So I'm moving into a new house in about a week, and meeting the cable company, I have cable internet or whatever, does this mean I just run a coaxial cable from the wall to the modem? (like you would a TV, to hook it up.)
The modem has to be registered / activated to the cable network, but yes, the physical connection is a standard F type coax connector to the back of the modem. There should also be an RJ-45 ethernet cable on the modem that should attach to your router. That is assuming your modem is just a modem, and not a combo unit that includes the router in one case...
The modem has to be registered / activated to the cable network, but yes, the physical connection is a standard F type coax connector to the back of the modem. There should also be an RJ-45 ethernet cable on the modem that should attach to your router. That is assuming your modem is just a modem, and not a combo unit that includes the router in one case...
In my neck of the woods you cannot plug the modem into any coax plug in the wall. You have one specifically for internet and the rest are split for TV throughout the house.
In my neck of the woods you cannot plug the modem into any coax plug in the wall. You have one specifically for internet and the rest are split for TV throughout the house.
Okay I am curious, do you have Satelite TV in your house? I am not sure how they could separate the TV signal from the internet signal is why I ask... I have DirecTV for my TV so I have to be careful which coax I am using. I simply ran the coax specifically for my modem and solved That particular problem permanently... I seriously doubt I will ever go cable again for TV, as streaming services get better and better, in the long run I will likely drop pay TV entirely...
I have cable internet and TV from Bright House and the service is OK and we do have our fair share of interupted service but for the most part I get a solid 10M/1M and usually bursts past it.
There are two wires coming in the house but only one goes to the modem, the other to a splitter that distributes it throught the home via the coax connectors...somewhere in the house there is an amp plugged in.
That is certainly different from Comcast. When I had them for TV too, the internet, and the TV came in via the same coaxial cable... My ex in laws have Cox and theirs was the same way... I thought they all worked like that. Learn something new every day! Thanks.
That is certainly different from Comcast. When I had them for TV too, the internet, and the TV came in via the same coaxial cable... My ex in laws have Cox and theirs was the same way... I thought they all worked like that. Learn something new every day! Thanks.
Hey wait a second... there is only one wire going into my house, the other was the anchor wire and the cable wire wrapped around it( it's a long 80' run.