telnet 192.168.0.254 333 returned the following message; " Unable to connect to remote host: No route to host".

So I opened up the User's Guide and page 27 showed "telnet 192.168.0.1 333". I tried that one and was cheerfully greeted with a password prompt which I responded to by pressing the enter key. The heading for the section that the "telnet 192.168.0.1 333" was in was titled changing passwords and I didn't want to muck anything so I typed "quit" at the prompt and exited.

Perhaps I could have explored a bit but the chicken in me took over and I didn't go poking around. I began to wonder if I might be better off in the long run to get a new broadband router. I saw one on futureshop.ca that was a D-Link 4 Port 10/100BT Broadband Router for $139.99. The set up I have now is a router and a hub. There are possibly other benefits than making my workspace a little cleaner and more compact but I don't know what they are. The spec sheet on the broadband router mentioned linux support. I don't know what linux support might have meant but I suspect that it was a program to let you get at the router settings for allowing outsiders to get at my PC by allowing traffic on certain ports.

I use Shaw Internet as my ISP and way back (maybe four or five years ago) when I got my router a friend who set it up for me poked a "computer/server name?" into the router and since then I've been on the net. Prior to getting the router I was connected to the net until Shaw switched to assigning dynamic IP addresses. My friend said to get a router and that solved the problem for me. By the way I have two dula boot computers, one upstairs and one downstairs thats the reason for the HUB.

IIRC from reading posts to the lists Shaw no longer needs that "computer/server name" to be put in the router. Watching my friend hook up the router I observed that it was a painless procedure. Hook up the cable modem to the router and then plug in the cables from the PC's into the HUB.

Words like lease and MAC addresses stick in my mind and I was wondering if I will be presented with problems if and when I try replace my current router and hub with a single Broadband Router & Hub combination.

I'm not very comfortable with networking as you can probably tell :-) Any comments on any of the above will be welcomed.

Comments anyone?

--- Keith Mastin kmastin@beechtree.ca wrote:

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I have a D-Link DI-701 router. Does anyone know if I can http://192.168.0.1 to it?

I got the manual in less than 2 minutes...

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