[Tfug] modem and router combo

[Ronald Sutherland]

Well I have to say I'm sorry christopher its been years since I looked at
these and I had no idea the market terminology has morphed a plain NAT
router into what they are now calling a cable router. Its not like those
things only work with Ethernet sources from a cable box but they sure don't
have a cable media interface. The cable modem is a router itself, and I
thought that was what you were looking at, its just that you don't have
access to the router functions.

On 10/26/07, Jeffry Johnston <tfug at kidsquid.com> wrote:
>
> I searched google for: cable modem router combo
> and found this on the first page:
>
>
> http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1138056788757&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper
>
> Looks like everything you could want in one box.. wireless, wired, router,
> cable, Linksys (Cisco).  Wonder if it runs Linux... :P
>
> Jeff
>
> On 10/26/07, Ronald Sutherland <ronald.sutherland at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/26/07, christopher floess <skeptikos at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > >   I have this with DSL, an Actiontec that is a modem and
> > router.  There
> > > is also a firewall built in.  I don't know if this is available or not
> > for
> > > cable.  The last time I used cable, we had a separate modem and
> > > router/firewall because we already had the modem when we decided to
> add
> > more
> > > computers.
> > >
> > > Good to hear that such a thing exist in some fashion.
> > > Now I know I'm not crazy :) I'll keep looking for a cable
> > > version.
> > >
> > >
> > Yep, but DSL's router function is not needed by the phone corp, the
> router
> > admin is often the user, while with cable the router is needed for
> outside
> > paths, and router admin is the cable corp. I would think a cable router
> > could do NAT and port forwarding and all that crap but the router admin
> > needs to set it.
> >
>