Good firewall prog?

The ones I used held over 1MB.

Note that files copied between computers on your LAN don't actually use the router.

(NetBios).

Probably not, unless you forgot to disable uPnP on the router.

I do have the free version of ZA on my W2K partition as well as the Linksys but since I never go on the internet from 'doze I have far fewer problems than most folk.

Ted

I understood that on the seventh day God said, "OK, Murphy, now you take over. I'm resting."

Ted

If it happens to be a laptop with a PCMCIA slot, you can get an adapter to provide ethernet connection. I had one from IBM on my old TP 385XD.

Are you on a dial up?

Ted

I'm surprised at that since I've had as many as four computers on mine moving files all over the place and not had a problem.

Ted

there's no reason why a program on your machine

someone could connect from outside to do the same.

default value (admin I guess).

have found out).

I use a VERY obscure password for the router.

You communicate with the Barricade via your browser and I have Javascript blocked except for selected sites, like my bank and CC accounts. I don't know if there's any safety there or not.

Probably the best safety is to browse with extreme caution, since that's the likely source of most of the crap.

And my ancient version of Eudora doesn't support the slip-it-to-you-via-E-mail schemes.

...Jim Thompson

Have done that in this thread and the link is at my web site.

Art

It would run without the 'M' in 16K, IIRC. It ran fine in 48K with a single floppy. I soon had enough memory[*] to put a whole floppy in a RAMDISK.

Yes, but don't forget that the PC "cost so much" too. I don't believe many were actually sold with 16K, since memory was a hugely profitable item at the time. The systems were constrained, so one bought what was available.

Without the macro processor, IIRC.

One could get to 704K, but it took s some ingenuity. ;-) The AST sixpacks came out shortly after, with 256K DRAM. There were others as well.

It was before too (704K was the real limit before one ran into the CGA/MCA buffer). The memory configuration switch settings weren't officially documented above 256K, or some such, though.

Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, I had an older wireless router (no ADSL or cable modem) which gave no trouble.

I think I'm going to try another Belkin product.

I have two main criteria. It shouldn't crash and the settings should not be lost if power is removed. Of course I'd like it to contain a Gigabit switch and two WAN interfaces - but then beggars can't be choosers.

Richard

bob Jeffray wrote:

eMule & Bittorrent ?

If you can sit at your machine and converse with the router, then in principle there's no reason why a program on your machine shouldn't be able to do likewise. And if you permit remote administration - someone could connect from outside to do the same.

It would probably be a good idea to change the router's admin password from its default value (admin I guess).

I protect myself by running on Linux - but that doesn't make me immune (as I have found out).

| I seem to recall all the first PC's with floppies had 8". An 8" floppie had | vast amounts of storage available! | | Is it just me or was it *really* that long ago?? | | Ken | |

It really was that long ago, and I don't miss the 8" floppies one bit. Back then I did a good deal of dedicated microprocessor programming for industrial use, and all program development was done with 8" floppy based systems, I remember having the cat's meow setup with a triple-drive setup, imagine that, 3 floppy drives on one system, woot! Seems to me the 8" floppies were 256k, 512k and 1meg in capacity, does that sound warm?

Absolutely. Got the FDC and software from Flagstaff Engineering. Their first FDCs were made by modifying the IBM FDC, adding the logic "dead bug" style, and (i think) some port was used to switch between the standard 5.25" clock rate to the 8" clock rate. The sofware allowed one to read and write thousands of CP/M, Unix and IBM mainframe formats (both floppy sizes). Best of all was the high density 8" DOS format that was added, allowing over 1Mbyte of data!! It was great to be able to back up those expensive, huge 5Mbyte hard drives with only a few floppies.

By using Google, i have found some of those (serial port/s and included modem) - but they want over $700 for the beasties.

It is a mini-tower, and on dial-up.

Many CP/M computers had 8 inch drives as being the only ones they (nominally) supported. The IBM/PC and IBM/XT had only 5.25 inch drives. One had to add special hardware and software (and an external box for the drive/s) for 8 inch capability. And that is what i did..