Just chiming in here with my cable modem experience, I've been witness to two cable modem installations, one at my parent's house, with Comcast Cable (Formerly ATTBI (Formerly Mediaone)), and another at my house with Cox Cable.
Mediaone sent a technician out to the house, he installed a splitter in the basement where the cable enters the house, and ran a new cable upstairs to the computer. Having an unfinished basement made this real easy. Cox had a special "install it yourself" deal, which included a splitter, 25 feet or so of coaxial TV cable, some hardware for tacking the cable to the wall, and instructions. I just connected the splitter near the TV, and ran the coax cable over to the computer. Since it sounds like the original poster already has an Airport card in both his computers, he could consider getting a wireless router to go with his cable modem. Then, as long as the signal could reach from the first floor to the third, he wouldn't need to run any cables at all (and he'd have the benefit of being able to move the computers around easily. -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
