Around 10:41pm on Thursday, July 05, 2007 (UK time), Kevin J. Cummings scrawled: > From what *I* have seen of DSL modems, they only want to talk with 1 > computer. You have to have a wireless/router/DSL modem (and it usually > has more than one 1 ethernet port) in order to talk to more than one > computer on your local network side. My daughter has such a beast from > Verizon in her apartment. Her roommate can either connect via wireless > connection, or run a long ethernet cable to the router. If this is the case it sounds like a router is the better choice, so ignore my recent advice to buy a cheap switch. You mentioned ealier, that you could configure the modem via a web interface - does that allow you to do things such as set up DHCP for multiple clients and do port forwarding? Steve -- Play Champions - my free football predictions game at: http://www.stevesearle.com/champs/about.html 22:43:18 up 10 days, 2:22, 2 users, load average: 0.20, 0.17, 0.08
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