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To: Big Dog who wrote (20626)	6/13/2001 9:06:28 AM
From: bosquedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110652

It's a new house, so the wiring is all feeding from a central location and out to the various user locations. Make sure this is not just the cable wiring for the tv signal. You will also need cable wiring for the internet. Or at least in my house I had to .

To: Big Dog who wrote (20626)	6/13/2001 12:30:19 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110652

hello big hey, how's the operating system upgrade plan going #reply-15838104 ? re, "Is this Linky thing what I would need to serve as my "hub" in the central location to split off to the various users?".... i must be careful offering advice here, big, in that i am also learning the subject. that said <g>, i would call attention to your use of the term hub when referring to the linksys router. they are two different pieces of equipment that, to a great degree, appear to share in common many networking tasks. but they are different from one another. i leave it to you to learn what you can about the two webopedia.internet.com , but i wanted to draw the distinction. the device i referenced in this post #reply-15923120 is a router. the linksys site has tons of info on it about their equipment. part of the reason i spend so much time on the hub vs. the router distinction is that recently i read a post from a thread member in which he was experiencing a great deal of difficulty networking his puters, and as i recall, he commented that he had purchased a hub prior to thoroughly investigating things, and now he was coming to the conclusion that what he really should have bought was a router. so there really is a point to all of this yammering, big. but "Is this Linky thing what I would need?".... YES. check this quote from the linksys cable/dsl router intro page.... "In this site, you'll find personalized technical support for setting up your Linksys Cable/DSL Router, designed to protect your high-speed Internet connection, which you can share with up to 253 users!" so it looks like you could put a pc in every room, big, and still have a few left over, eh? <g3> re, "does each user computer have to have anything installed in order to be able to "receive" the incoming cable and cable modem signal?" yes, each pc will need a network adapter card, sometimes called an ethernet card, sometimes called a network interface card (nic). the Linksys Ethernet Network EtherFast 10/100 LAN Adapter Card looks like a winner, though others will work fine. "Does each computer have to have a cable modem?" no. that's what the router is doing... sharing the high-speed connection with multiple users. hope some of this helps :) mark

To: Big Dog who wrote (20626)	6/13/2001 2:12:46 PM
From: ratan lal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

It's a new house, so the wiring is all feeding from a central location As long as you have cat5 wiring you will be ok. you wont need anything installed in each computer. Just connect ot the ethernet port (I presume you have this port in each computer). If not, you can still connect the computers using 'phoneline' cards in each computer and connecting the computer to the telephone line. It does not interdfere with your phone use. You can go to netgear.com or any other network products company for detail info. Personally I ahve netgear 4-port router. Installation was very simple plug and play.