what transmission method the link between the NIC and router?
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Depending on what type of media you use to connect them. Most of the time it is a cat 5e cable. In that case it would be serial and traval in analog waves(sine waves) until it hit the NIC which will turn it digital waves(square waves) for the computer.
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Basically the router is the one distributing the data & the card on your wife's computer will receive the data being transmitted from the router.  In the sense if your computer is off.. it should work... In what ever mode considering that the router is the one throwing out data to both of your computers.
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You're better off just buying a cheap router (like Netgear). If you daisy chain them - from the port to PC A to PC B, for example, then PC A will have to be on whenever you want to use PC B
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Well, that is a firewall, I would suggest connecting it both to your router and your switch.  Preferably in between them.....
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Actually you don't need a router. Buy a switch -  much cheaper and will do the job for you. Or... you can buy another network adapter and configure it. Example:\nComputer1 (allready have a link to internet) has 2 NIC's (1 which exists and 1 you have to buy)\nComputer2 (the one you want to use on internet too) has 1 NIC\n!!!now, you can configure computer1 using ICS (Internet connexion sharing) - if you are using Microsoft Windows XP -> this will let you have internet on the computer2. Xp will do almost all settings for you... It's easy.
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Yes, use windows ICS.  The instructions are in the source I added.  If your two computers aren't connected through a cross over cable, you will need a switch or hub.  Then with the second nic card in the server computer connect that to the internet.  Right click on the internet connection and select internet connection sharing.\n\nBest of luck.
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easy solution:\n\n-buy a cheap router which has 4 ports for internet connections.\n-buy 4 cheap ethernet cable (u should already have 1)\n-install the software of the router on computers (u may need to install only on 1 pc,try)\n-plug the ethernets to the 4 port router (there is a 5th port for ur internet connection)\n-after connecting each ethernet to ur laptop or pc ull have them all connected to the internet and Lan network.\n-u can play transfer info and etc.\n-this is from my own experience and definately works
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You were told the wrong things when you bought the router.\n\nYes, if you want the entire thing to work wirelessly you'll need to buy a wireless NIC.
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Call netgear tech service.\nIt would be sure you are getting the right information.\nIt all depends what operating system you have,and the router you have may not be communicating.\nGood luck. Don't waste time.\nGo direct to the right source.
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Ignore PAT - it won't work for what you're trying to do.\n\nYou want to give the PC an internal static IP.  Then log into your router and port forward the VNC ports (5900 tcp if I recall correctly) to that internal IP address.\n\nWhen anything hits the outside of your router on that port it will then forward into to the internal address.\n\nJust remember that depending on your flavour of VNC the data may not be encrypted.  You also want a nice secure password, and perhaps to limit connection at either the router or VNC to certain external IP addreses.
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Seems like the simplest in your situation would be to get a CAT5 "cross-over" cable and connect the NIC in one computer directly to the NIC in the other.  Alternatively, get two regular CAT5 cables and a hub and connect them that way.  If you don't have this stuff, you could probably borrow from a friend so you wouldn't be out any money.\n\nAssuming you are using Windows, "share" (right click, properties) the directory with the files you want to copy. Om the other computer, go into "network" and find the files.  Copy them to the second computer.  That should work.
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Each machine will nead to have a NIC (network interface card) installed. The cheapest and fastest way would be to buy four Cat 5e ethernet cables and network the machines together using a Hub, Router or Switch. If you have Windows XP, you're done. Windows XP will automatically configure the network for you. If you have an earlier version you'll have to go to Network Places and add a network, on each machine.\n\nGood luck and have fun.
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I can see two possibilities for 2 nics (network cards) in a server system.  The first is to allow the system to act as a proxy/firewall.  The second is to use both the connections to connect to the network thereby effectively doubling the bandwidth of the machine (handy if your application is network i/o bound rather than restrained by something else on the machine).
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plug both computers into the router with ethernet cables.  The dns should set up to do the routing already.  Go and right click the files/folders you want to share and goto the sharing option.  THen on the other computer goto my network places and view workgroup computers, if you dont see the other computer try going up a level since they might be under different workgroups.
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you are likely behind a switch or router, and the packets don't come to you.\n\nQ. I am connected to the LAN through a switch, and when I launch EffeTech HTTP Sniffer, it captures only the packets sent to and from my own machine. I can't see the traffic of other machines. Why is this so?\nA. The easiest way to achieve this goal is to place the EffeTech HTTP Sniffer on the gateway. However, if you want to reach this goal on any PC on the LAN, you have to do some easy configurations for your switch. So lets talk about the working theory of switch first. Unlike hubs, switches prevent promiscuous sniffing. In a switched network environment, EffeTech HTTP Sniffer (or any other packet analyzer) is limited to capturing broadcast and multicast packets and the traffic sent or received by the PC on which EffeTech HTTP Sniffer is running, because a switch will not forward others' packets to your PC. However, most modern switches support "port mirroring", which is a feature that enables switches to forward any packet to one PC and allows the network manager to determine the location of a problem on his network simply and efficiently. Port Mirroring is configured by assigning a port (called "management port") from which to copy all frames, and a port to which to send those frames. Finally, when the feature is activated, all frames bound for or sourced from the selected source port will be copied and sent (in addition to their regular destinations) to the selected destination port. Simply by placing a sniffer on this destination port, each segment can be separately monitored without moving the equipment. By using this feature, you will able to monitor the entire LAN segment.
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Where are the 98 and the working XP machine getting their IP from?\n\nFrom what you wrote you have a win98 machine with 2 NICs.  One pointing to the Internet and the other to an internal network.  Both XP machines are using the internal network to connect to the Win98 machine which has Internet sharing enable on it.  Do I have it correct so far?\n\nIf so then you need to configure all the internal NIC to be using the same IP ranges with the same mask and the external NIC of the Win98 machine as the gateway.\n\nIt would seem that adding a router to your configuration would be your best solution and then all 3 computers could get their IP information from that.
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Type the following in the command prompt window.\nping 127.0.0.1\n(This runs a loop back test through your NIC.)\n\nThe result must look as follows:-\nPinging 127.0.0.1 with 32 bytes of data:\n\nReply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128\nReply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128\nReply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128\nReply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128\n\nPing statistics for 127.0.0.1:\n    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),\nApproximate round trip times in milli-seconds:\n    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms\n--------------------------------------------------\nipconfig /all\n\n(This displays configuration details of your NIC)