[rescue] I'm one happy geek

[Paul Sladen]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:

> OK, so here is what I was thinking (but didn't properly express).
> 
> Ethernet is at the low end 10 mbit, with 100mbit being fairly cheap.
> USB is 11mbit.  OK, so I hook my scanner, keyboard, zip drive, web cam,
> etc to my ethernet.  So far, fine.  I'm only down a 1mbit, ......blah

C'mon, this is crap.

How much effort would it have been to build a four-port hub into the front
of your desktop case,  with some nice hidden cabling attached to the
motherboard?.

The DHCP/tftpd possiblities, and for snooping your neighbours' key strokes
are endless.