How Do You Connect Computers To A Network?
“Hi. I’m Jason MacGenus and we’re going to talk about connecting computers to a network today. The easiest and quickest method is to connect directly with an Ethernet cable or hard line or wired connection. What you can see is we’ve got here; we have a Linux router and on the back we’ve already got our Ethernet cable plugged in; right here, if you can see. I’ve already plugged that in. So, we’re basically going to go to our Ethernet port on our Mac. All Macs come built in with Ethernet ports, so here’s the other end of the jack. This is an RJ45 connector. It’s just a little bit wider. So, we’re going to take that and plug that directly in. So, right now we’re connected directly into the router. This is just my power cable there. What we have here a modem. This is a cable modem. Our internet connection is coming into this box and so we have an Ethernet jack going from the cable modem to the wireless router. So, this is the actual internet line that comes in. So, anything we hook into th
