One cable line, two modems? - Tech Support Forums

OC Guy · December 15th, 2001, 09:22 PM

If im not mistaken, the cable line ran to my room, goes to the same line that my dad has with road runner. Is it possible to connect a modem to my line, then to my computer and share the bandwidth? Below is a illistration. Like my typing skillz dont yah?

Undeadlord · December 15th, 2001, 09:25 PM

No sorry bud its not .. but you can do what you need, you just need to buy a router. See the cable modem has a MAC address that the cable company puts into there system, thats how they make the connection. You can I am sure add another modem, but to get it to work you will have to pay for another cable modem bill. Do some searches for cable routers here in Techimo.. you will find plenty of articles about them

Undeadlord

Sixpac_XP · December 15th, 2001, 09:47 PM

Help. I'm router stupid.

hope that helps!

sixpac xP

OC Guy · December 15th, 2001, 10:29 PM

Wow, that sucks. I would hate to buy a router and crawl up in the antic to re-wire the whole house just to play games online. Oh well, thanks anyways guys!

Sixpac_XP · December 15th, 2001, 10:49 PM

Have you though about buying a wireless router solution like the one from linksys?

That would work for you!

sixpac xp

OC Guy · December 15th, 2001, 10:53 PM

No, it would be nice, but it does cost a bit much and i think its only 10mb a sec. I'm running 100 right now and at times, its too slow! So, i guess with a router, my sister can quake online too.

Sixpac_XP · December 15th, 2001, 10:57 PM

100 mb/s NIC is too slow? No its not.... nothing you've got will utilize that much bandwith...

Remember that the MS TCP/IP stack is protocal hungry but nothing you've got (with standard IP networks and DSL or Cable Broadband) will use anything more then 450 kbps (in true IP bandwidth)...

10 Mbps is more then enough for all games/apps and online surfing.. etc.

OC Guy · December 15th, 2001, 11:05 PM

U might be right, but there is a bottlenneck some when i pull mp3s or dowloaded southpark episodes from my dads machine. Its probaly his machine,lol.(POS)

FoCjabberwocky · December 15th, 2001, 11:15 PM

first let me tell you what i am currently doing, inside you will find your answer. (btw you all understimate the power of cable its fiber to the nodes u guys wake up!) i have two cable modems and two nics in my puter. i can pull from both at the same time thanks to xp's bridge option for the network. it is installed like an additional network connection called bridge. hehe. so it pulls from both when all the bandwidth from one is used. so there you go man.

you can split a cable line and hook a modem up to each end. if it works on one end of a two-way splitter it will work on the other. each modem has a separate place on the server at the cableco, and so each has its own bandwidth. how else do you explain that your neighbor has a cable modem and the cables from both of your houses connect to the same tap fed by only one line? if you're willing to shell out the bucks they will put another modem in your house man, believe me they're in it for the money.

the bridge connection allows you to use a phone line, dsl, and a cable modem and any other network connection all together at once. cool thing about two cable modems really turns out to be a 256 upload speed which our provider probly skimps on at 128 but hey, dsl sux around here. what can i say. blah blah blah blah anyway hope you find what you need in here.

Sixpac_XP · December 15th, 2001, 11:15 PM

I can tell you its definately not the speed of your network...

You probably would want a 10mbps network.. I have 4 computers at home and have run a 10 and also a 100 mpbs network and never saw a difference that I could notice...

10 mbps works just fine... 100 mpbs is for big networks... but always try to get a switched hub and not a normal dumb hub..