[Cialug] Noob needs help.

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Rob Miller<robarooney at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks again to Preston, Larry, and Jerry for answering my question.  Does
> anyone have a cable modem with wireless so I can replace the modem we got
> from Mediacom?  My daughter has my Motorola modem and is using it.  Rob

Go to best buy or walmart and buy a router. They cost as little as $50
and you will just plug your cable modem into the router (there's a
special port on the router specifically for this).

For simple needs a cheap router is fine. If you do voice over IP or
play high performance online games or file sharing with bittorrent (or
etc) you will want to spend a little more (say around $100) to get a
nicer router that can handle heavy traffic.

Unlike DSL it is not common to buy a cable modem for yourself. You
will use the one provided by Mediacom.

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