Question : setting up small network

Hey guys

Ok here is the situation.


I have a " Dayna   MiniHub-5       DH0511 Hub"

I have 2 computer in my house with windows xp proffessional on both of them.

Now i have high speed internet.

This is how i hooked them up.

I plugged in the rj-45 cable from the high speed modem to the hub.

Now i have 5 ports on the hub. I took a straight ethernet cable and hooked it up to  computer #1 and the internet starts working right away  i did not do any settings. Then  i ran another cable from the hub to computer #2  and that computer has windows xp pro too. But the internet did not work. right away. Then i found something. I went into the network properties and saw the network connections. There were two of them. one was lan for my internet. And the other one which i don't think should be there is 1394 network adapter. And if i uninstall this connection and the computer recognizes it again. And my internet does not work. Now the cable is fine too because where computer #2 is i hooked up my laptop and the internet started to work right away and my laptop has win xp pro too. So i think its 1394 connection and my internet is not working on that computer i tried almost everything i could i just cannot get the internet to work. I thought it may be bad settings so i formatted the computer and reinstalled win xp pro but same thing it detects 1394 connection again and the internet does not work.

Please help me.

thanks

theit guy

Answer : setting up small network

Hi –

Maybe I am a little confused here, but I didn’t think you could use a standard hub to share a cable modem connection. Unless you have a special setup with your ISP, the cable modem/ISP usually allocates 1 IP address (via DHCP server) to you as a user.

Maybe the mini-hub you mentioned actually acts more like a router. I’m not really familiar with that brand of hub. One of the local providers here in town give out hubs with multiple IP addresses assigned to them, but in effect they are routers with a hub built in .

Typically, when networking more than one machine to a broadband connection you use a combination router / switch or device that performs the same functions. The router maintains a connection with your ISP via the WAN port on the rear, and then there are the switch ports (LAN ports) for the networked computers on your local network. The router also has a DHCP server in it for allocating addresses to your respective machines connected to it. Then as each machine on your network wants a web page served up or other TCP/IP activity to the internet, the router talks with your ISP and then routes back to the respective machine on your network. I use a Linksys router and have had zero problems with it. http://www.linksys.com/Products/product.asp?grid=34&scid=29&prid=20  

The 1394 adapter you are seeing is a ‘Firewire” port on your machine either via a port on the Mb, or as in my case, it is built into my Creative Labs Audigy sound card. See this link for a little more info.
http://www.dvcentral.org/Firewire.html  

You do have a separate Ethernet card installed in computer #2 right? My setup runs fine with both network connections active. The only thing I use my firewire port for is interfacing to my digital camera. If youi still question your firewire port, youi can always disable it by right clicking it in your network connections window and selecting disable. This will effectively turn it off.

Something else you may want to try is seeing if you can verify your network interface is even working. Can you ping Computer #1 from a command prompt?