Re: two 3MB plans + 2 cable modems, 1 house, rip off??

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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
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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

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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.

permalink · 2004-07-01 15:41:50 · Print ·

Dewi Premium join:2001-09-28 united kingd 1 edit	Re: two 3MB plans + 2 cable modems, 1 house, rip o 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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