anyone out there sharing a cable modem connection between two home pcs?

it has been suggested i buy a router and i found several home market ones
from £40 upwards. what am i looking for in a home router?

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Ian Lincoln Independent I.T Consultant

i've looked at several btc, no name and mentorn. The mentorn openly
advertised 4 port switching and 2 wan. boasting natural firewall
protection.

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Ian Lincoln Independent I.T Consultant
"WiScottsin" <> wrote in message
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>
> "Deathwalker" <ian-> wrote in message
> news:Eb1Ka.4953$...
> > it has been suggested i buy a router and i found several home market
ones
> > from £40 upwards. what am i looking for in a home router?
> >
> > --
> > Ian Lincoln Independent I.T Consultant
> >
> >
>
> You are an Indepenant I.T. consultant and you don't know what to look for
in
> a consumer grade router?
>
> It really depends on what you want to do. Linksys/Netgear/Dlink etc..
makes
> models in both wireless if you wish, or just RJ45 ports if you don't want
> them. If all you want it for is to share an internet connection ( and not
> play with DMZ ports, virtual servers, etc... ) - then buy the whichever
one
> is on sale.
>
> If you are looking for wireless, the new Linksys WRT54G is nice - it does
> both 802.11 B/G, and it has good range in my experience. I previously had
a
> Dlink DI813b, and that one worked well too ( although not as good of range
> for the wireless ).
>
>
>
>

due to costs i was going hard cable route. laptop has built in 10/100 and
desktop has pci 10/100. cable modem has both rj45 and usb. using usb at
the moment so that ethernet is free for networking to laptop. i want to use
a router so as i don't need a host pc. so i want one that will clone my
desktop mac address so that telewest servers think both my machines is the
right one. i've seen one router that offers natural firewall protection. it
says two wan ports and 4 lan port switch. one wan is the input for the
cable and one output. that would leave me with still a host for the wan and
a 4 port lan switch which isn't quite what i want.

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Ian Lincoln Independent I.T Consultant
"Kyle Brant" <> wrote in message
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> Depending upon your desires, you can take a couple different
> approaches. For the cost of a few network cards (which are relatively
> inexpensive anymore, I purchased 2 D-link 10/100 NICs yesterday for
> $15 each with a $5 rebate on each) you can put 2 NICs in one computer
> (1 for connection to the cablemodem and 1 for a local LAN connection
> to your "other" computer or to a hub/switch). This approach requires
> a hub or a switch OR you can use a crossover cable if you only want to
> connect 2 computers. The computer connected to the cablemodem is then
> setup to run Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) and shares the
> connection with the "other" computer on the local network. With this
> approach, I recommend using a software firewall on the ICS computer,
> and Kerio has a nice free firewall program (formerly the Tiny Personal
> Firewall program). Also, Zone-Alarm is another free firewall program.
>
> If you prefer to spend a bit more money and take the "buy a new
> router" approach, then you may wish to investigate wireless networking
> connections, to eliminate the wiring of network cable through the
> house. Linksys, Netgear and D-link are a few companies that make a
> nice wireless cablemodem/router/firewall product. One thing to note
> is the wireless networking is not nearly as fast as cabled networking,
> but for internet surfing, wireless has adequate bandwidth capability
> (the faster wireless routers and NICs using 802.11a, I think is the
> standard, and will cost about 50% more; 802.11b is the slower
> standard, this is off the top of my head, I could have these
> backwards).
>
> For a bit less money, you can purchase a router/firewall that is
> non-wireless or hard wired (installation of cabling required). Some
> applications do not "play well" with routers that have "built-in"
> firewalls and tweaking of the router is often times required. A
> cheaper router will have less "tweaking features" to open up ports for
> finicky applications, so beware, the name brand routers are worth the
> money, don't buy a cheapie. Cheap routers may have only 1 option to
> overcome NAT and port forwarding problems, that is, placing the entire
> computer in what's called a "DMZ" mode, where no firewall protection
> is provided.
>
> I use a 10/100 switch, and an old 550 MHz k6-2+ machine as my
> router/firewall (running win2k) and it works nicely, but must be
> powered up at all times to provide an internet connection to other
> machines on my local network.
>
> Sites worth reviewing:
> www.practicallynetworked.com
> http://www.wown.info/realindx.htm
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Kyle
> tired of spam, no email address
> "Deathwalker" <ian-> wrote in message
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> | it has been suggested i buy a router and i found several home market
> ones
> | from £40 upwards. what am i looking for in a home router?
> |
> | --
> | Ian Lincoln Independent I.T Consultant
> |
> |
>

