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How can I share one DSL connection?
Name: Larry Date: July 18, 2002 at 18:37:20 Pacific
Comment:
I just got one DSL connection and I got 3 computers at my home. I wanted to share one internect connection with those all 3 computers.. How can I do? If anyone can answer this question, it would be nice for me.
Name: Rich Date: July 18, 2002 at 18:43:37 Pacific
Reply:
The best way is probably to buy a router. Linksys makes a pretty good one and it is easy to setup. Another way and a cheaper way is to buy a hub and connect the dsl into the uplink port and then connect each of the computers into the hub... but I do not know how many ip addresses you can have... so that might not work too well...
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Response Number 2
Name: Ůmega-C-oDE Date: July 18, 2002 at 19:04:17 Pacific
Reply:
What you want to do is get yourself a DSL/Cable Router and a switch and a couple of CAT5 cables
connect the phone line to the DSL DSL to the Router Router to the Switch Switch to the computers
and thats it ;)
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Response Number 3
Name: Anon Imus Date: July 18, 2002 at 19:36:04 Pacific
Reply:
Get a Linksys BEFSR41 Router You can get one for less than $70.00 and you just plug your dsl modem into it and plug your computers into it and in 5 minutes you are ready to go. You do not nead a seperate switch it's built into the router.
There are other brands of router too but I prefer the Linksys for it's ease of use and have never had a problem with their products.
i usually surf a forum for my cable isp, and there are alot of complaints about linksys...losing sync, etc. i hear if you want to save on price, go with d-link or something like that
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Response Number 5
Name: michael Date: July 18, 2002 at 20:39:48 Pacific
Reply:
Using a 2nd NIC in one machine and a Proxy server is even cheaper. AnalogX's Proxy does the job for free. There are others.
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Response Number 6
Name: Jeff Date: July 18, 2002 at 22:29:45 Pacific
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I have a server and three computers on my lan, with a cable connection. Since we are too cheat to buy a router, we have two nics in the "server", and run the internet into one of them. The other nic goes out to the hub, and the rest of the computers go into the hub.
I call it a "server" because it's only a 233 mhz pentium with 16 mb of simm.
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Response Number 7
Name: fret Date: July 19, 2002 at 13:07:56 Pacific
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