In a bid to learn a little more from home I have decided to get Smoothwall up and running on an old Pentium PC and use it to guard my ADSL connection.

Would I be right in thinking that I would then need an ADSL modem and a switch to share my connection to my 5 PC home network?

Any hardware recommendations for these? Netgear?

Thanks

Roger

 

you'll need an adsl modem and hub, not a switch.

Steve

 

hub/switch, makes no odds - you need some LAN Hardware

Switches are slightly more flexible and cheap as chips (!) so no reason not to go switched really.

I use an 8 port 10/100 "Dabsvalue" switch from dabs.com (£17.50 Inc) which I'm very happy with.

Cant help on dsl as I live in the sticks - I can recommend some ISDN stuff though

Deano

 

Thanks, thats very helpful.

Roger

 

I set one up for a friend using the green alcatel frog modem. Connects to smoothwall by usb. Smoothwall box has lan card which connects to your lan hardware then you need a lan card in each pc you want to attach.....

I use Smoothwall with a cable modem via ethernet and a nice Cisco switch

 

Cheers.