[Tfug] modem and router combo

[Jeffry Johnston]

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.
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