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Home Networking with a One Way Cable Modem?

Posted by Cliff on from the routing-around-the-problem dept.

Blacklotuz asks: "I recently networked the computers in my house with a Linksys EtherFast Cable/DSL Router. Today I called up Comcast to order cable internet service, but because I live in a rural area we still have downstream only cable. I was told that in order to use the service I would have to connect the cable modem to the ethernet card on my computer as well as dialing up via the 56k modem. Im running Windows XP on the computer that will be dialing up. Does anyone know of a way to use a one way cable connection with a router?"

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  1. One-way cable? by Da+Schmiz · · Score: 1, Troll
    What is this, the dark ages?

    Providers are starting to roll out DOCSIS 1.1 systems now, and DOCSIS 2.0 is only a few months out, if you believe CableLabs. Even so, most cable systems should be supporting high-bandwidth symmetric tiered service by next year.

    Where exactly do you live?

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