I'm a student home for the summer and I seriously miss the high speed connection that I've recently lost. Now my family has cable internet service and connects from an external cable modem. The coax runs into the modem then it outs to a cat5 cable with a RJ45 connector, the RJ45 taps into a RJ45-to-USB NIC adapter and then obviously connects through the USB port on the computer. Now since my computer remains in my room and the family's is in the basement I was planning on doing some home networking to tap into the family's connection. I seriously don't want to spend the cash to get another connection and more importantly i don't feel like waiting for the technician to get to my house, I am only home for 2 months 😀 So I planned on going to radioshak and picking up a $20 hub. I figured I could run the RJ45 into the Hub and connect one out to the RJ45-to-USB adapter then on the other out run a patch to my NIC in my computer in my room and just set up my computer with the correct identification and service's software. Seems logical enough.
Now I really don't know much about networking or cable internet service so is this going to work as easily as I think or am I seriously overlooking something? Thanks for any ideas and opinions.
Now I really don't know much about networking or cable internet service so is this going to work as easily as I think or am I seriously overlooking something? Thanks for any ideas and opinions.
