Trying to set up internet, need help.?

Question

I have a mac g4 and am trying to set it up with internet in my house. I have other windows computers on another modem in the kitchen. I just bought a second modem, and hooked it up to the cable (which used to be for the tv in the room) all the lights seem fine on the modem, but its unable to load a page. please any help would be great

Answer 1

The internet feed is terminated by one and only one modem within a feed line. Adding a second modem only assures that it will NOT work because the ISP will only provide feed to the initial modem.

Now you can take the modem's internet supply and feed it to the WAN port of a router and connect all downstream devices (pcs, network printers, etc) into the router. This is the way it is designed to work. The router can be a wired or a wireless one. If you select wireless, you may need to add wireless network interface cards to your units.

Answer 2

You wasted your money buying another modem. Which if you already had one cable modem - you could have shared the internet between the PC's and mac by getting a router, and hooking the machines to it with network cables. (The reason it probably isn't working is that the other modem is already using your connection.

Or, better yet - by the time you buy the router and cables, you can just buy a wireless router, and a couple of wireless network cards or USB wireless deals to plug into your machines, and voila, you will be up and surfing!!