Replacing old chorus modem with wireless/wired router

Outkast_IRE

have been with chorus for my Broadband for years . They provided me with a motorola surfboard modem, great no problems however now i am getting a laptop so would like to be able to wirelessly connect with it .

So do i scrap the modem and replace it with a router that i can connect the desktop to and has wireless so the laptop can connect to.

The current modem is connected to chours with a cable type coaxial connection into the modem and a ethernet wire to the desktop pc .

Can anyone reccomend me a router that i can buy and connect to this cable type connection , and will do wireless and desktop ethernet connection no problem ??
I do a bit of gaming so i want no issues if possible ,
Do i need to inform chorus or will it work straight out of box.

Spear

Outkast_IRE wrote: »

have been with chorus for my Broadband for years . They provided me with a motorola surfboard modem, great no problems however now i am getting a laptop so would like to be able to wirelessly connect with it .

So do i scrap the modem and replace it with a router that i can connect the desktop to and has wireless so the laptop can connect to.

The current modem is connected to chours with a cable type coaxial connection into the modem and a ethernet wire to the desktop pc .

Can anyone reccomend me a router that i can buy and connect to this cable type connection , and will do wireless and desktop ethernet connection no problem ??
I do a bit of gaming so i want no issues if possible ,
Do i need to inform chorus or will it work straight out of box.

You can't replace their modem, they use the MAC address to control access to their network. You can add your own router though.

leninbenjamin

A router and a modem are two different things.

A modem converts the signal coming through the cable connection into a machine readable signal the computer can understand.

A router is used to literally route computer signals among two or more different sources.

In order to set up that wireless network, you literally plug the ethernet cable from the modem into the router.

Outkast_IRE

leninbenjamin wrote: »

A router and a modem are two different things.

A modem converts the signal coming through the cable connection into a machine readable signal the computer can understand.

A router is used to literally route computer signals among two or more different sources.

In order to set up that wireless network, you literally plug the ethernet cable from the modem into the router.

Oh ok so keep modem , connect ethernet ot router then buy another cable to pass it on to desktop. Any reccomendations on a router ??? Anyone i dont have a clue about routers

leninbenjamin

Outkast_IRE wrote: »

Oh ok so keep modem , connect ethernet ot router then buy another cable to pass it on to desktop. Any reccomendations on a router ??? Anyone i dont have a clue about routers

I'm not the one to ask really, but i've had nothing but good experience with the linksys WRT series.

does your laptop have wireless N or wirless G? the router you get will depend on that.

Outkast_IRE

leninbenjamin wrote: »

I'm not the one to ask really, but i've had nothing but good experience with the linksys WRT series.

does your laptop have wireless N or wirless G? the router you get will depend on that.

I dont have the laptop yet, planning on getting it in next few weeks. I didnt realise there was two differnt wireless standards.
Ya just browsing on komplett linksys ones stood out.