Monday, September 27, 2004
In Floodwood
Tim and I drove up to Floodwood to help Dave network his comptuers.
He has an old HP Color Laserjet with an Ethernet port on it. We got
that hooked into the network rather than using the Parallel port. And
we got winXP sharing files with Win98 on his laptop and Win95 on his
old Pentium 166 with 32 Mb Ram.
We're using Tim's broadband router (Dave will get his own before we
leave) - and The 12 port hub I gave him. The router and hub are
connected through the hub's uplink port. There's only one computer
connected to the hub right now - I just wanted to make sure that it
would work that way. It does. If it didn't have an uplink port, you
could just use any port with a crossover cable. I'm not sure what the
router's dhcp server will do when it sees more than 4 computers at
once though. We only have 3 computers and the laserprinter connected
to it right now (including the one on the hub). (It's only a 4-port
router. I don't know if it can handle more than 4 dhcp clients, but
we can use static IP if it has a problem).
He has an old HP Color Laserjet with an Ethernet port on it. We got
that hooked into the network rather than using the Parallel port. And
we got winXP sharing files with Win98 on his laptop and Win95 on his
old Pentium 166 with 32 Mb Ram.
We're using Tim's broadband router (Dave will get his own before we
leave) - and The 12 port hub I gave him. The router and hub are
connected through the hub's uplink port. There's only one computer
connected to the hub right now - I just wanted to make sure that it
would work that way. It does. If it didn't have an uplink port, you
could just use any port with a crossover cable. I'm not sure what the
router's dhcp server will do when it sees more than 4 computers at
once though. We only have 3 computers and the laserprinter connected
to it right now (including the one on the hub). (It's only a 4-port
router. I don't know if it can handle more than 4 dhcp clients, but
we can use static IP if it has a problem).
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The router SHOULD handle more than 4 computers even though it is only a 4-port router. It has an uplink port for a reason and unless the designers were completely retarded, it will be able to handle computers/hubs that would be plugged into the uplink port.
Actually, the router doesn't have an uplink port. It's the 12 port hub that has it. You only need one uplink port. All it does is cross the wires as if you had used a crossover cable. if you go from one uplink port to another uplink port, it wouldn't work because they'd get crossed twice and then it'd be like they weren't crossed at all. If neither hub has an uplink port, you can just use any ports with a crossover cable.
Ah, I didn't realize that the uplink port was on the hub. Also, I know how the uplink port works, I was just thinking that if the router had an uplink port then it would make sense for it to be able to handle more addresses.
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