Hi,

I know many similar questions have been asked regarding this so I hope that
you don't mind me asking another

We have BT Broadband (just installed) and its working great. But we want to
be able to network our 3 p.c.s together.

I was thinking of a router/switch connecting the modem and the 3 p.c.'s by
cables, and I was just wondering whether this seems viable? With this option
are there any routers/switches that do not work with BT? Would the modem
connect to the router by usb or another method? Does anyone have any
recommendations of any good ones?

The modem that we have is a BT Voyager 100

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Amanda

Ditch the Voyager. USB modems use the computers main processor to do their
number-crunching and are the equivalent of winmodems or software modems in
the dial-up world. I'm using one of these
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=48449
It's an Origo 4-port router with ADSL modem built in and costs £51-odd
including delivery. For the money, it's absolutely b****y marvelous. Add a
network card (NIC) for each machine, which you would need anyway, and off
you go.

Don't know if you have any computer fairs in your area but if you have it
may be worth a look. I've just bought (secondhand, from a trader's junk box)
four 3-Com EtherLink 10/100 PCI 3C905C-TX network cards for £2.50 each and
they all work superbly.

John
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Try posting in
uk.comp.home-networking

probably get some good input there

Hi John,

I've been looking at the Origo and I didn't realise that it was a built in
modem too - thanks. I was looking at the usb to connect with the voyager -
don't suppose that would have worked would it (just curiosity) Looks like
I'll be trying to get one of those if I can't work it out

Many thanks

Amanda
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If you have a PC with loads of PCI slots three then you can simply use it to
act as the gateway for the others, simply put a NIC card for each PC you
want connected in it and one in each of the other PCs and set up windows
ICS, you can get NICS very cheap from ebuyer, this way you can also do local
firewalling, DNS, SMTP, etc and USB uses so little processor time its not
worth talking about, though USB on a lot of motherboards is flakey but if
its been working fine on yours then why spend more than you have to.

Dave


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Hi,

I know many similar questions have been asked regarding this so I hope that
you don't mind me asking another

We have BT Broadband (just installed) and its working great. But we want to
be able to network our 3 p.c.s together.

I was thinking of a router/switch connecting the modem and the 3 p.c.'s by
cables, and I was just wondering whether this seems viable? With this option
are there any routers/switches that do not work with BT? Would the modem
connect to the router by usb or another method? Does anyone have any
recommendations of any good ones?

The modem that we have is a BT Voyager 100

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Amanda

I'm with BTB too. You need to ditch the modem, and buy yourself an ADSL
Router. I've got a Netgear DG824 (about to be superseded by the 834). Having
a Router carries a number of advantages.......firstly, Broadband access is
independent from each PC, rather than being reliant on another PC left
switched on (as is the case with Internet Connection Sharing). Also, most
Routers have built in Firewalls, which protect you from all sorts of
nasties.

The Routers i've mentioned have wireless capabilities. If you don't need
wireless, the DG814 will suffice. Some people don't like Netgear
products......personally, i've found mine to be superb. Have a look at
www.adslguide.org.uk under Hardware Reviews, which will give you all kinds
of good information on this.

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