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i had a cable modem connected to my laptop. im getting a new computer for my room and i found out that a 802.11g router and a pci card on my computer can soolve my problem. anyway, my isp asks a username and password from me to allow me to connect with my modem to the internet. in the other hand, they dont support service users with more than one computer which will need more than one internet connection. now i dont know, when i get my router and if i create 2 network connection(1 in laptop,1 in pc)and try to connect with both of them, can i succesfully connect or not?
i will be thankful if somebody can help me or if you want me i can rewrite my question

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Sure. Just find out what client your ISP uses. PPPOA, PPPOE etc... and make sure the router you buy supports it.

CCNA, MCSE, A+, Cisco Certified Wireless Field Engineer

Reply to kwebb
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thank you for your help but how can i find out what client does my ISP uses?

Reply to bigbang
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Dude, you are using cable modem, once it was setup, it will ALWAYS be connected, all you need is a router, hook it up to modem and run your PCs from it "the way it was meant to be ran" ;)

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Reply to blah
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blah may actually be right there. I couldn't find a cable provider that uses a client to connect to a server, be it PPPOA or OE.

The answer to that and to your rather odd question is to call them.

CCNA, MCSE, A+, Cisco Certified Wireless Field Engineer

Reply to kwebb
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your absolutely right blah but i think i will neen a username and password to connect to internet, because my isp sent me a username and password and thats what i have to type to connect. thats why i think i might not be able to connect with both of my computers

Reply to bigbang

Hummm, I've never heard of cable needing username and p/w. Did you install software that your isp gave you? Cause if you did, then you don't need it. You should just setup a standard network and it should automatically pick up the connection.

Reply to DonnieDarko
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you see, when you originally setup a modem (any thick pipe modem) the server on the other end needs to "register" its MAC (or someting like dat) address and associate it with your uzir name and loozir password, so next time you "switch it on" the server (on the other end) looks at modem's "ID" and as the modem usually is not removed from the "original" place of connection, the server "assumes" that it is you again and saz "hi dude". Basically once you setup a modem and it is "registered" (on the other end;) you can throw at the modem anything you wish from your side, it really don't matter what (and how many) computers are used behind<- it.

PS: Hope that broadens your horizon on the thick pipe "server/client" setup.

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Reply to blah
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i need ausername and password to install the program that my isp gave me donnie.
i think kwebb is right and i wont have any problems connecting, because my router supports PPPoE. thanks very much
and about you blah, i couldnt understand what are you trying to say if you rewrite it i will be thankful

Reply to bigbang
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lol, it's ok (I don't understand myself sometimes too;), but it will be more help in the future if you will learn to chew on stuff instead of waiting for some body do it for you ;$)

PS: now you can call me anything you wish, as lots of peepel here do (even they enjoy my super advise power), lol


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Reply to blah

I think people don't understand you cause of the terms you use. Come on now, "thick pipe modem"?

Reply to DonnieDarko
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Cable, DSL are "thick pipe" connections. Your end is where you sit (armchair?), other end is where the connecting server (ISP) that connects you to the Internet sits. Anything else confuzing.. contact my office :o)

PS: the terms I use were usually used between my family.. network dudes, and although I don't work there for more than three years already, the head is no smart no more to learn nicer way of saying network related things (but I am trying;)

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Reply to blah

you could of always say broadband, I think more people would understand that.
edit: BTW, is english your 1st languge? Not trying to be mean, But you have some really weird english.<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by donniedarko on 06/10/04 05:40 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

Reply to DonnieDarko
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It is 3d. I am only 10 years old by the "growing up" in English surrounding calculations ;)

PS: broadband - broad = wide, spacious, full, (thick?); band = pipe, route, line, wire == thick pipe - we da plumberz ;)

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