Re: OT. Ethernet

I will resist the impulse to answer...it depends!

The cable connecting your cable modem to your wireless router is probably an
ethernet cable. Unplug it from your wireless router and plug it into your
desktop. See if you are online. If you are and you would like a longer cable
to connect with, then go buy the one at Walmart.

"garycarson" <garycarson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a wireless cable setup at home. I have a desktop, a laptop, and
an old computer in a closet.

My desktop crapped out today, it's in the shop and it'll be a week
before they look at it. My laptop is iffy, some of the key's on the
keyboard don't always work.

I took the old desktop from the closet and it seems to work fine, just
no wireless modem.

But I think it has an ethernet card (I bought it used a few years ago
from an IBM office in Austin). Window's 98. I've never used the
ethernet card and don't even know what that is.

It looks like is has a plug in the back that's kind of like a phone
plug but slightly bigger. That's the kind of plug my cable modem has
that runs to the wireless router. Walmart sells a 25 foot cable that
looks like it fits. I didn't buy it because I'm not sure ethernet and
cable modem are the same thing in any way.

Can I just plug that thing in to get internet access to it?



Gary Carson

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