A networking issue

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Shaun

Hi,

I am setting up a small office network (3 PC's). There is one internet
connection (a connection to the office block LAN), we all want to share the
printer (this will be a network printer) and all PC's will be running XP. So
we will have one PC as the ICS host which will always be on as described
here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/howto/homenet/default.asp . So
I have bought two network cards for the ICS host and here comes my question:
The installation documentation advises a procedure for Wake On LAN
requirement, which, if required, asks the reader to plug in a 3 PIN WOL
connector. Do I need to worry about this? I ask because I can only see one
connection on my motherboard...

Thanks for any advice offered
 
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Shaun said:
Hi,

I am setting up a small office network (3 PC's). There is one internet
connection (a connection to the office block LAN), we all want to
share the printer (this will be a network printer) and all PC's will
be running XP. So we will have one PC as the ICS host which will
always be on as described here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/howto/homenet/default.asp
. So I have bought two network cards for the ICS host and here comes
my question: The installation documentation advises a procedure for
Wake On LAN requirement, which, if required, asks the reader to plug
in a 3 PIN WOL connector. Do I need to worry about this? I ask
because I can only see one connection on my motherboard...

Thanks for any advice offered
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In a word, no, you don't need to worry about it. Wake-On-LAN is a handy
feature for larger networks, but really isn't needed for something as small
as you describe.
 
Frank GoBell said:
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In a word, no, you don't need to worry about it. Wake-On-LAN is a handy
feature for larger networks, but really isn't needed for something as small
as you describe.
Click to expand...

Ok great,

So i just leave them unplugged then?
 
Shaun said:
Ok great,

So i just leave them unplugged then?
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Yes, you can leave the WOL cable disconnected without any problems. I
work for a school district with a very large network and thousands of
PCs and we never connect the WOL cables and disable all WOL features in
both the BIOS and network card settings with no ill effects. In fact in
our environment (which includes Novell, AS400 and NT servers) WOL
combined with standby and sleep modes enabled causes problems such as
workstations being disconnected from servers, so we disable all those
features.

Steve
 
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