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Keymaker · January 9th, 2008, 05:50 PM

EDIT-READ WRONG!

Yes, post the model please.

Thought you wanted to connect to the house network on the road with a laptop.

A router just plugs into the modem's output jack (WAN connection) then the desktop gets plugged into one of the routers LAN ports 1-4 and the laptop can share the connection wirelessly with the router. A router is used to share a network connection with more than one computer. Wired or wirelessly.

Crap! I forgot that the modem gets the signal from an antenna. So there may not not be a jack.

What you could do then is bridge the USB connection to a router. I think..

January 9th, 2008, 05:50 PM	#4 (permalink)
Keymaker Banned Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Loveland, CO Posts: 5,499 Blog Entries: 2	EDIT-READ WRONG! Yes, post the model please. Thought you wanted to connect to the house network on the road with a laptop. A router just plugs into the modem's output jack (WAN connection) then the desktop gets plugged into one of the routers LAN ports 1-4 and the laptop can share the connection wirelessly with the router. A router is used to share a network connection with more than one computer. Wired or wirelessly. Crap! I forgot that the modem gets the signal from an antenna. So there may not not be a jack. What you could do then is bridge the USB connection to a router. I think.. Last edited by Keymaker : January 9th, 2008 at 06:05 PM.