I'm currently paying $50 per month for internet services (30/30 down/up). My ISP, Boingo, wants to charge $10 per additional device beyond the 3-device deal. I have 2 additional devices that I'd like to connect to the internet, but that'll result in me having to pay $70 per month for a 30/30 down/up internet service. They use MAC filtering to determine what devices are allowed to access the internet.
I was wondering if it's possible to just buy a modem with an in-built router, like pic related. Dual-Band: NETGEAR N600 Wi-Fi DOCSIS 3.0 Modem Router (C3700). It's $80, but that'll save me more money in the long term. Giving boingo the MAC address of the modem/router, and then connecting all of my devices to the router so that I may continue to pay $50/month. Is that possible, would Boingo allow it?
why not go the easy route and buy bandwidth then become your own ISP
Brayden Martinez
>have to pay for extra devices Fucking... EL OH EL
Why the fuck did you cuck yourself into that deal? Holy shit, please kill yourself>Resurrect yourself>install gentoo>kill u'reselves again
Alexander Wilson
Wow, even here in Africa, we don't have such stupid restrictions or whatever the fuck you call this
David Howard
just put some shitty router in front of it and NAT the traffic through. now you have unlimited devices
Blake Nelson
theres no choice in a lot of countries
Caleb Morris
I pay 62 a month for 1000/300 down up from the regional fiber provider. What really chafes is the fact thst really only get 400/150. Its a big upgrade from the 60/10 i used to have but this kind of jewery doesnt sit right with me.
You need a docsis 3.1 modem and equally capable router
Grayson Moore
Pretty sure troll thread. But here's your answer...
Jeremiah Lopez
Praise drumpf and ajit pai. That stupid net neutrality and, gasp, the idea of broadband for all, is just stupid socialist librul shit. R-r-r-ight guys?
Michael Russell
Connectify my man
Mason Butler
are you using a wifi cable?
Carson Thompson
>. Is that possible yes and checked
Jayden Young
>Wow, even here in Africa, we don't have such stupid restrictions or whatever the fuck you call this its called internet, and I know you dont have it in africa
>Wow, even here in Africa, we don't have such stupid restrictions or whatever the fuck you call this >infested with niggers killing you and stealing your land.
Opinion discarded.
Nicholas Powell
>are you using a wifi cable? >how do i tell?
For fuck's sake.
Jose Lee
Fucking retard.
Learn how a router works.
Dominic Morgan
If you think my 'lack of how routers work' is my issue, then you obviously don't know how to read
Josiah Sanchez
Connect the antennas with coax cable for higher speeds. WiFi cable.
Kayden King
>coax >wifi user...
Ian Jones
>using govt provided internet Yeah nah
Isaac Jenkins
It's interesting how companies try to squeeze the most of of their customer. How do you know they are using MAC filtering?
Justin Rogers
Yes, user, basically all antenna connectors and cables are coaxial. Coaxial just means "inner conductor, insulator, outer conductor". Which is exactly what every antenna cable consists of.
Oliver Anderson
I know what coax is. A cable is not wifi. wifi is literally wire-less.
Matthew Green
802.11 over coax is still 802.11.
Christopher Johnson
Yes if they are filtering with MAC address as the source MAC address will be overwritten by the switch's own.
James Stewart
What he was suggesting was to disconnect the antenna from both sides, instead opting to use a coax cable to connect wifi card A to wifi card B. You'd need a female-female or male-male cable depending on the connectors, and the cards probably aren't expecting to get a signal that strong, but it would theoretically work just fine. And yes, it would still be "wifi".
Luke Myers
coax is a wire you dumb fucks. How is it 'wireless'?
Also, coax is a terrible medium for wired networks. You faggots still use vampire clamps on your token ring networks?
Ayden Nelson
Nobody said "wireless", they said "wi-fi". You're the tard that thought "wifi is literally wire-less".
>Also, coax is a terrible medium for wired networks Yes it is >You faggots still use vampire clamps on your token ring networks Even dumber. There are ethernet to coax adapters that get far higher speeds than ancient 10mbit networks, and it can actually be a valid solution for wiring up a home that has a bunch of coax all over the place.
