Networked at last

Well, at last we’ve networked the two computers here, using a “Netgear DG814″:http://broadbandzone.co.uk/shop/Home_Routers2024.htm combined router/ADSL modem. Very easy to set up, and now there’s no need to keep on unplugging the ADSL modem and stuffing it in the other computer.

And after a couple of hours work (mainly because I didn’t realise XP doesn’t have NetBeui installed by default) I got file sharing to work. It’s much slower than I thought it would be - Windows said it would take ~160min to copy 1.6GB+ of data between the two computers, but appeared to be taking longer (however I had to cancel the transfer). But then, as I don’t know the difference between a Megabit and a Megabyte I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that a 100Mbit card doesn’t allow copying at 100Mbytes/second!

I’ve no idea how secure our setup is (not very I guess) but testing it properly will have to wait until September when I’ve got some free time. So until then the file sharing could be public if we’re unlucky…