Re: two 3MB plans + 2 cable modems, 1 house, rip off?? in Charter HSI/CATV http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r10662496 en Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:50:19 EDT Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:50:19 EDT Re: two 3MB plans + 2 cable modems, 1 house, rip off?? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10699050 paulhaskew : Well, here I have DSL because its a business acct, but none the less, I have 6 computers, on 4 port linksys router (with a switch attached)...

All runs well...

Cheers]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10699050 Tue, 06 Jul 2004 02:31:46 EDT Re: two 3MB plans + 2 cable modems, 1 house, rip o http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10698879 rid0617 : 3 computers, 1 connection, 1 router. Everything working fine here]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10698879 Tue, 06 Jul 2004 01:39:16 EDT Re: two 3MB plans + 2 cable modems, 1 house, rip o http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10698808 burger2000 : Some home routers cannot handle a massive load of traffic and will crash, requiring a power cycle. I've seen this happen at my previous employer where they ran 25 employees through a linksys router. The router would die daily.

As for multiple cable modems off one line, you can run one drop to a 16-way splitter, hook up 16 modems and they will all work (as long as signal permits). Keep in mind at 256QAM your downstream for the whole channel is 42Mbps. So 16 cable modems going 3Mbit will saturate the downstream. But anyway, this is how cable is designed and the basis of those sharing with neighbor ads from telcos.

The bandwidth is always there. Your speed is determined by the modem. Hope this helps.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10698808 Tue, 06 Jul 2004 01:22:06 EDT Re: two 3MB plans + 2 cable modems, 1 house, rip o http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10666885 jarablue : If I were you I would look into getting a dual wan router. It combines 2 broadband connections and does load balancing between the 2. So that everyone in your home would be benefittiing from both cable modems. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10666885 Thu, 01 Jul 2004 23:20:03 EDT Re: two 3MB plans + 2 cable modems, 1 house, rip off?? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10666507 insoolated : yup as of today we are using 2 cable modems with 2 seperate IP's and (going to have) 2 routers. $43/mo. x2 = $86... :(:mad:

bleh...

Oh and I don't know the model but the router is made by Microsoft. lol.. it has wireless + wired LAN capabilities.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10666507 Thu, 01 Jul 2004 22:33:01 EDT Re: two 3MB plans + 2 cable modems, 1 house, rip off?? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10665518 shane :
said by insoolated See Profile:
The router thing is max 4 users, like everyone said. But There are like six computers, so it will just crash anything over 4 users (it has wired connection and wireless). So we either have to buy a new router and split one cable connection X amount of ways... or just get another line. So we decided to purchase another line at $43/mo.
hmm.... so I didn't make THAT bad of a choice right? I did a DSL report test and i got lke 350k/100 which is VERY SAD considering I am on the 3mbps plan. I called up the tech guy and after some tests he said there's probably some fixing going on in my area.

so... hopefully I'll get my money's worth lol.


Out of curiosity, but what router are you using?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10665518 Thu, 01 Jul 2004 20:56:02 EDT Re: two 3MB plans + 2 cable modems, 1 house, rip off?? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10664920 MrFixit1 : Do you have one modem or two right now ?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10664920 Thu, 01 Jul 2004 19:54:15 EDT Re: two 3MB plans + 2 cable modems, 1 house, rip off?? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10664793 insoolated : The router thing is max 4 users, like everyone said. But There are like six computers, so it will just crash anything over 4 users (it has wired connection and wireless). So we either have to buy a new router and split one cable connection X amount of ways... or just get another line. So we decided to purchase another line at $43/mo.
hmm.... so I didn't make THAT bad of a choice right? I did a DSL report test and i got lke 350k/100 which is VERY SAD considering I am on the 3mbps plan. I called up the tech guy and after some tests he said there's probably some fixing going on in my area.

so... hopefully I'll get my money's worth lol.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10664793 Thu, 01 Jul 2004 19:42:55 EDT Re: two 3MB plans + 2 cable modems, 1 house, rip off?? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10664773 MrFixit1 : phensley , you might want to see what they think of that router here »Linksys
Specs sound real nice for the price .
I have a bunch of Linksys stuff that I am happy with , just do not have any personal experience with that specific router.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10664773 Thu, 01 Jul 2004 19:40:39 EDT Re: two 3MB plans + 2 cable modems, 1 house, rip o http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10662971 Zappa2000 : Why don't you get a wireless setup with a 4point switch/router in it like what Buffalo WBR-G54 offers? That way you can go wireless also, and it costs about the same.

Just my .02]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10662971 Thu, 01 Jul 2004 16:20:06 EDT Re: two 3MB plans + 2 cable modems, 1 house, rip off?? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10662742 shane : Sorry to get a little "off topic", but I wanted to get your guys' opinions on the router I was thinking about buying. Is it a good router? Do you have any experience with it? Would you recommend it?

