What hardware do I need for DSL and two PCs?

[BNILSSON]

Hi group.
I just signed up with EarthLink DSL service, (don't know how good there
service is,) but anyway; I have two PCs and I'm wondering what hardware
I would need in order to set up to use the DSL service for both of them.
Any help and advice will be appreciated.
Thanks
BN



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[JAD]

Earthlink DSL, AFA my connection goes is, perfect. You will need either:

3 NIC cards
1 crossover cable, 1 regular(straight through)/crossover cable supplied with
install kit.
2 NICs in the computer that will have the modem near it.
1 nic in the other machine
crossover from NIC to NIC of the two machines and a regular cable to the
modem (or whatever is required) and the unused NIC in the first machine.
Home networking wizard will allow you to selected the NIC for internet and
then the NIC for connecting the two machine together.

OR:
A router and 2 NIC cards and 1 crossover, 2 regular cables ( crossover
as needed), Some Modems require a crossover and some don't. They usually
supply the correct cable needed to hook up one machine to the modem.
Don't bother with switches or hubs, routers are cheap enough now and will
give you some protection from internet attacks.
Modem cable to the router uplink port and 2 cables, 1 running to each
machine.

OR: and I don't recommend it but you could use internet connection sharing
(ICS) and a serial cable, YUK slow as hell and you need one machine ON all
the time for the other to connect.


That's it, in a nutshell.

 

[Strontium]

Two helpful resources:

www.dslreports.com

www.wown.com

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[BNILSSON]

Strontium and JAD!
Thanks a lot guys! Sure appreciate all your help.
BN

 

[Stacey]

Hi group.
I just signed up with EarthLink DSL service, (don't know how good there
service is,) but anyway; I have two PCs and I'm wondering what hardware
I would need in order to set up to use the DSL service for both of them.
Any help and advice will be appreciated.
Thanks
BN

I'm using an old pentium 233 running mandrake linux 8.2 as a
router/gateway/firewall. It has 2 nics in it, one to the modem and one
connected to the internal network/switch. All my other PC's are connected
to the switch and point to the router as the gateway. Works great and the
firewall is "stealth" i.e. the machines doesn't appear connected to the net
so no one even knows it's there to try to hack it!


But the easiest solution is to get something like a linksys router, just not
as secure.

 

[Strontium]

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Stacey stood up, at show-n-tell, and said:

I'm using an old pentium 233 running mandrake linux 8.2 as a
router/gateway/firewall. It has 2 nics in it, one to the modem and one
connected to the internal network/switch. All my other PC's are
connected to the switch and point to the router as the gateway. Works
great and the firewall is "stealth" i.e. the machines doesn't appear
connected to the net so no one even knows it's there to try to hack
it!


But the easiest solution is to get something like a linksys router,
just not as secure.

Agreed, hardware-wise. However, for a person that knows not much about
networking, ideal. I use a Linksys. No need for a true router.
Sometimes, it's not the hardware that is used, but the user that is using
it, that maximizes it's capability.

 

[Dogbert]

I would put a NIC in each machine. Then, get a 4-port DSL router. Then,
you plug the PCs to the router, the router to the DSL modem, do some
woftware configuring, and you should be in. Then, since the DSL is always
on, put a decent firewall on each machine and you are ready to go.

 

[BNILSSON]

Thanks for that info., Dogbert.
Q.- What software are you referring to, that I would need to configure?
stated in your post.
Thanks
BN