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Confused · 02-21-2002, 07:38 AM

DSL will not affect your dial modems (your phone still works with DSL). DSL uses a seperate pair coming to your house. I would use a router rather than a switch. Your modem will probably have both USB and RJ45. I would use RJ45 and not USB. So it would hook up like this;

DSL modem with a CAT5 straight thru cable from modem to router. Then straight thru CAT5 ethernet cables from each PC to the router. Each PC would also have a NIC. Router gives firewall protection that switch does not and only requires 1 IP address whereas a switch requires IP addresses for each PC.
Chas

02-21-2002, 07:38 AM	#2
Confused Member (13 bit) Join Date: Nov 1999 Location: Mt Washington, KY Posts: 4,927	DSL will not affect your dial modems (your phone still works with DSL). DSL uses a seperate pair coming to your house. I would use a router rather than a switch. Your modem will probably have both USB and RJ45. I would use RJ45 and not USB. So it would hook up like this; DSL modem with a CAT5 straight thru cable from modem to router. Then straight thru CAT5 ethernet cables from each PC to the router. Each PC would also have a NIC. Router gives firewall protection that switch does not and only requires 1 IP address whereas a switch requires IP addresses for each PC. Chas __________________ I may not be much, but I'm all I think about.