Re: 2Wire HomePortal 1000HW from DSL for a Cable setup ?

[Bob Crothers <bob.crothers@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chuck,

Go to your nearest electronics  store and get a firewall that does NAT
(Network address translation)  that will help protect you and make your
entire network apear to be one ip device.  I'm not at home right now or I'd
tell you what kind I have.

Or setup an IPCop firewall....it just takes an old machine with 2 NIC's and
you'll have a very robust firewall that will also hide your home network
from the cable company.

Hope your company isnt comcast.  They suck.

Bob Crothers
www.BJsBariatrics.Com
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On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Chuck Lewis
<chuck.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
>
>
> Moved and went from DSL to cable. Attached stuff into a switch
>
> and couldn't get everything to work like it did on DSL. Got hold of
>
> the cable company and just what I expected - you can't have more then
>
> one computer because it only has 1 IP address UNLESS you change to (1)
>
> a network plan that gets you one additional IP address and then you
>
> can buy additional IP addresses or (2) upgrade to the home network
>
> plan that gets you 256 addressed...
>
>
>
> So no switch or hub per them but apparently a router will be OK. Well
>
> I have a 2Wire HomePortal 1000HW that we had some years ago. Will this
>
> work for what I need and how do I need to set it up ?
>
>
>
> Thanks !
>
>
>
> Chuck
>
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