At 4:19 PM 16/2/04, dgager eloquently proclaimed...........
Big Pond has connected me and given me a Motorola Surfboard cable modem.
As recommended by listers (the help was really appreciated), I have
Launch! and it works like a charm with a direct ethernet connection
to the modem, although when the 2 characters doing the installation
were here the network was down!! - and of course there was the
usual shock horror when they saw the Macs and then again when I
showed them Launch!
I now want to connect via a small 3 mac 2 printer ethernet network.
I have a no name 8 port hub with 1 uplink port. It is pretty old -
do I scrap it?
I have had a look at Whirlpool on networking.
I would prefer to get a router that will allow all 3 to use the
connection easily and on the 1 account and maybe I should get one
with a hardware firewall in case someone on the network fiddles!
Has anyone a recommendation that they have working in this sort of
setup? I don't really want to spend the extra for Airport unless
there is a compelling reason to do so.
Many thanks in advance.
A good place to read about routers and Bigpond cable is OZcableguy
<http://www.ozcableguy.com/heartbeat.html#routers>.
Bob
