Switching IP address mid-download

ezequiel · Joined: 21 Dec 2007 Posts: 10

I am complete network newbie and I need some advice about home networks. My neighbors and I made a home network between our computers. The whole idea was to share one cable modem and connection for using the Internet. Because of its speed, it can satisfy all our needs and we would spend less money each. However, that is not working. A friend told me that I should be switching my IP address if I want that to work.

templeton · Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 5

Your friend is wrong. Your connection is not working because you probably did not share your internet connection properly. If you are newbie in computer, networking it is normal. There are few standard ways for sharing internet connections. The thing you should do if you want to share cable internet connection is called port forwarding and it is related with static IP address. If you want to do that with software emulation, you must have some stronger experience. I must assume that you do not have that so let us get back to the hardware solution. To do port forwarding you will need a special device called network router. When you connect your network and cable modem to router, you will not have any further problems with accessing the Internet over your DSL cable connection. The other thing you can do is to connect one computer to cable network as a gateway and share its connection to everybody else. However, that gateway machine should always be turned on.

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