Cable internet and router help

ichabod crane

ichabod crane

ichabod crane

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Hi a friend of mine has cable internet coming into there house, at the point of entry it is a coaxial style socket, you plug this into a box and it changed it to an ethernet connection which will plug straight into a pc and work like LAN. he wants to use a wireless router with this setup how would we go about this? he has a netgear modem wireless router 54mps version, is it just a matter of placing the cable ethernet into say socket 1 then running cables from the router to the pc's and setting up ip's and dns numbers and the such? or do we need a certain router type? any help please!

are adsl modems different to cable ones?

thanks
 
connect the routers WAN ethernet port to the cable modem, should do the job

edit: does the router have an ADSL modem built in?
 
Your friend will need a CABLE router (actually more of a switch) rather than an ADSL modem/router. An ADSL router will be useless on a cable connection (with few exceptions). Tell him to get a Linksys and put TOMATO FIRMWARE on it. Check the link (in capitals) for compatibility as some newer models can't be flashed apparently.

As crane said above, you simply plug the ethernet wire from the cable MODEM into the WAN port of the cable router/switch, and then wires 1/2/3/4 (or wifi) from there to his home PC/s.
 
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