Next Cable Connect Question...Router?

[lpc300]

Hi all,

Finally resolved the issue I talked about in this thread . Turned out that the Belkin USB to Ethernet device was faulty (as has been my experience with most non-cable Belkin products), the cable wiring outside my house was old and needed to be replaced and I hadn't cold booted when I hooked the modem to my laptop. Things are working superbly, so now I have a new question. The situation is that when the cable company installed the modem, they couldn't get a signal by splitting the line from one of the TV's; the modem needed it's own line. So, they drilled a hole a closet, ran it down to the basement, connecting it to a splitter there. Works fine, but...the closet is across the hall from the computer. So, I now have a cable line crossing the hall in my house. I could just buy a throw rug so the family doesn't trip on it, but I'm wondering if this would work: can I buy a wireless router, put it and the modem in the closet, and connect my computer to it without a cable? The modem and router would be connected by a CAT5 cable, of course, but no computer would. Can this work? My computer has an external USB wireless LAN, so I have the hardware.

Thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

[bailey]

yes it would work ok.
but I feel that there is something wrong when you can't get a signal through a spliter, as long as it is a 1000mhz spliter, it should work just fine, I am useing a spliter on my system with no problems, also all the other lans I have set up.
the cable co was very wrong and unprofesional in doint it the way they did, and you should not have accepted that kind of slopy workmanship.

[lpc300]

Thanks for the response, Bailey. The problem was several-fold. There are three splitters already in the basement. The house was wired for cable more than 20 years ago (before I lived here) and the signal was weak because of all the splitters (6 TV's/cable lines, 4 of which are on one line, 2 on the other). They hadn't changed the outside cabling until the SECOND trip to my house, so I do wonder if the splitter in the room with the computer and TV would now work. Anyway, sounds like you think that my router solution would be fine. Since I'd like to connect my brother's computer (in a different part of the house) to cable internet, this give me more reason to get the router. Do you think I will have much bandwidth degradation? When I tried connecting my Laptop wirelessly to the computer now, I go almost none.

[bailey]

you should see no differance, I have 5 computers connected by cat-5 and two laptops connected by wireless, all work fine with no degradation.
using the linksys wireless router G

[lpc300]

Both my laptop's wireless and my desktop's wireless devices are 'b' wireless. By getting 'g' do I improve performance? I'm pretty certain that they are compatible.

[bailey]

G also works with B just fine

[lpc300]

Thanks for all your help, Bailey. I'll post how things work out.