2 routers and 2 cable modems

Jonglerx · Post by **Jonglerx** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 8:33 pm

Hey, me and my friends are gonna meet up at my house and have a team lan for cs. Now I checked on the post about hooking up 2 routers together to hook up 8 pcs and I read someone's reply that the 4 other comps on the 2nd router will have low performance. So I was thinking if I get a splitter for my cable line and split it to another cable modem of my friends and have his hooked up through my split cable line to his computer, and then ran through the 2nd router which would be connected to the other 4 comps. Same with my cable modem to the first router connecting the other 4. Is this possible? If so can anyone please just guide me a little on what to do. Thanks.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 6:35 am

If it's at someone's house....there's no reason to bring along a second cable modem, leave it at home.

For having a LAN, you want all 8 rigs on the same network. 2x router, each with 4 ports on the LAN side, will not be enough, you could get 6 rigs connected, if you disable DHCP service on one router, made sure its LAN IP would be different from the first one....and uplinked each LAN side of the router to each other.

But keep it simple.....just use cable modem and router that this house you'll LAN at, and have someone bring along a switch, or a hub (a switch would be better).....uplink it to the LAN side of his router, and everyone plug into that.

Make sure everyone has their antivirus up to date....at LAN parties surer than sh|t at least one person brings along a badly infected system.
Make sure you have a password to log onto your system, and the Administrator account doesn't have a blank password...surer than sh|t there's a few people who like to try to mess with other peeps systems at a LAN
Make sure you don't have your C:\ shared out..only share directories or extended partitions, never your $system$ partition. Best to have no shares, but if you need any, just make them read only.

JackMDS · Post by **JackMDS** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 10:45 am

Welcome to the Network Forum.

In addition to the above.

If you have a regular Internet Cable account you can not “Hook” two Modems without paying for two accounts, it simply would not work.

:2cool:

Microsoft 98 · Post by **Microsoft 98** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 4:54 pm

Or get a 7 port dlink router costly too, Then you all needs NIC's, Wires who knows how much feet, power bars

Tfecw · Post by **Tfecw** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 9:06 pm

I understand that for lan parties in the same house you don't need 2 cable modems. but i have a different dillima

i live in a house thats converted into apartments. Basicaly we had one cable modem two the house. the cable company got pissed cause we also converted the garage into a living area. They said the running one cable line between the houses is bad and were going to sue us for serves loss blah blah blha....so long story short. we have a 2 cable lines running two each of the houses. I want to network the two together. I do have some limited network experiance (ccna) and i probably have too much info floating around with dhcp servers and what nots and how to configure them. So any info or ideas on how to do that would be great.

so far i'm pretty sure 2 routers connected to each of the cable modems...then have each of those routers connected to a switch....then have a connection between the 2 routers will work.

i just wanted to know how to configure the routers to talk to each other and load balance

Thanks!

Tfecw · Post by **Tfecw** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 9:12 pm

Hi. i have two cable modems running to my house...well one to the main house, and the other to an annex which is a seperate structure (screw you roadrunner) i was wondering how to network the two.

I was thinking that a router to each of the cabel modems....conect the routers to each other, then have a switch comming off of each of the routers will work. I just wanted to confirm and figure out how to set them up to load balance between the two lines and how to disable able what i need to. I do have some networking exp (ccna cert) so be as technical as ya like

thanks

Tfecw · Post by **Tfecw** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 9:14 pm

whoops i didn't think the first one went through...well whatever

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 6:11 am

Tfecw wrote:so far i'm pretty sure 2 routers connected to each of the cable modems...then have each of those routers connected to a switch....then have a connection between the 2 routers will work.

Depends how you set it up. If you somehow uplink the LAN sides of the routers to each other...won't work if the routers have the same LAN IP, plus you'll have 2x conflicting DHCP services by default. Would have to disable 1x DHCP service, and assign static LAN IPs to computers that would use one of the routers.

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