[Wolves] Silly question but...

[Chris Ball]

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Wayne Morris wrote:
> A broadband router for the likes of Blueyonder cable broadband doesn't
> NEED a modem
> as I understand it because the service arrives at your house in a coax
> cable (in the same cable as your tv)
> and so it is effectively just ethernet cable. The cable 'modem' isn't
> really therefore a modem, the name is just
> retained to allow customers to get a feel for what the device does
> without having to understand it.
> The 'cable modem' is really just a small dedicated pc with a network
> card pointing at BY and one or more
> pointing into the home lan.

Indeed, a broadband router simply converts broadband signals to Tcp/IP
and back again, whilst routing in the usual router fashion. Therefore a
modem isn't neccesary if there is another method for the router to be
connected to the broadband line.

Slightly off-topic, but are ADSL modems actually modems (in the
modulator/demodulator sense of the word?)


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