Linksys also has excellent, FREE tech support. Comcast was unable to fix a problem that I had, and Linksys nailed it quickly and without a fee. Best regards, C Christine Pilch www.YourBrandPartnership.com CPilch at YourBrandPartnership.com 68 Dugan Road Ware, MA 01082 413-967-4433 (o) 413-537-2474 (c) -----Original Message----- From: hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net [mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of Robert Heller Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 2:00 PM To: Daniel Belmont Cc: Hidden-Tech Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Home Internet hookup ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee. ** You too can help the group ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. ** If you did, we all thank you. At Tue, 4 Dec 2007 10:31:22 -0800 (PST) Daniel Belmont <dbelmont2 at yahoo.com> wrote: > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee. > ** You too can help the group > ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > > > > Hello All -- > > I am considering getting a comcast internet hookup and I have a few questions : > > 1) how difficult is it to install ? and what is involved ? if I > install it myself I save $150 ... > > 2) can you recommend a wireless router that works well with the > comcast hookup ? we are using wireless in my apartment ... also, what > is involved in configuring that ? Almost any of the commonly available 'wireless broadband router' boxes will work -- Radio Shack, Best Buy, Staples, Walmart all sell these units. I'd recomend the LinkSys model. These are easy to configure -- just jack in a wired system and fire up your webbrowser (eg FireFox). Connect to the router (usually 192.168.0.1, but its instruction booklet will tell you). It will ask for a login (the instruction booklet will tell you the factory default admin user and password). Then you just follow the web-based menus. I believe that most/all of the 'wireless broadband routers' already include wizards for connecting to all of the major broadband providers (Comcast Cable, Charter Cable, Road Runner, Verizon DSL, Verizon FIOS, etc.). You'd just jack in the cable modem's Ethernet connection to the upload (broadband) connector and follow the menus with your webbrowser. I presume that somewhere you need to connect to the actual cable (from the pole going into your house/apartment) with the cable modem, I would guess this means installing a coax "T", but I am not sure exactly. > > thx, > Dan Belmont > > > --------------------------------- > Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how. > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > > -- Robert Heller -- Get the Deepwoods Software FireFox Toolbar! Deepwoods Software -- Linux Installation and Administration http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Web Hosting, with CGI and Database heller at deepsoft.com -- Contract Programming: C/C++, Tcl/Tk _______________________________________________ Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members page on the Hidden Tech Web site. http://www.hidden-tech.net/members