I'm having an extension and a stretch of Cat 5 put round the outside of the house. Is it possible to have the network jack and phone jack in the same surface mount box?

Hi there, I have a few beginner's questions and wondered if anyone could help. Feel free to point out any glaring errors in my plans. I want to network up my house. I'm planning of having 10 network points around the house. So I think I am right in saying that I need to buy 10 RJ45 front plates, and each front plate requires its own back box?

Hi group. Now that I have a static IP, could someone point me towards a site showing how I can connect to my PC from another machine elsewhere? It's connected via a router on my home network if that makes a difference. Google doesn't seem to understand my question :-( Cheers Steve

Hello uchn-lings everywhere. I've got a 20 meter cat5/rj45 cable which I use to run to my patio. (So I can't leave it outside.) When I gather it up or wind it out, it often gets tangled up. From my V90 days, I have a rather nice telephone extension reel (much like this one http://www.homestead.co.uk/extel.htm ) Because it winds up and is self contained, I'd much rather use this one.

Hi i have recentally install Nero Ultra Edition 6, which has BackupItUp, i have scheduled backups daily, but it cant access some users direcorys (docs and settings) with passwords, all admin accounts, i run windows xp home? Can anyone help or am i going to have to remove passwords which i dont want to do. i have tried goin to doc and settings and clicking on user folder but get access denied...

Hi, I would really like to add a DVD-RW drive to my computer, i have looked at external but they are to expensive, so i will be going for the internal option. How easy are they to fit, anyone got any guides to help. Also wheres cheapest place to get them and DVD CD's TIA

I have a BT voyager 200 Router and i'm having problems wth it. i have a a desktop computer with Windows XP, IP - 192.168.0.1 subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 Gateway: 192.168.1.1 and a laptop with windows 98se IP - 192.168.0.2 subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 Gateway: 192.168.1.1 The XP computer works fine on the internet, but the laptop will not. Anyone got any ideas?

Hi my main machine which connects the router has a ethernet card in, but now the suddenly the card wont work, does anyone know why this could be? Also if i have another machine with Wirless Desktop card, and a spare ethernet card, can i use a crossover cable and connect a pc to it, even though the connection is coming from the wireless card? TIA

Just ordered one of these in the post. however I would like to know from experienced people any setup issues/snags that I can prepare myself for when it comes....... Im on Freeserve Broadband at the moment. if anyone replies to ICQ please mention belkin in the message, otherwise i'll bin (I dont want any Viagra or be Jennies friend)

Hi, I have 3 computers connected to hub and the hub in its turn connected to the internet using rj-45 cable. I have been told by system admin that to use 192.168.3.48 as an ip address for one computer and the gateway 192.168.3.1 and the submask is 255.255.255.0. He told me to run DHCP on that computer so he can give other computers dynamic IPs!!! I am confused?? how can I coonect the other...

Hi I'm interested in creating a home network; i currently have a desktop pc with network card and a laptop with integrated-wireless. To make a home-wireless network, what equipment should i buy for the main desktop pc itself; if i was to buy a wireless router that allows access to the internet through our cable modem AND to files on the network; or would the desktop pc have to be on all the time...

(Hi all. I had posted this to alt.internet.providers.uk, but was advised this would be a better group to post. I tried googling but I can't find any mention of this problem.) I've got a Netgear DG834 (firmware 1.01.01) ADSL/NAT IP/Ethernet box attached to an ADSL account. I wanted to open up incoming connections to a friend's computer as we were running some server software. I opened up the...

Hello, here´s my problem, I hope some one can help me. I have 5 computers in my homenetwork. They have a shared internet connection via a Sitecom 8 ports broadband router with DHCP. Everything works well. One of the computers though is a laptop and I´d like to have that one wireless, so I bought a Sweex wireless router. I connected the Sweex wireless router on the Sitecom broadband router...

The computer with my router and modem connected to it reports slow DSL speed tests but all my wireless clients and other weird clients tests are ok. Can anyone suggest a solution?

Since my home network went mixed Windows & Linux local network browsing has been a bit hit or miss so I have been looking for a good free & simple DNS software -- I found Posadis which is GPL and versions exist for on both Windows & Linux. I have it running on an NT4 Workstation PC and I am very pleased with the results both local & web browsing is much more responsive. see...

Hi I recently purchased the above router and cannot access it's web page. I've tried using Benq's device search utility but it finds nothing does anyone have any ideas?

Hi people, i am new to this forum, but i am very good with networking computers together either by Cat5 BNC or wireless, and can help people here are my web sites: http://www.blacknightcomputers.co.uk http://www.blacknightbroadband.co.uk here is my email address:

I have a number of brand new CAT 5 E patch panels and wall outlets as well as CAT5 E cable and connectors all brand new and still boxed for more information please contact me on

Network Problems Ok, I have two PCs running on Windows XP linked directly with a crossover cable by two Ethernet cards. Until recently the network was fine, internet connection sharing was working great, files could be transferred, everything. Then things just stopped working. Nothing had been changed in the setup. What happens now is that Windows XP, on both PCs, says 'A network cable...

I have both the above products from Linksys. The WAG54G being the modem/router, the WUSB54G being the 54G USB network adapter. Lately I've started getting problems where the connection drops quite frequently and when I look at the task bar icon for the adapter connection, it seems to have dropped down to showing 2mb/s. This seems to be random and I've been trying to pin it down to a number...