Cable Modem and Wireless Question?

Mr_Proctalgia

Yesterday I had my new Virgin Media BB and Phone Installed. I now have a "Home 250" Modem and cables!!

I have in my loft somewhere a Belkin F5D6130 Wireless Access Point - If I connect this to the Cable Modem with a patch lead is this likely to give me wireless connectivity?

As an aside, the install was quick and painless the BB is 2 meg and the phone is XL all for £20 pm. (Free Upgrade for the phone) My last BT bill was for£112 and the total cost of all calls was £2.12 :mad: The rest was line rental and BB (Which is !!!!!! here and often down to Dial Up speeds) Glad to away from BT.


TIA

strike13

im not sure, i think it should work, give it a try mate. make sure you interent is connected to it and mate, pm for how you can get free tv with vrigin media.

cledor

Yes, try connecting it, although it's meant to plug into a router, and it's 802.11b spec

Have a look here for support and updates
http://www.belkin.com/support/product/?lid=en&pid=F5D6130&scid=221

Mr_Proctalgia

Thanks so far.

I have to get into the loft and go through lots of boxes called "Old Computer Stuff" anyone else got those too?

morris7

Attatching a wireless access point to the modem will indeed give you wireless access. Although, it will only be for one computer. If you want more computers to be able to connect, you will need to use a wireless router as opposed to a wireless access point.

espresso

Sorry but I don't think that it will give you wireless access, as the access point needs to be connected to a router and not a modem to act as a DHCP server.

Mr_Proctalgia

Good point Expresso, it never occurred to me that it wouldn't be able to dish out any addresses.

However!! Having just RTFM is does have a DHCP server and can support up to 64 "clients" (quite how that would work on an 802.11b machine though) I think it might just be worth a try after all - Nothing ventured nothing gained.

Thanks for everyones help.

espresso

Been in the loft yet then, did it work?