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Portable Hubs?
Nahdude asks: "A friend of mine and I tend to have frequent mini-LAN parties in odd places like diners or parks with our laptops. We've been using a crossover cable with no problems, but recently we've attracted some attention from friends, and even some strangers, who want in on the action. So I've looked (without success) for a portable networking solution. Has anyone found and had luck with a battery powered network hub? Keeping in mind that wireless, although neat, will probably be a bit difficult because the expense of mobile wireless cards could be out of range of a lot of the people interested (we had 15 people last week in a bar, woot, but only 2 player games with crossovers because they wouldn't let us plug in a hub)." I haven't seen many of these now, but maybe if someone plants the idea in people's heads we'll see these several years from now...
Yeah, I did. You're a total spanner. They took a standard hub and connected a battery to it, just like I was suggesting. It's a smaller one, and so it doesn't last as long. But if you'd actually read my posting, you'd note that I only gave a car battery as an example. You're a total div, you know that?
-WolfWithoutAClause
"Gravity is only a theory, not a fact!"I'm almost getting tired of the depths to which the 'contributions' on slash have fallen.
Without going into too much ~whacky detail~ I'd like it if you could figure out how to regenerate a waveform without the addition of power. If you can get this done for me, I'll pay you a zillion bajillion dollars. There are whole industries that could benefit from your brilliance... just think! You'd be able to save billions of dollars on all those useless 'amplifiers' used by long haul telecommunications providers!
Please go out of your way for an average recent immigre to slash and THINK for a change.