is it possible to use just a wireless router with just hooked up tp a modem?

Answer 1

You can have a modem (cable or dsl) that uses a wire to hook up to your router, then wireless to your computer, but the modems do not connect wirelessly to the routers.

That is all you need though is a modem and a router.

Answer 2

I'm assuming here that you want to connect a wireless router to a modem, so that the wireless router will share the modem's internet connection for you?

That will depend on a number of things. Firstly, most (if not all) wireless routers will have standard RJ45 ethernet connections on them in addition to their wireless antennae. So the most straightforward way of connecting your wireless router to the modem will be via ethernet cable, assuming that your modem also has an ethernet connection. If it doesn't (e.g. it's only got a USB connection or serial connection), then you will be in trouble and may find it impossible to do unless you use it in an old computer that stays on all the time that you then connect to your router via ethernet.

Secondly, you need to look at how the router and modem will manage the internet connection. Assuming you are using an ADSL modem such as the Linksys ADSL2MUE or similar, where you can log on to the modem via a web browser (e.g. http://192.168.1.1/) to configure the modem's settings, you should then be able to change the settings to suit your ISP and connection.

There are two ways you could get the modem to work with the router - the first is for your modem to manage the internet connection itself using its own built-in NAT (network address translation). The disadvantage of this is if you want to run externally accessible servers on your network and the modem does not support port forwarding (the Linksys ADSL2MUE does not support port forwarding when using its built-in NAT, for example).

The second way is to use what is known as "RFC1483 Bridged Mode", which is where you connect your modem to the WAN port of your router, and configure your router to manage the ADSL connection to your ISP for you. If your router supports port forwarding, you will then be able to run externally-accessible servers from your connection.

Answer 3

no i tried that but it didnt work

Answer 4

Yes - you do not have to have computers hard wired to it.
But you MUST hardwire to the modem for a short time while you do the modem setup. Trying to do the setup from a wireless connection is frustrating, difficult, and prone to failure

Answer 5

No a wireless router works through an ethernet connection...thers no connection on the modem for this...

a computer connected to a dial up connection and isung some sort of internet connection setup could be used to provide wireless access to the dial up connection...

not sure why you would want to do that,,,