Trying to Bridge Coax and DSL

[robedelstein]

My mom has A cable modem in her living room that is connected through loooong wiring to a splitter in her bedroom, which is where her laptop is. The splitter has COAX; her laptop needs a DSL wire. How can I bridge the two?

 

[Alabalcho]

It's quite improbable that the laptop needs DSL (which is ordinary 2-wire phone cable).

So, try to precise your question. How do you get Internet - over coax cable, or over phone cable?
That splitter you're talking about - is it coax spriller, or some intelligent device?
Try to draw a picture of available equipment, and what do you need. "Bridging" is not the right term for whatever you are after.

 

[robedelstein]

It's quite improbable that the laptop needs DSL (which is ordinary 2-wire phone cable).

So, try to precise your question. How do you get Internet - over coax cable, or over phone cable?
That splitter you're talking about - is it coax spriller, or some intelligent device?
Try to draw a picture of available equipment, and what do you need. "Bridging" is not the right term for whatever you are after.

The splitter is definitely a coax splitter. it's a one-to-two, and I was gonna replace it with a one-to-three.

The laptop is a little bit older and isn't wireless. She recently moved; in her last apartment, it was easy to run a DSL wire from her cable modem to the laptop. Now that's not an option; the modem is in a different room. There are other connections available on the laptop (sadly, I'm not there now and can't draw it/upload a photo) but DSL is what I always used.

 

[bill001g]

I suspect you are in over your head when you do not know the difference between DSL and ethernet. You can look at devices called MoCA and I will leave it to you to hopefully read the documentation and see if you can figure out how to use it.

 

[Alabalcho]

The easiest way for your mom' laptop to get connected is to get an USB WiFi adapter supported by the OS on the laptop. Everything else will be clumsy, and much more expensive.

 

[robedelstein]

Thanks for all the responses (and pardon my brainiac confusion regarding ethernet, which is what I meant...this whole thing seems ill-advised. Clearly I was trying someone's patience). I'll look into that solution, Alabalcho, and see where it leads. Thanks much.