Any cable modem + router combo ?

[jose]

Hello everyone,

I have a cable modem & a linksys router w/ builtin firewall.

Does anyone make a combo device that I could use w/ my Cox service ??

Regards,
Jose

 

[jose]

Well, I found 2 devices that will do the job. Linksys wcg200 & Motorola SBG900

Any opinions on either ?

Regards,
Jose

 

[ViRGE]

My advice: stick with seperate modems and routers. You never know when you're going to want to expand by getting a router with new wireless features, and you never know when the cable company will want to put in a new modem for standards compliance or whatever.

 

[WobbleWobble]

I'd get seperate devices as well.

 

[jose]

I have seperates now, but the BestData modem is only docsis v1.0 .. I'd like to get better throughput because I have my whole house wired.
I'm using a Linksys router/firewall + a SMC 16port switch. The router has 2 bad ports also..

Also space is a factor because I have 2 coax runs for every room, this along w/ distribution video amps is taking alot of space in the electrical inwall box.

Regards,
Jose

 

[Jeff7]

The router and switch should be fine, especially if the switch is a 10/100Mbps model. I don't know if home routers have really improved in speed in the past few years. They really don't have to - a lot have even used 10Mb network hookups, simply because they don't need anything faster, and those chips are probably a bit cheaper. Though for the record, recently, some do use 10/100 hookups - probably for things like college campuses, where people want to hog all the bandwidth they can get.

 

[piasabird]

There might be a way to revise the cable modem firmware on the cable modem.

I cant see why anyone would need 2 cable runs per room unless you are using both Cable TV and Ethernet. If you have a multi-Floor abode you may want more than one smaller switch. That way you could have several smaller subnets. This allows one wire to go between the floors. Limiting the total length of the cable to shorter lengths might help.

Another thing to watch out for is how many times you have split the Cable TV Line. And how many times it splits before it reaches the cable modem. Probably the best way is to have one splitter and run one line directly to the Cable modem, or locate the cable modem near where the Cable comes inside the house. the router/switch needs to be centrally located. Sometimes the Cable TV line coming into the house has poor signal quality. The Cable TV Guys may have installed Cable TV 5-10 years ago and you may even have had a break in the cable over the years. If he Cable moves a lot the Shielding may also be damaged. I have watched the Birds and how they like to land on the cable and wondered about that.

 

[jose]

I have 2 coax runs of quad shielded for cable + sat(HD) or cable + ota, and 2 cat5 runs for network & phone lines.

I do have the cable modem & router & hub inside a distribution panel along w/ coax amps. That's why it's so tight in there.
Next house I build, I'll use 2 distribution panels..

Regards,
Jose

 

[Gotham33]

I need a router. I'll have 2 computers connected. I probably won't be online at the same time with both. Could I connect both of them to my cable modem? (cable modem has USB and Ethernet cable)

 

[jose]

Don't think you can use both at the same time. You would need some sort of router that does NAT...

Also you ISP may only let you have 1 ip# assigned to a specific nic, thus you may have problems using 2 computers w/ diff. nic's.

Regards,
Jose

 

[Spamdini]

is it easy to give seperate ips to 2 diff computers on the a router?

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Spamdini
is it easy to give seperate ips to 2 diff computers on the a router?

Quite easy - they generally use DCHP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) to automatically assign each connected device an IP address.

 

[blindtothagame]

WHICH IN TURN LETS YOU GET ONLINE WITH BOTH PC'S