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We are seeking recommendations for wireless infrastructure of a ten acre, wooded rural community.
Also what is the latest on using electrical house wiring in this regard?

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We are having to move quickly in determining the cost of a new server. As we go statewide, we have tech needs that our current server cannot handle. Most importantly, our staff needs the ability to remotely access the server, since we will soon have offices across the state.

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We have a wireless router but would prefer all of our work stations be wired but are out of space on the router. We have several hubs sitting on the shelf. If we went from the router to a hub, would the DHCP in the router assign IP addresses to the computers that are connected to the hub?

jb

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I desperately need to increase the memory on my PC. I just installed windows professional 2003 (used to run 2001 home edition), and while everything was slow before, now it’s even slower. Our tech guy advised us to upgrade memory on some of our computers that are older, currently have 256 MB ram. I could call him to do the upgrade, but he’s not very accessible and I gotta do something now.

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Any thoughs on small non profits having an in house server vs an off site server? What are the pros and cons of each?

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the folks at GA Stand-up had some questions about sharing files between two Windows XP computers that are already sharing a DSL connection, meaning that they are already networked.

There are two forms of file sharing in the Windows XP land if you don't have a server - Simple File Sharing, and Professional File Sharing.

Here are two links that walk through the process for setting up each one.

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I want to know if we need to set up our own internal server. I'd also like to know what a server is in the first place.

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