Summary: Well, blocking ports is a good thing. You only want to open ports for specific applications that need them. For example, to use Remote Desktop on a Wi...
Summary: You could start with running WinIPcfg and looking at the "Default Gateway" setting and see if this gives your the local IP address of the router. Norm...
Summary: Hello guys, I need your help, but please don't tell me I dont need ICS when I use router. In fact I need it, because my router (linksys wrt54gc - thou...
Summary: A router will not require the "main computer" to be turned on for others to function. The way it works is, the ethernet cable from the modem provided...
Summary: If your wireless router has a built in hub/ switch you could onnect one of its ports to link to your other router. In effect use it has a hub istead ...
Summary: Hi, I have this situation: There is a LAN in the hostel where I live (with about 100 computers). There are 2 pc-s in my room. One of them has two netw...
Summary: For starters, one of these are not the same as the others. The bridge is an Ethernet device -- Layer 1. It simply receives electrical impulses from ...
Summary: Greetings people, I'm having a small networking problem. My home network runs through two routers, both wireless, and I connect to the internet ulti...
Summary: Perhaps you can give me a little more insight into how the school networks work. I know that if I connect the WAN port of a router to the port in my r...
Summary: I think you need to get more information concerning the TAP product. It makes no sense that you would need ICS or that your local ip range doesn't wo...
Summary: Personally, I would put the highspeed modem, router and switch with the patch panel (where you terminate all cables). It would look like this: cable/...
Summary: "You guys are confusing me." Sorry, Lisa. I should have quit after my Response Number 1 because I do not know Windows ME and I don't know what your ne...
Summary: I wouldn't trust my customers information with a software based tool. You can't block ports or do any real firewall configuration. Cost of a router wi...
Summary: Hi. I have bought (accidentally)a switch instead of a router. I would like to connect to computers to a broadband connection using the switch and one...
Summary: You do NOT plug the cable modem into the uplink port of a router! You plug it into the WAN port of the router. And if its a hub, you plug it into the ...
Summary: Down boys; you're confusing him. By default all XP installations turn on an internal firewall. Doesn't matter if you enable ICS or not. If you're u...
Summary: If you want your lan to connect to the internet, that makes thing abit different. A common setup is using a cable/dsl modem to connect to the ISP acco...
Summary: I am fairly inexperienced with working in domain networks and am trying to set up a small network at my house. I have a server running Windows Server ...
Summary: Hi all. I'm hoping a network guru can help me out here. I have a network installation project at a client site and I've mentally mapped out how I ...
Summary: Yes you can. Just plug the Wireless Access Point into one of the ports on the router. It should pick up a DHCP IP address from the router and you wi...
Summary: Some ISPs require a MAC address to be registered but since you were able to connect each PC separately to the modem and have it work I don't think tha...
Summary: Plug the router that you want to make an AP out into one of you PC's with a patch cable. Plug one end into the PC and the other end into one of the nu...
Summary: I have a USR8000 broadband router which has a serial port for an analog modem (as well as an ethernet jack), with a USR v.92 external modem hooked up ...
Summary: Normally you wouldn't use a router if all you wanted to do was to connect computers in a Local Area Network. You would use a switch or a hub. However...
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