Re: How to set up my grandson with his laptop on my DSL

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From: NobodyMan (none_at_none.net)
Date: 06/11/04 

Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 21:22:36 -0400

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 19:53:03 -0500, "Haus" <youknow@Iwillslapyou>
wrote:

>OK
>I messed up and called it a CAT 45 it has been a while, I couldn't remember
>if it was 45, 55, 95 or what so I stand corrected, CAT 5

Well, I got confused...did you mean cat4, cat5, or something else? I
imagine the OP, a relative novice, might well be out there looking for
cat45 cable.

>I used a 50 foot cable on laptop worked fine for me, my wife's office is
>wired with 100's of feet of wire and #'s of puters works fine for them.

OK, I jumped the gun. The max cable run for a length of Cat5 cable is
100 meters, so your "couple hundred feet" remark is OK. I admit you
got me there (embarrased red face on my end).

>As for the NAT, I should have said they have a NAT which basically serves
>like a firewall

NAT is nothing like a firewall. I won't stop any inbound or outbound
connections; it will basically just decide which computer on the LAN
side of the connection to send the packet to. A FIREWALL, unlike NAT,
will stop inbound/outbound connections (if setup and configured
correctly).

>Sorry to offend you.
>I will try to get up to your standards.

No offense! After all, I was wrong about your cable length
speculation!

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