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What hardware do I need for DSL and two PCs?
Hi group.
I just signed up with EarthLink DSL service, (don't know how good there service is,) but anyway; I have two PCs and I'm wondering what hardware I would need in order to set up to use the DSL service for both of them. Any help and advice will be appreciated. Thanks BN http://community.webtv.net/BNILSSON/MYPAGE |
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Earthlink DSL, AFA my connection goes is, perfect. You will need either:
3 NIC cards 1 crossover cable, 1 regular(straight through)/crossover cable supplied with install kit. 2 NICs in the computer that will have the modem near it. 1 nic in the other machine crossover from NIC to NIC of the two machines and a regular cable to the modem (or whatever is required) and the unused NIC in the first machine. Home networking wizard will allow you to selected the NIC for internet and then the NIC for connecting the two machine together. OR: A router and 2 NIC cards and 1 crossover, 2 regular cables ( crossover as needed), Some Modems require a crossover and some don't. They usually supply the correct cable needed to hook up one machine to the modem. Don't bother with switches or hubs, routers are cheap enough now and will give you some protection from internet attacks. Modem cable to the router uplink port and 2 cables, 1 running to each machine. OR: and I don't recommend it but you could use internet connection sharing (ICS) and a serial cable, YUK slow as hell and you need one machine ON all the time for the other to connect. That's it, in a nutshell. wrote in message ... Hi group. I just signed up with EarthLink DSL service, (don't know how good there service is,) but anyway; I have two PCs and I'm wondering what hardware I would need in order to set up to use the DSL service for both of them. Any help and advice will be appreciated. Thanks BN http://community.webtv.net/BNILSSON/MYPAGE |
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Strontium and JAD!
Thanks a lot guys! Sure appreciate all your help. BN |
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Stacey stood up, at show-n-tell, and said: wrote: Hi group. I just signed up with EarthLink DSL service, (don't know how good there service is,) but anyway; I have two PCs and I'm wondering what hardware I would need in order to set up to use the DSL service for both of them. Any help and advice will be appreciated. Thanks BN I'm using an old pentium 233 running mandrake linux 8.2 as a router/gateway/firewall. It has 2 nics in it, one to the modem and one connected to the internal network/switch. All my other PC's are connected to the switch and point to the router as the gateway. Works great and the firewall is "stealth" i.e. the machines doesn't appear connected to the net so no one even knows it's there to try to hack it! :-) But the easiest solution is to get something like a linksys router, just not as secure. Agreed, hardware-wise. However, for a person that knows not much about networking, ideal. I use a Linksys. No need for a true router. Sometimes, it's not the hardware that is used, but the user that is using it, that maximizes it's capability. -- Strontium "Shortcuts are self-defeating. Mean. If you cannot do it, clean, you'll never reach your reward..." - 311 |
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I would put a NIC in each machine. Then, get a 4-port DSL router. Then,
you plug the PCs to the router, the router to the DSL modem, do some woftware configuring, and you should be in. Then, since the DSL is always on, put a decent firewall on each machine and you are ready to go. |
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Thanks for that info., Dogbert.
Q.- What software are you referring to, that I would need to configure? stated in your post. Thanks BN |
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