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sharing esat bt dsl connection

mayto · 2007-02-17 12:58:41

a friend in work has esat bb and got basic modem with1x rj45 and 1x usb port. know nothing about this modem myself, but can i use a switch to share the connection between 2 pc's or do i need use a router. if a router is needed ,i have a spare linksys wrt54g , can i preconfigure it so he can plug it in and it will work.

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17-02-2007 1:58pm

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mayto

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a friend in work has esat bb and got basic modem with1x rj45 and 1x usb port. know nothing about this modem myself, but can i use a switch to share the connection between 2 pc's or do i need use a router. if a router is needed ,i have a spare linksys wrt54g , can i preconfigure it so he can plug it in and it will work.

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#2 17-02-2007 3:00pm
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A switch will work fine. You could use the Linksys router, but the BT modem is a router too, so you'll have to configure one of them to be a bridge.

Simplest thing to do is just get him to buy a small 4 port switch.

I believe you can also connect two PCs to this modem, one via USB and on on ethernet, but I've never done this and I'm not too sure how reliable it is. I found the USB connection on my modem to be quite crap.

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#3 17-02-2007 3:44pm
mayto

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cheers , think i might have a switch somewhere.

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