so this is what happened.
i have two computers, one in the living room and one in my room. we've been using bellsouth for our internet (dsl) (in the living room, no internet in my room), but we decided to change to cable. so we call up our time warner cable company and they hook up roadrunner internet in my room via LAN ethernet cable. thats it. so now there is no internet in the living room and we wanted to ask the company to put wireless internet in the living room. they said they would charge us 20 bucks extra.
i looked up the modem they put in my room and i could only find out that its an AMBIT modem but im guessing its an old model because i cant find information about it anywhere.
the model number is 60194E-004.
im guessing the company didnt want us to just buy a wireless adapter and get internet access on two computers so they gave me this modem so the only option i have is to buy the wireless service and modem from them.
i want to know if its ok to buy and use a different modem with my cable service. is the service only like usable on the modem they gave me? i dont even know if this modem is wireless or not so im guessing ill just buy another one.
tl;dr: is it ok to switch out the modem the cable company gave me to another one that offers wireless? and why are they charging 20 bucks extra to have two computers hooked up via wireless when all we need to get is an adapter? does it charge extra to hook up an additional computer via wireless?
im very confused
i have two computers, one in the living room and one in my room. we've been using bellsouth for our internet (dsl) (in the living room, no internet in my room), but we decided to change to cable. so we call up our time warner cable company and they hook up roadrunner internet in my room via LAN ethernet cable. thats it. so now there is no internet in the living room and we wanted to ask the company to put wireless internet in the living room. they said they would charge us 20 bucks extra.
i looked up the modem they put in my room and i could only find out that its an AMBIT modem but im guessing its an old model because i cant find information about it anywhere.
the model number is 60194E-004.
im guessing the company didnt want us to just buy a wireless adapter and get internet access on two computers so they gave me this modem so the only option i have is to buy the wireless service and modem from them.
i want to know if its ok to buy and use a different modem with my cable service. is the service only like usable on the modem they gave me? i dont even know if this modem is wireless or not so im guessing ill just buy another one.
tl;dr: is it ok to switch out the modem the cable company gave me to another one that offers wireless? and why are they charging 20 bucks extra to have two computers hooked up via wireless when all we need to get is an adapter? does it charge extra to hook up an additional computer via wireless?
im very confused