an eithernet cable connects to my computer. Is there a way I can attach to computers to this same line?
2007-01-18 00:34:22 · 6 answers · asked by badmanpoker 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
Yes. Purchase a router. Instead of the cable coming out of the modem into your computer, it would go into the router. Then you can connect two computers to the router and share the internet connection.
2007-01-18 00:38:42 · answer #1 · answered by lifesajoy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do a quick search for a network hub. D-link, Linksys, Netgear all make models from relatively inexpensive to just plain silly.
For home or small office use, you might consider a wireless hub. The one I use has 4 Ethernet ports, the up-link port for the cable modem, and support for B/G wireless.
Unless you'll have a lot of 'local' traffic (your computers talking) don't worry about getting the latest and greatest hub. Your Internet connection is probably only 10Mbps or less so any hub connections (fixed or wireless) that go over that are to a degree wasted.
2007-01-18 00:47:37 · answer #2 · answered by Clif S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get an old Pentium class computer, between a 90Mhz and a 800Mhz box, off the curb, or at the thrift shop. Have a CDrom and a hard drive above 1 Gb. Memory can be 32 to 128 Mb RAM.
It will run without the monitor and keyboard/ mouse and CD when you are finished. Stick in three ethernet cards (ebay, in some lots, they run less than $5).
You grab the FREE http:/ipcop.org and burn the ISO to CDrom, and boot that computer from the CDrom. Configure one ethernet card to be the RED one, coming in from the cable modem.
The two others are GREEN, one for each computer. Or, only put in one GREEN ethernet card, and hook it to a switch hub that sends the right stuff to each computer.
PLEASE use a firewall router, if you don't run the FREE IPCOP box, because without a hardware firewall, all your computers belong to some zombie net in Asia in about half an hour after hooking in to the Internet!
and, for 5500 free games, programs, Office Suites, grab PCLinuxOS, and let it boot live in the CDrom.
2007-01-18 01:51:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
no the provider would be in simple terms as rapid because it became. although in case you're applying greater then a million laptop at a time they are able to take broadband faraway from the different which includes downloading and observing video clips on utube on an identical time. A router splits the needs of the gadgets in probabilities yet provided that they are lively. if something you need to look and spot in case you will get verizion fios on your section its 5 x as rapid as roadrunner. and much less expencive then Time Warners monoply.
2016-12-12 14:13:30 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes but you will have to buy a router. Then you will plug the ethernet cable into the router and you can plug the computers network cards into the router. If you want to have the computers in different rooms you can buy wireless routers but then you will have to buy a wireless network card for one of the computers.
2007-01-18 00:47:23 · answer #5 · answered by walkerhound03 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2007-01-18 00:43:14 · answer #6 · answered by lisateric 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