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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TraderAlan who wrote (13508)	7/17/2002 9:08:05 PM
From: Rick Faurot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

JN5 and Cat5 are the same thing. There are no usb connections. Your ethernet card on your computer (Network Interface Card), the output from both your dsl modem and your cable modem and the input (LAN port) and outputs of your router(s) are all the same cable. It has a plastic modular plug on it much like the modular plug you are used to with telephone wiring where you plug a phone wire into a jack, except the JN5 plug is slightly larger and has six wires in it rather than the four you find in phone wiring. By the way, if either your dsl company or your cable company offer to come to your house to install their modem, you want to have only one computer set up at the site where the modems will be. If you make it clear that you have six computers going online, they will both charge you something extra (I think between $7-10 per month for EACH computer). So if they come to your house, play dumb, don't let them see your new JN5 wires running all over the place and only show them one computer. Pick your fastest best computer to go online with initially. After they both go away (the dsl company will probably send you a self install kit including the modem), you can set up the rest of your system and wire it up. They will not detect anything as the router takes their IP address and gives them nothing in return, no information, that is. Should you have problems and need to call either of them, they will look at your traffic and they might ask you for your ip address. You can detect this by running a ipconfig/all command on DOS. If they ask you if you are running a router, say yes. The smarter tech guys will figure this out when they are talking to you but they won't ask about extra computers. If you have networking problems (ie, on your home network) don't ask them for help <g>. Call the router tech folks and they will sort it out or ask here. You will have more questions when this stuff gets installed. Feel free to post here or call me. I haven't used cable internet, but I've been around the block with dsl <g>. best Rick