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Equipment setup -- PeRKInet Booklet
 
 

Provided equipment:

  • A cable modem and its power supply.
  • A telephone modem and its power supply.
  • An ISA ethernet card. Macintosh users supply their own.
  • An ethernet cable and a serial cable.
  1. Turn your computer off.
  2. Plug the serial cable into the cable modem where it is marked COM. Connect the other end of the serial cable to your telephone modem.
  3. Connect a working telephone line to the LINE jack on the back of your telephone modem. You can plug a telephone into the PHONE jack on the back of the telephone modem. Attach the power supply for the telephone modem and plug the other end into an electrical socket.
  4. Connect the ethernet cable to the back of your cable modem where it is marked NETWORK. Connect the other end to the ethernet card installed in the back of your computer.
  5. Attach your coaxial cable to the cable modem's cable connection. It's marked RF. The other end of the coaxial cable should be connected to a working cable jack or a splitter from your television's coaxial cable. If you use a splitter, be sure it is installed between the cable modem and the cable box, and not between the cable box and your television or VCR.
  6. Connect the power cable with the cable modem's POWER connector. Plug the power cord into an electrical outlet.
  7. Turn your computer back on.
  8. Check that the POWER and LOCK lights are lit on the front of the cable modem. Check that the 'link' lights are lit near the ethernet connection on the back of your cable modem and on the ethernet card in your computer.
  9. Your equipment is now set up to use PeRKInet.

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