On 21 Mar 2004, at 12:48 PM, Shay Telfer wrote:
Using the switch without a router to share the internet connection is
unlikely as I have never heard of it being done, however one computer
having two network cards and sharing an ADSL connection has been done
with PCs at least. However, in my Power Mac G3 desktop 233MHz
computer I put a Communication Slot II network card in the slot and
it didn't work. No LEDs on, no file sharing, no modem connection,
nothing.
A G3 233MHz machine will have PCI slots, which aren't the same as the
Comms slot II used in the Performa 6400.
I know it has three PCI slots, I'm using two of them (successfully) and
I want to use the third as a possible slot for a Firewire card. There's
actually a Comm Slot that branches off of the Personality Card (the one
with the Sound In and Sound Out). I had to remove that and break off a
small metal seal with a thin rectangular hole in it, with a
screwdriver, so the port could stick out. I assumed this seal was to
protect the computer from dust, and not to prevent the Comm Slot from
being used. I've got the impression now that if I bought a PCI network
card it would actually work, even if it meant using the last PCI slot.
Using the switch to share the internet seems really difficult, because
when the IP address in the TCP/IP settings is anything other than a
certain number that is provided by the modem the internet won't work.
Even when the IP address and router address are set to the same numbers
in either 'DHCP with manual IP address' or 'manually' it won't work.
File Sharing can sometimes work with the modem connected to the switch,
but it never works when the modem works. I think that if I can
successfully use two Ethernet cards in my computer, and use Internet
Sharing in System Settings, it would work.
Thanks for the responses,
Chris Taylor
Regards,
John Taylor
