John W. Colby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Mon Nov 8 18:51:29 CST 2004
Forget telephony. Get her a wireless NIC that will take an external antenna. Build / buy a coffee can directional antenna. Connect it to her wireless NIC, and thus her to your wireless router. She now has screaming internet access. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1641185,00.asp http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448 http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/has.html Or just google pringle antenna Other useful places. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1273593,00.asp http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,37024,00.asp This stuff actually works John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: http://folding.stanford.edu/ -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Drew Wutka Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 7:18 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: [dba-Tech] Determine if modem should answer or not. Okay, I have a problem, that I am relatively clueless on where to start. I'll try to make this short and sweet. My best friend in the world lives about 1000 feet from me. She has had a cell phone, and cell phone only for a while. Her budget is very tight. She has a computer (actually a little better then my home desktop), but no way to get on the internet. She doesn't have cable, and until recently, no land phone. Her mother is getting her a land phone. Now she would like internet connectivity. So would I, cause I would like to be able to just email her sometimes! Problem, even really cheap dialup is $9.99 a month, and that's money she can barely spend. I, on the other hand, have a SCREAMING DSL connection (3 mgb down, and 384kb up). I also have Windows 2000 server, which has Routing and Remote Access, so I can actually connect her to my network, and thus out to the internet, through RAS. That, I can do. Problem, one, I have no modem. (I'm working on that!) Two, I only have one phone line, and there is no reason for me to have 2. The second line would be just for her, and would also be more expensive then her just getting dialup. If I connect my home phone to my server, however, it will answer on every call. Sort of annoying, because then I lose my answering machine, and I wouldn't get messages. What I need to do, is to have the modem pickup, only if the caller id (which I have) matches HER home number. (If she wants to call me, she can call me with her cell). Any ideas? I know I'll need to use Telephony, but that is the limit of what I know on this subject. Drew _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com