ADSL Routers

[mondeoman]

Now I know this has probably been done to death already, but I couldn't find what I was looking for ...

We're on Telewest Cable Broadband at home, with a small hard-wired home network. The girlfriends work PC (for obvious reasons) is locked down and cant be configured by me to add it to the network to allow internet access. Her work provided us with an ADSL router/firewall (Netgear), but I cant connect the broadband cable into the telephone line socket on the router

So how do I go on from here? Is there a router on the market that has a cable broadband connection that I could use or do I have to fanny around with cables and hubs and the router and the telewest modem for several hours to see if I can bodge it? The telewest modem doesn't seem to want to work through a hub IIRC. I did a search on netgear cable router, but I cant find a picture that shows the ports on the router.. Cheers

Dave M

[pdV6]

First thing I'd try is simply plugging the cable modem into a free port on the router and then plugging your "main" PC into another. The router doesn't need to route via the 'phone line - without the phone line connected its just a hub.

Dob't know if you can configure it to then route via one of the other ports (i.e. the one connected to the cable modem)

[wildeep]

The ADSL router/modem you have got will not work with the telewest service as its cable and not ADSL, they are two completely different systems, unless it is a simple broadband router, some have a integral adsl modem. What netgear model is it?. You will probably have to use you existing modem and connect it to a simple router/hub. Has the cable modem got a ethernet socket on it?.

>> Edited by wildeep on Monday 4th October 11:26

[mondeoman]

wildeep said:

The ADSL router/modem you have got will not work with the telewest service as its cable and not ADSL, they are two completely different systems, unless it is a simple broadband router, some have a integral adsl modem. What netgear model is it?. You will probably have to use you existing modem and connect it to a simple router/hub. Has the cable modem got a ethernet socket on it?. >> Edited by wildeep on Monday 4th October 11:26

The cable modem is connected by ethernet to the pc at the moment, then a second network card runs out to a simple 4 port hub and other pc's run to/from that. I don't know the model number (its at home), but I did find a netgear WGR 614 54g (www.broadbandstuff.co.uk/product_reviews_info.php?products_id=74&reviews_id=50)
which "suggests" that its ok for cable/adsl.. so if I have to I'll get one of those.

[bogie]

yes - you need a WGR614v4 - you can buy them on the Telewest home networking website - approved for use on their service...just plug it into your set-top box/cable modem and away you go

[mondeoman]

bogie said:

yes - you need a WGR614v4 - you can buy them on the Telewest home networking website - approved for use on their service...just plug it into your set-top box/cable modem and away you go

Away you go he says!

3 bloody hours trying to get the damn thing to work. Of course I didn't realise that I didn't need a login and password, so once I'd sussed that out it was easy peasy. Even got the girlfriends VPN working through it. Lovely bit of kit, now all I got to do is sort out the wireless on her laptop and its all done.

Thanks!