Lets make this easy. I have two computors. I have the cable modem in one room and a router. The router lets me use the cable modem for both computors. For more detail on how it hooks up read on...

The way a router works is the ethernet network card hooks into the back of the router. All computors you want to have cable or dsl on need a wire streched to it and into the router. The router then hooks into the modem itself. So it goes...

Comoutor/s - Router - Cable/Dsl Modem

Understand? Good! No? Well lets look a little further.

The router does nothing more than splice the modems connection into however many computor you want it to go to. I have a 4 port router, meaning I can hook 4 comoutor in it without needing more hardware. You can of course get over 200 hooked up to just 1 modem. It only takes a little extra equipment.

Now you may be wondering..."If the router connects more than one computor than why arn't they networked?" Well thats because none of the computors are actually lined together. They are all hooked into 1 small machine (or more depending on how many comoutors you have).

You also may be thinking..."Wont all those computors wear that poor little modem out?" Dont under estimate the power of the poor little modem. Your connection may be slightly slowered but not by much. So dont worry about that.

Wow! All I need is to buy a modem and cheap router! Hold on a sec. Who said anything about cheap? Those tiny little routers cost $100 or more. The 4 port router I have cost $99 alone. That does not include the extra cost for wires. And dont forget the little thing you need. An ISP. Those arn't cheap. Expecially for cable or dsl.

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