Home networking question for you [Sigh, resolved]

[JPicasso]

Does anyone know if you can run two modems on the same phone line, to the same account at the same time?

We are setting up my wife's office at home and were exploring some options.
Her employer will not allow wireless.

So our options are
1. Two DSL modems
2. one DSL modem an about 50 ft of ethernet run through the house (not my idea of a fun weekend)

We were going to just try it, but her laptop decided to not be shipped with the power supply so that will have to wait.
But if anyone else is successful with it, we can have her home office up and ready asap.

Am I talking sense?

[dglienna]

get one modem, and a router. if you get a wireless router, then you could use the wire for her laptop and the wireless link for the other computer. wireless routers have wired ports, also.

[JPicasso]

Yeah, but I already have a wired router and don't want to shell out more money just for this... course, I'll be shelling out money for cords too, not to mention the labor of spending an hour or two in our crawlspace.

I was just wondering if it's possible, since we already have two dsl modems (a mixup with the provider when we moved) and one is just sitting there.

[dglienna]

not sure, but I don't really think so. only heard on one dsl per phone line. they'd have to give 2 ip addresses, also, so they'd catch on, quick.

you probably could just use a hub connected to the router to give additional ports, as I assume that yours only has one. this would give you another 4-8 ports.

[dsheller]

Use a switch not a hub, hub's broadcast every piece of data leaving more collisions.

[dglienna]

I didn't have any problem doing it, with three computers hooked up to my cable modem.

[Ideas Man]

I would strongly doubt it. They way DSL works is by splitting up the copper into the frequencies for data up/down and voice. That uses the entire pipe and if you somehow managed to get it to work, it would only really work at half the speed each. Best to dish out for the cabling, then you can share between comps also.

[JPicasso]

Ya. More I thought about it, it wouldn't make sense for two dsl modems on a single line.


Okay, fine, I'll go buy the cord, and the new wall recepticles, AND
down the crawlspace I go, with the spiders and the rocks and
dust and leftover cans of that foam stuff that seals the cracks
and wire my damn house for ethernet.

It's gonna be dirty.

Thanks for the feedback.

[Ideas Man]

Lol, we had to do that with our house, where we crawled in the roof (which is small if you're tall, like me ), with the huge piles of dust and cobwebs, in immense heat to lay our cabling, it payed off though, a job well done that is something to be proud of, at least it looks better than having all these blue cables running along the floor, lol.

[meander]

i dont know about you but i had fun when i put the cabling through my hose....

[dglienna]

I had a cable modem with a hub and then before that, used ICS with a phone line. we ran cables all over the loft and it worked fine (when we used cables that worked [lol])

[plenderj]

The way I have it setup at home is that I have a broadband modem and a wireless router setup underneath a cabinet (so no-one can see all the cables etc.).

Then I just have wireless network cards in my machines. Simple as that

[dglienna]

back then they didn't have wireless, and only highspeed lines were T-1, and they were really expensive!

Now i have the same thing. Wireless router connected to DSL modem.

Two modems on one phone line won't work.
Two cable modems on one line will work if you have two accounts.

[plenderj]

Back when?
And anyway, there've been ISDN lines for years before DSL was even conceived.

[dsheller]

Calling ISDN highspeed is a joke... although I would've liked one in 1996 =)

[plenderj]

Nah ISDN Dialup was there with 128k pure digital back in the days of 14.4 modems, and people are still using it.
Its stood the test of time quite well I'd say