Hey Dannjr...might need some more help :)

[jimt]

got my Ugate3000 router last night and have been doing some reading. The instruction book should NOT be this confusing to me...but it is. I still need to get the cat-5 cable, but after that I'm ready to go, because both my machines have 3com NIC cards in them. What can I expect after I set each machine to auto-configure and I connect both up to the router/cable modem tandem??

I'm a little concerned about going thru the auto-configure and losing my original IP address if something goes wrong. At first the instruction book looked pretty easy, then the more I read about wan/lan addressing and trying to figure out what data is supplied and what has to be entered has got me confused...but just a little bit(yeah!!).

I've read a few of the cable lan setup
topics and thought I had a pretty good feel for it, but......


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[jimt]

Anyone else can reply if they want to. Didn't mean to imply this post to be a personal request.

As I said, I think I can get everything hooked-up OK...it's the configuring part(peer-to-peer,TCP/IP,Netbuie or whatever) that's getting me confused. I've checked out several of the how-to's and have gained much needed info, but I guess there are so many variables to cover in each article (dsl/cable/hub/router/twisted pair/etc.).

If you know of another article that might be just a little clearer in the config department, please let me know. Thanks.

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