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Anyone do computer work near UC Santa Barbara?

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gypsyman

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My daughter and her roomate will be moving into a duplex around June 26th. I will need someone to setup either a dsl line or a cable modem for the two computers. If you know someone you can reccomend, please pm me.
Thanks...
 
The cable company or pacbell sbc will do it for a fee. Then just get a $40-$50 router and tell them how to hook it up over the phone.
 
Update: There will be 4 students ( 2 in each bedroom). Is it better to go dsl or cable? If I go go the SBC DSL route at the $29.95 I get 1.5Mbps downstream. Can I use a router on this between 2-4 computers and still get a decent speed? If I connect all 4 and only 2 are in use at a time, will the speed still be pretty good? I understand about being close to the switch helps.
I have the same question about cable. Would it be able to handel one connection at a decent speed on 2-4 computers? Thanks for any help. I will have to get this hooked up for them in the next 2 weeks and may go there and try to do it myself. It is far away and I am not Mr. Techie so I may hire it out to a local firm or someone here who is in the area and would like to make a few bucks.
🙂
I appreciate any helpful input.😀
 
unless they are gamers id choose which ever connection is cheaper (dsl/cable)

cable is a little faster but if they arent gonna tax the limitations of their bandwidth then dsl should be plenty fast enough
 
1.5mbps should be plenty of bandwidth for 4 users. I have 8 systems in the house here and DSL works just fine.
 
Thanks byum and everyone else for the info... Do you think that I should go for a wireless router or hardwired? I have some experience but not a lot?
Thanks again.. 😉
 
If you get SBC yahoo! dsl they offer an all in one modem/wireless router. Also, they have options of hooking through existing telephone lines to network computers. A wireless connection is great for cable/dsl. If you get some of the cheaper ones (802.11b) they can transfer at a 11 mbps which is horribly slow compared to a wired router 100 mbps. However, cable/dsl only runs at 1.5 mbps max so a wireless router would be fine for connection sharing. The only probably with wireless is the fact that the wireless network cards are kind of expensive. However, if you have a laptop I would suggest getting wireless mainly because it's cool. You can walk around, go outside, wherever, and still have internet. I'm not sure exactly how much the wireless router/modem is from sbc, but the price has come down tremendously.
 
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