Connect your modem to the telephone wire.
Cable modem to switch to wireless router setup.
You ve just purchased a modem and are ready to save money off your monthly cable bill.
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Modem to router to switch.
I connected a gige switch s to the ethernet port of my cable modem m.
Connect telephone wire with modem and then connect an ethernet cable to the ethernet port on the back of the cable modem.
If you have adsl broadband via a phone line then see how to set up an adsl wireless router.
When setting up a wireless router you must initially use an ethernet cable to connect it to your computer in order to set up the router and configure it for wireless access.
Unplug any ethernet cables that are plugged into any of them.
How to setup activate a wifi router.
Plug the other end of ethernet cable connected with modem into wan.
After that connect one end of an ethernet cable to the ethernet port on the back of the modem.
In most cases you will see people put the modem first followed by a router and then a gigabit ethernet switch the principle is that the modem gives the public ip address to the router and the router assigns the private addresses to the devices connected to it while the network switch doesn t handle allocating ip addresses but serves.
From the switch i ran to the wan port of my 10 100 router r.
A cable wireless router is one that connects to a broadband cable modem.
Network switch after router.
On the asus rt ac5300 router i enabled bonding 802 3ad for ports 1 and 2 and connected them to ports 51 and 52 on the gs752tpp gigabit switch.
Placing the switch between the cable or dsl modem and the wireless router adds an extra layer of protection from threats on the internet and adding more connections to the network is as simple as plugging another router into the switch.
Unplug the power supplies of cable modem switch and wireless router.
Plug the other end of the ethernet cable connected with modem into your router s wan port.