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| FoundryMusicDoug | posted on 05-19-2002 @ 12:16 AM |    | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Oct. 00  | I have recently came home from college, bringing a new computer into the house. I currently have road runner and the plan was to hook a cable modem box into my room, however its quite pricey ($40 dollars extra per month). So now I'm looking at other options, and that is where you come in. How would I go spliting the wire to get the internet in my room? Do I get a network? And if so, how would I go about setting it up? I plan to check all this out in the stores and do research online as well. But I wanted the advice of people I trust first. "Now the seasons over, and I feel it gettin' cold. I wish I could take you to some sandy beach road, we'ed never grow old. Ah but baby you know thats just jive, but tonight's bustin' open and.... I'm alive!"~Bruce Springsteen (Thunder Road Est. 1973) | ||||
Nay. We are but men. ROCK. The man with the plan. | posted on 05-19-2002 @ 1:15 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | There's with or without wires. With wires is cheaper of course. Buy a router. I would go with Linksys. They're not too expensive, and they work well. They make them with and without wires. If you go with wires, they have routers with 4-port or 8-port hubs integrated into them. I have the 4-port version, it works very well. The wireless solution is more expensive because you will need new wireless network cards, and they're not that cheap. The cable modem will connect to the router, and all the PCs will go through the router.  | ||||
| JGNYC Mirc's Dalnet #opieanthony | posted on 05-19-2002 @ 1:24 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Sep. 00 | Couldn't a crossover cable be a really cheap alternative to a router? :confused:
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Nay. We are but men. ROCK. The man with the plan. | posted on 05-19-2002 @ 2:13 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Cheap, but shitty. You'd need a second network card in one computer, and pray that Internet Connection Sharing works when you install it. And the PC connected directly to the cable modem will NOT be behind the Network Address Translation (NAT) therefore vulnerable to viruses and hacks. Crossover cable also leaves ZERO room for the possibility of further expansion. | ||||
| JGNYC Mirc's Dalnet #opieanthony | posted on 05-19-2002 @ 3:22 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Sep. 00 | Ok, you win. I personally have a router, but my Verizon DSL sucks shit.
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