im bringing my comp to a friends house in a couple days, and we both want to have interweb access. he's currently on a single line from a router that we don't access to (it's a duplex and the router is in his neighbor's place). i have a router of my own, but have never had any experience hooking up a router to another router. can we hook up my router to his line and then both our comps to my router and have net access? if so, how (will i need to set up my router differently than if i was just connecting it directly to a modem?)
both routers are generic linksys models. any help would be appreciated
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Anonymous2007-11-06 6:01
The box that you plug a phone line into is called a modem. you plug a router (one with many ethernet slots) into that, so that multiple people can get online. If I understand you correctly, his apartment has a modem and router somewhere, and a long line running from the router to your friends house. I guess plugging his router into yours would work, but have never actually tested something like that.
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Anonymous2007-11-06 6:03
It would be a lot easier if you could get access to his router and replace it with yours temporarily (or just plug an ethernet cable into his)
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Anonymous2007-11-06 6:16
ack, op here, i dont think the replies understand. the current setup is cable modem -> router we can't access -> friend's computer. i have a second router and a second computer. i want to conect this second router, in place of my friend's computer, and then connect both my computer and my friend's computer to this second router.
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Anonymous2007-11-06 6:36
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Nobody uses phone lines anymore. Cable still uses modems, but DSL does not. Either way, that's irrelevant to the case at hand.
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Depending on how your ISP hands out IPs, just connecting your router and then connecting both computers to that router could work (and will work just as easily as if you connected your own computer directly to your neighbor's router), but you may have to fuck around with NAT, which is no fun for anyone.
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Anonymous2007-11-06 6:52
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PROTIP: DSL works over the local telephone infrastructure.
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Anonymous2007-11-06 10:56
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PROTIP: DSL doesn't use a fucking modem. This faggot was suggesting internet uses a modem and a phone line, which hasn't been true since the '90s.
Your going to your friends house who only has one connection available for both of you.
So you think by bringing you own router you can fix said problem by hooking it up there and then connecting both comps (or XBOX w/e) together.
I think thats what your trying to do.
Now without knowing the type of routers you both have I really couldn't tell you off the top of my head how to configure both together.
So then what to do? simple.
Go to best buy, circuit city, target, etc, and get an IP Switch. They cost about 15-30 bucks (best buy carries the Dynex ones, which are the cheapest and work very nicely (I use them for when im out of ports) )
You then take the connection from your friends house and connect it to one of the ports EXCEPT FOR THE UPLINK PORT, DONT PLUG INTO THAT; then you connect your and your friends stuff to the other ports and enjoy your prons, games, or other.
How neato! You're like, so interesting! Go on, build your own router or learn about RIP/IGRP/BGP/EIGRP and other INTERNETwork protocols and you'll REALLY get my IP packets jumping networks.
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Anonymous2007-11-10 6:13
Plug the two computers into your router. You will likely have to disable DHCP from your router as it will likely conflict with the other router. Plug the cable coming from the other router into any of the non-WAN ports. You may need to refresh the IP addresses of the two computers afterwards.