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First off, I have a pretty much new HP DV6000 laptop. Has all the wireless stuff already, blah blah blah.

I'm seriously looking into an apartment and found one I like. They offer Hi-speed internet, basic cable, phone through the complex, so it's all received as one bill. More than likely I'm going to be doing this for I save just a couple dollars over Time Warner's bundle, but it's nice that it's all one bill.

Questions:
1.) Can I receive wireless in my apartment without having a main computer, such as a desktop. For instance, can I just run the cable into the Hi-Speed cable modem, and then from that into the wireless modem, and pretty much be done. My friend says he thinks this is possible, but I just need to physically hook up my laptop first to the cable modem when setting it up. This would act as the main computer, and then I can un-hook once it's set up.

2.) Is there such a device where the wireless modem AND the cable modem are all modem??? Where I wouldn't need a cable and a wireless modem.


Any thoughts, suggestions? Feel free.
 
Whitethunder46 said:
First off, I have a pretty much new HP DV6000 laptop. Has all the wireless stuff already, blah blah blah.

I'm seriously looking into an apartment and found one I like. They offer Hi-speed internet, basic cable, phone through the complex, so it's all received as one bill. More than likely I'm going to be doing this for I save just a couple dollars over Time Warner's bundle, but it's nice that it's all one bill.

Questions:
1.) Can I receive wireless in my apartment without having a main computer, such as a desktop. For instance, can I just run the cable into the Hi-Speed cable modem, and then from that into the wireless modem, and pretty much be done. My friend says he thinks this is possible, but I just need to physically hook up my laptop first to the cable modem when setting it up. This would act as the main computer, and then I can un-hook once it's set up.

2.) Is there such a device where the wireless modem AND the cable modem are all modem??? Where I wouldn't need a cable and a wireless modem.


Any thoughts, suggestions? Feel free.
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yes and yes.

There are certain aftermarket modems that have a built in wireless router with the modem in one box. However, this is more common around DSL services and not cable. To get the results you want, you need

1) the modem your ISP uses or if you have to get your own, I recommend a Motorola Surfboard

2) A Wireless router. Seeing as the N standard isnt very reliable at all, go with a wireless G setup. It can run all popular wireless bands 12 / 54 / and 100mbps standards. The only two companies I recommend for wireless for ease of use, security, and quality are DLink and Linksys.
 
ryandamartini said:
yes and yes.

There are certain aftermarket modems that have a built in wireless router with the modem in one box. However, this is more common around DSL services and not cable. To get the results you want, you need

1) the modem your ISP uses or if you have to get your own, I recommend a Motorola Surfboard

2) A Wireless router. Seeing as the N standard isnt very reliable at all, go with a wireless G setup. It can run all popular wireless bands 12 / 54 / and 100mbps standards. The only two companies I recommend for wireless for ease of use, security, and quality are DLink and Linksys.
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I'm heavily leaning towards Linksys.

Would this: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage...CategoryId=pcmcat25300050001&id=1069299031125

would that be the all-in-one type modem? And that will only work for DSL, but not cable?

All I know is they offer hi-speed at the apt. complex for 39.99 a month. I'm assuming it's cable since they also offer basic cable as well.
 
Whitethunder46 said:
I'm heavily leaning towards Linksys.

Would this: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=6218559&type=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat25300050001&id=1069299031125

would that be the all-in-one type modem? And that will only work for DSL, but not cable?

All I know is they offer hi-speed at the apt. complex for 39.99 a month. I'm assuming it's cable since they also offer basic cable as well.
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I have a linksys router and it works perfectly. Actually, my wifes laptop connects at 54mbps wireless! Wireless G is the most universal.
 
ryandamartini said:
yes and yes.

There are certain aftermarket modems that have a built in wireless router with the modem in one box. However, this is more common around DSL services and not cable. To get the results you want, you need

1) the modem your ISP uses or if you have to get your own, I recommend a Motorola Surfboard

2) A Wireless router. Seeing as the N standard isnt very reliable at all, go with a wireless G setup. It can run all popular wireless bands 12 / 54 / and 100mbps standards. The only two companies I recommend for wireless for ease of use, security, and quality are DLink and Linksys.
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I have this same set up.
 
yes, all of the information above is correct. One additiona though, I suggest Netgear's RangeMax line. All of their products are very modern looking and as the name suggests, has distant and strong signal virtually anywhere you need it in your home/apt.
 
ryandamartini said:
That should work great for your needs. Good Luck with it :)
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I'm leaning towards this. The only thing running to it would be the cable line and the power line, correct???

