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Anybody know whether I can use an ethernet hub for Earthlink DSL internet sharing?

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ub4me

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I have a router, but I'm not sure whether I can use an ethernet hub with Earthlink DSL (dynamic, PPPoE) for internet sharing.
Any idea or experience?

 
If he's got a router though...why do you need a hub? The router should be plugged into the DSL modem (unless the modem is integrated into the router and provided by Earthlink).
 
Thanks for a quick reply.
So I can connect like this:

Phone line -> DSL modem -> ethernet hub -> cat5 cable for each computer

Right?

 
Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
If he's got a router though...why do you need a hub? The router should be plugged into the DSL modem (unless the modem is integrated into the router and provided by Earthlink).
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Because everytime I use eDonkey with router, it makes my router down. So I had to initialize my router.
When I connect it directly to my computer without router, eDonkey works fine.
So I think if I use a hub instead of router, the problem will be solved.
Do you think so?
 
Not likely. If you currently use a router to share a single DSL account and single IP, then a hub will not work for you unless only one machine ever logs in at a time. With the router and PPPoE, the router does the login sequence to get an IP address which it uses to aggregate your computers' traffic so it appears to be only one machine accessing the DSL line. If you plug them into a hub, then all the computers will attempt to directly access the DSL line. Each computer would need to have the PPPoE information set up, and only one could log in and use the Internet at a time. The only way to get around that would be to pay for more IP addresses from your ISP so that each machine could log in with its own information at the same time.

I can't imagine what would be happening that would make your router go down just by running eDonkey. Are you sure the router itself is failing, or is it just that when you start using eDonkey your bandwidth gets sucked up so totally that you seem to be unable to get any traffic through? I suppose possibly eDonkey is initiating so many connections that the router can't handle them all.
 
Originally posted by: Lord Evermore

I can't imagine what would be happening that would make your router go down just by running eDonkey. Are you sure the router itself is failing, or is it just that when you start using eDonkey your bandwidth gets sucked up so totally that you seem to be unable to get any traffic through? I suppose possibly eDonkey is initiating so many connections that the router can't handle them all.
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Before I start eDonkey, there is no problem at all.
But as soon as double click eDonkey icon, the four traffic lights are all on, and then it goes down completely.
I don't know why, but it's really strange.
You don't have this problem?
 
Originally posted by: ub4me
Thanks for a quick reply.
So I can connect like this:

Phone line -> DSL modem -> ethernet hub -> cat5 cable for each computer

Right?
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That will only work if Earthlink will let you have more than one IP address which I doubt. You need to use a router or setup some sort of internet connection sharing software on one machine and have the 2nd machine access the internet through the first machine.

I'd check out the website for your router to see if maybe later firmware is available or do some investigating to see if others are having the same problem as you.


 
The brand name and marketing model number would be more helpful. 🙂 All companies make some sort of 4-port cable/dsl gateway router.

Anyway, I'd assume that eDonkey is in some way flooding out traffic so quickly that the router simply can't handle it. The fact that ALL the traffic lights go on would seem to indicate that the router is trying to send data to every LAN port (I assume you have computers on all of them), possibly a flood of some sort. Some routers do have very slow processors and very little memory, so this might be part of the problem, but really just starting up one application shouldn't kill a router. I'd definitely be talking to the manufacturer's tech support about it.
 
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