Issues with dual-ethernet connections

desmund · Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 15

I am complete network newbie and I need some advice about dual-ethernet connections. My neighbors and I made a home network between our computers. The whole idea was to share one cable modem and connection for using the Internet. Because of its speed, it can satisfy all our needs and we would spend less money each. However, that is not working. What am I doing wrong?

tucky · Joined: 11 Apr 2008 Posts: 7

I assume that it is not working because you probably did not share your internet connection properly. If you are newbie in computer networking it is absolutely normal. There are few different ways to share any internet connection. The thing you should do if you want to share cable internet connection is called port forwarding and it is related with static IP address. You could do that either by using software or hardware solutions. If you want to do that with software emulation, you must have some stronger experience. I must assume that you do not have that so let us get back to the hardware solution. To do port forwarding you will need a special device called network router. When you connect your network and cable modem to router, you will not have any further problems with accessing the Internet over DSL cable connection. The other thing you can do is to connect one computer to cable network as a gateway and share its connection to everybody else. However, that gateway machine should always be turned on.

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