I have had my Linksys router for over a year and have had no problems (
running 24/7 ). It's a 4port, wired with NAT.

I'd recommend against a wireless....that's just another security hole
begging to be hacked.

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Deathwalker <ian-> wrote in message
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> it has been suggested i buy a router and i found several home market ones
> from £40 upwards. what am i looking for in a home router?
>
> --
> Ian Lincoln Independent I.T Consultant
>
>

The Netgear wireless routers offer mac address access control, i.e.,
it identifies wireless cards and lets you "allow" access only from the
"approved" mac addresses. No doubt, someone could spoof packets to
get in, but who in your neighborhood is gonna be that "hi tech".
Plus, there is encryption available for wireless data
transmission/reception. The security is there, you merely need to set
it up right with the netgear products. I installed a wireless system
for a friend, and it was relatively easy to set this stuff up.

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Kyle
tired of spam, no email address
"The TweakOholic" <> wrote in message
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| I have had my Linksys router for over a year and have had no
problems (
| running 24/7 ). It's a 4port, wired with NAT.
|
| I'd recommend against a wireless....that's just another security
hole
| begging to be hacked.
|
| --
| -------------------------
| Just another Democratic Slave
| NO more Corporate Government
| Deathwalker <ian-> wrote in message
| news:Eb1Ka.4953$...
| > it has been suggested i buy a router and i found several home
market ones
| > from £40 upwards. what am i looking for in a home router?
| >
| > --
| > Ian Lincoln Independent I.T Consultant
| >
| >
|
|

Installed a Linksys wireless setup last year for some elderly
folks that had a new notebook and wanted to use their cable
Broadband from the recliner.
I did a bit of reading to be prepared and then found WinXP,
upon inserting the wireless card, announced it had found the
connection and it was done and over before I could believe it.
No doubt the notebook having the software for the card pre-installed
helped ease the installation, but I've been impressed each time I work
with WinXP how much more user (novice) friendly it is than previous
versions of Windows.

Frank


"Kyle Brant" <> wrote in message news:<bdbjl9$rblmq$>...
> The Netgear wireless routers offer mac address access control, i.e.,
> it identifies wireless cards and lets you "allow" access only from the
> "approved" mac addresses. No doubt, someone could spoof packets to
> get in, but who in your neighborhood is gonna be that "hi tech".
> Plus, there is encryption available for wireless data
> transmission/reception. The security is there, you merely need to set
> it up right with the netgear products. I installed a wireless system
> for a friend, and it was relatively easy to set this stuff up.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Kyle
> tired of spam, no email address
> "The TweakOholic" <> wrote in message
> news:nD9Ka.13411$ le.rogers.com...
> | I have had my Linksys router for over a year and have had no
> problems (
> | running 24/7 ). It's a 4port, wired with NAT.
> |
> | I'd recommend against a wireless....that's just another security
> hole
> | begging to be hacked.
> |
> | --
> | -------------------------
> | Just another Democratic Slave
> | NO more Corporate Government
> | Deathwalker <ian-> wrote in message
> | news:Eb1Ka.4953$...
> | > it has been suggested i buy a router and i found several home
> market ones
> | > from £40 upwards. what am i looking for in a home router?
> | >
> | > --
> | > Ian Lincoln Independent I.T Consultant
> | >
> | >
> |
> |