We currently have CATV w/ Comcast? Considering a free trial period to try their internet in addition to the CATV. It is advertised as plug and play......meaning, I assume, they send parts, you hook up and supposedly it works. Never have had internet w/ them, never have had a router or modem which as of now are just words to me.
Wondering whether I can do it myself and if it will work for our purposes.....which is a good reasonably fast connection and wifi connection inside the house.
Here are some rambling thoughts, assumptions based on a little reading. Welcome corrections to help educate me.......
1) I'm assuming the CATV and internet are separate functions coming in on the same cable and accessed separately by splitting the signal with a splitter? 2)Then the CATV can work as it is now while I try to figure out the internet stuff? that is, the CATV should work regardless of problems on the internet side......so one of the splitter outputs goes to the CATV box.
3)The other side of the splitter outputs goes to the modem/wireless router
(also called wireless gateway if an integrated unit).
4) It is not clear to me how you educate the modem/wireless router that a variety of devices.....mac, ipad (perhaps an extender)......want to be connected so I will have to figure that out.
5) Is is likely that the provided modem/router (or wireless gateway) will have enough power for wifi in other rooms? If not, I can use the same extender that is used outside to capture the city wifi signal so we can access the city wifi
inside the house?
Any other issues I should be concerned with? Is there anything special about the splitter (seems to be called splitter box on some sites). Comcast may send one (?) but I also have an old one labelled UHF/VHF splitter that I got a while back when thought of hooking up a second TV in another room (but never did
..........perhaps it would have needed a second CATV box to have worked?).
Wondering whether I can do it myself and if it will work for our purposes.....which is a good reasonably fast connection and wifi connection inside the house.
Here are some rambling thoughts, assumptions based on a little reading. Welcome corrections to help educate me.......
1) I'm assuming the CATV and internet are separate functions coming in on the same cable and accessed separately by splitting the signal with a splitter? 2)Then the CATV can work as it is now while I try to figure out the internet stuff? that is, the CATV should work regardless of problems on the internet side......so one of the splitter outputs goes to the CATV box.
3)The other side of the splitter outputs goes to the modem/wireless router
(also called wireless gateway if an integrated unit).
4) It is not clear to me how you educate the modem/wireless router that a variety of devices.....mac, ipad (perhaps an extender)......want to be connected so I will have to figure that out.
5) Is is likely that the provided modem/router (or wireless gateway) will have enough power for wifi in other rooms? If not, I can use the same extender that is used outside to capture the city wifi signal so we can access the city wifi
inside the house?
Any other issues I should be concerned with? Is there anything special about the splitter (seems to be called splitter box on some sites). Comcast may send one (?) but I also have an old one labelled UHF/VHF splitter that I got a while back when thought of hooking up a second TV in another room (but never did
..........perhaps it would have needed a second CATV box to have worked?).