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Ok this is the situation. I live in a cottage that is right next door to a bigger house. We get our cable from this house. We also get the internet via wireless router. I have extenders on the antennas on the router but it cuts out to much. I have taken the modem from the bigger house and hooked it up at my house plenty of times for faster internet, but I can’t keep doing this because the people in the big house need the internet as much as I do. So the question is can I buy a modem (the same modem they have) and hook it up to my house and have it still work or would I need to tell the cable provider? And if I told the cable provider this I would have to pay for this. I left out all of the details on how I switched the cables so I could get the cable modem over at my house so just ignore that. The real question is can I have 2 external modems running at the same time?

2006-12-27 10:47:09 · 2 answers · asked by Cody B 1 in Computers & Internet Computer Networking

Yes I mean hook up another cable modem that has been split off the other house. The modem I want to hook up will not be hooked up to a computer, it is going to be hooked up to my xbox360. I cant wire up some CAT6 cable because it will be slow by the time it gets to my house, also it just cant be done with our setup.

2006-12-27 11:21:20 · update #1

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You mean hook up another cable modem to a cable that has been split off of the other house?
I not sure that would work. The ISP usually has some sort of setup they do to activate a device in their system based on a MAC address. You would probably have to tell them if you added a second device to the account.
But if you have a cable from the next house, couldn't you just wire up some CAT6 cable from over there and plug it into another wireless access point so that you had a nice strong signal in the cottage?

2006-12-27 10:53:53 · answer #1 · answered by Uncle Remus 4 · 0 0

Just getting another modem probably wouldn't work. Also, you may have to have a separate cable line run to the cottage.

Like Uncle Remus suggested, if the houses are close enough, try running a length of CAT5 or CAT 6 between the buildings. The maximum length of a CAT5 or 6 cable is 100 meters or about 300 feet. Also, a wired connection won't lose speed as you increase the distance unlike a wireless connection. You may want to bury or hang the cable to keep it out of the way, and also use outdoor rated wiring.

2006-12-27 14:05:07 · answer #2 · answered by Bryan A 5 · 0 0

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