Joshua Hernandez
>Nobody said "wireless", they said "wi-fi". >You're the tard that thought "wifi is literally wire-less". >>Also, coax is a terrible medium for wired networks >Yes it is >>You faggots still use vampire clamps on your token ring networks >Even dumber. There are ethernet to coax adapters that get far higher speeds than ancient 10mbit networks, and it can actually be a valid solution for wiring up a home that has a bunch of coax all over the place.
Wireless is the 'Wi' in wifi faggot.
Ethernet to coax media converters are shit. Most of them are 10/100MB/s boxes. A GB/s box usually costs more than a decent media converter of the same type. Coax is used for analog signals for high throughput in short distances, that means you need a modem and a router to get it back to digital for ethernet.
Learn how to make a capable network over different mediums where only the signal and latency matter, Pajeet.
Benjamin Walker
>A GB/s box usually costs more than a decent media converter of the same type. *modem, not media converter
Colton Ramirez
2.4GHz/5GHz will work over coax. WiFi uses the 2.4GHz/5GHz bands. Therefore, you can run WiFi over coax.
Daniel Davis
What part of 'no wires' do you not understand?
Jason Rivera
Show me where it says I can't use coax in the 802.11 spec.
Carter Bennett
Make a Hotspot on your phone and connect through that.
Aaron Diaz
>Wireless is the 'Wi' in wifi faggot. Yes, but that's just the name. Just because you connected the two endpoints directly doesn't magically make it stop being "wifi".
>Ethernet to coax media converters are shit. I'm not disagreeing.
>Pajeet At least I can properly quote and reply to posts.
Connor Sullivan
Nani? Coax is only used for analog? What decade is this? Look up the DOCSIS specification before acting like you know what you're talking about.
Jace Lopez
HDMI doesn't state a length in the spec either.
>Coax is only used for analog? What decade is this? Look up the DOCSIS specification before acting like you know what you're talking about. I didn't say that. I even mentioned vamp clamps and token rings. Keep your old wired tech. Coax is only useful as an analog medium for short connections now. Anything that requires a longer connection is digital. Enjoy your legacy boomer faggot network speeds.
Samuel Rodriguez
>Wireless is the 'Wi' in wifi faggot.
wifi is a trademark name you retard.
and yes, you can use coax to transmit electromagnetic waves. it will do it better than the atmosphere. you will probably need to attenuate the line to make sure the receiver doesn't get BTFO.
>HDMI doesn't state a length in the spec either. HDMI won't work with cables that are too long. WiFi will work over coax.
Landon Gutierrez
Listen faggot. If you are using a wire, regardless of dialectric, it's not OTA. It's wired. Thanks, and checked.
Cooper Roberts
It's not wireless, but it's still WiFi.
Isaac Moore
>WiFi will work over coax. You don't even understand how coax works. Also, physical connection vs wireless.
Ayden Barnes
Ok, clip the center conductor, or the ground strap, and tell me it's wireless. I'll wait.
Jackson Barnes
2.4GHz/5GHz can be transmitted over coax. It's higher than the frequencies that are typically used with technologies such as DOCSIS, but it will work.
Julian Watson
Are you high or just retarded? If you have a site to site interconnect requirement and there is already a coax between sites there's no need to dig up the streets to lay down fiber. Look at the speed deratings on these extenders, I've run small offices on 10mbit symmetrical connections before and the speeds were fine. On your point about the network card interconnect, why even mention a capability that no one uses? It's like saying you can use your car engine to run a water pump for your farm.
It's not WiFi faggot. You can transmit tens to thousands of MHz through coax, that doesn't mean anything. Modulation and length and the quality of the cable mean a lot, not to mention the number of terminations and changes to resistance due to cable types.
IT'S ALL A PHYSICAL CONNECTION. NOT WIRELESS
Oliver Collins
He's also ignoring the fact that "coax" can just mean any coaxial cable, not just the typical cable TV/docsis stuff.
Thomas James
You aren't reading what he's typing. Although using a conductor to connect two radio transceivers together will make the "wireless" aspect of 802.11 null and void, it doesn't void the Wi-Fi aspect of the networking protocol because the packets are still sent and received the same way.
