With respect Eddie, I was not nit picking - my original answer was predicated upon the device being a router, NOT an access point - I had no idea he was using wireless - if I had I would have had a whole set of other responses that would have been far more relevant.

FYI I make my living working with this stuff.

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The device that actually connects is not a router. It has become an interchangeable term in the last 10 years or so, but to say "you can not connect without a router" is incorrect.



Actually, every DSL modem you've ever seen IS a router (unless it has been configured as a bridge which will allow another piece of equipment to perform the login function - if this device is you computer then that is the only time there won't be a router in your home on a DSL connection) as it will be performing NAT (Network Address Translation) which is a router function.

In addition, there is most certainly a MOdulation/DEModulation function for a cable connection I.E. a modem of some kind. If your cable provider gives you an ethernet port to connect to that's fine, but on the other end of that is a modem which they will have supplied. Even in a fibre to the home situation there is a conversion from optical to electrical media - usually called a media converter, but it will still fill the bill as a modem - though in this case it needn't necessarily be a router as well (though it probably will).

Last edited by Lawrie; 10/05/11 07:24 PM.
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