Post by RichOn 13 Aug 2012 09:20:46 -0700, Cindy wrote...
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Post by RichPost by CindyI've bucked the wireless trend. Tried wireless keyboards and mice and went back
to wired after much annoyance and frustration.
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Post by RichI tried the wireless keyboards and mice but I went back to USB after a while. It
became more of a pain finding replacement batteries. But the wireless printer
does really help. We have a few different PCs on the network at home and it
makes it easier share.
Well ... my printer (not a scanner/fax combo thing -- just a
good business sized duplex laser printer) has its own IP address, on my
network in the house, and I can print to it from any of my computers
(also wired ethernet). Several hubs -- one for outside the firewall,
one for inside the firewall, and one for down in the machine shop, each
on separate subnets firewalled from each other. The printers are on the
main internal subnet, invisible from the outside.
I do have a wireless hub, which is normally powered down, except
when I need to load new books into my Nook. This minimizes exposure to
people trying to steal internet connections from outside the house. (It
also has a good key -- a paragraph fed to a MD5 checksum program and the
output used as the key. Terrible to remember, but highly unlikely to be
guessed. :-)
Enjoy,
DoN.
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