About Bob Wood Expertise I can help in MAC networking and problems. No PC expierence, but can guide you to useful info on networking Macs and PCs, and software available for crossplatform networking.
Experience 10 years Mac expierence. 6 years tech support.
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Thanks for the offer to help!
I've just bought a house that has 6 lines of cat5 cable
throughout the home. Only one of these lines runs to the
office where our 2 desktop macs reside, but I'd like to have
all the ethernet jacks functional. I think I've figured out
that I need 2 routers. One in the office and one where the
cable modem and cat5 cables originate. I've bought linksys
on a recommendation, only to find that they don't support
macs. The customer support on my xrouter pro has been a
joke, so I'm not interested in another of their products.
Any recommendations or advice on set up would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks,
Kurt
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Hi Kurt
Links does support Macs. Just depends on who you talk to at Links if you call for support. The Router setup page is on a web browser, so it can be setup on a Mac or PC.
You only need one Router. Links is a good choice, as is Netgear and some others.
Connect the Modem to the Wan port on the Router, and the Cat5 cables to the LAN ports.
If your Router has an Uplink port, connect the line going to the Office to that port, and in the Office, connect that line to a Hub and each machine to the hub.
Bob Wood
Bob-
Thanks for the info. Unfortunately I called Linksys back & they informed me again that they don't support macs (I guess I'll keep trying until I find someone who care enough to walk me through it). Another question- won't having a hub on the office (as opposed to a router) split the broadband connection speed between the 2 computers? I download a fair amount of live music and the Mrs will be upset if her computer's speed is affected.
Is Belkin an OK choice for the equipment, it's on sale locally?
Thanks again for all your help.
Kurt
Answer Kurt
Links doesn't officially support Macs, but the people I've talked to were more than willing to help.
In any case, any Router will work ok. Belkin is fine.
Hub or second router, you'll still be splitting the one line that runs to your office.
