October 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1104 pages
64h 7m
English
You might want to install multiple network adapters in your computer in the following situations:
• You simultaneously connect to two or more different networks with different IP addresses or protocols. You’d use a separate adapter to connect to each network.
• You want to share a broadband cable or DSL Internet connection with your LAN without using a hardware-sharing router. We strongly recommend using a hardware router, as we discuss in Chapter 20, but you can also do this using one adapter to connect to your LAN and another to connect to your cable or DSL modem.
• You have two different network types, such as phoneline and Ethernet, and you want the computers on both LAN types to be able to communicate. ...
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