If you have DSL through your local cable company on your personal desktop does that mean I belong to a network

Question

Their network? Other than your network with your DSL cable provider, what other IP site should be allowed to be on your computer? If there is 3 IP addresses on your computer and you and your DSL Provider should be the only 2 allowed---Why do I have three?

Answer 1

Any time you connect your computer to any other computer you become part of a network. The type of network varies based on the connection method and other variables.

Wherever two or more are gathered, it's a Network. Anything that is not connected to another by any means is called Stand Alone.

Stand Alone means that no other computer is connected in any way through any means.

Your system should have one IP address per network card or wireless adapter.

Answer 2

They Pertain to your ISP Provider, Some Companies offer only One IP Address, Others offer Multiple's... A Network Defined = Two or More Computers Connected Together Through Cable or Wireless Connections, Sharing the Same Resources... Unless you have a major PC Operation going on at Home, you are not on a network, it's You, your ISP Provider. A good example of a Network is Schools, Universities, Dell Corp., Microsoft, they network all over the country.. Good Luck

Answer 3

First you cannot have DSL through a cable company.

DSL, or digital subscriber link, is internet access provided by the phone company and it rides on the same pair of wires that is used to provide your voice communication if it is assymetric dsl (which is what you are refering to).

Your cable company provides internet access through their coax cable system.

Let's discuss IP addresses and routers because you apparently do not understand these.

There are public (routable) IP addresses and private (nonrouteable IP addreses.

Public IP addresses are issued by ISPs to their subscribers. In this manner they are like a general company phone number.

Let's say you have Internet access from xyz cable company. When you fire up the modem xyz issues you a public IP address. If it is a dynamic IP it changes periodically. If it is a static IP it does not change. Regardless this IP is your link to the outside world and all communications to you use this public, routeable IP address as the identifier.

From xyz cable company you install a router and downstream from the router you have several pcs. The router provides nonrouteable IP addresses to these pcs. This identifies each pc. The router translates the private, nonrouteable IP addresses to the public (routreable) IP address. This protects the private IP address. Traffic to the public IP has to be admitted by the router and then sent to the non-routeable IP address if the traffic belongs inside; if it does not belong inside, the router discards the traffic. You need to understand this to understand the answer to your question.

All people on the private network have nonrouteable IP address that the route will not give out upstream of the router. It will move traffic within the nonrouteable IP addresses. It will also move traffic from the routeable IP addresees to the public domain but it will translate the IP to the routeable IP address. Replies will be admitted and sent to the specific IP address.

Your pc usually has one network interface and 1 IP address. If your pc has more than one network interface it can have more than 1 IP address but this is unsual unless the pc is acting like a router or if it is a notebook with a wired and wireless connector.

You claim you have 3 IP addresses. This makes sense Only if you have 3 conectors to your router.

I really do not believe you understand what you have.and I hope this helped.

Answer 4

what ?
The internet is one big network of computers.
The difference between dsl and cable in your case is that with cable you are always on - the ip stays the same for a good period of time ( static ip)
With dsl every time you log on the system gives you a new ip.
Some people will say that this is safer/
If you had a router and the router kept you logged on all the time the ip would stay the same for a period of time.

Wish I only had such thing to worry about

Answer 5

You don't get DSL thru a cable provider. DSL is supplied by phone providers.