I have three pcs connected to a small business network via a hub. I recently purchased DSL and need to give access to the internet to all three computers. Someone recommended a router. I have successfully installed and connected to the dsl internet on one pc. How should I go about getting the others connected, Replace the hub with a router? Use a router with the hub? In either case, how would the connection be made? Thanks -BH-

If all three PC are close in proximity, you can get away with a router that has a switch (4 or 8 port) built in. Use cat5 to connect all the computers to the router. Configure the router for DHCP, set the comps to obtain IP automaticaly. Pulg your DSL modem into the WAN port on router and set your user/password for the internet. I would use a linksys router. They are inexpensive and easy to setup.

ditto but I use Netgear routers which are also easy, cheap and reliable. Whatever ISP provided information concerning a direct connect to the dsl is required on the wan port of the router.

What wanderer and scooter78 are saying is the best way to go but to give you some other ideas for future computers is you can use the hub in conjunction with the router. Allow the router to connect to the internet using its built in PPPoE. Connect the hub to one of the ports on the router and then connect the computers to the hub. Use a crossover cable from the router to the hub and patch cables to the computers. A DSL\Cable router usually has 4 or 8 ports, now one is connected to the hub...use the spare ports and then use the hub for the remaining computers. Furthermore if you have DHCP enabled on the router it will provide private IPs for all the computers connected. If your hub has a uplink port then you don't need a crossover cable if you go from an uplink port on the hub, to a normal port on the other hub/switch, you use a patch cable. Crossover is only used if you dont have uplink ports, or one is already being used.