John, Best would be to plug your DSL modem in 1 Ethernet slot and then connect your router with another ethernet slot to your hub. This allows the best connection speeds. Same goes if you use a Mac as router with IPnetrouter. If your Mac or your router has only one Ethernet slot (like the first generation Airport Basestations), you plug the DSL modem into the Ethernet hub and your router into another slot of your hub. If you boot up in the right sequence, the Router will get it's IP-address from the modem, and your other Macs will get it from the Router. This should be a little slower, as all the information has to go trough the router and thus has to travel both ways on the same cable and the same NIC. I am currently using such a network, with a cable modem and a first generation Basestation as router. Untill a few months ago, I was using a Duo 230 in its Dock, with two Ethernet cards as a software router. I really don't see a difference in speed.
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