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Old 01-30-2006, 10:43 PM
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My brother inlaw is coming for the week and needs to use my DSL connection. Should he bring his own router? We use Mac's and he has a PC.

#1Would it be better if he brought his own router that probably
has his own settings.

#2 Can he connect to the DSL modem without a router? We don't have
enough connections on my Airport for the cable to his laptop and
I don't want to have to reconfigure the Airport everyday.
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Old 01-30-2006, 10:47 PM
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Don't have him bring his router, he'll need to completely reconfigure it to work with your DSL connection.

How about buying a 4 port switch from Compusa, shouldn't be more than $20 or so.
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Old 01-30-2006, 10:49 PM
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I agree - we just need a switch here.
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Old 01-30-2006, 10:52 PM
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http://www.compusa.com/products/prod...02269&pfp=cat3
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If you have an existing router with extra LAN ports or a WiFi connection then you are all set.
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Old 01-30-2006, 11:00 PM
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TrendNET 10/100 5-Port Switch for $16.99 US.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...308763&CatId=0
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If you have an existing router with extra LAN ports or a WiFi connection then you are all set.
Yep yep.
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doesnt he have a wifi card?
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if he has a wifi card, no problem connecting to the airport. if he doesn't, an ethernet hub will work if your provider authorized multiple computer ( ip addresses )to sign in at the same time. (with airport only one ip address is used so your provider doesn't know more than one computer is connected).
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If you have an existing router with extra LAN ports or a WiFi connection then you are all set.
Apple airports only have a 1 wan and 1 lan connection point. As far as wireless is concerned he can't use it to access the secure part of his company's site. Something to do with security. Actually i believe that he may know less about this stuff than I do because I thought anyone with a wifi connection should be able to access their company's computer site if you have the right information. But apparently they have something inplace that prevents him from accessing a part of the site that is secure. The last time he was here and made a connection it screwed up my Airport settings and it took a while to get the Airport back to where it needed to be.
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