I have a Wireless ADSL router. However I am now getting cable internet. How can I share the cable connection across my network. Can this be done without buying a new wireless point that has a cable modem. The ISP provides one IP address. I would like to know if I buy a simple ethernet cable modem and plug it into the router will the connection be shared across the network? Also the router has 'auto uplink' ports so I guess this means I can just plug a cable modem into any port? ICS is not an option. Thanks in advance.

Your router won't care if it's DSL or cable. In either case, the external connection plugs into a modem which then in turn plugs into your router with a network cable that has an RJ-45 end on it. Your present router will work on cable and will likely not even need to be reconfigured if the external connection is set to DHCP. The cablemodem has to be plugged into the WAN port, just like you did with DSL. The uplink port is used for plugging the router into another network device like another router or switch or hub.

Thanks for the reply. The Wan port is RJ-25...how do you plug a cable modem into that. I though it would be an ethernet connection to the router. Also I wasn't using the router as an ADSL modem, as I am on dial-up. The ADSL router is built in so I though the WAN port was simply for the phone line to connect to the ADSL modem? Are you saying that the cable modem will use an RJ-25 plug to connect to this WAN port? If I was using ADSL a modem would not have been plugged into the WAN port....the router has an inbuilt modem. Is the Wan port just a generic port for an ADSL *OR* cable modem connection? Also the router has no uplink port but I assume auto-uplink means that the outgoing (I don't know the right term) RJ-45 ports can be used as uplink ports? I hope you understand what I am asking. Thankyou!

I meant RJ-11 not RJ-25 sorry.

Hi Cameron. From what you're saying it looks like you have a "combo" unit. It's a DSL modem with a router built into it. Is this correct? If so, then no, you likely won't be able to use it in conjunction with cable. I haven't played with any of those combo type devices myself so I can't say for sure for sure....but since DLS and cable modems differ, it seems unlikely that you could use it with cable (the modem portion anyway). The setup I have here at home is a Dlink DSL modem which I have connected to my Dlink highspeed internet router. The RJ-11 from the phone jack connects into the modem. The modem connects to the WAN port on my router with a regular network cable. I have run cable highspeed in the past and the setup was exactly the same except that it was a coax cable into the modem and then the network cable into the router. From the looks of it, you'll have to get a cable modem to go with your cable highspeed. Most modern routers are capable of using any port as an uplink. In older ones, you had a single specific uplink port and it was the only one you could use for that purpose. Usually you couldn't use it as a regular port for connecting a PC. You might be able to connect the network cable coming out of your cable modem (when you get one) into one of the ports on your router to see if it will work........it might. I would definately try it before buying another router. It might not work though as most routers have a specific WAN port for the incoming highspeed connection from the modem. Still, it won't cost you anything to try it out. Dig your manual out and read through it, it might tell you if it's possible and if so, how to do it.

In your case I would RTFM (Read the Fine Manual) and see how to accomodate cable instead of DSL through this router. If you don't have a manual go to the manufacturer's website and poke around the "Support" section to see if they have one online in PDF format - most do. As suggested above if you have a combo unit it may *only* work with ADSL and you'll have to replace it.