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For $30 to $40, you can get a small ethernet hub / switch, and remove all confusion involving crossover cables vs. normal ones. Save yourself the grief, and get the proper hardware.
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Just to toss some fire... if you have Windows Firewall up, or another good firewall, the ICMP packets may be blocked, meaning that your ping test will fail.

After reading all this, I...

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Strictly, no. Why? Because you will have to have the operating system installed somewhere, and the users will need access to those files in order to operate the computer. Strictly...

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You are asking quite the load there.

How are you keeping the servers in sync? You have a Windows server on one end, and a open BSD on the other. Is your windows serving .ASP or .NET?...

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Unless cost is a significant factor, I would go with the multiport router. It is a hell of a lot easier to add on later than to replace the unit.

You will not need optical cable to...

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A router, by definition, is a device that connects two networks together. Either from a private 10.x network to a public network, or from a private 10.x to a private 192.x, or any...

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It is a common rule that technology will not solve social problems.

That said, I looked over the information on the Network Everywhere website concerning your router, and bandwidth...

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We really need more information to help you properly along here.

If you are doing pure website hosting, static pages that do not require Microsoft's propriarty (pardon spelling) .ASP...

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ChrisBliss18 is talking about reserving addresses inside of DHCP, and that is the way to go for what you are trying to do.

Christian

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You do not need a router if they are on the same subnet. One switch will do, with connections to each of the computers. Configure the 98 boxes on the same subnet and you will be done. ...

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Ah. So you have a USB connection going on, and not strict ethernet. OK. Does your computer have an ethernet card? It would look like a FAT telephone connection socket. Bigger then...

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Is the internet connection made directly to the family computer? If so, you will need to plug the internet connection from the Roger's device to the wireless router, and then connect using...

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I have gone through the posts here, and drawn a network diagram, and have realized that you have never clearly stated which computer is the one that is working! Since one of them is...

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Depends on what you want to do. If there are a handful of sites that you would like to prevent people from accessing, you may either exclude the site from DNS, or firewall them out. But...

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Just a correction to JANINE --

A router can take on a whole more than 256 computers. Enterprises (meaning large companies) have routers that connect all of their computers to other...

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First, your 268 adsl is measuring bandwidth in BITS, and reporting to you a download rate in BYTES. There are 8 bits to a byte. Also realize that is a therotical maximum, and doesn't...

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As the Laptop is able to get to the internet, and as the workstation can see the laptop, we know that:

* Hardware is good. If the workstation could not see the laptop, this would not be...

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You need to tell your router's configuration that anything coming in on the WAN port for TCP 3389 needs to be sent to the IP number of your XP box @ port 3389.

For example,...

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I would like to help you work on this, but need a graphical network diagram to sink my teeth into. If you can make a drawing and scan it, and attach it as a .pdf or something, I would...

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I am sure that it is possible to setup a mail server using Windows XP. Probably not the best suited environment for it, but it should work out.

The larger question is if someone else is...

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Information, such as your Operating System, would be helpful for us to help you out.

Christian

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WAN means that your connection goes through the router's firewall / routing scheme, whereas the LAN ports imply that you are on the same subnet. In English, this means that if you wire...

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Open IE, and type this in:

http://63.240.140.119

and let me know if you resolve The Milwaukee Journal.

If you do, and you see a newspaper web-page, this means that your DNS is...

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This is not possible. You need a hub or a switch to connect 3 or more computers. Or, you can have one computer with two NIC cards, and a crossover cable, and then turn on packet forwarding....

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A more complete network diagram would be useful. Feel free to draw something, and make it an attachment to your question.

Macs will understand TCP/IP just like Unix and Windoze. It is...

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My guess is that your routers are not port forwarding properly. It is possible to program internet devices (firewalls) to ignore ping and trace requests. They are controlled by a...

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In this case, it is best that you go to a class or two, and study up on where you are going. You have learned how to do programming, perhaps C++, perhaps SQL, and I bet that you are very...

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On the old computer: install a single network card, and configure it with a static IP on the same subnet as the new computer. Use the hub to connect the computers together.

On the new...

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I would argue that if you have a 24 x 7 connection, you do need a personal firewall, especially to prevent access to file sharing on the Windows computer. If you are dialing up, and then...

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This thread has unfortunately become clouded with different types of problems attached to the same thread, perhaps caused by the same problem: XP SP2. Perhaps they are not.

Geucimer:...

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To help you along, we would need to know what kind of OS you are working with, and what steps you have done to try and complete the mission.

Be aware that doing NNTP involves a lot of...

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The instructions depend on your OS, but the big 3 (Mac, Linux, Windoze) all support what you wish to do.

You will need to define one of the computers as a "server" and the other as a...

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I am wondering if you carry a cell phone with you or a wireless phone, or perhaps always use some electronic gadget where you are at. It is possible your connection is being affected by...

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The network design is also going to depend on your internal needs, and a sense of reliability. Wireless needs more than just line-of-sight... if you are in a busy community where other...

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Just a minor note: a switch is an upgrade from a hub in terms of packet management and collision avoidance. Your use of "plain switch, not a hub" is misleading.

You also have the hub...

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At the OS level, it certainly is.

Christian

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We can find 5 port hubs and switches here in the $30 - $60 range. You do not need the router either.

Christian

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My home network is a cable modem attached via ethernet to my linux server. The linux server has a second NIC card that goes to switch that gets distributed to the other linux computers and...

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That, or perhaps firewalling is preventing any responses. He is not providing the background information to help us out here.

I have a feeling it is in the wiring, but until I know...

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Your configuration will not necessairly work. If the internet is coming in on an ethernet cable, then where would you plug it in?

I am also not fond of...