Double cable box broadband conundrum

muffrat · 31-01-2006, 12:12

Apols if this is a thick question, but here goes...

At the moment i have two cable boxes, one upstairs and one downstairs. Currently my broadband is piped to my pc from the upstairs box.

I have bought a mini shuttle pc to connect to my tv downstairs, primarily to play MAME games & play music. However it would be good to be able to use broadband & share files with the main pc upstairs. Is there a way to connect the small PC to my downstairs cable box to access broadband?? They're right next to each other, it would make things so easy...!

The distance between the 2 computers means i cant daisy chain them together without spaghetti-ing cable all over my house, and i have skint myself buying the new computer so i can't afford a wireless solution yet. Can anyone suggest anything??

handyman · 31-01-2006, 12:21

Nope sorry Its a wireless option for you.

£27.82 http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=86569

£16.78 http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=75646

muffrat · 31-01-2006, 12:24

Doh, doh doh !

Thought so, thanks for the help anyway.

PS I appreciate i may have posted this in the wrong forum... Will endeavour to pay more attention next time. Cheers again.

31-01-2006, 12:27

the only alternative I can think of is one of the 'use your house electricity main as a wired network' devices - but, if you include a suitable router, these cost more than 'standard' wireless kit...

Halcyon · 31-01-2006, 12:27

Do you mean you have two cable modem's or two set top boxes ?
If it is two cable modems, you are probably paying a wholelot more than you could be by having a £50 wireless router that would beam one connection to all your devices, and they could all share the internet.
You would just need a wireless card/ adapter in each of the mahcines that you want connected wirelessely to the router. Some may have wireless already built in.

It would be cheaper than paying for line rental on two cable modems.

31-01-2006, 12:56

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Originally Posted by muffrat

Apols if this is a thick question, but here goes...

At the moment i have two cable boxes, one upstairs and one downstairs. Currently my broadband is piped to my pc from the upstairs box.

I have bought a mini shuttle pc to connect to my tv downstairs, primarily to play MAME games & play music. However it would be good to be able to use broadband & share files with the main pc upstairs. Is there a way to connect the small PC to my downstairs cable box to access broadband?? They're right next to each other, it would make things so easy...!

The distance between the 2 computers means i cant daisy chain them together without spaghetti-ing cable all over my house, and i have skint myself buying the new computer so i can't afford a wireless solution yet. Can anyone suggest anything??

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