Here’s the situation: I’m having cable internet installed this Friday. I just bought a wireless router and a wireless PCI card for my computer. I’d like the router to be at the other end of the house than the computer, with the cable coming from the wall into a modem and the modem going into the wireless router. No problem.
Can I successfully set up the router and “mate” it to the computer before the cable internet connection is present? Since the guy is going to be on-hand for the installation (a necessary evil due to the package I’m getting - no self-install option), I’d rather just have him set up the modem at the other end of the house right into the router rather than having him install everything where my PC is and then have me have to move everything once he’s gone.
Is it possible to basically get everything set up and ready to go, then he just has to plug in the modem and get it configured with my PC over the wireless connection? Or does the modem and everything have to be set up first?
Yes…the integrity of the network is secondary to the presence of an internet connection. That said, the easiest way to do this however is to wait. Pretty much every router these days comes with a setup disk that will auto detect your existing internet connection then configure the router to connect to it with very little work on your end. I do several of these a week, it takes less than 30 min to run through the setup even for a novice user who is not afraid to try.
Oh, cool. I’m more worried about something creepy on their end than my own ability. Is it possible to split a single cable coming into the apartment into two - one going to TV, one going to modem - with a standard splitter, and with no loss of speed or quality for either connection?