Make sure you get a cable/ADSL router rather than a simple wifi access point. Because the cable modem only gives out a single IP address, you need a router rather than an access point. The router will act as a firewall between the internet and machines on the local network, and will act as a DHCP server giving out IP addresses to the machines too.
It basically 'routes' packets between the local network and the cable modem. If you only have an access point, then the cable modem assigns the IP address to the access point's ethernet port, leaving you with no IP addresses for your computers. A 'broadband router' base station only costs a couple of pounds more than a simple access point anyway.
(This was learnt the hard way by buying the wrong thing :-( An ADSL modem typically performs NAT anyway, so removing this problem )
Marcus
On Friday, May 14, 2004, at 02:24 PM, Tom Burke wrote:
Hello the List
I'm still struggling with my daughter's 'Lombard with the dead ethernet port'. We've been unable to find an ethernet card that is known to work in the PC card slot, so now we're considering alternatives. One of these is a wifi solution - a wifi base station connected to the TeleWest modem, and a suitable wifi card in the Lombard PC card slot with drivers from IOXperts. However, before I go out & buy a base station I just want to check that this will work with a cable modem. As I understand it, there's an ethernet port on the cable modem to which we would connect the wifi basestation. Should we allow the base station to pick up an ip address from the cable modem? Or give the base station a static IP address on the same network? The laptop can use DHCP, of course. Has anyone got any experience of doing this with a cable modem?
Tom Burke
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