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Originally Posted by DAEpperson
We get the internet from Time Warner Cable. It works great, but in another part of the house I want to hook my home entertainment (Apple's iTV has an ethernet in connection) to the internet. At that location I have the legacy coax connection. Can I hook up a separate cable modem here to get connectivity for my home theater? Can you have two modems at one house? And would you have to pay a monthly fee for that second modem, or could you just buy an aftermarket modem.
And info would be appreciate.
David
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Having built most of the TWC Cable modem network back in the early 00's I think I might be able to give you some answers.
You can't go out and just buy another modem. I'm not sure TWC even lets you use your own modem these days. Back when I was managing the modems we did not.
You CAN have more than one modem in the house but why run that extra wire and pay that additional cost when you could just have an Ethernet run from where you're existing router is to where you want the new device to connect.
You probably plug the modem into a router, if it isn't a wireless router you should get one of those. I'm not sure Apple's iTV supports wireless or not. IF not you can always buy a wireless bridge. This is like a wireless network adapter but instead of being a USB connection it will connect to the device you want wireless via a standard Ethernet cable. To the iTV it'll look like it's on Ethernet but the bridge will connect to your wireless network.
If you can run an ethernet you'll get much more predictible performance but 802.11n is quite good so if you have a quality router and good signal the bridge will probably be fine.
Personally - I have most of my house wired with Ethernet.
If you're in one of the areas that was adelphia previously I did not do those.