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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Interesting, I have a cable modem and it only provides one connection and no gateway. The telephone company may offer something completely different but they do not cover my area of the world. Never heard of Bright House Networks.
Dale
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For about $50 you can get a LinkSys or another brand router with wireless and plug into that single cable output port and your whole house is "live" with WiFi. If you want to have reception down at your pool or pond or in you garden, a couple hundred feet away, you can get one that will do that for a bit more money.
If you are unsure, just call up the router company and tell them what you have Then order it from Amazon of course.
The phone company with DSL or U-Verse or whatever they call it where you live provides at least a modem with 1 or more ethernet outputs or a modem/router combo with wireless and multiple ethernet ports.
One thing. We are assuming that your computer is either already wireless capable or you have a wireless adapter if it is a old system. The adapter will cost say $30. If you buy a wireless router to go in your cable box and you need an adapter as well, it is best to be sure both are the same brand.
Most new (in the last few years) computers, tablets, Ipod-touches, Ipad(only wifi), Archos (wifi), Samsung (wifi) and the like have wireless built in.
However the older machines might not. Then you need an adapter.
Usually if you have a desktop, it will take a ethernet cable connection because it will not be moved about. Everything else can be wireless.
Be sure you password protect your system.