Hi Mike,
that's a great idea.
What I know about networks I could write on the back of a envelope, a small envelope. The last couple of day I've trawled the net for
tutorials, videos, articles. Slowly building up the knowledge and tools to tackle it.
Lets face it there are millions of Atom based netbooks and similar out there. They can't communicate via Ethernet....Rubbish!. It means I'm
doing something wrong, familiar ground for me.
I don't have at home any known good network capable devices. I might take it to work and while the boss is not looking plug it in and see what
happens. I need to test the onboard ports, there are two of them. Trying a known good port on a plugin card is a good idea along the same lines.
As is trying to establish a link between my own computers with a twisted pair cable. That relies on me correctly setting up the link and given
infancy in matters of networking failure could be me rather than the device at each end.
There may yet be a specific reason that the Atom can't communicate to the ESS, throughput, inability to sustain UDP or similar but I refuse
to believe that it can't manage TCP/IP.
CNC has been one long learning experience for me and so it continues.
Craig