I'm trying to use a hub and a router, in doing this its letting me network, my computers.
2006-12-05 06:25:32 · 8 answers · asked by sublimejunkie1975 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
Why? What would be the purpose? I would keep the router in place, and let that split the signal among your network. It provides you with some protection and allows you to connect up more machines than 2 IPs from your ISP would allow.
If you really have 2 IP adresses from your ISP, disable DHCP on your router, plug the incoming line into a LAN port and then plug in your two other machines (Or just use your hub/switch). If your ISP has given you static IPs, enter them on the two machines you want connected.
2006-12-05 06:32:04 · answer #1 · answered by cornpie jones 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can't really understand your question, but the other answerer is pretty much right. If your ISP assigns you a static IP, that becomes the address of the router that's connected to the modem (cable/DSL/whatever). Your router then assigns IPs like 192.168.1.x to all the computers on your network and handles the job of directing all the traffic that comes into your router (the ISP-assigned IP) to the individual computers.
2006-12-05 06:29:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How many computers are you connecting to your network? If it is more than two, then you need to use that router. You could connect the Hub first and put a static IP into one of the computers and connect the router to the hub. You would then need to set the other IP to the router. Beyond that I am not sure what else you could do. That will allow you to use one of the IP addresses for a computer.
2006-12-05 06:29:54 · answer #3 · answered by chuck g 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, but you can't do that with a SOHO grade router.
If you have 2 IPs from your ISP and want to use one on each PC, remove the router and connect the hub to the DSL or cable modem. Then connect the PCs to the hub as well. Make SURE that you have a firewall installed on each PC, however, as you will no longer have the benefit of the NAT firewall in the router.
2006-12-05 06:53:37 · answer #4 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You might be able to do this with a switch, but you will not be able to network your computers together. You'd be basically adding NICs to your modem with the switch, but again if you share resources among your machines, you must use a router to do so.
2006-12-05 06:48:46 · answer #5 · answered by dan731028 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adding to what already said addresses in ranges:
10.10.10.10 – 10.255.255.255
172.16.0.0. – 173.31.255.255
192.168.0.0. -192.168.255 255
are assigned to LAN communication ONLY (address in range are often referred as private IPs) - no packet with address in range above can travel across Internet. What routers do, is when it receive communication incoming to your PUBLIC IP from Internet (where public IP is x.x.x.x whatever – address assigned by your ISP), it rewrites packet inserting private IP, so packet can travel to PC to which communication is destined to (which is disambiguated by port number). Summarizing PC really needs private address (192.168.x.x), while it is router which uses public one. All communication incoming to router from internet is resend to corresponding client PCs with use of private IPs.
Now some ISP as they started to run out of addresses, started bit questionable practice of assigning private addresses to their customers where role of Internet Getaway is done by some ISP router. Every customer receives address from private range not having public IP at all. If that’s the case, you won’t be able to obtain public IP, unless you negotiate with ISP or switch them.
2006-12-05 07:07:07 · answer #6 · answered by Lisa M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buy a switch instead of a router then.
John
A+ Certified
2006-12-05 06:29:32 · answer #7 · answered by A+ Certified Professional 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your router won't pass through your ISP's I.P. numbers, it will assign it's own always. That's how they work
2006-12-05 06:27:02 · answer #8 · answered by rchlbsxy2 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