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router question
Name: Al Date: September 21, 2002 at 10:43:37 Pacific OS: 98se CPU/Ram: 667, 192 MB
Comment:
now have 3 computers hooked up to internet on dialup using ICS. want to upgrade to cable internet serrvice and get a router. question I have is: using a router, do I continue to use ICS? or does each pc hook up to the router and internet independent of the others? could someone give a brief explanation or suggest a website for me to look at that will detail some of this? Al
Name: dude Date: September 21, 2002 at 13:20:46 Pacific
Reply:
If you are going to use a router, you don't need to use ICS also. Connect the router WAN port to the cable modem. If you get a 4 port router, you just connect the computers to the router. If you get a single port router, you need to connect it to a hub UPLINK port. Then you connect the computers to the hub.
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