Cable Forum - View Single Post - Cable router and standalone ethernet modem

hawkseye000 · 29-06-2006, 01:17

I'm a uni student, and I need to buy a router for this October, to share an internet connection with my housemates. This will almost certainly be ADSL, for example, with BT or Tiscali.
But here at home, i've got ntl's 1 meg BB through STB, and i'm sick of rooting around the back of the STB to swap ethernet cables, then resetting the STB so i can browse the internet on my laptop in the lounge. The other PC in the house is normally connected by ethernet to the STB.

So i'm thinking I could kill two birds in one stone here, if I got a wireless cable router, and got a cheap ethernet ADSL modem, then i'd be able to use the router both at home and at uni.

However, looking at the sticky, this method is apparently not advised.

Can I have some further thoughts on this? It seems the most cost-effective way to me, but maybe there are some other issues that i'm unaware of.

29-06-2006, 01:17	#1
hawkseye000 Inactive Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Lancashire Age: 38 Posts: 94	Cable router and standalone ethernet modem I'm a uni student, and I need to buy a router for this October, to share an internet connection with my housemates. This will almost certainly be ADSL, for example, with BT or Tiscali. But here at home, i've got ntl's 1 meg BB through STB, and i'm sick of rooting around the back of the STB to swap ethernet cables, then resetting the STB so i can browse the internet on my laptop in the lounge. The other PC in the house is normally connected by ethernet to the STB. So i'm thinking I could kill two birds in one stone here, if I got a wireless cable router, and got a cheap ethernet ADSL modem, then i'd be able to use the router both at home and at uni. However, looking at the sticky, this method is apparently not advised. Can I have some further thoughts on this? It seems the most cost-effective way to me, but maybe there are some other issues that i'm unaware of.