Ok i just got my dsl pakage today and this has been buging me. What is the usb connecter for thats on the back of a router?
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Ok i just got my dsl pakage today and this has been buging me. What is the usb connecter for thats on the back of a router?
Some modems can connect to the computer via USB rather than ethernet. ;)
My cable modem uses the USB rather than the Ethernet; which makes putting the Hub before the server PC in my network impossible without a hub that uses USB, and mine doesn't :frown: So, I have to have the desktop PC running to serve the network to the laptop... :rolleyes:
:whistle: like I ever turn off the desktop anyway :whistle:
can you plug it into a normal usb port?
It'd probably have to be USB 2.0. Ethernet is faster than USB so stick with it unless you have no choice ;)
well i dont have a choice my router has 1 usb plugin and a ethernet port also wireless so i cant have 2 computers anyother way
I don't really know much about it but couldn't you probably get a hub and hook up multiple computers through that...all sharing the connection?
Maybe you could attach a diagram of what the router looks like? Cause I'm drawing a blank. Be sure to include every detail.
Paint is your friend ;)
Usually, your options for hookup are as follows:
For 1 computer, using either the USB or the ethernet will work.
For multiple computers, using the USB and sharing the connection over the hub or switch will work.
Or you network all your computers with a switch that has a 'WAN' (Wide Area Network) Port, and that does all the sharing.
My experience has been as follows, with a hub without a WAN port, only the first machine to get on will get the connection, as the DHCP assigns to the first guy it finds (if I were to plug the modem into the hub). The rest that come along don't get it. Plus it makes regular network usage lame. So, since I'm too lazy to get a new switch, I use USB (which works perfectly fine), and hook my desktop up to the network, and share away. Hopefully this helps someone.
so i can you hook it into any old usb port?
also if i have my computer hooked up to USB and my parents hooked up to ethernet going threw the same router will we both have internet at the same time?
I don't know if you could use both the connections on the modem, but I think you can't. Try it anyway. As goes for the USB thing, well I've only tried it on a USB 2.0 port, which if your machine is relatively recent, it should have. It probably says something about it somewhere on something you received, a CD or disk or manual, check them out. Or if it came in a box, check the system requirement's on the box, it should say, but I've thrown the box for my cable modem out :/ Also, use USB 2.0 if you can, since I'm sure it's faster.
You should read your documentation. Hardware is different with every brand and some have specific requirements and things it can't do. ;) Also, once you have the computers networked, you'll need to setup an ICS connection, but first read the documentation to find out what you need to.
EDIT: Oh my, agent smith actually beat me this time :P
Yea definately consult your documentation, I just found mine (but realize yours may differ), and it says that 2 machines can be hooked up by using the ethernet to one and the USB to the other. It didn't say anything about USB 2.0, and I'm think that the older USB stuff will work, as it talked about the technology since WIN98 blah blah etc, and I'm willing to think the 2.0 stuff is newer than win98. The only glaring thing it said was DON'T hook up one machine with both connections. Otherwise, your sharing options were like above (Internet Connection Sharing is needed, incase you didn't what ICS meant above, also likely explained in your docs.)
Beat Mushindo to it! It is now snowing in hell ;P
Thanx you agent smith once agian what is it now. about 5 times youve helped me :)
No problem, glad to be of service. Lucky timing more than anything I suppose, I'm sure lots of people would help, but I think with you and I being on the same times of day, it makes things much easier for me. Anytime.