LAN (peer to peer system)

Hi

Can someone please advise

If I were setting up a network in a classroom which had 15 PC's and 2 Printers.

The PC's which have been bought all have NIC cards installed and 56K Modems installed.

It would be a Local Area Network and based around a peer-to-peer system.

Ok now the PC's and the printers would each have a CAT 5 network cable coming from the back and going into a HUB or Switch.

This would deal with the peer-to-peer side of things.

How would the internet connection side of things be set up.

Ok I would be using a router for this but what goes where. What I mean is wah cables are required for the internet connection and what goes where.

does each of the phone cables coming out from the back of the PC's go into 15 ports on the router (like the hub).

and if so is the router connected to the Hub in any way.

Iam interested on how these things are connected togeather


please help

What about the internet access where would the phone cable from each computer go. Would these cables go direct to some device almost like a hub

your internet would come through the network. you would have one shared connection which all of the other networked computers would be able to use. you wouldnt connect the modems, unless of course you wanted each computer to have its own individual connection, but i cant think of any reason why you would want that.

This is one of the main reasons for networks - to share resources - such as the printers and the internet connection.

Just to add, if you are planning on using a router to share out the Internet connection, you'll probably want to get a broadband connection (most routers can't share out dial-up connections). This will also be much faster (especially if you have 15 clients).

If you do want to share out the Internet with a 56K modem, you could connect it to one modem in one computer, which could then share it to other computers.

Actually alot of routers can share dialup through a modem and is still used for backup circuits in case the T1 or whatever goes down (site-to-site redundency the cheap alternative). Man brought back memories of webramps that load balanced multiple modems.

get broadband as said before connect that to the router WAN interface and then connect the ethernet interface to the hub/switch using cross-over cable (depending on router and or hub), connect all PCs to hub/switch and set the router to do DHCP (default for most small routers). this will give all the PCs a default gateway, IP address, and DNS info needed automagicly to get to internet and your done.