Laptops as routers

[Nikolas Britton]

Oh... If you don't want to do the dumpster diving then you can get some 
good stuff here:
http://www.retrobox.com/rbwww/home/search_results_pc_computers.asp?bin_id=world&page=1&Manufacturer_ID=&CPU_ID=&CPU_Speed_ID=&RAM_ID=&HD_Size_ID=&CD_ROM_Flag=&Price=&order_by=price%5Fcurrent%5Fselling%5Fprice+asc
Shipping & Handling is $27.50 per unit though.

Nikolas Britton wrote:

> Paul Hoffman wrote:
>
>> Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to 
>> be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle 
>> PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much more (having an Ethernet connector on 
>> the motherboard is fine, of course.) I don't want to run XWindows, 
>> and I'm sure 64 MB and a 1gig hard drive would suffice.
>>
>> Are there any brands/models I should lean towards? Ones I should avoid?
>>
>> --Paul Hoffman
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> Here is a better idea!
> Step 1: Go dumpster diving for old computers (Pentium 1 or better, 8MB 
> IDE Storage Device or better, and a minimun of 48MB/Ram).
> Step 2: Grab some networks cards wail your in the dumpster.
> Step 3: Install said network cards into computers.
> Step 4: Install and configure m0n0wall on said computers. 
> http://m0n0.ch/wall/
> Step 5: Profit???
> ------------------
> Total Cost: $0.00
>
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