On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 19:34 +0800, Marvin Pascual wrote: > But the modem also act like a router.
yeah. > And if I'm not mistaken for PLDT DSL subscribers, the > modem can be set to bridged mode. OK. that's how my PLDT DSL works. so i have a netgear wifi router on the inside that all the inner computers connect to and NAT through. > My mother in law told me that the installer from SmartBro also > provided them a device other than the antenna/canopy but she can't > identify it to me. But there is a cable that connects from the PC to > that said device. If that device is like a modem that we can change it > like with a cheap Linksys blue box router, that would be cool! =) you probably don't even care. instead of the PC connecting to that other device, just have the linksys connect to it. instead of the PC getting the internal IP, the linksys gets it. then all the computers on the network just get DHCP IPs from the linksys router. as far as I can tell you'd get all the same benefits with no downside. but if i've forgotten a downside, remind me :-), it'd be good to know :-) tiger _________________________________________________ Kagay-Anon Linux Users' Group (KLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (http://cdo.linux.org.ph) Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
