Dial-Up cable and Broadband

[Ben Clarke]

OK, so, I have a dial-up cable downstairs. Since I'm on a router, and the router won't allowme to do anything I want to do, even with port-forwarding, I want to know if I can conect to a broadband Internet account with the dial-up cable. I'm asking this because usually, broadband's phone number is "0", and I'm not sure it'll work with this. It should also be noted that I don't have one of the USB modems they send you, we threw it away when we got the router.

Thanks,

Ben

[DanTheBanjoman]

What is a broadband internet account according to you? Most cable cable connections are broadband connections, though the term broadband has always been vague.
Even when I know that your request is vague, dial up cable to broadband internet account? What hardware do you have and what connection, details svp.

[Namslas90]

Normally if you have to "Dial" it's not broadband, Unless it's that AOL CR#%$.(not true Broadband).

[erocker]

Any dial up service is not broadband. The term "dail-up" means you have to literally call a phone number and use the transmission frequency to transmit data. The last I checked, it was 56k max.

[Ben Clarke]

So because I get 8Mbps (read: 3Mbps), I can't use the cable? OK, thanks.

[DanTheBanjoman]

Quite wrong, PPPoE is very common for internet connections, it is a dial up line. Most modems handle the dialing up themselves though, USB modems mostly do not.

VPN is a dial up connection over an existing IP line as well.

[Nothgrin]

Quite wrong, PPPoE is very common for internet connections, it is a dial up line. Most modems handle the dialing up themselves though, USB modems mostly do not.

VPN is a dial up connection over an existing IP line as well.

Exactly, whenever I go back to Taiwan my relatives use PPPoE dial up ADSL. The dial up takes about 3 seconds unlike the conventional phone line dial up which takes about 20-30 seconds. All PPPoE connections require is a network your attaching to like username@hinet.net and a password, there is no phone number needed.

[keakar]

OK, so, I have a dial-up cable downstairs. Since I'm on a router, and the router won't allowme to do anything I want to do, even with port-forwarding, I want to know if I can conect to a broadband Internet account with the dial-up cable. I'm asking this because usually, broadband's phone number is "0", and I'm not sure it'll work with this. It should also be noted that I don't have one of the USB modems they send you, we threw it away when we got the router.

Thanks,

Ben

if your looking to get broadband speeds out of a telephone connection, then yes that can be done. but if you want to do it with a telephone modem then no it cant be done.

this is what i am talking about: http://www.bellsouth.com/consumer/inetsrvcs/