2for1!? gotta be kiddin!

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XPfordummies

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I just got highspeed internet hooked up through my cable provider. I have one computer in my living room and one in my bedroom. I had set up a preowned cable modem in my room thinking it would catch the signal when they sat up the living room computer. Well, I failed to notice that the ethernet card wasnt being recognized by my computer until after the guy left. When I called and explained that I needed to get the signal sent to get my other modem online they said I would have to pay for an additional connection to run two modems in my house. They gotta be ****in kiddin. Why in the hell should I pay for two connections in one house. All I want to know is if there are some other options on bypassing this other than a router?
 
There might be a way...but I have to ask...why don't you want a router?

The whole point of routers are so you can have multiple computers hooked up to the internet, while still having 1 cable modem.
 
Well, there is no way you're going to get whatever bandwidth you're paying for on both computers... that just wouldn't make sense. If you're paying for 5Mbs (or whatever you have) then you're going to get just that... you don't get 5Mbs for one computer and 5Mbs for the other.

Right now a router is the best and pretty much only option. Routers are cheap... you could get a nice used from from eBay for like $20 or less. If the computers are far apart, then you might want to go wireless, which isn't that big of a deal, you'd just need another $20 for a cheap PCI wireless card. The price for the Cat5 is negligible, so it's not really that big of an expense.
 
Simply because you you want to split a cable in two (not possible) and a router seriously is the easiest and cheapest way...
 
XPfordummies said:
well why cant the connection be split between two modems without a router?
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You're misunderstanding what a modem (cable modem) does...(here's my crappy, vonfeldt7 definition): A Cable Modem "talks" with your ISP (Internet Service Provider) and in return, you receive access to the Internet.

A router does what you're wanting to do..just go buy one.
 
XPfordummies said:
I would have to go and buy a router and additional things to do it that way. Plus routers break up the bandwidth between cpu's.
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A switch and/or router are what makes communication possible... Who told you that they broke up bandwith?

A router is $50... And that ISP is full of dogs**t, they really tried to screw you over, I would call them back and really give a supervisor an 'earfull'...
 
Well they actually do break up bandwidth between CPU but it's common sense, if you have (for example) 10 MBPS, you can't have two computers connected at 10 MBPS, you'll have one at 5 MBPS and the other at 5 MBPS too...

The modem gives you a direct connection between the ISP and your connected computer/router .
 
webbenji said:
Well they actually do break up bandwidth between CPU but it's common sense, if you have (for example) 10 MBPS, you can't have two computers connected at 10 MBPS, you'll have one at 5 MBPS and the other at 5 MBPS too...

The modem gives you a direct connection between the ISP and your connected computer/router .
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Not exactly... it doesn't split the connection directly in half and only allow each computer to use half of the bandwidth. If you have a 10Mbps connection connected to a router connected to two computers, if only one computer is actively using the connection then that computer will get the full (or close to) 10Mbps. If, say, you are downloading something on one computer and just browsing on another then the spit would be something like 7Mbps and 3Mbps.
 
Well, I guess I need to buy a router. I found a wireless router for $50 then you have $30 worth of rebates which brings the price down to $20. The computers are only about 15 ft. apart but with a wall between them. Do I need to buy anything other than the router?
 
cat5 cable to reach from the router to the next computer.
Don't worry about bandwidth. unless your mass downloading on both. yu won't see a difference. i have 5 computers. basement, two computer rooms, garage and wireless laptop. i dont see nothing different. ya might need another coupling or short coax to reach from the floor to the cable modem and then the router.
 
PohTayToez said:
Not exactly... it doesn't split the connection directly in half and only allow each computer to use half of the bandwidth. If you have a 10Mbps connection connected to a router connected to two computers, if only one computer is actively using the connection then that computer will get the full (or close to) 10Mbps. If, say, you are downloading something on one computer and just browsing on another then the spit would be something like 7Mbps and 3Mbps.
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You're right, I explained it too fast :P I tend not to tell all I know lol. Yes it will divide the connection but I wanted to say that if BOTH computers are requiring internet access, they'll get a max of 5 MBPS at the same time each.

So yes, buy a router
 
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