Axentra net-box Getting Started Manual page 10

Axentra™ Net-Box Getting Started Guide
A LAN is formed by connecting your computer(s) to the LAN port of the Net -Box. You can connect a
computer directly to a Net -Box LAN port with the provided Ethernet (RJ-45 straight-thru) cable(s) provided
with your Net-Box, or you can connect several computers to a hub or switch with regular Ethernet (RJ-45
straight-thru) cable(s), and then connect the hub or switch to a Net-Box LAN port with the provided RJ-45
cross-over cable.
NOTE: The RJ-45 cross-over cable(s) supplied must be used only to connect the Server LAN(s) to the
host computers or the hub via its uplink port. All other LAN connections must use regular Ethernet patch
cords (RJ-45 straight -thru cables).
Once your LAN is established, each computer on the LAN can access resources like printers and files
that the other computers on the LAN have made available. Your Net -Box is a special member of your
LAN because it's both a print server and file server, and it makes files shared on it and printers connected
to it available to the other computers on your LAN.
You bring the Internet into the picture when you connect your broadband modem to the WAN port of your
Net-Box .
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