Greetings, been in this forum for a while, although I am just CD-rom. (read only)
I am an average computer guy, I work as a helpdesk in my company. but I am dumb with network. so Please give me some suggestions.
anyway, Me and my sister each have a computer, and we both like to use BitTorrent & gaming. so I think a switch will be great to share my ADSL, since my ISP give me 2 IP address (register MAC). I didn't want a router because I hate all these port forwarding and what not.(and I can't figure it out)
now If I have another computer (3rd) that want to connect to internet, Is the switch any help?
fact is, I can't get another IP (or register another MAC) from my ISP.
I understand there are many ways, router, another NIC to crossover to the 3rd computer...etc.
<b>But I wanted to know If my 5 ports Switch can share internet with 2 IPs and 3 Computers.</b>
if I could, what setting should I do on computer 1 and 2?
they will be all using windows XP. and the third will be Suse9.2 (I like the GUI, and I use Fedora and Mandrake at work and it is boring.) should I setup an link to comp 3 ?
anyway, I aplogize for my spelling/grammar, being an non-english speaker this take me a long time to type.
I am an average computer guy, I work as a helpdesk in my company. but I am dumb with network. so Please give me some suggestions.
anyway, Me and my sister each have a computer, and we both like to use BitTorrent & gaming. so I think a switch will be great to share my ADSL, since my ISP give me 2 IP address (register MAC). I didn't want a router because I hate all these port forwarding and what not.(and I can't figure it out)
now If I have another computer (3rd) that want to connect to internet, Is the switch any help?
fact is, I can't get another IP (or register another MAC) from my ISP.
I understand there are many ways, router, another NIC to crossover to the 3rd computer...etc.
<b>But I wanted to know If my 5 ports Switch can share internet with 2 IPs and 3 Computers.</b>
if I could, what setting should I do on computer 1 and 2?
they will be all using windows XP. and the third will be Suse9.2 (I like the GUI, and I use Fedora and Mandrake at work and it is boring.) should I setup an link to comp 3 ?
anyway, I aplogize for my spelling/grammar, being an non-english speaker this take me a long time to type.