On 15 January 2014 20:25, Kurt @ VR-FX <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey folks, > > I just moved into the downstairs appt. of a buddy of mine. He has > Cablevision in the house here - for his TV, Net & Ph. service. And, in this > downstairs appt. he has a cable box. > > My problem is that I want a Wired Net access - and right now folks in this > appt were just jumping onto his Wifi.
What's up with wifi? It's pretty fast these days (probably faster than your internet connection). > As such - my Q. Is it possible to get a Cable Modem box at like a Radio > Shack - which I could just hook up to the Cable wire to get my own Wired Net > access? And - if so - is it possible that the Cable co. would later find > out??? Probably not! But you could plug a router into the cable modem. This is what I have. My old cable modem doesn't support wifi, so I have my own wifi router plugged into this. Even if my cable modem had in-built wifi I would still use my own. I run OpenWRT and have various services: (slow) public FTP server, SAMBA server... -- Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CADwx0+L+VuBujNuojF7R7=ihnshhpz-oca+oil8gmhpycpy...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
