Re: Modular Adapter Instead of Router?

No, worse: I am saying that if you don't use your router, your laptop will not merely be "going at the speed of dial-up", but that it will in fact be using dial-up: You will not have an "always-on" connection, you will have to dial, and you will have to use "dialer" software. Which, once it connects, will be at 28k to 53k.

People don't understand that when you have DSL, the DSL modem uses entirely different signals and connections for it's broadband connection than an analog phone circuit (even thought they come over the exact same wires). If you don't use the router (and, more importantly, the DSL modem (which may or may not be a separate piece of hardware)), you won't be using a DSL connection, and you'd be reverting to analog dial-up in all regards. Which happens to include a point that I've omitted, that being that you would also need a new ISP, because your DSL ISP does not [normally or automatically] even provide dial-up service (some do, for their customers who are traveling, but that's certainly not guaranteed).


Darkwing wrote:

I have Verizon DSL. Are you saying that if I don't use a router, my laptop would be going at the speed of dial-up instead of DSL?

Barry Watzman wrote:

A router is normally used to split a broadband connection (250k to 1,500k or more). The only signal available at an analog phone jack that a computer can use directly is a dial-up connection of 28 to 56k.


Darkwing wrote:

BR549 wrote:

"Darkwing" <Darkwing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:wb3pf.679$u36.260@xxxxxxxxxxx

I recently purchased a laptop, and I already have a desktop computer
that is connected to the internet via a modem, which is in the telephone
jack. If I connected a Modular Adapter to the telephone jack, enabling
me to connect the laptop and desktop computer to the same jack, would it
be OK for me to access the Internet via my laptop that way, as opposed
to using a router? 





Nope.

Why not? Would it be illegal? Or just an inconvenience? 
.

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