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RE: [OT] sharing a DSL connection


  • Subject: RE: [OT] sharing a DSL connection
  • From: "Ho yin Ng" <yahoogroups@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 07:25:17 +0100

Yeah .. exactly what I thought....

:-(

I doubt the modem has a NAT function as it is an ISP supplied modem.

Ho yin

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Jim Noble
Sent: 02 June 2005 23:33
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] sharing a DSL connection

Ho yin Ng wrote:

> This is an easy peasy question .

> Can I share an ADSL connection between two laptops using a ADSL modem
> and a
> 4 port ethernet hub with an uplink port? If I set it so that one
> computer is
> set to share its internet connection? Or does a computer need two
Ethernet
> ports to do that?


If the modem doesn't support NAT, you need one PC to share its ethernet
connection via another of its network ports (2nd ethernet, wifi,
firewire, serial, parallel, irda ... etc)

Jim





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