Okay - here goes. I know this will sound screwy so bear with me. We are trying to connect two computers in our home so that we can both utilize our cable modem and internet service. After talking to an aquaintance about doing this, he showed us how to set it up, although I'm realizing that it is not what you would call a conventional set up. Here's my best attempt at explaining it:
He had us install a second net card into the main computer (a new Dell). The cable modem connects directly to the Dell through net card #1. A second Cat5 cable comes out of net card #2 and into a hub (we also have a router but we don't know which one to use). Then, the second computer (an HP) has just one net card, which is also hardwired to the hub. He then told us to run the Network set up wizard on the server computer first (dell), and then the client computer (HP). And supposedly, both should have internet access.
So after much drilling and climbing into the floor boards to hardwire all this, its just not working. We have internet access of the main computer (the Dell) as it is still basically connected to the cable modem the same as before (through the original net card).
What I'm asking is, what are we doing wrong? Is this set up completely not right? Did this guy completely screw us up? Or is it just something simple we aren't doing correctly? Also, does it matter if we use the hub or the router? We've heard support for both. We are so confused!
He had us install a second net card into the main computer (a new Dell). The cable modem connects directly to the Dell through net card #1. A second Cat5 cable comes out of net card #2 and into a hub (we also have a router but we don't know which one to use). Then, the second computer (an HP) has just one net card, which is also hardwired to the hub. He then told us to run the Network set up wizard on the server computer first (dell), and then the client computer (HP). And supposedly, both should have internet access.
So after much drilling and climbing into the floor boards to hardwire all this, its just not working. We have internet access of the main computer (the Dell) as it is still basically connected to the cable modem the same as before (through the original net card).
What I'm asking is, what are we doing wrong? Is this set up completely not right? Did this guy completely screw us up? Or is it just something simple we aren't doing correctly? Also, does it matter if we use the hub or the router? We've heard support for both. We are so confused!