RE: Home Network for the boss! - Summary

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

Dan et al,

Thanks for all the input.

I'm certainly going to recommend _a_ hardware firewall (rather than
Linux-PC or ICS).=20

I'll also recommend he waits till April for the prices to come down ;-)

Regards,

Mark Harrison
Head of Systems, eKingfisher

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-----Original Message-----
From: James, Daniel [mailto:daniel.james@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 6 March 2002 09:09
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Home Network for the boss! - Summary


Mark

I can only comment on the eclipse service and the modem....

The service I have had from eclipse has been superb, connected within 2
weeks, as promised, and no disconnections or problems with my
connection.
(and static IP too).

And as you may have seen they are brining the price down on wires only
>from
April to =A327 per month.

I have the green frog that everyone seems to loathe, and have this
connected
to my Win2k workstation, it has been up 24/7, and I have not needed to
reboot the server, nor had the connection drop.... (perhaps I'm lucky!!)

Overall I would recommend the service from Eclipse, and using the
combined
hardware from Vigor and Alcatel, seems to offer good value for money
(The
vigor is on my list of purchases).
(bearing in mind the Vigor has a built in firewall too, which seems to
have
been missed out of the discussions on routers vs the vigor.) meaning it
protects your bosses whole lan without needed a server running :-)



HTH

Daniel



-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 04 March 2002 16:59
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Home Network for the boss! - Summary


Can anyone comment on the figures? All figures INCLUDE VAT, and assume a
normal buy, rather than a "UKHA special" :-)

WIRED SOLUTION for 3 PCs

ADSL installation: =A350		eclipse.co.uk Connect500Lite
ADSL modem: =A3100			Alcatel SpeedTouch USB
ADSL router: =A3200			Vigor 2200 USB
Cabling kit: =A335			B&Q!
Network cards: =A360		USR 10/100

Total one-off: =A3425
Monthly rental: =A339


WIRELESS SOLUTION for 3 PCs (2 wireless, 1 hard-wired next to ADSL point
and wireless gateway)

ADSL installation: =A350		as above
ADSL modem: =A3100			as above
ADSL router: =A3200			as above
Base-station: =A3120		Linksys - www.unwired.co.uk
Network cards: =A3300		2 * Orinoco Gold PCI + 1 * USR 10/100

Total one-off: =A3770
Monthly rental: =A339


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