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To: Colin Cody who wrote (2313)	9/6/1998 11:48:00 PM
From: Street Walker	Read Replies (2) of 14778

Cable Modem/Network Cards/Sygate instead of router You are in luck, as Howard referred you to my previous post, I just finished doing what you are about to do. Its very inexpensive and will work without a hitch using a cable modem. Cable Modem: When you sign up for your cable modem service, they will most likely have made a deal with a cable modem provider for you to purchase. Network Cards/hubs: I sweated over this at first because I was in uncharted territory for me. It ended up being very simple. I bought 3 SMC brand 10 mbps network cards at CompUSA for $20 and a Linksys 5 port hub for $50, and the wiring to connect the hubs to the cards. As I stated before, set up a business account so they can knock the price down on the hub. It looks like you'll be networking 3 computers for now. The 500mhz NT 5 is a ways off :-) If you are going to network 3 computers and use a cable modem, you will need 4 network cards - will explain later. After you purchase the hardware, open your computer cases up and install the cards (be sure to discharge your personal electricity before touching the hardware - instructions will be included). SYGATE version 2.0 Beta (has bugs worked out from previous version): Choose one computer to be your gateway computer to the internet. Install two network cards into this one. Then go download the following $50 software (that acts like a router without the expense) sygate.com At one of the pages on their site, sygate.com you will see the set-up for using a cable modem. It feeds into one network card, and then the other network card is used for networking to the other computers. Sygate is easy to use. All you do is download it and it starts working after assigning IP addresses to each computer. The instructions at Sygate were easy for me to follow and I know very little when it comes to the software kind a stuff. When you get your hardware, let me know and I'll give further very simple instructions on how my network was set up. Will only take about 20 minutes to network three computers after the hardware is installed. If you've done a TCP network before, it would only take 5 minutes. Us beginners take longer. Regards, S.W.

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