You don't need a new cable modem, nor do you need a modem with wireless. What you need is a router.<br><br>It will look like this:<br><br>Cable Modem --> Router --> optional Hub(s) --> computers.<br><br>You already have the cable modem. If you didn't, your service wouldn't work. You already have hubs, so you can keep using those. You just need a router between your cable modem and hubs. If you have just a few computers, or most of them are wireless, you don't need the hubs at all (assuming you get a wireless router)<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Rob Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robarooney@gmail.com">robarooney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks again to Preston, Larry, and Jerry for answering my question. Does anyone have a cable modem with wireless so I can replace the modem we got from Mediacom? My daughter has my Motorola modem and is using it. Rob<div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Rob Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robarooney@gmail.com" target="_blank">robarooney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks, Preston. You are right. I've been on the phone with Mediacom tech support and I got the whole story about buying more IP addresses or getting a router instead of a hub, etc. I'm ready to dig into my "junk room" to look for my Motorola Surfboard modem from a couple of years ago. Rob<div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Lathrop Preston <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lathrop@prestonfam.org" target="_blank">lathrop@prestonfam.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
So based on what I see here your network is as follows...<br><br>MediaCom-Router -> Hubs -> Computers...<br><br>if so than the problem is probably in the hubs. the MediaCom router normally will only speak to 1 computer (or routeable device)...<br>
<br>Unless I am mistaken,<br>you will need to get a firewall router or other router of some sort... have that connected to the MediaCom device and then the computers will get their IP addresses from it... technically MC only provides for a single computer per household.<br>
<br>But I could be wrong<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Rob Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rob@dotcomservices.com" target="_blank">rob@dotcomservices.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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We switched from Qwest to Mediacom and the technician hooked up one of our computers to access the Internet. However, none of the other computers on our home network can find the Internet. I've tried what I know to do and I get a message that the other computers cannot renew the IP address. Should I turn off all the computers, then the two hubs, then the Mediacom modem and then turn them back on? Mediacom first then hubs then computers? Thanks. Rob
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