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Date:	Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:37:11 -0700
From:	"Virginia R. Hetrick, Ph.D." <drjuice@ieee.org >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Installing DSL

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Hi, Peter -

It turns out that we have wireless here at the meeting.

Okay, here's what I did.

Verizon sent me a modem. It has enough smarts as a a router that it can
connect through the modem to the Verizon router out there in TVland. It
has one RJ45 and one RJ11 on the back. After I got everything physically
set up that Verizon said to do, I connected my computer to the RJ45
connector on the modem and set up the modem. When that was all working,
I disconnected my computer and then connected a crossover cable (I still
don't understand why they're called crossover cables because the wires
go straight through -- duh!) to the RJ45 connection and the other end to
a Netgear 4port router with 1 uploading port and wireless connectivity.
Then, I connected my computer to one of the 4 ports using a standard
RJ45 cable. When I was sure that worked, I configured the Netgear hub,
especially the wireless to ensure that the other people in the
neighborhood can't use it! Then, I disconnected the RJ45 cable and
tried out the wireless (which worked). I actually have assigned
permanent dotted decimals for each MAC address in my computers. So,
this computer which is a notebook, has permanent wired and wireless
addresses both. My other notebook is the same; my Shuttle has only RJ45
on its mommaboard so that's what it's got, my XT has an 8-bit RJ45 card
(I'm using it to compute frames of a video and it needs to send each
frame over to a NAS drive when it's done because it's too small to start
a new frame without getting rid of the previous one). The hitch with
this is that, when somebody comes from the outside I have to fiddle the
hub, but once they've visited, their MAC address is in there and
everything's fine. For example, my niece comes by pretty regularly and
always needs to get to her corporate systems so she can do that.

Is that enough information or does it raise questions? If you have
questions, let me know.

v

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Peter Skye wrote:

>Virginia R. Hetrick, Ph.D. wrote:
>
>
>>Hi, Peter,
>>
>>
>
>Well hi there Virginia!
>
>
>
>>the code running the install is a Windoze app as far
>>as I can tell. It has to run in Windoze so that the
>>appropriate information is put into the router.
>>
>>
>
>The curious thing to me is that the few high-speed systems I've worked
>on had _separate_ modems and routers. From your and Fox's posts,
>apparently there is now a combination modem-router which they're using.
>
>I've been through two DSL modems and two Hughes satellite modems, and
>all were just modems. The routers have all been Linksys.
>
>My modems haven't required any setup at all. I just plug them in, check
>the lights, and they work. The Hughes satellite modem at 192.168.0.1
>has some web pages you can view to check its status, but the Fujitsu DSL
>modems (at least mine) don't have anything that you can do with them --
>no settings, no viewable web pages, no IP address.
>
>The Linksys routers, which are at 192.168.1.1 and are fed by the modems,
>_do_ have web-accessible settings, but these web pages are accessible
>from OS/2 as well as Windows.
>
>There is nothing special that I know of that has to be put into the
>routers. A Windows install might need to open some ports so Microsoft
>can have its own servers "monitor" your machine, but otherwise it's just
>DHCP for each machine and with certain ports open. Nothing special
>requiring a Windows box for setup.
>
>Is your hardware a combo modem-router box? What, exactly, is your
>hardware?
>
>- Peter
>
>
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