Re: Sharing Cable Internet

From: BAR (BAR_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 21:33:02 -0800

And just to add a few more headaches to one's quiet day, why not set up
network access and then have every silly fool call up for technical support
because they need internet access and can't setup their networking!

If internet acces is so important to the guests, they will already have a
dialup service that they can use by hooking into their modem.

If you must, then for simplicity of setup, consider a wireless access point
instead. You won't have to crawl under floors or through roofs with the
cable and of course won't need to buy cable or connectors or wall sockets!

Most laptops will have wireless networking. Then he won't worry when a
guest wants to borrow a cable to plug into the network and then pack it up
with their PC. More things to steal and/ or be damaged.

He can then make sure that he has a very good firewall on his PC.

"Chuck" wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:40:14 -0500, "Phillip" <*email_address_deleted*> wrote:
>
> >I have an uncle that bought a small hotel (30 rooms). He has a win XP
> >machine in his office. He wants me to run Cat5 cabling to all the rooms,
> >connect them to a router, and then connect the cable modem to the router. He
> >does not envision more than 5-10 rooms at any given time using the
> >connection. But he wants guests to be able to plug in their laptop and get
> >on the internet sharing his cable modem. Is this feasible with that setup--
> >and what problems will I run into? HELP!
> >
> >Phillip H.
>
> Phillip,
>
> Technically, it's easy. It's no harder to cable 30 rooms than to cable 4 (OK,
> it's tedious work, but it's not complicated).
>
> Your uncle may want to review his cable broadband TOS. Will he be able to get
> away with redistributing service?
>
> Also, your uncle would be wise to isolate his office computer behind another
> router. When his guests connect to the LAN, who knows what infections they
> might carry? Connect the office computer to a separate router, and connect that
> router along with the 30 rooms, to the main router, then to the cable modem.
>
> And Phillip, posting your email address openly will get you more unwanted email,
> than wanted email. Learn to munge your email address properly, to keep yourself
> a bit safer when posting to open forums. Protect yourself and the rest of the
> internet - read this article.
> http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Chuck
> Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
> My email is AT DOT
> actual address pchuck sonic net.
>

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