Recent content by porkchop

Token Ring is a good idea, and a great technology for many enviornments. However, since it didn't catch on despite IBM's weight, the technology was finally sold to Cisco (it was cisco, right?) several months ago. I heard they were letting the technology die. 16mbit hardware is still in use...

Find a program to judge signal strength, then run around the area you want to use your laptop in and see what happens. High is an alright idea, but too high is bad too; floors/cielings in the way degrade quality. Vertical antanas are a good idea, but only if you're going to be mostly on the...

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The idea is to put a computer in the car. I need a place to buy a DC-to-DC power supply. I could use a normal power supply with a inverter. It's not the best solution, messy and takes more power than is needed. I found a converter here for $80. But that's going to be $100 with shipping and all...

All sorts of ways. If you can't disrupt services at all, you should have several machines. If one goes down, the others pick up the slack. Serious setups may have machines in several different geographic areas in case one gets hit with an atom bomb. This isn't in your reach and won't help you...