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You can buy kits at Office Max and some other stores to use your phone lines in
the house to network PC's, but it costs almost as much as a wireless network.
You will get the best performance by running the CAT-5 line from the modem to
the PC, but if you can't run the wires for some reason, get the wireless network
setup; they work pretty well.


ITV_Guy wrote:

> "Rajesh Raheja" <email@RajeshRaheja.com> wrote in message
> news:0dR07.154294$%i7.102617316@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a newbie question. Basically my cable modem sits in my living room
> > (due to cable connection there).  My desktop is in another room not having
> > the cable connection.  I want my cable modem connected to my desktop in
> > another room (only one pc so not really a "network").
> >
> > Essentially I want to be able to do the following:
> >
> > Internet ------> Cable Modem (Room1) ----> Phoneline (Room1)
> > Phoneline (Room2) <------ Desktop (Room2)
> >
> > Will this work? I read some postings in this newsgroup and went to
> > www.practicallynetworked.com but could not get this kind of configuration
> > questions answered.  Would really help if someone guided me as to what I
> > would need for just this kind of a "network extension".
> >
> > Also, if I do decide to get another desktop and "share" the connection,
> > would my investment in the above go waste?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > -raj-
> >
> No that won't work. You need to connect your cable modem to your PC with a
> Cat5 Ethernet cable, not a phone line. The cables look similar, but they are
> very different. You cannot plug a cable modem into a phone jack. If it were
> that easy everyone would have a home network. Just run a Cat5 cable from the
> cable modem to PC and forget about the phone line thing.