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MovedGoalPosts · 29-06-2006, 09:00

You wont want an ADSL modem while you are on cable, and a combined ADSL modem with router won't work on cable. Thus a simple wireless router such as the Linksys WRT54G or WRT54GS will meet your current cable boradband networking needs.

If or when you move onto ADSL you just connect an ADSL modem ot the WAN ethernet port of the router, instead of the connection that came formt he boradband modem. All you have to watch for is that the modem you have for ADSL does have an ethernet port, as many of those that are supplied as bundles by the ISPs are USB based.

29-06-2006, 09:00	#2
MovedGoalPosts Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 127.0.0.1 Age: 61 Posts: 15,868	Re: Cable router and standalone ethernet modem You wont want an ADSL modem while you are on cable, and a combined ADSL modem with router won't work on cable. Thus a simple wireless router such as the Linksys WRT54G or WRT54GS will meet your current cable boradband networking needs. If or when you move onto ADSL you just connect an ADSL modem ot the WAN ethernet port of the router, instead of the connection that came formt he boradband modem. All you have to watch for is that the modem you have for ADSL does have an ethernet port, as many of those that are supplied as bundles by the ISPs are USB based.