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Conversion of Telephonic Contacts to Cable?
I'm considering ditching the clunky local telephone service for Cable. Sooooo, I have 2 questions:
1. If I select a cable-computer connection for Internet, I know I need another modem (which the cable company is cheerfully ready to rent you). Do you need to make any software changes to your computer settings?
2. If I convert to cable telephone, can I keep my current telephone number? I've been using it for over 30 years.
2 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
If your current computer is using dial-up, chances are you have software installed to automatically dial-up whenever you try to connect to the Internet. You'll be able to remove that software.
You'll need a network interface. Most recent PCs and Macs have those standard. You need to make sure the device driver for your network interface (AKA "NIC") is installed.
Configure your network interface to use DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol).
If you're running Windows, you should be behind a firewall/router. I like the Linksys WRT54G (but I own no Linksys stock). It takes an average of 2 minutes for a Windows PC to be compromised if directly connected to the Internet over broadband with no firewall in place.
If you don't want to rent the cable company's cable modem, they can tell you what compatible cable modems you can buy. That's what we did. Pay once.
If you convert your phone, you should be able to keep your existing telephone number.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
i have no idea mate