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March 30th, 2008 03:00
Using Ethernet routers with AT&T DSL
I just did a rare thing recently, I switched from Cable (Comast) to DSL (At&t).
At&t gave me a 2wire (brand name, model # 2701HG-B) all-in-one modem/router, which is white and much larger than the old-school black DSL modem, so all I have to do is plug in the phone line and then connect the Ethernet cables. It has wireless and 4 plugs on the back.
I used to have a Motorola cable modem (from comcast) which would connect into a Netgear wireless router.
I want to upgrade to the new 802.11n wireless in the future. Would I have to get the oldstyle black-box modem from At&t again?
Here is what I had before:
Internet-->Motorola Modem-->Netgear Router--> PC (Ethernet and wireless)
(this used to be the way A&t did this with the small black modem. my famliy had DSL in high school, minus the router, directly to the PC, back in the days before home networking was common)
this is what I have now:
Internet-->2wire Router--> PC (Ethernet and wireless)
Any help would be great
volcano11
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March 30th, 2008 04:00
One possibility to use a wireless N router with this setup would be to disable the wireless features of the 2-wire device attach the wireless N router to one of the ethernet ports on the 2-wire device, and then run the wireless N router in Access Point mode rather than router mode (you can't have two DHCP servers on the same network). If you are planning on doing this to take advantage of the faster speed of the wireless N router, think again. You will never get any faster internet connection than you your dsl provider gives you. Since this is much slower than even the 54 Mbps of your current router modem, the wireless N will not give you any faster internet connection. The only advantage to the wireless N device is that it will extend the range of your wireless connection and will provide faster file transfer between computers on your local network providing all computers also have wireless N network adapters.
Steve
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March 30th, 2008 05:00
So my internet connection speed wont increase? Just the speed between the comptuers?
I do a weekly backup of the laptop system and files, which takes about 3 hours to do. Would wireless -n speed this up?
volcano11
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March 30th, 2008 06:00
Yes, wireless N would speed this up if both the router and the wireless network card in the laptop were 802.11b and compatible with each other.
Steve