The computers are all in different rooms. Thinking about it now, it might have to be 5 computers in total. A wired system prob won't be a problem as we already have quite a lot of dialup wires trailing from my room and my bro's room to my lil bro and lil sis's room. Would be nice to go wireless though but would it cost considerably more than the wired version? and wouldn't I need new wireless network cards? Might not be possible for my laptop computer.
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Originally Posted by homealone
1. yup
2. 4 port routers are pretty normal - but 4 computers is against NTL T&C's - dunno about other ISPs.
3. Do you want to keep the phone line? (btw you don't really get a choice if you have NTL Cable TV - you still, effectively, get charged for line rental, whether or not you use the phone)
4. I'm not sure if some can do this, but I know you can't with mine 
5. I stuck in the cd, followed the instructions & it worked straight away with the default settings. Getting the more advanced stuff like port forwarding sussed is a bit more complicated - but you shouldn't need that to begin with (if at all).
6. Whether you want ADSL or Cable internet, whether you want a wireless setup, whether you have a network card in the pcs you want to connect |
Why are 4 computers against T and C? I can understand if they used the same speeds that NTL provided on a single comp but if its split I can't see what the problem is. What the most allowed?.
For 3) we just don't want to use dialup anymore. We dont have tv, or use the line for phoning, just for net really. Want to keep all our costs down, and getting rid of the slower dialup (x2) seems to be the better solution and get the broadband shared out.
Port forwarding seems to be an issue that might be difficult - don't really know what is
... Routing might be hard for me to do, cos I spent quite a few days on getting standard windows networking working.
We already have ntl cable broadband. And all the computers have standard network cards as they've all been able to use my connection on their computer at some point.