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I need a place where I can buy a USB router.

Thanks for the help.

I checked amazon.co.uk and no luck.

I need a place where I can buy a USB router.

Thanks for the help.

I checked amazon.co.uk and no luck.

Just whatever you do don't buy a Netgear one.

Try www.maplin.co.uk... I think they have the Draytek Vigor 2200 which has been verified to work.

Col I've just read your other thread and I think you've gotten yourself well confused. You don't need a USB router.

Here's what I have. One PC, connected via a USB modem in the USB port. ONE NIC, which I bought for £15. This has a single ethernet out port on it. One crossover CAT-5 cable, which goes from the NIC card to the PS2's network adapter.

That's it. Then I downloaded Winroute Lite to do the ICS (as I'm on Windows 98 which doesn't have it built in) and I was away.

But I don't have a out port on my ADSL modem.

You don't need one! Read what I posted again... you told us before that you had a USB modem. Same as me. If so then you can connect the same way I describe below.

The craziest Col! wrote:
> But I don't have a out port on my ADSL modem.

Col, I think your getting confused with this "port out" business. An Ethernet NIC is both an in and out port anyway. They are used on major networks not just at home and therefore have to transmit (out) and receive (in) packets of information all the time.

Then follow what Darwock has said and you should be sorted.

Darwock wrote:
> Col I've just read your other thread and I think you've gotten
> yourself well confused. You don't need a USB router.
>
> Here's what I have. One PC, connected via a USB modem in the USB port.
> ONE NIC, which I bought for £15. This has a single ethernet out
> port on it. One crossover CAT-5 cable, which goes from the NIC card to
> the PS2's network adapter.
>
> That's it. Then I downloaded Winroute Lite to do the ICS (as I'm on
> Windows 98 which doesn't have it built in) and I was away.

I take it that you have your PC next to your PS2, but I don't my Pc is downstairs and my PS2 is in my bedroom, which is upstairs. Therefore I am going to have to use 2 x 10m extension cables to be drilled through the roof into my bedroom!

Would you please be able to rephrase yur original message so I would understand.

Cat5 UTP Crossover Cable 15m would I simply use 2 of them instead of the extension cables?

You will still have the cabling problem with a router - the PC and PS2 both have to be plugged into it, so you just have an extra bit of kit in the middle. The distances remain the same.

The craziest Col! wrote:
> Cat5 UTP Crossover Cable 15m would I simply use 2 of them instead of
> the extension cables?

You only need one, but yes.