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Port Foward help?
sojolala:
--- Quote from: Greek2me on March 19, 2013, 05:55:15 PM ---Wait, you say you have Optimum Online? As far as I can tell, they only offer modems for their internet customers. Are you sure that the Optimum box is your router, not your modem?
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What's a modem? As far as I remember, the times I had troubles with my internet and router stuff, Optimum came and fixed it. That give you anything?
Axolotl2:
--- Quote from: sojolala on March 19, 2013, 07:05:31 PM ---What's a modem? As far as I remember, the times I had troubles with my internet and router stuff, Optimum came and fixed it. That give you anything?
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A modem has only one ethernet port and usually one cable and/or one or two phone jacks.
A router has multiple ethernet ports but no cable nor phone jack.
Some ISPs give you a combo router-modem.
sojolala:
--- Quote from: Axolotl2 on March 21, 2013, 09:40:19 PM ---A modem has only one ethernet port and usually one cable and/or one or two phone jacks.
A router has multiple ethernet ports but no cable nor phone jack.
Some ISPs give you a combo router-modem.
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Err, (another stupid question) I will name the brands of my internet stuff. There is the thinner one, which is made by NETGEAR, and a thicker one that's made by Arris.
Axolotl2:
--- Quote from: sojolala on March 22, 2013, 06:51:52 PM ---Err, (another stupid question) I will name the brands of my internet stuff. There is the thinner one, which is made by NETGEAR, and a thicker one that's made by Arris.
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The Netgear device is probably the router and the Arris device is the modem.
sojolala:
--- Quote from: Axolotl2 on March 22, 2013, 07:03:47 PM ---The Netgear device is probably the router and the Arris device is the modem.
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Okay.
--- Quote from: Greek2me on March 19, 2013, 05:55:15 PM ---Wait, you say you have Optimum Online? As far as I can tell, they only offer modems for their internet customers. Are you sure that the Optimum box is your router, not your modem?
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I guess (Pretty sure) that I am provided with Optimum Online SERVICE, because in Firefox or IE, and I just search in the address bar, I get search results with Optimum labled. So Optimum doesn't have the labels on any of our internet machines.