Benjamin Jones
I never said it's not wireless. It's still 802.11 (i.e. WiFi).
Joshua Cooper
Just FYI everyone Boingo is usually internet in dorms or barracks. They provide internet via WiFi APs placed around the building.
OP, I had a similar problem when I was at Keesler AFB. Basically the easiest way to do it is to have your main PC connected via WiFi, and then enable internet connection sharing and attach a cheap Ethernet switch to the computer. Your PC and anything attached to it will act as one device.
Mason Martin
Did you miss half the fucking thread?
You can take the 2.4ghz or 5ghz or whatever wifi signals, and simple hook a cable up from where the antenna should be on one end to where the antenna should be on the other end. The only risk you run is frying the wifi card because it might not be expecting such a strong signal.
>IT'S ALL A PHYSICAL CONNECTION. NOT WIRELESS It doesn't fucking matter. It would be the equivalent of taking a portable FM radio with an exposed antenna, and physically touching the antenna to an FM radio tower. It's still FM even though it's not wireless anymore.
Owen Bennett
This is my job. We don't use coax, we replace it. Coax is shit. Get a real job, because you are going to be replaced if you don't understant the basics of layer 1 infrastructure topology and how it relates to the other OSI layers in today's and the future's topologies.
Dominic Reyes
from >Jow Forums is NOT your personal tech support team or personal consumer review site.
you already got your answer here top kek, nice b8... and retards fell for it
Carter Phillips
You are all being replaced. Get a spectrum analyzer, learn how to use it. Or, try to understand advanced modems. Better yet, understand modems are out, and everything is gonig digital. You're all fucked. Coax is done. We only use it in satellite tier 0 links, and for live TV. Data centers are all fiber now. Consumers are going fiber. We don't use coax unless it's in a specific location, and it's what I described, because I'm the one doing it.
Nathan Watson
My job is to get everything above layer 3 working kosher together for customers. Why should I care about what the ISP's do with their equipment? What's a real job to you; trench digging with an oversized ditch-witch?
Based asf. Yea I recently graduated from Keesler AFB as a cyber systems operations so I know that feeling. I already ordered the 80$ modem/router on Amazon though... Thanks for the reply, I'll keep in mind about the ethernet switch to the computer if any other airman needed help setting up their internet. Also, did you notice any change in performance/stability/latency/speeds with the 'cheap ethernet switch'? Which switch would you recommend?
Michael Martinez
Even better, reconfigure the router to serve as a wireless endpoint and just plug everything into the router.
Henry Brown
I mean, I look at that and think, "What the fuck?" but then I remember I live in the U.S. where there's maybe ATT, some flavor of Comcast/Time Warner/Cox cable, or whatever shitty local ISP has dominance in most places, and the only places where any of them offer better than 20Mbps for neat $100/month are in the cities where Google Fiber exists and they are being forced to compete.
Caleb Martinez
>Why should I care about what the ISP's do with their equipment? If you're into replacing infrastructure, you have a bright future. And?
The guys arguing for coax are old had. If anyone wants to argue that coax is 'wireless' then give me a solid argument for waveguide and what it means when an electromagnetic wave is emitted out of a parabolic sub-reflector and to another. Tell me where the 'wire' ends, and the signal is actually 'wireless'. Autistic faggots.
Carter Turner
Are you still at Keesler? What's your first duty station? I graduated from there as Cyber Trans about 2 years ago, getting ready to PCS again.
Anyways, if you're still at keesler, you're not going to get much benefit from the switch workaround aside from getting more devices connected. Boingo's infrastructure is terrible and chokes at peak usage, not to mention just falling offline a few times a month.
Keep the modem, since once you get to your first duty station the dorms there will almost certainly have a coax run. You'll just call up Comcast or whoever and get connected, and since you own your own modem you won't have to rent anything.
Jace Moore
see pic don't get mad, though. the whole wifi cable is a Jow Forums joke.
you can use an openwrt router as client AND as AP at the same time. see openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/relay_configuration you better prepare yourself to learn a lot if you have never used openwrt, though. but still, it's fun, and very useful. think of openwrt as a linux distro for routers, similar to debian.
