Cable Modem Question

[wnied]

Hey All

I have a home computer on a cable modem. Its fast enough to the point I want to share my internet connection with my laptop. My thoughts are this. Put another NIC card in my computer, connect that NIC to a 5 port 10/100 hub and config my lappy to accept an IP addy from Win98se ICS dhcp service...plug my lappy into the 5 port hub...Happy Lappy!

Anyone see any probs with this?
All helps appreciated.
wnied

 

[jmcoreymv]

Seems fine.

 

[BCYL]

Yep, this setup looks good...

 

[SufferinSuccotash]

No problems that I can see!

 

[pdo]

or just get a crossover cable and skip the HUB.

 

[Bglad]

Yeah, why a hub for just one computer? Don't need it. And if you are running Win98 SE you can use internet connection sharing and save yourself the $80 for a hub.

 

[wnied]

Thanks all for the comments, but I dont think I made myself clear. I am running my setup as follows...

Cable Modem
to
5 port 10/100 Linksys hub
to to
My computer 2nd machine
to
My 2nd NIC
to
10/100 hub
to
1-4 computers

Make more sense that way?
wnied

 

[rabbit fighter]

Two hubs? Why two hubs?

Don't need that second NIC in the main pc.

Why not

cable modem -> hub -> all PCs ?

You can uplink the hubs if you need more than 5 ports, but I don't see why you need them, unless that main PC with its two nics is taking up two spots...

 

[BCYL]

Correct me if I am wrong...

But cable modem -> hub -> all PCs wouldn't work unless you have multiple IPs from your cable modem company... If you only have 1 IP, only one company will be able to use the Internet at any one time. You will need some kind of proxy software or router to share an IP between all your computers.

What I would do is:
cable modem -> main PC with 2 NICs (one for cable modem and the other for internal network) -> hub -> all other PCs

 

[skriefal]

Do not connect the cable modem directly to a hub unless you're VERY sure of what you're doing. It probably won't work, and even if it does you could anger your cable provider by grabbing more than 1 IP on their network. They could disconnect your service for that...

 

[cparker]

Get a linksys cable modem router, preferably the one with the 4 port switch. It will solve all your problems and then some.

 

[wnied]

Hehe...ok one last time. I have a cable modem, connected to a hub. The hub is connected to two computers. Both have their own IP addresses.
One of the computers, I want to setup the ICS service in Win98se using the DHCP service, to divvy out IPs to another 4 port hub, for connecting four friends computers under that one computers IP Addy. Can I do this??


wnied

 

[warlord]

yes you can, thats how most people set up their own lans, that way they don't have to pay the cable company for the extra ip.

I don't know if you just mistyped or what, but just so you know, when you use ICS it doesn't dish out ip's, it just splits the one you have. I mention this cause it can (not necessarily) cause problems if you are trying to game.

good luck

 

[pylorns]

I have my 5 computers on a network with my cable modem connected to a hub, each using a separate ip, works fine. Cable modem provider, oblivious to the fact.

 

[cisco]

I've run my cable / network like yours for awhile because the computers were on oposite ends of my house. It was unstable (didn't always work). the best setup is to connect the cable modem to a router
(ck hot deals recomend the RT311 about $100.00), then to the hub (trying either a straight cable or crossover one), then connect each computer to the hub (one nic card per computer), I ran 100 feet nic cable for one, leave the hub,cable modem and router always on and
perhaps one computer. Putting two cards in one computer isn't nesessary , neither are two hubs.
leave all the computers on DHCP and setup the router to control everything..
hope this helps..

 

[wnied]

Ok Guys,

That being said, I think I will just go for multihoming one of the computers with two NICs and just hooking up the laptop instead of using the second connection for a hub for 4 extra computer connections. Now I'm also thinking of making my hard drive in my computer into a swappable drive, and having two or three seperate drives with different Operating systems. I.e.(Linux,Win2000pro,Win2000adv serv,WinME & Win98se)...Does anyone have a setup like this? If so is there anything to be careful of when doing this? Here are my system specs:

Pentium III 600b @ 133
Sparkle ATX 300W PS
Asus P3B-F
256mb Micron Cas3 PC-100
WD 17.2GB HDD
Creative 48x CDROM
Internal IDE Zip 100
Voodoo3 3000 PCI
Soundblaster Live Value
MS Natural Keyboard Pro
MS Intellimouse Optical

Thanks,
wnied

 

[Relayer]

Hey pylorns!

You need to run a spell check on you signature...

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