I was told that if I purchased and additional ip address for my home,
internet access time would get faster.   I have a cable modem with 3 pcs
connected via a linksys router.  sometimes all pcs are accessing the internet
at the same time. I currently lease 2 ip addresses. When all ...

Can someone help with this layout?
                  ______________
                  } Cable Modem |
                  -------|-------

What is all this stuff about VPN.
We've bought a router and client software all by
Netgear. It handles our 12 node peer to peer LAN
great and I can even get it to "connect" and ping from

On my 2 Thinkpad T30 Laptops, WIN XP PRO SP2,
I want to assign names to both the 'wired ip
address' and the 'wireless ip address'.
When I run  sysdm.cpl I do not see how to choose to name either the

I am in a university department, and we want to map some network drives
across the local departmental network. I have done this by identifying
the computers whose drives are to be mapped via ip addresses.
The problem is that the department has run out of fixed ip addresses, so

Simple Question - I have a modemn/router with 4 ethernet ports but now
need to connect FIVE ethernet cables - extra wired PC added to
network. Can I just connect the 5 ethernet cables to a switch box and
then connect the switch to the existing modem/router??