Download link is in post #10. The XP/2000 graphical client is only 361kb, so you can download both the XP/2000 and the 98 client to a single floppy, for installation.
The hub will be sufficient to connect your boxes to the router. As long as you don't start all the clients at once, you connection is plenty good enough. Most of the time, the network is idle, and only comes into play, when starting a new run, and then you might have 5-10mb worth of stuff to download/upload per machine... 99% of the time, they're not consuming any bandwidth at all, just periodic uploads and downloads, and those are only like 500kb max, or about 1 high quality jpeg's worth, every 45 minutes or so.
No special setup instructions. I'd try a single graphical client on each machine, until you get used to how it runs. The only thing you have to do, is ensure that you use the same username for each installation.. .ie... "papasmurf", and then once you launch the client the first time, make sure that you put in team 36120 ... to credit you to the FReeper folders.
There are various links for checking stats, and all of them are linked in this thread. It'll probably take a good 12-18 hours for your first contribution to show up, and maybe longer, depending on what sort of project you get downloaded to you.
| Free Republic Folders |
| Date of last work unit | 2005-12-27 06:13:15 |
| Active CPUs within 50 days | 125 |
| Team Id | 36120 |
| Grand Score | 182660 (certificate) |
| Work Unit Count | 1516 (certificate) |
| Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) | 1168 of 41870 |
| Home Page | http://www.freerepublic.com |
| Fast Teampage URL | http://fah-web.stanford.edu/teamstats/team36120.html |