1mb on 5 computers. How do I do it?
 

I am living at uni and here is the scenario. Ntl are gonna fit broadband in my room. I then need to get internet on two other peoples computers on the same floor as me and two other peoples on the floor upstairs. Whats the best and cheapest way of doing this?

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Erm are you sharing your connection with 5 other people in 5 other addresses or are you all under one address?
Easiest way would be a wireless router with the other pcs having a wireless NIC installed. Cheapest would be routers/ switches and a lot of ethernet cable.

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Cheapest would be a wired router like this http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...095832-2701266

along with 5 differing lengths of cat-5 cable, available most places.

Best = Wireless http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...095832-2701266 but is more expensive as you need to buy adaptors for the pc's to receive signal

Wired= About £60 - but loads of wires everywhere

Wireless= About £180 in all - can be less reliable but means no wires or anything.

Also I'd suggest a higher connection between 5 pc's.

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Thought you was limited to 3 PCs on one network, NTL t&c.

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What difference would it make to ntl??

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Does my routing and file server count as a pc?

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Well, according to the t&c's servers arent allowed at all....

presumably the service cant handle everyone ragging their pipes 24/7, even though thats the service you pay for..

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Going the Wireless route is your best bet to avoid you having to put down cables all over the place, which may be against the house owners terms and conditions.

I'd say get everyone to chip in and get a wireless card in each of their PC's.
Who knows, may be some already have a wireless card in them already, eg. laptops with centrino mobile technology. Check to see.
PCI wireless cards are cheap too now so should'nt cost much.

Then you need a cable Wireless router. Make sure that it is not an ADSL router as that would not work on the NTL network.

Check out anything by Linksys, I've always found them good.
It wil be quite easy to set up too, and you wont have wires all over the house.

EDIT: One of the main things I'd observe when having 5 computers on a 1mb connection would be to be careful how much you download. If all five of you are keen downloaders, then you may use up your monthly cap, and a bigger connection package would be needed. It all depends what you use the net for really.

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Have a look at this thread, which is going on at the moment.

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NTL will not be able to see past the Router (GATEWAY) so I doubt that 5 PC would be a problem other the the users bandwidth.

broomsy I'ld suggest that the 5 of you put you money together and get the 3mb connection, which will be soon 10Mb by the end of the year

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Our work's wireless bt router shows the equipment running on the network and the host names etc in the configs screen.. Would not be surprised if the newer ntl modems could do a bit of that as well.

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Nah - the NTL: model only sees one IP address - the router. When you request a site, the router remembers who requested it (the internal IP of the PC), requests the page from NTL, and then once ntl sends the page back to the router, it forwards it to the releavnt IP internaly.

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Ah but that would only come into effect if his server was internet accessable for all we know it might just be a LAN server...


also ive never known NTL to enforce that stupid 3 pcs max clause even if they could see past the router.

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Was not having a pop i was just pointing out the T&C

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IMO its a rather stupid Term at that!

I'm not having a pop either sorry if it comes across that way. :o:

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I imagine the only reason for putting that into the T&Cs is so that if someone plugs 10 PCs into a 1Mb line & then phones NTL to complain of slow speeds when they're all being used, NTL can just say "well you're only supposed to use 3 PCs....". Other than that I can't see any reason for limiting the number of PCs you can connect.

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That's it. If you connect 5 pc's to 1 1meg connection, (apart from being tight wads), you have no right to call ntl and complain of slow service. Remember that. Also remember that the d/l limit is 3gig a month...I'm damn sure that 5 of you would d/l more than that, which would give ntl yet another reason to kick you off their service. And people wonder why students get a hard time... :rolleyes:

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That is correct, and Servers are not allowed.

That does not mean that people aren't doing it, it just means that if caught ntl could remove the service.

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Depends on the type of server I guess, bdav was using a routing and file server which sounds like what I had (ie a pc for internal file storing etc/print server) I would say that was within the T&C's. However using a computer on your network as a server that could serve web pages of files externally would breach the ntl T&C's

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Hmmm. 5 computers sharing a 1 Mb connection! You would only be able to have just over 20 Mb of traffic on each per day before breaching the usage allowance. :eek:

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Ouch! Thank god theyre notimplementing the cap yet eh? lol I think it might warrant the upgrade to 2meg!

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i have a linksys nslu2 accessable via http, ftp ,and samba, it also servs music to itunes via mt-daapd. (runs unslung 5.5, http://nslu2-linux.org)

but then not accessable from the internet the only time it ever gets allowed net access is to download packages/updates (its blocked from internet @ the router)

so i cant see ntl having a problem with it if they even knew it was there :)