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Ethernet Cable into DSL slot?

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  • 29-05-2009 12:20pm
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    fattestman
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    My old Belkin Wireless G Plus Router is acting the maggot so a friend gave me a new Zyxel P-660HW-D Series, 802.11g Wireless ADSL 2+ 4-Port Gateway to use instead.

    I though it'd be relatively simple to use but I've immediately come up aith a problem regarding the cabling used to connect it to the modem my ISP (Chorus) have provided me with.

    Previously I ran an Ethernet cable from the Chorus modem into the wireless Belkin modem. With this new modem though there's no ethernet input, just a DSL one and four ethernet outputs.

    Is it possible to run a cable from the ethernet output of my chorus box to the DSL input of the new Zyxel wirelss modem or am I just talking crazy talk? Maybe these things are compatible at all? I dunno, I just want to take advantage of my new free modem and get rid of the old dodgy one.

    Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated.


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    cpu-dude
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    fattestman wrote: »
    My old Belkin Wireless G Plus Router is acting the maggot so a friend gave me a new Zyxel P-660HW-D Series, 802.11g Wireless ADSL 2+ 4-Port Gateway to use instead.

    I though it'd be relatively simple to use but I've immediately come up aith a problem regarding the cabling used to connect it to the modem my ISP (Chorus) have provided me with.

    Previously I ran an Ethernet cable from the Chorus modem into the wireless Belkin modem. With this new modem though there's no ethernet input, just a DSL one and four ethernet outputs.

    Is it possible to run a cable from the ethernet output of my chorus box to the DSL input of the new Zyxel wirelss modem or am I just talking crazy talk? Maybe these things are compatible at all? I dunno, I just want to take advantage of my new free modem and get rid of the old dodgy one.

    Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated.
    No you can't, the Zyxel is a DSL router (for Broadband through a telephone line), your Belkin is a Cable Router, the type of Broadband that Chorus provides.


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    fattestman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 233 ✭✭fattestman


    Aaaahhhhh! That makes sense. Obviously I knew that...obviously.

    Thanks for the quick reply.


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