But if you do this, definately use wireless -- not copper -- to connect to his/her service. Differences in ground potential between houses can destroy equipment, cause a shock or even be a fire hazard.
IANALE (I am not a licensed electrician), but I do run a 500-pair DSL system that I designed and had installed on a small Caribbean island. We have copper wires connecting many homes and business -- no fires or equipment failures yet!
If you ground your system properly, use appropriate wiring and fusing, a wired connection will be faster and more reliable (less interference potential) than wireless -- not to mention harder to intercept: better security.
I ranted pro-Cisco for years running an ISP in a Major US Market(tm). And at the time, it made sense -- no one could touch Cisco for support, features, and availability.
Today, however, the story is different. In particular, using an inexpensive small form-factory PC (especially one with no moving parts, even a fan), you can have a router for $500 that outperforms a Cisco router costing ten times as much -- and has more features!
MikroTik RouterOS has replaced Cisco as the routing core for my network here in Honduras, where price is much more important than it was back in the States. It handles peer-to-peer throttling, per-IP bandwidth management, MRTG support, nice GUI and command-line interfaces, cool scripting language, and includes all the cool stuff that Cisco does -- policy-based routing, OSPF, various queueing strategies, etc.
I ordered a couple of these microscopes from Erwin for about $30/ea. It was simple to set up and use under Win2k, although the software is definitely geared more toward kids with cutesy sounds and graphics. I put a
few photos online
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They went to work at UUNet.
If you ground your system properly, use appropriate wiring and fusing, a wired connection will be faster and more reliable (less interference potential) than wireless -- not to mention harder to intercept: better security.
Today, however, the story is different. In particular, using an inexpensive small form-factory PC (especially one with no moving parts, even a fan), you can have a router for $500 that outperforms a Cisco router costing ten times as much -- and has more features!
MikroTik RouterOS has replaced Cisco as the routing core for my network here in Honduras, where price is much more important than it was back in the States. It handles peer-to-peer throttling, per-IP bandwidth management, MRTG support, nice GUI and command-line interfaces, cool scripting language, and includes all the cool stuff that Cisco does -- policy-based routing, OSPF, various queueing strategies, etc.
I ordered a couple of these microscopes from Erwin for about $30/ea. It was simple to set up and use under Win2k, although the software is definitely geared more toward kids with cutesy sounds and graphics. I put a few photos online
An ex-gf showed this to me. You'll only
get it if you talk like a retard. That's
me, so here's the xlation!
foo: "'em are ducks."
bar: "'em are not!"
foo: "oh, 'es 'ey are! See 'em wings?"
bar: "'ell, I'll be! 'em ARE ducks!"
All thine stupid word game art belong to us.