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?? re: Cable to hub - hub to computers does not work.
Friday, December 13, 2002 at 7:31 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by andy
(1 messages posted)
Ok so if you have a router and want winxp to work with win 98 computers on the same
network and share files and printers and all that, how do we do that?? Every forum
I look at get really close to the answer and then trows in something like use the
xp pc as a host with ics which is crappy unless you dedicate a pc to it. Otherwise,
you have to worry about crashing a connection somewhere in the house everytime you
try to reboot.
I got a real cool laptop with xp here, need a network solution
On Friday, October 18, 2002 at 10:00 am, Adam wrote:
>You can't use a hub to distribute an IP to multiple computers, you need to use a
>DSL/Cable router that implements network address translation. What that means is
>your ISP gives you one IP address, say 157.209.72.202, and only one computer at
a
>time can use it.... while the cable router will instead assign each computer a private
>IP, directing traffic through ports....
>Anyway, get a cable switch.... they're only like $50 now.
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