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augustus108   01-24-2004 at 06:00:50 AM

I am planning to switch from dial-up to ADSL. (No cable, as I'm living in an old unit.)
The current hardware I got are:
- 1 computer
- 1 Notebook
- 1 Scanner (USB port)
- 1 printer (the old parallel port)
- and 1 spare ATX tower (Pentium2, 13Gb)

Is there any ADSL modem out there that would let me connect a scanner & printer to it, so that whenever i connect my Notebook, it would automatically detect the two hardware?
As I don't always switch on my computer.
and easy to set up, as I have zero networking experience.

Also, could someone tell me the different between hardware and software firewall? 'Cause I am having alot of trouble with my Mcafee Firewall and the software for my mobile phone P800.

System Integration...yeah right, thanks to marketing, more confusion

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schulte   01-25-2004 at 12:53:48 AM
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>>>Is there any ADSL modem out there that would let me connect a scanner & printer to it, so that whenever i connect my Notebook, it would automatically detect the two hardware?

no. all an adsl modem can do is communicate with dsl. you need a router. if you get a router, hook it into the adsl modem, and hook ur computers up to it. scanners cannot be shared on a LAN, but printers can. you can either hook it up to a computer and enable sharing, or buy a small hardware printer server for like 50 bux.
-schulte

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