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Is this cable internet setup possible?

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zmzhang

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I have a friend who needs 2 seperate broadband lines. He currently has DSL and comcast cable. The cable is much faster then his dsl. Can he get 2 seperate cable lines that go to different modems which go to different computers?
 
Originally posted by: JackMDS
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Wow, short reply🙂

He sure can do this but I'm not sure if the cost is worth it when you can just use a router for one. I guess it depends on how much the connection is being used though too.

 
On one line, he has a server for ftp/website/game on the other line is for everything else. He needs two lines or else the speeds get slow. So if he has (after getting it all setup) one coax cable comming in, which gets split and each line goes into a cable modem, would each modem have 1.5mb down and 256up seperate from the other?
 
If he has two accounts with the ISP it will be like two independent systems, it does not matter that it comes on the same cable.

If he has one account and he just buy and put an additional modem it probably will not work at all.
 
Originally posted by: zmzhang
On one line, he has a server for ftp/website/game on the other line is for everything else. He needs two lines or else the speeds get slow. So if he has (after getting it all setup) one coax cable comming in, which gets split and each line goes into a cable modem, would each modem have 1.5mb down and 256up seperate from the other?
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Just remeber that cable modem bandwidth is shared throughout the network, so slow downs are usual on the speed. In my experience with cable i dont think i have ever gotten 1.5 mb down, but he might in his area there is a good speed test at dslreports.com/tools to check out, see what kidn of speed he is getting, the 256 up is kind of crappy and not great for ftp and game servers. Also the cabel may be capped on both the up and the down, which isn't great.


my advice, see if you can spend that $$ on a good dsl line that offers 1.5 down and somethinkg liek 768k up (or more especially if the up is uncapped, which is even better).
 
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