To set up, I'll need to run an ethernet cable from that modem to my laptop to get ir running, right? But then once it's set up, I can disconnect the ethernet, and I should be good to go????
 
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I have Time Warner cable for the TV and Road Runner for my internet connection.
Time Warner supplied the box to go from the cable connection to the CAT5 that you would plug into your computer.
I gave my wife a HP laptop for Christmas with wirelss
I purchased a Linksys wireless router with Speedboster.
Works great and very easy to set up.
NewEgg has a very good price on them.

Make sure you set it up with the passwords so no one can grt into your system.
The range is very good and will go thru a few wall's for sure.
 
Yea, I currently have wireless in my house with my parents. We have the supplied Time Warner Cable box, and then a wireless router.

When I move into an apt., I just want an all in one modem more than likely.


Here's some new questions. Hopefully most of you will see this so I don't post a new thread.

Through the apartment, they offer hi-speed internet (cable) and BASIC Cable. Total of this is $72.
I was on Time Warner's site trying to figure out what they charge. I realized they offer a basic, and a STANDARD cable. And then of course their digital cable.
I figured the basic cable was the standard, but I guess not.

Does anyone know what Time Warner charges for standard cable???? (I'm assuming the apartment complex did not mean this.) I'm going to contact them and see if I can't get a list of what channels is in their basic line up.
 
Just call the 800 number to see if you can get a answer.
You might get a better price if you supply the all in one but I think I asked and they told me no but that may have changed.

You need digital, how else would you get Speed Vision
If you live in Indy I think it comes with the Basic :-)))
 
Well found out some more today. The basic cable package that the apartments offer is only $32 a month and is 59 channels. So I'm going to go this way and then also get hi-speed cable through them for $40 a month.

Thanks for those who helped.
 
Do you know what the speed is on the cable, whether data trasnfer is unlimited, and reliability in your area?

Thing with cable is, it can be good or it can be spotty. If you're in an area where the cable company doesn't do that great of a job, you may want to look into DSL or other alternatives.

The good news is, with cable, you're usually not locked into a contract so if you don't like it you can jump ship relatively easily.
 
paul34 said:
Do you know what the speed is on the cable, whether data trasnfer is unlimited, and reliability in your area?

Thing with cable is, it can be good or it can be spotty. If you're in an area where the cable company doesn't do that great of a job, you may want to look into DSL or other alternatives.

The good news is, with cable, you're usually not locked into a contract so if you don't like it you can jump ship relatively easily.
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I have Roadrunner at 6mbps, but with a few speed tweaks you can bump it up. If I download something it downloads at 600+ kilobytes per second!

speed_chartG.gif
[FONT=arial, helvetica]Your Speed is: 1192.3 Kbps[/FONT]​
I just ran this speed test which anyone can. To test your internet speed, go to this site:

http://home.cfl.rr.com/eaa/Bandwidth.htm
 
PCPitStop is awesome! I use it every so often to check up on things!

Description Your Results Bandwidth Down 5321 Kbits/sec
Bandwidth Up 379 Kbits/sec
Average Ping 50 ms

Download speed: 5334 kilobits per second

Test details: 4864 kilobytes downloaded in 7.296 seconds.
Receive buffer size: default size

Upload speed: 378 kilobits per second
 
dengood1 said:
I have Roadrunner at 6mbps, but with a few speed tweaks you can bump it up. If I download something it downloads at 600+ kilobytes per second!

speed_chartG.gif
[FONT=arial, helvetica]Your Speed is: 1192.3 Kbps[/FONT]​
I just ran this speed test which anyone can. To test your internet speed, go to this site:

http://home.cfl.rr.com/eaa/Bandwidth.htm
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Oh ok, that's good :). Actually, you'd be surprised at the speeds you can get... sometimes, you can get pretty nice burst speeds, and with servers you can actually get sustained rates above your speed cap! Although I believe my download is set at 7mbps, I can regularly download at 850 and get even get bursts of 1.5 MBps. It's pretty cool when that happens :awesome:
 
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