[sf-lug] setting up LAN

[Frantisek Apfelbeck]

Hi to all,
We have moved to a new house and I'm now figuring out how to connect to the Internet and how to set up a LAN in the house. I would like to ask if you can give me some advise and for links to resources. I have done that once before in Mexico on Ubuntu based machines but I have forget quite a lot and I would like to do it properly. Also we will be setting up cafe restaurant&bar (focused on fermentation both alcoholic and non alcoholic) in the upcoming months and I want to set up the network and be and admin again so time to improve I think. 

The budget is limited so rather cheaper options please :-) 

Many thank, below are some details..

Sincerely,

Frantisek

PS - DETAILS and Questions:

- Internet connection/source is a local village cafe, the distance would be between 25-35 m (around 100 feet lets say). I have CAT5 cable which I have to cut and connect to get the distance on at least two spots, is it OK? Shall I solder the wires back or twisting around each other and taping by electrician tape is OK? Or shall I get a new CAT5 or CAT5 enhanced wire shall I look for another specification on the wire like the type of insulation etc? Now I have 08747M LS CABLE UTP 4PR 24 AWG CM CAT5 75C KS VERIFIED KSC 3342 HDPE 2010 X5 - I do not know what most of that knows ...

- I will be connecting to a router in the cafe directly.

- In the house I need to connect several computers both Linux and Windows based. I assume that I need router and because I want also wireless I need another wireless router, correct? Of course more CAT5 cables ... Something specific about routers which I should care about?

- there will be max 3-4 computers connected in this network, there will be not a major data transfer between them, max copying some movie. On the other hand being able to watch a move from a computer in our living room but having that movie on some central shared hard drive would be nice but not necessary ...


- Do you think I should get one computer and dedicate it as a server? I have never run a server but I would like to start to learn how to do it. If so it would be Linux based but I'm not sure what distro shall I go for. I have used Ubuntu for past five years but I'm thinking about trying something else bit less user friendly and more terminal based so I improve a bit ...


- I wonder what would be a good tools to test the speed of the connection and network both in the cafe with my netbook (Ubuntu based) and in my house so I can compare (especially the speed of Internet connection) and bandwidth in network (not sure about the proper terms too much, I did not do this really before)

- Anything else what I should have or do what I forget? 


- Many thanks for any tips and suggestions!
 
Frantisek Algoldor Apfelbeck


biotechnologist&kvasir and hacker


http://www.frantisekapfelbeck.org


"There is no way to peace, peace is the way." Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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