Sekoyen’s

I used this type of wiring in my small LAN. Very small. Just 3 desktop computers, a hub and a Caremo router with built-in ADSL modem.

Using this method, I could shares one internet connection with other PC without using Windows Internet Connection Sharing (ICS), particularly in Windows ME or Windows XP.

It is more stable and the other desktops do not depend on the ‘main’ desktop to connect to the internet. Mean, if the ‘main’ computer hang or is not started, the other computers still could access the internet. Another advantage is the ‘main’ computer is not burdened with ICS application which is pretty resource hungry. Furthermore, nowadays, the hub or switch is really cheap.

To connect those computers to the hub/switch, you need:

1 Cat5 RJ45 Crimp Tool.

RJ45 Connector, 2 units for each computer.

Category 5 Cable, measured from computers to the hub, and the hub to the modem.

We need to crimp RJ45 connector on every end on the Cat5 cable to be like this:

In order to do that, you need to cut out about 1 inch of the outer cover of every end of Cat5 cables, and push those wires into RJ45 connector and use the crimp tool to secure it. This is the normal color sequence used in a normal LAN, viewed from above, which side with no clip.

Then plug one end of the cable to the computers’ network card and the other ends to the hub’s ports. Plug one end to the modem and the other to the hub’s port which can be up-linked.

In the modern hub, there is at least one uplink port or a port which, can be changed to ‘uplink’ with just switch the port to ‘uplink’ mode.

If your hub does not have ‘uplink’ capability, you should make a cross-over cable. In a cross-over cable, one end is using a normal color sequence but the other end uses cross-over configuration, like this:

Off course, only one cable needed to be configured as cross-over cable, and it is only if your hub does not have ‘uplink’ port.

After this, what you need to do is to configure the network setting of your computers, such as the IP Address.

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