Dear Friend, Thank you for your informative answer.
Regards, Vimal On Feb 9, 6:28 pm, Visakh <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 9, 5:39 pm, Vimal Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dear Friends, > > I have Asianet Dataline connection (Not wireless connection). > > But I have to give two Internet point in two rooms. > > I bought one Digizol Ethernet Switch and made two connection from > > Asianet Dataline modem. > > It found that Internet available in only one connection at a time. > > > Can you guide me how to make two Internet access point from same > > Dataline modem? > > > Regards, > > > Vimal Kumar V. > > Sirji, > Looks like you need an Ethernet NAT Router (home router/gateway), > not an ethernet switch. Basically, ADL assigns you one dynamic IP > address at a time (likely to be based on your system NIC MAC address). > For two systems to use internet, you need 2 IPs. This is not possible > when you use the ADL modem. The switch can only help you to connect 2 > computers if you have 2 IP addresses. > > The solution is to use a router. (info: switch works on layer 2 - > ethernet. Router works on layer 3 - IP). You need to use the router in > NAT (Network Address Translation) mode. That way, your modem will > assign the router only one dynamic IP address. But the router will > forward the data from the modem to two different static IP addresses. > For example, modems used with BSNL are often a combined modem + NAT > router. > > And there is one more problem. If Asianet can get router's MAC ID > and can recognise it as a router, they could block it. I am not sure > if they do that, but their license agreement forbids you from using > more than one PC on one connection. > > Regards, > Gokul Das -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
