Ann, Yes, you can put the Linksys wireless router right next to the cable modem and connect the cable modem directly to the router without having any computer present. If the wireless router work correctly, it will broadcast the signal to any nearby computer that has a wireless network card.
Ignore the CD. Those are usually for PCs and almost never needed by Macs. You may have to jump through some technical hoops to get Insight to recognize its connection to the wireless router. If you previously had a computer connected directly to the cable modem, Insight's system may expect to find that machine rather than the router and get confused initially. If that's the case, call Insight and tell them that you have connected a new device (a router) to the cable modem and they should be able to tell you what to do to get it recognized. Dan > Hi, > > Once again I want to thank all in advance who help me with probably > really dumb problems over and over again... You all are the > greatest and if I lived in Louisville I would come to meetings! > > Today it is an question about wireless DSL. > A friend has just moved into an apartment and had his insight cable/ > DSL hooked up. In his previous house the TV was in the same room as > the computer so they used a splitter on the coax(?) and everything > was fine. > In the new apartment, the TV and the incoming insight cable is in > one room while the computer is in another. The land lord didn't > want a hole poked in the wall to run the line to the computer. He > told them to get a wireless router and card for the computer and it > would work. > > Here is my question: > > Can he just put the Linksys wireless router beside the cable modem > and have it send signal to the computer via the wireless card? Or > does the router require a daddy computer in order to work? > > The documentation seems to require a computer with the installed > software from the cd hooked to the router via usb or ethernet > before you can go any farther. > > Can we do this at all? > Do I ignore the cd and just hook it up? or will that screw things > up too much? > > Thanks again for being there! > > Ann Richmond > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be June 27 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be June 27 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
