on 5/19/03 8:18 AM, michael evans at michael.evans@... wrote:

> I used an old ppc 7200 with IPNetRouter and an additional nic. It worked
> well til I needed to use Timbuktu. I bought a Linksys router which needed no
> configuration to work out of the box. Throughput increase and and latency
> decrease were dramatic....
> 
> IMHO, Linksys and other good consumer router hardware is cheaper, faster and
> less problematical than buying IPNetRouter. I'll bet the hardware option is
> still more responsive than osx...

I can vouch for Linksys equipment.  When I had to connect my PCs and Mac to
my cable modem, I bought a Linksys 8-port switch and a cable/DSL router.  I
set the computers and the router to use DHCP, plugged everything in, and I
was off to the races.  All my machines, as well as those from friends that I
work on, connect to the Net with no problems, and my ISP never sees that I
sometimes have more than three machines online.

Mark Lincoln