Setting up a network and sharing internet

[William Park]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:24:18PM -0400, Henry Spencer wrote:
> Or they thought so, anyway.  (People tend to have really exaggerated ideas
> about how much network bandwidth they need; mass-market LAN-hardware
> evolution is driven much more by marketing and by what's easy in silicon
> than by real need.  Most of today's LAN users still don't really need
> 100Mbit, let alone 1000.)

Sliver lining is, with that cheap commodity 1000Mbit, you can easily
accommodate 100 users.  Enter thin-client... :-)

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