Welcome, Guest. Please login or register. Pages: [ 1 ] Go Down. Aniway Jr. Member Join Date: Feb Posts: I have an Amiga, he has a PC. I got him hooked up first, and that was the easier of the two So there he was with the fastest residential data throughput known on the planet, twice as fast as phone line DSL. It was amazing. Pages came up so fast, I just had to get this set up on my Amiga!
But I found that I couldn't just string a phone line in to the other room from my modem to his ethernet and expect a connection that way, and I didn't want to get yet another modem for my Amiga and run that from my own cable wire to my Amiga. So I settled on an option where I only needed one cable modem.
With this device, I could connect computers to the same cable modem and have them as a Network, using up to 4 ports, but I only needed a total of two computers in this Network. As a bonus, this device functions as a firewall that "protect [my] computer from hackers. It was easy to install, although the connectors in the rear required explaining. From reading the manual, I learned that there were only two types of wiring that were practical for me to use, called Twisted Pair wiring.
I got some of that at a local PC store. I don't know if it was "crossover" or "patch" , it looks just like regular ethernet line to me, except yellow, but I think it may work as patch, because it has the same dimension as the wire that came with the Router that connects to the cable modem.
One outlet connects from cable modem to Router. The other four can connect four computer systems via ethernet, using TP "patch" ethernet wire, or a total of two computers using TP "crossover" cable.
