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was looking at getting both computers connected to same internet connection adsl2 with optus
can i use one via ethernet port and the other via usb to do this or do i have to buy new modem with router etc etc

If you have a 4 port router you can connect both via ethernet. If it is a wireless modem router then you can connect one via eithernet, one via wireless or both via wireless. You don't need one router per computer.

longtimewaiting_2 wrote:was looking at getting both computers connected to same internet connection adsl2 with optus
can i use one via ethernet port and the other via usb to do this or do i have to buy new modem with router etc etc

It should work unless there is something about the modem configuration that makes it either/or only, in which case you may be able to alter the settings or you can get a cheap but effective switch [like a TP Link] to connect between the computers and the Modem. I have 3 computers plugged into my 4 ethernet port Billion router/modem, all able to access the Internet simultaneously.

Most modems with USB and Network connection allow you to connect via one of them. It's basically a 1 to 1 setup, as the modem doesn't function as a router which you need it to, if you want two devices accessing the Internet. In a request went out to, say, access safooty.net, the response would come back but the modem wouldn't know what connection sent the request.

You need a modem/router, or a router as well.

Dissident wrote:Most modems with USB and Network connection allow you to connect via one of them. It's basically a 1 to 1 setup, .

I'll file that info - I've never dealt with those basic models, but wondered if it might be so.

In that situation, you still need to "route" information and a modem by definition doesn't do that, it just carries/changes data.

In the old days, a modem was the same - and if you wanted to share a connection you needed to use the PC that the modem was connected to, to act as a router as such.

Same today.