Re: [PLUG] OT: Comcast problems

[Art Clemons <artclemons@aol.com>]

Michael Leone:
> Bet the fan would cost more to replace than the 486 chip ...
>
> I do the same, only I use a Pentium 100; it has a PCI bus. My 486 didn't,
> and so occasionally had problems sustaining the throughput of my DSL line.
>
> I literally took that machine home out of the "discard" pile here at work
> ... I run LEAF on it (see .sig), so I don't even need a hard drive in it.
> Hard to get cheaper than that.


Actually, the AMD DX-100 just started giving flaky errors.  When I put a 
new fan on it, the silly thing started working again.  Of course, 
finding a fan for a 486 was a slow process, because not all that many 
places still stock them.  I now have a netgear rp114, it works quite 
well, and I've now got the 486 functioning to receive faxes and voice 
mail.

I don't recall any problems with throughput feeding two other computers. 
 Still if the router dies, turns out to have security problems or 
whatever, the 486 goes back, I still have a switch.

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