Networking three PC's to one cable connection + 802.11G

[MrDinky]

Quote from limitdown:



Centrino may be more marketing now and greater substance later than it is presently. It consists of the triumvirate between 3 chips to provide the functionality as described.

Toshiba, Sony, IBM, Dell and some others provide most of this functionality within their advanced laptops. Wireless capability built into the laptop without requiring a PCMCIA card or otherwise is quite slick indeed. Centrino brings this market place solution into their architecture umbrella and offers to make it proprietary.

Do you know if Centrino technology is compatible with either the 802.11b or 54G standards? I figure the next laptop I purchase will probably have this in it and it would be nice to connect to the already existing wireless network at home.

 

[MrDinky]

Quote from rpc:

Mr. Dinky:

You're right, the cable company will never know. I use a LinkSys router/switch 4 port and have had up to 3 computers at a time without a problem. Now, if want to have a different IP address for another computer then you will want to pay the extra 4.99 or whatever each month for each connection but, otherwise sharing the same address is no problem.

rpc

Thanks for the response rpc. I figure it's worth the money to get the wireless router for the extra protection. Could you clarify, though, doesn't the router assign different ip addresses to each computer on the network? It doesn't matter to me either way as I don't need a static ip, but I was just wondering how this was done.

Also, it seems like certain routers have print sharing, some don't. Same thing with firewall protection. Is this true or do they all come with these features?

 

[MrDinky]

Quote from momoNY:



MeDinky,

It depends on the configuration of your network and its capacity to hiding the MAC addresses of your PCs; that's called "MAC spoof'; look wether your router supports that or not.
Here is an excellent refrence(book) on Home Networking that you can get for less than 25$ and will save your life:

Home networking: survival guide by David Strom, Osborn/McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0-07-219311-5, actually I use this book for my home networking course.

Good luck.

Ok, new term. I'll look for it - first time I've heard of it. I'll check out the book you mentioned as well. Once it's set up I'll see if I can get canyonman00 to hack into the system.