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Apparently there are Home Phoneline Network Adapters that use your existing phone lines to connect your computers. It can run up to 320Mbps, and can co-exist with existing phones.

It's bad form to reply to myself, but you can do firewire networking (giving essentially the same functionality as TDM) in Windows.

More.

The idea behind a server (such as the affected W2K3 server) being connected to a network is to provide a service to the clients. If the machine is not fit to provide services to the network, might as well go back to the store and ask for a reimbursment and exchange to XP workstation.

The only safe way to safely run this server is to place it behind a SPI firewall. Packet filters will have a hard time detecting and blocking this kind of attack, you will need a full blown SPI to defend and block against these attacks.

SMCs, Linksys and other consumer level firewall seem to be vulnerable to this thing, the only thing that might save your server is the NAT they might provide. Of course if you are running your server on a public routable IP, then you better start thinking of running a serious setup there.

Now imagine buying a $40 repeater for every 15 feet of cable...

"I can't move the computer into another room"

Is the reason for this simply that cables are too short? It may seem a little unprofessional but why not buy an extension cable for your monitor and keyboard so that you can move away from the computer?

"I can't move the computer into another room"

Is the reason for this simply that cables are too short? It may seem a little unprofessional but why not buy an extension cable for your monitor and keyboard so that you can move away from the computer?

You need to set up Windows Internet Connection Sharing on the firewire port to allow for that connection to use your LAN drop.

http://www.homenethelp.com/ics/index.asp can help you

If you are new to wireless networking, I stumbled across this tutorial.

Firewire currently tops out at 800Mb/second, and is a relatively new techology. Cat5e can handle 1 GB/sec, and has been around in its current incarnation for quite a few years.

Also, the max length of a FireWire cable is 4.5 meters , while Ethernet can do 100 meters before needing a repeater.

Not sure how much bandwidth a gee-tar takes up, but I'd bet that cable length was the deciding factor in this design.

Could be a very good idea. Just googled-it and found a few cool links: TCP/IP over IEEE1394 ; 1394, i.Link, Firewire Networking
The speed of FireWire sure seems adequate to substitute some small network ethernet connections...

Google is your friend

For $200 or so, you can purchas a traffic shaping router. The SnapGear line (linux inside) supports it in an easy to configure way. Here is a review. SnapGear Review

Do it with an old 486 motherboard like this or this or this or this or this or this or this or.....