Networks Sharing a blueyonder broadband connection.

Yaaaay - my Blueyonder has been upgraded to 1mb! now if i can just share the connection with a few more pc's.....

Has anyone else managed to share their Blueyonder connection?

As far as I can gather, BY dont allow you to use 2 different NIC's at the same time, so you need a router - which looks like only 1 NIC to the BY network. You can then plug several computers into the router and they can all access the internet. At least thats the theory.

I'm interested to see if anyone has managed it

Blueyonder dont offically support it, but one of their friendly tech guys told me to get a Linksys router like this one and that should do the trick.

Are any other BY broadband users using this router, or if not what one are you using?

Cheers

 

Not familiar with BY, but most broadband providers are the same.

That router is the perfect option. It has an HTML interface for setting all of its options. You give it the IP addy given to you by BY (or set it to look for a DHCP if they don't give you a static). You can set the Router to be a DHCP for all the systems on your network or assign them static IP's. BY only sees traffic from one system even though you have an entire network talking over it.

My Linksys has had multiple systems connected to it and been running without a break for at least a year now without any hiccups.

 

Shadowspawn is right, thats what I've odne with my broadband connectio, got me, my Dad and sister all running on a router, tis the easiest way to fix the solution.

 

no real need to but a dsl/cable router. if you are using a computer as a server/firewall, then simply bung in 2 NICs into the server, and use some NAT software e.g. SyGate, WinGate etc and that will allow you to share a cable modem easily. No problems. I have been doing it for donkeys now with my NTL cable modem.

 

I share my ADSL connection through my smoothwall box - an old K6-350 at the mo with 3 NIC's in it - 1 for the ADSL Modem, one for a DMZ for the proposed webserver and once for the network, plugged into the my switch.

If you got enough spare bits, give it a go and you'll save some cash to pay for your extra bandwidth!

 

I share my BY connection over my network - used a router, best solution, most include a firewall

oh so simple to set up, tell me if you have any problems, you only need to find out the default BY settings, can be done using IPCONFIG /ALL at a command prompt

 

I've been wanting to go the router route for a while, and was curious. Just how effective is a built in firewall?

 

Well in the end I bought the Linksys router and it was very easy to get 2 pc's up and running on BY broadband

That has a built in firewall too, and it passed all the tests at http://www.grc.com which seems to be a popular firewall tester.

 

The "firewall" in a Linksys router is simply Network Address Translation (NAT) and Port Filtering. The systems on the inside have different IP's than the internet see's, so the router has to translate between them when directing traffic. This combined with filtering out all of the unwanted ports blocks almost all attempts into your network. DOS attacks are the most effective, although you've got to p*ss someone off to warrant that.

There is no foolproof protection though. If someone wants in badly enough, they will get in. Ask the Fed's, Microsoft, etc.

Just remembered...I've got to shut down some of the ports I opened over the weekend...