You took the words right out of my mouth when you mentioned satelite. I would definitely research that as an option.

Have you tried powering off the modem for at least 30 seconds? The steps that I would take, are to power off the modem and router for thirty seconds. Power up the modem. Give it 45 seconds or so to...

APC has done the same thing too. It is really disturbing that these big companies would include such backdoors. All it takes is one disgruntled employee to cause a lot of havoc. Sure, the developers...

read the manual for your router if you want to set it up with multiple IP adresses. If it supports it, then there will be a plethora of documentation for it in there.

It worked fine yesterday from the remote location, or internally? Does the server behind the router have a static IP as well? I'm assuming that it does since you bought a static IP for the ISP...

I have seen this as well with auto-negotiation on Dell machines, as well as some PCMCIA NICs. Definetely hardcode the speeds, both on the switch (if possible) and on the actual computer. If...

This is all it took:

On internal machine:
#ssh -R 39:localhost:23 root@dmzmachine

On dmzmachine:
#telnet localhost 39
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character...

Backups are a must. Redundancy is useless without a good, clean backup! :) If you go with Windows, I would recommend an SDLT drive for large ammounts of data. (up to 320gb compressed) For the...

Thanks, I appreciate your quick response. I have used OpenVPN before, and yes it is a great solution but I was hoping for a simple solution, not quite so heavy as installing a full vpn solution. I...

Here is the setup:

I have a Solaris box running the amanda backup server for all of the Solaris and Linux machines. It can backup all of the machines on the private network just fine, but there...

It depends largely on what you are looking for. New, used? Desktop replacement, or ultra-light? How much money can you afford to dump out. CD-Burning? Wireless? Personally I would recommend Dell...

Is it XP Home, or Pro?

Me is loaded full of issues, and has problems in a networked environment. If you can, replace that with a copy of XP Pro.

The only thing disappointing about having cable is the issue of blocking and filtering ports. :( I had DSL at 2 other places of residence and loved it (even though it was slower, though not by too...

The method that I used when limited to floppy disks was setting up an NFS server at home, and using the Slackware Linux boot floppy to load the software packages from the NFS server. This requires...

Is the purpose of having the dialup modem to be used as a main internet connection, or to provide some kind of dial-in service, or just for extreme-backup redundancy? :) If it is for your main...

I was under the impression that serial to parallel cable would not work. (At least not with the Windows Direct Connection software) Correct me if I am wrong. :)

No reason to be ashamed of old hardware! As long as it posts, it's a usable machine! I too have one of the old Toshiba laptops that was given to me as a freebie, and I absolutely love it. PI-120mhz,...

If you purchase the Linksys product that I mentioned, it will fully replace your current DSL modem.

I have not seen a product that accepts a USB instead of RJ45 modem, but Linksys does offer a product that is the ADSL modem, router, wireless access point, and 4-port ethernet switch all in one. I...