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Sharing Cable for Internet Access?

  • 12-01-2010 10:26pm
    #1
    Black Swan
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    Three of us who reside in close proximity want to share one Internet cable. After the cable is plugged into the modem, if we then connect the modem to a 4-port cable/DSL broadband router, can the three computers then connect to the router using 3 of the 4 ports, and allow all 3 computers to access the Internet at the same time? Am I forgetting anything? Will this work?

    This router has a built-in NAT firewall, which will present a single address to the Internet.


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  • #2
    Spear
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    Blue_Lagoon wrote: »
    Will this work?

    That's the entire point of the router.


  • #3
    Moriarty
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    Just remember that each ethernet cable has to be less than 100 meters in length.


  • #4
    Black Swan
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    Moriarty wrote: »
    Just remember that each ethernet cable has to be less than 100 meters in length.
    Good guess! And our router-switch has 4 ports to share. This made me laugh!
    (You know too much... ;))

    Beta tested our configuration and it ran purrrrrrrrrrrfect! Now pulling cable. Thanks ye'all for the comments.


  • #5
    msg11
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    Blue_Lagoon wrote: »
    Good guess! And our router-switch has 4 ports to share. This made me laugh!
    (You know too much... ;))

    Beta tested our configuration and it ran purrrrrrrrrrrfect! Now pulling cable. Thanks ye'all for the comments.

    One other thing I would add is, make sure you have a decent internet connection or it is going to be very slow if all computers are active at the same time!


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