[Cialug] Noob needs help.

[David Champion]

Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Rob Miller<robarooney at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>     
>
> Go to best buy or walmart and buy a router. They cost as little as $50
> and you will just plug your cable modem into the router (there's a
> special port on the router specifically for this).
>
> For simple needs a cheap router is fine. If you do voice over IP or
> play high performance online games or file sharing with bittorrent (or
> etc) you will want to spend a little more (say around $100) to get a
> nicer router that can handle heavy traffic.
>
> Unlike DSL it is not common to buy a cable modem for yourself. You
> will use the one provided by Mediacom.
>
>   
If I were buying a router, I'd make sure it supports DD-WRT - it's a 
great alternative router firmware that lets you do a lot of neat stuff 
you can't do most routers out of the box.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv3/dd-wrt/hardware.html

-dc