Re: Swapping network cards

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From: Lurch (bill.gates_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 03/02/04 

Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 20:53:49 GMT

On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 20:15:43 GMT, in uk.telecom.broadband Jackeline D
<jenny@privacy.net> strung together this:

>I'm connected to NTL cable here in the UK.
>
>I connect to the Net via an ethernet card which I took from my old
>PC.
>
>I also have got an ethernet socket on my motherboard which I now want
>to use.
>
>I would like to be able swap the modem connection back & forth
>between those two ethernet sockets.
>
>What steps, if any, must I do each time I change the ethernet socket
>I am using?

You'd be better yourself a cheapo 10\100Mbps hub for under a tenner.
You can use both PC's on the net at once then and share files etc..
Something like this one will do the job,
http://tinyurl.com/34u3q
..

SJW
A.C.S. Ltd.