[pchelpers] Re: Broadband with router

Ok, a router is a device that passes information from PCs on a network
to each other and to an external network connection (such as internet).
It acts as a network hub to the PCs giving full networking services plus
sharing if internet services with all stations.

The nice part is the hardware firewall, to protect your system from
outside intruders. It costs a little more than a network hub, but saves
you a lot of hassle setting up the services. Essentially, you install
the network cards, plug un the router (check your protocols are ok) and
go. Your broadband provider should have a system that will connect to
it.

By comparison, connection sharing software is complicated, time
consuming and unreliable, and you still need the network cards.
Billyus wrote:
> 
> > Are you forgetting the connection sharing fun that goes with it? The
> > most effective solution I have heard of yet is to connect a router
> to
> > the cable and run leads to the two network cards. It provides
> connection
> > sharing and firewall services without all the hassle.
> >
> Would you mind explaining as Pen says, in words of one
> syllable..............this is something I'm totally unfamiliar with
> *S*
> 
> Thanks
> Billy
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