ADSL router vs Cable router

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What's the difference between the two? Can you plug for example a ADSL
broadband line into a Cable router? I mean, they both have an ethernet port
 
Crouchez said:
What's the difference between the two? Can you plug for example a ADSL
broadband line into a Cable router? I mean, they both have an ethernet
port
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The difference is the type of internet connection: Cable internet (Telewest)
vs phone line internet (BT, AOL, TalkTalk, Virgin, Tiscali, wanadoo, Zen
etc etc.).

The ethernet port on any router is to connect the router to your own
network. A cable router is used to connect to the outside world if you have
cable and an ADSL router is used to connect to the outside world if you have
ADSL.
 
What's the difference between the two? Can you plug for example a ADSL
broadband line into a Cable router? I mean, they both have an ethernet port
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A router must have at least one LAN port and one WAN port.
Port could mean an ethernet jack or it could mean a logical
connection to a modem built into the same device. If there
is a modem built in then technically it is not just a
"router" anymore, more often it would be called a modem or
modem/router as the router is the secondary device added so
the customer can use the modem with more than one computer
without having to buy more equipment to do so, in order to
have NAT functionality from the modem hybrid device.

If the router has an ethernet WAN port, it is not
necessarily an ADSL or Cable router, it is a universal
router that can be used by either broadband type once you
plug the needed type of modem into the router's ethernet
port.

If the router does not have an ethernet WAN port but instead
has the internal modem, the type of modem it is determines
which type of broadband service it can use.

If the router has both an internal modem and a WAN ethernet
port, it would seem there would have to be a setting in the
router control panel to set whether it considers the modem
or the ethernet port to be logically considered the WAN port
that is active.
 
Crouchez said:
What's the difference between the two? Can you plug for example a ADSL
broadband line into a Cable router? I mean, they both have an ethernet port
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YES-NO-NO-YES

- ADSL & Cable Modem = are 2 different types of modems use by 2 different
type of services.

- Ethernet connection = networking

- You can't use Cable modem with ASDL service, and you can't use ADSL modem
with Cable internet serice. In general

- Can you use both ADSL and Cable Modem at same time? YES

- If you have *both* ADSL and Cable Internet services

- Yes, if you have a *special* router allows you to have TWO Connections
(2 same or mixed modems/services)
 
Crouchez said:
Is a router a router? It can take either (ADSL and cable) connection from
the modem?
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We thought you were talking about a router with a modem built in. Normally
when you refer to a 'cable router' or an 'adsl router', you are talking
about a router with the modem built into the same box. Any router without a
modem built in is, as you say, just a router.

It is common to buy a single box performing 3 tasks - modem, router and
network switch (or hub). It is still possible to get them all separately, in
which case the modem deals with the connection to the outside world and the
router sits between whatever type of modem you have and your network
hub/switch.
 
Crouchez said:
Is a router a router? It can take either (ADSL and cable) connection from
the modem?
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No. If the router has an included modem, then it's one or the other. A
plain vanilla router has a WAN port output and feed either variety of modem.
 
Crouchez said:
Is a router a router? It can take either (ADSL and cable) connection from
the modem?
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Could be possible, but 99.99+% of normal user don't go this route. The
second question I have no idea what's in your mind.

The "AND" part I believe I mentioned HERE before, and without the quote of
original message it's very hard to understand what you response to.

So, can you PLEASE learn to quote some part of the original just like the
way most normal Usenet users do?
 
Pen said:
No. If the router has an included modem, then it's one or the other. A
plain vanilla router has a WAN port output and feed either variety of
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modem.

Cheers!
 
Joel said:
Could be possible, but 99.99+% of normal user don't go this route. The
second question I have no idea what's in your mind.

The "AND" part I believe I mentioned HERE before, and without the quote of
original message it's very hard to understand what you response to.

So, can you PLEASE learn to quote some part of the original just like the
way most normal Usenet users do?
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Sorry should make it clearer. Yes, I just wanted to know whether a plain
router can take either types of connections - ADSL or cable.
 
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