Who here does NOT use a router?

If you do can you tell me the company and model name?

EDIT: I can't read, lul.

I do use a router, it's a DLink peice of rubbish.

i'm going to risk oggy's rage.....i use a router ^^

Routers are good though....I think Ogris still prefers dial-up though

I use a router.

*groan* My modem has 4 built in ethernet ports, 2 USB ports, 2 phone cable ports, 2 internet TV ports and an optical fibre port.

Doesn't that make it a router?

yes! ^^

dial up ftw tbh, i remember when metty was still on dialup :O

But it isn't a router.

It's a MODEM.

It has no WAN ports.

Ha. Ha. I has warm memories. Or not.


Well, apart from the time I pasted some people on strider mod.

I decided with the other two that we'd take it in turns for the striders (this was like one of my first games online ever btw). After they killed me (they were in the striders), which was after I'd managed to kill them with hit and run rpg attacks, I was in the strider against those two.

I managed to catch them sneaking across the roof but I believe they didn't think I'd seen them. They got mown down.

I then said something like "HA!" and they left, and I didn't understand it at the time, but I think it's what we now term as a rage-quit.

On dial-up too.


Oh and also Star-Trek: Armada on dial-up. There's some sort of cult community still playing that thing, and they are all absolutely lethal at it. I got accused of hacking after someone's super-ship vanished when going through a transwarp (read kind of like a stargate) gate just as I destroyed it.

I'd barely played the game, and I don't think it's even possible to hack ships out of existence. O-o


Hmm, maybe some good memories then.

Many good memories!

Strange, I thought modems were specifically for connecting to the internet (AKA WAN) and routers/switches were for LAN, with some routers having built in modems...

Well it's a weird thing.

I get an optical cable that goes into the connection port.

Then it just auto connects to the net, but only the modem, i cant actually USE that internet, it's weird.

After that i have to use the connect to function to actually get internet to my PC completely bypassing anything remotely related to "routing". The thing is, when i tried the same on my router, it didn't actually let me, unless i plugged cables into the wrong ports(instead of plugging the ethernet cable into the WAN port like a normal human, i plugged it into one of the numerical ethernet ports, overriding the router completely, which makes me wonder what is the purpose of them in the first place.)

Ehhh it's all weird.

Well that's just broken then

My router, using ASDL (so maybe not the same as you) you plug the internet into that and configure it to connect to the internet. Then you connect all the computers to the network hosted by the router and it gives internet to the computers.

By connect function, what do you mean, on your PC or on the router?

I'm in need of the exact same router that you just described, Skillers. If people could point me towards some cheap-ish reliable ones I would very much appreciate it
(Sorry to hijack your thread a bit, oggy )

As you guessed, no I don't have a router. Just some shity ADSL SpeedTouch Modem Tiscali provided me with

Just go to an online shop (ebuyer) and look at their routers with modems. Most will do you fine, probs. My current/home router is terrible, though.

Optical cable goes to modem.

You use the connect to function in windows to go online

there you go, internet for the whole house.

Sounds like a router to me

Internet Gateway that sounds like

But the modem itself doesnt connect to the internet, not like a router does.