shane
Premium
join:2003-09-08
Knob Noster, MO
clubs:
 ·Charter Pipeline
| reply to insoolated
Re: two 3MB plans + 2 cable modems, 1 house, rip off??
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? 
I thought that if a router had 4 ports, you could hook it up to 4 computers perfectly fine.?? |
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Dewi
Premium
join:2001-09-28
united kingd
 ·BT Broadband
2 edits | Re: two 3MB plans + 2 cable modems, 1 house, rip o
said by 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?
I thought that if a router had 4 ports, you could hook it up to 4 computers perfectly fine.??
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. |
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dks7
join:2004-05-31
| reply to shane
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. |
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Dewi
Premium
join:2001-09-28
united kingd
·BT Broadband
1 edit | 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 has a bonded router, and he gets some great download speeds btw |
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