BobYoung Aug 31, 2005   11:37 AM GMT

You received good advice from the other person who answered. The only thing I would add is that you may not need that cross-over cable. A lot of devices now are auto-sensing, and will work with either a standard or cross-over cable. Also, router-to-router is the type of connection where a cross-over cable would typically be used, but a PC-to-router connection typically uses a straight cable. But because of the auto-sensing, it probably won't matter. --Bob

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ByteKnight Aug 31, 2005   12:15 AM GMT

Hello, I just looked at the specs for the Dlink Wireless DSL Router; it says it has a WAN port plus 4 switch ports (Model number should be listed to be sure.) Take your DSL Modem?s Ethernet out connection and plug it into the WAN port on the Dlink Wireless DSL Router then take a network port from the back of the Dlink Wireless DSL Router and plug it into your 16 port switch. That should resolve your issues; use the WEB interface into the Dlink Wireless DSL Router to setup DHCP, and that will feed out the Wireless as well as the wired network ports. Take that XP box and just use it as a workstation the Dlink Wireless DSL Router should handle all network needs for your site. Regards, BK

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Amitrajit Aug 31, 2005   12:58 AM GMT

The previous user ByteKnight is right provided namjee is using DSL. But I think he is going with regular dial up in which case the other 2 users are right. My request to namjee, if 4 people are sharing the connection you should go with DSL or Cable Internet, dial-up will eb way too slow.

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Hittarget Aug 31, 2005   1:30 PM GMT

Dear friends, simply enable the DHCP settings in D link router(which is configured DSL already) , all the lan machines and wireless can access the internet and Local area machines shared folders. Regards Raja Balasubramaniam DSL Service Engg

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Smiley Aug 31, 2005   1:46 PM GMT

If you connect your Dlink router to the XP box like jstew65 suggested, you will need two network cards. One to connect to the Dlink (you did not specify if it was one of your 8 port switches, so I am assuming that it is not) and the other to one of your other switches. This way, you can also use the XP box as a firewall. My recomendation is to purchase a small firewall, connect the Dlink to the External (or WAN) port of the firewall, connect the firewalls Internal (or LAN) port to one of the 8 port switches, and set the firewall as your gateway using your DHCP server. This way, you have some sort of security from the outside world you don't have to a workstation taking up the role of a firewall.

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JonathanSwift Sep 1, 2005   6:13 PM GMT

To use it in the best manner you will need a second net card in the PC that is the ICS server and dialup host system, this net card will then hook to the router and then the router will connect to all the wired clients PCs you have now, and also will route to the wireless units as well you will need to turn off dhcp serving on the router setup page, as the ICS pc is your networks DHCP server for all systems, the router will also have to have an IP fixed at something other than 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1 whatever IP the net card is in the PC you should increment the last number by 1 say make it 192.168.0.2 then all cleints systems will receive their Ip thru the router as it is passed out from the ICS PC that has the modem if the ICS system has only one net card you can use that card, since youre not using that net card for a broadband connection it will be ok to make it the outgoing share port to the routers WAN or even to its lan ports, I think the router will accept incoming Ip from any port. however it might require that you use the WAn port to input to it from the ICS pc. I dont understand the need for dialup ICs and the notebooks using Cable, i dont think you can both, its either use cable (which requires a 2nd net card in the ICS pc) or use dialup?

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