On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 20:23 +0930, Tim wrote: > Steve Searle: > >> Is this your router: > >> http://www.thomson-broadband.co.uk/products/Details.asp?ProductID=514 > > > Kevin J. Cummings: > > But, will his ISP provide him more than one IP address? This is the > > limiting factor! If the ISP will only give him 1 IP, what happens when > > the 2nd computer asks and gets no answer? > > If that link was for the right modem, then he should have no problem. > Further down the page, the product details say: "Allows Multiple users > to share a single IP address on the same ADSL connection". That implies > that it does something like NAT (the modem gets your public IP, your LAN > runs on a different subnet using private IPs). Actually, what it means is what it says; It allows multiple users to share a single IP. But what it didn't say, is that you have to build your own network behind it to allow the sharing. Lots or most modems say the same thing, but again you have to build your own network. Heck, even look at the back of the modem, it only has ONE ethernet cable. You can't share with just one. The OP will need to buy/build a router and setup his own network/firewall if he wants to allow more than one computer. -- Mike Chambers Madisonville, KY "Best little town on Earth!"
