Installing Your Cabling

Linksys HomeLink Series

If you are installing telephone cabling for phoneline networking, follow the instructions in the section below. If you are installing Ethernet cabling to be used with a hub or a switch, follow the instructions on page 10 .

Remember, using the RJ-45 ports on your HomeLink Card will automat- tically disable your RJ-11 phoneline networking capabilities. The two types of connections CANNOT be used at the same time. Choose only ONE type of connection to use at a time.

Installing RJ-11 Telephone

Cabling

1.Plug one end of the telephone wire into either of the HomeLink Card's RJ-

11telephone ports. There are two RJ-

11ports and only one silver RJ-45 port- the RJ-11 ports are the smaller, black ones on the left side of the Card. The illustration on the right shows tele-

phone cabling with its RJ-11 tip insert- Standard phoneline cabling with RJ-11 tips ed into the black RJ-11 port.

2.Connect the other end of the cable into a telephone jack in your wall, another PC, or a bridge. You may leave one of the RJ-11 ports empty if you do not want to connect your PC to anything else.

3.Your hardware is now installed. Proceed with the installation of the soft- ware on page 11.

Note: If you are using an analog telephone, you can either connect the device to a second phone jack (recommended), or you can connect your telephone directly to the second port on your HomeLink Card.

If you only have one phone jack and you want to use your phone, modem or fax machine, you can purchase a two-way adapter to split your single phone jack into two jack connections. Plug your phone, modem or fax machine into one phone jack and your HomeLink Network Card cabling into the other jack.

Phoneline Network Card & Network in a Box

If several of your PCs can only access one phone jack, you can connect those PCs together using the Daisy Chain method. Just plug the cabling from your first PC with its HomeLink Card into the phone jack, then use the second RJ- 11 port on the same Card to connect to your second PC’s Card. One phone jack can support up to twenty-five PCs on one daisy chain. Again, you can use a two-way splitter to plug a phone or other device into your jack, or con- nect the device to the open telephone port on the last card in your daisy chain. See the illustration below on daisy chaining HomeLink PCs.

Daisy Chaining HomeLink PCs from One Telephone Jack