ceejay Wrote: > Very nice. I will edit the BeginnersGuideToNetworks to take out the > rudimentary paragraph in there that tries to cover the same ground, and > some links in to the new page.
Sorry, I didn't realize there was already something there! > > One question I wasn't sure of: in your opening "adding a squeezebox" > bit you've said "and wireless speeds are limited to 802.11b" ... why > would that be? Who knows...my understanding is this is a limitation of the Microsoft software that controls the network. http://tinyurl.com/2zkon Perhaps with SP2 it's been updated. Perhaps not, ad-hoc networks aren't used very much these days. This is handled by that lovely MS Wireless Zero Configuration software, which was updated with SP2. I also don't know if there's equivalent software with Linux or OSX. > > Also, in "The optimum arrangement" you've said "You can use a network > switch or a hub instead of the router". Is that right? I am definitely > not an expert, but I was under the impression that if you connect a > switch directly to a modem without there being a router in play > somewhere that everything gets very confused. > > Ceejay Most of the documentation I've seen for Linksys switches is that there's an "uplink" port, usually shared with port 5. You could connect the modem here. You'd get none of the niceties of a router (security, DHCP, web page configuration, re-assignable IP address) but it should work. I don't know if it's true for all modems, but mine can handle NAT routing and DHCP. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23604 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
