The local cable company that is in charge of cable connections here has a great deal going. They will give you the cable modem and installation for 175 bucks(normally like 300 bucks total for both of them), and its' only 29.95 a month. Anyway, my problem is that I have two computers that I want to hook up to the cable modem.
As I understand it, the connection itself is coaxial (the same cable you use to watch TV), and you plug a Cat 5 cable from the NIC card of the computer into the cable modem. I guess I need to call the cable company to find out if they give you mroe than 1 IP address (I've heard people in different cities talk about their cable companies giving them 3 IP addresses). Because if they don't, I can't use a hub to network them, I'd have to get a router.
If I have to get a router, is there one that you guys would recommend? I don't need anything special, as I just need to network 2 computers using the same IP address, so I'd prefer it'd be relatively cheap.
As I understand it, the connection itself is coaxial (the same cable you use to watch TV), and you plug a Cat 5 cable from the NIC card of the computer into the cable modem. I guess I need to call the cable company to find out if they give you mroe than 1 IP address (I've heard people in different cities talk about their cable companies giving them 3 IP addresses). Because if they don't, I can't use a hub to network them, I'd have to get a router.
If I have to get a router, is there one that you guys would recommend? I don't need anything special, as I just need to network 2 computers using the same IP address, so I'd prefer it'd be relatively cheap.