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| confuse 2004-05-28, 5:56 pm |
| Hello, everyone:
Cable:
If you do not have crossover cable to use, how do you bypass this problems?
Can you use 2 straight cables instead.
DSL:
Can you configure the router as wireless and wire at the same time.
Would that have any conflict?
The wire does not seem to work without disable the wireless configuration.
If I have a laptop, how do I dial into my DSL?? Can it be done??
Computer:
Why do my computer does not shut down????
I have to press the power button for a minute then it would shut down by itself.
Thank you
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| azimuth40 2004-05-28, 8:26 pm |
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Originally posted by confuse
Hello, everyone:
Cable:
If you do not have crossover cable to use, how do you bypass this problems?
Can you use 2 straight cables instead.
The same number of wires are in both type of cables. A crossover cable has pairs of wires inside crossed over. Answer NO it won't work. Get a router or hub or just buy the cable at your local computer store for 5 or 6 <insert unit of monatary measure here>
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Originally posted by confuse
DSL:
Can you configure the router as wireless and wire at the same time.
Would that have any conflict?
The wire does not seem to work without disable the wireless configuration.
If I have a laptop, how do I dial into my DSL?? Can it be done??
Standard home/small office wireless routers come as wired and wireless. They are designed to be used that way at the same time. Your wireless connections are restricted to 10-11 systems therefore the wired connections are needed to get to their rated routing capacity of 253 systems. Are you mixing topica and are really talking about a laptop with both wired and wireless connections? Depending on the laptop you can only used the wired or the wireless connection and not both. That has nothing to do with the router.
For your DSL you simply have to make sure that your laptop is set up for DHCP. Your router will get an IP address from the DSL modem on the WAN port and it will supply different addresses to each computer hooked to it both wired and wireless unless you have some strange junk. Even a cheap ~$40 wireless router will do this.
If you are using wireless and WEP (wired equivalent privacy), your router may be set for encryption. Then again someone may have turned on encryption in your laptop, were you using it wireless someplace else? Did someone set it up for you? Both laptop and router must share the same password if encryption is on.
Time to read the manual as there are too many variable which I gather that you do not know the status of.
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Originally posted by confuse
Computer:
Why do my computer does not shut down????
I have to press the power button for a minute then it would shut down by itself.
Thank you
Your computer shutting down by the operating system is based on having the correct power management systems set in the system bios and cmos setup. AT systems do not have soft shutoff. ATX system have soft shutoff if it is configured to do so and has bios support. Cheap system may not. Are you sure about the minute. The on/off switch is a soft switch. Your system should shut off if you continously press the button for 4 to 6 seconds by specification.
The real on/off switch is in the back of the system unless you have a cheap supply in which case you must remove the power cord. 1.8 to 3.3 volts are always on internally unless the wall voltage (mains) is removed via a switch by the power supply fan in the back or by removing the power cord. This change from AT style systems was done for both safety, no AC voltage inside the cabinet and to allow things such as Wake-On-LAN and hibernate/standby. |
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