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Road Runner Highspeed: Two Cable Modems? - grad - 03-13-2006
Is there anyway to run two Cable Modems in the same residence? Can i just buy two different cable modems and plug them into separate Coax plugs?
Re: Road Runner Highspeed: Two Cable Modems? - Racer X - 03-13-2006
I don't think so. You just get a router and have 3-8 ports, and run each computer off of the router.
Re: Road Runner Highspeed: Two Cable Modems? - JTman - 03-13-2006
Yea, no need for sepearate modems.
I have a cheap Belkin wireless router with 4 ports on it. Cable modem goes to it - I get wireless from it's signal, and the desktop is wired into the additional ports.
I'm using Roadrunner in Detroit, MI area.
JT
Re: Road Runner Highspeed: Two Cable Modems? - Racer X - 03-13-2006
besides, you have a finite data bandwidth to the house. Two modem will just split the bandwidth in half. that is all a router does anyway.
Re: Road Runner Highspeed: Two Cable Modems? - grad - 03-13-2006
But is it possible if you did not have access to the cable modem upstairs, or if the wireless signal could not reach (hypothetically)?
Re: Road Runner Highspeed: Two Cable Modems? - Racer X - 03-13-2006
you run a wire from the router to the second computer.
No, a second modem isn't supposed to, nor should it, work.
cable modems are supposed to be on their own cable (and with a filter too), with nothing else on them. So you have 3 wires at your house? One for each modem, and the 3rd runs all the TV gear?
Re: Road Runner Highspeed: Two Cable Modems? - BigGuynRusty - 03-13-2006
No, you can't do that.
Also, a router does not cut bandwidth in half, it shares the bandwidth.
BGnR
Re: Road Runner Highspeed: Two Cable Modems? - Racer X - 03-13-2006
well, yeah, that is what i meant, but not what i typed.
Re: Road Runner Highspeed: Two Cable Modems? - grad - 03-13-2006
Yeah, I need to plug in another cable modem into its own wall socket.
Dang. Too bad I can't hook up two of them.
Thanks for you help, tho.
Re: Road Runner Highspeed: Two Cable Modems? - BigGuynRusty - 03-13-2006
Racer X Wrote:
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> well, yeah, that is what i meant, but not what i
> typed.
I knew that you knew, that I knew, that you were knowing, that I knew what you meant to type the correct answer! (-:
BGnR