On Thursday 02 September 2004 09:27 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > OK then I bow to experience. > Only I found in the device easy enough, but the with the network MCC > still asks a lot of questions you don't know the answers to, and without > those answers it don't work. Of course that is trying to set up a network. > > I just don't find it clear whether setting up a router/modem plus > ethernet can be done with nothing more than getting the devices > recognised by the system, or that you also have to have the beginning of > a network as well.
Most router/modems work based upon dhcp, which means that they automatically assign an IP address, netmask, broadcast, gateway, (some even do the domain name) to the cards that are plugged into their systems. So, simply letting the MCC wizard detect the card and then using the default selections (they default to DHCP IIRC) should result in a working network configuration. That is pretty much why I suggested the router/modem route. Otherwise, you have to configure the USB device, but then you are also going to have to configure the Network connection with ID/password, etc to get the DSL connection running. And I don't know of any standalone router device so, if you want to share the network connection, you have to set that up on the machine too. Again, to each his own, but I can't imagine any situation where the USB one would be "easier" than ethernet. -- Bryan Phinney
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