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Ideas for older computers?

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dandbonline

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I have a couple of older computers that I want to find some ideas for as far as what to do with them. I would love to turn one of them into a wireless router...I realize this isn't really cost effective, but I already have the stuff, and just want to learn.

As far as the computers...both of them would definitely run Windows XP, and one of them runs Windows 7 pretty good. I have heard about some type of OS (ClearOS???) that I can load to turn one of them into a wireless router. This is not for a corporate environment...so at most, I will have two ethernet and two wireless devices used. One of the wireless, and one of the ethernet devices are hardly ever used.

I have a two USB Wireless Dongles, and an extra NIC I can put in one of the machines. Is there a PC version of DD-WRT? Tomato? I also have a small hard drive that I can use. Thanks.
 
You can always turn one of those computers into a file server, HTPC, or a linux box.
 
I think what I want is some type of music server for one, and a wireless router for the other. I think the music server I have figured out....just no experience with turning a computer into a wireless router.
 
Check the Gen[H]ard FAQ for this question:
What should I do with my old PC?
 
You really don't need separate computes for serving and routing, not if they're recent (2004+ vintage)...and ESPECIALLY if one of them is a dual-core. Serving your files from the same machine routing the data will actually REDUCE your network bandwidth.

Also, if you want to make your own wireless router, you will have to find a Wireless NIC with Infrastructure support. Your average adapter does not support this feature. Here is an example on Linux:

http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/how-to-set-up-wireless-hotspot-access.html
 
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