, as in 'connect with the Internet.'

I only know about connecting to the Internet with a modem. The router
is between the PC and the modem, and is not necessary, just useful.
They typically provide a firewall as well as a hub - or is it a switch?

> This is
> actually a bit more complicated than it sounds. Steve
> S. travels with a Netgear (?) router, but it did not
> work at all with my Shuttle XPC, for whatever reason.
> (Compatibility, perhaps.) Steven brought an ancient
> something-or-other to the last Help Desk I attended,
> but it was kaput, and we couldn't resurrect it. There
> may also be some kinda Chapman-wide firewall to
> contend with, but I'm not sure about that.

I have connected to the WEB in the computer lab at our normal meeting
place. It worked just like home.

Ray

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