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Guys ... Seems we can get Optus@home come the 4th of next :D
Question is this .. There are 2 different modems supplied by Optus right ? (USB and whatever else) .... I have been told that the USB modem is a pain in the ass to share and with whatever the other one is it becomes much easier.
The plan is to run a server via a network switch and 2 PC`s off that switch. Any and all advice welcome here as im confused all to hell here :confused:
Regards and thanks in advance
Daniel
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Basically, the Optus@Home cable service is coax from the street to your cable modem (it's broadband coax, not baseband like the coax cable you use for BNC networks).
Then, from your cable modem, you connect via a network cable, normally into a network card in your PC.
Optus@Home supply you with a network card if you ask for one. They have PCI and USB models - avoid the USB model, it sucks. it's *your* choice what they give you (PCI or USB).
Don't bother using their version of Internet Explorer - or even installing their CD.
You install the driver for the network card, give your computer the name they tell you, and tell your computer to get all it's networking information through DHCP.
Internet Explorer needs no special setup - Optus@Home run transparent proxies anyway, so you don't need to hook up to them manually - if you *want* to use it, it's just "proxy" (without the " "). Their home page is simply "www", their mail server is "mail" (you get the rest of the hostmasks through DHCP, they are added to any address which you type in as a simple hostname, rather than fully qualified domain name).
The Optus technicians will test that everything is working, and once they're happy, they'll leave.
Then you put another network card into your PC with the Internet connection. Once it's installed (with drivers) and hooked to your local LAN, go into the properties of the network card which is connected directly to the cable modem, and enable ICS. This will give the other NIC an IP address of 192.168.0.1 and your machine will act as a DHCP server on the local network. You then tell the other PCs on your LAN to get their TCP/IP details through DHCP, and everything should be sweet.
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