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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.
- Turn your computer off.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Connect the power cable with the cable modem's POWER
connector. Plug the power cord into an electrical outlet.
- Turn your computer back on.
- 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.
- Your equipment is now set up to use PeRKInet.
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