»accessories.gateway.com/Accessor···ef=merch]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10662742 Thu, 01 Jul 2004 15:56:17 EDT Re: two 3MB plans + 2 cable modems, 1 house, rip o http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10662629 smoky_129 : Ive seen some of the unstable hack firmwares for the linksys wrt54g crash but the stable version run good and mine hasn't crashed in 6 months since i went to a stable version ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10662629 Thu, 01 Jul 2004 15:45:42 EDT Re: two 3MB plans + 2 cable modems, 1 house, rip o http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10662612 Dewi : Bonded routers are pretty expensive, correct. But I don't think that is what the want; they want to know if they have two modems, are they getting the full speed out of each. The router thing just obfusticated the issue ;)

jarablue See Profile has a bonded router, and he gets some great download speeds btw ;)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10662612 Thu, 01 Jul 2004 15:44:11 EDT Re: two 3MB plans + 2 cable modems, 1 house, rip o http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10662583 dks7 : In order for those 2-3 lines to work together you would have to have a router capable of bonding the 2 lines. In a normal router you cannot screw in more than 1 cable line. If you have 2 pc's and 2 modem lines, each one could have its own. But you won't get 6mbit on 1 box.

Only reason I could see a person wanting 2 lines is if 3mbit is not enough speed for your household as a whole.

So your choices are, buy a router that can bond both lines and they are expensive. Then hook all boxes to it. Or get 2 routers and hook 2 boxes to each and a cable line to each.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10662583 Thu, 01 Jul 2004 15:41:50 EDT Re: two 3MB plans + 2 cable modems, 1 house, rip o http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10662548 scarney : the router crashing is strange. a 4 port router should be able to handle many more than just 4 computers by daisy chaining.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10662548 Thu, 01 Jul 2004 15:39:20 EDT Re: two 3MB plans + 2 cable modems, 1 house, rip off?? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10662538 pit_viper :
said by insoolated See Profile:
I thought that if a router had 4 ports, you could hook it up to 4 computers perfectly fine.??


You are correct. We have 7 PC's hooked up to a router at my house without problems.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10662538 Thu, 01 Jul 2004 15:38:35 EDT Re: two 3MB plans + 2 cable modems, 1 house, rip o http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10662532 Dewi :
said by shane See Profile:
Okay, hold up. I want to get something straight since I was about to spend more money. Currently I have one computer hooked up to the 3Mb Charter HSI plan.

I was considering purchasing 2-3 more computers and a router so I could share the connection with all the computers.

However, the person in the first post said that with 3 computers it crashed his router. So is this even possible? :huh:

I thought that if a router had 4 ports, you could hook it up to 4 computers perfectly fine.?? :huh:


I have 6 computers on a router. Can have up to 254. You can add a hub to a port of the router, and have 7 ports. Add another hub and your have 11. And so on. Most routers allow up to 254. (Which hopefully if you have 254 computers, you'd invest far far more than $50 in your routing/switching equipment) ;)

Been using off the shelf routers for a long time. Very reliable.

Not sure why the poster's router crashed. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10662532 Thu, 01 Jul 2004 15:38:21 EDT Re: two 3MB plans + 2 cable modems, 1 house, rip off?? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10662496 shane : Okay, hold up. I want to get something straight since I was about to spend more money. Currently I have one computer hooked up to the 3Mb Charter HSI plan.

I was considering purchasing 2-3 more computers and a router so I could share the connection with all the computers.

However, the person in the first post said that with 3 computers it crashed his router. So is this even possible? :huh:

I thought that if a router had 4 ports, you could hook it up to 4 computers perfectly fine.?? :huh:]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10662496 Thu, 01 Jul 2004 15:35:08 EDT Re: two 3MB plans + 2 cable modems, 1 house, rip o http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10662457 Dewi : Easiest way to illustrate this is for you and your friend to run a speedtest using both modems at the same time. If the net of the two is more than 5MB, then you are getting the service you pay for.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10662457 Thu, 01 Jul 2004 15:30:12 EDT Re: two 3MB plans + 2 cable modems, 1 house, rip off?? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10662378 pea_cracker : I'd say "no." Cuz best to my knowledge that one feed can handle a few modems already, maybe over 100mbps even. So it should be able to handle two 3mbps plans.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10662378 Thu, 01 Jul 2004 15:23:52 EDT two 3MB plans + 2 cable modems, 1 house, rip off?? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10662268 insoolated : Hi. I live in a house with 5 people. We use a router for three people on our old 3mbps plan. The router crashed when we tried to add everyone onto the one line, so we decided to try and get another cable line and cable modem on another 3mbps plan. This way I thought our speeds would be independant and faster since it's not being split up as much. So today I got a cable modem but all the technician did was activate an old cable line. I thought it was going to be another entirely new cable feed from the cable box. Ends up I'm probably still sharing the same speeds from the cable line right among 5 people, right? just that i have my own IP address. So will I actually be capable of 6mbps speeds coming through the house? Am I getting ripped off?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10662268 Thu, 01 Jul 2004 15:14:38 EDT