Continue to connect up to twenty-five PCs on one chain. If you want to use your telephone or fax machine, add a two-way splitter on your wall’s phone jack or connect the device to the open telephone port on the last card in your daisy chain. If you are daisy chaining more than 2 PCs, you should connect modem to a different wall phone jack, or obtain a 2-way splitter, (see page 46).
Installing the RJ-45 (Ethernet) Cabling
Remember that if you choose to use the RJ-45 port on your HomeLink card, the RJ-11 Phoneline networking capabilities automatically become disabled. The two cannot operate at the same time.
Attach one end of an Ethernet cable into the HomeLink card's RJ-45 port. Plug the other end of the cable into a 10BaseT or 10/100 switching hub. If you plan to use both 10BaseT and 100Mbps network segments on the same network, you'll need a dual-speedhub or switch that allows segments of different speeds to communicate. For more information on 10/100 dual-speed hubs and switch- es, visit the Linksys web site or call (949) 261-1288.
2 PCs are connected through your home’s telephone line.