Re: [NTLK] Sharing DSL Connection

From: Brian Carstensen (reggie.lives_at_netzero.com)
Date: Tue Sep 03 2002 - 20:08:13 PDT


On Tuesday, September 3, 2002, at 09:44 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:

> Since you've been messing around this for some time, why not makes you
> life
> easier? Get a cheap, compatible Ethernet card for your Newton (some are
> selling for around $20 USD), and get a cable/DSL router for about $60
> USD.
> The router will negotiate the PPPoP connection and will act as router
> for
> the computers on your network. I think you can share an Ethernet
> connection
> over LocalTalk using MacIP, but it requires an old Apple software that
> won't
> run natively on OS X, and is hard to find.

How hard is a router to set up? I think we've got one lying around from
when we were setting up DSL, but we never got it to work. Is it just a
matter of replacing the hub, or are there all kinds of craaazy settings
to mess with?

Huge thanks for the reply! :)

- Brian

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