DSL Connection

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Peter A.

In my home, I will be moving from the second floor to the basement. I
have 802.11G networking to connect the computers to the internet, but the
modem/router are on the second floor (which I would like to keep it). I
just so happen to have a second modem that my family used before we moved
into this house. Can I use this second modem to use my DSL down in the
basement?

If I can't use this second modem, what suggestions do y'all have to
help me with this?
 
"Peter A." said:
In my home, I will be moving from the second floor to the basement. I
have 802.11G networking to connect the computers to the internet, but the
modem/router are on the second floor (which I would like to keep it). I
just so happen to have a second modem that my family used before we moved
into this house. Can I use this second modem to use my DSL down in the
basement?

If I can't use this second modem, what suggestions do y'all have to
help me with this?
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No, you can't use two DSL modems at the same time.

In a typical house, a computer in the basement should be able to get a
wireless connection to a router on the second floor.
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Hi
Depending on your provider you probably can use the second modem if you would buy a
second DSL account, otherwise you can not connect two modem to same Tel. line using one
account.
Call your ISP and ask them.
Jack (MVP-Networking).
 
He'll also need a separate twisted pair - aka phone line - 2 lines, 2
modems, 2 times the phone bill.
If the PC/Laptop in basement can't connect Wireless, you can always run a
CAT5 from the router to the basement.

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I do have a second router, but I don't want to run a CAT 5 wire down to
the basement. That's kinda why I went for the wireless thing. The only
thing I'm concerned about is that a while ago, (a couple of months) I tried
using my laptop (an old laptop, but one with wireless connection) on the
first floor and it wouldn't connect. So it concerns me that I won't be able
to connect.

Maybe I should use Belkin's Pre-N Router ?!?!?!?!

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Get a wireless access point and put it closer to the dead area in your
network.

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Hi.

Might be that if you place the Wireless Router out of the basement in the hallway near
the basement door you would get coverage.

Doing so you would need a CAT5 from the first Router to the basement door.

Then use the second Wireless Router as an Access Point.

Wireless Router as an AP: http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html

Jack (MVP-Networking).
 
Not all wireless routers can serve as an access point. You will want to
either get one that can or simply purchase a wireless access point.

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"Peter A." said:
That's why I got a second router. I thought that it could be configured as
a wireless access point. But I guess not.
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Try this to use the second router as an access point only, not as a
router:

1. Disable its built-in DHCP server.
2. Assign it a LAN IP address in the same subnet as the first router.
3. Connect the first router to a LAN port on the second router.
4. Don't connect anything to the second router's WAN port.
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Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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