If I get DSL which I believe has a modem (like cable), can I plug my
laptop into any phone outlet in the house?

Or does the modem need to be moved with the laptop?

Thanks
Patty

On 29 Aug 2004 09:27:27 -0700, Patty Amas wrote:
If you want to use dialup. For DLS you hook in through the DSL modem.

"Patty Amas" <pattyjamas@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:e5e9337.0408290827.24024536@posting.google.co m...
Get yourself an external ethernet style DSL modem when you sign up. Add to
that a wireless router such as Netgear WGR614. Then get a wireless adapter
for your laptop, either PC Card or USB type. I'd suggest Belkin F5D7010,
powerful and easy to use. -Dave

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http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.proc...ed.BKN+F5D7010

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In article <e5e9337.0408290827.24024536@posting.google.com> , Patty Amas
says...

You are somewhat in luck. Having friends and family on cable, this DSL
connected guy does hang out here; but, you will get better answers in a
group where DSL modems are the topic. So I cross posted to that group, and
set the follow up to so the thread will be shifted.

No. You can't use the laptop with any phone jack in the house. The DSL
modem, like the cable modem, uses a different connection to the computer
than the telephone RJ-11 jack connector. Most modems use an Ethernet
connection; CAT5 patch cord with RJ-45 connectors. A fair number of ISPs try
to push USB modems on their users these days; I think because telephone
support is easier; Ethernet can be a bear to get configured properly.

If you want to use a laptop around the house, get a wireless access point.
One by the modem, one in the laptop. For that, I am unable to offer better
advice because I use a wired LAN.

--
Norman
~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta
~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain
~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint

Patty Amas wrote:

You'd have to move the modem to where the laptop is, unless you don't mind
running wire around your house or get a wireless "router" and park it near
the DSL modem.

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Thanks all. Firgit about the RJ56 connection but thought I would need WAP around.

Thanks
Patty


NormanM <spammail@blackhole.invalid> wrote in message news:<MPG.1b9babd610ebf777989723@news.sf.sbcglobal .net>...

Patty Amas wrote:
jack you intend to use for a regular phone needs a filter.

In article <10j546j26q1p2e0@corp.supernews.com>, rphunter@charter.net
says...
...Note that if you use a cordless phone, you likely DON'T need a filter,
as cordless phones are already filtered for their own purposes.

--Gene

Thanks all. Good advice. Hopefully it will be seamless when I install
it next week. It is a Westell modem and Win 2K on the laptop. Hope I
do not need to install one of the third party Raspppoe drivers found
on the web. I assume Bellsouth will have all I need.

Perhaps I will need a reg entry to turn off the Use Proxy setting when
the laptop is used at home as opposed to work (at a bank).

Thanks,
Patty


Gene S. Berkowitz <first.last@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<MPG.1b9c7b69b1c3ee6b989727@news.comcast.giga news.com>...

Had no problems except a dead phone jack that the phone company installed-dopes.
Used a nother one.
Did not know DSL appears to work on 2 wires as opposed to 4.

Thanks very much.
Patty


pattyjamas@hotmail.com (Patty Amas) wrote in message news:<e5e9337.0409030905.30b47851@posting.google.c om>...

Excuse me for butting in, but I'm facing similar issues.

For more than a year, I've synchronized data files between a Win XP
desktop and a Win XP laptop with a crossover ethernet cable, using
TCP/IP with a DHCP setting on both computers.

Today I installed a DSL modem for my desktop machine, using an
ethernet cable to the computer. It works fine and apparently is
confitured with a DHCP setting too.

If I temporarily disconnect the ethernet cable from the desktop and
plug it into the laptop, should it work as well there without
upsetting anything?

If I then want to disconnect the modem from both machines and connect
the machines to each other with the crossover cable, as before (to try
to synchronize data files,) will that create any problems?

These cable-switching steps are to be a temporary arrangement until I
have time to put together a significantly less kludgy LAN. Are any of
the cable switchings outlined above likely to create problems with
either of the two computers or the DSL modem?

Many thanks,
Joe


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"Dave C." <mdupre@sff.net> wrote in message news:<2pegakFk4idqU1@uni-berlin.de>...

Joseph Carrier wrote:
Pop for a wired router with a 4-port switch (unless you have wireless
NICs). For $0-$20 you're set (get a Netgear or Linksys on sale).

Joseph Carrier wrote:

When you were able to connect the two XP systems via crossover cable, you
were using "link-local" addresses in the 169.254.0.0/16 range. If you just
move the cable, without first releasing dhcp on the desktop and then
renewing on the laptop, you will likely not have a usable address on the
notebook.

The best thing for you to do, is buy one of those cheap firewall/router
boxes. Then you can have both computers connected to the internet and each
other, at the same time.


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