ZOOM ADSL ROUTER ANSWER;

[Jim Cornette]

Mirco Scara wrote:

> James,
> My zoom adsl is a adsl x3 model 5560, and according to them 
> instruction manual it can connect up to 253 computers and it can 
> assign each one of them an individual IP address.
> I purchased the zoom adsl x3 in the UK and I am trying to set it up 
> and use it in Italy.
> It easily connects each individual PC but isn't able to connect them 
> both at the same time.
>
> Please help......
>
>
How many IP addresses does your vendor allow? Does this router give you 
addresses via DHCP for each computer? Is the router setup on the client 
end to get one address?

I've read through the pdf file for the modem that you described and it 
seems that you can set it up to use static, use as a gateway or use as a 
router.

I use my router setup as a gateway. The address on the wan side is the 
IP from the ISP. The addresses on the computer side are assigned through 
DHCP and are in the 192.168.1.x range.

If you only bought one IP from your ISP, you do not want the IP 
addresses on the computer side to try to fetch addresses in this range. 
What you want is for the computers to get local area network addresses 
and translate through the router or gateway and share the same IP 
address from your vendor.

Sorry if you were asking someone else on this subject.

The documentation was read from this site.

http://www.zoom.com/techsupport/adsl/adsl_5560.shtml
I read the pdf file for the 5560 model.

Jim

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