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Sharing Your Resources
The HomeLink Phoneline Network Card brings the advantages of inexpensive
networking to your home or office. Any networked device, including CD-
ROM drives, hard drives, and printers, can be shared by any networked PC on
a HomeLink network.
Sharing Your Internet Connection with Your Network
The Linksys HomeLink Phoneline Network Card comes with an Internet
sharing software (also called proxy server software) package called Internet
LanBridge. The LanBridge Internet sharing software package allows you to
share your Internet connection by setting up a proxy server PC, a computer
that establishes the Internet connection and routes all Internet communica-
tions to the other networked PCs. Only one PC on your network will be the
proxy server PC. You should pick the PC that has the modem (analog, DSL or
cable) that you usually use to connect to the Internet already installed to be
the proxy server PC.
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America Online, Compuserve, Prodigy, and similar services are
not supported since you must go through their specific service and soft-
ware to access the Internet. Consult your ISP provider for more details.
Your HomeLink network will let you talk on the phone and access the
Internet at the same time ONLY if you are using a DSL or cable modem
connection. If you are using an analog modem or other device that
requires you to dial out to your Internet Service Provider (ISP), then,
obviously, your telephone line is already in use, and you can not talk on
the phone. Your internal network data travels on a separate frequency,
so your network communications will not be interrupted no matter what
type of Internet connection you have or whether or not you are using
the telephone.
To share a networked device among your PCs on the network, you must
configure each of your PCs to handle that networked device. You can
also choose not to configure certain PCs to prevent them from using
that device.
Phoneline Network Card & Network in a Box
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Package Contents
• One HomeLink Phoneline Network Card
(Network in a Box contains 2 HomeLink Cards)
• One Standard Modular Telephone Cable
(Network in a Box contains 2 Telephone Cables)
• Installation CD-ROM with HomeLink drivers and
Internet LanBridge Internet Sharing Software
• User Guide and Registration Card
If any of the above items are missing, contact your Linksys dealer.
Linksys HomeLink Series
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