US Robotics 9106, possible to route a cable signal?

Brum Man · 25 Mar 2006 at 18:34

I currently have an ADSL signal at home, and hence use my 9106 as a modem/wireless router. However, I'm moving out next weekend to a house that will be getting broadband through telewest cable.

Now obviously when you sign up you get the cable modem, but that's about it. There will be 3 of us in the house and therefore we will be needing to split the signal via a router, most likely wireless.

But what I was wondering was whether I could plug my 9106 in to the cable modem and just use the router/wireless router part of it to distrbute the signal from the cable router? Or am I definitely going to have to buy a seperate cable modem/wireless router to do the job?

Burbleflop · 25 Mar 2006 at 19:33

You'll be able to use the USR as a wireless access point, but not as a router.

Just plug a patch cable between one of the LAN ports on the USR and a LAN port on your new router then disable DHCP on the USR and it'll be acting as an access point.

Personally I'd ditch the USR and get yourself a Linksys WRT54GS.

Brum Man · 25 Mar 2006 at 20:13

So it'd be possible to have more than one computer accessing the USR and sharing the cable? Would it just mean that you wouldn't be able to move anything between computer?

Burbleflop · 25 Mar 2006 at 21:03

You'd be able to share files between machines connected to the USR, but you won't be able to use the USR to provide internet access.

tolien · 25 Mar 2006 at 21:06

It would probably all go belly up - since at least one machine would grab the public IP from the cable modem, and the rest would either get nothing, or would get RFC1918 IPs from the router.
In short, it's useless, other than behind a router as a wireless AP/switch only, as Burberryflop mentioned.

Brum Man · 17 Apr 2006 at 18:13

Cheers for that boy's, think I'll give it a miss then!

What are the main differences between the 3 different linksys' models?

tolien · 17 Apr 2006 at 20:13

Which?

The WRT54G and GS used to differ by flash/RAM size and CPU speed, but now the only difference is the GS does Speedbooster and the G doesn't.

Brum Man · 17 Apr 2006 at 20:27

tolien said:
Which?

The WRT54G and GS used to differ by flash/RAM size and CPU speed, but now the only difference is the GS does Speedbooster and the G doesn't.

Yeh, they're ones cheers.

What is the difference between those and the WRT55AG Multi-Band Wireless AB+G Router?

tolien · 17 Apr 2006 at 20:29

Look at the name and take a guess.
One does 802.11a, one doesn't.

Brum Man · 20 Apr 2006 at 19:20

tolien said:
Look at the name and take a guess.

Cheers for the sarcasm, much appriciated.

tolien · 20 Apr 2006 at 20:15

Hardly sarcasm, but it was pretty obvious