ADSL router vs Cable router
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Posted by Crouchez on January 14, 2008, 8:28 am
Please log in for more thread options broadband line into a Cable router? I mean, they both have an ethernet port | |||||||||||||
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Posted by GT on January 14, 2008, 8:54 am
Please log in for more thread options The difference is the type of internet connection: Cable internet (Telewest) vs phone line internet (BT, AOL, TalkTalk, Virgin, Tiscali, wanadoo, Zen etc etc.). The ethernet port on any router is to connect the router to your own network. A cable router is used to connect to the outside world if you have cable and an ADSL router is used to connect to the outside world if you have ADSL. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by kony on January 14, 2008, 9:29 am
Please log in for more thread options On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:28:04 GMT, "Crouchez"
>What's the difference between the two? Can you plug for example a ADSL
>broadband line into a Cable router? I mean, they both have an ethernet port > A router must have at least one LAN port and one WAN port. Port could mean an ethernet jack or it could mean a logical connection to a modem built into the same device. If there is a modem built in then technically it is not just a "router" anymore, more often it would be called a modem or modem/router as the router is the secondary device added so the customer can use the modem with more than one computer without having to buy more equipment to do so, in order to have NAT functionality from the modem hybrid device. If the router has an ethernet WAN port, it is not necessarily an ADSL or Cable router, it is a universal router that can be used by either broadband type once you plug the needed type of modem into the router's ethernet port. If the router does not have an ethernet WAN port but instead has the internal modem, the type of modem it is determines which type of broadband service it can use. If the router has both an internal modem and a WAN ethernet port, it would seem there would have to be a setting in the router control panel to set whether it considers the modem or the ethernet port to be logically considered the WAN port that is active. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Joel on January 14, 2008, 10:34 am
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> What's the difference between the two? Can you plug for example a ADSL
> broadband line into a Cable router? I mean, they both have an ethernet port YES-NO-NO-YES - ADSL & Cable Modem = are 2 different types of modems use by 2 different type of services. - Ethernet connection = networking - You can't use Cable modem with ASDL service, and you can't use ADSL modem with Cable internet serice. In general - Can you use both ADSL and Cable Modem at same time? YES - If you have *both* ADSL and Cable Internet services - Yes, if you have a *special* router allows you to have TWO Connections (2 same or mixed modems/services) | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Crouchez on January 16, 2008, 11:52 am
Please log in for more thread options Is a router a router? It can take either (ADSL and cable) connection from
the modem? | |||||||||||||
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> broadband line into a Cable router? I mean, they both have an ethernet
> port