), with five other people. The only trouble is, I have absolutely no knowledge about routers in general, wireless cards, or pretty much anything having to do with networking computers or sharing a connection. (Yes, I may possibly be crazy. ) My question to the some learned members of this board is if such a setup would be feasible, given my situation. My family's PC is downstairs; we have a single cable modem and Comcast broadband service. The cable input to the house is on the complete opposite side of the house as my room and one floor down, so there's no chance of running a separate line to my room. (As a side note, I would dearly love to have cable in my room if only just for TV, but seeing my father's track record with laying wires through walls, maybe I'm better off this way.
) My room is separated from the room with the modem by several layers of wall/floor. By your estimation, would buying a wireless router be an option at all, much less a reasonable one? (From what I understand, wireless connections aren't exactly the best for gaming; this isn't a huge problem, as I'd be perfectly able to use the family PC for my online action.) I've heard in the past that Comcast doesn't approve of routers; would this create any problems? Finally, if it turns out that this would all be doable, does anyone have any good recommendations for a wireless router setup? I'm not looking for something top-of-the-line, just something that'll do a reasonable job, and hopefully something that's relatively cheap.Thanks in advance for any help. If you're thinking that buying a wireless router just for the summer may be a waste, I'm expecting that my family will eventually get another PC, so it would most likely come in use in the future.
