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Irish Broadband and a Wireless router..

  • 22-03-2006 2:26pm
    #1
    decrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 404 ✭✭


    Hi,

    My brother recently got broadband installed at home - not sure of the package but:

    (1) there is an antenna on the roof so it is the wireless system
    (2) the cable runs from the antenna and plugs into a modem type device. This cable is not a phone cable nor does it have a standard Cat 5 connector
    (3) there is a Cat 5 cable running from the modem type device to the PC

    He wants to set up a wireless system in the house so that he can connect the laptop and roam from room to room.

    My question is around point 2 above. In any of the wireless routers that I have seen, they only accept a phone cable. With the IBB system, there is no phone cable.

    How can he setup the system wirelessly around the house?


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  • #2
    optiplexgx270
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,506 ✭✭✭optiplexgx270


    I have IBB with a linksys WRT54GS i think it is wire from modem into router internet port.


  • #3
    lazygit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 624 ✭✭✭lazygit


    Yap.. i had the same setup.. IBB with WRT54G


  • #4
    optiplexgx270
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,506 ✭✭✭optiplexgx270


    Mines better i have an S at the end :p:D


  • #5
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    decrrrrrr wrote:
    Hi,

    My brother recently got broadband installed at home - not sure of the package but:

    (1) there is an antenna on the roof so it is the wireless system
    (2) the cable runs from the antenna and plugs into a modem type device. This cable is not a phone cable nor does it have a standard Cat 5 connector
    (3) there is a Cat 5 cable running from the modem type device to the PC

    He wants to set up a wireless system in the house so that he can connect the laptop and roam from room to room.

    My question is around point 2 above. In any of the wireless routers that I have seen, they only accept a phone cable. With the IBB system, there is no phone cable.

    How can he setup the system wirelessly around the house?
    A friend of mine had IBB with a US Robotics wireless router and it worked fine. You run the Cat 5 cable from the 'modem type device', as you say, into the wireless routers WAN port. I though it should go into one of the LAN ports but that didn't work on his so we tried the WAN port and it did work.


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