[Pc_Support] Re: Pc_Support Internet (LAN)

[Homer Whittaker]

My home is serviced by Road Runner cable.  The cable runs on the
electric poles some 120 feet from the cable modem located in my office.
The signal then goes to an IPCop 10 feet away, to a hub with 4 computers
attached.  My wife's machine is attached to the hub with 60 foot of
regular telephone wire, not Cat 5.  She has Mandrake on her machine.
I have a 10/100 ethernet card (actually two of them) that is/was not too
swift but one of the two usually worked. As of several days ago her
internet connection refuses to come up, using Mozilla and the KDE
browser. The hub connection does not show up from her machine, so in
essence it is not connected.

I hesitate using WiFi because her machine is fairly close to the road
and might be hit by any old snoop going by.  One question is,would
another 10/100/1000 eth card help?  Would another hub work?  Or what?
Homer Whittaker