I have openWRT on my router right now, I didn't recommend making your own WiFi AP because there's already a ton of radio congestion in those barracks. The more shit that gets wired, the better.
Adrian Taylor
you could set the transmission power to a low value ("option txpower 10" or some shit in /etc/config/wireless) use cables for laptops and other stuff that can use them.
Josiah Jenkins
Tell me I'm not dealing with a bunch of trainees... I write material for the CECOM TSD and travel around and teach. Don't listen to the dumb shit your 'instructors' are saying in AIT, they don't know shit. Fucking hell.
Asher Reyes
dude, where the fuck are you getting gigabyte internet for 60 bucks?
google fiber is 70 a month plus a 300 dollar installation fee, and recently they just jacked their rates to 120 in kansas and a few other places.
Comcast wants 300 a month plus a 500 dollar installation fee.
Where do you live? Are you in the Inner City or a major Metropoliton area?
Ayden Cooper
what the hell are you babbling about, m8?
Sebastian Thomas
Use 5ghz for your AP Doubtful 5ghz is congested, since there's a much bigger frequency range available and it doesn't get through walls as well.
Jeremiah Thompson
Not for you slave faggot
Noah Cox
He probably doesn't live in burgerstan.
Michael Adams
I'm at Goodfellow rn (damn it lmao), but I dont think Comcast provides internet here but ill compare a few ISPs here for speeds/cost. Most of my cyber transport and client sys mates got overseas. Super jealous
Jayden Clark
The other guy and I are Airmen. Some of our tech school instructors are halfway decent, others got shoved there and just teach a test. Our problem is that they try to shove everything that you could possibly be doing into a 6 month school, where it should just be a 3 month "fundamentals of IT" course and then you learn your specific job at your actual unit.
Oof. If you're there permanent party and stuck with oingo Boingo, you can actually connect 3 wireless NICs to your computer and set up load balancing between them. You'll get 90Mbps, and then can connect that to your router and have unrestricted fast internet.
I've been at Peterson (NOS) for 2 years now and just got orders to Mildenhall, UK :^)
Henry Anderson
$50 a month or 30/30 and you're restricted to 3 devices and possibly have a data cap? I pay 20 for the same shit+cable+land line and don't have any restrictions whatsoever, i've downloaded terabytes of vidya in a single day and have like 20 different devices using wifi and another 10 wired.
Read the thread my dude, it's barracks internet. Basically like hotel WiFi.
Liam Perry
You're fucking a retard.
Just get a router attached to your ISP's modem. Not a "modem-router" garbage.
You're probably using a shitty "modem-router" garbage. Whatever the case, if you put a router in-between your devices, this will fix it.
Your ISP cannot read any mac addressess. Only your current wifi-modem router can so if you put in something else that will give your devices local IP addresses, the host modem will only see your router IP.
Thomas Jenkins
>50$ >additional 10$ per device >3-device deal
Do you live in the 3rd world or something?
Gavin Robinson
>30/30 down/up MB/s?
Eli Butler
obvious larp is obvious, niggers can't into komputer
Brayden Thomas
No Google Fiber, 500/30Mb internet plus cable $65 a month.
Ethan Long
Oh wow, my service is $40 USD for 100/40 the ISP supplied modem has ports for 4 devices and I'm supplied with 8 dynamic IPs but they don't give a fuck how many devices are connected and how they are connected as long as it goes through their modem.
Juan Barnes
Daily reminder that I live in Eastern Europe and I get 1GBps/1GBps on my campus for 6e/month.
Colton Morris
Top kek Just hook a router to port 1 and let NAT multiplex you connections to multiple devices. ISPs used to do this shit in the 90s but it's impossible to enforce.
Jacob Sanchez
I know a guy who went to Africa to fuck children and he uploaded pics to social networks while he was there, so they have internet
Nolan Bell
>Mildenhall, UK I envy you. I hope you enjoy the overseas life
Nolan Mitchell
>pay to have internet access >pay again to connect device to use said internet
