Posts Tagged ‘modem’

I am setting up my wireless tonight for my laptop. The router I am getting hooks up to the modem via an ethernet cord. The problem is that my modem only has 1 ethernet port which I have my desktop wired to it. The modem also has a USB port, so can I buy a USB to ethernet adapter and it will work?

I want to get xbox live and I am going to use an ethernet cable but the thing is in my modem the ethernet hole is already taken up by some other ethernet cable connecting to my PC! Help!!!!!!!

I have a Dell 530S desktop and when we plug in an ethernet cable to connect to the internet it does not accept it. The internet does work when connected to the modem with the USB cable. Is their an easy solution for this?

I have an ethernet cable coming from a modem and I need to split it so that several computers can access the internet. This is not something that will be there permanently, so issues of privacy / file sharing / firewalls can be disregarded.

Switches seem to be considerably cheaper than routers. So will this work with just a switch or do I need a router?

My house is about 12 years old and was not built with network cable runs. Can someone link me to some good sites/give me some good ideas on running cables? Ideally I’d like the modem/router mounted on my board where the electric/cable/phone lines come in and then run ethernet from there. Can this be done without ripping too many walls out? Any good tricks to use existing cable runs to snake my ethernet cables along those?
I have a wireless network. The question is strictly about wiring runs not how to set up a network.

I would like to hook my external hard drive to my network so my wife and I can save to that drive rather than our laptops. We don’t have a computer hooked to the router. We have the modem, a linksys wireless router and that’s it. What do you suggest I do?

I have a Motorola SB5120 modem and I want to know how to switch from usb internet connection to ethernet connection. I already have an ethernet card.

I have windows vista if that helps.

I have 2 Laptop’s and 1 Desktop connected with wireless with WRT54G Router with another Main Desktop/DSL Modem.
I want to recognize computer Addresses to add DHCP client list at 192.168.1.1 web page.